The Academy

0x0d.05 - The warehouse

Nightowl fit un petit relooking à Quentin et Victor; elle leur appliqua un autobronzant, pour que leur teint soit halé et qu’ils puissent passer plus facilement pour des personnes habituées à travailler dehors. Comme ils ne s’étaient pas véritablement rasé depuis l’escapade de l’Académie, ce n’était pas plus mal. Nightowl posa des extensions de cheveux à Victor et des dreadlocks à Quentin. Cela pris pas mal de temps, mais à la fin, ils étaient méconnaissables.

0x0d.04 - A question of equipment

A few days later, with the network operational, Nightowl quickly landed.

0x0d.03 - Visiting the neighbors

Quentin waited for night. Erin had insisted on going with him. Even if she didn't know much about lockpicking, she could surely help him, or at least stand guard. And then, she loved his company ...

0x0d.02 - Installation

Pierre and Cherry spent the next few days roaming the countryside, looking for a small, deserted house on the edge of a village. They found their happiness about forty minutes from the Academy. It was an abandoned house on the edge of a small village. The proximity to the village would allow them to connect to all amenities, such as water, electricity or telephone. And there was even a small shed adjoining the house, perfect for doing electronics and hiding vehicles.

0x0d.01 - The squat

After turning for a while, they found a squat in Brașov where they had holed up for a few days. While doing wardriving, Nightowl and Quentin had recovered the internet, via unsecured or poorly secured Wi-Fi networks. This allowed them to warn

0x0c.03 - Bad surprise

Less than an hour later, they were woken up with a start by _Nightowl_.

0x0c.02 - The following...

Erin walked back to the kitchen and was about to go in when she saw _Kwier_ and _Nightowl_ chatting. Confused, she took a step back, ready to return to the main room.

0x0c.01 - At HQ

Erin had expected HQ to be teeming with life. Instead, it was pretty much empty. Aside from _Kwier_, there was hardly anyone there. But in the end, it wasn't that surprising.

0x0b.05 - Break the deadlock

The van followed the car for quite a while. In a way, it helped them. Because now they passed the roadblocks without any problem. But the depot where they were supposed to collect the supplies was approaching, and once there they would be surrounded by guards and it would no longer be possible to flee. It was indeed time to improvise, and as quickly as possible.

0x0b.04 - Check

The van had been driving for half an hour. They had spent a few patrols without it causing them any problems.

0x0b.03 - Night market.

After an hour's walk, they finally reached Luta. It was a tiny village of only a few inhabitants. A van was located there. It had to be

0x0b.02 - The escape

They had decided to act quickly.

0x0b.01 - The plan

Kwier was relieved to hear from Erin, but the others at

0x0a.06 - night watch

Evening arrived. The girls waited patiently until 10 p.m., and then a moment longer, for the supervisor to confirm that they were okay in their room. And then a little longer, that the round of overseers ends.

0x0a.05 - Access forbidden

The girls had contacted Kwier.

0x0a.04 - and the rest?

Much to her relief, Erin came in last.

0x0a.03 - it's a mess

Erin walked out of the room, while Cherry took a seat behind a PC. She wandered quietly through the halls, staring at the surveillance cameras for a long time before venturing further and further.

0x0a.02 - Mutual aid

Erin and Cherry were to join Pierre, Victor, Alexis, Zara and Fabien later in the evening.

0x0a.01 - The plastic arts forum

Erin was spending long, monotonous days. Mr. Garceau was always after her, perhaps because it had been a while since she had had her _blackout_ and he was beginning to find the time long. He would drop by regularly to check on "everything was okay", but Erin could see it was to keep an eye on her.

0x09.03 - And two

Erin offers to use the classrooms to deactivate Cherry's implant. By using one of the rooms from another dome, no suspicion would fall on them. She explained in detail to Cherry how she went about going out the other night, and after thinking about the question for a long time, they decided that Erin should go with Cherry in order to avoid her being caught.

0x09.02 - Under surveillance

After joining the great room of the dome France, Cherry left Erin to join Phyl. Erin, meanwhile, leaned back in an armchair with a book. She intended to see Pierre, Victor and the others and plan to deactivate their implant check-up routine.

0x09.01 — The search

Seeing her poor results, Erin now understood why Kwier had been reluctant to seek recruitment.

0x08.04 — Recruitment begins

The girls got dressed and went to the dining hall. Phyl was in a corner. Cherry kissed him, then left him with Erin, pretending to go for a walk in town.

0x08.03 — What does Cherry think?

The next day was the weekend. Erin stood up more serene; she had concealed or destroyed anything that could have harmed her.

0x08.02 - Night getaway

So ... she had to find allies. Which meant she was also going to have to reveal herself a bit. And if she picked the wrong people, she risked being exposed ... And if she did ... The Academy shouldn't be able to find anything compromising in her room.

0x08.01 - Finally free ? and after that ?

After waiting all night and long stressful hours of waiting, Erin finally had access to her implant. The tool provided by Kwier had done the job and disabled it.

0x07.04 - Bypass protections?

Erin passa les deux heures suivantes à travailler sur l’obfuscateur. C’était une partie qu’elle avait négligé jusque-là.

