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11.3


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Missions/Events/Gameplay:

The Machines and particularly Zion receive tips sent through computer terminals, supposedly from the biological interface program, that aid them in countering Wright's program overrides, and even tracking down Wright's broadcast signal. Zion is still trying to locate the biological interface program itself, but it continues to move evasively through the systems of the Matrix.

Wright makes an appeal to Zion, telling them that they should be helping her combat the Machines, so that humans can control the Matrix. Her autocratic tone and indiscriminate slaughter of programs, however, have given Zion cause to be wary of her. (A rivalry, or at least jealousy on the part of Wright, at any rate, may be suspected between Wright and Trinity, or whatever simulation of Trinity the biological interface program is manifesting; it took Wright much work, and deadly miscalculations, to modify the red pill program, which was just part of the extraction routine originally devised by Trinity [in the first movie, when he's shown all the extraction equipment after taking the red pill, Neo asks Trinity "You did all this?" and she replies "Uh-huh"].)

The Machines are fighting Wright directly, mostly through their operatives, although they are making progress on their re-write of core routines that will no longer be vulnerable to the Oligarch overrides. The Cypherites get much practice with the override immunity programs written by Cryptos, and perfect them.

In a final event, Cypherites running their temporary immunity programs manage to lay hands on Wright, damaging and distracting her. If Wright managed to break free, she will try to flee, but is suddenly stunned, dropping to her knees. She is finished off, but her RSI remains. Prompted, is necessary, by a disembodied voice [system broadcast message], players apply a rez program to her body, but it isn't her that stands up: she's been replaced by a slender, shining silver female form. This form looks around, says "it's beautiful...," cries, slumps to the floor, and disappears. This was Trinity.

EPN has still had a hovercraft monitoring the Oligarch network line all this time. They report a sudden increase in traffic along the network, and then all contact with them is lost. Kid makes it back, but has a killer scar across one eye.

The Merovingian, spurned by the interface program, and not caring to risk his own programs against Wright's overrides, has been concentrating on the android body his Sentinels retrieved. With the help of decoded data he'd captured from Ouroboros, he finds that the body is a mechanism designed to be controlled by a human consciousness, somewhat similar to the way in which an RSI is controlled by a human consciousness in the Matrix.

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12.1


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Missions/Events/Gameplay:

03 = Helian (compound Chinese surname)
04 = Tesarova (Czech surname)

Two more glowing human forms appear in the city: Helian and Tesarova. Helian is a confident man, calm but ruthless, intelligent but preferring to rely on superiority rather than subterfuge. Tesarova is a wild woman, using strength, daring, and a quick wit to overpower her opponent.

Trinity manifests to all three organizations (or their sub-organization). Zion wants to help her. The Machines are concerned that she could threaten the simulation, or, more likely, that she will serve as a magnet for trouble from the Oligarchs. The Merovingian would like to control her, but she doesn't trust him, and seems intent upon avoiding him.

The Merovingian comes to her with a proposal. He knows that she is the interface program the Oligarchs seek. From studying the android body, he's guessed that they want a way to "jack in" to a human body, and that Trinity is that means. He offers Trinity escape: he will prepare a living human body in the Real, and she can leave the Matrix, entering the body, where he will protect her with his Sentinels. Trinity refuses the offer.

Helian is straightforward with the Machines. He wants them to aid him in capturing the Trinity program; he says that he will take her out of the Matrix, saving the simulation from her own hack routines, and preventing this world from becoming a ruined battlefield. The Machines agree to this, in a guarded way.

The Merovingian concentrates on creating an alliance with Tesarova, thinking that he can seduce this woman, at least enough to make her a weapon he can use against his foes. He discusses the android body with her, and the desire for a human form, pretending to know more than he really does, both about the Oligarchs and Trinity.

E Pluribus Neo has lost their network outpost, but feel they have enough information from the Oligarch network to be sure of several target locations along the network's lines; severing these lines could cut, or distract, the Oligarch's power. They're about to begin outfitting hovercraft for attacks on the Oligarch network when an older woman appears. She says that this isn't the time, and asks Shimada if she still has the program that the fortune teller gave her. She says that they must keep it safe, and avoid attracting attention from the outsiders.

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12.2


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Missions/Events/Gameplay:

Helian completes negotiations with the Machines. Helian now pursues the Trinity program, with help from the Machines, and opposition from Zion, EPN, and the Cypherites, who do not think that helping Oligarchs is the way to protect the System.

The Merovingian, meanwhile, thinks he has convinced Tesarova to capture Trinity for him. He commits his programs to helping track her down. After the attack by Morpheus, he guesses that Seraph may try his hand to protect Trinity as well. He promises Tesarova that he will remove this obstacle for her; he has coded anti-Seraphic darts out of Seraph's pinfeathers, carefully collected over the years (there was an old Live Event with Malphas and one of the Seraphim about this). These are given to operatives, who hit Seraph with them in a Live Event. Suddenly weakened, he has to flee, but not before mentioning that preventing the Oligarchs from obtaining the Trinity program was not his intent.

