Lol B& Note... chapter 3.

Lol, bringing it early. Got tired of waiting for the other 2 threads to die. So here you go... episode/chapter 3 =]

Ban Note: Chapter 3

It was dark; the spamzone was shrouded in shadow. Beneath it all, a secret investigation group of staff members and choice premiums was taking place. The investigation on the hacker known as Shika was only just beginning, and there was quite a lot of work to do.
“Alright, let’s begin with the public intelligence reports.”
Hissora stood up. “The total number of PMs from the public comes up to 3029. Unfortunately, the large majority of them are just crap.” She paused “There are 14 reports of people claiming to know Shika, or to have seen him. All of these were investigated and carefully documented, and it appears none of them have anything worth looking into. And lastly… we received 2 incidents of people claiming to BE Shika. We didn’t want to rule anything out, so we followed them up and kept them on file.” She sat back down.
“Alright, onto the victims.” Xaldin ordered.
K A I R I stood and read off a sheet of paper. “We have confirmed that the before the victims were banned, their information was indeed made public. Also, pertaining Madi’s request that we look into the times of banning, we found that 68% of the time they occurred on weekdays between the hours of four in the afternoon to midnight, Spamzone time. Weekends and holidays seem to be the exception to this rule, where the hours can be totally random.”
Madi spoke through the laptop lead was holding to the members of the taskforce. “That information is extremely relevant. It suggests that with the given time frame, Shika could very well be a student.”
Xaldin perked his head up.
“Given that they’re only targeting phailure, the culprit most likely has a very strong sense of justice. They may even aspire to become some sort of admin-like figure. We’re dealing with someone who has a very childish perspective.” Madi paused. “But this is mere speculation. Please rid yourself of any preconceptions you may have that our culprit cannot be a student. To consider every possibility, that is the shortest road to catching Shika. Please continue.”
“Oh… yes.” Xaldin acknowledged. “Are there any other observations?”
Ghetto raised his hand. “Um… yes?” He said, timidly.
“What is it, Ghetto?” Hissora turned her head.
“Well I’m not saying this to support Shika or to condemn the banning that has been happening… but…” He paused and looked down “In the past few weeks, around the forum… but especially here in the Spam Zone, we’ve noticed the dramatic decrease in the number of spam, trolls, and especially phail.”
The other members let out sighs of disapproval. Ghetto looked around the room, dismayed that what he had said might’ve given him a worse reputation that he already had.
“Yes, well, we expected something like that would happen.” Xaldin replied. “Is there anything else?”
Ghetto sat back down. No one said anything.
“Alright then, that includes today’s report. Madi?”
“Thank you everyone, I feel we are one step closer to catching Shika.” Madi assured. “Before you all go, I’d like to make one more request. I need all of the teams to double check what information regarding each victim was previously released in the Spamzone. In particular, I’d like to know if photos of the victims were made public prior to their deletion. Thank you.”

***​

Outside of the building, a sleepless Xaldin stretched, his briefcase in hand. Ghetto ran up behind him, holding several cups of coffee.
“You look like you could use one of these,” He said, giving one to Xaldin. “Sleeping much?”
“Thanks,” Xal replied “I feel all these late nights are beginning to take their toll…”
Ghetto looked down in embarrassment “About what I said earlier… I’m sorry. I’m pretty sure everybody already knew that.”
“What on earth are you talking about?” Xaldin questioned “No one said it was easy to speak the truth, but it has to be done. Even when it does seem awkward to say.”
Ghetto raised his head back up, the regret in his eyes changing into hope.
“That being said, if you had gone on to say we should’ve let Shika get away with it because he was doing such a great job of cleaning the place up, then yes, I might’ve had a little problem with it.” Xaldin joked.
“Oh, no! I would never--!”
“Calm down, Ghetto. I’m only kidding.” Xaldin laughed.

