The Furious Angels
FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: Anonymous on February 03, 2005, 06:24:40 am
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What the character wipe means to the RPer :)
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I looked straight into the angry brown eyes of the man staring at me … right before I finished him off with a swift jump, twist, and kick to his jaw. After landing on one knee, I took a moment to catch my breath before standing up again. I looked down at the beaten, bloody brute, watching the code swirl and change as the last breath of life escaped from him. That’s one less exile I have to worry about.
My crew was fast asleep in their bunks within my baby, the Carpe Diem. While it was nearly six in the morning, I hadn’t been able to sleep a wink. So I did what I always did when I was upset: I jacked in. The rush of beating the snot out of my enemies was relaxing. I cracked my neck and stepped out of the dark alley into the dim-lit, deserted street on the far west side of the barrens. A few drops of rain began to fall and I felt a small nudge against the back of my neck. I ignored this and began walking down the street towards a hard line, my mind ablaze with the frustrating situations outside the Matix: my new captainship, unstable relationships, issues with allies, and of course the continuous threat of the Merovingian’s brutes and the Machinist slaves. The nudge at the back of my neck turned from a nudge to a pinprick, then into a painful shot that threw me to the ground. What the-!?!
My eyes snapped open, but all I could see was cold, shapeless black. I could feel my hands shaking, but I couldn’t move. I tried to call out; I couldn’t speak.
“Captain? Captain!?” I heard a familiar voice call. The pain in my head was unbearable; I felt numbness and pain at the same time; I felt unconsciously conscious. I heard scuffling around my head, then the pain began to ease. The black in my eyes slowly faded in patches into the dark interior of my ship. My reflexes went spastic for a moment, and then my body hurled itself to the floor. It was disgustingly cold. I felt a hand on my shoulder.
“Captain? Are you alright? What happened?” I looked up into the worried face of my first mate and shook my head. I could feel warmth returning to my arms and fingers, and the air felt suddenly warm. The ground below me swirled into darkness, and I passed out.
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Several hours later I awoke in my bunk to the feel of cold against my forehead. I could hear the anxious voices of my crew whispering nearby. As painful as it was to open my eyes, I forced myself awake and slowly sat up. My first mate was sitting dutifully beside me, his brow wrinkled with distraught.
“How do you feel, Captain?” he said quietly, failing at the attempt to hide the worry in his voice. The cold rag on my forehead fell into my lap.
“I’m alright,” I nodded, handing my first mate the rag. “What happened?”
“Quite a bit, it seems,” he replied, standing. “Come look at this.” Helping me to m feet, he led me out into the ship and towards the disorganized display screens. Sitting down in a chair in front of them, I gazed in wonder at the code scrolling down the flat panels.
“What the hell is this?” I asked.
“We’re not sure, exactly,” my first mate replied. “It looks like the Architect decided to do a little bit of spring cleaning.”
“Is this all different? What’s that?” I pointed to one of the screens.
“That’s some sort of new exile, we think. We haven’t been able to jack in for about three hours.” My first mate paused, took a deep breath and continued. “We lost everything.”
“Excuse me?” I could feel my temper beginning to boil. “What do you mean, ‘We lost everything’?!?”
“I mean the entire system has been upgraded,” he responded, sinking into the chair beside me. “We still have all of our old programs, all of the information stored on discs, but most of it’s useless now. Tons of things have changed; we were getting brick walls left and right for a good hour or so. We are going to have to relearn just about everything.”
“You’ve got to be shitting me,” I sighed, feeling disgustingly defeated. Quietly, I asked, “Could we save anything?”
“Only what you’ve saved mentally. I barely got you out in time. You almost became a permanent attachment to the Matrix.”
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Nice Story Kitten, sounds like your an author hehe
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Damn, how long did you take to type that?! that's a lot....I'll be lucky if I type one line of text. :D
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Mmm good RP aspect of what is to happen. Thanks for the entertainment!
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here is my version
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While walking the slums I felt like checking out the Mara Central hardline. As soon as I got there it exploded into a nuclear mushroom cloud from all the people standing around it for no good reason. The Immense blast quickly traveled across the entire matrix, engulfing everything and everyone. It soon died down, showing the horrors it had caused, but then I woke up.
