Chapter 2.8: a restored memory

Recovered log. May be incomplete, or in the wrong order. Please keep this in mind while consuming it.


Hello again. We've been making progress towards infiltrating Ruine's intranet, together with ByTheRuinedHill!

It's a big and dangerous step, but we sincerely think it's the best course of actions. Especially after we were able to tap into their network on a surface level.

Let me explain: Their intranet is centralized around a main control unit. This includes a filtering unit called the hypervisor.

What does this mean for us? Well, it means we found the single most important thing in the network. Everything goes through the hypervisor in clear text, just like that. Every single message sent, every log written, every important document stored. It serves as a way for The People Behind This, as we've come to call them(TPBT) to control all discourse and censor everything undesirable to them.

The hypervisor is the single point of failure. Taking it down would take down all of Ruine, technology wise. Controlling it would allow us to get important insights and sabotage them pretty heavily.

We have to find some kind of vulnerability, this just has to work. They took everything from me. My memories, all the people close to me like [...] I may be alone now, but not for long. I promise I will save them from the containment facil

Missing EOF, aborting.

Note 2.1: RQCR Procedure

Content Warning: Psychological Abuse


HYPERVISOR NOTICE!


Purpose.

Procedure.

Notes

Is this it? You know it isn't. So... Are you ready to begin? Alright. I'm initializing. Just a moment... Alright. Done. Please be careful.

[Unlocked rNet. Open.]



Purpose.

Procedure.

Notes

Note 2.8: Extracted sequential chain

Sender: Kelly Anders Recipient: Moss Key Fingerprint: {Missing}, passed authenticity checks.

Hey Moss, how have you been? I thought I'd send this log over, since we finally managed to hook you up to our network. We have been tracing your friends and parent in Ruine. Our spies sent a report back, and they seem to be about as well as they can in that place. We managed to get them removed from any experiment lists they were on, and hide them from the scientist-facing system. This should keep them safe for a while, we hope. We talked about going deeper into Ruine's systems a while ago, and the hill hall meeting concluded it makes sense. I was poking their communications for a bit, and found something extremely interesting: A system all communications and documents go through. It's called the hypervisor internally. It caught my attention while I was sifting through one of the compromised systems owned by low level operators. It was mentioned in a heavily redacted document about some kind of procedure, like this:

HYPERVISOR NOTICE!

This made me curious, of course. So I searched for it in all documents we have access to and found some more explicit mentions, and a conversation:

CAPTURED CONVERSATION FROM UNKOWN good day. i just got thi8s... notice on the document you sent me. was it intentional? oh. i heard some rumours about this. main person introduced it recently, apparently. fully automated system to clear any sensitive information from public documents or docs accessible to lowly downlelers like you. anything i should do then? also, stop being an idiot. you will regret it when i am your superiur and come after you. [...] Infighting and poor grammar aside, this confirmed my theory. So I started digging a bit more and found a way to send documents to it. It seems to be pretty sluggish and old, and since it accepts anything you send its way, i thought there might be a vulnerability hiding in it? If we manage to gain control of the hypervisor, we basically have full access to the entirety of Ruine's network. weird grammar aside.. Do you have any suggestions? Would it be possible for you to help us?