I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

#36300300621 08/09/2007 23:48 I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

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Ok, I think there's some confusion about what exactly is possible in the Matrix universe when it comes to giving someone a redpill and bluepill & handling of a bluepill. I would very much like the Devs who write the storyline to weight in on this.

1. We all know that the redpill is a tracer program designed to disrupt the carrier signal of the newly awakened redpill and thus allow the EPNs and Zionist to locate him in the real and pick him up. However what is a blue pill? Is it simply a sleeping pill, or is it also another type of program?

2. If a bluepill decides that he wants to stay asleep and take the blue pill. Can the Zionist/EPN come back the next day and give him the redpill and extract him or would the blue pill disallow the possible awakening?

3. Can a bluepill be recalled? I thought that bluepills cannot be recalled because to do so would overload their brain and kill them in the pod. I also thought that since they are blue pills, they cannot be subject to the same rule bending that the redpills are capable of.

Once again, will a Storyline Dev please respond to this, thank you.

#36300301196 08/10/2007 17:00 I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

MetaLogic wrote:

((This is OCC))

Ok, I think there's some confusion about what exactly is possible in the Matrix universe when it comes to giving someone a redpill and bluepill & handling of a bluepill. I would very much like the Devs who write the storyline to weight in on this.

1. We all know that the redpill is a tracer program designed to disrupt the carrier signal of the newly awakened redpill and thus allow the EPNs and Zionist to locate him in the real and pick him up. However what is a blue pill? Is it simply a sleeping pill, or is it also another type of program?

2. If a bluepill decides that he wants to stay asleep and take the blue pill. Can the Zionist/EPN come back the next day and give him the redpill and extract him or would the blue pill disallow the possible awakening?

3. Can a bluepill be recalled? I thought that bluepills cannot be recalled because to do so would overload their brain and kill them in the pod. I also thought that since they are blue pills, they cannot be subject to the same rule bending that the redpills are capable of.

Once again, will a Storyline Dev please respond to this, thank you.

1. I think this has been pretty well covered, but I'd just like to add that I think "blue pill regret" is more common than we might suppose. Though the blue pill might ease the potential's immediate anxiety, the larger questions about the nature of reality will persist and eventually come to obsess the person again. I think most failed potentials end up going a bit crazy.

2. The red pill can be given at any time. In hard terms, disrupting the carrier signal means fooling the Machines' power plant system into thinking the potential is dead. That is why the drone comes to disconnect them from the system, and the potential gets flushed. This is also why code bombs are such a problem, because the victims wake up, but their carrier signals are still running - they don't send the drone to disconnect them, and they drown in the pod.

3. Recalling a bluepill would probably cause some serious physical/mental/emotional damage. A bad idea in general, but not necessarily bad RP.

#36300301398 08/10/2007 21:07 Re:I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

... (this is primarily a response to Tytanya) say that there was plenty of potential for story development... development, some noob of a producer/marketer-type came out and said something that made it sound like...

#36300302034 08/11/2007 18:58 Re:I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

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#36300302094 08/11/2007 22:46 Re:I think there's some confusion (Attn Storyline Devs!)

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