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[kg333]

Also, I'm still trying to figure out what the deal is with the server lag.  I've noticed it skip a couple times, and I'm on the same machine.

For those curious, the server is:

A Linux Mint 12 VM running inside VirtualBox on a Windows 7 host
1 core of an AMD 965BE, 3.4GHz
2048 MB RAM dedicated to VM
Hosted on a home connection of 10 Mbps down, 1Mbps up.

It's been staying under 50% CPU usage and about 80% memory usage (no swap used), so I'm assuming bandwidth related.  I have noticed bandwidth going as high as 500Kbps at peak population, so that seems a more likely bottleneck.

There is always the possibility that BYOND just sucks, too, but not much to be done with that.

KG

[Gamerlord]

I didn't see Kert at all during the endgame. And at no point was I part of the rebellion. Also, Kert never had a loyalty chip.

[Bdthemag]

I remembered for some reason that security and heads of staff were already implanted with loyalty implants, although that may be Baystation 12. So I thought I was pretty safe around my heads of staff.

[Karlito]

Security definitely did have loyalty implants.

[Hanslanda]

I remembered for some reason that security and heads of staff were already implanted with loyalty implants, although that may be Baystation 12. So I thought I was pretty safe around my heads of staff.

Head of Security and all of Security and the Captain start with loyalty implants. Generally, as Captain, if I promote someone to a higher, Head position, I'll want to give them a loyalty implant because. Um. Head of Staff. But you know, it all depends on how the RP goes.

[Nienhaus]

I didn't see Kert at all during the endgame. And at no point was I part of the rebellion. Also, Kert never had a loyalty chip.

Because KERT JOHNSON! Master of stealth! and always needed in his office for the heads to get higher IDs.

[Azrayel]

I unloaded 3 energy pistols into Whitaker before whipping out my flamethrower-- I was determined to finish him off and too shaky and unsure of how to do so to just strip him naked.

Honestly he never would've been found. I could even have tazed him and left him somewhere-- I just got way too jumpy in the end, iSuppose. This'll teach me to keep my cool.

I started off chipped as security. Thought all heads did but the procedure turned up blank for Kert so guess not. The general idea of the Heads was to release the singularly to make the captain abandon station. This did not work quite as intended but I'd like to think iHadn't died for nothing but robusting poor old Whit.

[NRDL]

PTW

This game seems awesome. 

[Hanslanda]

I unloaded 3 energy pistols into Whitaker before whipping out my flamethrower-- I was determined to finish him off and too shaky and unsure of how to do so to just strip him naked.

Honestly he never would've been found. I could even have tazed him and left him somewhere-- I just got way too jumpy in the end, iSuppose. This'll teach me to keep my cool.

I started off chipped as security. Thought all heads did but the procedure turned up blank for Kert so guess not. The general idea of the Heads was to release the singularly to make the captain abandon station. This did not work quite as intended but I'd like to think iHadn't died for nothing but robusting poor old Whit.

BTW, shuttle never arrives in Rev rounds. Or it shouldn't.

[Bdthemag]

I unloaded 3 energy pistols into Whitaker before whipping out my flamethrower-- I was determined to finish him off and too shaky and unsure of how to do so to just strip him naked.

Honestly he never would've been found. I could even have tazed him and left him somewhere-- I just got way too jumpy in the end, iSuppose. This'll teach me to keep my cool.

I started off chipped as security. Thought all heads did but the procedure turned up blank for Kert so guess not. The general idea of the Heads was to release the singularly to make the captain abandon station. This did not work quite as intended but I'd like to think iHadn't died for nothing but robusting poor old Whit.

BTW, shuttle never arrives in Rev rounds. Or it shouldn't.

Had to do it through extended, although I didn't intend to let them call the shuttle until I was dead.

[Hanslanda]

I see. That works then.

[Jacob/Lee]

Spoiler: About the slimes that almost killed the Captain: (click to show/hide)

I was Axl, and spent most of the round in the xenobiology room breeding slimes. I was arrested and punched once by the Captain, for insulting him. Before I was dragged away, the chef mentioned how he wanted to talk to me. I went to the chef expecting to be let in on super-secret revolutionary stuff. Instead, he mentions how he's making moonshine. I go back to my slime room and continue breeding.

Then the Captain calls us all to the bar and goes off about how we need to be implanted with loyalty implants because of certain actions being done by people trying to mess with him. Everyone goes on a rant and the quartermaster runs off. When the quartermaster is caught, I join the line of people going to medbay but make a break for the research division when none of the heads or security members are watching. I run back to my room, breed the slimes a bit more, then unleash all of them. I had one adult orange slime and five mixed baby ones. I was promptly assaulted by the adult slime and just resigned myself to death. I wasn't watching when it happened, but apparently Danielle had opened the xenobiology room door, intentionally got attacked by my orange slime, then legged it to medbay with the Captain inside.

