SteveD
11-16-2003, 07:16 PM
Again, set just after the first film. PCs are:
Isryphel (Jude Law) - gun bunny who believes the outer world is also a Matrix (matrix 3)
Rat (Seth Green) - sarcastic hacker with a potentially deadly curiosity (matrix 3)
Nirto (???) - adrenaline junkie driver and kung fu dude (matrix 3)
Eurydice (Angela Basset) - mother-bear hovercraft captain deadly when cornered (matrix 4)
I never really worked their deals into the game, or got their fates to work, but I think this is always going to happen sometimes. You have a shot and maybe it works maybe it doesn't.
It helps if you don't have a plot ready, I guess (like Kickers in Sorcerer). But I did this time, cos I wasn't feeling ready to go purely off the cuff.
Some people have arksed me how I can rip off any story for any game. See if you can pick this film....
Our heroes arrive at the bad end of town to retrieve a mysterious suitcase. Their guides ask for more money, but are run off. On the broken stone wall is scrawled black graffiti saying "Beware the Shadows". The gang avoid the booby trapped stairs, break open the security doors and find themselves in a high-tech bank vault, not the kind of thing you expect in a brownstone in a Harlem-esque place. They do some kewl flips over the lasers, grab the suitcase from its pressure plate, and run. Agents try and chase them to the exit, but they make some cool rolls and get away.
Back in the real world, they meet Morpheus who explains that the suitcase contains one part of a code. Ghost explains that the Matrix is just a computer program, and therefore, it contains information about itself - where information is stored,and how it connects to hardware. These are all stored in a central block, guarded by the Agents, impossible to get. But there must also exist backups - archives - hidden throughout the city in case soemthing goes wrong. The resistance has discovered a legend of a hidden archive, lost beneath the city. This "suitcase" now a disk, is part one of a key to a map to find the archive. The other part is with a rogue program called the Keymaker. They have to find him and get the second part.
So they go to a night club (things always happen in nightclubs) and meet the Keymaker's sexy daughter, played by Kelly (Lady Deathstrike) Hu. Steve hits a mental speedbump, unable to think of something she might ask for in return for the code (she mentions other buyers and asks for their offer). Now I know why they had to kiss Monica Belucci - it's hard to demand a price in the Matrix that is meaningful. Eventually, Pandora - for tis her name - demands simply that the Keymaster gets access to the archive also, and that she come along to ensure this.
They agree. They go upstairs to find the Keymaker. He says he has the code, but asks for the same thing - the archived maps are his key to staying away from the Agents. The lights go out. Downstairs there is screaming. The guys from Equilibrium - all black suits with tails and high collars - are clearing the place out and demanding the Keymaker come out. Gun-fu happens.
Isryphel guns them down from the balcony as the others run downstairs. Nitro, Eurydice and their charges run through the Kitchen, Rat stops to help Isryphel. The Shadows (for tis them) have 4,4 in their gunstats so chew up the PCs quite easily. Isryphel stops to reload and the leader, Tempest (played by Christian Bale) kicks him through a wall. Rat charges him, but he throws Rat over the bar into the liquor. Both go down bleeding.
Meanwhile, speeding away, Pandora explains that the Shadows are a group of awakened humans, who don't want to destroy the matrix or the machines: they simply want to be superheroes and gods, and rule the matrix with this nigh-infinite power. After all, if you could hack your world to achieve infinite wealth and control, wouldn't you? But this means stopping the revolution and fighting the agents, so the Shadows tend to be bad-ass mofos.
The two left drop off the Keymaker at the library and go to Grand Central Station with the complete map. Dodging cops and security guards, they reach the control room. Nitro goes one on one with Tempest and does some damage, and Tempest flees. Nitro uploads the disk into the navigation system, and down on the main floor, the giant track map shows an overlay, revealing the location of the archive. However, a chuckle from Tempest reveals he has seen it too, and he tells them he'll get there first.
We cut to Rat and Isryphel being tempted to join the Shadows, for they will soon rule the Matrix in all ways that matter, when they have the archive. Infinite wealth and power awaits. The boys are not impressed.
