we should make a team and try to learn how to get into blackwood...
37 posts · 2006-04-16 06:29:46 to 2007-08-28 09:27:42
sure, you go after morpheus, I'll get the keymakers key and go to the source and shoot the architect.
When one first finds this game, it is easy to think that you can do anything. But alas, it is not to be. The source, the chateau, the Le Vrai restaurant, the interior of metacortex, the Hotel Lafayette (from the first movie) and the blackwood construct simply do not exist. Otherwise morpheus would have been freed ages ago, and the architect and the merovingian would be long dead (bad for story).
Wait.....
3 posts and no one said Morpheus is dead you cant go get him?
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-NRK1
Message Edited by NRK1 on 04-17-2006 03:23 AM
Response to Cap0ne(cuz i forgot to put in quotes):
most people who have read the manual thoroughly (like reeeally thoroughly) have seen the bio on the blackwoods stating that they broke out of a Mero construct called "Blackwood". The theory that new players tend to have is that this may be where morpheus is. Of course, if you check out cinematic 1.3, the answer is quite obviously no.
Its sorta like how, when people start out, they think that data miner is cool.
Message Edited by Aule5 on 04-17-2006 11:32 AM
Still no reason to wildly guess Morpheus is being held captive in Blackwood.
There are two options as far as I see it. He's either 1) Dead, or 2) Hiding and scheming.
Door. Where? Merv's Restaurant, where? Co-ords? Screenshots?!
Of course, we can say what we want but we need something to go on if you honestly want us to believe you.
Lastly, Morpheus in Blackwood? I don't want to know how this conclusion came about.
base it on the Niobe incident she got shot and is now inside a construct.
Perhaps morpheus is in one to
it's like the white hallways, just because you can't get in doesn't mean it ain't there. It is there because it's been talked about for ages in the looking glass articles, it might be the same for the restaurant, but they hadn't been implemented at the start the code for em might be in the game files itself but just not being used for some reason

we need to get back morpheus. how hard is it to open a door anyways?
LOL. You can check out Blackwood Prison, which is below the Merovingian's Chateau, in Enter the Matrix. BTW what happened to all those guys who had their eyes gouged out?
Morpheus is not coming back because Lawrence Fishburne is not contracted to do any more work with them and I doubt SOE is going to spend the money to hire a recording studio for his voicework.

Besides, how exactly do you know that Laurence Fishburne isn't contracted anymore? Because if Morpheus' death was a fake, he will pop up some time later, and no one else would go play him than Fishburne.

He WILL return, and we will be there for him.
Xpedite
To believe that you know exactly what's happening in this game at all times, and to be close-minded to other possiblities is to be a very egotistical and arrogant person. And to those who continue to scream "Nuh uh! You saw the cinematic! He's dead!" You've obviously forgotten that this is the Matrix we're speaking of. Nothing is ever what it seems.
Response to Cap0ne(cuz i forgot to put in quotes):
most people who have read the manual thoroughly (like reeeally thoroughly) have seen the bio on the blackwoods stating that they broke out of a Mero construct called "Blackwood". The theory that new players tend to have is that this may be where morpheus is. Of course, if you check out cinematic 1.3, the answer is quite obviously no.
Its sorta like how, when people start out, they think that data miner is cool.
Message Edited by Aule5 on 04-17-2006 11:32 AM
Data mining is cool? Huh...interesting.

You can, in fact, visit the Chateau if you have the funds (100 million info--yikes). The key is for sale by the Merovingian Archivist Vendor in the bookstore in Appolyon. I am currently trying to raise the funds myself (and have only gotten to 20 million so far *sigh*).
But it's out there.
I also remember having seen an entry for the Merovingian's restaurant on that fold up map that comes with the game. I'll have to take a look around for it and see if I can at least nail down what part of the city it's in.
Even then, the closest thing you can get to Blackwood is Vanil's nifty *cough* Matrix rip-off *cough* RP story arc about his escape from there.

sure, you go after morpheus, I'll get the keymakers key and go to the source and shoot the architect.
When one first finds this game, it is easy to think that you can do anything. But alas, it is not to be. The source, the chateau, the Le Vrai restaurant, the interior of metacortex, the Hotel Lafayette (from the first movie) and the blackwood construct simply do not exist. Otherwise morpheus would have been freed ages ago, and the architect and the merovingian would be long dead (bad for story).
The Chateau exists
Aule5 wrote:A Merv Construct that looks like the Chateau exists.
sure, you go after morpheus, I'll get the keymakers key and go to the source and shoot the architect.
When one first finds this game, it is easy to think that you can do anything. But alas, it is not to be. The source, the chateau, the Le Vrai restaurant, the interior of metacortex, the Hotel Lafayette (from the first movie) and the blackwood construct simply do not exist. Otherwise morpheus would have been freed ages ago, and the architect and the merovingian would be long dead (bad for story).
The Chateau exists
There's dialogue for Blackwood in the packmaps, but like so many other dialogue listings, it exists simply to reference a feature that never made it ingame, like Oracle saying "I'll follow you, We've arrived, Wait There," etc.
Yeah and a couple of Merovingian soundbites saying stuff like, "I'll have you thrown into the Blackwoods for this!"
Why even call it "Blackwood" anyway? The Merovingian likes cake so why not take the obsession (or maybe more appropriately- the fetish) even further and call his terrible Dungeon of Doom... "Black Forest"?
Just saying.
Blackwood puts me in mind of black thorn, a now sadly extinct plant with black bark and very thick, formidable thorns that used to grow in Ireland and was used to make equally formidable walking sticks.Why even call it "Blackwood" anyway? The Merovingian likes cake so why not take the obsession (or maybe more appropriately- the fetish) even further and call his terrible Dungeon of Doom... "Black Forest"?
Just saying.
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Nah. Dungeon= cake :p
