PBlade wrote:
Troy Hewitt. Heh, there's a name... good old Aether.So many memories, and so many missed opportunities.
Troy Hewitt. Heh, there's a name... good old Aether.
So many memories, and so many missed opportunities.
So thats who must have played The Merovingian at our 1st Annual Club Hel Party in May 2005
Many of the "Imps" were there that night: Merv, Persephone, Flood, Xbalanque*, and Niobe.
Rarebit, do you remember this and if so did you get to play any of these guys and if so which one?
*Xbalanque was Merv's bodyguard at the time. Supposedly he had a twin brother Hunahpu (both named after the Maya Hero Twins from mythology). I dunno what happened to them.
Also Rare do you remember these characters? I only have a couple pics of Xbalanque from that night:
(Not much of a character model, just slightly bigger than standard large male. Gargy size perhaps?)
Anyways I always wondered about that...
(And to reiterate what I said on the ty thread, thanks again for attending every single subsequent annual soire...'06, '07, '08...It really meant a lot to us! Our 2009 wont be the same w/o you. Good times!)
I didn't do events with the Monolith LET. I was just doing missions at the time, and the LET was kind of doing their own thing. I didn't start doing events until September 2005 (Death of the Destroyer), when we'd come over to SOE and the LET wasn't around to do them.
Xbalanque's shoes are not familiar to me. Interesting.
Rarebit wrote:
Ah. No record of Xbalanque I take it then.
Villemar_MxO wrote:
I know that there's a screenshot of Persephone flanked by Hunahpu and Xbalanque somewhere. It was from an early Monolith event, where they showed up at a dance. I believe the dance had something to do with Scorpia and cancer (Scorpia was a beta player who sadly passed away during the early months of the live game).
I believe I have that screenshot on one of my CDs, but my PC refuses to run it. The CD appears to be okay, because I can run it on a DVD player I have that can read burnt CDs. My guess is I overburned the CD slightly, because apparently there are some CD drives that have trouble with slightly overburnt CDs.
And there's a third Merovingian Exile from the Monolith days: Xamanek. He was responsible for taking the names of players that wanted to be invited to the Merovingian's party in Club Hel where he celebrated the death of Morpheus. I'm not sure if Xamanek ever appeared elsewhere.
I have the details for all three of these characters in on my site, but you'll have to scroll down a lot, or just use "Find" on your browse.
Xamanek also showed up at a Merovingian-only meeting I held back on Regression. I don't have the log anymore, but we discussed the Assassin, and whether we should claim his work as our doing or not (this is after Morpheus was killed, but before it was revealed that the Assassin's mission was a Merovingian plot).
- Void
EndlessVoid wrote:
Xamanek also showed up at a Merovingian-only meeting I held back on Regression. I don't have the log anymore - Void
Xamanek also showed up at a Merovingian-only meeting I held back on Regression. I don't have the log anymore
monkeymanx8 wrote:
Rarebit wrote:Wright abs:"Compress" (metal meatwad?)"Signal Jamming" (AOE massive def res debuff)Anti-override prototype:orbiting gold code fxgives random of one imm: Accel, Decel, RunSo... Wright can drop Runtime bits too?
Wright abs:"Compress" (metal meatwad?)"Signal Jamming" (AOE massive def res debuff)Anti-override prototype:orbiting gold code fxgives random of one imm: Accel, Decel, Run
So... Wright can drop Runtime bits too?
Is Rare gone yet? I was just looking for a bit of confirmation on these notes, as I've never heard of Wright dropping a Runtime bit.
Mauser having jacks was the largest continuity error I made that I'm aware of to date. I assumed he had jacks when I wrote up the part about Wright getting into him, and in the Merv crit where Merv operatives investigate the sack of Zion, in which Mauser was caught on Sentinel cam sneaking through the rubble with Lock, Flood described the footage as showing a man with jacks in his skin, and both Flood and Malphas referred to Mauser as an "operative."Later, when I was re-watching the Colt/Mauser/Roland scenes in preparation for bringing Mauser (actually Wright) in as an actual game character, I finally noticed that he didn't have jacks in his film scenes. :o I don't think anyone had pointed it out on the forums. I did a stealth edit of the archived version of the mission, Merv 8.3.1, "Among the Missing," in May 2008, changing three lines: Flood 1, original:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man with jacks in him stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 1, revised:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 2, original:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; the jacks in his skin indicate that the man was an operative, and the Machines will have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Flood 2, revised:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; they'll have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Malphas, original:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his operative name is "Mauser."Malphas, revised:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his name is "Mauser."After that fix, Mauser showed up in the Matrix, and a lot of the story characters took great enjoyment in pointing out that he didn't have jacks. In the initial shock of realizing that he didn't have jacks, after I'd thought he had and included it in that one chapter 8 Merv crit, I was worried that it ruined the Wright-in-Mauser story. But a jack is merely a physical interface that facilitates an electrical current, and in the massive short in the Mjolnir II's jack-in systems caused by the simultaneous viral destruction of Zion's systems, to which the Mjolnir II was connected, and the entry of Wright's consciousness into their ship, the intensity of current involved could have just as well have conducted through human flesh, which isn't all that bad a conductor anyway. Whew. >_> While I'm not at all pleased that I made the error initially and had to revise the mission text, in the end I think I like her going into someone without holes better, since it's more unexpected...at least, it certainly isn't something I'd have thought of if I hadn't made that mistake and then had to fix it.The way that Wright's end came about ended up making it more difficult to have someone in the story give the full explanation for the Wright/Mauser sequences; Wright ended up being a much more secretive character than I'd imagined initially, and she wasn't about to offer up the explanation, so I would have had to have found ways to have people find clues that would eventually piece it together--could have been very long running as a backstory puzzle, if I'd ended up doing it that way. Wright had covered her tracks by completely incinerating Mauser's body when she (still in Mauser's body) hoverjacked Carlyne, rode his Oligarch interface into the Matrix, and let his ship crash on the surface.