I went up to the main deck when something caught my eye. I went to check out the matrix feed, when I saw the code take the shape of what looked like a walrus, with sunglasses, and a speech bubble saying “All your levels are belong to us”. I told everyone about what I saw, and they thought I was crazy…..until they jacked in…..
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lmao tizona, that's great haha
actually, i whipped up that story in about 10-15 minutes, at 6am this morning haha. i'm glad you guys like it! :D
i was going to put in names for the first mate and such, but hmmm we haven't elected one .... i need to start that thread .... soon .... how about in a few mintues .... yeah .... ok, i'm on it!
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well, I whiped mine up in * checks stop watch* about 5 mins, as you can tell
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lol funny tizona..id love to see them take server down like that lol
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/ccr that tizona, send it in, maybe they'll do it for april fool's .... how b*tchin would that be?!
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when I first saw the charcter wipe, the first thing I thought was me on top of a building in the slums, then seeing a mushroom cloud explode and start covering everything up, including my RSI, and I say "Damn it man"
so I kind of changed into that thing you just saw
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I have to appologize for being gone the last 3 days, but my 22 month old is sick & eating a lot of my nights up...but I need to know...
Was the patch released?
Is there really a character wipe?
Somebody, anybody, please help me!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: Nevermind...I found it...
/cry
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HERES MY VERSION! hehehe
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From a deep slumber, I was awoken up. A familair figure stood in front of my bunk, Evan.
"Francesca! Get up! Hurry up we need to jack in! Commander ordered an emergency meeting immediatly!"
Immediatly I jumped out of my bunk and ran with Evan to control room of the ship. Everyone was looking exteremly serious, including our first mate Mazda. I instantly knew this was no joking matter since Mazda looking anxious; I haven't seen him this serious in awhile.
"Whats going on Captian?" I asked Pr0z4ck, breathing heavely from aniexty.
"There have been whispers throughout the Matrix thats somethings about to happen. Something big. I do not have any exact infomation about any circumtances, but it seems that this is no good for any one in the Matrix. Commander Tbone has more information. We are all going to jack in and head to club Succubus where most of the ships are already waiting. Ok everyone, Move WITH A PURPOSE!" Pr0z4ck stated.
We flw into our chairs, ready to jack in. Our opertor, looking exteremly nervous had a few last words to say
"Listen, be careful, I'm picking up alot of activity around Stamos. Theres alot of exiles going crazy and Agents are popping up everywhere. Good Luck"
"Shit Agents? I've never fought an Agent before. I was always able to slip by" I said.
"Well lets hope you haven't lost that slickness of yours Francesca." Evan answered.
Suddenly I felt the familiar tingeling sensation, which I still had not gotten use to yet. I opened my eyes and around me was my crew in front of the Stamos hardline. Suddenly another redpill hyperjumped in front of us. To our dismay it was a Collective member. He started laughing and spoke to us
"You Angels have no idea what we have in store for you next. I wonder, after all that hard work, all that team effort, what it will feel like to have everything brought down to nothing"
"We'll be prepared for anything you and the Machines have for us." Pr0z4ck answered sternly.
"You really have no idea whats next do you? Haha I should have known. Well you'll find out soon enough, that is if you make it out of here alive!"
Suddenly from the other side of the street, two Agents appeared, guns drawn ready for battle.
"Oh shit!!" I screamed.
"Evan, Iris, Mazda! Stay with me! Everyone else head the the club immediatly! We have to figure out whats going on! We may be in for something overwhelming! We'll catch up!" Pr0z4ck ordered
"Yes sir! Lets go!" I yelled. We all took off like we were in a track race toward the club. Suddenly I heard a shot that must my right shoulder. I turned to see a pack of exiles running towards us.
"Its all your fault! YOU HUMANS! You'l kill us all!" they shouted
"We cant stay here and fight! We gotta get to Tbone! Everyone spread out so they can't get us all at once!" IMJIce yelled. I hyperjumped atop the building to my right where the bullet hole had seemly "disapeared" by the Matrix coding. On the top were more exiles. I was instantly ingulfed in a hurrican of gunfire. I ran and jumped to the next roof top. Just a block ahead was Club Succubus. I sighed with relief and used all my skills to run and jump as fast as I could.
I finally reached the rooftop. I jumped to the street bellow and just as I was about to open door, it opened from a hand which I had feared to come across since I had been freed. Dressed neatly in a business suit was my greatest fear. I was frozen with fear. The Agent began to speak.
