Hello everyone, most of you don't know who i am, but for the few who do i thought it was time i finally came out of character. The Matrix is ending and i guess that means Barnsley story is over too.
Anyone who followed the exploits of Barnsley the failed Agent's trials and tribulations to achieve reinstation as a System Agent will no doubt be aware of this little thread http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300023479
where i bashed out little story comics showcasing Barnsley's day to day struggles whenever i had the opportunity (and although they are a little slapdash, it took alot of work to get them done, especially the flashback episodes) and i'd like to thank everyone who got involved in Barnsley's story and helped me have some fun RP.
There was more planned from Barnsley, infact my absence of late was due to levelling another character on Syntax (37 at the moment, but don't think he will get any further), Recursion's RP becoming harder and harder to find, though truth be told finding people to RP with Barnsley was always a struggle for the most part due to the nature of the character, but i think i found some fun ways to incorporate it into his story ('Note to self: Stop seeking assistance at Mara Central' for instance). But now with the end approaching i don't think anymore Barnsley stories will be told, and him finding a sort of peace as a self made Simulation Agent is as good a place as any to leave it.
But for anyone interested, i'd thought i'd share a rough first draft of the introduction story for the Syntax character i created and give a little back story for how he got there.
- Firstly Barnsley after an attempted deletion had a sort of nervous breakdown and then exploded. He was then reassambled by his stoner hippie coder friend Quota, who stated he had reassembled about 90% of Barnsley's code (This was mostly just to show how sort of inept Quota was also, but the idea that there was 10% of Barnsley's code floating about somewhere opened up some ideas).
- Barnsley then decides to embrace life as an Exile, the System having turned it's back on him, and protecting the Simulation, not the System (probably is little difference to be honest, but Barnsley is kind of an idiot).
-Barnsley then discovers that he has infact reached his dream thanks to his tramp program friend Norton and names himself Agent Barnsley once more (This is where the story ends).
- However, the missing 10% of Barnsley's code was to be discovered by Quota and Barnsley wanting it back tells him to reinsert it into him (despite Quota's misgivings about reinserting a peice of damaged code that has been floating about on it's own for several months) which he does.
- The code would then start to affect Barnsley negatively, making him angrier at the System due to this code's last memories of the machines attempting to delete it (This was planned before the Smith event, which was totally not planned, so some of the same ground was covered) and attempting to destroy it.
- With Qu0ta's help he would expell it, and they would both asume it was destroyed for good. But infact it would have escaped into the subway system...
So there you go, hope you enjoyed Barnsley's antics, i certainly did, and apologies for not getting onto Vector and Syntax enough, and big thank you to everyone who took part, especially Tranque (who gave me so much material - and i did laugh at the accusations that i was Tranque, that would be way too much duel clienting for anyone to handle) and Engrailed who became big characters in Barnsley's life.
Thank you.
- (Former) Agent Barnsley.
