The Long Game
| The Long Game | |
|---|---|
| Date of Cutscene: | 17 November 2012 |
| Location: | Hollow Bastion - The Grid |
| Synopsis: | LEXUS ruminates upon the failure of his gambit. In the end, however, perhaps it would not be a failure after all... |
| Cast of Characters: | LEXUS |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uprBLCY4UaQ
Everyone has a place of power to call their own. A sanctum, if you will. for some, it soothes them and gives them comfort, a place of memories and nostalgia. For others, it is much more literal. A place of security and power, an operating center that acts a central point where in all things they are the master.
The program called LEXUS has such a place, forged meticulously over many cycles since discovering that the Grid extended to Hollow Bastion. The pulse of power flowed through him there, reinvigorating his central node. Data flowed through him, his blood and his thoughts, all carefully indexed.
It was the place that he returned to when things went poorly, or in those situations that he had faced defeat at the hands of others. His path would always bring him back here. And it is here that he sits now, considering the latest turn of events.
That someone had operated discovered his operation was not the unusual point. He was singularly unsubtle in kicking open the doors of Flynn's Arcade, defeating a guardian Program, and acquiring the computer hardware. He simply considered that no one would know of the significance of an entrance into the Grid, or the hardware that a good portion of the Grid ran on.
His senses extended, he waited for it to come online.
Over time, it did. Data began to flow. The Grid expanded, most of its inhabitants none the wiser. Listening posts long established by LEXUs in those portions of the Grid began feeding data to him once more, and be began to learn what kind of people possessed the machines.
Shinra. An unusual name for an unusual group. Ambitious. Possessed of great power and knowledge, and willing to use it to advance their cause of dominance. Men of science, men of Technology.
LEXUS smiled. This was... fortuitous. They would benefit from this technology, and in turn, he would benfit as well. All would advance in their own ways.
He was content. It would only be a matter of time until he could leverage the connection with these new... potential associates.