***​

“Vivi… Vivi… What’re you doing? Vivi I’m BORED. Give me an apple.”
“STFU, Remmis! I’m trying to ban people.”
Vivi and Remmis once again had one of their boring, talkless nights. Vivi would do what entertained him, and Remmis would sit there begging for fruit. They were both getting tired of the same routine every night. Vivi couldn’t help but wonder where the investigation into him was going.
“You seem more relaxed than usual, Vivi. Usually you start hitting me right after I get to the ‘I’m bored’ part.” Remmis joked
“Yeah, I guess.” Vivi replied “I figure if the staff tries to come after me, I have something that will give me the advantage.”
Vivi suddenly heard the door open. He walked downstairs to see a man with bright blond hair, home for the first time in a while.
Remmis tilted her head in confusion. “Who’s that?”
“My roommate…” Vivi moaned.
Remmis started laughing like a maniac. “You live with another guy? Aw, GAY!”
“What the hell, Remmis?!” He attempted to hit her “HE’S the gay one! I’m straight as a board!”
“Yeah, a broken one.”
“Oh you can go to hell.”
Vivi walked into the kitchen and greeted his roommate. “Hey, Xaldin, welcome home.”
They both hastily began making food. Remmis watched in silence.
“Is everything alright, man? You look tired.” Vivi asked.
“Yeah… I don’t know if I can say anything about it, but these meetings have been some sort of hell, lately. “Xaldin replied.

***​

“Well, well,” Remmis joked “Your roomie’s an admin! Is this the advantage you were talking about?”
“Yeah,” Vivi replied. “I can acess loads of information through him without leaving a trace. The idiot just keeps his files lying around on the computer. He’s a ****ing moron.”
Vivi’s fingers flew across the keyboard as millions of files appeared on the screen.
“It seems they’re already beginning to suspect the culprit is a student.” He observed.
“Guess that’s bad news for you!” Remmis exclaimed.
Vivi said nothing; he simply sipped his coffee and began to think.
“If the reason for banning is written within 40 seconds of writing the person’s name, it will happen…” He thought aloud. “If the reason for banning is not specified, the member will simply be banned for spamming in the spamzone. After writing the reason for banning, details of the banning should be written in the next minutes and 40 seconds.” He paused; “That sound about right to you, Remmis?”
Remmis did not move. “So what’s your point?”
“In other words,” Vivi thought aloud “If you write ‘spamming in the spamzone’ as a reason for banning, you can still write details afterwards.” He smiled “Looks like I’ll be able to provide you with some more entertainment, Remmis.”

***​

“I don’t believe this!”
“Another 23 victims yesterday?! Are these confirmed?!” Xaldin shouted in disappointment.
“Y...Yes” Kitty replied.
“There were another 23 victims the day before that, too.” Xaldin sighed. “He’s banning one every hour on the hour.”
“The fact that this has continued over two week days must mean…” Roxasvriku began
“The theory that the culprit could be a student is weakened.” Kitty finished for him.
“Not really,” Said Misty “Anyone could potentially skip a few days of school.”
“You’re missing the point.”
Everyone turned towards Madi’s voice. She sounded irritated.
“It’s true that the likelihood of them being a student has gone down, but that’s not the message Shika is trying to send us.” She explained. “Ask yourselves: Why would they have spaced it out at one hour intervals? And why are the victims all n00bs whose deletion could be found out immediately? What Shika is trying to tell us is that he can control the time of ban as well.”
“But,” Madi said, “Something’s not right… as soon as we began t suspect him as a student, the pacing of the bans changed, as if to contradict that theory. Coincidence? No… In fact, too convenient” She paused. “This can only mean that Shika has acess to staff information.”
This is clearly a direct challenge to me. Madi thought.

***​

“I’d say Madi’s probably beginning to sweat a little by now.” Vivi taunted “What’ll really make her job hard is that I’ve saved about 50 n00bs unbanned for a time like this. Plus, thanks to the last few incidents, Madi should be beginning to suspect someone connected to the staff.”

Shika has a way of getting staff-only information, Madi thought. This is one fact that can no longer be ignored. What is Shika’s final objective? What is he trying to achieve?

“I don’t get it,” Remmis complained “Won’t showing them you have connections to the staff be an even greater disadvantage?”
“I’m doing this to help me and destroy Madi.” Vivi replied
“What do ya mean by that, though?” Remmis asked.
“You still don’t understand KHV members; Remmis” Vivi scolded “There are very few people on this forum who actually trust each other. Even amongst the staff… and especially between the staff and Madi, who have never had a bond of trust from the beginning. Think about it—could you honestly trust someone whose username and face you didn’t know?” He tilted his head downward in a malicious gesture. “Now that Madi knows I’m getting staff information, without a doubt, she’ll try to find a trail leading to me that starts within the staff. When that happens, it will only be a matter of time before even the staff can’t keep quiet with respect to Madi.” Vivi smiled. “On the face of things, the staff members and Madi will appear to be working together. But behind the scenes, Madi will investigate the staff, and they will investigate Madi. I’m not going to be the one to find Madi…” his smile grew even wider. “I’ll let the staff do that for me. And then… I’ll ban her.”