Even with Machine help, Helian is obstructed by the other organizations, but distracts them sufficiently for Tesarova to capture Trinity. The Merovingian is holding a party to celebrate the capture, when Helian appears, and Tesarova smiles at him: they've been working together this whole time. The Merovingian, aghast, plays the elegantly polite host, and offers Tesarova some cake, which she accepts. The two laugh, and disappear.

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12.3


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Missions/Events/Gameplay:

Cypherites are relieved that the Oligarchs are gone. Machines are glad about that, and that they've taken Trinity away, too, but the Ouroboros connection is showing another increase in activity. Zion wants to get Trinity back. EPN is mindful of what the woman told them about keeping the encrypted program safe. The Merovingian is having fits about Tesarova tricking him, and is tracking her progress in the Real (the cake is a tracking program--this was revealed in critical missions somewhere around chapter 8). He finds what he guesses is her or Helian's base, but then her signal turns around and comes back.

Helian and Tesarova reappear in the Matrix. This time, they're normal RSIs, not wireframes; they're using the Trinity program's interface, and jacking in from human bodies, not androids. This time they've brought hunter-seeker programs to assist them, though. They want to find the Oracle, and have her make some modifications to the program: they want it to be easier to switch bodies, and to interface with their backup mainframes, and so forth.

Zion puts up a fight. The Machines aren't pleased that they've returned, either, but first try diplomacy with Helian. The Cypherites want the Oligarchs gone.

The Merovingian, meanwhile, is back to work wooing Tesarova, although this time he's just trying to distract her while his Sentinels and operatives locate and surround her hovercraft. He's about to take it out when another, apparent bluepill, woman appears. She tells him that he won't get anything out of Tesarova unless he makes her leave the Matrix, now: the Trinity program was a trap. When he asks why he should trust her, the woman replies that he should know better than that. The Merovingian forces Tesarova to leave.

The Oligarch hunter-seeker programs have been following Seraph. Seraph contacts Veil, telling her to bring the encrypted program the Oracle gave her into the Matrix, to a specific location. The Morpheus sim contacts Shimada with the same message. Veil arrives first, but Seraph is nowhere to be found. She sees the girl, Sati, flickering for a moment in front of a computer, before disappearing. Shimada appears. Just as a message appears on the computer screen, asking them to input their halves of the encrypted program, the Oligarch hunter-seekers attack. A battle ensues, but eventually both parts of the program are input, and the hunter-seekers stop swarming in. Later, a Machine party sent to meet Helian finds his inert body.

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[old] beyond:

- most of the belligerent oligarchs ko'd when Sati unlocks Trin kill-code and it's sent out into the Oligarch network
- some left who hadn't used it yet--power grab for territory between them?
- Trinity is still trapped in the Oligarch network
- Machines at least temporarily free...want to switch to alternate power source? Maybe some do and some don't? Switch and start to let humans out? to where?
- recoding Matrix to protect against Oligarchs, all the Oligarch overrides already executed, lack of restart after all this time etc, = destabilized Matrix? serious problems/abherrations appearing?
- Zero One ruins
- other Machine cities
- Trainman/Oracle

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[new] beyond:


12.1 - 12/18/08
12.2 - 2/12/09 (two week push-back due to winter break)
12.3 - 3/26/09
13.1 - 5/7/09
13.2 - 6/18/09
13.3 - 7/30/09
14.1 - 9/10/09
14.2 - 10/22/09
14.3 - 12/3/09

12.1 - 12/18/08
h&t

12.2 - 2/12/09 (two week push-back due to winter break)
h&t capture trinity

12.3 - 3/26/09
cyph/epn programs activated, h&t inert

13.1 - 5/7/09
ma - weeding out og control
mv - finding the trainman to stop the oracle
zi - trying to get access to machine mainframe

Machines / Cyphs determined to use this opportunity of og downtime to remove og control of Machine core once and for all. Let operatives into mainframe subroutines, have to fight og subs. Gray-suited "clerk" programs.

Merv needs Trainman to access mainframe (Trinity, power, etc), and suspects may be approached by Oracle, who he suspects is about and manipulating things. Into white halls, etc.

Zion sees this as an opportunity to get into the Machine mainframe, and they want to get Trinity back, too. Not as easy as they thought, though, and they find themselves blocked.


13.2 - 6/18/09
og network counter-attack
trainman brings oracle back into matrix
oracle gets zion into machine mainframe

OG counter-attack Machines, sooner than expected, through the network and into the mainframe.

The Merv opens the way for the Trainman to get back into the Matrix, but once he's back, he brings the Oracle with him (Trainman's station construct).

Once back, the Oracle (or earlier w/ Seraph?) shows Zion a way into the Machine mainframe.


13.3 - 7/30/09
fighting in the mainframe
zion gets h's coords from mainframe, epn off to h's
machines beating off og mainframe infiltration

Oligarch/Machine/Zion(/Merv?) fighting in the mainframe. Zion manages to get data on Oligarch locations, including H's domain. Trinity makes contact through the network, but she's confined at H's in Real (Persephone could serve as point for Mervs here). EPN sets off for H's to free her. Machines are having success against the og routines in the mainframe.


