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Tell me what you remember about past iterations
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i think the best summaries of the iteration were in its events.
a lot of early focus and focus of the iteration proper was the information war between the cabinet and the rebellions at the time. most of the rebellions werent nearly as brazen as anything we'd seen on clockwork, and worked on the basis of slowly establishing themselves in society
a good early example is the Rossi's establishment, which had a neutral-ground pub from day 1 on d47, where some of the cabheads like ravoux used to frequent before their ascensions to office, alongside what would become the heads of various resistance groups.
the BAF were a resistance group that made a lot of moves in blackmail and terrorism, blowing up senators and engaging in various chemical warfare attacks, later merging into the ELA, who would come to control the local resistance in much of Eurasia in place of Lambda, only with an extremist approach
in the arctis and northern scandinavia the recovery of the Borealis was in full swing, and was eventually found through the efforts of the resistance, the state apparatus and the various grey-zone conscripts that might've had swinging allegiance. it's left wholly ambigious since the followup event fo all who boarded never came ( https://nebulous.cloud/threads/borealis-announcement-info-01-11-19.44641/ )
the koreas and japans were ruled by various state-engrained gangs who came to clash over resources and territory to find themselves at a head, where the japans (the kobayashi clan) won out in the end in this 128 slotter also by @Dallas ( https://nebulous.cloud/threads/joseon-announcement-info-23-05-20.49228/ ) after which point they controlled much of the east asia. a notable example being their state approved business monopoly, where they served as the bureaucratic filter under corrupt cabinet leaders. when i ran the crafting faction at the time, the railroad, they also needed a kobayashi authored license to operate in tokyo for the same reasons and this never tethered off. the corruption still served the union, but it was also very much yakuza, allowing a society to be domineered by self-interested people rather than the more direct influence of the authoritarian state
sudan was the first(?) real place to be liberated, along with much of the north africas and the middle east, where guerilla warfare once again proved its might against air supperiority and imperialism, me and @Baker did an event about this ( https://nebulous.cloud/threads/e-n-m-i-t-y.51827/ )
lot of the events that followed after and during were centered around transhumanism. think about how the striders were once a normal creature on their native planet, much of the idea of replacing people with machine parts and replicating them like as if blade-runner, and it inspired a whole line of human looking, normal people transhumans running about, as well as cults and groups of people who were interested in replacing actual humans with machine-parts. dee pixel worked on a lot of this but idk his forum @
he also ran an event about the people that were above the suppression field, and rescuing one of the few children born in the circumstances
the stuff i worked on had mostly to do with the further east of russia, and the turmoil that brewed around the whole east coast, as the kobayashi had taken to almost entirely controlling the japans, and korea was under the same sphere of influence, so did a bunch of resistance fighters eventually wrestled control of vladivostok, prompting the first citadel-explosion, which had a few notable figures sent in to prevent it from wiping out much of the seaboard in "Where Men Go To Die"
the last event i did, which was this one ( https://nebulous.cloud/threads/finis-coronat-opus-2021-09-03.56378/ ) was pretty shit, but it was more or less a wrapup of the spheres of influence and battle-lines changing as the world was slowly swallowed by more and more singularities and resistance-controlled cities, which i think was kind of followed up at least in identity by the likes of @Appetite Ruining Kebab 's iteration much better than i'd done it
this is all the stuff i can remember off the top of my head for a general lore overview and oddities. we still have some european and american centric stuff like the FREE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, which had managed to acrue most every active serviceman in the western U.S into one authoritarian state which hadn't been nuked out of orbit simply because every detractor that part of the U.S would simply wander away from the occupied cities and cease to be a problem due to the non-aggression pact
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oh yeah also blue street. me and @chronos made a group together where the whole concept centered around never taking off your bluesuit, because if you had 20 people in a crowd and everyone wore a bluesuit you'd never be able to accurately identify the perpetrator. their greatest tool of oppression was their weapon, most people were plumbers or people who went to their workshifts etc, normal people
eventually i claimed a street and then started shooting any cop who walked onto that street for about a week, doing an additional shooting every day until it was recognized as independent land. no declaration was ever made, but we did have several resistance groups join us in occupying and boarding it up for about a week until we ran out of ammunition. i dont know where this works into lore, but its probably an important landmark in player-driven initiatives without OOC preplanning, and also ingame a good sign of the working class rising up.