He drives off one way. The PCs get their car, but then they realise their friends are going the other way in a second car. They follow their friends, Eurydice shooting at tires with her shotgun. A great chase occurs. Isryphel and Rat start trying to escape inside the car. Midbattle, as Isyrphel is tryingto wrench a gun away from the Shadows in the front seat, the entire car gets clipped by a semi, and cut in half, leaving our two PCs sitting there, skidding along the road, with one Shadow's hand still on Isryphel's gun (not the rest of him, though). Cue lots of jokes about katanas. They dodge traffic, kill the remaining shadow, and get picked up by Nitro. Some good driving rolls means they are able to catch the midnight train, the only subway train that goes past the disused Old Museum sub-station, wherein the archive lies.
Tempest and his men are also on the train. They exchange banter, then kung-fu fight. Isryphel crawled forward to the Shadow's carriage on the roof, and drops down dramatically into the fight. Nitro is gunned down early on, and lies bleeding. Rat is forced to take cover behind a chair. Feeling the odds turning, Eurydice grabs Tempest and THROWS HIM THROUGH THE ROOF OF THE TRAIN. Then she jumps through it herself and starts fighitng him up there.
They fight a lot, each taking turns to scrape the other along the walls of the tunnels speeding by, chewing up rock and steel as they do. She takes some damage, but manages to kick Tempest back to the very edge of the train. He teeters, but doesn't fall. He responds by kicking her up into the ceiling a few times. Then she gets mad, and takes off her belt, which is one of those ninja nine-piece-staff-whip things. She kicks Tempest's ass royally, finally tripping him off the train and dragging him along side it as they speed forward.
"Looks like your plans for world conquest have been derailed!" she yells, and then he is pulled under the wheels. Meanwhile Isryphel has killed the last goon downside (shooting him so hard he launches out the front of the train and also gets run over). As the train clatters on, Nitro dies in the arms of his captain ("This is the end of the line for me, captain!....You'll have to find a new pilot now!" "I'll never find a better pilot than you, Nitro!")
Then, mysteriously, the train suddenly stops, in a strange, empty station. On the far wall, a box reads "Emergency Security Access." Rat breaks the code. Pandora says that she can't open it. It must be Isryphel. He does. Lots of shiny light explodes, and when it stops, Isryphel's body, in meat space, is dead, and a shiny, transparent, cricuit-crossed version of Isryphel remains. He has ascended and become The Guide. Now he knows where everything in the Matrix is, and what it all means.
Now they just have to use it.
Cue Rage Against the Machine. Roll Credits.
Isryphel (Jude Law) - gun bunny who believes the outer world is also a Matrix (matrix 3)
Rat (Seth Green) - sarcastic hacker with a potentially deadly curiosity (matrix 3)
Nirto (???) - adrenaline junkie driver and kung fu dude (matrix 3)
Eurydice (Angela Basset) - mother-bear hovercraft captain deadly when cornered (matrix 4)
I never really worked their deals into the game, or got their fates to work, but I think this is always going to happen sometimes. You have a shot and maybe it works maybe it doesn't.
It helps if you don't have a plot ready, I guess (like Kickers in Sorcerer). But I did this time, cos I wasn't feeling ready to go purely off the cuff.
Some people have arksed me how I can rip off any story for any game. See if you can pick this film....
Our heroes arrive at the bad end of town to retrieve a mysterious suitcase. Their guides ask for more money, but are run off. On the broken stone wall is scrawled black graffiti saying "Beware the Shadows". The gang avoid the booby trapped stairs, break open the security doors and find themselves in a high-tech bank vault, not the kind of thing you expect in a brownstone in a Harlem-esque place. They do some kewl flips over the lasers, grab the suitcase from its pressure plate, and run. Agents try and chase them to the exit, but they make some cool rolls and get away.
Back in the real world, they meet Morpheus who explains that the suitcase contains one part of a code. Ghost explains that the Matrix is just a computer program, and therefore, it contains information about itself - where information is stored,and how it connects to hardware. These are all stored in a central block, guarded by the Agents, impossible to get. But there must also exist backups - archives - hidden throughout the city in case soemthing goes wrong. The resistance has discovered a legend of a hidden archive, lost beneath the city. This "suitcase" now a disk, is part one of a key to a map to find the archive. The other part is with a rogue program called the Keymaker. They have to find him and get the second part.
So they go to a night club (things always happen in nightclubs) and meet the Keymaker's sexy daughter, played by Kelly (Lady Deathstrike) Hu. Steve hits a mental speedbump, unable to think of something she might ask for in return for the code (she mentions other buyers and asks for their offer). Now I know why they had to kiss Monica Belucci - it's hard to demand a price in the Matrix that is meaningful. Eventually, Pandora - for tis her name - demands simply that the Keymaster gets access to the archive also, and that she come along to ensure this.