***​

“What the hell is this?!”
Xaldin looked at the letters on the desk before him. Fayth, Arc, and RVR stood directly in front of him.
“With all due respect, sir…” Fayth began “We’re resigning.”
“Unless we’re moved to a different case, you can have our badges right here.” Arc added.
“But… why?” Xaldin asked, dismayed. “You’re good mods!”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Fayth questioned. “It’s because we value our KHV-lives, sir.”
“If what Madi says is true, then Shika has some sort of ESP-like power that allows him to ban from a distance,” Said RvR “Well if I were Shika, sir, I’d want to get rid of the people who were trying to find me.”
“After all, if he gets caught, he will be banned himself.” Arc explained.
Fayth chimed in. “We’ve already seen this from that incident on TV when Shika banned the ‘dummy Madi’ after being provoked.” He paused “But Madi hasn’t revealed her username, let alone her face! The order we received earlier from her, about checking information released about the victims prior to their deletion, and whether or not photos had been released… well she was right!” he slammed his hands onto the desk. “Every single one of them had their photo published and then they got banned!”
“Unlike someone we all know,” Fayth continued “We’ve had to investigate with our staff ID’s made public. Anyone can find out our names!”
“We could be banned at any time!” RvR exclaimed.
“That’s why we’d like to be re-assigned,” Fayth explained.
They all bowed their heads and left the room, much to the dismay of Xaldin, who shouted for them to not leave. But they ignored every word that was spoken, and left without another word.

***​

Remmis sat at the front of the classroom, gazing at the many staff members in training. She was bored beyond all belief, but really, that’s how she always was. Suddenly, she perked her head up. Footsteps…? On campus, this late at night…? She walked over to the nearby window and was surprised to see a dark figure hanging out by a lamppost and gazing up in the window right at her.

“We had them arrive the Spamzone a couple days ago,” Lead said to Madi. “They’ve begun their investigation on the staff.”
“…These are the people on the list?” Madi said, holding several inches of paper.
“Affirmative.”
She layed the papers down on the ground. There are 141 people in the staff who have access to information regarding Shika...I believe if we investigate them and the people closest to them… we will find our suspect.

“Hey, Vivi.”
“Remmis, how many times to I have to tell you not to talk to me in public?”
“In that case, I’ll just talk, you listen.” Remmis ordered. “If you don’t want to listen you can just plug your ears or something.” She paused. “I don’t dislike you. In some ways I think the B& note couldn’t have been picked up by a better person. I’m just here cause I gotta stick around until the B& Note is done or I see you die, whichever comes first. But make no mistake, Vivi, I’m not on your side or Madi’s side.”
“I know that much already, Remmis.” Vivi said, his eyes not meeting hers.
“You’ll never hear me say anything about how what you’re doing is right or wrong, but as your roomie I might speak up every once in a while.”
“What’s up, Remmis…? Why are you saying all this? It’s not like you at all.” Vivi asked, eager to just get to the point already.
“It’s just that what I’m about to tell you is not because I’m on your side, or Shika’s, if you prefer, but because personally it’s starting to creep me out.” She explained
“Get to the point.” Vivi’s rage was slowly going up.
Remmis smiled. “You’re being followed by another member. He’s watching you right now.”
For that split second, Vivi stopped dead in his tracks. He heard footsteps behind him, which quickly ceased as he did. He continued to walk.
“It’s really starting to get on my nerves…” Remmis complained. “I know there’s no way in hell he can see me, but because I’m always following you I constantly feel like I’m being watched…”
“I understand.” Vivi whispered “I’ll get rid of him soon for you, Remmis.”

