Napalm Riot

of jumpstarting OS's.

Im not talking about the raw starting. Im talking about installation for us normal folk who dont want to use a solaris jumpstart server or network booting.

Im talking about the ability to mount ISO's on the fly during install for OS's.

that way you could just stuff all yoru discs on a usb drive and off you go.

woe the multi cd change install. your death knell should be sounding!!!

and.. such.

Hi guys. I wrote this scenario for a few mates, who are part of my regular r/p crew.

Its their fisrt time in cyberpunk. so I didnt want to mess them up as badly as I normally would. My first draft of this was a lot harsher, and just wound up with the team more than likely either dead or withdrawing frm the area.

This isnt a standard cyberpunk world, ive made it up out of Cyberpunk and SLA Industries, with a healthy dose of fallout into the mix.

Let me know what you think?


Synopsis
=========

pcs are grouped together in one area of town.

[Kenpainon] cover company Kenwords Pharmaceuticals[KP] experimenting on mutants.

Terrorism by rival corp (Enfield) releases mutants.

Mutants spread out through surrounding areas (Mostly Kenpainon's housing complexes.)

Kenpainon Corp Sec are mobilised to contain and purge outbreak.

City police are notified through unofficial channels something might be happening
and to contain (a)'s residential blocks. Stop anyone leaving.

Corp secs orders are to purge and destroy mutants, THEN anyone not working for kenpainon Or subsidiaries who see mutants.


corp sec are mostly full borg/armoured individuals with high calibre weapons.


PC's get caught in middle and must make a tough choice.





Expanded Back Story
====================


Enfield motivate a small group of anti corpers to deface an area in the Kenpainon district. the orchestrate the situation by leading it.

One Corper "Blaize" prods the rabble. She's a corp agent that happens to be in a volatile ripper gang. A useful pawn for the security division of Enfield.


The ensuing riot gains support as it rips through the lower sector of the town. Done subtley its a good distraction for the Kenpainon security, who respond with typically ruthless force.

Soon the scrub teams are sent to their vehicles and a few depart to pick up wounded.

This is the trigger for the covert team to infiltrate the KP facility.

Entering in therm neutralising combats, to mask their heat signatures on the camera's, they quickly gain control of important bottlenecks and structures within the building.

A pro jacker seeing them get in, bides his time. Once the team are past the perimeter he pulls the feeds offsite, dropping video surveillance from inside and external visibility from the net.

Blind and forces already stretched the kenpainon response teams scramble from their base, 2 choppers, and some ground pounders in apcs.

Theyre too late however. Pushed, they scream through the city towards the facility, just as the exterior wall is blown out. A sonic device screams incoherent high pitch static through the lower floors, vomiting the freed experiments out into the surrounding suburbia.

Corp sec arrive on scene and drop an iron cordon around their residential district as well as the facility and stalk through the area, blowing away most of the experiments, by combined force of arms.

The resulting firefight between the mutants and corps sec attracts the media ttention, which the corp are already throwing money into covering up, but a few media choppers chance the KenPainon air cordon to get some footage, which is also suppressed.

The entire incident is over inside two days, normal policing remains high for a month. KP play this entre event down as a random act of terrorism, blaming the riot for the damage.




Of Course, the PC's dont hear or see any of this. I guide their path through the story


There will be various reasons for being on this side of town. If the PC's know each other, theyre going there for a job offer. A broker (fixer) for jobs, wants to offer them a mission.Theyre on their way when the shit hits the fan.

If they don't know each other, there wil be various reasons.

The cop is on foot patrol there. The others are shopping. whatever.

In any case:

Encounter 1 Niggling doubts.

Big long stream of traffic comes down the street theyre all on. way too many cars. Naturally curious there are blue lights up ahead, they follow.

The PCP are broadcasting a message saying the district is being evacuated. employees stay in their homes etc. The cops have no information, theyre just doing their job. which is clear the streets if your travel is non essential. The PC's can choose to stay theres nothing illegal, and they do have that big meeting. Money. greed. etc. etc.


Encounter 2 Worrying pains

going further into the district, streets are noticeably emptier. They meet the stragglers from the riot coming home. theyre in dribs and drabs, boasting about some massive victory over the corps. Bla bla. However, the police are hot on their tail, making talking difficult. If the PC's talk to the PCP without good reason theyre rioters and will be under suspicion for aiding and abetting. The riot division have been dispatched and NO ONe hangs around. This shoud push the PC's towards the other end of the district where the real danger is.