They agree. They go upstairs to find the Keymaker. He says he has the code, but asks for the same thing - the archived maps are his key to staying away from the Agents. The lights go out. Downstairs there is screaming. The guys from Equilibrium - all black suits with tails and high collars - are clearing the place out and demanding the Keymaker come out. Gun-fu happens.
Isryphel guns them down from the balcony as the others run downstairs. Nitro, Eurydice and their charges run through the Kitchen, Rat stops to help Isryphel. The Shadows (for tis them) have 4,4 in their gunstats so chew up the PCs quite easily. Isryphel stops to reload and the leader, Tempest (played by Christian Bale) kicks him through a wall. Rat charges him, but he throws Rat over the bar into the liquor. Both go down bleeding.
Meanwhile, speeding away, Pandora explains that the Shadows are a group of awakened humans, who don't want to destroy the matrix or the machines: they simply want to be superheroes and gods, and rule the matrix with this nigh-infinite power. After all, if you could hack your world to achieve infinite wealth and control, wouldn't you? But this means stopping the revolution and fighting the agents, so the Shadows tend to be bad-ass mofos.
The two left drop off the Keymaker at the library and go to Grand Central Station with the complete map. Dodging cops and security guards, they reach the control room. Nitro goes one on one with Tempest and does some damage, and Tempest flees. Nitro uploads the disk into the navigation system, and down on the main floor, the giant track map shows an overlay, revealing the location of the archive. However, a chuckle from Tempest reveals he has seen it too, and he tells them he'll get there first.
We cut to Rat and Isryphel being tempted to join the Shadows, for they will soon rule the Matrix in all ways that matter, when they have the archive. Infinite wealth and power awaits. The boys are not impressed.
He drives off one way. The PCs get their car, but then they realise their friends are going the other way in a second car. They follow their friends, Eurydice shooting at tires with her shotgun. A great chase occurs. Isryphel and Rat start trying to escape inside the car. Midbattle, as Isyrphel is tryingto wrench a gun away from the Shadows in the front seat, the entire car gets clipped by a semi, and cut in half, leaving our two PCs sitting there, skidding along the road, with one Shadow's hand still on Isryphel's gun (not the rest of him, though). Cue lots of jokes about katanas. They dodge traffic, kill the remaining shadow, and get picked up by Nitro. Some good driving rolls means they are able to catch the midnight train, the only subway train that goes past the disused Old Museum sub-station, wherein the archive lies.
Tempest and his men are also on the train. They exchange banter, then kung-fu fight. Isryphel crawled forward to the Shadow's carriage on the roof, and drops down dramatically into the fight. Nitro is gunned down early on, and lies bleeding. Rat is forced to take cover behind a chair. Feeling the odds turning, Eurydice grabs Tempest and THROWS HIM THROUGH THE ROOF OF THE TRAIN. Then she jumps through it herself and starts fighitng him up there.
They fight a lot, each taking turns to scrape the other along the walls of the tunnels speeding by, chewing up rock and steel as they do. She takes some damage, but manages to kick Tempest back to the very edge of the train. He teeters, but doesn't fall. He responds by kicking her up into the ceiling a few times. Then she gets mad, and takes off her belt, which is one of those ninja nine-piece-staff-whip things. She kicks Tempest's ass royally, finally tripping him off the train and dragging him along side it as they speed forward.
"Looks like your plans for world conquest have been derailed!" she yells, and then he is pulled under the wheels. Meanwhile Isryphel has killed the last goon downside (shooting him so hard he launches out the front of the train and also gets run over). As the train clatters on, Nitro dies in the arms of his captain ("This is the end of the line for me, captain!....You'll have to find a new pilot now!" "I'll never find a better pilot than you, Nitro!")
Then, mysteriously, the train suddenly stops, in a strange, empty station. On the far wall, a box reads "Emergency Security Access." Rat breaks the code. Pandora says that she can't open it. It must be Isryphel. He does. Lots of shiny light explodes, and when it stops, Isryphel's body, in meat space, is dead, and a shiny, transparent, cricuit-crossed version of Isryphel remains. He has ascended and become The Guide. Now he knows where everything in the Matrix is, and what it all means.
Now they just have to use it.
Cue Rage Against the Machine. Roll Credits.