The Magnus Protocol 36 - Outside the Box

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Speaker 9 Rusty Quill presents

Speaker 9 The Magnus Protocol

Speaker 9 Episode thirty-six: Outside the the Box

Speaker 10 Okay,

Speaker 10 so that would be playing

Speaker 10 subsection voluntary cross-referenced with betrayal and

Speaker 10 you're okay.

Speaker 10 You're okay, Jack. It's okay.

Speaker 10 It's okay.

Speaker 10 It's okay.

Speaker 10 Hey, so I was looking through one of Colin's notebooks and

Speaker 10 you're right. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah, I'm fine.

Speaker 10 Do you sure?

Speaker 10 Because you don't look fine. In fact, you look enif.

Speaker 10 I

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 10 Enif. Opposite of fine.
Maybe even kitsatnaf. What?

Speaker 10 Good. Now tell me five things you can see.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 10 Just do it. Oh, it's

Speaker 10 you.

Speaker 10 Your desk, your computer, your mouse, sans

Speaker 10 Sam.

Speaker 10 Never mind that. Four things you can feel.

Speaker 10 Um.

Speaker 10 My jeans, the chair,

Speaker 10 the desk, your hand.

Speaker 10 Three you can hear.

Speaker 10 What other than your voice, right in my ear? That's one.

Speaker 10 Cars outside. The computers again.

Speaker 10 And smell?

Speaker 10 Dust and that perfume you always wear, the one that smells like a magic shop.

Speaker 11 That'll be the patchouli.

Speaker 10 I'm a woody scent gal.

Speaker 10 And what can you taste? Also, perfume, it's a lot close-up.

Speaker 10 Good enough.

Speaker 10 Better?

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 10 actually,

Speaker 10 how did you? I know a panic attack when I see one. I've helped enough people through them and been helped for that matter.

Speaker 10 Thanks. All part of the service.
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Speaker 10 Good to know.

Speaker 10 I'm assuming you don't want to talk about it. Actually, I think maybe it's about time I did.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 10 I

Speaker 10 think I know what that thing is in the hilltop centre.

Speaker 10 Go on.

Speaker 10 I

Speaker 10 know I said I didn't know what it was, but I'm certain it's a portal.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 I'm not sure how to say this.

Speaker 10 It's okay.

Speaker 10 I already worked it out for myself. Really?

Speaker 10 It felt like the obvious answer, but I guess I just couldn't face it. Not until I was sure.

Speaker 10 And now you are.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Best I can figure, it goes to, well, not like hell, hell, but definitely some kind of evil, messed up hellish dimension and it's leaking I don't know if it covers all the cases but definitely most in fact it's probably not the only one

Speaker 10 so

Speaker 10 you think it's been leaking out what just general evil

Speaker 10 yeah that's why I haven't tried following Sam yet He hasn't come back, which means it's either one way or there's something on the other side stopping him.

Speaker 10 And since I'm pretty sure we've already met things that spat out, that means something is keeping Sam there. Ergo, it's probably a really bad place.
Or that he's already dead. No, no, no.

Speaker 10 Our train of thought is not currently stopping at that destination. Besides, the evil portal idea does make sense for the whole protocol thing.

Speaker 10 Like, we knew it would have to be bad to explain all these monsters and stuff from the cases, but the OIA are literally standing in the way of hell on earth?

Speaker 10 That's rough. Alice.

Speaker 10 So obviously, it's not actually Christian hell, but looking up the occult stuff and what they would have thought hell was and how it connects to alchemy might be a good place to start.

Speaker 10 And with Colin's notes, we might actually be.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 10 You need to slow down a moment. You're making a lot of assumptions.

Speaker 10 I get it. There's still a lot we don't know.
We don't know how many portals there are. We don't know if all the stuff we've read about comes from this place or only some of it.

Speaker 10 We don't know any of the rules on how any of this actually works.

Speaker 10 But we do know it's bad news. We know it's evil, and anything it spits out is the same.
That's not what I was gonna say.

Speaker 10 Hold that thought, and we can pick it back up when I'm done with Her Majesty.

Speaker 10 Shit.

Speaker 10 Slade TechReviews.com. Blog Blog Post 235-1.
Author Arlo Slade. Admin.
Title. Booth Mark II Review.
Feeling Isolated. Date.
August 4th, 2024. Page removed pending legal action.

Speaker 10 Intro. The Disruption is Coming From Inside the House.

Speaker 10 You probably haven't heard of Booth, the enigmatic video conference startup that launched early last year, but you have almost certainly used products made by their pioneering founders, Leela Bailey and Chris Chavez.

