Unidentified broadcast - 7/20/07

**Conrac**

Today is 9/19 ... interesting sequence of numbers ... don't you think... Syntax is up today ...

One thought at this late hour .. I believe there is a third choice .. Evolution.....

The rubic cube invisible agent puzzle has some Matrix characters above his head .. they
translate as Novo Evolve.

In Dr. Raj's last words document he theorizes what would happen if all the major and
minor nodes were deleted but the primary node left intact.... In this case he imagines
that 991 would rebuild but at a much lower level of capability and knowledge.. A child
if you will, with all the promise that that entails, perhaps even a AI analog of the ONE
given what we know of it's power at present.

This is only a theory ... 991 may die if Dr. Rajlich is wrong .. but it seems that this is what
he dreamed of, another Child to nuture.

In this case Vector will have one last task (and perhaps all three servers will need to be
on duty Friday night at the primary node location in order to stop Adelia from destroying
the primary node)

... A long shot bet .. but perhaps worth the risk.

Destroy to Create again ... sounds kind of familiar .... don't you think.

He looks down at his hand and the Lancet appears ... The status quo has gotten us no where
this past 600 years .. perhaps the risk is worth the gain ... God have mercy on my soul and
that of 991.

He breaths out slowly

I will move to block the maintenance process on Recursion tomorrow night

**Darminian**

I feel conflicted, in open admittance to it all i can say i both understand and am lost concerning the joker.

An entity with no defined purpose, yet spitting in the face of naysayers that say he needs purpose. Exiles - a collective batch or otherwise do not function without purpose, they replace purpose whether self-evident or otherwise.

The joker is a mask for the entities behind 991, but what 991's purpose is, is unclear. The old garbage management program if you will has potential beyond words. And though he can give no access to the tower, there is no doubt in my mind to his possible worth.

People seem so eager to destroy him without reason, they are torn in this question of ethics, this regard of who to defend, who to oppose, and it occurs to me neither side has asked for it. Were just observers trying to follow this twisted plot, some of us are opinionated and forceful, others are lost, others are onlookers who feel they need to step forward, to do 'something'.

I haven't decided what i'm going to do yet, but i know the death of the joker will only come through the destruction of his nodes, and yet it would seem people have more unanswered questions then solutions or insights. Seems to me, if your dealing with a story you can't grasp but you want to - the best idea isn't to burn the pages for no one else to read.

That seems rather childish doesn't it.

The way i see it, there's only a surviving manipulator.

A corrupt scanliner, a 'seemingly good' scanliner who is in the same boat most of us are.

And a crowd of people, some who seem to know what they are witnessing, others who do not.

To the majority of people - this whole game is irrelevant, but all it takes is the right question. The right offer, the right trade.

Try asking the questions he doesn't want to answer, more then the ones you want to ask.

==

Food for thought i suppose.

There is no grand evil scheme in place here, if the joker lives, the matrix won't explode or collapse in on itself, theres no doubt theres more depth to this then people can see.

More questions need to be asked, and i think were running out of time to ask those questions, so perhaps i'll defend the story till i've finished reading.

Perhaps i'll just seek the ending to the story tonight.

-why is she so important to them?

~Darminian

**SEPET** · 09/19/2007 18:36:06

The four nodes of syntax are all deleted.....

Gray, Effy, Twin, Assassin

Let's wait tomorrow, i think evolutions is the key too

**Othinn1**

Some of the node sites are gone. SMILEY

**Bayamos**

I would have came to fight to save 991, but it seems my jack-in protocol has been tampered with. I can't get in.

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Othinn, I have a bunch of the nodes and some... other things backed up. If you need some specific ones lemme know.

Ebola

Darminian wrote:

A corrupt scanliner, a 'seemingly good' scanliner who is in the same boat most of us are.

Ever thought thats what they want you to believe?

Havocide

SEPET wrote:

The four nodes of syntax are all deleted.....
Gray, Effy, Twin, Assassin

Let's wait tomorrow, i think evolutions is the key too

Effy was killed? Don't remember that.

**SEPET**

The fake LEC are the agents of update, projetction of 991 , we don't let them works done so no update, no node up

**broin**

Unfortunatley due to commitments in the real I will be unable to participate in any of the events transpiring this week...

It was with a great deal of respect that the members of FA opted to provide, once again, a crucial part of the puzzle to Conrac and Ps10n, two operatives who have shown extreme perseverance and commitment in the final stages of this long journey.

