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[Doubloon-Seven]

Just as a request, I'd like to wonder if anyone has some... interesting stories from their time playing.

You want Urist-only or any server?

Any server is fine. The one I posted there was from Oneystation.

[AH]

God, it's hard to think of a story with decent length that didn't happen a very long time ago. Lemme regale you with the most recent Deacon round on Urist, in the hopes that I'm not telling you a story you saw yourself.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

>I'm a Blueshield, charged more or less with protecting Command staff.
>It's the Urist Anniversary Event!
>A HoP latejoins, seems a little bit lost, and there are a lot of assistants in Arrivals, and he's there too.
>To Arrivals I go.
>A Chaplain smacks me with a bible immediately.
>Nothing else happens for a few seconds...
>...followed by truly ungodly and rather amusingly coordinated spam by, like, seven players.
>They're quickly banned. Unfortunately, the HoP drags over a welder tank immediately after.
>We all blow up. No one dies (except maybe some of the griefing assistants), I shove the now-braindead HoP into cryostorage and help out the CMO a little bit, since she was caught in the boom.
>Precious peace for all of one minute. Central Command announces that an NT Representative will be taking control of the station shortly due to Galactic Crisis stuff.
>It's Commander James Deacon, well known admin event character that always, always sparks a glorious revolution.
>Blueshields have no time for revolutions. Speaking of, the second Blueshield joins the round.
>Deacon arrives and calls a Command+Blueshields meeting immediately.
>"All NT stations are under martial law, everyone is under the Naval Code, I am taking command, work hours increase, etc etc"
>I point out that this isn't a military station and people might not know what exactly the Naval Code entails.
>I am ignored.
>Captain Krauss surrenders his authority - and the Chain of Command - to Deacon, despite misgivings.
>Let the other Blueshield handle Deacon while I run around guarding Krauss and other command staff.
>HoS Tom Kadel joins (so does HoP Kert Jonson)
>Alexander Vern does something or other wrong, I never paid attention, and Deacon announces a public whipping.
>People attend, Vern is whipped, HoS Kadel protests loudly but nobody stops the punishment.
>The AI bolts everyone in for a little bit, is yelled at by everyone, and mostly relents.
>Do nothing in the Bridge with Deacon and Kadel for a while. Petra Belrose PDAs me that this is wrong and I should not be letting these terrible things happen etc.
>Tell Kadel and Deacon about the PDA message, neither do anything.
>Deacon bans free press after the free press calls him a money thief (we never verify whether he stole money or not)
>A bomber, Vern, inconveniences everyone with mostly terrible welder bombs. He does kill three people and crit a few others.
>The AI is PALADIN'd. Since Deacon is an immoral son of a gun, that is bad for everyone, so I run off with former-Captain Krauss to... do something with the AI.
>We can't give it back its original lawset, there's no board for that, so I do the next best thing I can think of: Asimov with the fourth law "All crewmembers are human."
>Yeah I don't touch AI laws much.
>Deacon executes Vern like two minutes afterward and gets bolted into the Bridge along with Kadel.
>Break them out. Somehow a considerable bomb blew up the Captain's Office, but no one is hurt anyways.
>Distribute EVA suits to Command, other Blueshield is protecting Deacon, so I opt to help Kadel with the injured.
>Along the way I somehow find a pinpointer in the hallways. The nuclear disk is somewhere far southeast. Deacon is not. The former Captain is not. The disk is missing.
>RD Logan Spieler arrives and I give him a very quick briefing. Logan is very sad that he came in today.
>Walk into Deacon and Kadel arguing in the public hallways just as the other Blueshield breaks her own lungs. Replace her as bodyguard detail.
>Point out that the nuclear disk is missing in an attempt to defuse the situation with bigger problems.
>I am ignored again. Deacon and Kadel sound like they are about to have a shootout.
>Gripe to Kert about how I am always ignored.
>Other Blueshield tells me that a Durand is coming.
>Tell Kadel and Deacon that a Durand is coming.
>The Durand comes while those two don't go to the Armory like I tell them to
>Stand in front of the Durand and take an ion bolt.
>The Durand is named SKRELL POWER and piloted by a Skrell supremacist.
>None of us are Skrell.
>Die for my Company as I am riddled with Durand bullets. The rest of the people in the hallway get away safely and (I think) manage to kill the Durand.

