The Constant Struggle Against the Spam Bots

[techno156]

Day 74, 0200 (Orbit, FTB_forum, DSec 2)
Well, it appears as though I forgot the identification for the creatures in the medibay, although I've relocated most of the either to their home planet, or moved them elsewhere. I have created some form of identification for them, all customisable of course... So far, though, on this front, the Enemy seem to be keeping somewhat quiet... I wonder what they're planning...

OOC: What does OOC mean? If anybody wants, the 'space station' is another type of bunker. :3

 

[Exedra]

Day 75

This is it. The Bridge is complete. Everyone holds hands, and I push the button. Lets hope it works this time.

Day something or other, before the apocalypse started.

It worked. We were transported to before the apocalypse started. There was a scientist in front of us. I asked him a question.

"You're inventing the drones aren't you?"

He replies, "Yeah, why?"

I pull out a pistol and shoot him in the head.

 

[ApSciLiara]

OOC: Weeelp another plot resolved using time travel. I'd explain why it wouldn't work as intended, but I'm on my phone.

Sent from boobs (because why not?)

 

[Jess887cp]

Not resolved while i'm here.

*laptop*
Well bugger, I thought we were jumping universes, but noooo, we're going to be time travelers. Oh joy.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Do these guys want to destroy the universe with such a paradox? Not, happening, if I have anything to say about it. I don't want to cease to exist.

I jump out of the time stream later than those other guys did. If I can get to the drone guy before them...

Found him. God, that was close. I use a copy of his DNA and the latent time-energy to make a clone of the guy. They'll never know they've killed a fake.

Crisis averted. A basic 24 hour memory wipe on this guy, and everything should be all right. No more paradox. Let's just hope they don't realize and decide to stick around. I quite like the future. There are better solutions.

*entry ends timestamp corrupted *

 

[rymmie1981]

OOC: Rymmie has been stuck in a cave. He has no clue what the day is which is why he didn't have a day number on his first report and Entry One after being rescued. The point is that he doesn't know anything about what's going on and, um, well, you'll see. Hands off the uranium, too. That's part of the "You'll see". Let's just say that we'll be stepping outside the Geneva Conventions in what's probably an unexpected way.

Also, OOC means Out Of Character. It's a really old term from roleplaying MUDs.

IC(In Character):

Rymmie's Battle Journal, Entry Two.

So, this Conduit group are actually some sort of augmented humans. I'll politely decline if they offer to augment me. Some of them seem a little off. My eyes are getting used to the sunlight, but they still hurt. Luckily, I found a pair of sunglasses abandoned in the corner of this base. Some guy named Jess has his face buried in a laptop.

Maybe I overreacted when I called their leader an idiot and said he was firing wildly. I kind of miss my cave and my machines. I keep thinking about running away back home and resealing my cave. There's one catch, though. I've been watching my uranium very closely. You do that to stuff that glows, you know. The first pieces look a little smaller than when I dug them up, and my pack is getting hot. I took one of the chunks out of the pack and it started to cool down. Something about these rocks makes them hotter when they get close together. I'll separate them into two groups and keep them at opposite ends of my cot.

I scrounged some parts for my railgun. I don't have a power source for it yet, but I grabbed a couple batteries that look compatible. We'll find out here in a little bit. I'm not sure what ammo to use for it. I'll keep looking for something suitable. Until then, I'm steering clear of those Conduits.

One thing before I go...those spambots in the ravine. They were there for a reason. Maybe that ravine wasn't as natural as I thought. What could they be doing down there?

 

[whizzball1]

Day 75

This is it. The Bridge is complete. Everyone holds hands, and I push the button. Lets hope it works this time.

Day something or other, before the apocalypse started.

It worked. We were transported to before the apocalypse started. There was a scientist in front of us. I asked him a question.

"You're inventing the drones aren't you?"

He replies, "Yeah, why?"

I pull out a pistol and shoot him in the head.

Not resolved while i'm here.

*laptop*
Well bugger, I thought we were jumping universes, but noooo, we're going to be time travelers. Oh joy.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Do these guys want to destroy the universe with such a paradox? Not, happening, if I have anything to say about it. I don't want to cease to exist.

I jump out of the time stream later than those other guys did. If I can get to the drone guy before them...

