Tianve gets a negative review from this tourist...

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Tianve gets a negative review from this tourist...

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arrived in system... went to station... refueled etc... off to see the pulsar... following the liners etc all very nice... loads of adverts etc...

then it gets weird...

halfway there up pops a ship which says "Rebecca - I dont like scum like you" or something like that and proceeds to kill me a lot in short order...press space commander????? :shock:

how does the game know my real name? is this a joke/easter egg or something? my commander name is DeVille... :?:

ok... so i am a fugitive but i was behaving myself at the time despite the tempation of seeing how adverts respond to a qbomb...maybe i have a price on my head?

im back at Anle now as i hadnt saved my game! :evil:

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A fugitive behaving herself is still a fugitive ... there's gong to be a price on your head wherever you go until you manage to get Clean again! As to how the game knows your real name, that I don't know. Perhaps if you have the right OXPs installed the game starts to achieve sentience?
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Disembodied wrote:
A fugitive behaving herself is still a fugitive ... there's gong to be a price on your head wherever you go until you manage to get Clean again! As to how the game knows your real name, that I don't know. Perhaps if you have the right OXPs installed the game starts to achieve sentience?
are you on a mac pc linux or something else?
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Im on XP if that helps!!!

it DEFINITELY said Rebecca though... i was so surprised I didnt get the rest of what happened before i got killed... spooky.

im going to have another look tonight and see if I can find the ship again....

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Post by LittleBear »

Rebecca is the name of the main character in both of Drew's short stories. Havent looked at the code, but maybe he's included her name in a hail. Maybe the message was FROM Rebecca (who lives in that system). She is in the story a bounty hunter, so it would make sense for her to attack criminals like you!
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wow that's spooky.
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LittleBear wrote:
Rebecca is the name of the main character in both of Drew's short stories. Havent looked at the code, but maybe he's included her name in a hail. Maybe the message was FROM Rebecca (who lives in that system). She is in the story a bounty hunter, so it would make sense for her to attack criminals like you!
Sounds the most likely suggestion to me. Drew's good Rebecca strikes down the RealLife™ evil Rebecca! :D
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had another look and no sign of the ship... saw the pulsar though.... very er... spinny!

so there might be somebody called Rebecca who lives in Tianve????? how does that work then? are there characters in the game? which stories are these anyway?

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Rebecca wrote:
so there might be somebody called Rebecca who lives in Tianve????? how does that work then? are there characters in the game? which stories are these anyway?
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Drew_Wagar

Somehow the stories caused me being unable to sleep until I read them through ;)

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Look at it this way at least you were killed by some one famous.
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ClymAngus wrote:
Look at it this way at least you were killed by some one famous.
...and she even got her name in the novellas before she joined the board and invented this famous food ;)

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Post by Rebecca »

that has really freaked me out....really...

found the ship though .... look! im not going nuts!!!!! you were right.. it was a 'Rebecca' not aimed at me specificallly..

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it seems to always be in the same place.... just short of the halfway adboards in the tianve system.... approach with caution... shes obviously more dangerous than me!!!!! :lol:


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That's the character from Status Quo and Mutabilis, right enough. Flying a Vampire, too. If I were you I'd be careful not to annoy her!
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im staying away... obviously tianve aint big enough for the both of us!!!

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