"It seems your meeting has been cancled." The Agent sarcasticly said.
"What did you do with my crew!" I managed to say.
"You humans who defy our purpose with never win. Now its your turn to learn your purpose" he answered. He pulled out his gun but before he could pull the trigger I managed to come out of my daze and kick it out of his hand. I used everything I could at the Agent, defying my previous fears. I managed to break his glasses and see directly into the program's eyes. His next moves were to fast and to strong. I was unable to compete. He knocked me into the Clubs wall and I fell to the ground.
"Without purpose there is no meaning. You have no purpose, therefor no meaning. Since you have no meaning there is no purpose for your continual exsistence" he said
Before he could strike the final punshing blow, I hyperjump atop the club jumped to the next building. I hid behind a door leading inside. I could not stop breathing heavely. Suddenly my phone rang which made me jump into the ceiling.
:"Jesus Christ! You scared the shit out of me!" I yelled into the phone.
"OK well put on a fresh pair of panies and get to a hardline NOW. You have to jack out NOW. Everyone else is fine don't worry, your the only one left in the Matrix.... SHIT GO NOW"
From down bellow the stairs, two Agents looked up.
"Shit" I muttered to myself"
They began firing upwards. I ran outside and from atop Club Succubus, the Agent I faced hyperjump over to my building. I jumped down to the streets belllow and ran like I had never been able to run before. I could just barely see the hardline. I finally reached it and to my dismay, the Agent faced me.
"As I stated before, you can never win." the Agent laughed
"EAT THIS"
The Agent fell to the ground from a gunshot to the head. Next to him emerged Evan.
"Jesus Christ Evan thanks" I said
"Save it for later were running out of time we only have a few seconds left" I had no idea what he meant by that, but rather that quiz him on this any further, I picked up the ringing phone and jacked out.
Everyone stood around me and cheered.
"You are one lucky son of bitch" Mazda laughed.
I rubbed my neck and arms in a fruitless attempt to sooth my pain.
"So whats going on?" I asked.
Pr0z4ck began to explain everything
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THE END!!!! :) :) :)
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heh francesca that wasn't too bad. besides a few grammar issues (okay, a lot haha), and a lil thing "you're the last one in the Matrix" but then BOOM there's Evan .... yeah, that's an interesting perspective of inside the Matrix, cuz it definately would be craziness :)
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I wasn't in it :(
Oh well, batton down your jack-in spikes!
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I finished uploading the broadcast message through the Zion Relay Network and slumped down into my chair, watching as the code flew by. The thought of the agents, and the meeting the other night had scared me, and kept me up the whole night. I had been pretending to sleep to avoid our captain, Grim, from getting angry with me about not sleeping enough. Commander Tbone had ordered the broadcast go out the next morning, where we would ascend closer to the surface for a stronger signal, but I couldn't wait, it had to be done. Something compelled me to.
I glanced over at the captain as she rested in the chair terminal, her vitals making steady beeps, when I see a spike in the neurokinetics, causing her to twitch a bit. I glanced at the code when suddenly a series of new characters began to stream down the screen...first one, and then two, four, sixteen...continuing to increase exponentially, when suddenly the screen became a maelstrom of exploding code, characters being overwritten with the new ones, the downward pattern shifting this way and that.
I jumped in surprise as the vital alarm went off, the captain's body writhing and seizing in the chair. I quickly shot up and shoved the keyboard out of my way as I approached her side.
"Captain?! Captain?!" I cried, quickly keying in things onto the panel next to her head, the emergency jackout sequence executing like clockwork.
There was a squeel from the machine as the letters, "Connection Terminated. Jackout Complete" illuminated the dimly -lit room. I removed the spike as the captain rolled off the bed and onto the floor.
"Captain? Are you alright? What happened?" I exclaimed, my face wrought with worry, shaking her as her spasms slowly eased away, her eyes fluttering open to look up at me before slowly fading away to unconsciousness.
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The captain began to rouse as I moved closer to her, my face and posture stoic, though it showed it was forced.
"How do you feel, Captain?" I said quietly, my voice giving way to a worried tone.
"I'm alright," She nodded, handing me the rag. "What happened?"
"Quite a bit, it seems," I replied, standing up. "Come look at this."
