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Like, hellOOO?!? Do you speak american?

This is like, a game, right?

uhHuh, yeah, like for real, this is definately a game.

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Like, I'm tyhe other player

so I get my own space in the sq	uare brackerts idea

no one else should speak these words!

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I fancy climbing up this ladder...

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Like HellOOO???? Greater than means, like, it's the next scene?

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Hmm....

I've just had an amazing physics idea!

Yes! it's all to do with radiation resistance. 

A fast moving body gives off radiation for the same reason a hot Black Body does.

Relative to an observer, the molecules of the body are moving fast, and so radiate their energy away to the obsevrer.

But while a hot body cools down, a fast moving body slows down!, relative to the observer, natch.

Woah! This is great. No doubt I'm be a millionare celebrity by next week. Must go and write up my autobiography. 

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Hey you! Wait!

I just wanna say...

I can't believe you beat us!

You must be unbelivably ace!

Will you sign my autograph book?

shh! keep your voice down. All the others will want one.

Please sign.

Wahey! Thanks. you really are great. here.

Slime? that's my autograph book! Sign it!

you said you would!

.......? 

Urg That's revolting. You humans are crazy. If I wanted a worthless pen mark, I could ask anyone, only you can sign your signiture.

Nooo. Sniff. sign.

Strange human, he signed the floor. 

That's 352 DNA signitures of great individual members of species of Earth I've got in my autograph book. Besides humans, I've got signitures from herpes, gonarea, syphilys, rabies and HIV!    

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Huh?

Well...

Erm....

I didn't know aliens had autograph books.

eh?

erm..ok then.

You've handed me a piece of slime.

what??

You aliens really are crazy. I can't write on slime! I need paper, and a pen!

Yikes, well sorry Mr mad alien , that's enough slime for one day. Gotta go.

ohhh. ahh. ACHOO!

Ohh. This slime is horrible. I got some in my mouth.

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Get him! 

Your fired! 

Come on guys after 'em!

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Sir, just recieved special report from survailance team 3.

Yes sir! Shall I moblize all chasers in the sector?

Sir, you mean you want the monks? Headquarters said they were mad.

What do you have in mind sir? We could use dogs.

Sir, but there are no other resources in our sector...

What!?

Oh... my... GOD!

Get Back! Stay away from me!

But...

How...?

Is it safe?

Yikes!! help, There's a mad alien after me!

HELP!!!!

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What? Let me see...

Ah, he's escaped.

What? He's got a dig gun?! This is serious!

Yes, but we can't take any chances. I want more than just the regulars.

No monks. They were hopeless in the last operation. Too slow, awkward and stupid. Everyone agreed monks was rubbish...

Apart from a few fanatics.

No Dogs. They would take too long to train. If this runner is anything like the last, we'll only have a week at best. 

Yes there is, ALIENS!

Here they come now.

With these aliens, we'll be able to re-aquire the R runner. Sergent, I want you to brief the aliens on the situation and begin the recovery operation. On the double!

I shall command the whole operation from the survailance outpost. I'm off. Send word when the alien briefing is complete.

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Scwurgle swurga

guga

SWungA! SWANGA!

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I've got toothache.

I've got to get a new toothbrush. I haven't changed it in 5 years.

Good job my mum doesn't know.

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OK, everyone ready?

Nothing

Ok remember, this is our best chance to stop the runner. If we fail, he's probably going to break out of the sector and that means we'll be moved out and this sector abandoned!

Is that him? Here he comes! Ready? Shhhh!

NOW! He's trapped! Go!

The conveyor was reversed, but it wasn't me! someone else must have done it!

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Sir, remind me what I am 'spose to be doing?

Oh yeah, I remember now

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Yes sir!

Gedim! Hahar!

Well Ross, your game is over...

huh? After him! Sir, what happened? He's getting away!

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Hmm, that conveyor's moving the right way. Looks safe enough to carry on.

Yikes! It's a trap!

What on earth happened back there? It was a trap, but then the conveyor reversed. How did it reverse?

No time to wonder. I've got to get going.

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Phew. It's been a hectic day. I'm so excited, I'm not sure sure I can calm down to sleep

But I am really tired

I wonder what I'm suppose to do now I'm in the forrest. It's not that safe here either. There are many chasers.

Am I supposed to work out what to do by myself? Or is that cat going to show up again?

That cat. huh. It must have been a remote controled robot, or maybe some powerful AI. If it was an AI, how and why was it set to help me?

It's all a big mystery, and right now it isn't helping. I need to find what my next step is. I'll look around to see if there's any clues.

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That sign! Maybe that can help.

What? What relavance is that number to my situation?

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A secret room

Oh, a little owl. It's, it's a robot. It doesn't have any power. But it looks like it's left me a message.

All it's lights are faded. I'm too late to save it.

So, I must get to a tech sector. Right. Does it matter which one? And I can't lose the chasers, they're everywhere! I don't know how they do it. The best I can do is put some distance between me and them.