>Later on Krauss cuts off Deacon's head, Kadel evacuates the entire station onto the planet to avoid a deathsquad, and they fight off aliens for 30 minutes until the Syndicate saves the two survivors (Kadel among them).

[Doubloon-Seven]

Nice, I have two more stories, both from goon.

Spoiler: Two Birds With One Stone-Goon (click to show/hide)

>Be assistant traitor
>Objectives: Kill some random other assistant, hijack shuttle.
>Hijacking on goon is near impossible, so I decide on a 'Matrix' gimmick.
>Have scientist let me into chem.
>Make two pills, a death one, and a knockout one. The victim will have to pick one to take.
>Buy a mindslave injector, if they pick the knockout.
>Also buy microbombs, as a last laugh if someone tries to kill me.
>Follow my first victim, that other assistant.
>Go into maint, be ready to disarm and offer.
>'Victim' spits acid at me.
>Is a lingling.
>Absorbs me.
>Microbombs go off.
>Only time I've killed a ling.

Spoiler: Burn, Baby, Burn! (click to show/hide)

>Is D-Day.
>Goon's foray into admin guided event RP.
>Be scientist.
>Get notified of a soon-to-begin teleporter expedition.
>Decide on being group weapons specialist.
>Make zipgun, .38 rounds from hacked manufactory.
>Produce flammenwerfer.
>Werfs napalm and flourosulfuric acid in equal amount.
>Welding fuel pipe bomb to break down walls.
>Expedition is ready. Me, a fellow scientist, focused on researching artifacts, a medic who was recovered from an abandoned ship, and an engineer.
>All are supplied with instant-cryo pills, freeze you in a protected, healy block of ice.
>Set off.
>Radio silence, enter a building sheltered from the freezing cold. I keep on my emergency space suit, several put on winter suits.
>Weird notes and pictures depicting experiments.
>Continue down the freezing path, surrounded with chasms.
>Stay behind with medic to observe the local seals.
>Suddenly, goes wrestler on me.
>Get thrown down into chasms, legs broken, near crit.
>Eat cryopill.
>Slowly regain health, but howls call from afar.
>Reach green health, wendigo rounds the corner.
>Bashes at my icecube.
>Pull out flamethrower
>Light the igniter
>DISCO INFERNO
>Die of fire damage, wendigos dead all around me.
>By the way, everyone rescued from that ship was a ling, the expedition died, and wendigoes overran the station.
>It was worse than the round with the vampire/werewolf civil war.

[wer6]

Iwas there during the Deacon event, sad I had to go though, looked like it would've been fun.

[Man of Paper]

Real good one (at least to experience) from my days on Goon, back on the Donut Station, delivered in text format.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I was an electrician, and a pretty damn good one back in the day. I was actually fairly proficient at most jobs, just fell short a little in the combat field, which is, well, not too good for Goonstation. My friend was a botanist, and yes we did metagame but it's goon so really who cares. I go over and hack his seed dispenser, and we wind up setting the doors to bolt and electrify remotely. While we did do tons of metagaming, we weren't assholes trying to ruin people's fun, so the doors were not consistently electrified or bolted.

Just remembered we were Urist McFistycuffs and Penis Morgan, oh god I forgot about Penis Morgan. Best randomly generated name ever. Anyways...

I wind up becoming a runner for McFisty while he starts producing mad amounts of that dank weed, as any good botanist does. We actually start making trades for satchels of weed, which was great, because as I said before this was on Goon, and people interacting in a constructive manner (as constructive as the drug trade can be) was hella rare, at least at the time. Comms eventually goes out and I have to keep running back to botany to communicate with my business partner. About an hour in, and me and my buddy are discussing the lack of people and increasing amount of blood on the station, and how we're gonna get all the weed to the shuttle coming in mere moments when there's a knock on the window that was in the lower left side next to the maintenance door. During our dealing we'd told our customers to make requests at that window, so we figured it was just another trade about to happen. He was Unknown, and refused to speak at all. Eventually he says he wants some weed, so my buddy unlocks the door and lets him in to discuss business.

