Sp4rks's Maiden Fight
Context
Following the events of "ACHEy Breaky Bones" where Sp4rks, Ca1yps0, Lil' Boomer, Skimmer and Carbon were employed by Spider to go in the ACHE and stop White eye from recompiling Deus. Sp4rks & co are together at Spider's meeting point, with them is a suitcase containing a fragment of Deus, the Administrator. The suitcase can only be accessed through a dataport. Most of the team suggest destroying the device, most of their contacts too, but Sp4rks insist about disabling the fragment from inside to learn more about Deus-based AIs, and prove to himself he is able to keep up with them. This is in reference to the worry some of it's relations put in him regarding Marianne, the (secretly AI controlled) matrix-based state of France.
The fragment's personna inside the Briefcase, known as the Administrator, looks like a somewhat square-ish large HR manager, reading and stamping papers most of his time.
Preparation
Before going in, Sp4rks ask Ca1yps0 for some help, which she provides to him between two warnings of how foolish this enterprise actually is. She infuses his Personna with resonnance, raising his Attack attribute to 16 (9+7) and Firewall to 16 (8+8). She also conjures a F8 Machine Sprite, which uses it's Calibration powers on the deck.
Appearance-wise, those effects are manifests as :
- Sp4rks's weapon, Traditionally a Bident takes on the form of a Turquoise-ish Trident with golden accents
- Sp4rks's Cape Grows Turquoise-tainted Steel scales.
- Sp4rks's Pan sees the F8 Machine Sprite, a Kraken, coil around it, his avatar grows four additional tentacle-arms as the Kraken plunge his own tentacles in the Pan.
Kitted up and as ready as he'll ever be to fight a Fragment of Deus, he thanks Ca1 and dives in the briefcase in cold-sim, as she gets ready to jack him out at any time.
The fight
As the administrator sees Sp4rks start to rez in, he scans his avatar. Given Sp4rks was not running silent, he easily understand his intent : 16 Attack and Firewall in addition to every attack and defense programs loaded painted a pretty clear picture.