The Uplink World
You check your pockets for some money and luckily find a crumpled 20$. you straighten the bill abi and give to the guy, he stares for you doughtfully for a moment, and you say "Gimme some coffe and 5 minutes" and you hand him the 20$ bill. he takes it and shovs it in his pants, he leads you to a small coffe mahcine behind the counter, takes a plastic cup and fills it for you, he hands you a cup of coffe and leads you into the backdoor to a sall room with 6 computers, the room looks as if it was forgotten by time, crumpled paper was pinned on the wall, the tables were all scratched and dirty, on them you see something like a computer, but your not sure.
you grab a chair next to a computer and ask the man "these do have a net conenction, right" he answers allmost amusingly "of course!, nothin' fancy though, just your plain titaium 6000 connection, now be quick about it!"
you turn on the computer and it loads slowly, the SysInfo screen apppears, stating it's an old pentium 5000.
the old, crummy version of windows 2006 loads up, you grab the mouse and click the start menu, and slowly it pops-up. you click on a mail client, right you E-mail adress (Gtech@Gyro.org) and browse through your messages slowly, reviwing the title of each one. full of junk mail.
but than 1 message captures your eyes, "EMERGENCY: ANSWER QUICKLY!" dated 1/2 a month ago, figures if you dont check your e-mail a whole month, you open the message and with with surprise you see only an adress and a phone number. do you wish to call, or simply go to the adress noted in the message?
you grab a chair next to a computer and ask the man "these do have a net conenction, right" he answers allmost amusingly "of course!, nothin' fancy though, just your plain titaium 6000 connection, now be quick about it!"
you turn on the computer and it loads slowly, the SysInfo screen apppears, stating it's an old pentium 5000.
the old, crummy version of windows 2006 loads up, you grab the mouse and click the start menu, and slowly it pops-up. you click on a mail client, right you E-mail adress (Gtech@Gyro.org) and browse through your messages slowly, reviwing the title of each one. full of junk mail.
but than 1 message captures your eyes, "EMERGENCY: ANSWER QUICKLY!" dated 1/2 a month ago, figures if you dont check your e-mail a whole month, you open the message and with with surprise you see only an adress and a phone number. do you wish to call, or simply go to the adress noted in the message?