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Cryptodynamic 06 Nov 2013 17:05

Got to the vault and:

You queue up a batch for Ancient Vault containing Direct Command, Disk Browser, and another Disk Browser.

Staring eyes follow your avatar as it moves through the vault.

You command the vault to open and walk its halls.

Although there are files disguised as books scattered through the hall, each you look at is empty. Yeah, file size zero.

The eyes peer into your programs as though judging you for the Brute Strike you have not yet used.

The strangely-dressed guardian routine gets the details of your batch, reporting them back to the system.

The swordsman program swings at your avatar, its blade burning with pixelated fire. You take 2 Hardening damage.

The system's automated defenses follow your tracks, increasing the Alert by 7.

Your connection flickers for a moment, then goes dead. Well, looks like it finally managed to block you.

You've earned 1 XP in Perception

Magnifico 06 Nov 2013 17:38

Vs the vault:

You queue up a batch for Ancient Vault containing Manual Search, Direct Command, and Adjustable Command.

You move through the hall gingerly, neither stirring dust nor attracting attention from its keepers.

At your command, ancient tomes appear… well, icons appearing like ancient tomes. By the time you respond, however, they're long gone.

The eyes peer into your programs as though judging you for the Tactile Strike you have not yet used.

The strangely-dressed guardian routine gets the details of your batch, reporting them back to the system.

The swordsman program swings at your avatar, its blade burning with pixelated fire. You take 2 Hardening damage.

The system's automated defenses follow your tracks, increasing the Alert by 5.

Yeah, I know. A lame batch to use, but it was what I had and wasn't sure I'd get to reconnect without being kicked.

Erenoth 06 Nov 2013 23:53

Oh god, Roy is back?

Cryptodynamic 07 Nov 2013 01:12

Okay, so I killed the swordsman, then went looking at the vault:

You queue up a batch for Ancient Vault containing Direct Command, another Direct Command, a third Direct Command, and Disk Browser.

You move through the hall gingerly, neither stirring dust nor attracting attention from its keepers.

You command the vault to open and walk its halls.

Amid the dusty halls and empty books, you find an orb of tightly encrypted code with an icon like a staring eye.

The eyes peer into your programs as though judging you for the Blocked Function you have not yet used.

The strangely-dressed guardian routine gets the details of your batch, reporting them back to the system.

The system takes note of your actions, increasing the Alert by 4. Without the way you slipped through the system, that could easily have been 1 alert worse.

Your connection flickers for a moment, then goes dead. Well, looks like it finally managed to block you.

You've earned 2 XP in Perception

You've earned 1 XP in Will

You found: staring code

Happy Yeti 31 Jan 2014 00:32

Recent discoveries make me think following the same process to get staring code in addition to having a neural link and no hardening, by the time you check the vault, may lead to something interesting.
I've been trying to do this and got pretty close, but of course the guardian managed to survive 5O just at the wrong time.
Has anyone managed this? Also, does this even seem like a possibility?

bigalphillips 31 Jan 2014 01:08

The message is the same for gaining staring code with neural link and while Etheric.

Also: no change with both gaining Swirling Circuitry and staring code with an optical visor equipped.

Also: If you have reforged blade active, a single use of Forge Blade is enough to kill the swordman, which is really nice.

Crypto also says: Letting the Pale Swordsman hack into your brain before taking him down and checking the vault just gives staring code, too.

Last edited on 31 Jan 2014 01:11 by bigalphillips Show more

Happy Yeti 31 Jan 2014 12:43

Well, there goes that theory :(
I'll have to find something else to try then.

Vholes 06 Mar 2014 04:04

Looks like there's a Gothic Guardian routine at 13 alert and one at 14 alert. Since going through multiple alert milestones in one go only causes the highest level alert routine to trigger, you'll usually only ever see one gothic guardian, but if you go to exactly 13 alert you'll see two.

This is fairly strange, so why would it be arranged like this? Maybe Roy is superstitious about the number 13 being bad luck. Someone up for a challenge could try submitting 13C/V/O on a gothic ruins routine.

Data:

+ show block

Alert from 0-13: Gothic Guardian
Alert 13-14 Gothic Guardian #2
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Alert 0-7 Monstrous Eyes
7-9 nothing
Alert 9-12 Gothic Guardian
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Alert 0-7 monstrous eyes
Alert 7-15 gothic guardian
.
Alert 0-9 monstrous
9-12 nothing
12-16 gothic guardian
.
0-7 monstrous
7-10 nothing
10-14 gothic guardian
.
0-7 monstrous
7-14 gothic guardian
.
0-13 gothic guardian
13-14 gothic guardian #2
.
0-9 monstrous
9-11 nothing
11-17 gothic
.
0-1 nothing
1-4 monstrous
4-5 nothing
5-12 nothing
12-16 gothic
.
0-6 monstrous
6-8 nothing
8-16 gothic
16-20 nothing
.
0-12 monstrous
12-14 gothic
14-17 nothing

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bigalphillips 06 Mar 2014 04:59

Ah, good spading there. I hadn't considered laying it out like this before, but that is a good way to test/record things. Now I want to check the other systems we've found in a similar way…

If Alert ≥ (2-4): The system starts up its Monstrous Eyes routine.
(no routine at 5-12)
If Alert ≥ 13: The system starts up its Gothic Guardian routine.
If Alert ≥14: The system starts up its Gothic Guardian routine.
(no routine at 15-20)

Valmo 10 Mar 2014 16:55

Just on the off chance somebody else is prone to bad ideas. Getting two Gothic Guardian active and then successfully apologizing while drunk yielded nothing new.

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Gone fishin', be back at dark-thirty!

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