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Post by gregory on Jan 12, 2008 4:42:41 GMT -5
For any Bastards, 10 Minutes from Hell members, or folks interested in holding the Blackmore, survivors have occupied and barricaded it. Right now, all is quiet. The 'cades are EHB, and there's no one inside who so much as needs a FAK. But that will change, I'm sure, because some madman has installed and fueled a genny - and we all know lights attract insects, fish, and zombies.
And if that doesn't get the hornets riled up, we'll barricade the entire frelling suburb over the course of the next several days. The Blackmore is a beacon of hope for all of Malton (or maybe just the canary in the mine). As long as it stands, it means the survivors of the SSZ are winning. After all, who cares about the moral victory a survivor-occupied Ridleybank represents when you're hauling your corpsified body all over the city looking for a revive point that's still active, and then praying you find an unruined hospital so you can get a FAK before you die searching for one?
Green 'burbs outnumber reds by nearly 2 to 1, right now. The survivors are winning, which means it's time to stir up those zed groups and maybe convince another Shacknews or LUE to build a 300+ zed army overnight so they can actually oust us and crush the hopes of survivors everywhere. Wait a minute...
Um, anyway...I'll see you at the Blackmore...or in hell...same difference, basically...
I'd like to thank everyone who's already there. The Bastards don't have the numbers we once did, so we're glad for the support of groups like Blackmore's Knights, the USSR, and 10 Minutes from Hell. I must admit the 10 Minutes crowd have an enviable commute...
Keep fighting, you crazy Bastards!
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Post by darkfalle on Jan 15, 2008 10:26:35 GMT -5
I'm with ya! As of last time I checked we've got Blackmore going strong!
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Post by gregory on Jan 16, 2008 0:54:34 GMT -5
Progress report. Day six of the siege, I think... I'm not the official Hash Mark Crosser-Offer for the current siege, so I'm not expected to stay sober enough to know what day it is. Anyway, the Blackmore is EHB but suffering a temporary power outage, but I suspect someone with more AP will rectify that shortly.
A few minutes before my login today, some zed in survivor clothing freeran inside, wrecked the genny, and brought the 'cades down to an oh-so-worrying QSB. Apparently, it then realized its arms were far too flabby to finish the job, but instead of taking a bite out of a survivor or two before APing out, this particularly cowardly zed started groaning at me. I'm not sure why it thought this would help. The undead legions outside that have thus far shown themselves too impotent to prevent their once-ruined suburb from becoming a freerunner's paradise, so I'm not sure what this zed expected groaning to accomplish. Maybe it thought that it could convince me it was actually a survivor engaged in self-pleasuring past times.
Having ousted this vermin and re-barricaded the building, I looked around for FAK targets. Everyone (I'm not going to give specific numbers for tactical reasons, but I'll admit that it was 50+) was at full HP. You rarely see that in a mall even during a lull between Shacknews getting bored and LUE getting interested. So I decided to go on a little scouting run around the suburb.
I saw only 1 ruined building in about 15 AP of travel, and the lowest I saw the 'cades on the non-ruined buildings was QSB. Did the RRF surrender their home suburb to survivor control and just forget to tell us about it? Maybe the armistice announcement got lost in the radio spam. I didn't have the patience to look around outside (the 'burb hasn't been in survivor hands long enough for a formal barricade policy to become widespread, so finding an entry point is pure luck), but the interiors are rather peaceful. It's such a nice, safe neighborhood that I think when I have kids, I'll raise them in Ridleybank.
Not being extraordinarily concerned about the Blackmore falling in the immediate future, I thought I'd visit Ghetto Cow in Mogridge, for the night. I say this for the benefit of any Gore Corps members who might be disappointed to look for me at the Blackmore and discover I'm not in, at the moment.
As much as I'm making light of this conflict, this being Ridleybank, there is *always* danger. If you're a newbie, we won't yell at you for poking your head inside the Blackmore, but please remember that every Blackmore siege has ended in a massacre of the defenders by some zombie group that just joined in large numbers a few weeks ago. It's only a matter of time before some other big forum discovers Urban Dead and decides to create a mob of zombies who use IRC to coordinate their attacks so they can take all the malls by storm before getting bored and quitting the game so the RRF and other, more familiar zed groups can take the credit for the victory. Don't say you weren't warned!
DISCLAIMER: The above makes no attempt to present a fair and balanced view of zombies, and it might even be filled with lies. I love you guys, but if we didn't trash talk you zombies into beating the hell out of us, we wouldn't be Bastards. It's a tradition!
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 16, 2008 1:46:09 GMT -5
Yay, Gregory is with us in Moggrigde PD!
If any random people happen to go outside Blackmore, be sure to tell our living-impaired friends (aka brain-dead zombies, ya think a hundred of 'em would have eaten y'all by now) to stop by Ghetto Cow's pirate party in Moggridge!
