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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Softwarez, Hardwarez and Miscellaneous



In one part of the building, there’s a dedicated storage room for the IT Department. It was unlocked, but seeing from the accumulated dust sitting undisturbed on the top side of the doorknob, there’s 100% possibilities that the room has never been open since the day it was shut. Inside, rows of racks made of steel towering, filled with various peripherals that served their time for the company and maybe some of it are serving beyond their economic times. The room is quite large, but with such unorganized placement of the items inside, it felt crowded and small. A faint smell of damp with a bit of rustic-feel air filled the entire room.

d50 things you can find on the steel rack:
  1. Broken computer monitors
  2. Box of computer mice
  3. A broken CPU - salvaged inside
  4. A broken CPU - intact but damaged
  5. A broken CPU - exploded from inside
  6. An unusual looking computer mouse
  7. Box of harddrives
  8. A sealed box written above it - DO NOT OPEN, VIRUS INSIDE
  9. A binder of cds - marked SOFTWAREZ Installer” on the outside flap of the binder
  10. A binder of cds - “IT DATA BACKUP 19XX” written on the binder label
  11. A rusted lazy pod
  12. A box filled with phone holders
  13. A large fan-blade
  14. A somewhat VR goggles prototype
  15. A printer’s packaging box - empty
  16. A printer’s packaging box - heavy, but not printer inside
  17. A printer’s packaging box - printer inside, pristine but old model
  18. A broken printer - exploded from inside
  19. A broken printer - salvaged and pry-opened
  20. A large printer - old model
  21. A box of assorted cables
  22. A box of computer parts
  23. A box of salvaged chips
  24. Stacks of keyboards
  25. A box of floppy disks, cds and flashdisks.
  26. A large tv-monitor
  27. A shredder machine
  28. A server key
  29. Stacks of manual books
  30. Flashdisk with a post-it attached - “DURAHAN.EXE”
  31. A spoiled and dusty donuts
  32. A box of cellphones & flip phones
  33. An internet dongles
  34. A box of LAN cables
  35. A 1-TB external harddisk with post-it attached - “DO NOT TURN ON”
  36. A 1-TB external harddisk with post-it attached - “DEAD / SALVAGE”
  37. A broken external harddisk with parts missing
  38. A box of game controllers, marked “BROKEN” on the side of the box
  39. A box filled with rolled up posters
  40. A box filled with weird-shaped mechanical parts
  41. A large tool kit, heavy when lifted
  42. A large tool kit, light when lifted
  43. A box filled small rubber ducks, but with wires came out from their bottoms
  44. A box filled with variant types of microphones
  45. A mouse pad with a lewd image
  46. An anti-radiation screen attachment
  47. An old video game console - taken apart
  48. A box filled with powergloves
  49. A some sort of make-shift haptic suites
  50. A box filled with VHS tapes with a post stick to it “DEC 1994”



d10 SOFTWAREZ installer that you might find inside a cd binder along with its function:
  1. Cubicle - an all round softwarez focusing on providing employees fulfilling their daily tasks, such as making presentations, preparing documents, number crunching, notes taking, etc.
  2. MicroManagingOfficer - a softwarez that helps employees to add, manage, monitor and finishing their daily tasks down into its detailed manners, such as their feeling when doing the task, how’s the weather when they do the tasks, their ergonomic level, mistyping level, body odor level, etc.
  3. NoteNote - a softwarez for note taking that is so slick and minimalistic, it’s just a white blank space with a blinking cursor on it.
  4. Pomodomato - a timekeeping softwarez that will assess its user for their personality and habits then by using Artificial Intelligence creating a unique and personalized pomodoro schedule that fit with its user.
  5. Mr. Goggles - a web searching softwarez that helps employee to find anything they need and want with a cost of breaching and leaking of data where the softwarez is installed and run.
  6. BudgetWizard - a softwarez that helps employee budgeting their projects by cross-referencing their past projects with a help of an artificial intelligence
  7. Bartholomew - an anti-virus softwarez that helps preventing unwanted, harming and invasive data, file or another program inside the installed computer, with a small cost of monthly secretive injection of less harmful collection of virus.
  8. BacaReader - a softwarez for opening and reading a portable document format or any similar file, with additional features on highlighting, annotation, and read-aloud.
  9. Voice-o-Recam - a softwarez that focuses on audio recording that could create audio files with additional features: auto-generated transcript and vocal pitch changer that is helped by Artificial Intelligence.
  10. Typeorama - a word processing softwarez with artificial intelligence as main power driver that helps user with better auto-correcting, suggesting words and sentences, auto-generated document template and anti-plagiarism checker.


