[8.3.3] Mach mission feedback thread: "The Hook"

Nice reference to the opening scene in part 1.

For me it was one of the first times I had spent more than a few seconds with anything approximating Morpheus.I felt unaccountably sad in the presence of the ghost that so faithfully, mechanically, soullessly spent itself mimicking what it could never know.Even so, this sad, pale shade evoked for me the force of the man, his insight, his wisdom, his power.I felt so sad that he had gone so astray.I wondered if there might have been someone to help him reach a balance between what he dreamed and what the world could accept.Someone who could have brought him back to the human community.If only Niobe or someone else had been able to reach him.The simulacrum seemed so lost, without Zion, without Neo, without the spark that makes us make our choices.Everything begins with choice, but at the end of the mission he could not make his.I thought back to the times he had met with our clan to understand and challenge us. How tragic it all seemed now.

Watching him, I could understand the cults that had grown around Morpheus.He could have been so much in the flow of history; instead he had chosen necrophilia, letting the dead rule the living.I never realized until last night what a devastating loss it had been not just for Zion but for us all.

Gray sends me to the Oracle to see if anything turns up about the Morpheus sim. Seraph said he visits often, but is nowhere around now. Gray gets word of E Pluribus Neo activity close by, but when I show up, they're already down, and a letter from Veil is on one of the bodies! She wants me to go by a bluepills house and give him this message: "He shouldn't have believed you".. now what does that mean? O_o The bluepill was a suspect in the murder of his friend who fell off the roof of his building, but he was released because they didn't have evidence to prove it! Gray agrees to go along with whatever Veil is up to. I give the message to the bluepill, but then he starts freaking out wondering how I found out what I knew! Then the phone rings, and it's Veil! She's says the guy has gotten what he deserved, and to come meet her close by for more information! Cryptos said the suspect's friend was becoming aware of the Matrix, and when the suspect told him that gravity was an illusion, he believed him, went insane, and killed himself! (I think) I'm not too sure what point the Cypherites were trying to make with all that, but Cryptos wanted to help persuade the Morpheus RSI to unlock the RSI signatures, if he is allowed to remove those of the ones who are Cypherites!!!

Oh... it was the other way around... the friend of the suspect was the one who told HIM about the gravity being an illusion, so the suspect made fun of him! So much so that he wanted to prove it, and leaped off a building! How terrible!