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Shiro Academy; New Term, Old Problems...
Topic Started: Jun 20 2011, 05:09:39 PM (6,758 Views)
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Lena looked over at Ella and shook her head, thinking what a heavy sleeper Ella was. "I'm sorry, she's not available at the moment. This is her roommate Lena Elene. Can I take a message for her?"
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Trevor sighed.
"Yeah, if you could tell her to call back the Little Shiro Satellite campus ASAP. We need to speak to her regarding her work over there at the Computer Lab."

Trevor grinned. Though unseen, it could be heard over the phone.
"Oh and if she is asleep, wake her up and tell her to check her cell phone alarm. You'll understand why when you do it..."
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Lena said, "Okay. I'll let her know. Goodbye." She hung up, and sighed. She gently nudged Ella. "Hey, Ella. Ella," she softly said. "You got a phone call a few seconds ago from the Little Shiro Satellite Campus. They said for you to call back immediately and also to check your cell phone alarm."
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Ella moaned before slowly pulling herself up.
"Eh? Cellphone? Bleh...?? Oh...mornin' Lena..."
Blinking for several seconds, she then fumbled for her cellphone and stared at it. Her eyes widened in horror.
"Holy crap!" she shouted before bolting out of bed, "11AM?!"

Ella dashed into the bathroom to give herself a quick shower, which seemed to only last a few seconds, and clean her teeth and her face simultaneously, before stumbling out the bathroom, tripping on her towel into the wardrobe.
"Owwie," she rubbed her head before getting back up and quickly put on a t-shirt and shorts on, the wrong way, before correcting them and then grabbed her cellphone again.
"Cheers Lena, need to call them now...dammit...I knew I should've reset my alarm. Can you remind me to do that later?" Ella asked as she frantically dialled up the Satellite Campus.
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Lena did her best not to laugh. All she could do was smile. "I'm surprised that you slept through my five alarms when they went off at 10:00 AM. You must be a heavy sleeper. I let you sleep a bit more since we both had a real hectic day yesterday." Lena smiled, still dressed in a towel wrapped around her. "But you didn't bruise your head badly after you fell into the wardrobe." Lena started getting dressed, putting on a pair of sweatpants and a sports bra. "And don't worry, I'll remember to remind you to reset your alarm. So, what do they want with you?" Lena was curious as to why they didn't ask for her as well.
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"They probably don't know about you yet. Or rather, that you are a computer expert as well and could've helped. To be fair that was probably my fault for not telling them. But yeah, chalk that one up to the crazy day yesterday."

Ella started dialling frantically on her phone.
"And yes, I admit it. I'm a very heavy sleeper. And I also admit this is not the first time this has happened. Which is probably why the professor asked you to tell me to check my alarm..."

The phone was answered by Trevor.
"Professor Sah'lis."
"It's Ella, you called earlier, professor?"
"Yeah..." Trevor smirked, "...we need you to check up on the lab servers today. If you haven't already done so."
"Yeah, I'll be there in a few minutes. I'm still awaiting a report from the techs on last nights power cut."
"Any idea when that will be?"
"They said it should be available by lunchtime. I'm going to to an audit myself once I'm at the lab."
"OK. I'm counting on you. See you later then."
"Yeah, see ya'."

Ella clicked off the phone and rubbed her head a bit before picking up her laptop bag and some books.
"Feel like doing some more work at the lab Lena?"
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Lena listened to Ella talking to her professor. When asked to help out, the Lobo's tail wagged. "You bet," she answered. She changed clothes again, putting on a,pair of jeans, tshirt, sneakers, and pullover sweatshirt. She grabbed her laptop bag and some books too. "Alright, let's go. So, I'm guessing that they have you do a lot of work on the school computers, huh?"
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"Pretty much," Ella said as they both walked out the door, "Especially given that power cut yesterday."

As they both exited the room, Ella noticed a note attached to the door.
"What's this? 'We the 99%'?" she looked down the hallway to see the note taped to all the doors on the floor they were on, "I'm guessing it's yet another political campaign by the student union...or some sort of prank..."
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"Nope...try again..."

Ella was inside one of the crawl spaces under the lab trying to feed through network cables. One of them wasn't long enough and wouldn't reach a panel on the wall. She then tried to pull the cable through another opening in the floor, to no avail.
"Lena, could you fetch me a longer cable, some pliers, a hammer and a spare RJ45 connector? Going to try to punch another hole near the wall in this crawl space."
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Lena was puzzled by the 'prank', but she pushed it out of her mind.

