Monday, March 06, 2023

Story Post: Initialising to Stratum 2

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots:

INITIALISING GRID

New Features:
  • Energized
  • High-Security
  • High-Security

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

06-03-2023 17:49:54 UTC

Just to confirm, were the 10 batteries for the dormant cells placed, or was it just the ones from energized? Because that looks like a lot of batteries overwritten by firewall.

JonathanDark: he/him

06-03-2023 18:01:08 UTC

The rules on where the Batteries can be placed can limit the actual number of Batteries that actually get placed. Read into that what you will:

Privately randomly select 10 Dormant Cells (or as many as can be selected, if fewer than that number exist) and set their Value to Battery (A Cell is Dormant if no Runner has a Location in the same row or column as it, and if no Runner is in the Cells orthogonally and diagonally adjacent to it.)

SingularByte: he/him

06-03-2023 18:03:34 UTC

Ah, so people might be too evenly distributed. Got you.

Josh: Observer he/they

06-03-2023 18:54:34 UTC

I’ve idled myself; quorum is unchanged.