Post by Lunapocalypse on Jan 5, 2011 0:58:51 GMT -5
Raising her arm for protection when the two rifle rounds punched into the Ford; Aya lifted her Browning, scrambling over to the driver's side hearing a high caliber blast emit before being able to pull herself up and look outside. The .44 clattered against the heavy metal of the truck, judging from Matthew's exit wounds the shooter was the nullified one not too far from them.
Aya dodged the Desert Eagle tossed into the cab, sliding back over to her side as Matt opened the door leaking blood like a hole punched bucket. She picked up the Desert Eagle, glad none of his augmentations had been damaged, engaging the safety and placing it on the dashboard.
When Matthew pulled away some loose hair from Aya's head the girl's self esteem level dropped several notches, placing her hand up to the impact zone in reaction figuring she might look a little scruffy; slipping the band off which held her pony tail and shaking her hair loose.
She pulled out a white roll and pin, "Let's just get some gauze around those punctures," she aimed to assist by tearing his right sleeve off unannounced, figuring that Matthew wouldn't miss a shirt with bullet holes in it anyway. She wrapped the bandage around his shoulder before lifting his shirt up and wrapping the rest around the wound from his chest, pinning it in place. Any bleeding would stop momentarily if it hadn't already.
Slapping the lid on the plastic med kit shut; at the same time a tranquil 'ping' rounded off from her notebook, looking to the laptop while pushing the med kit back into the glove compartment. Aya hefted the PC onto her lap to check the results.
It had narrowed the likeliness of what she wanted down to one single anomaly, featured on the cable between Matthew's ear canal case and auditory nerve. She had noticed some Arabic earlier back in the silver bullet but dismissed it when nothing seemed to connect to the word. The program had effortlessly picked up on an even smaller anomaly engraved on the cabling beside the Arabic; extremely suggestive Egyptian symbols. It was virtually as clear as day as to what it was, the hint being the single Arabic word "0". Many other foreign languages 0 digit had the word adopted into English for "Cipher".
That part was simple, but the complexity of the suggestive nature from the symbols was what made things difficult. Thankfully the PMC Dragonfly database had come across this type of cipher twice in the past, both in Middle Eastern operations. The key was the digit 0 itself, used to create gaps in the encryption.
"Can't remember the last time I went to Cairo," the bronze haired girl thought out loud while turning the notebook screen towards Matthew for him to see. In plain text beneath the encrypted message read the riddle description of their lead.
Aya read it out loud as well from Tyson to hear, looking between the two men, "I don't know how cryptic Medusa was when you knew them, Matt, but this is a nice little arrow for any PMC agents to follow if your body was ever recovered. A likely case that they would know where to look for the cipher as well," she pointed to the part which clearly described Medusa, "See, that aims for misinterpretation. It's supposed to mislead whoever is reading it to think of Medusa, when in truth it's describing the Egyptian Snake Goddess 'Ua Zit', probably better know as Wadjet, who was later associated to the eye of Ra and called the 'Lady of Flame.'"
Aya could sense confusion setting in, "It's representing the Sun. The Capital of the Arab World is what Cairo is known best by, and 'Protected by the Sultan Saladin' is most likely a hint at the Saladin Citadel in the centre of Cairo," she looked back at the riddle, the final line more precisely, "Only thing it skims on is what's protected there. Whatever it is apparently controls the Universe," biting her bottom lip, "I'm probably missing something else, but that's all I've got at the moment."
Aya dodged the Desert Eagle tossed into the cab, sliding back over to her side as Matt opened the door leaking blood like a hole punched bucket. She picked up the Desert Eagle, glad none of his augmentations had been damaged, engaging the safety and placing it on the dashboard.
When Matthew pulled away some loose hair from Aya's head the girl's self esteem level dropped several notches, placing her hand up to the impact zone in reaction figuring she might look a little scruffy; slipping the band off which held her pony tail and shaking her hair loose.
"We'll need to give you a checkup every few hours to.. "
The smiley face grimaced before finishing his sentence; Aya snickered, "You sound like you want me to have some sort of mental impairment after that save," she leaned over, pulling back a tear in his shirt from the shoulder entry and taking a look at the wound, "Pretty sure Tyson doesn't want you lubricating all over his truck's cab now," checking underneath her seat, "Ty! Where do you keep the med kit-" opening the glove box to see the red cross staring back at her, "Never mind."She pulled out a white roll and pin, "Let's just get some gauze around those punctures," she aimed to assist by tearing his right sleeve off unannounced, figuring that Matthew wouldn't miss a shirt with bullet holes in it anyway. She wrapped the bandage around his shoulder before lifting his shirt up and wrapping the rest around the wound from his chest, pinning it in place. Any bleeding would stop momentarily if it hadn't already.
Slapping the lid on the plastic med kit shut; at the same time a tranquil 'ping' rounded off from her notebook, looking to the laptop while pushing the med kit back into the glove compartment. Aya hefted the PC onto her lap to check the results.
It had narrowed the likeliness of what she wanted down to one single anomaly, featured on the cable between Matthew's ear canal case and auditory nerve. She had noticed some Arabic earlier back in the silver bullet but dismissed it when nothing seemed to connect to the word. The program had effortlessly picked up on an even smaller anomaly engraved on the cabling beside the Arabic; extremely suggestive Egyptian symbols. It was virtually as clear as day as to what it was, the hint being the single Arabic word "0". Many other foreign languages 0 digit had the word adopted into English for "Cipher".
That part was simple, but the complexity of the suggestive nature from the symbols was what made things difficult. Thankfully the PMC Dragonfly database had come across this type of cipher twice in the past, both in Middle Eastern operations. The key was the digit 0 itself, used to create gaps in the encryption.
"Can't remember the last time I went to Cairo," the bronze haired girl thought out loud while turning the notebook screen towards Matthew for him to see. In plain text beneath the encrypted message read the riddle description of their lead.
"At the centre of the Capital of the Arab World, watched over with a thousand eyes atop a minaret the woman with hair which slithers, protected by the Sultan Saladin, and controls the Universe."
Aya read it out loud as well from Tyson to hear, looking between the two men, "I don't know how cryptic Medusa was when you knew them, Matt, but this is a nice little arrow for any PMC agents to follow if your body was ever recovered. A likely case that they would know where to look for the cipher as well," she pointed to the part which clearly described Medusa, "See, that aims for misinterpretation. It's supposed to mislead whoever is reading it to think of Medusa, when in truth it's describing the Egyptian Snake Goddess 'Ua Zit', probably better know as Wadjet, who was later associated to the eye of Ra and called the 'Lady of Flame.'"
Aya could sense confusion setting in, "It's representing the Sun. The Capital of the Arab World is what Cairo is known best by, and 'Protected by the Sultan Saladin' is most likely a hint at the Saladin Citadel in the centre of Cairo," she looked back at the riddle, the final line more precisely, "Only thing it skims on is what's protected there. Whatever it is apparently controls the Universe," biting her bottom lip, "I'm probably missing something else, but that's all I've got at the moment."