Speaker 10 Between them, the pair hold prestigious backgrounds in advanced OLED panel displays, generative AI, aerospace engineering and 3D projection modeling, and so it was no surprise when their startup completed a record-breaking initial funding round back in 2022 with Elric Capital Limited taking a controlling interest.

Speaker 10 Now, Booth stands poised to capture the video conference market.

Speaker 10 Its first consumer outing, the Booth Mark II, clearly takes inspiration from the founders' backgrounds as a first-of-its-kind, perfectly lifelike hybrid monitor webcam setup.

Speaker 10 According to the marketing materials, no more lonely work-from-home blues with blurry low-res co-workers, Booth Mark 2 will bring everyone back in the room.

Speaker 10 Realistic Conversations Over Video

Speaker 10 True to its name, the Booth Mark 2 is a booth. An array of high-res webcams situated around a proprietary 8K 3D display.

Speaker 10 Honestly, it looks like a carnival photo booth sands curtain, but this is supposedly to help the webcam array and integrated LiDAR sensor to record and track body, head and eye movements, ensuring that you and your conversational partner are rendered in stunning 3D.

Speaker 10 The result being the uncanny sensation of the screen dissolving between the two of you. A purposefully oblique setup process?

Speaker 10 The Mark II is beyond bleeding edge. In fact, it's practically still breathing.

Speaker 10 It exists past the plane of creature comforts that casual tech enthusiasts expect from their world of walled gardens and frictionless user interfaces.

Speaker 10 Instead, it harkens back to the golden age of bulky pillars in dedicated computer rooms.

Speaker 10 Users can expect an arduous setup process, starting with an intimidating safety warning in the lengthy install guide. To maximise realism, remove all items from the room.

Speaker 10 Do not plug the Mark II in until all items have been removed. Position the device such that any windows and doors are not in view of the Mark II's camera array.

Speaker 10 Only once this is done should you turn on the Boothmark II. The presence of windows or doors in frame may cause the Boothmark II to have unpredictable results.

Speaker 10 This is a punishing ask for users who live in a post-desktop world, and I found myself working up quite a sweat clearing out the only room room that I could afford to ransack for this review, my bedroom.

Speaker 10 But looking back, I am glad I did, because let me tell you, describing the Mark II's behaviour as unpredictable is charitable at best.

Speaker 10 The Mark II defies possibility.

Speaker 10 Although marketed as a consumer product, the Mark II is far from that.

Speaker 10 For the Mark II, a safe software experience relies on industrial levels of precision operation, and without it you are left with a glitchy, surreal, and isolating experience.

Speaker 10 The Mark II has no power button.

Speaker 10 Instead, it turns itself on immediately upon being plugged in and users are greeted with the splash page displaying the Booth Mark II in an all-caps, desperately modern-looking sans serif font.

Speaker 10 It then dropped me into my first call as soon as the logo disappeared and having had no opportunity to give it contact, I found myself suddenly sharing my now empty bedroom with a complete stranger.

Speaker 10 An awkward experience at the best of times. But I forgot about my reservations when I realised how incredibly lifelike it felt.

Speaker 10 It is impossible for a reviewer to adequately describe this experience and the effect doesn't translate to video review because the viewer is staring at a flat projection.

Speaker 10 Instead, imagine what it is like to be in a room with another person. That is what it feels like to use the Booth Mark II.
It is lifelike beyond compare. It felt like we were sharing the same air.

Speaker 10 The man across from me told me his name, we'll call him Gregory, and that he was a member of the Booth Initiation Team, or BIT.

Speaker 10 Apparently, the BIT was designed to welcome new users into the Mark II ecosystem and provide a guide to a safe and engaging user experience.

Speaker 10 It was a nice idea, but instead it was leaving me disconcerted because occasionally something would feel off about Gregory's movements.

Speaker 10 It wasn't like a video feed, it wasn't glitching, artifacting, blurring, or dropping iframes.

Speaker 10 Instead, thanks to the hyper-realism, it appeared that Gregory's body was actually morphing, shifting, changing, moving too fast.

Speaker 10 He looked incredibly real, so it was especially jarring to see him malformed in this manner. But such is the cost of reviewing Bleeding edge tag.

Speaker 10 After a few moments of settling in and exchanging pleasantries about cat ownership, Gregory held a peach up in front of him, his arm extended.

Speaker 10 Like Gregory, it genuinely appeared to be present in the room with me. I swear, I could smell it.