14.1 - 9/10/09
ogs in the Matrix, Machine city
sky whiteout(?)
epn releases trinity into network
battle in mainframe approaching source (gold hallways)
machines can't remove og root control

Oligarchs arrive at Machine city, jack into Matrix; overrides white out the simulation's sky. Civilian casualties. Machines losing power. Fighting in the mainframe is approaching the source. Machines having control problems; they can't remove the root control (said by Oracle?). EPN finds most of H's defenses down, frees Trinity into network.

14.2 - 10/22/09
ogs shutting down pods
sunsets getting longer - sati trying to fight it
--vs human subconscious
--Matrix is more than just Machine code--runs on and is in large part shaped by manipulated human brains
--will take a human to free it
trinity into source
machines let human (player) in
player + trinity MERGE --> black room ACTIVATE --> white room RETURN --> Matrix (reset scheduled)

14.3 - 12/3/09
-oligarch control removed
-Machines freed from fear of oligarch interference
-new humans are raised in new Matrix where they can shape their own surroundings,
cared for by Machines
-old humans remain in old Matrix

YAY thank you!

after reading all that stuff in just sounds epic, of course details need to be worked out but I'm glad the two pieces of data were finally worked out. A white sky sounds pretty cool same as for gold hallways, I recall you posting pictures a long time of the black room with different characters in it and now it seems to make more sense. I'm a bit confused on how we would fight inside the mainframe, would that be a construct or what (I like how the trainman thing would have been made accessable or expanded). That and what exactly happens to H, I mean you say his body was inert, but was he dead or just forcibly jacked out, since you take about him later in the mainframe and defenses and such. Or am I just off and H isn't Helian? that and define shape their own surroundings, would they be able to bend the rules like us or just have more say in there lives?

Back to the 2 encrypted datas, it gives me a random flash back to when shadow was first introduced in the sonic games. That and I'm a bit upset I won't be able to see it because I've had been waiting so patiently for them to come back up and now your leaving right a few months before hand :[

overall I like how it was, there all loose ends as neoteny will point out below me but its just an outline, I wasn't a huge fan of some of the wireframe stuff because it was a bit out there, but hey unlimits were to and they had some awesome events. I did like how you wrapped it up though would have been like i said epic!

See, now that's just not fair... basically seems the storyline was ending come the end of the year anyway, but it just sounds so epic even in point form like that

Thanks for giving this to us, Rare, even if I'm even sadder now that we won't be able to experience it.

I'd be lying if I said I wanted things to go the way you have them planned, since there still seems to be no explanation for Trinity, the Oligarchs get erradicated out of nowhere, there's a new Matrix and an Old Matrix for seemingly no reason, and the Machines and Zion are working together why? There's no real resolution to the war (which is still neglected, BTW), the Trainman reappearing out of nowhere, or the Oracle appearing out of nowhere. The Morpheus Sim and Mauser are entirely unaccounted for as are the corporations, to which entire chapters were dedicated to, seemingly in a fruitless manner.

This is why I never cared for the story following 8.2. It just veers and veers and veers and veers until we have Trinity coming out of a computer from some sort of program the Oracle designed that wireframe people want. That just sounds like something that would've been ridiculous back in 4.2, doesn't it?

I appreciate seeing where you were considering taking the story, but I am glad that we are not going there. If we go anywhere, I hope it's away from the whole Wireframe men/Trinity thing and back to the war.

As an aside, (since you had wished that the original LET had done so), do you have any character notes you could provide us with? Any look into the inner psyche or directions of particular characters? This would be very interesting to many of us, I think.

I'm avoiding a lot of points and thoughts atm just to get this one out there:

Shimada isn't dead?

~Darminian

Darminian wrote:

I'm avoiding a lot of points and thoughts atm just to get this one out there:

Shimada isn't dead?

 

 

 

~Darminian

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Rarebit wrote:

I generally didn't take the trouble to go back and update previous chapters if things happened differently than originally drawn up, so there are numerous inconsistences between the outline and what actually occurred in the story as it happened online.

Whoa...WHOA! *WHOA!!!!*

This stuff is so epic... I hope *someone* is able to step in and flesh it out.

MatrixRefugee wrote:

Whoa...WHOA! *WHOA!!!!*

This stuff is so epic... I hope *someone* is able to step in and flesh it out.

Indeed. I think someone should be hired at least to bring all this stuff ingame.

On a sidenote, I don't know if giving us all this outline was wise... I suppose if SOE hired someone for Rare's place, that someone could continue the story based on thise outline. Now it doesn't seem possible anymore, as we already know what's gonna happen... 

new humans are raised in new Matrix where they can shape their own surroundings,
cared for by Machines

This looks like fun.

Sounded pretty epic, especially leading up to the end with the gold halls, sky whiteout and matrix reset.

What intrigues me the most is what would have happened between Man/Machine in the end. Obviously some sort of resolution to the war would've been had (what with man helping get rid of the machines most inherent flaw) but what? Some sort of collaboration on the new Matrix? Would've thought Zion wouldn't be too happy about the concept of any Matrix in general. But who knows, maybe they saw the importance of coexistance in the end.