Found him. God, that was close. I use a copy of his DNA and the latent time-energy to make a clone of the guy. They'll never know they've killed a fake.

Crisis averted. A basic 24 hour memory wipe on this guy, and everything should be all right. No more paradox. Let's just hope they don't realize and decide to stick around. I quite like the future. There are better solutions.

*entry ends timestamp corrupted *

Yaaaaay now we don't have to stop!
Well done, Jess!

 

[Bellaabzug21]

OOC: Weeelp another plot resolved using time travel. I'd explain why it wouldn't work as intended, but I'm on my phone.

Sent from boobs (because why not?)

I agree with you completely. Thanks Jess for coming up with such a nice solution.

Day 75
I returned from the mountains only to find Exedra rushing me to his time bridge thing. We all hold hands and go back in time. When we arrive soon after a long rickety trip. At first Jess seems to be gone, but nobody seems to notice. Exedra asks the guy standing in front of him who the guy was and then promptly shoots him in the head. Crisis averted. Now that that's over, I realize everybody's staring at my chest. I look down and realize that I have boobs. There was only one thing to be said, and I had to say it.

"What the fuck Exedra?!?!?!?!?"

 

[whizzball1]

Time travel brokenness explanation:
When you go back in time to fix something, and you fix it, you in the future will have no reason to go back and fix said thing.
So the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it lulz so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it so the timeline will go back to normal, in which the bad thing happens and you have to go back and fix it and because it never ends up happening you never have to go fix it.

 

[whizzball1]

I hid a seecret word in that post.
Can you find it?
Refresh page first.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Day 75, some time at night.
Jesus fucking Henrietta Bishop-Christ. I give the man points for trying, but... time travel doesn't work like most people think it does. Sure, you'll make a new timeline where whatever event you changed didn't occur... but everything's gotta happen somewhere. It's hard to explain, but basically in order to avoid a paradox, our fucked timeline would still need to exist, otherwise where would our group of time travellers come from to fix everything? Then again, I guess whatever Jess went back to do is what he thinks would fix that.
Sigh. These people are useless. I'm glad I didn't bother going through with them. I missed a senseless murder that didn't achieve a thing.
Ah, whatever.
Weird shit happened when they came back! One of the guys (I think his name was Bella or something) has boobs now.
I still wouldn't date him.
...
Why did I even say that?

 

[Bellaabzug21]

Day 75, some time at night.
Jesus fucking Henrietta Bishop-Christ. I give the man points for trying, but... time travel doesn't work like most people think it does. Sure, you'll make a new timeline where whatever event you changed didn't occur... but everything's gotta happen somewhere. It's hard to explain, but basically in order to avoid a paradox, our fucked timeline would still need to exist, otherwise where would our group of time travellers come from to fix everything? Then again, I guess whatever Jess went back to do is what he thinks would fix that.
Sigh. These people are useless. I'm glad I didn't bother going through with them. I missed a senseless murder that didn't achieve a thing.
Ah, whatever.
Weird shit happened when they came back! One of the guys (I think his name was Bella or something) has boobs now.
I still wouldn't date him.
...
Why did I even say that?

Actually i'm a her now

Day 76
This is completely fucking insane, but having boobs is actually quite nice. I finally get to say "MY EYES ARE UP HERE YOU ASS!" I've always wanted to say that. In other news, Exedra's plan failed and Jess came back an hour after we did and explained what he did. At first we were mad, but then Jess explained to us that it wouldn't have worked any ways. But I suspect that our time traveling may have done something even worse than anything the spambots can. Each time someone time travels, a small hole in time occurs. Usually it's a small thing, like a never ending paradox or a humanoid anomaly, but it usually fixes itself in due time. But when someone leaves the time stream during a time trip, it causes the hole to enlarge and create larger problems. I'm not sure what exactly the hole is at the moment but I know for certain that it's not going to fix itself. Me and GPuzzle will be investigating the databases for any anomalies in history that weren't there before.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Actually i'm a her now

Weeeeeelllll I can give you a long list of reasons why you aren't, but I can't think of them and I'm too lazy to look them up.
But I'll leave you with this: sex (your bits) != gender (your identity)
Wow, that actually explains it pretty well.
IDK. I can't be bothered thinking hard at the moment.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

Weeeeeelllll I can give you a long list of reasons why you aren't, but I can't think of them and I'm too lazy to look them up.
But I'll leave you with this: sex (your bits) != gender (your identity)
Wow, that actually explains it pretty well.
IDK. I can't be bothered thinking hard at the moment.