That's two robot animals that've helped me. I'm still not sure what part I have in whats going on.

Have robot animals become sentient and are now involved in some sort of conflict with humans?

Or is someone just controling the robots?

Hmm. I hope I get some answers when I log in as a pilchard.

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Well, I've made it. Tech sector 124, tech node 1. I reckon I'm about 5 mins ahead of those forrest chasers.

Let's get on with this fishy business, and log on as pilchard! hehehe.

Lots of terminals, doesn't matter which one i pick, that one over there will do.

com : LOGGING IN AS PILCHARD10...

com : 1 MESSAGE FOR PILCHARD10, READ?

Yes, time for some answers. I want to know what this is all about.

com : ...PROCESSING....

com : *** ERROR ***

com : FATAL EXCEPTION AT 800ff231000 CAUSED BY BAD OPERATION 19, CLOSING APPLICATION

What? Oh no. Now what I am going to do? Maybe I'll try again, on a....

com : *** Virus alert! ***

com :  ILLEGAL PROGRAM DECTECTED, ALERTING ADMINISTRATOR. USER SHOULD WAIT FOR ADMINISTRATOR TO ADMINISTER PUNISHMENT

oh no, I need to get out, but, but this is.... a secure building, there's no way out! I'm doomed!

com : bzzzt... Ross, you can get out via the teleporters. The destination is sector 18 headquarters. We need you to aqquire the new crypto cards....

Crypto cards? What are they?

com : the chasers still don't realise who we are or what our long term plan is. They won't suspect you going there.

Right, but I don't know what our plan is either!

com : once you've got them, we'll get you out to a safe place, where there will be time to tell you what's really going on.

Time.... I just need some time....

com : Sorry to put you through danger Ross, we wouldn't ask you to do this if we had a choice. But we are almost out of time, we are desperate.

com : Good luck on your mission Ross. cat and owl. time you got going

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That guy there! You, have you put a virus onto the system?

That is a serious offence, it's straight to a prison cube for you!

Arrest that man!

Yarghhh! Heeelp!

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Sir? Your teleport was not authorised at this end. I must ask for your ID.

Yarghhh! Heeelp!

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Those... must be the cryto cards. Unguarded.

Right. I've completed my mission. I've got to get out of here.

I still don't know how I'm going to do it. I'm totally blocked in. Didn't the message say they'd get me out of here? Where are they?

If only I could get to the teleporters! They're nearby, but there's a inpenetrable wall between here and there.

Seems like I'll need to get out of this room, any rescue has to be done outside.

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This looks like the place.

The cryto cards are somewhere inside here.

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Ross...

This time, there's no way out.

Every chaser in the sector is alerted to your presence....

The power to the teleport room has been cut....

And you are cornered. 

Give it up. Hand over your gun, and those crypto cards.

Who are they? Those robots?

hmm... if it is who I'm thinking it is, your protector is a renegade programmer.

He called himself 'Cat'. He spent his time reprograming toy robots, so that he could remote control them. The robots would then commit crimes to further his plans.

He had issues with the authoritys... he was deluded with the idea that he could overthrow the establishment using toy robots.

It was a stupid idea. He was too young, he wasn't capable of forming an effective plan.

It seems Cat realised he wasn't going to achieve anything with his robots, so he started trying to recruit humans.

Well, it seems he was using intrigue to lure you. You must admit, if some stranger just approached you in the street and started waffling political ideals at you, you wouldn't be interested.

But, if Robots feed you hints and mysterys, then you'll want to know whats going on. Right? It's worked, you're doing his bidding. I bet you don't even know why you are doing it.

Besides, there's another reason he wouldn't approach you...

We caught him 5 years ago. He's been in prison since then.

What's suprising now, is that he seems to be able to control the robots from prison. We don't know how he's doing it. Prison internet is highly restricted and censored.

Ross, you've been misled...

It has nothing to do with your family history! Has he been telling you it has?

I think you should come with us. We have people who can answer all your questions.

Yes, of course. Once you've handed over our gun and talked to us. 

Here comes one of your friends now...

He's not yet been a serious danger, but with those crypto cards he could do some major damage!

Huh? No.....that's.... just the code name, it's a code card for our survailance network.

Ross, don't let Cat control you...

Yes, just how are you getting out of here? We'd like to know. 

Explosives! Pet Robots aren't 'spose to do that. Told you cat was capable of major damage! Ross, stop! The robot lied to you! Cat might place explosives in many pet robots!

That would be dangerous! You can't risk that happening!

After him!

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No. They... they are coming to rescue me.

erm...yes, catty and owl!

Well.... what's that got to do with me?

Well, why.... didn't he just ask people in person.... instead of getting the robots to do it?

True, I 'spose....

Yeah...

Oh man, I'm beginning to feel foolish.

But.... what... about my gun? How is this related to my family history? You know my ancestors were runners?

Well... no really. Maybe I just figured it was something to do with it. No wait, there was the phone call...

Well, can't I just go back home?

Ermmm.... 

Owl, have you heard what this man says? 