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"Okay," Lena said as she went and got the items Ella needed. After giving them to Ella, she asked, "Do you need some help?"
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"Yeah, just keep holding onto the end of the cable I'll hand to you once I make a hole just..." Ella poked her head out of the crawl space hatch, looked around and pointed to Lena's right, "...just over there where one of the knockout covers is in the floor. Do watch your step! I don't want to hurt you or anyone else trying to fix this network link..."

Ella crawled back down the hatch and started hammering away until a loud snap, followed by a creak emanated from the crawl space. Then a small hole appeared in the floor.
"Righty-ho!" Ella shouted from somewhere below Lena, "Got the knockout cover out. Grab the cable that comes through the hole to your right and drag it over to the switch panel marked 'B-9' on your left, then plug it into the ethernet socket marked 'Uplink MR 24.6'. There are also two sockets marked 'Uplink RS 24.5' and 'Uplink RP 21.4' near by on the same panel. They should have cables in them but the other end not plugged in elsewhere. Can you try to feed them through the same hole? If the cable is too short, use the reel of spare cable nearby to extend them down. Could you do that please?"

OOC: The Ethernet socket names are a joke to a current event. See if you can figure out the reference...XD
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Lena said, "Sure." She did exactly as Ella had instructed her. "Alright, I'm feeding through the same hole now. Do you see it?"
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"Got it!" Ella shouted and grabbed the cable, "Now give me a few seconds..."
Ella pulled the cable through the hole in the floor and plugged it into a router beside her. The lights on it started blinking.
"OK. I think we got it. Could you go check one of the terminal screens for me and tell me what IP address is showing on the screen?"
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"Sure thing." Lena checked. "Um...IP address is 144.22343.AD.HANKHILL.111. Weird address if you ask me. I'm guessing that's wrong right?"
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"Yeah, either that or it is some hacker's idea of a silly joke," Ella commented as she climbed out the hatch, "Run a network refresh command and read me only the numbers that show up."

Ella grabbed another cable and pulled it into the hatch. She instructed a tech to start securing them as she ducked back into the crawl space.
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"Okay. What's it supposed to say?"
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"The number should start something like '192.168...' and then some other numbers after it," Ella shouted back as she taped down some more wires, "Failing that, just start reading any number that shows up on the screen and I'll tell you if that is right or wrong."

As Ella crawled about, she noticed something on the floor.
"Say Lena...before you do that, did you or anyone else drop a ring here? Because there is one on the floor in this crawl space here..."

Ella picked up the piece of jewellery and examined it. It was a gold ring with a plain surface, save for one gemstone set flush with the surface.
"It's a very pretty, if a bit plain..."
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Lena nodded. But before she could say the numbers that appeared, she was asked about the ring. "No. Must be someone else's. We should probably turn it into the campus police. Someone must have lost it, I guess--Oh here are the numbers: 192.168.432432.78.11.233. That sound right?"
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"Sounds about right...except the number at the end should be a '2', not '3'...hmm..."
Ella crawled out of the hatch and looked at the screen Lena was looking at.
"Oh no, forget what I said, you were right. What is weird is this ring...no one should be wearing jewellery in this crawl space. It's one of the safety regulations of the lab. Even I had to take out my earrings to crawl down here. Hmm..."

Ella rubbed her head in though and then frowned. She then beckoned for one of the techs.
"Check the CCTV from the last two days onwards, will you? I got a nasty feeling about this."
"Yes ma'am."
"As the technician ran off to check the CCTV tapes, Ella clambered out the hatch."
"I'm beginning to wonder if the ring belongs to whoever caused that power cut yesterday? At the very least, I don't like the idea someone has been digging around in here. They may have done something down there that wasn't kosher. And in any event, it might tell us where the ring came from even if they done nothing..."
Meanwhile...elsewhere in the campus...
"Nee'la, you getting any other problems with the campus IT network?" Sha'la asked. Nee'la looked up from her office computer and sighed.
"Well, now you mention it, suddenly everything ran really slowly. Is this your doing?"
"Hey! Don't go blaming everything on me! I might be a troublemaker, sometimes, but I don't go around mucking up computers. I'm no hacker anyway!" Sha'la mock pouted.
Nee'la rolled her eyes.
"Didn't say you did. Regardless. Things are going slowly on here. I'll call IT up in a minute to check what is going on. I got accident reports to file. What are you doing that is so important anyway?" Nee'la stared at Sha'la suspiciously.
Sha'la put her hands on her hips in mock disdain.
"Hmph! I'm not playing online games on here! Not always..."
"So what are you doing anyway?"
"Well, if you must know, I was trying to submit a dissertation on the history of differentiation."