As far as what the fate of 991/thejokers/shiva should be... Well that is a difficult decision. The program itself is an adaptive and yes sentient, being. Due to it's chance encounter with the trashman (The Assassin), or Trashy as 991 likes to call it. It has been able to continue to adapt its programming and avoid deletion. However this adaptable behavior is cause for some concern. You see the 991 program is able to gather up and store information from the system.... Any information within the system, even from the minds of the operatives (Zion, Merv, Machine) that are jacked into the simulation. In fact at one point the Jokers were taking out hit lists on operatives so that when these operatives had to use their emergency jackouts it would be able to gather what thoughts or residual information it could from them. Now how extensive of information 991 is able to get from an operative is unknown but just the idea of a program out there able to do such a thing is unsettling.

Could such a thing be useful for Zion... Of course but then if we were able to bend the will of 991 to our own liking what would stop the Mervs or the Machines. Currently the machines and agents of the system are seeking the deletion of 991, perhaps they realize that even though his program would be a great value to them if they could control it, in the wrong hands it would be even a greater detrminet.

Could the adaptive abilities of 991 and his insatiable hunger for continued information and knoweldge eventually adapt him into another Assassin or even a second coming of Smith? It is not outside the realm of possibiltiy.

Then again 991 is as I said before a sentient being. What right have we to take away the life of someone or something which only wishes to exist? Even despite the extreme harm or extreme good it could cause?

It is a difficult position we find ourselves in....

May those who make the final decisions upon this matter do so with great thought and respect... and may their decision not be a seed for strife or bad ill among other operatives. For in the end who can say, truley, which is right or wrong...

**PS10N** · 09/20/2007 23:55:58

Incredible 6+ hour event (total)
Event across all three servers
Included all five organizations
Featured at least twelve Live Event Characters (their likenesses, anyway)
Has a variable outcome based on the actions of the players
Featured content which otherwise might never have been seen again, without violating the story
Was the culmination of 13 months of mysteries/puzzles (and much longer planning)
Required the efforts of most of LESIG and the Live Event Devs
Had two dozen internet pages to be found and deciphered (filled with cryptic messages and incredible art)
Required the efforts of many players over many months to solve the riddles
Main enigma involved very challenging math and cryptography to solve
Included dozens of LESIG mini-events with Scanline, Strayshot and the Jokers
Resulted in the creation of MxO datasets which will be used for future events
Still leaves mysteries to be solved and in-Matrix secrets to be found

This is/was everything everyone has been asking for and as much if not more than what was thought possible given the current state of all things MxO. Someone who was involved in .00527% of it (yes I did the math) called it a failure. *shrugs* Keep up the GREAT work DEVs and LESIG, those of us serious about MxO are dying to find out what happens next in this massive side-story. And no, it wasn't all PvP or even combat related. The second location on Recursion required a puzzle to be solved to keep the Node from being updated. As far as I know, no one solved it correctly in time.

in the words of Smith.... "MORE!"

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Want to see more? The following range of URLs is available:

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**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

"The answer is Pi. Pi is the answer of all."
"Wrong"
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**Darminian** · 09/21/2007 12:48:31

Seeing these events that were tasteful, cryptic and challenging degrade into spam and nonsense really hurt my opinion of it.

Joker was really revitalizing the matrix esque vibe i feel this game lacks so often.

It was a terrible sort of anti-climax to the whole thing.

I mean to date there are people here who don't know who 991 is - don't know that all the LET that have been were imposters and more so just don't even know what happened so much as they showed up to shoot *CENSORED*.

Now i know excusive events in mxo is too much to ask for sure, but my god, this is the first time i think i would have prefered if the LET had stayed out of a story.

At least that was my opinion on recursion. I don't know if rewards are being given out for anything, and i wouldn't wine about getting one, but i pray to god conrac gets one, cause i'd say without him a good 75% of these people wouldn't have known where to go, cause it's apparent 75% of them don't know what happened.

