Checking Out the Competition

by John Perkins

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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.”

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Comments

Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Checking Out the Competition

    John Perkins' Buddy Icon John Perkins

    Posted 2 months ago

    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.

  2. Checking Out the Competition

    Steve Fairweather's Buddy Icon Steve Fairweather

    Posted 2 months ago

    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.

    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!

  3. Checking Out the Competition

    John Perkins' Buddy Icon John Perkins

    Posted 2 months ago

    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.

  4. Checking Out the Competition

    Ridcully Calvert's Buddy Icon Ridcully Calvert

    Posted 2 months ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    I quite like this – it is a nice opportunity for our protagonist to take charge, so lets see where it goes…

  5. Checking Out the Competition

    PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)'s Buddy Icon PyroPunk 51 (PPP LoA)

    Posted about 1 month ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Haha, even villainous mega corps don’t have passwords audits.

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    thebetweenspace's Buddy Icon thebetweenspace

    Posted about 1 month ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    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.

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