Nee'la raised an eyebrow.
"That is rather...deep...didn't think you had it in you."
Sha'la gave a smug grin.
"Although I like to party a lot...and drink...alot...I'm not an idiot! Besides, I need to upload this dissertation soon. Otherwise my lecturer will kill me."
Nee'la waved her tail a bit, causing the bells tied to it to jingle slightly.
"Why didn't you upload it earlier?"
"The lecturer didn't activate the upload facility until two minutes ago...he is weird..."
"It's problem everyone trying to upload their dissertations all at once."
"Even so, it's really slow and timing out!"

Nee'la sighed.
"OK, I'll go contact the computer labs and see what is up."
Nee'la grabbed the phone and started dialling the computer lab.
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"Hm...I agree why would they want to cut the power? Doesn't make much sense. Is there any initials or anything written on the inside of the ring? Maybe there's a clue there," Lena said. "Anyhow, my anti-virus program should be running smoothly now. Oh wait...I think I forgot to put in a couple of codes in it so that it wouldn't slow things down on the servers. The program likes to scan everything for viruses, worms, and trojan horses. It should take a few hours for things to get back up to normal speed."
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"Could you not just hit 'Control-C' on the keyboard to terminate the anti-virus program and restart it with the correct options?" Ella asked as she started cleaning up the area around the crawl space hatch, "Oh well, no biggie. If people complain..."
"Miss Rah'n," a technician interrupted her, "We got about 50 calls on the switchboard. Most are complaints about the network running slow."
Ella rolled her eyes.
"Tell them we are doing some maintenance on the servers. It might last a few hours. Give them our apologies."
"Yes ma'am."

Ella sighed as she prepared to go into the next crawl space.
"The ring doesn't have any initials on it. It just is plain save for the small gemstone set into the surface. It is quite a distinctive design though."
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"I guess. Should just take a few moments." Lena began to correct the problem. "There we go. That should do it. Now the servers should be running faster and smoother than ever before."

One of the technicians was shocked by this. "My God! I have never seen the network run this fast or smooth before!"

Another technician joked, "Maybe we should have Lena do things around here instead of Ella!"

Lena growled. "Hey! Ella has done a lot of great things for this campus's network! And you should appreciate all that she's done for you!"
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Ella waved her hand at Lena to indicate the joke from the technicians wasn't an issue.
"Don't worry about it. Water off a duck's back. Besides, virus maintenance was never my strong point. I was always more of a network hardware technician."

As Ella crawled down into a second hatch, she stood up again.
"Did that tech come back from checking the CCTV tapes?"
"He is still looking through them ma'am."
"Could someone call campus security and report that ring? Mention the tapes as well."
"Yes ma'am."

Ella dropped down into the second crawlspace...and almost immediately popped back up.
"Lena...we need a clean up."
"Of the servers?"
"No, literally. Can you get me a vacuum cleaner. Or a dust pan? Some idiot seems to have left old cables and waste paper down here...any wonder why they stopped using this rack of networking equipment...oh God..." Ella pinched her nose..."Yeah...is there a gas mask or respirator I can use as well? The smell isn't what you can call 'fresh'..."
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Lena took a sniff and instantly gagged. 'Yuck! Smells terrible!" Since Lobos have a stronger sense of smell than humans, the odor's stench was a massive assault on her nose. "Better bring two respirators," she said. Later, a technician brought two respirators and a vacuum cleaner.

"Need any help," Lena asked Ella.
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"Just get some trash bags ready," Ella said as she put her respirator on, "Actually, get me a paid of waste handling gloves as well. I'm not entirely sure what happened to this crawl space..."

Lena handed Ella a pair of heavy duty gloves. Ella then started dealing with the mess, using the vacuum cleaner to suck up the smaller bits of dirt and trash, and sorted the rest.
"I'm guessing some frat boys must broken in here at some point and used it as a party den before the lab was fully utilised...we got cans, bottles, half eaten bags of crisps, or chips, whatever you call them...a suitcase full of..."
Ella stopped for a few seconds.
"What is it?" Lena asked. Ella frowned and lifted up a pair of soiled underpants.
"Err..." Ella started before shrugging in disbelief...
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Lena covered her muzzle and ran to a nearby trash can. She then threw up into it, as the smell was too much for her. "Please get rid of it! And start spraying some air fresher!"
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Ella nodded.
"Believe me, I wish I could throw up as well, but it would be all trapped in my mask..."
Ella then sealed up the soiled underwear into a bag, tied it up and marked it "Biohazzard". Several of the technicians looked on, some also feeling sick enough from the smell to leave.
"It doesn't get any better from here on either, if you are wondering," Ella pointed further down into the crawl space, "I see what looks like more waste, some electronic. I'm not even sure what exactly happened here but it is scary."

