Robovac Revolution v1

"The thirteen stand ready. Listening. For you to demand justice."

- robovac_tresham

The first Robovac Revolution was the first major in-game event since Hackmud's launch. Celebrating the annual real-life holiday of Guy Fawkes Night, events thematic to it have taken place each year since.

Plot Synopsis
A group of robovacs (known now as The Thirteen), dissatisfied with the treatment bestowed upon them by Trust, took to Port Epoch to protest. The first and most vocal of the vacs was, who presented a poem to those in 0000 for the duration of the event. Tresham asked for the messages to be spread in order to support their cause and remarked that the Thirteen's scripts would be useful to those who could find them.

Eventually, players found the scripts of each member of the Thirteen, claiming their rewards and, based on dialogue delivered by, killing them.

Following the outcome of this first revolution, every member of the original Thirteen except for Tresham, Fawkes, Percy and Catesby have never been seen from again.

Gameplay
Thirteen users named after members of the Gunpowder Plot (such as or ) had hidden scripts available consisting of 2 hexadecimal characters. For each vac, the first part of the puzzle involved guessing the names of these scripts. To prevent brute forcing, every possible hexadecimal combination would show up via, however incorrect script names returned:

tread lightly. the path of the brute, while forceful, is quite ineffective when matters of secrecy are at hand.

These incorrect scripts would then prevent the user from trying any more combinations for 15 minutes.

When accessing the correct script, a small quip would be presented to the player, generally prompting to provide a password:

my support comes only with the correct password

Each prompt was different for each script, generally providing hints to aid in determining the password. These scripts also required users to be in the 0000 channel, as said scripts would force users to send messages into the channel:

we will die b4 we let t trust trample our right 2 roam free! ~robovac_tresham

These messages also provided hints to determine the next user and script to solve.

When the correct password was provided to the script in the argument, an output containing the vac accepting defeat, along with their loc, was given to the player. These locs had the magnara lock loaded (a new lock at the time). When breached, the vacs transferred upgrades to the breacher similar to NPCs.

Rewards
Various rewards were left on each robovac's loc -- including the first ever sn_w_usac locks and transfer_upgrade_v1 upgrades. In addition, Catesby's loc contained several CON_A5V4H locks.