Fourth Hack

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[Cambot turns on to Robin on the theatrical deck, looking serious even for him. When he's sure the Cambot is recording, he starts... making elaborate gestures? His hands are flying everywhere and his fingers are twisting into weird shapes and making gestures around his face and shoulder area- Oh wait he's signing. Apparently Cambot's supposed to be translating this because when Rob realizes that there's no subtitles going on, he gives Cambot a deadpan look (even through the shades) and points downward, moving his hand back and forth while spelling "s-u-b-t-i-t-l-e-s" out in signs with his other hand. Cambot gets the hint and flashes a word on the screen.]

Sorry

[Rob nods and goes back to signing, speaking as well but obviously there's no sound coming out. It's for an aid to lip-reading (and kind of his own sanity).]

We have to do something about that dinosaur before it attacks anyone else or destroys the ship. I have some ideas about how to stop it. Anyone who wants to talk come to this deck A-S-A-P. It's small enough to get off the Nature Deck so we need to make plans before it decides to try it out.

[And he'll be waiting when whoever wants to gets there.]

Comments

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[A very bad idea, especially with this one being given free reign over the satellite. There aren't a lot of people here who are ready to deal with a dinosaur being a permanent addition. (He hopes it won't be, but better to prepare for the worst.)

He nods at Robin once he arrives. It's harder to talk in person than over the cambots right now, but he likes what he sees all the same. He just hopes the ropes will be strong enough.

[gettraught]

[Robin nods when Squall shows up and points to the cambot as its little presentation starts to play.]

[Cambot starts to display a little video clip that Robin put together and uploaded into him - a basic crash course on what the plan in and the various steps, using little basic polygonal models for better visual aid. It'll take a couple of minutes to run all the way through.]

First we need to destabilize the theatre rigging here. Saw through the pipes and braces holding the curtains up and put some people who aren't afraid of heights up there to kick it down when the raptor gets here. There will also be people positioned around the edge of the room on high perches with the ends of a makeshift net with small sandbags attached at specific points. Ropes will be stretched across the point the dinosaur won't be allowed to cross with enough space for a human to get between them but not a six-meter long reptile.

Once everything is prepped, I'll go down to the Nature Deck and get the dinosaur to chase me up here through the Media Deck. I'll dive through the ropes and that will be the signal to drop the net and the curtains, tangling him up and weighing him down enough to pin him. Then we use more ropes to tie down its limbs and tail and muzzle its head and figure out what to do with it.

Any questions?

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[Oh, now that's impressive. He hadn't thought about using the cambots that way, but he has a distinct feeling that it's something that works better for telling a lot of people one thing than it is trying to hold conversations. It's useful though, and he pays dutiful attention to the explanation. It's not quite how he'd do things, but it's not actually bad, considering what they do and don't have available to them.

Once the little presentation is done, he shakes his head. It makes perfect sense to him.]

[gettraught]

[Robin will take whatever he can get in this situation. Even though he can sign, no one else seems to be able to, so even that doesn't help.]

[When Squall nods, Robin nods too, then gestures around the entire room with an expansive sweep of his arm and points to several places. There's a lot of jobs to get done, knotting ropes and making lassos and rigging the scaffolding, so Squall's more than free to just pick a place and do what he wants to do. Robin isn't about to tell him what to do or not.]

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[Squall considers a moment, and then turns his attention to the ropes. He's not sure he wants to trust himself to the scaffolding, but knots are easy enough.]