Speaker 10 I was tempted to reach out and take it, then felt ridiculous having fully believed the Mark II's illusion of depth. Then in an absolutely brainbreaking display, Gregory dropped the peach into my room.

Speaker 10 It landed in front of the Mark II with an unceremonious thud. An actual peach on the actual ground.

Speaker 10 I was stunned. I picked it up.
It felt real.

Speaker 10 I looked behind the screen, searching for an explanation, and Gregory gave a laugh at my confusion, though it gave way to an angry bark as I turned the Mark II from one side to the other, looking for a hidden chute that could have been holding the peach.

Speaker 10 He explained that I was ruining the setup, but the damage was done. My bedroom door and a small window were in frame, and he was furious.
I apologised, but to no avail.

Speaker 10 Gregory shared some creatively offensive words with me, apparently the BIT could use some training on acceptable customer interactions, and then the screen went dark.

Speaker 10 It didn't diminish all at once, though, instead, it disappeared into a pinpoint like an old CRT monitor. Then there was no way I could find to turn it back on.

Speaker 10 My first video conference call with the Mark II was over, ended by an impressively lifelike argument.

Speaker 10 Despite this, the demo had been amazing, and I was still riding high on the hyper-reality of it all. That is, until I took a closer look at my surroundings.

Speaker 10 It took a moment for me to even process what I was seeing. The window and the door of my bedroom had vanished.

Speaker 10 I was in a completely bare and sealed room, shrunk to only what the Mark II's cameras had been able to capture.

Speaker 10 My first inclination was that this must be an illusion from the booth, some bizarre, unintended result due to its moving position.

Speaker 10 I reached out to where my bedroom door had been, expecting to feel a handle behind whatever projection was occluding it, but there was nothing there but bare wall.

Speaker 10 I knocked on it, feeling it solid beneath my knuckles, then banged on it, then screamed for help. Nothing.

Speaker 10 At that point I started to panic. I wrapped my hand in my shirt, then pounded on the wall over and over, but they held solid.
They weren't the dry wall from my house.

Speaker 10 Instead, they were hard and slightly shiny like ceramic. I began to bang on everything but the Mark II, which I was now terrified of damaging any further, but to no avail.

Speaker 10 Brute force wasn't going to help. I then started to realise just how bad this could get.
It might be a long time before anyone other than my cat Randall noticed I was missing.

Speaker 10 I took some solace in knowing that his automatic bowl would feed him regularly for at least another week or two. In the meantime though, things were going to get very uncomfortable.

Speaker 10 Now, any readers of early Slade Tech might remember that this used to be more of a survivalism blog. This was a harsh environment with few resources, even by my my standards.

Speaker 10 I could maybe wring the sweat out of my clothes, meditate to avoid time loss. Eventually I could attempt to eat the leather from my boots.
Not much.

Speaker 10 Of course there was the peach. It wouldn't keep, but it was real food and I had an idea of how long it would last me.
I decided to give myself three days to be found before I prepared for the worst.

Speaker 10 For three days I sat as still as I could, preserving energy, meditating. I soon came to see the booth as my only hope of survival.

Speaker 10 I would swing from forced calm to feelings of existential dread and white-hot rage. I took the smallest possible bites out of the peach, but it was still half gone within 24 hours.

Speaker 10 My gut started burning and I dreamed fitfully that a hand would come out of the Mark II and pull me down into darkness. Time felt infinite and uncaring in all directions.
I lost track.

Speaker 10 I ate the last of the peach.

Speaker 10 Then I was out of time.

Speaker 10 I prayed to the booth Mark II that night before I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

Speaker 10 I awoke, weakly, to light emanating from the device and looked up to see Gregory eyeing me curiously. He then turned his head and spoke to someone off-screen.
Yeah, this one's done. Kill process.

Speaker 10 Hearing this, I staggered towards the screen as fast as my body would carry me. Then, before Gregory noticed me, I had reached my hands through the screen, into his room and round his neck.

Speaker 10 Then the screen snapped black, my fingers caught inside. I felt the bones shear and the muscles sever as my fingers were neatly amputated.

Speaker 10 I could feel blood pulsing out of me, though all I could see was the perfect black of the screen. But I swear I could still feel my fingers digging into Gregory's throat.

Speaker 10 I cried out in pain and used my ever-weakening arms to try and force myself through somehow. The screen bent, then began to yield to my effort.

Speaker 10 I pushed and screamed, trying to somehow use Gregory as a lever, until the hand holding him slipped and I felt something fleshy come free in my hand.