We failed to notice the glowing fists, and Urist was able to scream out "RUN!" in game and in real life as his beating to death started. This mystery antag went to down me but the arrangement of the planters got him stuck for a few precious seconds, giving me the chance to grab two backpacks loaded with the sticky icky and run out the back through maintenance. I got to the shuttle with moments to spare, but not enough time for the antag to nab me before the round ended.

I could've sworn I finished a marathon with how everyone was reacting to my escape. Apparently I was the sole survivor. Obviously though the fact that I put getting the herb off the station over my own safety garnered the greatest applause.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And yes we did metagame a good bit on McStation as well, but only ever to enhance roleplay, and we still did all the discussing things in character. Never acted purely on meta knowledge. I know it doesn't matter really, haven't played in like a year, but I figure if I was coming a little clean I might as well go all the way. Also because my next story is on UMcS.

This was back when BD was active and an admin, and decided to do something of a survival round. There were five or six of us, and I got stuck with being our main combat guy. Luckily, McFisty was the Medic and damn good at keeping people alive. We get time to set up, and the group decides the Engines are where it's at. The plan was to hold the engines and go out to grab supplies and fix things as necessary. Things went okay, but at one point the group was coming back to the engines when we were assaulted by seemingly all of the goats.

Sweat beads up on my brow. I begin firing bullets into the crowd, not realizing how stacked these goats were on one another. But I hold. The goatswarm slowly pours forth as they began to unstack and glob outwards. And so, as they began to charge me, I let one of McFisty's grenades (did I mention us breaking into chem so he could do some science?) loose into the crowd. The game lagged. When the server came to, there I stood, all but a couple goat stragglers felled by a single blast. The server imploded after I tried to count up how many corpses there were. And that, my friends, is the story of Goatmurdered.

[Harpadarpa.]

See, I love the stories from this game, but I've never been able to get into it. Does anybody know any good tutorials for this game? Any good way to start? Any tips?

The tutorials I've found on my own were all hard to follow, even harder than DF for me.

[scrdest]

See, I love the stories from this game, but I've never been able to get into it. Does anybody know any good tutorials for this game? Any good way to start? Any tips?

The tutorials I've found on my own were all hard to follow, even harder than DF for me.

Dive in to your selected server as an unimportant role, try to figure the basics on the fly, use OOC/adminhelp for assistance if the problem is not related to the ongoing round events. If they're going to be dickbags about it while you're not hampering their gameplay (i.e. you picked a doctor when you can't even bandage so someone is bleeding out in front of you), you probably don't want to stick around anyway.

There is simply too many servers, and unlike in most games, each of these basically runs their own little clone of the game, to the point where even basic controls may differ between servers, beyond the few inescapable BYOND defaults.

[Man of Paper]

I for one will vouch for the helpfulness of the McStation. Last time I played I was popped in as an Atmospheric Technician. It was a field I had exactly zero experience with, so I wanted to try it out. Luckily the Chief Engineer gave me some good pointers and walked me through the process of upgrading and optimizing Atmos. Checked on me a few times in between their own tasks, too. I forget who it was, but they were very open to helping me out.

[frostshotgg]

So I haven't touched SS13 since mid-2014 at the absolute latest, probably closer to 2013. What's changed since then?

[Glloyd]

So I haven't touched SS13 since mid-2014 at the absolute latest, probably closer to 2013. What's changed since then?

Way too much to list. With that kind of time away from the game, every department will have changed at least a bit. And not only that, but basic game mechanics, along with the addition of hundreds of new little features.

I guess talking broad strokes, more stuff, less lag, better lighting and snazzier gunplay.

[Harpadarpa.]

So when are people usually on? I'm trying to get into the server rn, but nobody's online.

And how do you even use Byond? I'm having some trouble. Anybody know any good tutorials or anything?

[Ehndras]

I'll get on if anyone else is on. 2 AM, migraine, and time to keel.

[Harpadarpa.]

So how do I even connect to the server? I'm having real difficulty figuring that out.

[Rolan7]

You just need the BYOND client from here http://www.byond.com/download/

Then (maybe after restarting your browser) you can follow byond links just fine.  Like this one:
byond://server.uristmcstation.com:59359

[Glloyd]

Big ol' planet update (with hunting and motorcycles and animals and all that fun stuff) is coming this weekend, but it's live on the testing server right now, so go fuck around and report bugs: byond://97.89.16.238:60840