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here's what I remember about Helix 1.
we started out in D47, early into occupation. a few gangs rose up, there was a big clash between the main two, the Vipers and Liberty. after them there was Rossi's group ran by @Powley doing their thing. the BAF had clashes with a guy named with 'DJ' who was actively snitching to CAB, he was played by @Roman Loaded and that all ended in a big bloodbath in the D47 warehouse, with (if memory serves) the BAF escaping through the window of the warehouse and leaving the map.
as nexus mentioned faces like Huxley and Ravoux, early in the servers life would be seen chilling at Rossi's. Their stories would end head to head against each other, Humanist vs Transhumanist, with Ravoux ending up either dead or a rogue AI in Antartica depending on who you ask.
The who Ravoux thing ended up being done at the behest a deep state rebel group called Cerebellum who I still to this day know nothing about, @Dallas
Italian mafia were the highlight of I17. ran by @chronos there was a whole range of different characters. Chrissy died in a massive shootout with the cops alongside Joe Romano and some other fellas. my Italian was the last man standing and ended up being assassinated by a resistance radio host and 'peaceful' vortigaunt scientist, Tel'Vurr @Chezburger , with his suicide vest failing to detonate.
Tel'Vurr led the second most prominent resistance group, a scientific group focused on peace, they made a bunch of cool shit including drones and stuff but red tape would always ruin their cool shit. Tel'Vurr always touted peace and love but it was bullshit he was eating people on the down low.
Sam Bryden @Nathant18 had another group that was quite important, they also did some cool kidnapping missions against CAB with not tiger but again red tape ruined it.
@Numbers Aaron Leonard was a cool fella, became the prime minister at some point and focused on establishing a base on Mars, which ended up being successful, there's a cool Union base on Mars. he also killed the antlion king
self plug but Renjiro Carapic became Renjiro Kobayashi during Joseon and defeated a major Korean in a duel, then became a cool rebel guy that did some stuff
Dee Pixel had some vortigaunts and rebels visit the actual Vortal homeworld.
There was an evil essence thief vortigaunt called the malefactor who made various appearances in different events.
Barney made a feature
I might remember more later
we started out in D47, early into occupation. a few gangs rose up, there was a big clash between the main two, the Vipers and Liberty. after them there was Rossi's group ran by @Powley doing their thing. the BAF had clashes with a guy named with 'DJ' who was actively snitching to CAB, he was played by @Roman Loaded and that all ended in a big bloodbath in the D47 warehouse, with (if memory serves) the BAF escaping through the window of the warehouse and leaving the map.
as nexus mentioned faces like Huxley and Ravoux, early in the servers life would be seen chilling at Rossi's. Their stories would end head to head against each other, Humanist vs Transhumanist, with Ravoux ending up either dead or a rogue AI in Antartica depending on who you ask.
The who Ravoux thing ended up being done at the behest a deep state rebel group called Cerebellum who I still to this day know nothing about, @Dallas
Italian mafia were the highlight of I17. ran by @chronos there was a whole range of different characters. Chrissy died in a massive shootout with the cops alongside Joe Romano and some other fellas. my Italian was the last man standing and ended up being assassinated by a resistance radio host and 'peaceful' vortigaunt scientist, Tel'Vurr @Chezburger , with his suicide vest failing to detonate.
Tel'Vurr led the second most prominent resistance group, a scientific group focused on peace, they made a bunch of cool shit including drones and stuff but red tape would always ruin their cool shit. Tel'Vurr always touted peace and love but it was bullshit he was eating people on the down low.
