[ With the creature so distracted, it's focusing a whole lot less energy on its digital defenses. It's easy enough for Lucy to get a read on it -- a core of clean functional code surrounded by broken strings of protocols and what she can only interpret as Bios gone bad -- but her neuro-ware, her cyberdeck, isn't up to its full strength yet. Things that should have been easy hacks take significant effort, and things that should have been hard are outright impossible.
So she can poke and prod and examine this thing's shattered code, but ultimately, she's not going to get anything useful done unless she does a full deepdive. And she doesn't know if she's safe enough to do that with Bishop.
So. They'll just have to kill it. ]
I'll make some openings for you.
[ Fingertips digging deeper into her temple in concentration, Lucy pulls some strings. The creature seems to freeze momentarily, limbs stuttering to a halt, before it grinds back into action, but slower this time, moving jerkily. ]
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So she can poke and prod and examine this thing's shattered code, but ultimately, she's not going to get anything useful done unless she does a full deepdive. And she doesn't know if she's safe enough to do that with Bishop.
So. They'll just have to kill it. ]
I'll make some openings for you.
[ Fingertips digging deeper into her temple in concentration, Lucy pulls some strings. The creature seems to freeze momentarily, limbs stuttering to a halt, before it grinds back into action, but slower this time, moving jerkily. ]