Talk:DSS Satellite Phone
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Works splendidly, with bells on, ta very much - free beers at the membery arms for any of your alts! == 'So, what's the story sunshine?' ==
Prior to the outbreak
Richie Taylor, or RichTee as in the popular biscuit is a Detective Constable in the 'Flying Squad' of London's Metropolitan Police Force.
He comes from a long line of policemen protecting London's inhabitants, right back to the Bow Street Runners.
Born in Bow, he was distracted from school and college by low level crime and misdemeanour’s, mainly rebelling against his father, DC Frank Taylor and the family history. He also spent a fair amount of time at York Hall and Repton Boxing Club.
Following more than one close brush with the law and worrying connections to several crime families through school friends his desperate family gave him an ultimatum, leave the city with his family turning their back on him, or join the force and make amends. Passing out of cadet school in the top five percent he spent three years as a beat booby in several London boroughs and Manchester.
While liking his time on the beat, he decided if he was going to make a go of his career he needed something with a higher pace. So followed two years of motorway patrol having excelled in high speed pursuit driving and four years in SO19 (now CO19) Specialist Firearms Unit.
With the retiring of his father an opening was made in the Flying Squad. With a sense of history leaning on him Richie requested to join, and was accepted attaining the rank of Detective Constable.
In his third year Richie was finding that the face of London crime was changing from his father and grandfathers day. Rumours of co-ordination amongst the now mainly foreign gangs and the new willingness to kill and intimidate law enforcement led to Richie and his father Frank doing some off the books investigating.
What they found was while many of the local crime families of old had gone quiet or simply moved away it was possible that just one could be responsible form bringing the new gangs together in cooperation. Inevitably cages were rattled. Richie faced censure and reprimand from his superiors leading to suspicions of corruption in his squad, or even higher up.
On an hot afternoon July 2005 Frank called his son saying he had a break through from an old lag just released from prison and went to meet his father at The Approach pub next to Victoria Park. The air was dry and humid as Richie walked up to the pub. Parking was always a nightmare in this part of town. The usual noise of the city was all around, traffic, distant sirens and various music from open windows too loud and yet indistinct at the same time.
Frank met his son on the street outside, he had a stride in his step and a glint in his eyes like Frank was back on the job. Franks expression slipped from his face as the high pitched revving from a fast street bike boomed up the street between the tall Victorian houses.
Suddenly stepping into the road and putting himself between his son and the path of the now coasting bike Detective Frank Taylor, retired, took both barrels as the twin booms of a sawn-off shotgun deafened those near. In vain he raised arms to ward off the attacker.
The biker hastily stopped and fumbled to reload as the air filled with screams.
Richie snapped from the horror before him, with only one thing to do, close the distance. Swiping the barrels of the now loaded shotgun with his left and throwing a fast flat right hook to the back of the helmeted biker losing his grip as his head rocked forward.
Sensing all was not going to plan the biker gripped the throttle,dumped the clutch and booted it. Richie's hands slipped on the leathers unable to find purchase. He screamed in frustration.
Turning to his stricken father he rushed to Franks side, cradling him. He pleaded to the remaining people in the thrall of shock and sudden violence to call an ambulance then looked to his father.
'Dad.....dad...talk to me dad!'
Franks eyes blinked, the blue of his eyes shining in the sun contrasting against the all glistening blood.
'The......gun.....its a..a message son......'
'What dad? Save your strength....save your...'
'No...no time...the gun....old school....find..find the armourer.....give y-you the....shooter....'
'I will, but you...'
'Listen.....Granger.....you knew his....his boy...he knows son, he.....knows!.....I sent him down..... but....protected his boy, he owed.......me.....'
Franks blooded hands closed and griped. Richie felt paper crumple.
Frank coughed, his hands loosed their grip on his sons, his bloodied chest settled, the rasping ceased and the famed bright blue of Franks eyes narrowed and diminished as he died in Richie's arms as they lay together on one of the many streets they had both patrolled.
A day later the bike was found abandoned, caked in blood. Forensics would later confirm not one, but two counts of DNA, that of Frank Taylor, and that of a known eastern European, and now suspected ex-trigger man. Price of failure runs high in these circles.
Consumed with rage and not only barred from his own squad, not trusting his chain of command and put on leave with an impending investigation, Richie was forced to take matters into his own hands. Finding old man Granger was no problem, a dog walker already had, supposedly mugged and battered. It didn't matter, it wasn't the father that he wanted.
As Richie got off the train at Brownsell Plaza Railway Station he pulled the bloodied paper from his pocket, his dads neat writing across the slip.
'Johnny G, Malton'
The apple didn't fall far from the tree after all Richie thought thinking if of his old school friend, the didn't he do well, the good job he never turned out like his dad, the one and only well to do and made it in the city businessman Johnny Granger.
He crumpled the paper, and thought of the shotgun, stolen from evidence, in his bag.
Johnny was going to get it back, two barrels at a time.
Post outbreak
12th October 2009 - I am to embark on a tour of every pub in Malton to spread the word of The Rambling Drunks, could this be the longest Pub crawl in Maltons history?
