◉ RELAY SWEEP / 04:12 LOCAL
NETWORK STATUS
SchreckNET is a mesh, not a hierarchy. No node knows more than two of its neighbours, and every third relay rotates its address on the Sabbat. What follows is the most complete census the Clan has been able to take since Vienna.
11/12
Nodes answering
4
Nodes burned since spring
34.1%
Traffic spike, 24h baseline
3
Hunter teams on our scent
PACKET VOLUME — 24H MIRROR TRAFFIC
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00
Four spikes, evenly spaced and never at a full hour. That is a schedule, not a coincidence. Somebody is polling the mirror on the Sabbat and we do not know who is reading the answers.
RELAY CENSUS
| NODE | CITY | STATE | CUSTODIAN | LAST HANDSHAKE | NOTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VLA-7 | PRAGUE | ACTIVE | ratking | 00:04:11 | source mirror. holds the only clean archive of Vienna. |
| NYC-2 | NEW YORK | ACTIVE | — | 00:03:58 | highest throughput on the mesh. reasons unknown. |
| LAX-5 | LOS ANGELES | ACTIVE | — | 00:04:04 | custodian in custody since March. relay is running unattended. |
| CMQ-3 | CAMAGÜEY | QUIET | — | 19:41:00 | held for 9 hours. creole node, oldest blood on the network. |
| SAO-1 | SÃO PAULO | ACTIVE | — | 00:03:47 | single-hop relay. knows nobody's neighbour but VLA-7. |
| CRL-4 | CARACAS | QUIET | — | 11:02:00 | down to a trickle. custodial silence or surveillance, undetermined. |
| LON-9 | LONDON | ACTIVE | — | 00:04:09 | firmly Anarch. warns about the mesh constantly. is right about most of it. |
| BER-6 | BERLIN | ACTIVE | — | 00:04:00 | carries three Tzimisce signatures it has never authenticated. |
| PAR-8 | PARIS | ACTIVE | — | 00:03:51 | publishes a Camarilla communiqué nobody asked for. |
| TKY-1 | TOKYO | QUIET | — | 06:15:00 | Gangrel territory. the local pack audits every relay in its district. |
| BOM-11 | BOMBAY | ACTIVE | — | 00:04:06 | Assamite node. locks the archive for hours at a time, without explanation. |
| VIE-0 | VIENNA | FALLEN | — | never again | burned. relay presumed physical. do not attempt recovery. |
⚠ SECOND INQUISITION ALERT FEED
03:41 // BER-6
Two Hunter teams entered the Berlin relay's district at 03:40. They
carried a Prince's warrant for a name that does not appear in our files, which means
somebody handed them a file we never wrote.
02:58 // VLA-7
Warrant sweep on four addresses within the Prague Warren. Two
confirmed clean. The other two are our problem and they are closing tonight.
01:12 // NYC-2
Consistory escalated New York to a sweep on suspicion of a Tremere
blood-bond anomaly. No arrests made. Two buildings burned on their way out.
23:50 // TKY-1
Tokyo pack reports the local Ventrue prince attempting to buy
three parcels of the Chōme district outright. Legally, apparently.
22:20 // PAR-8
Paris relay compromised. Whoever holds it now is running our
authentication and our vocabulary, but they are not signing with our keys.
20:04 // BOM-11
Assamite custodianship dispute at the Bombay relay. Three claims,
one signature, and a locked archive nobody will open. Oldest grudge on the mesh.
17:33 // LON-9
Anarch cell burned a safehouse in Whitechapel. Two of ours dead,
neither Embraced past the first night. We are no longer certain who killed them.
14:09 // SAO-1
São Paulo perimeter check on the V20 militia. Two survivors
described a Kindred who fought the militiamen and then let them go. Gangrel, per the
description. Unverified.
11:22 // LAX-5
Los Angeles relay running with no custodian and no audit. Public
knowledge of its location is, at this moment, the only thing protecting it.
Sources: relay logs, intercepted ISM traffic, and two witnesses who are now in custody. Treat all of it as provisional. The Second Inquisition is patient. We are not. FIELD MANUAL →
RECENT UPLOADS — FTP://SEWER
| FILE | ORIGIN | BYTES | ADDED | INTEGRITY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vienna_node_fall_report.txt | VLA-7 | 11.4 KB | 2d ago | VERIFIED |
| los_angeles_node_report.txt | LAX-5 | 6.1 KB | 3d ago | VERIFIED |
| prague_node_status.txt | VLA-7 | 4.8 KB | 5d ago | VERIFIED |
| second_inquisition_field_manual.txt | BER-6 | 18.2 KB | 1w ago | VERIFIED |
| camaguey_creole_chronicle.txt | CMQ-3 | 9.0 KB | 1w ago | HELD |
| redroom_index.txt | NYC-2 | 7.7 KB | 2w ago | DO NOT INDEX |
| blood_discipline_tome.txt | VLA-7 | 22.7 KB | 3w ago | VERIFIED |
| nosferatu_manifesto.txt | VLA-7 | 5.2 KB | 1mo ago | VERIFIED |
| warren_survival_guide.txt | VLA-7 | 8.3 KB | 1mo ago | VERIFIED |
| all 31 files → | — | — | — | FTP://SEWER |
HANDSHAKE PROTOCOL — WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
- Broadcast a null request. Not your handle. A string with the shape of a request and no content in it. Any node that answers is either ours or wants us to think it is.
- Wait exactly long enough to be wrong. Two seconds is standard. Answering faster than two seconds is how the Inquisition traces a relay.
- Rotate the source header. Present the address of a node two hops away, which is a node that does not exist. If the reply comes back signed by that address, someone has been reading the mesh for months.
- Never authenticate first. A relay that asks for your credentials before it has shown you a valid signature is a Hunter relay. Close the session and burn the address.
- Read the last packet, not the first. Our relays always append four bytes of padding to the final block. Second Inquisition relays are tidy. Tidy is wrong.
- Assume the room is listening, then talk normally. The act of being careful is louder than the thing you were careful about.
Full specification: schrecknet_protocol.txt · Recovery codes: network_codes.txt · Burn procedure: terminal_burn_protocol.txt