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Post by gregory on Jan 16, 2008 2:29:20 GMT -5
I'll see what I can do, but the 100-150 zeds outside seem to be flailing without much coordination. I'm only seeing three or four survivors getting dragged out into the street, each day, and the revive points next door are usually empty even of rotters and death cultists.
There was a Polish novel I read a couple years back called With Fire and Sword - apparently won a Nobel Prize for literature in its time. It's about a war, and I won't get into the background more than that. Anyway, there's a scene where the heroes (soldiers in one army) are taunting the enemy soldiers (who happen to be from a country between two enemy countries that are always invading it). It was something along the lines of "While you're out here fighting us on our native soil, the soldiers of that other country that hates you are burning your homes and raping your wives and daughters. If you don't run away now, what's left of your house is going to be littered with the illegitimate children of enemy soldiers from that other country that hates you."
I think it kind of sounds like a Bastard taunt. The only way this suburb could be less in zombie hands is if the Upper Left Corner decided to declare Moggridge the upper upper left corner of Nichols Mall, occupied it, and set up a radio to broadcast spam from it day and night. I think the term hip young console gamers use is "teabagging."
That being said, I didn't want to just bring 100+ zeds to your doorstep without an invitation to do so. Maybe I should encourage them to retake Moggridge before they get frustrated with the futility of their current siege. Assuming they can emerge victorious when they outnumber the survivors 20 to 1 (instead of only 2 or 3 to 1), they might win back enough of their self-esteem to work their way up to, I dunno, maybe successfully clogging a revive point or even cutting our freerun path to Nichols for a few hours at a time!
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 16, 2008 2:41:52 GMT -5
The only way this suburb could be less in zombie hands is if the Upper Left Corner decided to declare Moggridge the upper upper left corner of Nichols Mall, occupied it, and set up a radio to broadcast spam from it day and night. My God, that would be great! Anyway, if one zombie wanders over from Blackmore to Moggridge, I'd be happy. Now if like 20 or 30 did come over, I'd be ecstatic!
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Post by gregory on Jan 16, 2008 3:00:07 GMT -5
Having the ULC set up shop in Ridleybank (especially in the RRF's birthplace) would be hilarious. Having spent a bit more time with them in Nichols (and via their radio broadcasts), they seem to have quite a bit in common with what I've seen of GC. They're a bit more...wide-ranging in their insanity (pirates and rats are just one small circle in their elaborate Venn diagram), and they lack the "stick it to the zeds" attitude GC has, but the two groups have plenty of points in common.
I wonder if you could convince them that it would be fun to dub Moggridge the upper upper left corner of Nichols... I'd laugh my ass off if they actually joined in this little invasion of Ridleybank. Nothing quite says "you don't scare us one bit" quite like broadcasting 50 AP of spam instead of defending the building you're sleeping in.
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 16, 2008 3:03:28 GMT -5
Yah, I've seen their stuff and admired them and all that, but I don't actually know any of 'em
Maybe I'll invite them up though, that'd be fun.
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Post by Vecusum on Jan 16, 2008 9:21:12 GMT -5
DISCLAIMER: The above makes no attempt to present a fair and balanced view of zombies, and it might even be filled with lies. I love you guys, but if we didn't trash talk you zombies into beating the hell out of us, we wouldn't be Bastards. It's a tradition! I've been gone from here for a while and yet still blackmore raids. Some things never change.
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Post by Padre Romero on Jan 16, 2008 12:41:47 GMT -5
isn't it wonderful!
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Post by Gore Girl on Jan 16, 2008 13:49:57 GMT -5
Oooohh please tell me ULC are going to Ridleybank. Though it's politically incorrect in the extreme for me to wish they'd occupy Moggridge, it might give Gooli a chance to actually spend some quality non-headshot time with them.
p.s. Gregory, how about a revive if I promise not to kill you?
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 16, 2008 14:10:42 GMT -5
I've been gone from here for a while and yet still blackmore raids. Some things never change. Including how you keep whining it about 'em, no? Anyway, the ULC has been contacted via their wiki page. If ya know any of the personally, drop hints to come to Moggridge.
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Post by Codename T on Jan 16, 2008 17:14:24 GMT -5
The Greatcoat Detective Agency is swooping down into Blackmore for the time being, looking for clues and such. We're also going to be checking out Moggridge for some hints.
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Post by Lachryma on Jan 16, 2008 17:35:42 GMT -5
Are you guys PKers? We could use some excitement...
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Post by Codename T on Jan 16, 2008 17:54:14 GMT -5
We only allow PKing within our ranks when someone is a proven murderer or GKer or such. Mainly we're going to be running around talking about finding clues as to Moriarty's whereabouts.
Speaking of, anyone here heard anything from ruffian chatter?
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