*sneaks into the plot last-minute* [video post as usual]

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

[Have a robotic Taiitsu. He's black and white, quite shiny, and could not possibly be happier.]

What a fascinating place this is! I didn't think I was going to like it here...not with everything that happened after I arrived. It was pretty scary...I didn't leave my apartment at all for awhile. But this?

[Holds his recently acquired set of glossy white robo-hands up to the camera by way of a demonstration.]

This is spectacular!

I've been running some tests on my systems [Barely surpressed squee at the notion of himself having systems] for the past few days, and let me tell you, they are top-notch! With a little more time, I bet I could create some really excellent modifications. But it seems like most people think this is a temporary state? That we'll turn back eventually?

[Little sigh] Too bad.

Anyway, I've been so distracted with this whole being a robot thing that I completely forgot to post the results of my other project! Since I've been spending so much time in the MAC, when it was too dangerous to go outside, I've had time to take a good long look at that surveillance system everyone's been complaining about. And I asked myself, who in the world would want to go through so much trouble to keep an eye on us? Where is this footage being sent to, anyway? So I rigged something up to track the signal, and guess what I found out?

Well? Can you guess?

[Brief pause]

Ah, I've kept you in suspense long enough. The answer to the question of who's watching the MAC is this: no one is! The cameras are still transmitting, but there's no active receiver. So the transmissions are just sort of floating around the airwaves without ever being picked up and viewed. Unless it's cutting in on people's satellite television in the building next door or something, but that's a whole different problem.

Now I know quite a few people have had concerns about living in the MAC because of this issue, so let me assure you that these cameras are completely harmless. Nonetheless, I'll be happy to locate and remove them for anyone who asks me to.

[Smiles brightly for the camera]

Any questions?

((OOC note: This post is fully mod-approved and marks the effective end of surveillance cameras inside the MAC apartments.))

Comments

[cardboardworld.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I had read in some of the backlogs that people were worried about being watched, though it does make settling in a bit easier now...

I have to wonder WHO was watching beforehand, then...

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

That's a very good question, and one I'm afraid I can't even infer an answer to. I haven't been here long enough to make an educated guess as to who might do such a thing.

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

So the camera signals are just floating out in the ether then, ah?

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

So it seems!

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

Interesting~

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though? I wonder who might have installed them in the first place...or what happened to their receiver, for that matter.

he's not plotting to try and pick up those signals no not at all

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

Whoever had the MAC built in the first place seems the most fucking likely!!

Do it while you can...sooner or later, he'll get around to uninstalling all of 'em

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a logical assumption...but do we have any idea who that is?

/DOES IT.

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

The Iron Man that got destroyed? The Porter?

OH SNAP

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

Possible...could you tell me more about this Iron Man character?

>:D

[hellcommander.livejournal.com]

He wasn't the Iron Man that was here now. It was just an empty suit of Iron Man armor that had somehow become sentient. It used to run the Porter... or did the Porter run it? Kekekeke.

[Video for once cause hello robot buddy!] (and there is no spellcheck on this computer, appolgies]

[shiromadoushi]

[[Is also a robot, only much more with the silver. If it weren't for the almost glowing blue of his eyes, you'd think his camera had just gone grey scale]]

Heeeh, it changed you too? [[smiles]] It's pretty cool, isn't it! Though I don't know much about robotics or anything like that! And yeah, most the things like this go away after a while, anywhere from 3 days to a week most of the time, which really is probally for the best, I think.

So is it just that where the cameras were transmitting to isn't there any more or were they always just there as decoys? Or an incompleate system? Either way, that's really great that you found that out and can take care of it!

[YESSSS video forever!]

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

You as well, Bakura? Excellent! If the area of robotics interests you, I'd be happy to teach you the basics. I am, after all, the creator of my world's most sophisticated AI. And yes, I have heard that this is probably temporary, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy it while it lasts!

Well, since the cameras are actually functional and filming, I assume they aren't decoys. There must have been an active receiver at some point. But there isn't now, and I don't think there has been for quite some time.

[Ditto that!]

[shiromadoushi]

Heeeeeeeh, really?! I didn't know that! Yes, I would be interested! Very interested!


Interesting.. and there's just-- nothing where it used to go? Like it was part of a system that's gone now?

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

Come over anytime, and I'll tell you all about it!

No, nothing at all. That's the problem with remote surveillance, I suppose.

[shiromadoushi]

When ever you're free is good with me!

At least it's good to know no one was watching!

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't have that much going on right now, so...anytime?

...I think I need to find a job. Tinkering with things in the apartment is all well and good, but it's nothing compared to the kind of work I did back home.

[shiromadoushi]

You're at the Mac, you said, right? I can be over in 10 minutes if that's all right!

Aah-- the only job I could offer would be in retail! But there's a few companies hiring that are looking for technology minded people!

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

That's correct! [Have a room number]

Yes, I've heard...I wonder if that one guy with the spectacular set of armor is still hiring.

[hackeralastair]

You can assume all you want, that it'll just go away, but it's been six days and nobody's owned up to having caused it. It wasn't the Porter, she likes taking credit for her work - and those are usually the temporary cases. So there's really no logical reason to expect that this is also temporary.

...god do I hope it is, though.

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[shiromadoushi]

[But Baku see this and worries a little]

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[hackeralastair]

[he's worried on your behalf, Bakura! honest!]

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

I don't mind much if it turns out to be permanent...but I suppose I can see how some people might find it unpleasant.

Even though it's really cool.

[voice]

[olcountrydoc.livejournal.com]

Goddammit, you mean to tell me I've been yelling at nothing this whole time?

[voice]

[hellocamerafour.livejournal.com]

If you've been yelling at the cameras in your apartment...then yes.