The latest tech venture of Clyde Torvaldis, and the birth of Nerris.....
The group infiltrated Nerex Communications at the behest of Nigel in order to investigate 'oddness'. Simon hired on as a tech lead, with others filling out various internship and Security posts.
inside they discovered a specially secured room with highly restricted physical and data access. it turns out that his was Clyde's secret: a self aware pattern matching expert system / data miner.
At the end of it all, Kerrigan ended up with a boyfriend, 'Becca had innumerable geek worshipers, the party used a ritual to give the program (Nerrie) physical form, discovered that Clyde was a sorcerer of sorts and ended up on a multi state run like hell from federal agents who thought that the Nerex building suffered some sort of terrorist attack.
All in a days work.