Robot Pet EnCryptor card v14.34.2 ?

Er... I don't see he could do much damage.

sigh. This is a difficult decision. I can't fully work out who is to be trusted. But I don't see how taking a crypto card will do much damage. Wouldn't this prototype card end up inside toy robots within a few months anyway? Whats the big deal about taking the card early?

Since it seems there's no drawback to going with owl, I'm sticking with owl for now.

OK, let's go there! But how are we getting out of here?

Owl? Was that part of the plan?

True....

But I've made my decision. I sticking with it for a little while longer...

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Ross, this man is a propaganda agent. Don't be fooled by what he says.

Your familys history is secret, yet the person who phoned you talked about your dad, about what he did.

You must ask yourself, why have the authoritys kept from you infomation on your forefathers?

And if Cat is just a petty rogue programmer in prison, what harm would it do to carry out one more request?

Oh really? Ross, read the lettering on the cards.

Now ask yourself, could a petty rogue programmer in prison do 'major damage' with the latest card for toy robots?

Ross, once you get to our base, you will be told the truth.

Good. Now let's get out of here. Stand back.

Ross, one last thing. Know that I am the last of the robots who can help you on this part of your journey. I can't tell you where to go with these guys listening. The only thing to say is that the secret place which sent you to the tech centre, remains a secret, and you should return there soon.

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They're a long way behind. I've got a few spare minutes. I could do with phoning my mum. My cell phone signal is being jammed. I need to use a land line

Mum? Hello? Hello? Are you there? Mum?

HEllo? Mum? Mum! Hi, it's me... yes... yes... no. Well I couldn't. No. Mum I need to tell you something. Mum? No, wait

Yes mum. Yes mum. No I forgot. I don't know. Look it's not important right now. I'm Sorry. I'm sorry. I'll do it next time. I know I've got to, I promise I'll do it

Look, mum I've got to tell you something, and I don't have much time. Please listen. Ok.

I'm not at college today. Please listen. No. I went to the trial zone. It was open.... because of that phone call. I was curious, I wanted to find out what he was talking about.

No I went by myself. ....I know! Mum? Wait, I don't have much time mum, I need to tell you... no mum, that doesn't matter. It can wait one more day. Mum? Mum? Please listen

Mum, there was my dad's gun there! Mum? It's true! No, it's true. I've got it. No mum. Mum? I've got it and it works great..... Well I can't just leave it, mum. 

Look... no... I'm not making it up. No I can't come back today, some guys are after me. Sorry mum. ...Mum? Because that's what he said on the phone. He said I've been under survailance.

They're after me. I don't know who they are. ...No, they'll take my gun. It IS mine! It belonged to dad. How can I have stolen it? ...mum? That's not true.

No I'm not. Mum? mum I've got to go. They're coming. I've got to go. ...it doesn't matter. OK.. no.. no... bye mum. Bye.

Phew. Oh man, that was hopeless. I didn't ask her anything I was going to. I really need some stuff but I daren't go back home. I'll have to travel over to the nearest other sector.

I don't even know which sector to go to. I wish I could get hold of a map matrix.

Meow?!

What?

What? You? A cat?

Can you help me? Will you explain yourself?

Oh.... they've jammed my phone, is it worth me keeping it?

Oh man, of course. They keep finding me, everytime I hid...

But how will I...?

Cat? Catty? How will I communicate with you? What's you phone number?

What? Oh er... time to get moving, the forrest is..... this way! Shhiieeezzus....!

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Meow. Hi Ross.

Yes, it's me. I'm the cat.

I know it's a bit hard and fast for you to take, but it was me who made the phone call last night.

Roughly speaking, yes. For now, it's best and simplest if you believe it was me.

No time. Those guys who're after you have nearly traped you again, and this time I won't be able to intervene. They're already alerted the ajoining tech sectors. The forrest is the only sector you can run to. You'll have to live rough for a couple of days.

Get rid of it! They are using it to track you.

Tech communication must be kept to a minimum. No more phone calls.

Meow. Purrr. Meow?

MEEEOOOW!

Purrr. Meow?

Reow!! Reow! Hiss!

Khiss! Reow! Khiss! REOWWWWW!

Purrr. hehehehe. You bonehead Michem, SI4 wouldn't have found me anyway.

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Get back here Ross!

He's going to the forrest! That's the only sector we haven't been able to secure! How did he know?

No! Someone's helping him. It was obvious back at the 1st trap. Also, it's impossible he could have known our com channel with the forrest is currently down. He's getting help from the inside

A cat. Yes that makes sense, sieze it!

Tell command we've got the runner and also tell them we've got a traitor in the ranks, recommend immediate launch of Snoop-Iridate4 program.

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He must have twigged. He's smart. He must have realised whats going on. He's guessed we've alerted all tech sectors.

really? Hard core. This is big. Who could the insider be?

Hmm, hello cat. Sir, there's a cat up here. Did you evesdrop on Ross's phonecall, cat?

Yes sir!

Yes sir!

Huh?

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