Who the hell is he?! Vivi thought, annoyed at the minor inconvenience. Does this mean Madi’s already started to suspect the staff? Whoever is investigating the staff must have large resources…Even if they have 50 people on the case, the chances that they’ll suspect I’m Shika are non-existent. They shouldn’t be looking at me as anything more than a mod-in-training. But if I leave him alone for a few months, the probability that I’ll be caught may rise above zero. Overall… I need my stalker’s name. If I can figure that out, I can take care of anything.
“Hey, Vivi,” Remmis asked “Lemme tell you something cool.”
Vivi turned his head in minor interest.
“What makes a Spammigami who uses and B& Note and a KHV member who uses one different? Well, there are 2 things. And why do Spammigami write down names in their B& note, you got any ideas?”
“Of course not.” Vivi answered. “You know… you sure are talkative today.”
“It’s because Spammigami take banned member’s rep points for ourselves.”
“You just sound like greedy-ass repwhores, to me.”
“That’s not it at all,” Remmis said “We feed off of rep points.”
“Right. Your repwhores.”
“No, dammit! They keep us alive. If we don’t continue to get more and more, we’ll vanish. But so long as we have plenty of rep, we can do virtually anything and not get banned. However, if you write a name down, you don’t get ****.” Remmis explained. “That’s the first difference.”
“Now there’s a theory about Gods of Spam I haven’t heard before.” Vivi replied.
“The second difference will probably be of even greater interest to you.”
Vivi looked Remmis directly in the eyes.
“Though it doesn’t so much concern making KHV lives longer… more like cutting them short.” Remmis smiled.
“What do you mean by that?” Vivi asked.
Remmis moved in closer towards Vivi, making him flinch. “A Spammigami can see someone’s username just by looking at them. Do you know why?” She paused “Because through a Spammigamis eyes, a person’s username can be seen above their head. Not only that, we see their password as well.”
“Woah… ****in 1337! You could hack and ban ANYONE!” Vivi said in amazement.
“Yup, and when we ban someone, we know exactly what we’re gonna get from them.” She smiled “Our eyes just aren’t the same, and that is the difference between you and I.”
“However,” Remmis said “If a God of Spam drops its notebook and a human picks it up, we can grant that person the eyes of a 1337 h4x0r, provided they made a little trade.”
“And what might this trade be?” Vivi asked.
“The price for a Spammigami’s hardcore hax0r eyes… is half or you’re remaining Rep points, that’s all it is.” Remmis’s gaze burned into Vivi’s.
“If I had those eyes… I could get the name of the guy who’s following me… and his account!” Vivi said, excitement creeping into his voice.
“So…” Remmis smiled. “What’ll it be, Vivi?”

 

Oh lulz. I demand MOAR! @_@

 

lol I loved it~

 

And moar you shall receive, Matsu.​

 

Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

<3

 

LOL I WONDER WHAT HE WILL SAI

 

Gotta say that the Spammigami's eyes sounds more awesome than the Shinigami's. :3 Laughed so hard at the repwhore bit....

 

Spammigami r ttly repwhores :3

 

That was my favorite part

 

Nice work, Madi. Finally got round to reading all 3 of the chapters just now. ^_^

I'm still unsure as to how ended up with a part in this, though. xD Anyway, Watari is awesome so you won't hear me complaining. :3

Moar! :P

 

Haha, I'm glad you don't mind having the part xD No one voulenteered for Watari and of course I could never write the story without him... so i tried to think of someone fitting, and well, because of your lurking reputation, you seemed to fit ^^

I'm writing chapter 4 now, so you'll most likely get it tomorrow morning =]​

 

Im not a rep whore!
D:
I only have 687256646476573672475826252 rep.
;3
Luff it.
I luff teh eyez.
xDD​

 

Some part of me expects Vivi to just come in here and scream "YOU ARE SO!"​

 

D:
I NEED REP TO LIVEEEEEE!!!!
-runs out of rep and poofs away forever-​

 

Lol, when Spammigami die, instead of turning into dust, they turn into pixels.​

 

-turns into pixels and poofs away-​

 

Lol, I'm gonna have to do that to Jordie x3

And Lithium is gonna be Gelus, so I have to do it to him, too.​

 

>.>
Rawr~
:3
OMG!
Kira ish in my school.
;~;​

 

Yet again, this chapter is full of win in epic proportions...

I can't wait to see some of the crazy stuff Xaldin's gonna do. XDDD

 

and once again...
this story is epic winz~