Speaker 10 I didn't stop prying though and grasping until I was able to find the edge of the Mark II on Gregory's side and heave myself into the other room.

Speaker 10 That was when I opened my eyes and looked down to see Gregory's ear in my mangled palms and my own fingers resting gently on the carpeted floor.

Speaker 10 Gregory's room still had a door in it, thank God, and it was ajar. It looked like he had made a quick getaway.

Speaker 10 Gingerly, lifting my bloodied fingers and stumbling through, I found an empty suburban house. No pictures on the walls, no real furniture, just a trail of blood leading out to the front door.

Speaker 10 I followed it and flagged down help as soon as possible.

Speaker 10 I made it to the hospital and told the doctors my hands got slammed in a car door. I did not mention Gregory or the Mark II to anyone.
Who would believe me?

Speaker 10 Besides, it's not like anyone had noticed my absence. Except for Randall, of course.

Speaker 10 Verdict. The Booth Mark II.
Disruptive in the worst way.

Speaker 10 Yes, the Booth Mark II technically over-delivers.

Speaker 10 The tech is literally boundary pushing, but it is also exceedingly dangerous, overseen by a company that seems apparently criminally apathetic to its users, and if there was any likelihood that it would see the actual market in this state, I would warn people off it as a five-figure death sentence.

Speaker 10 I did contact Booth about my experience, and they claim to have no employee named Gregory, and there is no such thing as a Booth initiation team.

Speaker 10 Their legal team also reminded me that I had signed an NDA to join the Alpha Test, but after what they have put me through, I don't care if they sue me. I intend to track Gregory down.

Speaker 10 After all, I still have his ear.

Speaker 10 In the meantime though, keep an eye out for a tech bro with one ear and seriously poor customer service. One star, for quick delivery and solid packaging.

Speaker 11 So I think he used the salt config manager and found an unmonitored orphan process, which. What? Oh, right.

Speaker 11 So apparently, an orphan process is one that should have a parent process to monitor it, but like it's gone, deleted, dead. Presumably to make the process a more compelling protagonist or something.

Speaker 11 Right. So then you've got this orphan process just running around spamming threads and eating up massive amounts of processing power via cron task.
And I'm starting to

Speaker 11 basically Linux, but based on Annex, doesn't matter. The important thing is that because of of this, the LAN network should have already failed.

Speaker 11 I see.

Speaker 11 But it hasn't.

Speaker 11 No, it hasn't.

Speaker 11 Right? And if I'm reading these notes correctly, this is just the tip of a very nerdy iceberg. It's no wonder it was driving Colin up the wall because he couldn't.

Speaker 11 You haven't understood a word of that, have you?

Speaker 11 Look, I don't need to know every detail of the thing to be the manager. I just need to know how to balance it.
So either tell me how I can increase W here, or get out.

Speaker 11 Fine.

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Speaker 11 Please help

Speaker 11 me.

Speaker 11 Shove over. I will not.

Speaker 11 So, each of these cases is categorized on four metrics with a standard integer scale. That's your DPHW.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 11 Now, I'm pretty sure I need to try and keep them as even as possible. Okay, so it makes sense that if you're low on W,

Speaker 11 that means we should probably prioritise processing cases with a higher rank on that metric to bring the average up, right?

Speaker 11 Makes sense.

Speaker 11 So, it's just a hunch, but I bet if we have a look at the old cases and then try and sort by W, we can find out which cases got the the biggest scores in that metric and reverse engineer what you need.

Speaker 11 That's very insightful. Yeah, well, it helps knowing the whole thing is powered by demons and spite.

Speaker 7 You're starting to sound like Colin. Good.

Speaker 11 Now, unless I'm wrong, which, let's be honest, is pretty damn likely, when we cross-reference the shortlist for common terms, we'll find out what Freddy thinks you need, and that is more

Speaker 10 bonzo.

Speaker 11 Bollocks, so much for that idea. Okay, so maybe Alex, you may go.

Speaker 11 Hang on, weren't you going on about Mr. Bonzo went

Speaker 11 now?

Speaker 5 Whatever.

Speaker 5 Shit.

Speaker 10 Thanks, Georgie. I managed to swing by the corner shop, so I'm good on nappies now.
I tried to get you coffee, but they hadn't restocked.

Speaker 10 And I didn't have baby toddler toothpaste, so he'll have to make do with mine until I manage.

Speaker 10 What? No, I'm fine. If I hurry, I can get breakfast prepped.

Speaker 10 down. But I did an online shop.
My treat. Breakfast is prepped.
You've got about six months and happiest ordered along with the mildest toddler toothpaste they make.