Encounter 3 Surface of the wound

The PC's find a very confused mutant. Its not up for conversation, and will attack anything it sees. Luckily its already pretty heinously wounded, and the PC's can kill it with little bother. But its trail of destruction leads to Corp Sec, who will patrol down the street just after the PC's have wasted the mutant. If any of them are with Kenpainon the group will be roughly safe. however its unlikely and if theyre not company, they might be the terrorists. basically if theyre Not corp, they should get the message from the mutant that these guys are playing for keeps and run like hell.


Encounter 4 A buttload of asskicking

Reports of high calibre weapons are going off. Pretty advanced stuff as the PC's realise the fights on its way to them. Soon after 3, they find themselves across from a tall block building. A Corp sec borg unit has engaged a group of mutants that seem to be working together. The thre borgs are in a sorry state anyway, one is down, the second looks like its doing well letting bursts of chaingun fire rip off from a fore arm mounted weapon. The mutants are having none of it though and ripping out a lampost the last remaining one beats the second to death, literally punding him flat into the pavement. It turns round, spots the PC's makes a charge and the final borg unit fries it.

Encounter 5 We love you Ahrnuld!

The borg wastes no time in crawling over to the PC's. They can do what they like, but basically the Borg is on the edge of cyberpsychosis and doesnt care, because theyre not mutants. It tells them a bit of the in story in the process but lets them know that there are probably more of these things out there. The borg itself is wounded anyway. (disrepair?) And the PC's will be able to just leave it for extraction, which its already signalled for.

The Borg cant really be bothered fighting and the PCs did sort of buy it the time it needed to finish teh last mutant, so it lets them go. The entire zone is plastered with the bodies of the mutants and some of the soldiers. The players have a few minutes to look around and poke the mutants. at which point they might notices the mutants have been played with by KP.

A few stragglers will come out of the woodwork, Forcing the players to fight. If they do badly, the borg will fire its last rounds from its assault cannon, to take out a few.

If they hang around KP will show up, cart the borg off and give the PC's a reward, with a big fat NDA. Then offer them jobs as trouble shooters for them.

If they run off, They can make it out, probably by hiding and sneaking.

However in the days following, they'll be contacted by KP Through a broker with a lesser amount and again an NDA. If they refuse, they'll be kidnapped and get no money Or be shot. Whatever works best.

Goddamn it. Im building a laptop for my girlfriend. because it keeps her off mine, mostly.

Ive found some parts that i've -liberated- from work, which we were told to scrap anyway. Ive rebuilt the suker all apart from the screen.

I order a dell lattitude d610 screen. it arrives today, with the wrong fricking connector. I had a poke around to see if I could haxX0rz it together. but no luck. the film over the top of a laptop screen actually protects the wafer ribbon that carries the data to the pixels.

what a bastard. Back it goes, never mind.

Yes. I haz it.

I love it actually. Picture the scene.


ERRR ERRR ERRR We've got this server that can't see more than 2 Tb, and we've got a 7tb sas array, and it cant see it whats happening,the arrays says its there but it cant see it... big customer... install on friday... err err err! err err errr!!!!!!!!


mmm. why don't you convert it to GPT. Its using MBR at the moment, so thats why youre breaching your theoretical disk size limit.


.....-silence-........


Ah.. bisto.

I am split. Split, like the revenge. split, on an issue of increasing annoyance.

Roleplaying, in mmo's.

Now, don't get me wrong. Im not a power player. I dont live for PvP, never have, never will. Why oh why, I hear you ask. Well, I suppose because basically I take umbrage at being beaten by some snot nosed twelve year old, who has nothing better to do everyday than skip class so he can spend most of his life online playing the game I love as well, so he can hunt for epix. I have a life and dont see why I should be penalised for it in a virtual world.

initial rant over.

I do like role playing. have ever since I was six, and my father introduced me to warhammer fantasy battle mark 2, when they actually had decent stories for the campaigns. There is nothing I like better than to get in character and play whatever I want to play in any game I play. My beef is:

Why is nobody ever content with playing the character archetype, theyre handed?? surely we bought the frigging thing, because we liked the game worls, so why is it dwarves can't love to get pissed and hit rocks with hammers. Why is it they have to be steeped in some emotional angst every minute of every day? I tell you. the virtual world is tiring stuff. These servers should be full of pseudo emo elves and dwarves, hatcheting their own forearms to pieces because their pretend parents commited suicide,(which he later finds out was instituted by a CHAOS SORCEROR! HARHAR!!)

