Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-26443603-20140903154828/@comment-29458028-20140905033805

(Time walkers cannot see each other in the future or past, to clarify.)

Francois rapidly typed strings of code into the experimental tablet in his hands. The hacker's uplink had terminated before he could counterhack, but that was not important. The quantum CPU unmasked the heavy onion routing, the virtual private networks and proxies. It parsed the 1024 bit key within seconds.

Smiling, Francois charged his Tablet's nearly depleted capacitor to full again with his electrical power, not wanting to down the power requirement for the aetherium batteries to do their work. As a safety measure to combat hacking by the government, every CPU was embedded with a physical code, one that couldn't be erased and would broadcast. The hacker would use a bootlegged CPU if they were smart. That meant if his tablet detected a computer without the code, he would know the hacker was around. The tablet had said it would be around here.

Francois climbed the stairs by running up them. The apartment was not particularly high. His tablet rapidly triangulated, with five meter error margin. He saw a door he suspected was his target. After smashing it in, he apologized to a geeky man at a computer. Next door, he walked in on a couple doing their stuff. He hastily withdrew after showing his credentials.

The last door on this floor had to be it. Francois braced himself and kicked the door in, drawing Timerider.