Talk:Sun of Zartha/3

Jay had Level II clearance but he always hacked into the most secure top-secret files as a standard way to work on his cases. Zed always found out and got mad each time, but many a tough, baffling case was solved that way. On the iMac Jay now had just gotten past Level One security. He spent about 45 seconds wading through lots of file folders. Then he ran a search for “Zartha”. After about three seconds, there it was. A lone file folder called “Zartha Level Z”. Jay smiled a sneaky smile. He had heard rumors about Level Z, which basically meant for Zed’s eyes only. “Why that sneaky son of a bitch. Well, boss, I WILL know the TRUTH about myself! Yeah!” Jay tried to double-click on the folder. A dialog box came up. “Access denied”. Damn, Jay said to himself. He opened up a folder on his desktop which read “The Big Gun”. Inside was a decryption application. Jay entered some figures in the program and clicked the Go button. A timer came up. “Decoding in 45 seconds.” The thunder outside was rolling. The rain was pounding harder on the street outside. “Come on, power, stay on for me, please,” Jay said, not realizing the energy of his own anxiety was making it rain harder. Then it happened. A lightning strike hit a transformer a couple of blocks down. All the power in the neighborhood went right out. Two things: If Jay routinely hacks secure files, and knows that this folder is encrypted, he will hardly react in this way when clicking on the folder doesn't open it. Secondly, the fact that the power goes out during 45 seconds of decoding seems too much of a coincidence. Since the author doesn't seem to actually know anything about hacking, my first idea would be to replace the whole scene because power failed before he could even switch on the computer. Icekiss 20:53, 18 March 2007 (UTC)