My most recent target for bile is a sorry young chap over at www.warhammeralliance.com, who seems to think he can get away with playing a "smart" orc. Listen sonny. Theyre stupid. Thats the point. If you want to play a big green stupid killing machine in the warhammer world, you play an orc. If you want to be clever. you play a snidey little gutter clever goblin,or one of the other races who actually has a brain bigger than one of their fists.

ffs.

I wake up at 8 am.

Somedays its earlier, but the mean value is 8.

I shower and dress. by now its 8:23, and I must leave my flat for work.

arrive at work by 8:30.


...........~@&%^$£(" USERS HAPPEN...........



5... 6... 7...8 pm, I get to go home.

I come in, drop my bag on a convenient chair and change out of my uniform.

With a short break to eat with my girlfriend, I sit in front of my PC, drooling onto my xbox360 controller and answering emails or whatever, until its time to pass out. usually well after sadi significant other.

I wonder if this is common, or wether im doing something unusual. as im attracting flak from many quarters. i dont -want- to go out. I dont -want- to do anything. becaus ein the back of my mind is tomorrow at 8 am when I have to get up again to do this all over.

I personally feel as if this is just real life. this is the way it is, this is the daily routine of an engineer. I just cant prove it to myself. eveyrone else in my department does as many if not more hours. so if the companies shit i need a new job, yes, I -know- this.

anybody else do the same sort of thing?

Right.

In the last month, as youre all aware, I bought an xbox 360.

Ive now completed:

Gears of War
Assassins Creed
Mass Effect (On 2 of the three major character types)


And nearly that stupid sonic game I kept to keep the girlfriend happy.


MOAR! I REQR MOAR GMZ! MTHFKRZ!!!1!


However, of the titles out there there are only a few that actually interest me.


Army of Two: Awesome game play but i think it could get samey.

Kane and Lynch: Well, I like the idea of this. However, when I played the demo (Ta sexboxlive) I was frankly un captivated. The graphics were great (very matrixian scene in the meeting room I thought, with the pillars that got shot up.)

And I really liked the idea that the demo was the prequel to the game.

However, the characters are about as durable as tissue paper in a fire hose testing range. Which i suppose you might argue means "dont get shot" but for some reason, even when playing properly, nt running in like a twat, I still got shot to bits by every man in the place who seems to have only a pistol, and I haz a rifle. -.-

Bioshock: I liked this game, and I still like it. However, I like games for original storyline and content etc. And whilst yes the graphics are very nice and there are some sweet little features that make it stand apart from some games (The ai for instance) I dont think its enough to hold my attention.


I haz also played the ironman demo. and found it really uninteresting also.

The good bits are the neatso tricksy flying and fryng and rippinig things apart. Nice in themselves, but ultimately samey when done a few times.

(19:59:50) mart: shit. totally lost g&b's ip settings.
(2006) Mike: what a gay
(200:14) mart: youre a fricking team leader you tell me!
(200:32) mart: and none of that bullshit being vague to get me to find out either.
(200:34) mart: I want answers!
(200:46) Mike: g 0 0 gl e
(200:51) Mike:
(201:40) mart: No results found for "why wont my team leader tell me the Ip address for g&b's' server".
(2024) Mike: google gone down hill of late



...or perhaps, I hate my job so much Im even using google to show my contempt.

I am ashamed. and I should be. I have forsaken the might of the PC, for an xbox 360.


Before I completely dig my own grave, it was only £200, for the pro version (20gig hard drive) AND Mass effect + gears of war free.


Which was an eye opener. As Ive heard alot about mass effect, and played GoW before. Both of which are awesome.

I have to say I think I made the right purchase.


Ive had it since saturday, its monday night and I must have put in a good 12 hours already on masseffect and about 2-3 on GoW.

Not exactly hardcore I know, but I am a man with a girlfriend and a new flat. both of which apparently require time. (celibacy looks very attractive at times.)


in spite of which, Seren the wanker, has just made me off my techie bloke blowing up some krogan mind zombies.

well it was a choice between him and a woman. In that situation, youve got to spare the girl, don't you. makes sense. furtherment of the species. against the reapers and all that. cacky AI evil oveminds!! -shaky fist-

or bloody lucky depending on your time period.

In Pirates of the Burning Sea, my current MMO, its the halfway marker. and to be honest, it feels pretty dandy so far.

The graphics on the game are amazing.... as long as youre not in first person.

The avatars on land run like scarecrows, with teh pole still up their backsides and fight like badly animated paper puppets.