I helped her to her feet, and guided her out onto the Main Deck, sitting her down in front of the various screws of chaotic code. She gazed into the flowing pixels for a moment before she spoke.
"What the hell is this?" She asked, curiously.
"We're not sure, exactly," I replied. "It looks like the Architect decided to do a little bit of spring cleaning."
"Is this all different? What's that?" She pointed at one of the new characters that burned in a corona of light as it phased down the screen.
"That's some sort of new exile, we think. We haven't been able to jack in for about three hours." I hesitated a moment, and drew in a deep breathe before continuing. "We lost everything."
"Excuse me?" I could see the frustration and anger crossing her face as her face flushed red. "What do you mean, 'We lost everything'?!?"
"I mean the entire system has been upgraded," I muttered quietly, slouching down into the chair beside her, her raised voice causing me to understand just why she had been chosen to be captain. She had presence.
"We still have all of our old programs, all of the information stored on discs, but most of it's useless now. Tons of things have changed; we were getting brick walls left and right for a good hour or so. We are going to have to relearn just about everything." I stated matter-of-factly.
"You've got to be shitting me," She sighed, the look of defeat washing away her angered face as she placed her fingers against the bridge of her nose, shaking her head. Quietly, she inquired, "Could we save anything?"
"Only what you've saved mentally. I barely got you out in time. You almost became a permanent attachment to the Matrix." I stated with a resounding truth.
"Get me Commander Tbone. Now." She ordered, as I fumbled quickly at the keyboard, accessing the Relay Network as the words "Connection Established. Relay Initialized" wrote itself across the screen in the familiar green-colored text before the Commander appeared on the screen.
"Captain Grim. I guess you would be contacting me about the data wipe?"
"You would be right, Commander. What the hell happened?" She said, leaning forward a bit to see him clearer.
"We're assembling in the Matrix as we speak. Be careful, though, we seem to have reports of a large amount of machine and exile activity in all areas. Tread carefully, and see you on the other side of the looking glass."
The connection terminated abruptly as the captain plopped back into her chair. She sat quietly for a moment, before she turned her head to look at me. Then, she spoke.
"Kayda, prepare us to broadcast. And also, I need to talk to you about something..." She said breathily.
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haha kayda so you're assuming the role of first mate, eh? we'll see when those votes come in haha
*shivers* i keep forgeting how sickenly horrifying seizures are .... RL i mean, not in the story haha, thanks for reminding me *dirty look* jk ... that was awesome from another point of view, you should definately put that as a follow up to my thread on the main forums (thread has the same name) good good! .... cept REALLY when i contacted tbone there would have been a blown kiss toward the screen or some other random show of love ;) but we gotta keep it G-rated for the kids ;) (if you put it on the main forum, gotta **** out "shitting" .... they did it on mine automatically, not sure if a mod did that or if it was an automatic filter ... meh!)
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It had been weeks since I had originally jacked in aboard the Asperitas. Of course I was supposed to be on the Carpe Diem, but due to a clerical error that is a story in itself. The truth was I had been found by the Merovingian and now I was now made to pay the price for the betrayal of my loyalty to the Frenchman.
During a particular mission I was over run and ambushed, and when I awoke, well … let’s just say that I’ve been living in Hell ever since. I was to pay for the so called ‘crimes’ that I had been causing against Exiles and the Frenchman. But even during my screams of pain during my ordeal, I knew I had to bide my time and survive until the moment for my escape.
Life for me consisted of a cold dark room with only a door and whatever else the Merovingian decided to put me through next.
Soon my patience would pay off.
I was awoken in the usual manner a kick to the gut or my back which was followed immediately by a weak moan from me. This time I saw three guards enter the room which was followed by his voice from the shadows.
“Naughty, Naughty Treylar … you should know better. You were once a loyal servant of mine and now you have been reduced to a traitor.”
I look over and see the Frenchman who is walking towards me with that smug grin on his face that I would give anything to knock off at this point.
“Your capture during one of your … how do you so fondly put it … ‘missions’ was nothing less than perfect. Even your torture for weeks now gives me great satisfaction. I’m always amazed at what you human can live though, but now … I’m most displeased to tell you that everything you have experienced till now has been in preparation for your end.”
He motions to a Club Succubus who walks up to the Frenchman with a silver platter that has an injection needle with a silver-ish looking liquid inside. He picks up the needle and instantly my eyes widen from recognizing what is inside.