Standing down as leader of The Drunks 10/09
Appointed 'Fearless Leader' of the Rambling Drunks 02/08 - It's an honor ladies n gents, Cheers!
SUPPORTER OF THE Biertag FESTIVAL!
I can recommend McCloud's Pub for quality hospitality and beer!
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Proud Sponsor of Urban Dead! |
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Caught on to this via a post on Brainstock and spread the word to some friends of mine. Thanks for the marvelous work, thusfar it's been a hoot to play with. M arcusF ilby T 17:14, 1 September 2009 (BST)
Dude, major kudos to you creating this awesome meta-game tool, I can't wait to see what updates you dole out next! --Fgon50 23:38, 3 September 2009 (BST)
- /me curtseys :D Next update should be in a week or two, but it'll be mostly security enhancements. I'll announce details here. Cheers. --Sophie ◆◆◆ CAPD 00:45, 4 September 2009 (BST)
so this is a modified version of the phone? im curious, could you modify guns and make them better? (like make a proper tommy gun!)--Zagert 22:12, 4 September 2009 (BST)
No button
Nice work! Thanks for making us a new toy! I can't actually make it work yet though. I've installed twice and restarted, but no button. I have the software requirements as well, so not sure why this is happening. Will keep trying. *Update* It won't show in one profile and does in another. When I logged into another account, there it was! Both profiles are alive. --Pantomime 17:39, 14 September 2009 (BST)
- Hey :) You think I could get an Iwitness or UDWitness taken by the character it doesn't work for? This is to check the HTML in the page, maybe there's some other script or extension buggering it up. I've had reports of the phone not showing up when you're using UDToolbar, but only if you're dead... and from what you tell me, this is something else. Feel free to contact me here, or in my talk page, or with the email this user thingy, or in Brainstock. Sorry for the inconvenience. --Sophie ◆◆◆ CAPD 00:25, 15 September 2009 (BST)
- No problem! I just emailed you a IWitness through here. Love that email option. Will have to remember that code. --Pantomime 01:07, 15 September 2009 (BST)
- Yup got it :) But I see nothing wrong with it... I'm very sleepy right now though, I'm probably missing something obvious. One possibility that comes to mind: are you accessing the game by the server's IP address with this alt, perchance? Say as http://94.76.232.96/map.cgi ? I have a friend who alternates www.urbandead.com, urbandead.com and 94.76.232.96, as a way of keeping sessions for three different alts without having to log out and back in. And well, if you're using the IP address, the phone won't work. In fact, probably no GM scripts will work. Just a thought. I'll get back to you tomorrow. --Sophie ◆◆◆ CAPD 10:18, 15 September 2009 (BST)
- I just use the normal main log in page http://www.urbandead.com/ Or when I log out of one alt I'll use that page to just re-log in http://www.urbandead.com/map.cgi?logout. I've just tried urbandead.com to see if it made a difference and still no button. I've also re-arranged the loading order of scripts,( I read somewhere that may make a diff?) I then disabled some and refreshed to see if they were interfering but no change. This is a strange error. Sorry to be such a bother. I appreciate anything you can do. Here are all the scripts I have installed in FF for your viewing pleasure. lol List--Pantomime 17:10, 15 September 2009 (BST)
- Yup got it :) But I see nothing wrong with it... I'm very sleepy right now though, I'm probably missing something obvious. One possibility that comes to mind: are you accessing the game by the server's IP address with this alt, perchance? Say as http://94.76.232.96/map.cgi ? I have a friend who alternates www.urbandead.com, urbandead.com and 94.76.232.96, as a way of keeping sessions for three different alts without having to log out and back in. And well, if you're using the IP address, the phone won't work. In fact, probably no GM scripts will work. Just a thought. I'll get back to you tomorrow. --Sophie ◆◆◆ CAPD 10:18, 15 September 2009 (BST)
- No problem! I just emailed you a IWitness through here. Love that email option. Will have to remember that code. --Pantomime 01:07, 15 September 2009 (BST)
Figures. Cheers for the screenie :) Satphone works best when it's the last script executed, actually, rather than the first--though if you disable all scripts but the phone, it should work regardless of order. What mystifies me is that it works for only some of your characters. We never saw anything like this in beta testing. But we'll get this thing running, you'll see.
Here's some test you can help me with, if you're game for finding and killing this bug--and many, many thanks for your patience.
- Please install this version. Just click on the link, it will install in-place (this is almost the same as the public stable version, but with a slight change in some function that could be the culprit of this).
- Open the error console (from the Firefox menu bar: Tools / Error console), and click on "Clear" to make it readable.
- Log in as this troublesome chick (lol).
Tell me if it works. And if doesn't, check in the error console if you see a message like this:
tag:dssrzs.org,2009-08-14:SatPhone/DSS Satellite Phone: UDID found: ######
or maybe, instead:
tag:dssrzs.org,2009-08-14:SatPhone/DSS Satellite Phone: UDID not found
or maybe some error. Thanks again, girl :) --Sophie ◆◆◆ CAPD 17:56, 15 September 2009 (BST)
