WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS
HEY SURGE, YOU SIMPERING MALCONTENT! WEREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO PLAN SOMETHING FOR THE SHODAN EVENT?
Alright, me being the spaz I am, I didn't prepare too much for HAL's little sector inside SHODAN. For the most part, it's going to be the opposite of the Grid. The artificial light will be turned up and the holographic projectors will coat everything so it looks white and really bright with a few streaks of dark here and there. The sky is going to look like a planetarium, except the stars can go fuck themselves because Jupiter and Saturn are the two best planets ever and will be blown up and projected onto the ceiling. For some reason, this will not make the city actually GO DARK. It will be more like someone painted the ceiling black. There will be a pretty awesome Monolith in the park, both of which will be the only thing in HAL's sector not painted white with a bloom effect. It will have his creepy as hell eye attached to it. (See eye-con)
HAL isn't really the kind of A.I. who actively fucks people up six ways to Sunday. He won't mind people walking in and out of his zone on their way to do OTHER SHIT. The issue is walking out.
Anyone who walks into his zone will gradually start to notice some creepy shit. There will be holograms of these two dashing gentlemen that will always be just at the corner of your eye. When you turn to see them? Yeah, not there. As long as you're not looking, you'll hear nice little tidbits about the Discovery mission as well as somethings that AREN'T supposed to be there. Like listening in on another person's paranoid shoulder angel mutterings.
This is mostly because HAL is sort of stewing in memories, and while he's stewing he's going to talk to you. Except not nice polite tea party conversation, oh no. It's more along the lines of You're interfering with the mission so get out or I will MURDER YOU oh wait did you want to leave sorry no you're going to have to stay here or else you'll mess up the mission. What mission you ask? Fuck you is what. To compound this, the hologram generators will be setting shit up so that you suddenly hit a dead end every fucking time god dammit!
Not to mention that mutated cyborg-Vaultie is going to be skulking around the entire zone, stalking you.
Yes.
You.
As the SHODAN event reaches it's climax, HAL's going to have a nice paranoid fit, because that is what happens when all you have to stew in is conversation with a paranoid mutant and your own memories of murdering your crew -mates and actually botching the mission you were trying to save.
This will pretty much have him seeing anything sentient entering his zone in his zone as someone who is trying to murder him. Sections will start going from white to normal and back quick enough to make your eyes start disco dancing. The Monolith is going to start making an irritating high pitched noise only comparable to some ancient singing rat named Justsomething Beisomething. The lighting will dim to levels that can only be described as haunted hospital poor, and SHODAN will be sending mutant abominations to avoid, in order to kill HAL because at this point he has flipped his shit enough to shut her out from his sector's wi-fi or something, like he's a cranky manager at Starbucks that throws out a freeloading teenager, except the teenager is actually the one running the router.
It will generally have a very Silent Hill-ish feeling about it, except there will be less blood everywhere for now, which is a shame because it'd contrast nicely with the white. For the most part, your character(s) will be allowed to run around willy nilly like a bunch of crazy maniacs trying to figure out what to do with themselves as well as how to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. They can be relatively more safe then they would be in SHODANs sector, if they can avoid Vaultie and some robodrones, at least until SHODAN decides to BITCHSLAP HIM IN THE FACE for being a TWAT.
Wearables are allowed as well as disquieting paranoia and the oppressing feeling that you are going to die all alone on this station and that in space, no one can hear you scream. Except the person who you're exploring the sector with. Pretty much anyone can feel free to chuck someone in here, so if you have a character with nothing to do, feel free to come right on in.
TL;DR: Have some more mini-event thing. Crazy shit happens. Anyone can play. I'll pretty much allow whatever as long as you ask first. Sorry for the boring, but that's just 2001 for most people.
Alright, me being the spaz I am, I didn't prepare too much for HAL's little sector inside SHODAN. For the most part, it's going to be the opposite of the Grid. The artificial light will be turned up and the holographic projectors will coat everything so it looks white and really bright with a few streaks of dark here and there. The sky is going to look like a planetarium, except the stars can go fuck themselves because Jupiter and Saturn are the two best planets ever and will be blown up and projected onto the ceiling. For some reason, this will not make the city actually GO DARK. It will be more like someone painted the ceiling black. There will be a pretty awesome Monolith in the park, both of which will be the only thing in HAL's sector not painted white with a bloom effect. It will have his creepy as hell eye attached to it. (See eye-con)
HAL isn't really the kind of A.I. who actively fucks people up six ways to Sunday. He won't mind people walking in and out of his zone on their way to do OTHER SHIT. The issue is walking out.
Anyone who walks into his zone will gradually start to notice some creepy shit. There will be holograms of these two dashing gentlemen that will always be just at the corner of your eye. When you turn to see them? Yeah, not there. As long as you're not looking, you'll hear nice little tidbits about the Discovery mission as well as somethings that AREN'T supposed to be there. Like listening in on another person's paranoid shoulder angel mutterings.
This is mostly because HAL is sort of stewing in memories, and while he's stewing he's going to talk to you. Except not nice polite tea party conversation, oh no. It's more along the lines of You're interfering with the mission so get out or I will MURDER YOU oh wait did you want to leave sorry no you're going to have to stay here or else you'll mess up the mission. What mission you ask? Fuck you is what. To compound this, the hologram generators will be setting shit up so that you suddenly hit a dead end every fucking time god dammit!
Not to mention that mutated cyborg-Vaultie is going to be skulking around the entire zone, stalking you.
Yes.
You.
As the SHODAN event reaches it's climax, HAL's going to have a nice paranoid fit, because that is what happens when all you have to stew in is conversation with a paranoid mutant and your own memories of murdering your crew -mates and actually botching the mission you were trying to save.
This will pretty much have him seeing anything sentient entering his zone in his zone as someone who is trying to murder him. Sections will start going from white to normal and back quick enough to make your eyes start disco dancing. The Monolith is going to start making an irritating high pitched noise only comparable to some ancient singing rat named Justsomething Beisomething. The lighting will dim to levels that can only be described as haunted hospital poor, and SHODAN will be sending mutant abominations to avoid, in order to kill HAL because at this point he has flipped his shit enough to shut her out from his sector's wi-fi or something, like he's a cranky manager at Starbucks that throws out a freeloading teenager, except the teenager is actually the one running the router.
It will generally have a very Silent Hill-ish feeling about it, except there will be less blood everywhere for now, which is a shame because it'd contrast nicely with the white. For the most part, your character(s) will be allowed to run around willy nilly like a bunch of crazy maniacs trying to figure out what to do with themselves as well as how to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE. They can be relatively more safe then they would be in SHODANs sector, if they can avoid Vaultie and some robodrones, at least until SHODAN decides to BITCHSLAP HIM IN THE FACE for being a TWAT.
Wearables are allowed as well as disquieting paranoia and the oppressing feeling that you are going to die all alone on this station and that in space, no one can hear you scream. Except the person who you're exploring the sector with. Pretty much anyone can feel free to chuck someone in here, so if you have a character with nothing to do, feel free to come right on in.
TL;DR: Have some more mini-event thing. Crazy shit happens. Anyone can play. I'll pretty much allow whatever as long as you ask first. Sorry for the boring, but that's just 2001 for most people.