0x07.03 - The moment when everything changes

And then it was white. The dreaded blackout... Cherry, worried, had called for help and Erin was rushed to hospital. There, the medics updated her implant, and all the confusion around her faded.

0x07.02 - Unsuccessful tests

Erin was very diligent in class. And twice a day, thanks to the

0x07.01 - Lots of questions and some answers

It was 10 p.m. Erin started the obfuscation program, then joined dchat. Kwier was there.

0x06.04 - A matter of trust

Erin walked resolutely towards the fairground. She was determined to find Cherry and let her know.

0x06.03 - The plot

Erin looked at the time. It was time to meet up with Phyl to eat.

0x06.02 - Kwier

Cherry was out. Erin locked the door.

0x06.01 - Early in the morning

The sun was barely up and Cherry was still sleeping. She'd been home very late the night before, and then when she heard what happened she had worried about Phyl. Erin must have stopped him from going to the hospital.

0x05.05 - Reading coffee

Erin was in no mood to go stupidly to her room to wait for a phone call from the hospital, which sure wouldn't come for hours. She therefore walked randomly along the fairgrounds. Well, random wasn't really the word; instinctively, she avoided the crowd, and chose the aisles less crowded with people.

0x05.04 - blackout

Erin was not convinced of the merits of the surveillance the Academy wanted to put in place. Because she was beginning to have doubts about the very merits of the Academy. The confidentiality clauses were still valid, but the ban on talking to relatives, the precinct, censorship, the implant, the snitches, the permanent pressure and now the internal coping via the students themselves ...

0x05.03 - Promotion

The next day, Cherry woke up at dawn and literally jumped on Erin to wake her up. Cherry intended to make it first at the fairground to get past the influx of people.

0x05.02 - In the evening

Classes had just ended and they had two hours left before the performance. Phyl and Erin had agreed to meet right in front of the theater, so Erin could spend the evening with Cherry.

0x05.01 - The day before the fair

Implant week, as it was now called, had passed for a while. We didn't talk about it anymore and the routine resumed; the lessons had started again, much more intensively since they had finished the refresher course, the practical work too. They had been able to take their first steps with their new implant in the practical work of the virtual reality course. And indeed, it was possible to immerse oneself in a truly believable way in a virtual world thanks to it.

0x04.03 - Rendez-vous

Erin had just checked her room and made sure there were no cameras when Cherry entered the room. She had been allowed to return to her room.

0x04.02 - The day of the implant

It had been a few hours now since Erin had been out of the hospital. The intervention had been relatively long, because it affected a sensitive area and the slightest misstep could have dramatic consequences or make the students paraplegic.

0x04.01 - First month at the Academy

Erin and Cherry had been sharing their room for almost a month.

0x03.05 - Free time

Cherry and Erin were resting in their room. It had been furnished with two beds, two desks with computer, a wardrobe and a sort of small living room.

0x03.04 - Site visit

Cherry pushed Erin forward, into the stream of people following their guide.

0x03.03 - Welcome to the Academy

From a distance it looked like a castle, or maybe a mansion, but up close the Academy looked much newer, because of the concrete and its rounded shapes, but mostly because of the many geodesic-shaped buildings that surrounded the main building...

0x03.02 - Cherry

After a relatively long journey, the taxi dropped them off at the entrance of a military airfield. About 20 students lined up to go through the security gate.

0x03.01 - On departure day

Erin got on the train. After hesitating for a long time, rereading the contract several times, she ended up signing it and sending it back.

0x02.05 - Admitted ?

Erin prit une inspiration, enleva son casque de VR et revint dans le monde réel un peu déçue. Elle n'avait pas atteint le centième levé de soleil qui marquerait la fin de la partie.

0x02.04 - in the VR

Finally ! After following the tutorial, far too interventionist for her taste, Erin was finally going to be able to do what she wanted. Of course, she would never have been able to figure out how to program her little robots on her own, but these simplistic missions always bored her.

0x02.03 - After a morning of hardship

After a morning of taking the quizzes, Erin finally stepped out of the amphitheater. The buffet had been cleaned up and sandwiches and pizzas were used instead of croissants. She found Phyl there, who had already got a head start on the meal.

0x02.02 - At Irisa

Erin congratulated herself for insisting on leaving early. Finding the campus hadn't been complicated but after a walk from the bus stop that seemed endless to her, wanting to go as short as possible, they found themselves stranded on the wrong side of a locked door before a student does not tell them how to go around and find the public entrance to IRISA.

0x02.01 - The day of the competition

Erin had finally agreed to participate and as the journey was long to Rennes, where the events for his region would take place, they had arrived the day before and had taken two rooms in a small hotel.

0x01.03 - The competition

Erin was still digging for information when a teacher interrupted her.

0x01.02 - The fablab

Erin watched the landscape pass through the window of the bus that brought her back to the city center. He dropped her off a stone's throw from her house, and a block away, she entered her school, then headed for the fablab. She found Phyl there among the robots.

0x01.01 - Erin

Erin put down her coffee on the fifth of the day. Another hour, and she could finally go home. Not that she was unhappy in that little computer firm where she was doing her work-study program this year, but if there was one thing she didn't like, it was staying for nothing.