I can handle this though because the on sea graphics are amazing. I noticed yesterday that you can zoom into your ship in combat and not only is your avatar there -wearing the right clothes etc down to the hat style and facial features no less- but also the crew are so well animated that when you change speed you see them climb the rigging to adjust your sails. Fookin AWESOME.

Level 30 means im now nicely caught up to my society friend as well and Now I'm sailing in a "falcon" frigate.

<a href=http://potbsvault.ign.com/View.php?view=ships.Detail&id=76>clickie</a>

Thats my baby.


The society is decidedly poorly. It seems even though its a period game, no bugger wants to join. Mostly becuase I cant be arsed to recruit and I dont think I should pre level 50. nor does my compatriot.

In short the levels are coming fast. the new ports we're going to mean theres a mix of missions for solo play and group missions.

I've also taken part in one PvP battle.


As with other MMO's PvP in this game is almost solely limited to the top10% of levels. (44 -50)

I arrived in my dinky little Stralsund, feeling quite hopeful that as the game was new there'd be a few lowb's knocking around, just like me.

EHHNT! Wrong answer kamrade thanks for playing. I lasted about five minutes, but I did manage to get in the way of a vastly superior ship, that effectively rammed me, and spent most of those five minutes trying to push me out of the way. Im happy to report that my colleagues sank the living Shit out of him whilst he was doing that. unfortunately his friends took the chance to blow sizeable holes in my bow. glug glug.


One other thing.

Ive recently retrofitted my "stralsund" Frigate to be a Falcon class. This took me 40 marks of victory (not easy to come by) and large amonts of effort time pain and ballache. as well of course as a stralsund deed (16000 Doubloons)

Normally when you create a ship, you get 3 durability (durability = lives. everytime you get sunk -1 dur, til 0 then the ship disappears and you have to buy another deed) so 3 is alright i suppose. However when I took the Stral deed and combined it with the Falcon It went down to Dur 2.

Now that means if I get sunk twice, thats it. I lose the Falcon (Wont chewie be upset. nooch.)

The only way to refill a falcons durability is.. yovue guessed it, buy ANOTHER stralsund deed get ANOTHER 40 marks refit the next deed and gain a falcon deed which I can use to boost my original crafts durability.

This fucking bites in my opinion. If its a refit it means the chassis is the same, you just stuck a bigger engine under the hood. so surely, an original stralsund deed should be enough??


anyway. rant over. driving test on saturday.


.H.

ps. Theres been a ton of gold spammers on the public channels recently. it felt good to report six of them to the mods and get a prompt email response four hours later from them saying theyd collected the usernames responsible and were going to "look into it" bwahahah. I can smell the bringer of misery.

Im only level 28. the level cap is 50. just to keep it clear at the start.

And I can't wait to get to 50. Im levelling my little heart out, so I can take my place in the big battles.

As usual, its shit at the bottom of the pile and if I go to PvP at the moment, Im a basic grease stain.

The reason I can't wait is not only that my ship will be bigger and I therefore will be all the harder.

But the guys at the top, just don't have a clue.

We're losing port after port right now, because theres no organisation. none what soever. Groups are being commanded in PvP theyre just made and forgotten about. which is sill y really. the whole idea of having a group thats part of a larger whole is the division of command. This seems to not happen at all.

so basically teh larger strategic picture isnt beinglooked after.

In my opinion whats needed is a few large societies to drum their members together to hold certain places and keep aggro in important ports down. of course, this will never happen.

ah well. back to the levelling.

I've moved house, from a suburb to the inner city.

Its a sweet deal three mins away from my office and best of all the building is laser linked into our own backbone (My company is a MAN isp for small companies etc)

This is all tres awesome. the pad is second floor, very magnolia and brown. (-shrug-)

Moved in the last of the things yesterday the entire place is a mess.

and there's only one thing left to do.

Setup my desk and machines in peace.

This might seem like a honest to god simple thing to do. But no. My company have kept me back late every day this week doing jobs. Being a field engineer sometimes is a shitty occupation.

And Im having space issues. My desk is not small and I can't decide wether to fuck the clothes and kitchenware off, and go straight for the silicone, or be more organised about this.


My parents have won. I think I'm growing up. How depressing.









On an associated side note, I've been wondering about something and wanted to share it. Computers power my life. They fuel my relaxation, enable me to work, process my finances, let me communicate, in short my life functions as it is, because of my computers.