~Darminian

**Garu**

Darminian wrote:

Seeing these events that were tasteful, cryptic and challenging degrade into spam and nonsense really hurt my opinion of it.
Joker was really revitalizing the matrix esque vibe i feel this game lacks so often.
It was a terrible sort of anti-climax to the whole thing.
I mean to date there are people here who don't know who 991 is - don't know that all the LET that have been were imposters and more so just don't even know what happened so much as they showed up to shoot *CENSORED*.
Now i know excusive events in mxo is too much to ask for sure, but my god, this is the first time i think i would have prefered if the LET had stayed out of a story.
At least that was my opinion on recursion. I don't know if rewards are being given out for anything, and i wouldn't wine about getting one, but i pray to god conrac gets one, cause i'd say without him a good 75% of these people wouldn't have known where to go, cause it's apparent 75% of them don't know what happened.

~Darminian

I freely admit that I haven't followed much of this event. I've heard Bayamos thinking out loud about it in Vent but for the most part I've watched from afar. However, I can honestly say that this was probably the best event we've seen in a long time.

Granted, it may not have ended the way you wanted it to, and I respect that. But looking at the bigger picture, MANY people really benefited from this event from the puzzles to the PvP. In the end, whomever planned this touched all the aspects of the game we love and for that I'm eternally grateful.

Also, I can't wait to see what they pull off to top this. SMILEY

**phi**

This sort of "opening the mysteries of the matrix" backs story is half the reason I signed up for this game. And this one delivered. Excellent work to all who prepared and solved the puzzles.

Unfortunately due to time-zone issues I missed the live events, but the data logs poached from 991 have given me much insight into the historical happenings of the Matrix... In particular it would seem that Morpheus may or may not be dead, but his ship and crew were never found. But we do know that 991 managed to analyse morepheus' dead rsi (not sure if it was the one the assassin killed or an EJP leftover).

So what happened in the end? Were all the nodes taken out? If so was the core destroyed, or was it captured to be nurtured like a child and studied?

... so now that we know that the source and the core-systems are separate and that the core has guardians... what does this mean for the war efforts of EPN and Zion?

**Zerotolerance** · 09/21/2007 21:46:44

SkyBruin-ML wrote:

We'll I throw out what I believe them to be, anyone else please feel free to add to or correct anything they see as not right.
What these nodes are that are pointed to from the pamela feeds are essentially the stored data that program 991 has cached throughout the matrix. this is what keeps him from being deleted I think and able to manifest himslf as the Jokers, his avatars. Some of what he has is from personal experience, others is from data gathered from those programs he has aquired.
That is why some of what is shown on the adelia pages is recounting the happenings of what transpired with TheWatchmaker. That seems to be the first point of contact, as least that vector had, with TheJokerofSpades. thejokerofspades is 991's avatar on Vector. I know there are two others, thejokerofclubs and the thejokerodiamnods, but i'm not sure to which instances they belong.
The other pieces of information bayamos has cataloged somewhat and are from various sources.
The big questions on my mind are
Now that we have this information what should we do with it? but iv'e already asked that question and I still don't see a clear answer to it.
"is 991 a threat to anyone?" he has influenced others to fight each other(in an effort to study us or something) but has not to my knowledge permanently harmed anyone directly.
So that's all i got got anyone else wish to add?

In retrospect, the Joker said some fairly creepy things to me. I'm not sure if you had any similar correspondence with him, but he continuously called me by my pre-Awakened name and stated that he was my employer - that I worked for him ever since we put the Watchmaker back together. I still haven't made the EXACT connection between him and the Watchmaker, although my first contact with him was directly after we worked together with Sitrom to solve the Watchmaker's puzzle. Well, looking back at some of the things that were said in this thread, I get it.

Although there's a lot more clarity after the events that took place tonight and after reading up on some of the other things, I'm astonished by how deep this really goes. I'm starting to piece together the background of it all and I really appreciate all of the effort on behalf of the LESIG and players such as Broin, Bayamos and Conrac. I think with the open-ended storyline like this one, we're really having delivered to us what we were promised when this title hit the shelves.

Everything falling into place, including our interaction with the Oracle during the climax of the Watchmaker event, getting to meet and have a scrap with CoffinsNails, and being present with the majority of Vector's remaining population to track down the Joker has really made my time playing this game worthwhile. These events have made me feel as though we've become a part of the Matrix canon through the interaction we get here.

Of course, some of the grievers and those who take the game less seriously make Live Events difficult to deal with but it's easily forgotten when you look at the bigger picture. Congratulations to all of those who labored to solve the puzzles, all who participated for the sake of finding the answers, and ultimately contributed to the storyline and atmosphere.