Trying to decipher the very fabric of the server was difficult. Contagion games had put a lot of work into keeping everything under wraps, it seemed.
The flurry of questions flew by almost unnoticed.
<@'Lil: Um do you need help with something? You look a little distracted.
'Lil divided her attention to Penguin.
<<@Penguin: Does any of this seem odd to you? I don't mean the game itself, but the coding... and the level of it? I mean, it's a game server, not the toughest nut to crack, hrm? But this one seems better protected, even scanning its peripherals is hard.>>
As she spoke, she finally pierced through the veil, barely enough to see the base processor, but what she saw...
<<@Penguin: Oh, wow... I mean, this is running on a rig on par with Seattle's admin host. Drek, better, even. If they put that much work into that, why the sloppy glitchwork? I can't even peep the firewall, actually...>>
[spoiler=Contagion Games Host]After roughly 30 seconds and 25 attempts at Matrix Perception (assisted by the Data Sprite), finally got 1 Net Hit, allowing me to gain one piece of information about the server. That would be the Host Rating, which is 8. By comparison, the Seattle Metroplex Admin Host is 7, Knight Errant Station Host is 6, Louis Vuitton Store in Manhattan is 6.[/spoiler]