un: Anonymous

[the_admin]

I feel it only sporting to warn you that I am going to be re-routing a small percentage of funds from various bank accounts in the next forty-eight hours.

I have little interest in hitting the personal accounts of my fellow imPorts, but those of you with large enough holdings in corporations probably won't miss much. Still, if you can make it a significant hassle I'll probably move on to softer targets.

[ There is a brief pause and then a quick follow-up. ]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a good tea cafe?

[ Because why wouldn't you give people a sporting chance to protect their money and ask about tea in the same message? ]

[OOC: Couple of notes:

1) Harold is literally only going to be getting very small sums from any one account. Like ... literal pocket change, as he is signifcantly capped for the amount he can purloin in a month.

2) From a PC perspective this is entirely opt-in. I have no expectation of Harold hitting ANY PC accounts, no matter what he says ICly, be they personal or corporate. However, if anyone would like to do something with this, feel free to hit me up here or if you want to talk specifics, PM me at the_admin

3) This is more of a lark, than any serious data breach. Bear eats expensive kibble!! ]

Comments

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[dendarii]

[ Miles has zero clue this is Finch, of course - a fair reversal of their previous conversation - but he is still concerned. ]

What is the money for?

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[the_admin]

Providing an accounting record would rather negate the purpose of staying anonymous.

[dendarii]

So does telling everyone that you're about to steal money. Why not just take it without telling anyone?

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[ghoulking]

Admitting you are going to steal money to a network full of people that could track you down usually doesn't go well.

[the_admin]

It would seem counter intuitive, I admit. Yet, here we are.

[ghoulking]

Are you trying to see who can track you? See who's that good?

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[pyrogue]

If this is some kinda supervillain declaration it seems sorta soft, don't it? Not really threatening at all.

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[the_admin]

I would completely agree.

Were I attempting to be a supervillain I would have to be much more grandiose.

What would you suggest?

he switches to Text when Anonymous doesn't take the bite

[pyrogue]

Well, you'd need some kind of theme. Then add some puns, threaten way more than you actually want to bother with, and hope you either pull it off or have a good fight about it.

Guess "mild mannered" could be a supervillain theme, come to think of it. But you still need the puns.

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[h2no]

WHY

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[the_admin]

I'd already completed the daily crossword puzzle and it wasn't noon yet.

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[knaval]

if you touch my savings i'll step on you

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[the_admin]

I already said I wasn't interested in personal accounts.

Though if you give me your name I'll avoid it.

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[jojoceanman]

Well this doesn't sound illegal at all.

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[the_admin]

I would certainly hope not!

After all. It's text.

[ Harold, you are nowhere near as funny as you think you are.

At least not deliberately. ]

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[picksthenames]

"fyi im gonna steal, but dont worry, not from you" is like the least reassuring warning you could have put out there, my dude.

[ But it managed to get Cisco's interest anyway. He's already attempting to track down who this anonymous user is. ]

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[the_admin]

[ Ultimately it will be a dead end, but the journey would be quite an adventure; speaking from a computer nerd perspective. Nothing genuinely harmful to any system trying to "find" him but silly little games along the way, akin to getting bubblegum in your hair. ]

Perhaps my true message was about the tea?

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[aloadeddie]

[ There aren't many potential reasons for an announcement like this. The most obvious one, to Arthur, is that this is a test - to see if anyone is good enough to track whoever this is via the network.

Either that or it's just a really bad supervillain speech, but Arthur would hope it's the former. ]

Let me know how that works out for you.

[ Translation: I'm going to track you, can you track me? Let's track each other oh god is this some kind of hacker dating service what the hell ]

Can't say about the tea. I'm a coffee drinker, myself.

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[the_admin]

[ Tracker flirting?

There are a couple of folks now who have Harold on his toes and he's loving it. He's left little gifts along his track, small entanglements like a bit of extra stickiness in a web. Tollgates to catch his attention and he most certainly was willing to track in return.

In real life, his body was a broken down old thing that couldn't outrun ... anything. Out in cyberspace? There he was lightening quick, utilizing a combination of programs and real time keystrokes. ]

Having fun yet?

Philistine. Though I was just informed that there is a good coffee shop in Nonah. Perhaps you can utilize it?

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[wearmyface]

[The voice is vaguely female, and rather flat.] We receive money from the government, and the jobs we received.

Is that not enough?

[the_admin]

It is quite generous, actually.

But there are certain needs it doesn't quite cover.

[ His official salary was tied to the identity of Harold Whistler. Harold never felt safe without at least a half dozen other identities to move into, if the need arose. It was those additional identities he had to rebuild, and that was a project best performed with funds from unknown sources. ]

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[reexamined]

[Meanwhile, rather than complain about how you're robbing people:]

Please avoid any bank accounts tied to Cassian Andor.

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[the_admin]

[ Very forward thinking of you K-2S0 ]

Done and done.

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[dun_moch]

[Intriguing.]

Brew World Order in Maurtia Falls is consistently excellent. I would be quite grateful if you did not rob it while you were sampling its products.

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[the_admin]

Brew World Order. Thank you, I'll keep that in mind and also stay away from its bank accounts.

[ At least, he's going to assume the sender is politely requesting such restraint.

After a moment, he sends a follow up message. ]

Clever play on words, by the way. Quite catchy.