“I see that you DO remember what this is. It is the ‘truth serum’ that was given to human captains during the war with the machines for the codes to Zion. You may be able to resist torture, but even you cannot resist this.”
I start to chuckle before I say, “You know Merv … I thought you’d have enough balls to actually finish me off yourself … guess I was wrong about you ...”
The look of shock goes across his face before the Frenchman begins to stutter and shout at me. “I-I-I have no s-s-such need f-for you or your d-d-delusion of grand-d-dure!”
Still smiling I reply back, “Yeah, but at least you don’t have that dumb-ass grin anymore.”
While the three guards were beating on me for my outburst, I notice from the corner of my eye that the door to the room I was in had been left open. Once they stopped playing ‘Mash the Treylar’, and I was left to feel the pain an agony they had inflicted on me, the Frenchman began speaking again.
“I should pump this in your veins regardless for you insolence and leave you to suffer!! But even then I wouldn’t have the satisfaction of knowing that you truly understood what is coming. Because you see there is a system wide upgrade coming and we both know what that means for you in the coming minutes.”
I think to myself … You gotta me shitin’ me! Got to get out now!
In between torturings and beatings I was deep in meditation and storing my strength for my escape, and that time had come.
The laugher of the Frenchman and his guards was broken when they saw me snap up to my feet and give a roundhouse to one of the guards which was followed by the faint snapping of his neck making a small echo in the room.
Next was the guard who was now in front of me. I gave him a power shot to the gut which sent him fly backwards into the Frenchman, and after I gave the last one a guardbreaker, quickly ran out of the room slamming the door behind me locking everyone inside.
After slamming the door I noticed my equipment and my cell phone on a table in the hall. I quickly grab it and my two pistols and look for an exit.
I turn around and see the sign for the staircase down the hallway. As I begin to hypersprint to the stairs I see a Brute come around the corner from an adjoining hallway just in front of the door.
The look of confusion was still all over his face when I hit him with a power shot that sends him crashing into the door for the stairs.
“Thanks for holding it for me!”, I say to him as I run past his unconscious body laying on the floor amongst pieces of the door.
Instinctively I run up the stairs and after two floors I find myself on the roof to which I’m greeted by the sounds of two Agents morphing in and drawing their guns towards me.
“As if my day isn’t bad enough!”, I say.
One of the Agents says before both open fire, ”It just got worse.”
I quickly run to the edge of the building and hyper-jump over the side to another building and from there I drop down to street level where I’m greeted by the sight of several exiles storming out from the front of the building where I was being held.
As I turn around to duck behind the corner of the building I jumped from, the two Agents from the roof cut me off and turn back around again and hyper-sprint out from behind the building and see the Exiles now closing in on me from my left as the bullets from the Agents behind me come wising past.
The group of Merovingian’s and the Agents collide with gunfire behind me as I hyper-jump back to the roof of a building and start going from roof top to roof top for several blocks before landing back down on street level, and completely exhausted.
Looking around for a phone booth I flip open my cell phone.
The voice on the other end was a welcoming sound, “What are you doing still ….”
“I need an exit! NOW!!” I yell into the phone as I pick a street to run down that leads away from where I left the groups that were following me.
“Where are you … Oh shit! Agents closing fast on your position, and gang of … Exiles. Who the hell did you piss off!?” the voice says.
“You’re the Operator … you find me! Just get me the hell out of here!” I yell back.
I look over my left shoulder and see several more Agents land behind me, and as turn to look over my right shoulder I see another gang of Exiles emerging from an alley.
“Ok, I got you.” The voice in the phone says. “And jump now!”
I hyper-jump to a nearby building to avoid the cross fire from the pursuing Agents and the mob of Exiles, and as I land on the building I begin to think to myself.
“Yeah, I’m going to jack for a little bit and do a few missions before bed. How did it go from that to being captured by the Frenchman and now getting my ass shot off? This was NOT in my travel guide!”
The voice in the phone interrupts my thoughts.
“You’re approaching the hardline. It’ll be across the street after you come around the corner. Get off the roof! The Exiles are coming up!”
Instantly I jump down to street level and see the phone after rounding the corner now with the Agents in hot pursuit.
Being almost completely exhausted of all my inner and mental strength I force myself to hyper-sprint to the hardline one last time and jack out before the receiver is destroyed.
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