Sam Bryden @Nathant18 had another group that was quite important, they also did some cool kidnapping missions against CAB with not tiger but again red tape ruined it.
@Numbers Aaron Leonard was a cool fella, became the prime minister at some point and focused on establishing a base on Mars, which ended up being successful, there's a cool Union base on Mars. he also killed the antlion king
self plug but Renjiro Carapic became Renjiro Kobayashi during Joseon and defeated a major Korean in a duel, then became a cool rebel guy that did some stuff
Dee Pixel had some vortigaunts and rebels visit the actual Vortal homeworld.
There was an evil essence thief vortigaunt called the malefactor who made various appearances in different events.
Barney made a feature
I might remember more later
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I still have media saved from the Helix 1 era and before. I think we went D47->C08->i17->??? throughout 2019? I quit around in November of that time so anything past that is a mystery
Random assortment of images that may spark enough nostalgia in some people to tell some stories or bring up memories, though I mostly have the cop side of things;
Plus over 20 pages of forum conversations that might shed light on what was happening at the time if anyone would want a peek
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Random assortment of images that may spark enough nostalgia in some people to tell some stories or bring up memories, though I mostly have the cop side of things;
Plus over 20 pages of forum conversations that might shed light on what was happening at the time if anyone would want a peek
edit: fixed the images
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<:: MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNMENT: DEATH TO TRAITORS ::>
By: Premier Zing Li, City 17
Date: 06/07/27
In the most recent days, the Government has undertaken a campaign to identify and capture the terrorist Mr. Five by Fives, also known as "Colin" and "The Colonel." Mister Colin had been found of undertaking terrorist activity such as the recent clinic bombing is District 21 along with human trafficking and murder.
Mister Colin was previously known to be a Chef and only has only leg, the other which is a prosthetic. Colin is currently wanted, dead or alive, by the Government. Furtherly, information leading to his arrest or death will be rewarded with 25,000 tokens.
The populace is reminded that inaction in such a situation could lead to further deaths by his hands. Any information can be forwarded to the government through the intranet.
SHRED THE FLESH
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA
DEATH TO TRAITORS
By: Premier Zing Li, City 17
Date: 06/07/27
In the most recent days, the Government has undertaken a campaign to identify and capture the terrorist Mr. Five by Fives, also known as "Colin" and "The Colonel." Mister Colin had been found of undertaking terrorist activity such as the recent clinic bombing is District 21 along with human trafficking and murder.
Mister Colin was previously known to be a Chef and only has only leg, the other which is a prosthetic. Colin is currently wanted, dead or alive, by the Government. Furtherly, information leading to his arrest or death will be rewarded with 25,000 tokens.
The populace is reminded that inaction in such a situation could lead to further deaths by his hands. Any information can be forwarded to the government through the intranet.
SHRED THE FLESH
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA
DEATH TO TRAITORS
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I have found some screenshots and pose-recreations of some of my old Renjiro worksheets in helix 1.
because I am rarely trusted I was not able to get staff, but I was able to get observer when I made workshifts so I basically used it as an excuse to make faux events, I'll recollect them as best as I can
first ever workshift on Renjiro
pose recreation but it looked just like this basically
I made this big prop build in the i17 apartment basement, made it look like a flood of xenian fluid and had the workers pump it up.
workshift 3 - deep sea cable
pose recreation but it looked just like this. Renjiro used a CWU submarine to take 4 workers and 4 cops down to the ocean floor to repair a deep sea cable. I made this big sand box surrounded by black panels to emulate the ocean floor, was fun.
workshift 4
real screenshot, made a portal in an apartment that was a gravity anomaly, had cops stick a stunstick in it to destroy it and clear up the wreck.
real screenshot, I wanted an excuse to use the cool black mesa walker models, so I set up this big box in the event box, had staff change players models to these walkers and had them lay traintracks, was real fun.