Shut up and let me enjoy my girly bits.

 

[rymmie1981]

Rymmie's Battle Journal, Entry Three:

Everyone seems to be arguing over time travel and boobs. I just adapted those batteries to my railgun. I went out back and fired a couple rounds of normal ammo. I ended up thrown against a wall from the force. Step 2 of my plan completed. Now, I have to finish Step 1.

 

[ApSciLiara]

Shut up and let me enjoy my girly bits.

What I'm trying to say is, you can have girly bits and still be a man. It's complicated and hard to explain.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

What I'm trying to say is, you can have girly bits and still be a man. It's complicated and hard to explain.

Mentally, i'm still a man, but physically i'm a woman. That kind of goes without saying.

 

[the_j485]

I am here to join the fight!

Day (something sorry)
Jungle airspace.

*Begin transmission*
This is Corporal Jonny of the General FTB air force. Is anyone out there? Oh god please, somebody respond! My whole flight, wiped out by the spambots... All I saw was a shadow, and I shot for cover... No one else made it... They're all KIA... Oh god... It's here... Please, just send help, I'm nearly out of fuel, I've nowhere to land... BOOM!
They've hit my engine! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
*End transmission

 

[Bellaabzug21]

Day 77 7:00
A transmission came in from Jonny today. I'm going to leave the search for the time hole to GPuzzle until I return with Jonny.
Day 77 10:00
I've found the location of Jonny's crash. There's loads of debris from all the fallen planes. I hope he's still alive.
Day 77 12:00
We've found a heat signature! We're currently digging whatever it belongs to out of the debris. This may take a while and whatever's in there may die by the time we get to it.
Day 77 13:00
We've dug it out! It is Jonny. His heart beat is slow and he appears to be in some sort of self induced coma. Hopefully our doctors will be able to save him.
Day 77 17:00
He's woken up. Hopefully he's okay and will be able to tell us what shot him down. It may be a lead on the time hole.

 

[whizzball1]

OOC: And back.
So I see you guys have come up with a story kind of like The Infinity Ring series, in which 3 kids have to fix Great Breaks in time in order to keep the Earth from receiving a Fiery Cataclysm.
So I guess you guys are going to go back in time to fix each Great Break.
Let's call it that, eh?
IC: 19/03/0001 S.A. (Day 78)
8:00
So apparently the time travelling caused horrible holes in time. I told the Conduit that conveniently has the power to look through time to find any problems with the timeline.
12:00
So the Conduit has found numerous breaks in time that need to be fixed.
I remember an old series I used to read called The Infinity Ring.
OOC: Wikipedia here: Ok, so there's no Wikipedia page yet.
Wikia here: http://infinityring.wikia.com/wiki/Infinity_Ring_Wiki
IC: In memory of the series, I am going to call the holes Great Breaks.
14:00
So we are working on setting up a more powerful Power Generation System so that the Bridge can be set up to operate on shorter intervals.
In the meanwhile, we are also working on duplicating the Infinity Ring mentioned in The Infinity Ring series.
I bet the authors never anticipated that their invention would actually come to life!
In about 5 days, we will be ready to conduct the first trip to solve the first Great Break.
My man is currently working on figuring out exactly what the details of the break are.
OOC: This is where you guys come in.
I need you to find a good idea for a Great Break.
IC: So that's that.
We'll be solving these Breaks sometime in the future.
Conduit Leader, Conduit Bunker Beta

 

[GPuzzle]

Day 79 - currently searching data with Bella (by the way, he/she is preety hot now).
The first break I see is at 28 of June of 1942.
More exactly, Henry VIII's birth.
Which is now a miscarriage.
There's a general lack of energy currently, so I made a basic human-powered generator - a treadmill connected to an electric motor rewired to our main energy system.
I guess we affected the Industrial Revolution - not directly, though.
When we solve this, we are going to be able to find the second break.