Rarebit

Dudes, that one isn't any tougher than the others.

GoDGiVeR wrote: Well, abs aren't your bag (but animations and fx are?) but is there even remotely a chance that Zen-Master can be adopted to cr2 and released on update 66?

Blackjack-18 wrote: ^^ we can dream though right? Yah but you can't blame me for it afterwards. ;)

I know it's easy to overlook little details, so I'll just point one out in the specific text I posted that this thread is reacting to, since a few people here seem to be getting a wee bit carried away by the various amusing comments being...

I've seen you insert that into my threads--repeatedly--but you're spamming the wrong dev, because player abilities aren't my bag.

Well, I suppose my own take on that Oracle comment would be a little more metaphysical--a lot more so than ways in which we've already had other developers bring him back, such as N30 Agents, various "frags," and the memorial in the Gracy...

CPT_Starschwar wrote: Rarebit wrote: Novalis II and Sarah Edmontons were side stories by other people that I did not take up myself, because I didn't feel like I had a sufficient understanding, from how they were initially presented by oth...

Outlaw wrote: Rarebit wrote: I don't have any significant Morpheus loose ends as far as I know. Paul had the Assassin kill him: bang dead. The Morpheus I used was a simulacrum built by the General, based on compiled footage and memories of...

I don't have any significant Morpheus loose ends as far as I know. Paul had the Assassin kill him: bang dead. The Morpheus I used was a simulacrum built by the General, based on compiled footage and memories of the original; he had enough...

Cervacius wrote: 2. Wasn't Mauser a freeborn with no jacks? How did Wright get in there in the first place? Plot hole? Mauser having jacks was the largest continuity error I made that I'm aware of to date. I assumed he had jacks when I wro...

Phrack wrote: cannon /bangbang

12.1 [] Stuff in square brackets is not mentioned directly to players in the 12.1 quests, and shouldn't be given out unless specifically cleared with me first. () Other stuff is mostly fair game, although in general you shouldn't just go a...

Cinematic bit of a wrap on wright? arch & gray? ghost finds trinity, brief convo making clear it's her, pace shows up, then Helian and Tesarova show up, pace leaves ("Acknowledged"), trinity is gone, h/t leave, ghost leaves, ookami spying...

Quests: Quests take place in Downtown, mostly around Hampton Green. Machines 1) The Machines can't detect the program themselves, but Wright seems to have some means of doing so, so they follow her, running into a disrupted computer, dead...

cinematic: scene 1 - close up of computer screen: bip message from merv 11.2.5 - Merv is looking at it in annoyance - Gen hologram phases in, says they've got the android thing - Merv has him put it up on the holographic display - Merv loo...

10/9 Crit 11.2.4 Zion: Bluepills are dropping dead across the city, sometimes with override use nearby. The player checks out an override signal and comes across Wright and a bluepill. Wright refers to the bluepill by a "pod" serial number...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not be revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] Reference: Danielle Wright's event appearances as a redpill: 8.2.2 Zion Syntax http://forums.station.s...

8/28 Crit 11.1.4 Zion: Raiding a WR network lab where they're analyzing the attacks, the player finds they've compiled a list of employee passwords used in the attacks, and that the employees were out of town when their passwords were used...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not be revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] [Abbreviations (just for summary convenience--don't use this as terminology with players): OG: Oligarc...

7/10 Crit 10.3.3 Zion: Utley says that P-A is getting a little too much legal heat from Wright, and asks Niobe to look for clues on Mauser at Ouroboros instead. Niobe isn't happy about it, but it isn't as though the Wright thing was going...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not be revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] [Abbreviations (just for summary convenience--don't use this as terminology with players): OG: Oligarc...

6/5 Crit 10.2.4 Zion: Following the line Mauser had escaped through near the Hel Club, the player finds an Exile, who says they can help, if the player makes sure that a computer nearby is put offline. Tyndall says they may as well give it...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not be revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] 5/15 Chapter image: Mauser at a telephone in Tabor Park Crit 10.2.1 Zion: While investigating an incre...

4/17-4/23 Required Events: Zion: Zion ship that was following signal possibly corresponding to Halborn's ship configuration has stopped responding; crew member jacks in to say their ship is crippled and being pursued by Halborn; Zion uses...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not be revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] On 4/2, Halborn found the Oracle waiting for him in Debir Court. She refused to help him get the progr...

3/13 Crit 9.3.4 Zion: In Richland or Westview, the player is sent to talk to Carlyne, who asks that he be contacted when the player runs across Halborn, since Halborn is putting more effort into avoiding Carlyne than he is into avoiding op...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] 2/25 [was pushed back from 2/21, although a brief leak of the cinematic occurred on that day] 9.3 Cinemat...

1/31 Crit 9.2.4 Zion: After fighting off more accelerated programs, the player finds the intruder, who tells them to stay the hell out of his way. He adds that he's got "fish to fry," and that he doesn't like being lied to. Colt calls the...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] 1/10 9.2 Cinematic The Morpheus simulacrum stands at the edge of a windswept skyscraper rooftop. The intr...

