OVERFLOW/OPEN.

[reconstruction]

ota | misfires/texts/tfln | au | smut/gen pic prompt | write your own adventure | w/e you want

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Hi there. I heard there's some fun things going on in Detroit and wanted to see if I could help.

I'm a really big fan of yours.

[ This comes directly to Connor, not to any kind of inbox-- more like android-to-android communication. Attempts to trace it back would meet a blank wall (maintained by the Machine) and Root's calling card as simply #root. ]

wait but im so excited about this

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[multiple attempts are made (and subsequently fail) to track the source of the message. he scans his database and is unsuccessful. connecting to a computer to look for words and sources related to the calling card root also comes up empty. what he does know for certain is that she isn't an android.]

I would not define the circumstances in Detroit as 'fun'.
Who are you?

[he can guess how she knows about him; he's the deviant hunter, publicly working with law enforcement. but connecting to him privately is another story. whoever this is shouldn't be able to do this.]

AHHHH <3

[computation]

[ Root has left a little bit of a trail as a hacker, but nothing that would connect to the name "root" itself. And her real name she hasn't used in almost twenty years. Meanwhile, she knows there's no point in keeping up the game too long, given their communication method. She easily could've chosen to come in under a false name, but the Machine told her to take this approach, so that's what she's doing. ]

Different tastes, I guess. Call me Root.

My boss is a little shy but wanted to offer my services. I hope you don't think Elijah Kamski is the only one to have figured out artificial intelligence.

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Hello, Root.
I don't. Russia and China have developed their own android technology after CyberLife. It's out there, so long as someone knows what to do with it.

What kind of services are you offering?

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Please, let's not act like you're comparable with something developed by Russia or China.

[ Much less the Machine. Anyway, she's never been asked that outright before, and Root has to take a moment to couch her real response into something more palatable. Something a little less semi-reformed assassin and hacker. ]

I'm a skilled combatant and good at pretending to be someone I'm not. Very familiar with the criminal underworld. And good with computers 😘