Mauser having jacks was the largest continuity error I made that I'm aware of to date. I assumed he had jacks when I wrote up the part about Wright getting into him, and in the Merv crit where Merv operatives investigate the sack of Zion, in which Mauser was caught on Sentinel cam sneaking through the rubble with Lock, Flood described the footage as showing a man with jacks in his skin, and both Flood and Malphas referred to Mauser as an "operative."
Later, when I was re-watching the Colt/Mauser/Roland scenes in preparation for bringing Mauser (actually Wright) in as an actual game character, I finally noticed that he didn't have jacks in his film scenes. :o I don't think anyone had pointed it out on the forums. I did a stealth edit of the archived version of the mission, Merv 8.3.1, "Among the Missing," in May 2008, changing three lines:
Flood 1, original:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man with jacks in him stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 1, revised:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 2, original:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; the jacks in his skin indicate that the man was an operative, and the Machines will have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Flood 2, revised:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; they'll have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Malphas, original:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his operative name is "Mauser."Malphas, revised:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his name is "Mauser."
After that fix, Mauser showed up in the Matrix, and a lot of the story characters took great enjoyment in pointing out that he didn't have jacks. In the initial shock of realizing that he didn't have jacks, after I'd thought he had and included it in that one chapter 8 Merv crit, I was worried that it ruined the Wright-in-Mauser story. But a jack is merely a physical interface that facilitates an electrical current, and in the massive short in the Mjolnir II's jack-in systems caused by the simultaneous viral destruction of Zion's systems, to which the Mjolnir II was connected, and the entry of Wright's consciousness into their ship, the intensity of current involved could have just as well have conducted through human flesh, which isn't all that bad a conductor anyway. Whew. >_> While I'm not at all pleased that I made the error initially and had to revise the mission text, in the end I think I like her going into someone without holes better, since it's more unexpected...at least, it certainly isn't something I'd have thought of if I hadn't made that mistake and then had to fix it.
The way that Wright's end came about ended up making it more difficult to have someone in the story give the full explanation for the Wright/Mauser sequences; Wright ended up being a much more secretive character than I'd imagined initially, and she wasn't about to offer up the explanation, so I would have had to have found ways to have people find clues that would eventually piece it together--could have been very long running as a backstory puzzle, if I'd ended up doing it that way. Wright had covered her tracks by completely incinerating Mauser's body when she (still in Mauser's body) hoverjacked Carlyne, rode his Oligarch interface into the Matrix, and let his ship crash on the surface.
Seriously, this is the crap he's been forcing down your throats since Chadwick left? I'm glad I haven't bothered to get caught up.
Foxxdie wrote:
Rarebit wrote:Mauser having jacks was the largest continuity error I made that I'm aware of to date. I assumed he had jacks when I wrote up the part about Wright getting into him, and in the Merv crit where Merv operatives investigate the sack of Zion, in which Mauser was caught on Sentinel cam sneaking through the rubble with Lock, Flood described the footage as showing a man with jacks in his skin, and both Flood and Malphas referred to Mauser as an "operative."Later, when I was re-watching the Colt/Mauser/Roland scenes in preparation for bringing Mauser (actually Wright) in as an actual game character, I finally noticed that he didn't have jacks in his film scenes. :o I don't think anyone had pointed it out on the forums. I did a stealth edit of the archived version of the mission, Merv 8.3.1, "Among the Missing," in May 2008, changing three lines: Flood 1, original:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man with jacks in him stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 1, revised:Ugh, now the General is uploading his dirty pictures to me... Yes, well... All I can make out from this is a tall, muscular, dark-skinned, and disgracefully dressed man stumbling through debris. I've certainly never seen him before; he can't be that important.Flood 2, original:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; the jacks in his skin indicate that the man was an operative, and the Machines will have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Flood 2, revised:It seems I can't count on competence from anyone; no, not you, [playername]--I gave up on you long ago. But usually Zion's systems work well enough to run a decent data query after you've hacked them. It's a sad state of affairs...Very well, I can see the way the wind is blowing. We'll try for what we need from the Machines; they'll have surveillance records of which Zionite ships were around the old city when they sacked it. That should narrow things down considerably.Malphas, original:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his operative name is "Mauser."Malphas, revised:... Machine records of ship movements around Zion at the time of its destruction were minutely precise. The human with Zion's Commander was a crew member of the Mjolnir II, also