And the Answer is Cube!

Fennec's Stream

Date: 24 October 2085 By: Fennec

In the waning hours of a 72 hour stream, Fennec's persona rises from another virtual bump of white powder, bright manic laughter chirping out as she kicks up from her seated position. Twirling on a heel, she spins a 360 before sliiiiding onto the top of a table, looking down at the camera - the false camera's light behind her, casting her face in shadow. All that's visible in the glare is the bright white tips of her ears, shiny white teeth - and piercing blue eyes, staring straight down into the camera.

"Hiiiiiiiiii chat. It's been a really long stream and I'm starting to crash a little lot! Like - a lot a lot. Maybe taking that rigger cocktail was a bad idea? Maybe the *second time* was the real mistake." A barking laugh - and she lifts the camera up to eye level, tails splaying out behind her.

"So~! Chat. I was in New York! A couple resourceful little tailtips saw me sneaking around! Some of them saw me in a club downtown where there were some mildly shady individuals - like, duh, I gotta score nova somehow! - but oooone of you spotted me out meeting up with a mystery girl."

An image gets flicked across the screen, too quick for the eye to catch. But for those capable of screencapping it - it's another foxgirl.

"I'm not telling any stories! No kissing and telling here." Wink. "Instead, I'll tell you a few funny things about the conference! Anyone nervous out there in the audience?"

Her tail swishswishswishes back and forth. "I've got it on a reliable source that someone really, really ticked off S-K! And they must be a master manipulator if they got what they wanted out of the conference, eh? I mean - they got local hacker groups and freedom fighters to cooperate, a surprise attack from a group of weirdo magic guys with beltswords on S-K Prime's team, some kind of fight in an elevator - by the way chat, I'll pay ten thousand nuyen for footage of that! - uh! There was a lot happening in a very short time! But one Dr. Vieri seems to have disappeared from S-K's ranks. Now! I have it on good authority that those responsible weren't brought into custody. And even though bounties were put out on some known criminals who were in New York at the tiiiiime... it seems like even Monkey D. Loffy isn't quite sure whodunnit! Sad!"

Barking laughter - and the fox rolls off the table, landing with a massive thump.

She climbs back up into her seat with help from her tails, then goes right on ranting. "So! Chat! Who do you think did it? There's a billion conspiracies out there. Maybe it's some big, secret anti-dragon organization? Maybe there's some big scary matrix threat, gnawing at GOD's host that let all those protesters slip into one of the most secure digital spaces on the planet! Maybe there's jellyfish gnawing at the souls of the people who were there? A bunch of technos inside passed out all at once - could be related to that too! Maybe some kind of dissonant plot! And I know the books for at least some of the companies who showed up were cooked. Like - it's so obvious. But there's a million different enemies that could have gone after the conference and the good doctor!"

"So, chat! Whodunnit? Anybody got any guesses? The answer might surprise you! Gyahahahahaha~ Now, personally, I think that the clue's in the formula for the volume of a cube. That's right - base times length times width. B - L - W! Now, cubes are important because they're naturally created by vectors, and vector math is super important to how the matrix functions!"

Fennec spends the rest of the stream teasing chat with tidbits of information that lead nowhere, with only the vaguest hints at who might be responsible, before she closes the stream and crashes off her Long Haul.

(This news article is related to the events of The Great Work.)