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A notion...
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 27, 2022, 12:55:46 PM --- ... Perhaps we need a Paranoid Gary POV as “the man in the chair” with the Paranet ...
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--- Quote from: CrusherJen on June 28, 2022, 04:14:04 AM --- Oooh! I want this story now! ;D
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Oh yeah, me too!
vincentric:
Well we know from Alera's origin, that Jim responds to challenges so ...
Conspiracy Theorist:
You don’t earn the epithet “Paranoid” because you haven’t been keeping tabs electronically on Harry, Marcone, Lara Raith, Goodman Grey (he will after Battle Ground) the Swartalves, all the big hitters in Chicago, and as an oracle and a genius hacker to come up with some unique ways of keeping tabs on them. Harry would be the worst, no cellphone, doesn’t use a credit card, glitches CCTV cameras. So if there is a pattern in his glitch, a signature or fingerprint, Gary would find it and be able to track in real time through a monitoring programme of CCTV cameras (we know he can easily get into those) and other things which Harry would create a disturbance in which are connected to the internet, such as traffic signals, ATM’s etc. Basically Gary likely has the electronic equivalent of Little Chicago, but one Wizards are entirely blind too.
Have to be some time after Battle Ground as all the electronics not magically protected were fried. However internet is back by Christmas.
It would be interesting to see his on-line interaction with fellow on-line Paranet conspiracy theorists as part of this. Those who believe Bigfoot is real, but refuse to believe he wears a tux and glasses as Gary swears. Call the story CYBER PUNKS.
Funnily enough the Swartalves would probably call him “Perfectly Normal Gary”
g33k:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on June 28, 2022, 08:21:36 PM ---You don’t earn the epithet “Paranoid” because you haven’t been keeping tabs electronically on Harry, Marcone, Lara Raith, Goodman Grey (he will after Battle Ground) the Swartalves, all the big hitters in Chicago...
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Gary is good, but I doubt he's that good.
Lara & Marcone, in particular, will have hired their own top-tier hackers, both for self-protection and to attack enemies.
Goodman Grey's shapeshifting will defeat all the CCTV monitoring, and he undoubtedly uses lots of cash (instead of cards) which reduces his "digital footprint" almost to nil.
All the big faerie powers -- including the svartalves -- have huge amounts of their power (usually the majority of it) in the Nevernever, which is utterly beyond Gary's reach.
Gary probably only learned about the Nevernever when Harry&Elaine founded the Paranet and the supernaturals began some online chatter on the topic. But the thing about the Paranet is that the mostly-low-level supernaturals just aren't as clued-in as the big players. Harry himself -- a mostly-trained WC wizard -- only learned of some fundamental things (like Summer&Winter's Lady/Queen/Mother "3 Queens" structure) on-screen, from Bob.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Gary isn’t just a hacker, he is an oracle, it’s the expression of his minor talent, allowing him to predict the future from the scant information available. That means his talent is magnified by the Information Age and is complimentary to technology rather than antithetical like a wizards.
Yes, Marcone and Lara have their own people, it didn’t stop him spying on Thomas and Justine, covered by Lara’s people so presumably he is also in Marcone’s System . Ironically if he is monitoring practitioners, he may have already caught onto Marcone before he revealed himself to Harry.
The Faerie Courts are in the Never Never, but Molly has a phone, he’s probably in that, same with Fix, so he has probably penetrated that part of both Courts in the mortal world.
Goodman Grey uses his non-descript face way too much, the human eye passes over it, facial recognition doesn’t. His car doesn’t shapeshift. He is a dedicated gamer, that’s one way to get to him. He can and does use e-mail, which means he has a phone capable of being hacked. It depends on how good his assistant is on whether they can keep Garry out. My bet is he is being monitored by Gary through his gaming, it’s the one thing his assistant is dismissive of, so Grey likely also has a portable internet capable gaming device with apps which have back doors Gary can exploit.
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