If that is so then they are more than just a tool. They are ultimately expressions of myself. Everything from the physical box and how it sits on or under my desk, down to what I install in and on them, is a pointer towards me the individual.

Though I suppose you could say this about anything a person owns, computers allow us to store and process data, which you could argue is the fundamental unit of memory. And as many theorists agree, itelligence itself.

If these devices are so crucial to the furtherment of my life, perhaps this explains why most computer type chaps don't let other people touch their machines, and goes someway towards explaining our insular lifestyle and perceived lack of social skills. Why in gods name should you care about going out to pubs and clubs, paying money to get slightly deafer and drink shitty quality beer you have to wait half an hour in a queue for, straining to listen to vacant headed people who don't give a toss about what -you- want out of life and are much happier boasting about what they have and who they have it with.

If this is what society is becoming, I think I'd rather opt out of it all together and become part of this nouveau society, a classless domainless unboundaried mass of individuals who share common interests and actually talk about things, rather than just accept them at face value. A people full of dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers.

I hate to pull such a geeky quote, but I'm feeling rather pathetic today. And this has been a susurrant undercurrent to my thoughts for a while.

christ I write some tosh.

So.

Im having to move house (landlord wandered in told us he's got no money and will be seilling the house.) Which meanspacking cleaning etc. all in addition to dealing with the usual hum drum of life.

and STILL I've hit a whopping nearly level 22!

I've upgraded to the Postilionen Frigate too. it looks very pretty.

Screen shots to follow.


The missions are levelling out now and I find I can go back and do the ones that previously cacked on me.

Mostly I appear to have problems with odds over 2-1, missons such as "just in time" are very annoying as no matter what I do I get hit from two directions at the same time, one inevitably in the bum. This is not good, as rear aremour is substantially weaker, by a third, or a quarter.

Even attaining good windward position gives me nothing. Im trying to use hulks to shelter me from their fire but for some reason they have no problem hitting *me* even if I cant shoot back.

My Friend and I have started our own society as well. HBM IVth caribbean fleet. We're both happily geeking out about it.

He's just attained post captain (lvl 24) and the new uniform is poop. I'll take piccies of it if you lot like, but to be honest it makes him look like someone from YMCA. he's gone back to his Lieutenants jacket.



New stupid name: "Dread Naught the III'd."

I may have to hunt him down and take his britishness off him.

I have a work pc. Its fairly quick. and I have it running xp. (vista is DEATH! VISTA IS DEATH!)

As MS OS's are due, it updates itself regularly, and whines to let it install something. I generally ignore it, until friday night when I set it going for the weekend.


Call me frivolous, but today I set it going early, installing some cack for MS office and all that .NET update bollocks.


halfway through the install, it randomly brought up a message saying "This site has attempted to access your machine and download files to you. It must die the horrid death of a traitor, ha HAAA!"

Or words to that effect.

what sort of dullard writes a software update that makes its own generating site illegal. Retards.

muthafucka please.

The greed online, is a whole new level of shitty.

When I started in MMO land it was frankly horrendous (Ultima Online. Real monies for fake stuffs! Nuff said.)


But now, I find it horribly worse than my worst nightmares. (which are *pretty bad*) let me tell you.

I've started playing Pirates of the Burning Sea recently (But cant seem to add it to my "currently playing" section.)

Its a really good game and if i'm honest I enjoy it alot. I am English and so far everytime I log on there are English people around, slagging off the French. Racially, I'm in hog heaven.


The missions are well designed and my fervour for the setting actually makes the shitty graphics at the personal level and the animations really bearable.

As it is for my friends.

Good points:

Realistic naval combat, well built combat engine with realistic damage. xcellent Period design and historically accurate in certain places. Mission design is varied, fun and you actually get useful and pertinent rewards!

Ships that go bang properly! (both the way my cannons fire and the way that sometimes you can blow an opponents powder magazine with a lucky shot.)

Bad Points:

Levelling is hard if youre not very careful, some sailing knowledge is -essential- to survive difficult missions. The avatar design is fairly cack (ffs SOE, get your fingers out. How many games now and you still cant make a face with an expression realistically??)

Women in the Navy.

I'm sorry. Equal rights aside and all that shit about people being equal. Women weren't on ships in the 18th century. Especially not in the navies of any country. Pirates... well eveyone needs entertainment. But not the navies.



As an end point and a general commentary. "Han Solo" is not a name I'd associate with victorian england. Nor is "The pwnerer" or any other online name. If you play this game you must be interested in the period, or just being a pirate. why make a shitty leet name. twats.


aaand -relax-.