The Arch

Originally named The Architect Arcade, but now referred to simply as the Arch, is a hacker chat room. It's not known where the physical location of the node is and the chat room can only be reached by breaching several layers of firewalls.

The graphic style of the chatroom is that of a retro arcade with game consoles taking up most of the room, with well-loved couches, chairs, and tables at one end of the room. Along the same wall as the seating is an ever-changing board showing the highest scoring members. The game consoles are programs designed by the members of the chatroom to show off their coding abilities. Other members will race to see who can crack the code of the program the fastest. Scores are assigned to both the members who raced to crack the program and also the member that wrote the program.

There is an emergency code written into the node that all members must agree to. When anyone with an authority code starts to breach through the firewalls of the node, all present members in the node are sent through individual portals to random public nodes.