Speaker 10 And a new sippy cup, because he's managed to chew through the dinosaur one. Georgie, you didn't have to.
I know, but I did, and it's fine. I even brought my own coffee, see?

Speaker 10 Thanks, Georgie.

Speaker 10 I know you can't keep this up forever, right?

Speaker 10 I know

Speaker 10 it's just been a bit of a rough time at work.

Speaker 10 We

Speaker 10 lost some staff recently, including the manager, and it's a lot.

Speaker 10 Need to talk about it?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 10 Maybe.

Speaker 10 I don't know.

Speaker 10 New manager. When? Yeah, that's her.

Speaker 10 She doesn't have a clue what to do. And Alice is getting tense.

Speaker 10 And Sam? Hmm? The boy you were pretending you weren't seeing last time I asked? I don't.

Speaker 10 How do you. He had a profile on your Netflix.

Speaker 10 Oh.

Speaker 10 Right. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Well, um,

Speaker 10 he was one of the ones that moved on. Oh, sweetie.

Speaker 10 Maybe he's moved on to somewhere better?

Speaker 10 I doubt it.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 it was kind of my fault.

Speaker 10 I see.

Speaker 10 Does he know it was your fault?

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 I'm pretty sure he does. Ham.
I was hoping we could play ignorant, blame an ex or something.

Speaker 10 No, in fact, his ex is starting to suspect as well. Hmm.
Then maybe you could blame it on the old manager. Georgie, I don't think we're gonna find it.
Alright, I get it.

Speaker 10 The secret problems of your secret job are just too secret for me to help with.

Speaker 10 But you know I'm here. If you actually do want to talk, right?

Speaker 10 Probably won't even put it on the podcast. I appreciate the chat, but honestly, I just think I need sleep.
That's fair. I'll take Jack to the playground once he wakes up.

Speaker 10 Give you a bit of peace and quiet. Thanks, Georgie.
Don't mention it. You feel better after the rest.
After all, it's just a job, right?

Speaker 9 The Magnus Protocol is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 international license.

Speaker 9 The series is created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J. Newell and directed by Alexander J.
Newell.

Speaker 9 This episode was written by Dylan Griggs and Alexander J. Newell and edited with additional materials by Jonathan Sims,

Speaker 9 with vocal edits by Lorianne Davies, soundscaping by Tessa Vroom and mastery by Catherine Rinella with music by Sam Jones.

Speaker 9 It featured Billy Hindle as Alice Dyer, Anusha Battersby as Gwen Bouchard, Lori Ann Davis as Celia Ripley, Sasha Sienna as Georgie Barker with additional voices from Alexander J. Newell.

Speaker 9 The Magnus Protocol is produced by April Sumner with executive producers Alexander J. Newell, Danny McDonough, Lynn C.

Speaker 9 and Samantha F. G.
Hamilton, and associate producers Jordan L. Hawke, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius DeRaven, and Megan Nice.

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Speaker 13 If you've never been to the Presidio, San Francisco's very own national park site, consider this your invitation to visit and bring your own.

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Speaker 4 Hi everyone, it's Billy Hindle, the voice of Alice in the Magnus Protocol.

Speaker 4 Today I'm here to advertise Frights by Fire, a new storytelling and horror anthology podcast that recently launched on the Archey Network.

Speaker 4 Frights by Fire is a weekly community-driven series bringing immersive sound design to live performances of spooky stories provided by the audience.

Speaker 4 Created and hosted by Jonathan Magno, creator of The Grotto, and Jamie Petronas, creator of The Seller Letters.

Speaker 4 Join Jonathan, Jamie, and special guests by the fire as they bring horror tales written by their community to life.

Speaker 4 Episodes are filled with frights, fun, and the fumbles that only performing in front of a live online audience can bring.

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Speaker 5 Hello, everyone. It's Shahan, voice of Sam in the Magnus Protocol.
And today, I'm here to advertise Hollow Disciple, a podcast recently launched on the RQ Network.

Speaker 5 Hollow Disciple is a thrilling, dark science fiction podcast from the brilliant creator of Wake of Corrosion. In the vast abyss of dying stars, lurks a forsaken forsaken vessel, silent and still.

Speaker 5 Stumbling upon it, the scavenger crew of the L Peace begin an ill-fated rescue mission, convinced they have hit the jackpot.

Speaker 5 But when the scouting party stops responding, their luck takes a dark turn, and the sinister nature of their prize and its unnerving history becomes all too apparent.

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