There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

#35000002776 05/11/2006 19:58:30 There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

I like to think that somewhere there's a group of people for whom things go smoothly most of the time. Call it a desire for karmic balance. For us, things tend to get complicated.

Normally, a data drop from an undercover operative is a matter of routine. Normally, their data doesn't contain detailed information on powerful lupines programs plotting a strike against Zion. Normally, those self-same lupine programs don't get wind of the operative, and ambush them right as the drop goes down.

I don't think our agent, Samen, knew what hit her--it was about forty lupines, including a nasty one who went by the name of Vagrath. Fortunately, our people had just picked up indications that the drop had leaked, and were there in force. In the huge melee following the lupine ambush at the drop site in Moriah Courts, Vagrath snatched the data, and took off.

Normally, someone like that would get clean away, and that would be the end of it.

But this was Zion he was dealing with, and we like to make things difficult for people who have it in for us. Vagrath didn't get far; not all at once, anyway. He had a lot of tricks up his sleeve, and a lot of lupines backing him up, but he never quite managed to give us the slip. He got his data back--very briefly. If he was still around, I think he'd agree that he shouldn't have bothered.

I was called in to thank our successful operatives and liaison officers. It's hard to know what to say at times like this that doesn't sound formulaic, but they were sufficiently happy that I don't think it mattered. They were being congratulated, they deserved it, and that was enough.

Bluepills call it a good day when they get their tax return, or when they beat the traffic at rush hour. In Zion, we'll settle for a day where we take out a few hundred hostile programs, and stop a deadly plot. Today, there are a few fewer complications.

We'll see what happens tomorrow.

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#35000002777 05/11/2006 20:02:10 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Hey Ghost what happened to ur hair?

#35000002781 05/11/2006 20:11:50 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

hah! That's a mystery yet to be solved.

Looking good zion. SMILEY

#35000002782 05/11/2006 20:18:06 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Friggin' lupines. Good thing we had some of those Enhanced Silver Bullets left. But alas, now I'm down to my final bullet. Perhaps the General could hook us up with some more? :smileywink:

Thanks for making our acquaintance and assuring a successful mission, Ghost.

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#35000002787 05/11/2006 21:37:52 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Hmm I didn't hear about this.. intresting.. and what did happen too Ghosts hair?

#35000002798 05/11/2006 22:49:19 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Vagrath was a good fighter...
Congratulations on a job well done Zionites.
We'll be meeting soon.

#35000002799 05/11/2006 23:37:42 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

For god's sake...

Give the man a break from the hair issue....

/mood shifty
/lookaround
/invoke Admininvisibility

o_o

Message Edited by PhanthomZtryker on 05-12-2006 12:37 AM

#35000002802 05/12/2006 00:21:06 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Symmetric wrote:
Friggin' lupines. Good thing we had some of those Enhanced Silver Bullets left. But alas, now I'm down to my final bullet. Perhaps the General could hook us up with some more? :smileywink:

Thanks for making our acquaintance and assuring a successful mission, Ghost.

Im sure you can code them Sym, check the code library.

Great Work Zion!

#35000002804 05/12/2006 00:49:02 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Aquatium wrote:

Symmetric wrote:
Friggin' lupines. Good thing we had some of those Enhanced Silver Bullets left. But alas, now I'm down to my final bullet. Perhaps the General could hook us up with some more? :smileywink:

Thanks for making our acquaintance and assuring a successful mission, Ghost.

Im sure you can code them Sym, check the code library.

Great Work Zion!

They can't be decomped anymore

#35000002806 05/12/2006 01:08:04 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Was awesome helping you and Zion,Ghost and just glad Exodus could be a part of it.

Well done on the succesfull mission and Merrit, Racon and the others invovled .../tiphat excellent work

Thanks again

Message Edited by Bazz123 on 05-12-2006 10:12 AM

#35000002807 05/12/2006 01:39:29 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Miggesch wrote:

They can't be decomped anymore

Decomped or coded? Since im sure I decomped them back when we could. If so Ill code a few SMILEY

#35000002808 05/12/2006 01:41:56 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

<MajorMasters> Now who let the Merovingian scum in here....

:p You can't keep the squirrel out! I'll never reveal mah secret!

On another note, it was nothing more than a bloody massacre that day. I think the most Merv operatives around were about seven or eight compared to the great masses of Zergonite Cookie Crumbs. Alas I had to take it upon myself to distract the hordes.....being level 22 pvp flagged certainly helped with that. "Duh, look. a lowbie's flagged! Free CQ!".......morons.

#35000002810 05/12/2006 02:13:09 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

nm about coding the enhanced ones , cant seem to find them in analyzer now SMILEY

#35000002813 05/12/2006 05:23:59 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

It was indeed an honor to meet you again Ghost. The operation was
a bit complicated, but in the end Zion took care of the
situation. It was a great display of teamwork and coordination
following Zagrath throghout Richland and finally taking him down.
Nice work Zion, I am proud to be one of you.

Message Edited by GQubed on 05-12-2006 09:24 AM

#35000002815 05/12/2006 05:46:02 Re: There is a great difference between doing a job, and doing it well - Recursion - 5/9/06

Well down, operatives on-duty in the Recursion Instance of the Matrix. At least the war against the Merovingian is doing well.