The Tinker and The Flame

[Thyrzul]

The arrival of the two tokens on his data pad just added to his excitement. Pierre quickly opened up a text editor and while listening to Tukker he noted down a brief sentence:

Cherchez pour Rouge en Liberté, quand trouvé-lui contactez un des ces personnes et cherchez pour les bases des Crackeurs avec lui.

Attaching the two communication tokens and saving the message as a draft he pressed a small button on his watch, then looked at Tukker to answer his query.

Let's just say that one of these groups wandered too far away from their own nest, touched the fibre of an other dense et dangereux web, but instead of backing off, they went on testing my patience, my dedication to the defense of my own people. I want to show them that they are not the only dangereux players in this game they just began playing. - And as some dramatic finale, it burst out from him in a cold, low, serious tone, looking straight into the eyes of Tukker: - But most importantly I want to make sure that people on Toulouse do not get butchered down like cattle in a slaughterhouse because a bunch of computer monkeys thought it is a good idea to play with information they shouldn't have.

One of the guards, who has been signalled with the press of the button on the wrist-mounted device, stepped next to LaFlamme's chair. The general looked up and briefly ordered: - Envoyez cette message pour Agent Jaune, au plus tôt. - He sent the draft over to the guard's PDA, who then left with a silent nod. While the two continued their meeting the guard sought out one of Shasta's Neural Net terminals, and after applying proper encoding, he sent it to Agent Jaune.

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In the meanwhile...

Finding a Council agent tasked with infiltration wasn't an easy job, even less so in a foreign house. The target of infiltration this time was a group with access over basically the entirety of Liberty's Neural Net and has tools in his possession forcing Rouge to full incognito without connection to the EOS. Jaune knew this, that's why he sighed when reading the transmission. Finding Rouge can easily last months, just like the infiltration itself, but what had to be done had to be done. Departing from Toulouse meant less travel time to Pittsburgh, but that was the least he had to worry about.

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Five days less than an entire month passed since the meeting on 23rd of July and after visiting near the whole of Liberty Jaune finally met up with Rouge on Denver. Spotting the familiar face getting out of a Dromedary to unload the Nanocapacitors brought from Houston he was relieved to be over this phase of his task. After the reunion of the two, Rouge initiated contact with Fynn McScrap. The next phase begins.

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When looking back at Tukker LaFlamme noticed the change of expressions on the man's face so he began explaining:
Oui, Monsieur, these Lane Hackers went as far as blackmailing us after stumbling across Roussillon, but they couldn't convince me of their honesty, nor could offer any guarantees they won't abuse their knowledge even if I give into their demands. Credits can only silence a mouth temporarily, so I needed something else to keep them from selling us out, et I very much hope I will get that thing before it's too late. Can you help me, Monsieur Tukker? - he looket at Phileas, anticipating his response.

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