emsquared says:
OOC:
Maybe a mundane archive might hold the data, but you didn't do well enough on your check to get it.
As for magic, you would need to follow the "Steps" as described on the book for is to decide if it's possible:
Step One – Effect:
What Do You Want to Do, and How?
• What Effect are you trying to accomplish?
• Which Spheres are you using?
I think you've done this. You want to view the data, wherever it is, using Correspondence. Effectively, a digital scry. Correspondence is generally more about space and physical things, however, ultimately the pixels on whatever screen you're using are bytes somewhere on a hard drive. So, while Data would certainly be the better fit? With the proper paradigm and tools etc I think it's... close. Close enough for it to work certainly for a VA or Techno. But you're Etherite... and so battling your own Paradigm a bit for it, not to mention Consensus.
So you would still need to do this step:
Step Two – Ability: Can You Do It?
• How does your character focus belief and practice into making it happen?
• Which tools and/ or rituals are you using?
• How long does it take?
• Is what you’re doing vulgar or coincidental?
• Are any allies assisting you?
• Do you have any mundane skills that might help?
And in that regard... while you have Tech and "Computer Gear" etc in your Paradigm and Instruments.
Etherites view of reality is generally more "Weird Science".
Thoughts?OOC:
I’d assumed that it was still reasonable to have different foci/ instruments for different types of magic, hence the list. Given the nature of Dominic’s paradigm, I can think of two approaches that might work.
The text snippet is key. It is a piece of data, potentially able to be represented as music. If he can create the right resonances from the text snippet, then according to his own idea that frequencies and harmonics underlie everything on some level, the original text in full - containing the snippet - will also contain those resonances, and hence should become a lot easier to find as it ‘rings’ back to him.
It would undoubtedly be easier to create specific frequencies and harmonics using a musical instrument than a phone, so he’d connect the keytar to the phone and also to his earpiece (no point in forcing everyone present to hear what he’s doing). The keytar is both an instrument and a computer (as is the phone) so those are the foci he’s using.
For this attempt, finding the data whole in an archive is likely to prove most effective. That limits the scope of the search to archives likely to have scraped the site/s in question; identifying those would be somewhere between Computer and Media Knowledge (maybe a roll with Int to reduce the Science difficulty?).
I see this taking a minute or so to identify the resonances; the actual search should be fairly instantaneous.
I don’t think his allies are in an immediate position to assist, given the individual nature of his paradigm. His Contacts might, but enlisting them would take significantly more time.
Lastly, while a mundane observer would not see anything supernatural, and the mages present should not be aware of any explicit paradigm violation, I’m fairly confident this is coincidental unless the mystick paradigm is so strong here that any technomancy is in trouble. If that were the case, should Dominic have been aware already? I’m sure the Technocracy representatives would have expected to be aware.
