[11.2.4] The Machines have surrounded the pods - Syntax - 10/9/08

**Shimada**

With the pods surrounded by Sentinels, we were unable to find a way to protect Daryl from Wright for more than a few hours. How many more people will have to die as a result of the Machines trying to hide the truth?

~Shimada

**Bayamos**

(Now that was a very fun event.)

**eval** · 10/13/2008 16:09:23

That is the most fun I've had at a Live Event that I can remember. Chasing and slowing down Wright in an attempt to save the bluepill (despite the fact that we knew he probably had to die to progress the story) was great. I think it lasted for 3 hours or something like that.

I noticed Wright was hardly hitting anyone with Decelerate and Signal Jammer, though. If she was sitting on awakened style, might want to have her use Coder style instead so she still gets the melee accuracy and damage of Awakened style, but still have viral accuracy too. Viral accuracy seems to determine whether or not bits debuff their target. But, I think Rarebit can just boost his viral accuracy points via admin sploits so I dunno lol.

Sorry to most everyone we nuked, by the way. I know that's obnoxious to get killed by someone else at your own org's live event. We'll try to pick a loadout that's a little more crowd-friendly the next time something like this happens.

EDIT: When we got Wright down to about 1k HP, oh how I wish I still had terminator bits ;_;

**Coro**

eval wrote:

That is the most fun I've had at a Live Event that I can remember. Chasing and slowing down Wright in an attempt to save the bluepill (despite the fact that we knew he probably had to die to progress the story) was great. I think it lasted for 3 hours or something like that.

I noticed Wright was hardly hitting anyone with Decelerate and Signal Jammer, though. If she was sitting on awakened style, might want to have her use Coder style instead so she still gets the melee accuracy and damage of Awakened style, but still have viral accuracy too. Viral accuracy seems to determine whether or not bits debuff their target. But, I think Rarebit can just boost his viral accuracy points via admin sploits so I dunno lol.

Sorry to most everyone we nuked, by the way. I know that's obnoxious to get killed by someone else at your own org's live event. We'll try to pick a loadout that's a little more crowd-friendly the next time something like this happens.

/formalbow

I think that once the Machinists actually grasped what was happening, they added significant support to the operation. The reduction of area hacks meant that we could all stop acting at cross purposes and jointly look to preserve Daryl's life.

**shinpseudo**

**Tesma**

This will be a rememberable event for me, It was fun and made me feel like we were actually fighting to protect the bluepill.

SMILEY

**7h0r**

I would like to say that we tried our best to keep the bluepill safe, but Wright, despite the cooperation of all the organizations, is a tough person to stop. This, compounded with the fact that the bluepill was surrounded in the real shows that it was inevitable. As the record shows, we did our best to stop wright, and I can even note on a point where we had made her vitals go down to a quarter of their regular rate. All in All, I would like to thank EPN for doing their best, and also the rest of the individuals who helped slow down Wright. Without you, we surely would not have had the chance we did.

**Remixermike** · 10/13/2008 15:42:27

sorry this is all i could get. i should have gotten a screenshot of the huge amounts of Acc Agents

**Illyria22**

Shimada wrote:

How many more people will have to die as a result of the Machines trying to hide the truth?

~Shimada

Shouldn't this have read "How many more people will have to die as a result of the homicidal rampage of ex-Zionites"? Danielle Wright is responsible for these people's deaths, not the big bad scary Machines.

Illyria

**Neoteny**

Illyria22 wrote:

Shimada wrote:

How many more people will have to die as a result of the Machines trying to hide the truth?

~Shimada

Shouldn't this have read "How many more people will have to die as a result of the homicidal rampage of ex-Zionites"? Danielle Wright is responsible for these people's deaths, not the big bad scary Machines.

I think you missed the greater point - that the Machines surrounded the pod in question, making it impossible to safely extract the individual and guaranteeing him only death.

Steelle

Anyone else think the bluepill looked like Warrick?

**7h0r**

((Totally! I love CSI: Las Vegas))

Croesis

Neoteny wrote:

Illyria22 wrote:
Shimada wrote:

How many more people will have to die as a result of the Machines trying to hide the truth?

~Shimada

Shouldn't this have read "How many more people will have to die as a result of the homicidal rampage of ex-Zionites"? Danielle Wright is responsible for these people's deaths, not the big bad scary Machines.
I think you missed the greater point - that the Machines surrounded the pod in question, making it impossible to safely extract the individual and guaranteeing him only death.

Making it impossible for you to retrieve him you mean. You think if he'd have survived an extraction process, and that's a big if, that the Machines would just let him die when there's the possibility of the BIP still being a part of him?

**psilody**

((I L'd MAO... maybe if we'd have had a thermos of chicken noodle he'd have followed a little faster. Defnitely an excellent LE. I miss them already now...))

mmm... so much politics and another innocent dead. I agree it was good to see Machine Operatives helping in the common cause of stopping Wright. It is a shame that so much is apparently at stake with this "BIP" that the Machines were unwilling to allow Daryl's extraction. I say this becasue i presume that, if they'd wanted to, the Machines could in fact extract a bluepill. That they didn't, and stopped Zion or EPN from doing so, speaks volumes.

however, it would be nice if we could all move past this pointless blamelaying and get on with the real issue. We need more information on what this BIP is, does, and why Wright and Halborn wanted it so da*m badly. We know a few scraps from Wrights encounter with Gray, but we all need more data if we are going to handle this thing more effectively.

**Neoteny**

Vinia wrote:

Neoteny wrote:
Illyria22 wrote:
Shimada wrote:

How many more people will have to die as a result of the Machines trying to hide the truth?

~Shimada

Shouldn't this have read "How many more people will have to die as a result of the homicidal rampage of ex-Zionites"? Danielle Wright is responsible for these people's deaths, not the big bad scary Machines.
I think you missed the greater point - that the Machines surrounded the pod in question, making it impossible to safely extract the individual and guaranteeing him only death.
Making it impossible for you to retrieve him you mean. You think if he'd have survived an extraction process, and that's a big if, that the Machines would just let him die when there's the possibility of the BIP still being a part of him?

If he had it, he would've ended up dead as they acted to retrieve it.

If not, I'm sure they would've done away with him as well.

His only chance for survival was to be picked up by a Zion or EPN ship, but the Machines made sure that was impossible.