She dies (I think) and the slime switches targets. After violating the Captain, it goes on a rampage in Medbay. One of the security officers drags the Captain away and tries to save him and eventually just shoves him in a cryo tube, where he was saved from the cold grip of death. He narrowly avoids the slimes and runs out through maintenance. The rest of the round has nothing to do with the slimes. The orange one was killed and a baby red one that was spawned from it grew to be an adult, which just idled in medbay. It and all the other slimes were stuck in either medbay or xenobiology, which is why nobody in there could be cloned.

[Knight of Fools]

I was the detective, and started working with Lola, one of the few folks I saw as level-minded and actually wanting to survive, to ensure that if anything happened to me, all the evidence I'd gathered (Recordings of the captain abusing folks, pictures of the bodies, recordings of the cloak and dagger, etc) wasn't lost. I worked for all three little factions that were forming: The HoS and HoP plotting with me behind the captains back (Which I recorded, and that's also why I was so noncommittal - I didn't want to put myself plotting openly on tape); I worked with the captain and security, turning in folks who were handing out illegal drugs; and I was also working with Lola, who I thought was a third party who wanted the same thing I did (Survival and keeping everything normal).

I had no clue Lola was the Rev Leader, even at the end when we escaped the station together. It's still blowing me away.

Spoiler: The Detective's Side of the Story (click to show/hide)

Generally, I tried to stay neutral and play damage control. I wanted to hear all sides of the story, and gave all sides the benefit of the doubt before taking action. Things started getting a little out of hand once the captain started gathering everyone up for a loyalty implant party - Which was interrupted by Lola firing at the captain. Suddenly everyone's running every which way, Lola runs off, with a Sec Officer right behind her. I follow, tell the Officer that I'd get Lola and he should go help the captain... And he did. Both unfortunately and fortunately, Lola was good at evading security, so I lost her.

So began the long process of me avoiding the captain and trying to find Lola so we could get out of there. I figured she was innocent and scared for her life, and I didn't blame her - What was important is that I thought I could trust her. I wasn't about to help her with all of the witnesses and Security around, though, since it was a pretty huge risk. I did what I could to help her, though.

I finally found her and the co-conspirators by cycling through half of the cameras in the station. I saw her with the Chief Medical Officer, and wasn't sure if she was in trouble. I'd had no contact with the CMO, and he had seemed to be willing to turn us all into loyal robots before everything went to pieces. I decided to risk it, and went in without a weapon drawn to try and figure out what the deal was. After a tense moment of discussion, they decided to trust me.

Suddenly, a security officer walked by as we were making our way out. I figured that I still had half a chance to make myself a useful double agent, so I put my hands up into the air and hoped someone played along with my hostage gambit.

Lola did, and threatened me with her shotgun if the SO tried anything. A scuffle ensued, with the security officer managing to stun everyone, except me, since I was the innocent hostage. I tried to get into a position where I wouldn't shoot anyone, and opened fire with my revolver, taking the guy out. (It turns out, later that he would have kept on walking if not for the hostage gambit. Whoops.) I tried futilely to save his life, and we went on to look for the captain so we could call the emergency shuttle.

Long story short, we took the captain out, I tried to keep him alive while everyone else said I shouldn't even bother. I ended up letting him die, and we called the shuttle and escaped, Central Command telling us we were in for a tough ride.

Luckily, I still had my briefcase full of evidence to help explain everything.

Man, that was a good game.

[Nienhaus]

Should I post my end of the story? Kert Johnson's not as interesting as some of you guys.

[Karlito]

For most of the round I was the security officer. The HoS didn't do any of the grunt work, and the warden was AFK for a long time in the middle of the round.

Spoiler: The Security Officer's Story (click to show/hide)

I basically just followed orders for the entire game, and there were plenty to follow. I did all the leg work under the Captain's brutal reign: the booze confiscation, both arrests of the drugged up botanist, moving prisoners in and out of the Brig, the whole deal. I even ended up cleaning the graffiti in bar. In fact, I might have been the only one on the station not actively working against the Captain in the end.

When the Captain gathered everyone in the bar, the Quartermaster made a run for it, and I had to chase him around half the station. After he was cuffed, shackled, flashed, pepper sprayed, and stunned so many times the charge ran out of both my baton and taser I manage to drag him into surgery (and who knows what happened to him after that).

At this point, the Captain is becoming increasingly paranoid and unstable (he's killed at least two crew by now) and he orders me to guard him. We go into the Medical Security office to recharge my weapons, and then the slimes attack. After a lengthy battle in which lasers are completely ineffective, the Captain goes down and I manage to drag him down the hallway. Officer Steele was assigned to Medbay to begin with, so I figured he'd have picked up some medical knowledge, so in addition to CPR I inject the Captain with antitoxins and stabilizing meds. This goes on for like 20 minutes: I'm performing CPR and screaming for help over the intercom, but the slimes have the entrance blocked off and no one can get to us (even if they wanted to), and I'm really just hoping a slime doesn't come down the hall and kill us both. Eventually I decide I have to put the Captain in cryo to revive him, so I drag him over and just manage to turn the tube on before a slime comes and chases me into another slime, who then proceeds to eat off my face.

It was satisfying to know that my heroism let the Captain's reign of terror go on a little longer.

So yeah, good game.