Sunday, May 7, 2023

Office Documents 1



These are several documents that players might find in EMPLOYEE when they play or are assigned by the Referee as Human Resources staff as their initial job. Even though the files at Human Resources are strictly confidential even for a new recruit in HR itself, let's assume that the players granted the access for the majority of these files. Some are locked and encrypted, which means they need the authorization of their supervisors to open this kind of files. Or they could try to decrypt by themselves, but with heavy consequences if they failed.

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Rummaging the existing folders inside the computer assigned for them at their desk, players could find these files. Some might be well hidden, while some are open in plain sight. Some are locked and encrypted, some are freely open files.

There's a lot of types of files inside the computer, from the number-filled large sized spreadsheets to a tiny sized low resolution file of image.


Legends:

[xxxxx] -> filename

Lorem ipsum…-> description and summary of the files, either in visual terms or in transcription if the files are audio (and transcriptable).

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[employment records - (month) 20XX]

A spreadsheet filled with names, date of births, employee ids, job positions and any other relevant data regarding the employee's personal and working information. Some rows of cells are highlighted green while some are colored with red. Some other sheets are listed alongside the DATA sheet, which includes TURNOVER, CERTIFICATION, CONTRACTS and PLANNING. Another sheet titled 4ROOM is present but by having a padlock next to it, it is inaccessible. Players could find pretty well documented and organized files of employee records from 1985 to present day.


[technical competency_(division)_upd20XX]

Another spreadsheet files that are filled with numbers, names and level of competencies for each name listed. Several files are listed with different names of division and different years regarding when the updates had occurred. On the list of names, some names can be found highlighted with red color, some are yellow, some are green.


[employee contract - (name) - (period)]

In the not so hidden folder, there are files filled with contracts wording for every employee existing, both those still working and those who already left the office due to resignation or death. Old data from the old days are stored as document scanlations, while the newer and latest ones are already in digital portable document format.


[durahan.exe]

This file truly is a virus application. It dates circa 1990s when the office starts to implement computers and servers as standard peripherals. If the players run the program, a notification will pop up on their screen, noticing that this file is already scanned and flagged as a virus program and already stored in the antivirus vault.


[request on IT support regarding Durahan’s Infection]

A scanlations of a document requesting Office’s IT team to solve and prevent further effect of Durahan.exe. The file was dated 10 March 1991.

No : 00049/HRD/60/██████/03/1991

Date : 10 March 1991

From : Human Resources Division

To : Information Technology Division

Subject : Request on IT Support regarding Durahan’s Infection


Regarding the situation that been happening in ██████ involving the mass corrupted data, ransom files and the possibilities of data leaking that might been used irresponsibly by other party that might not affiliated by ██████, we asking for IT team to conduct a deep and thorough investigation, analysis and actions regarding the infections of Durahan.


As additional information, Durahan virus was initially engaged and run by one of our employees while accessing ██████’s server. The virus was mimicking one of his files. As per this letter, there are eight divisions of fourteen that report the infection of Durahan already infiltrating their dedicated division folder inside the server.


We are looking forward to this being solved immediately.



Human Resources Division Head



██████████ █████ ████


[file requests]

Files under this name are mainly filled with customized data that is provided by Human Resources Staffs by the request of other divisions. Usually it is filled with either the data of employee’s demography, training history, cross-table spreadsheets, list of names, list of vacant positions, presentations or the list of employee’s birthday.


[4ROOM - (month) - (year)]

This file is heavily encrypted and well hidden. Players that took time to dig up the folders one-by-one, especially on their supervisor’s folder, might find one of these (with the risk of being caught-up of course). When the player successfully decrypts the file, it contains a detailed list of names that are currently being a member of the “Fouroom”, from the date they joining, what Fouroom that they join in, their position inside the Fouroom, what are they contributing to their Fouroom and so much more.


[riwpoalksdj_dasnalksd_934u023jdas]

a text file. The file was created circa mid 1995 and well hidden inside a folder within a folder at Human Resource's server. The file hasn't been opened since it's last saved which also the day it created. It remains a mystery who wrote the note in the first time.

“I hope no one read this file before I was gone. No one understands me anymore. All of them called me crazy, but I’m not. Everything I said, they’ll just let it slide away. I’ve tried so many ways to convince them that I’m still competent here. The accident was just an ordinary accident. I even tried to convince the Directors. But I guess the words are already like wildfire. Uncontrollable. I guess I just have to wait for the time to come. Right after that day, my life is different. I see things. Things that are not supposed to be here. Walking among us, untouchable but present. I see some people in this office can see them too, but they can communicate with them. When I asked them about it, they said I’m already incurable and they don’t want to talk to someone that crazy as I am! I’m already beyond madness. That’s what they said. I wish I’m not taking extra time that day. I wish I could stay at home, watching tv, and eating food that I am bored of eating. I wish Gunarha didn’t ask me about that damn office blueprint. I wish. I wish I didn’t see that bright red being.”