Comments on 'Checking Out the Competition'After a couple hours weeding through the maze of garbled English that is GlobTrak’s guidance system, _doesn’t anyone comment anymore?_ I thought to myself in frustration, my mind kept turning to BioWeps, and how I could possibly get Nick and Angela out of this mess.
I opened the CoND Intranet page and ran a search for BioWeps. The BioWeps page had a completely different design from the main Intranet page, and had a login option. _Why would they need a login?_
“Checking out the competition, eh?” Jen, the overly excitable junior analyst from my first day, asked from over my shoulder. “Those BioWeps guys are a bunch of secretive douches. Watch too many movies,” she said with a smirk. I smiled back, “you caught me.”
“Well, you’ll never learn anything without a password. Here…” she leaned over me and entered jim.talbot in the username field and a password I couldn’t quite catch. “I dated a guy over there a few months back, his password is porsche1. I told you, real douchebags. This should get you started.”2008-06-23T01:50:29Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/30469Comment on Checking Out the Competition<p>Good choice using Jen in this way to try to give him leg up on his enemy. Besides, it’s just fun to have her around.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=731992008-06-23T01:50:29Zthebetweenspacehttp://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspaceComment on Checking Out the Competition<p>Haha, even villainous mega corps don’t have passwords audits.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=681942008-06-05T14:20:05ZPyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)http://ficlets.com/authors/pyropunkComment on Checking Out the Competition<p>I quite like this – it is a nice opportunity for our protagonist to take charge, so lets see where it goes…</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=623142008-05-14T20:39:27ZRidcully Calverthttp://ficlets.com/authors/user_joonComment on Checking Out the Competition<p>I really tried to paint BioWeps as a rogue sect of the CoND, and my original description of finding the Intranet site did that. But it had to be cut. I also felt that Phil needed an ally on the inside, and Ridcully’s “Jen” seemed hyper enough to fill that void.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=622822008-05-14T17:50:34ZJohn Perkinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21Comment on Checking Out the Competition<p>Actually, I quite liked the direction it ended up taking the story. I think our man Phil needs to go on the offensive at some point or have some information for defense. Hopefully we’ll have provided him with something to allow that to happen.</p>
<p>It was tough but I wanted the follow up to this to show something that would appear to have no value but may prove important later. If it makes you feel any better I think I’ve left Ridcully in an equally challenging spot!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=622812008-05-14T17:44:25ZSteve Fairweatherhttp://ficlets.com/authors/fairweather12Comment on Checking Out the Competition<p>Re-reading this now, it’s pretty terrible. My original draft was much better, I promise, but about 400 characters too long. I did a poor editing job, but I think my original idea came across, so hopefully Ridcully or Steve can save this atrocity.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/30469?basename=622802008-05-14T17:37:26ZJohn Perkinshttp://ficlets.com/authors/johnperkins21