CWU FUNDED FISHING TRIP BABY!
I wanted to do some role-play fishing. So I found a cop that liked me @Numbers and told him I wanted to do a shift. got two people I trusted. Genjo Fan @Trains and Takeshi @john and we went on a nice peaceful fishing trip. doing simple rolls to decide the fish. near the end Trains rolled like 98 so I asspulled an ichythosaur attacking, and everyone using the cops weapons to kill the big fish. one of my favourite rp memories
one of my favourite shifts, the image on the right is a real screenshot, I made a build of a overloading dark energy reactor and had citizens go inside to help deal with it, but FOR SOME REASON Renjiro refused to enter and only used an old robot to help, even though it TOTALLY WASNT DANGEROUS
because I am rarely trusted I was not able to get staff, but I was able to get observer when I made workshifts so I basically used it as an excuse to make faux events, I'll recollect them as best as I can
first ever workshift on Renjiro
pose recreation but it looked just like this basically
I made this big prop build in the i17 apartment basement, made it look like a flood of xenian fluid and had the workers pump it up.
workshift 3 - deep sea cable
pose recreation but it looked just like this. Renjiro used a CWU submarine to take 4 workers and 4 cops down to the ocean floor to repair a deep sea cable. I made this big sand box surrounded by black panels to emulate the ocean floor, was fun.
workshift 4
real screenshot, made a portal in an apartment that was a gravity anomaly, had cops stick a stunstick in it to destroy it and clear up the wreck.
real screenshot, I wanted an excuse to use the cool black mesa walker models, so I set up this big box in the event box, had staff change players models to these walkers and had them lay traintracks, was real fun.
CWU FUNDED FISHING TRIP BABY!
I wanted to do some role-play fishing. So I found a cop that liked me @Numbers and told him I wanted to do a shift. got two people I trusted. Genjo Fan @Trains and Takeshi @john and we went on a nice peaceful fishing trip. doing simple rolls to decide the fish. near the end Trains rolled like 98 so I asspulled an ichythosaur attacking, and everyone using the cops weapons to kill the big fish. one of my favourite rp memories
one of my favourite shifts, the image on the right is a real screenshot, I made a build of a overloading dark energy reactor and had citizens go inside to help deal with it, but FOR SOME REASON Renjiro refused to enter and only used an old robot to help, even though it TOTALLY WASNT DANGEROUS
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release the juicy gossip about tel'vurr up until you left please and thanks
I don't think this Tel'Vurr guy was very wholesome big chungus
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he was an OSD informant since i17, he'd offer information and sometimes get supplies or information back, I think there was a degree of clemency involved if he were to be captured, depending on how useful they had deemed him to be
he shared information on people, groups, their supplies if possible
it started to tone down a lot near the end, wasn't too much we could offer eachother but the options were always open
the only people that knew, to my knowledge, were either in on it, or dead
To my recollection though he would occasionally feed false info because ultimately he did care, just in a very shitty self serving way, I wish I had explored more of that personality but really I was pleased just having a chance to build magic science shit
His reason was mainly to just play triple agent and in the event of a total resistance wipeout, double agent instead (not that it'd get him anywhere)
Also yeah anyone that died to gas, or in his presence that he didn't know/respect got hauled back to his lab "to be buried" and chopped up into pieces and I'd get another SA to OK giving myself like 4 chunks of human flesh which I'd stuff into my locker for later consumption when I had no food
Stopped happening alot when we had no more gas and when Psi-Tech had a more public laboratory area, but it felt like every other fucking day in i17
I cant remember a lot of other shit with him unless it was real big, I think there was a time some guy heard that Wallace and Tel'Vurr were going to do chemical terrorism in the city and tried to kill us but we killed him or something, more to it than that obviously but I can't recall all the details anymore.
