Lucy pulls a shield around herself just in time for the security programs to batter at it, and curses her reduced usefulness.
If she were at full power, she'd be be able to do this easily. She'd be able to pull up a screen to watch Musashi through the thing's eyes as she takes it apart and strips it down to its base components. She'd be able to take full control of it and pluck any code she likes for examination. Its chaotic, but its defenses are relatively weak, but Lucy can't take advantage of that with her cyberdeck working at low capacity.
All she can do is hope she can succeed. And work on doing whatever it takes to refine her netrunning abilities here with Bios and her cyberdeck.
She can't stay huddled behind a shield forever; on the count of three she surges out from beneath it, her cyberself flying around the spikes of ICE, twisting, evading, biting back pain when code glances against her and tries to eat through her defenses. If she stays here too long, there's a very real risk of infected with whatever changed this AI. Here and there, she tugs at threads, kicks at walls, making the creature's movements pause and stutter erratically for Musashi's advantage. Finally, she cracks past the security and eases into the clean interior of the creature's coding, and starts downloading information, intent on copying data on whatever the hell went wrong here.
From the darkened lines of Bios she can see, Lucy suspects she already knows the answer. It looks-- corrupted. Wrong. But how did it get like that?
Buried deep inside the creature's core protocols, it's easy enough to sink her hands into its programming and slow it down. It's going to be pissed once it regains full control, though, so she hopes Musashi is ready.
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If she were at full power, she'd be be able to do this easily. She'd be able to pull up a screen to watch Musashi through the thing's eyes as she takes it apart and strips it down to its base components. She'd be able to take full control of it and pluck any code she likes for examination. Its chaotic, but its defenses are relatively weak, but Lucy can't take advantage of that with her cyberdeck working at low capacity.
All she can do is hope she can succeed. And work on doing whatever it takes to refine her netrunning abilities here with Bios and her cyberdeck.
She can't stay huddled behind a shield forever; on the count of three she surges out from beneath it, her cyberself flying around the spikes of ICE, twisting, evading, biting back pain when code glances against her and tries to eat through her defenses. If she stays here too long, there's a very real risk of infected with whatever changed this AI. Here and there, she tugs at threads, kicks at walls, making the creature's movements pause and stutter erratically for Musashi's advantage. Finally, she cracks past the security and eases into the clean interior of the creature's coding, and starts downloading information, intent on copying data on whatever the hell went wrong here.
From the darkened lines of Bios she can see, Lucy suspects she already knows the answer. It looks-- corrupted. Wrong. But how did it get like that?
Buried deep inside the creature's core protocols, it's easy enough to sink her hands into its programming and slow it down. It's going to be pissed once it regains full control, though, so she hopes Musashi is ready.