11/29 Crit 9.1.3 Zion: Tyndall says that by examining the code samples they've come up with a hack they can use to contact the intruder directly, but that it's fairly low-level, and has to be run through a land-line. The operator wonders w...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] 11/15 9.1 Cinematic A mysterious figure who will be known in this subchapter only as the "Intruder" appea...

~~~~~~~~~~~ Notes: Machine Morph sim abilities: - the green zap around Morpheus - Neo's RSI Morph sim event dialog: Vs the General (7.3.2): http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300013678 With Machines and Gray (7.3.3): http://forums...

10/18 Crit 8.3.3 Zion: Tyndall sends the player to Colt to see about an "alternate means" of ensuring that the Machines don't get the RSI sig data. Colt is trying to spell out an elaborate attack plan against the Machines tracking the sim,...

[Square brackets below surround information that will not revealed to players directly, possibly not at all, during this subchapter.] 10/4 8.3 Cinematic In the Matrix, two Agents watch a computer terminal. One says "The virus is running."...

B) Danielle Wright and her possible future story use Danielle has been a part of the city background since launch; most of the primary details about her--like her being ex-Zion, having worked with the Exile named Silver, having invented th...

I've attached the detailed summary and schedule for MXO chapter 8.2, which is going Live tomorrow (Friday the 24th). Key plot points, some of which I'll discuss in further detail after this brief overview: A) The Merovingian, using the Gen...

9/6-9/13 Required Events Zion: (after Machine event) Wright is being harassed by the Machines, and breaks from Zion--says she believes Matrix should be left intact, but under human control; Wright disappears Mach: Machines force Wright to...

8/23 (delayed to 8/24) 8.2 Cinematic Zion operatives work frantically at a covert computer lab when Machine operatives burst in. They are cut down, but Agents follow. Transition to a flight of Sentinels through tunnels, knocked out of the...

7/19-7/25 Required Events Zion: emergency network up-link established Mach: attack on a redpill extraction point Merv: Merv does a roll-call of powerful Exiles to take stock of his wartime power base (ie a parade of me showing up as variou...

7/12 8.1 Cinematic An undercover Cypherite hovercraft winds through a new tunnels system, following directions from a Zion traffic controller. They enter a large chamber coated with EMP devices and are directed to cut engines to go through...

6/14 Crit 7.3.3: Zion: The routing information of the kill-code shuttled through Zion's network was deleted (inside sabotage), but their recent security revamp keeps high level backups of admin access logs, which preserved the network addr...

5/31 7.3 Cinematic: Overwhelming waves of Machine Sentinels destroy the General's squiddies and rip apart his Stalingrad base. The camera pulls back to show the scene displayed on a video screen, and the back of a man's head in silhouette...

4/19 7.2 Cinematic: Heavy firepower destroys the initial wave of Machine Sentinels reaching the General's "Stalingrad" base. World: The sky goes from a yellow/orange to more of a red. Crit 7.2.1: Zion: Ghost tells the player to give Seraph...

3/8 7.1 Cinematic: Seraph climbs out of the river, thrashes and "exorcises" a redpill. He tells the two other redpills with her that they need not fear him, but that there are others "like her" who should. World: The weather now has a dist...

These dates are approximate, with one week of push-back. Could end up getting pushed back more...grr... 1/18 6.3 Cinematic: Sati abducted by commandos; Seraph falls in river; Agents dump the captured cheat code vials in river, one gets hun...

11/16 6.2 Cinematic: Anome is killed: shot between the eyes (with the kill code, we presume) on the Creston Heights building by an Agent posing as his mother. Crit 6.2.1: Zion: The Machines want to meet. Ghost meets with Pace to arrange a...

10/5 6.1 Cinematic: Anome's follower Caboclo dissents about killing bluepills, mentions Anome's tragic bluepill life. Anome blasts him to pieces. Elsewhere, Sati makes a sunset from the balcony of the Oracle's apartment while a commando sp...

8/24 5.3 Cinematic: Anome distributing vials to followers, "Unlimit" name officially announced Crit 5.3.1: Zion: Pendhurst-Amaranth's representative Brenda Utley contacts Zion about helping them put a stop to a series of mysterious inciden...

5.2 will be the first concrete attempt at advancing the story simultaneously through events as well as through critical missions. I've tried to leave the connections between the missions and the events rather vague, to give us a good deal...

As the time approached, every six weeks, to create the next subchapter's missions, I would look up the general scheme for the subchapter, written up months before in the overall story outline , then sit down and write out a very rough sequ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [new] beyond: 12.1 - 12/18/08 12.2 - 2/12/09 (two week push-back due to winter break) 12.3 - 3/26/09 13.1 - 5/7/09 13.2 - 6/18/09 13.3 - 7/30/09 14.1 - 9/10/09 14.2 - 10/22/09 14.3 - 12/3/09 12.1 - 12/18/08...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [old] beyond: - most of the belligerent oligarchs ko'd when Sati unlocks Trin kill-code and it's sent out into the Oligarch network - some left who hadn't used it yet--power grab for territory between them? -...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12.3 Cinematic: Missions/Events/Gameplay: Cypherites are relieved that the Oligarchs are gone. Machines are glad about that, and that they've taken Trinity away, too, but the Ouroboros connection is showing a...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12.2 Cinematic: Missions/Events/Gameplay: Helian completes negotiations with the Machines. Helian now pursues the Trinity program, with help from the Machines, and opposition from Zion, EPN, and the Cypherite...