Event: Body Swap; Part Two

[animusmods]

Early in the morning, a little over an hour after Jason's post to the network, a recording is uploaded. It's read-only, with no responses to it possible, but the recording can be viewed repeatedly.

The video displays the unconscious bodies of two children--one a young girl some may identify as Sonata Shinonome and the other a tiny boy some may recognize as America--being carried into an unused dorm room by two retrieval units. Jason follows behind them. The children are placed onto two beds positioned next to each other, giving Jason and the retrieval units just enough room to move between the two beds. Jason presses a few buttons on his watch and a terminal pops up out of the wall where it was hidden away. He logs out of the terminal, types something into the screen that appears, and a hidden compartment in the retrieval unit's leg pops out. There are multiple syringes contained within.

Jason first injects both children with a clear liquid. After a few moments a line appears between the two--something of a leash between both of their collars, colored in violet from America's side and yellow from Sonata's, tying the two together. Jason then removes a few more syringes. He injects America with two red syringes and two green ones, and then injects Sonata with two red ones and two blue ones.

Slowly colors in the leash intensity until they're a nearly blinding shade of neon yellow and violet. The two colors drain and mix into each other in the leash before swapping places in the leash entirely, although the collar colors have not changed. Jason injects both children with a clear syringe again and the leash fades away entirely.

The feed ends.


You may use this post to search for clues in the appropriate thread. As of this feed the characters should be able to obtain the knowledge necessary to figure out how to swap back, although they will not currently have the means to do so. An OOC hint will be provided each day the solution is not found.

QUESTIONS | HINTS | SEARCH FOR CLUES

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QUESTIONS

[animusmods]

[dataswap]

Have the collar checkup days for a character swapped along with the bodies?

[animusnpcs]

Characters will have to go to the checkups that match the collar color the body they're in has.

[warriorscribe]

Is the video uploaded anonymously or is it attached to an admin login?

[animusmods]

Anonymously.

HINTS

[animusmods]

One hint will be posted in this thread every day the puzzle goes unsolved.

Re: HINTS

[animusmods]

There sure are a lot of shades of different colors, huh? There must be a million different ways to make slightly different colors of the rainbow!

[animusmods]

Maybe metric would be easier?

SEARCH FOR CLUES

[animusmods]

Please reply here with what your character wants to know more about in the video and we will respond to it.

[technologic]

If the characters searched the walls of dorm rooms being used, would they find terminals like the one in the video? Or whould they find one if they looked in empty dorm rooms?

[animusnpcs]

They would not find any apparent seams or terminals in either location.

[dragonspooker]

Are there any retrieval units out and about that people could possibly attempt to see if they carry similar syringes?

[animusnpcs]

Retrieval units only appear when there are bodies that need to be carried away or punishments that need to be carried out. If these conditions were met one would appear, of course.

[sageprincess]

Do the colors of the syringes (the ones that are not clear or red, of course) have the same sort of significance as the collar colors, whatever it is they might signify?

[animusnpcs]

That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.

[alephbet]

Are there any differences in the collars that people are currently wearing - places for attachments, for example - compared to their usual collars?

[animusnpcs]

No.

[whathehellisagigawatt]

This is merely my guessing, so...

Clear liquid = obviously used to form the leash
Yellow liquid = what's in Sonata's collar
Violet = what's in America's collar
Red liquid = initiates the switching since it was listed first
Green liquid = start the process? (Also, yellow in light?)
Blue = end the body swapping process/keep the collar colors in check?

[evilhorizon]

If a retrieval unit mentioned above appears after someone gets killed, and if they cut out their legs, would they find the syringes?

Would they find anything in the colorless collared NPCs' limbs?

[deathboss]

Eikichi this is your time to shine as an artist!

The exchange of fluids is based on the Light Color Spectrum.. Still no idea as to how make the terminal appear or get the terminal units docile enough to do this, but the clear liquid appears to be the cataclysm. It loosens the...collar colors.

To reverse the process, it would go this way:

1) Inject both of them with the clear liquid. (The clear liquid represents white in the light spectrum.)
2) Wait for the leashes to show up
3) Inject twice red and blue for America *
4) Inject twice red and green for Sonata *
5) Wait for the colors to switch and mix around, cursing Jason
6) Inject another syringe of clear liquid to lock it in place.

* Depending on who is affected, this process would need to change, of course:
1) Orange would be two Red, one Green
2) Yellow would be two Red and Green
3) Green would be two Green
4) Blue would be two Blue
5) Indigo would be just a single shot of Blue
6) Violet would be two Red and Blue

Also Jason is gay...



...for science.

Re: SEARCH FOR CLUES

[worldend_dominator]

Both children were injected with red syringes, which means that the red was definitely crucial in the operation. I would say the red liquid creates the "switch" in bodies, while the green is Sonata's memories and the blue is America's memories.

Re: SEARCH FOR CLUES

[dialectics]

I am terrible at theorizing so I will just leave that to everyone else and bumble around trying to help IC if I'm needed BUT ANYWAY

You guys said: "This link is accessible via the other terminals. Clicking on it would reveal encrypted data that could be decrypted by someone with skill with computers and would allow someone to log into the account of anyone who used the residential-level terminals within the last week."

BASED OFF OF THIS I have some legitimate questions now so I'll put them in a list:

1. Would Legion be able to remotely connect to any of the Terminals around in public? (At least the ones anyone else can normally access; I'm assuming the one Jason used is INACCESSIBLE even if it's detectable.) It's got the capability to remotely connect to anything, kind of like how a laptop connects to a wireless signal, only Legion can sort of be it's own signal all-in-one to connect to the Network, if that makes sense.

2. Depending on if it can, if it helped with the hacking attempts it could speed the process of the decryption mentioned up significantly, simply due to it's nature of how it was built and all that jazz. How much faster could it make things go? Hours or minutes wise?

3. Would it have been able to download the video that was shown into it's own archive? And then would it be able to analyze the video a little better on its own, like pixle by pixle, and such? If yes, would anything NEW that hasn't already been mentioned about the scene be readily apparent?

I'm sorry if these are phrased poorly asdsdg; if you need me to clarify I will!!

[technologic]

OKAY SO I wasn't sure where would be the right place to put it, so I'll leave it here.

On Day 3, a group of people consisting of Naoya, Jin Shirato, Sertoria Cani, Enoch, Asako Minegishi, Legion, Aelita, April Sinclair and Doc Brown will be around one of the terminals on the dorm floor. Jin, Naoya and Legion are going to be attempting to log out and then decrypt the data from the link in the corner of the login screen, while everyone else stands guard.

Considering that Jin, Naoya and Legion are all highly skilled hackers, and Naoya currently has technopathy and Legion is, well, a highly advanced robot who can remotely access computers and such, how long would the decrypting take?

[nemophila]

Wait quick question I realized while I was typing stuff up--

Did the collar color of characters that got switched change? i.e., Do the current collar colors correspond to the body or the "soul" currently in the body?

[decompose]

Obvious question is likely obvious: will asking the drones directly what color their collars mean (the clear and the red) be useful? Also, considering Nigredo has a form of telepathy, is it possible to glean some information from them?