known as "The Hammer": a large hovercraft that crashed near the main gate of the city's dock, although the Machines do not record having inflicted significant damage on it themselves. According to our records, his name is "Mauser."After that fix, Mauser showed up in the Matrix, and a lot of the story characters took great enjoyment in pointing out that he didn't have jacks. In the initial shock of realizing that he didn't have jacks, after I'd thought he had and included it in that one chapter 8 Merv crit, I was worried that it ruined the Wright-in-Mauser story. But a jack is merely a physical interface that facilitates an electrical current, and in the massive short in the Mjolnir II's jack-in systems caused by the simultaneous viral destruction of Zion's systems, to which the Mjolnir II was connected, and the entry of Wright's consciousness into their ship, the intensity of current involved could have just as well have conducted through human flesh, which isn't all that bad a conductor anyway. Whew. >_> While I'm not at all pleased that I made the error initially and had to revise the mission text, in the end I think I like her going into someone without holes better, since it's more unexpected...at least, it certainly isn't something I'd have thought of if I hadn't made that mistake and then had to fix it.The way that Wright's end came about ended up making it more difficult to have someone in the story give the full explanation for the Wright/Mauser sequences; Wright ended up being a much more secretive character than I'd imagined initially, and she wasn't about to offer up the explanation, so I would have had to have found ways to have people find clues that would eventually piece it together--could have been very long running as a backstory puzzle, if I'd ended up doing it that way. Wright had covered her tracks by completely incinerating Mauser's body when she (still in Mauser's body) hoverjacked Carlyne, rode his Oligarch interface into the Matrix, and let his ship crash on the surface. Seriously, this is the crap he's been forcing down your throats since Chadwick left? I'm glad I haven't bothered to get caught up.
Your disrespect for the current playerbase of this game in a number of these threads is truly amazing. For some of us, the Rarebit story is what we had and enjoyed. A little consideration for those who didn't get to experience the game back in 2005 would be appreciated. Maybe the time has come for you to leave us in peace because the game will never live up to your expectations and all you're doing is creating enemies and ill will. Let MXO live, in whatever form it has to take now.
Yeah, just like the Pew Pew lazorz.. oh wait, that was Chadwick wasn't it..
Admitedly some of Rare's storyline is not brilliant, but considering he only had Chadwicks outline and an even briefer full storyline outline (Rare said that the Trinity/Neo thing was ok'd early on in MxO) of the story to follow and probably noone to bounce ideas for fleshing out the story off, he didn't do too bad at all. As for the Mauser error.. honest mistake is honest, and the workaround wasn't beyond the realms of Sci-Fi, which is handy considering that Sci-Fi is the basis for the entire franchise.
Can I have ur stuff?
I seriously find myself wishing that I could spawn a series of tangential universes where each person thats been p**sing all over the MxO storyline could be transported back in time and become lead dev, and be responsible for fleshing out the story.
Maybe after they wrote THEIR story, and then had half the community cr*p all over it, they'd get some sense of humility about the challenge of being the storywriter for a game people are obsessed about.
Take it somewhere else Foxx, preferably the toilet...
psilody wrote:
I seriously find myself wishing that I could spawn a series of tangential universes where each person thats been p**sing all over the MxO storyline could be transported back in time and become lead dev, and be responsible for fleshing out the story.Maybe after they wrote THEIR story, and then had half the community cr*p all over it, they'd get some sense of humility about the challenge of being the storywriter for a game people are obsessed about.Take it somewhere else Foxx, preferably the toilet...
No offense, dude, but do you realize that this is a service that we were paying our developers to do? I mean, some of you guys treat it as if this is some favor they're doing for us. No, it's a service we pay for.
Like you've never gone to a restaurant, gotten a meal that wasn't to your liking or gotten bad service and complained about it?
Customer: "Hey, I asked to hold the sauce."Waiter: "You think it's so easy to cook a meal!? Well if you're so smart, why don't you go and cook it yourself?!"
Fen wrote:
No offense, dude, but do you realize that this is a service that we were paying our developers to do? I mean, some of you guys treat it as if this is some favor they're doing for us. No, it's a service we pay for.Like you've never gone to a restaurant, gotten a meal that wasn't to your liking or gotten bad service and complained about it?Customer: "Hey, I asked to hold the sauce."Waiter: "You think it's so easy to cook a meal!? Well if you're so smart, why don't you go and cook it yourself?!"
Actually, we pay to access the game, our subscriptions do not guarantee continuing storyline (either good or poor, depending on users viewpoint, as is immediatly evident) or additional content. If anyone doesn't like it, they don't have to pay/play. Simple really.
Now if the servers were inaccessible for more than the necessary time for maintenance, or if some funtionality of the game was broken and not repaired promptly etc. Then you can complain about the service. By not continuing the story they lose custom, but thats their choice to make.