As Ella cleaned up the crawl space further, she suddenly stopped.
"Lena...get security...there is a hand here..."
Ella quickly scrambled up from the hatch.
"Seriously. Get security here now. I think there is body down there..."
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"Oh Den Mother!" Lena quickly called campus security. Soon, the security arrived. "Okay, I need both of you to wait outside. And don't go everywhere either. The police are already on their way, and they will need to talk to both of you," one of the campus security officers said.

"Come on Ella. The smell in her is murder on my nose!" Lena and Ella went outside to wait for the police to arrive.

Eventually, the police arrived and began asking questions, while a CSI team started taking evidence. After a detective finished asking them questions, he said, "Well, you two are clear, but don't leave this campus until we've finished our investigations. Also, it might be best if you two stay in your rooms until further notice. We'll handle any sort of paperwork in the meantime, and I guess you two will be excused from class until we say otherwise as well."

Lena groaned. "Again!? I have to miss more of my classes!"
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"Yeah..." Ella sighed as well, "I'm more concerned about why there is a dead guy...just there...bit creepy..."

Just then Sha'la arrived. She was wearing the florescent vest characteristic of security.
"OK..." Sha'la said in an exasperated tone, "...I was called to come here. Something about a dead guy on campus?"
"Being a bit flippant aren't we? There is a dead body there, for Pete's sake!" Ella burst out before she sighed, "Sorry, I'm not used to...to seeing...well..."
As Lena tried to comfort her, Sha'la nodded in understanding and put a hand on her shoulder.
"My apologies," she said uncharacteristically, "I didn't mean to make it sound like I was downplaying what you found. I guess it's easier for me just to brush the loss of life off. Being in the Army for many years does this to you...but I understand. I'll go have a look. You stay put and help the police in their enquiries."
"What are you doing here anyway?" Ella looked up, puzzled at Sha'la's appearance.
"Apparently I've been promoted, sort of, as some sort of dorm security liaison. I'm taking over some of the duties of the head of security while he is away. Don't ask. I have no idea either. Somehow I'm the only one trained to do security based work formally so here I am. I'm going to take a look at this body. As I said, stay here. I'll Bee-Arr-Bee..."

Sha'la went inside. Looking around the lab, which was now crawling with police and other security staff. Sha'la showed her security pass to the police officers and had a look in the crawl space where the body was. She jumped down and had a look.
"Err...ma'am? Please do not contaminate the crime scene!" an officer warned. Sha'la dismissed his concerns.
"I wouldn't worry!" she shouted back, "Aside from the trash down here, which is already contaminated, I can see straight away it is not a body!"
"What?!"
"Look! It's a rather realistic mannequin!" Sha'la used a pair of long reach tongs to lift the hand, "I've seen them before. Some students must've put it here as a prank. It's plastic!"

Sha'la knocked the head of the mannequin to emphasise her point. The officers sighed.
"Don't blame Miss Rah'n. It's an easy mistake to make in the darkness down here. I only know because I've seen my fair share of corpses and happen to have seen this particular mannequin."
Sha'la crawled out with a smirk.
"Guess I better calm down Ella and Lena out there. Do clean up the place though and file a report. Dean will want to make sure all is in order..."
As Ella and Lena sat down on the sidewalk, Nee'la arrived.
"You guys OK?"
"I am, but I think Ella is shaken up," Lena replied.
"OK...that's normal. Don't worry Ella. I do know that this sort of grisly discovery can be quite upsetting," Nee'la said in a soothing tone, "Just remember, you aren't responsible for what has happened."
"I know...but...when I saw that hand...I..." Ella shuddered.

Sha'la emerged from the lab building.
"Good news guys. It wasn't a body at all. I just checked."
"Huh?" Ella looked up.
"It's a rather realistic mannequin. I've checked. It's made of plastic, so it can't be a body. Also, I've seen this prank done by students before," Sha'la let out an exasperated puff of breath before continuing, "You can go back in and resume what you are doing once I get the paperwork from the cops. Sorry to waste your guys time."
"Well, that's a relief, in a way," Nee'la remarked.
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Lena gave a sigh of relief. "Well, it was a good thing it wasn't a real body. Um...Ella, I should apologize. I should have checked to see if it was really a dead body, but I was having trouble smelling anything what with that um...biohazardous material."

"Anyhow, um...Ella do you want to take the rest of the day off and just try to relax after this?" Lena was greatly concerned about her roommate as the whole ordeal seemed to have unnerved Ella.
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"No, it was my fault for not checking properly," Ella said, "I should've been a bit more careful going through that trash."
"I'd heed your friends advice," Nee'la said, "Real body or not, you are pretty shaken up and I would recommend some rest."
"...Yeah..." Ella replied, "...yeah, I think I might need some after today...we'll start on the rest of the maintenance tomorrow..."
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