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that bar was THE hub for insurgency in the day
no one liked the cops.
no one liked the wankers who kept coming in every 15 minutes demanding searches.
you have that around the wrong way
DJ (@Roman Loaded) and Kenneth (@slick), plus Akira and a few others were the last remnants of the Basterds gang after @john got gunned down trying to talk to some cops. the BAF started a fire in the warehouse that was their base and butchered a good chunk of the rest, leaving the remnants to hide in the vortigaunt cave like the taliban, only coming out to rat to CAB (@Dallas's Directorate) and shoot BAF provisionals since Roman had one of the few guns in circulation then.
eventually Roman got cornered in a tunnel by 3 gun-wielding BAF members, @Rabid's vort and 20 bystanders so after trying john wick roleplay just sprinted off and was pk'd in the tunnels (hilarious in hindsight). @slick got killed by the directorate (?) after his use ran out, and the vorts tried a soft coup d'etat but backed off after me and martyr killed four of them in the second warehouse skirmish and died when our scarce ammo ran out.
BAF presence lasted throughout the iteration until the ELA were a presence, at one point we claimed we disbanded to hide from a few people and let the provos get butchered in our favour.
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Went through my old PC to scour for some screenshots, plus I've got another PC to go through next week too
Unfortunately I lost the very early Helix 1 stuff like Heavy Snow and such it seems, plus I didn't really take as many screenshots during HL2RP² or Helix 2, and I don't think I got anything from the Linntrix iteration, atleast I didn't find it.
Also for some reason during both WW3RP Stasiland and Joseon I only took ONE screenshot for each, don't ask me why.
I also still have some footage to go through, I got a 2 hour recording of building and leading a event CWU workshift in Helix 1, plus the entirety of the Geneva Golf Race too (@Trains)
This is gonna take a while isn't it
Unfortunately I lost the very early Helix 1 stuff like Heavy Snow and such it seems, plus I didn't really take as many screenshots during HL2RP² or Helix 2, and I don't think I got anything from the Linntrix iteration, atleast I didn't find it.
Also for some reason during both WW3RP Stasiland and Joseon I only took ONE screenshot for each, don't ask me why.
I also still have some footage to go through, I got a 2 hour recording of building and leading a event CWU workshift in Helix 1, plus the entirety of the Geneva Golf Race too (@Trains)
This is gonna take a while isn't it
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was ante devilium dee pixel's old project? i remember it being really goodWent through my old PC to scour for some screenshots, plus I've got another PC to go through next week too
Unfortunately I lost the very early Helix 1 stuff like Heavy Snow and such it seems, plus I didn't really take as many screenshots during HL2RP² or Helix 2, and I don't think I got anything from the Linntrix iteration, atleast I didn't find it.
Also for some reason during both WW3RP Stasiland and Joseon I only took ONE screenshot for each, don't ask me why.
I also still have some footage to go through, I got a 2 hour recording of building and leading a event CWU workshift in Helix 1, plus the entirety of the Geneva Golf Race too (@Trains)
This is gonna take a while isn't it
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I swear I rmemeber watching a video where that exact thing happened, 4 long time characters and shit.
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Just as heads-up for anyone who's seeing broken embeds, you can view them proper again by posting their URLs on discord and looking at the embeds there.I still have media saved from the Helix 1 era and before. I think we went D47->C08->i17->??? throughout 2019? I quit around in November of that time so anything past that is a mystery
Random assortment of images that may spark enough nostalgia in some people to tell some stories or bring up memories, though I mostly have the cop side of things;
Plus over 20 pages of forum conversations that might shed light on what was happening at the time if anyone would want a peek
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Which I'll use as a segue for an inquiry. The coconut fella here (the classic super soldier synth that is) seems to have a tagline CMB-Λ.SYNTH-SKR198. Most of it is pretty legible (CMB being Combine, Λ specifying the type of synth, 198 being unique ID), but I'm curious. What does SKR mean? I'm inclined to believe it's an abbreviation, but what could it be an abbreviation for? Seeker is the only English word that comes to mind.
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