Ancient Vault

Routine

Image
Type	File System

Responses to Functions

Found on University Net Sites

Note: every action with the vault starts with one of the following. These seem to be the only thing that generates unsubtle:

Staring eyes follow your avatar as it moves through the vault.

(+1 Unsubtle)

Or with higher Incognito (sometimes):

You move through the hall gingerly, neither stirring dust nor attracting attention from its keepers.

Or with negative Incognito (sometimes):

Endless staring eyes follow your avatar as it moves through the vault.

(+2 Unsubtle)

Function	Add'l Reqs.	Message	U	Result
Offense ≥ 1		The vault collapses, decompiling itself in moments.	2
Offense then View	Low CF	The vault collapses, decompiling itself in moments. Some of the decompiling pieces fold into convenient packages. Huh. Some of the other pieces, admittedly, are less intact.	2	You found: 4-5 of networking functions, crash script, filtering script, command script, code snippet
Offense then View	High CF	The vault collapses, decompiling itself in moments. Some of the decompiling pieces fold into convenient packages. Huh.	2	You found: 2 of networking functions, crash script, filtering script, command script, code snippet You found: Novos system updates or Novos functionality updates
View ≥ 3	Net Site	You peer into the depths of the vault, finding passageways leading to other sites. You follow one of the links to <site from Gothic Ruins Net>.	0	Site source is listed as "Active" on Net page
Command then View	Net Site	You command the vault to open and walk its halls, picking up tomes of ancient lore… or, rather, datalinks styled as tomes of ancient lore. You follow one of the links to <site from Gothic Ruins Net>.	0	Site source is listed as "Active" on Net page
Command then View	Net Site, with mysterious coat (sometimes)	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. It conjures up an ancient tome… or, rather, a data file with a tome icon. It seems to be about your coat. You're not sure exactly how it knew… maybe it's guessing. On that train of thought, though, it looks like you can connect through it.	0	You upgraded your equipped shirt to coat of strange circuitry.
View ≥ 3	Gothic Site, without any form of circuitry coat equipped	You peer into the depths of the vault, finding long-buried secrets. There's a lot of data here, but none of it really seems to make much sense.	0	1 XP Perception
Command then View	Gothic Site, without any form of circuitry coat equipped	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. There's a lot of data here, but none of it really seems to make much sense.	0	1 XP Perception
View ≥ 3	Gothic Site, with mysterious coat	You peer into the depths of the vault, finding long-buried secrets. There's a lot of data here. It seems related to some of the notes tucked in your coat, but it's hard to say how it's all supposed to fit together.	0	2 XP Perception
Command then View	Gothic Site, with mysterious coat	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. There's a lot of data here. It seems related to some of the notes tucked in your coat, but it's hard to say how it's all supposed to fit together.	0	2 XP Perception
View ≥ 3	Gothic Site	You peer into the depths of the vault, finding long-buried secrets. There are some notes about how to reverse the circuits of your coat and actually use them to move its fabric… it's pretty cool.	0	2 XP Perception You learned a new Technique: Swirling Circuitry
Command then View	Gothic Site	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. There are some notes about how to reverse the circuits of your coat and actually use them to move its fabric… it's pretty cool.	0	2 XP Perception You learned a new Technique: Swirling Circuitry
Command then View	Gothic Site, with strange coat, after using Swirling Circuitry enough	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. You've developed an almost instinctive understanding of the feedback technology in your coat.	0	You upgraded your equipped shirt to coat of defensive circuitry.
View ≥ 3	Gothic Site, with strange coat, with orange juice sample charge	You peer into the depths of the vault, finding long-buried secrets. You look over the data… so much of it has to do with your coat. It's not all obvious at first, but… yes and there are… yes and… aha!		You upgraded your equipped shirt to coat of defensive circuitry.
Command then View	Gothic Site, with strange coat, with orange juice sample charge	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. You look over the data… so much of it has to do with your coat. It's not all obvious at first, but… yes and there are… yes and… aha!	0	You upgraded your equipped shirt to coat of defensive circuitry.
View ≥ 3	Roy's One Stop, with Pale Swordsman alive or already gotten staring code	You peer into the depths of the vault. Although there are files disguised as books scattered through the hall, each you look at is empty. Yeah, file size zero.	0	1 XP Perception
Command then View	Roy's One Stop, with Pale Swordsman alive or already gotten staring code	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. Although there are files disguised as books scattered through the hall, each you look at is empty. Yeah, file size zero.	0	1 XP Perception
Command then View	Roy's One Stop, with Pale Swordsman crashed	You command the vault to open and walk its halls. Amid the dusty halls and empty books, you find an orb of tightly encrypted code with an icon like a staring eye.	0	3 XP Perception You found: staring code
View = 1-2	Net Site	The vault is… beautiful, first of all. Beautifully coded, beautifully designed. The display is even beautiful, perfectly rendering every mote of dust and crack in the stone. It's hard to believe that something so complex could be hidden so thoroughly… unless it was done at the source level, hooking into something built at the very foundation of the system… yes, that might work.
View = 1-2	Gothic/Roy Site	The vault is… beautiful, first of all. Beautifully coded, beautifully designed. The display is even beautiful, perfectly rendering every mote of dust and crack in the stone.
Command ≥ 1		At your command, ancient tomes appear… well, icons appearing like ancient tomes. By the time you respond, however, they're long gone.	0
Defense, Other		The vault remains as it has, virtual dust slowly settling on its floor around your avatar.	0

• View + Command counts as just Command.

Sources

Gothic Ruins net sites and some leading there