Everything that has an End, has a sequel....
Welcome to the Matrix Degraded. What is it, you ask? Control... Or something like that. In this thread, Captains, Operators, and the rest of the crew from every ship on this forum will play a role in the outcome of the next chapter of the Matrix saga: The Matrix Degraded. The goal of this story will be to create a gut-wrenchingly hillarious story including characters and events from other movies and TV shows, set in the Matrix Universe.

Free your mind.
Peace is only temporary. After two decades of a delicate treaty between man and machine, war has risen yet again. The machines have broken off all peaceful relations with Zion. On top of this, Smith has returned to reign hell. The only way mankind will ever be able to survive is to obtain the One Ring of Power - The One Ring... To rule them all. As the machine's continue building their army, and Smith gains power within the Matrix, this ring will be the only thing that can save mankind. The machines have already launched a devastating attack on Zion, killing many crew members (Which explains why some ships have only one crew member. Join even if you're the only one aboard your ship!) This will be the main plot behind our story.

Some rules can be bent, hopefully none will be broken.
Here are the rules for the story:

1. No one can become "The One." This is only to keep everything fair. Instead, each character will have a special ability unique to them. Perhaps your character can fly, have irregular strength, or have the wicked ability to summon insanely large cats and hurl them at enemies. It's up to you.

2. You can write about your character only, or choose to write about everyone else but your character when you add to the story. Just try your best to keep other people in character… Don’t have the guy who can throw fat cats start flying in the air like Neo. Also, the only person who can kill off a character is the owner of the character.

3. Try to proofread your addition to the story. I’m not a tightass about this, and I do realize we have many international members here. However, if what you add is poorly written, it can be hard to understand where you’re taking the story.

4. Before you type up your addition to the story, click reply and post “WORK IN PROGRESS.” Once that is posted, go back and edit your post, writing your story in it. This will help with continuity, ensuring no one else continues the story until you are done writing your part.

5. When new members join your ship, to introduce them in the story, simply add a part in the story about Zion issuing a new member to your ship or something like that, as many ships are lowly populated from the recent attack.

6. Operators of ships do not have to stay out of the Matrix (That would be a bit boring…). Instead, each ship can create an “imaginary” operator, who temporarily works while the real operator is off in the Matrix.

I can only show you the door, you have to walk through it.
To join the story, just PM me (Or possibly Valasher, if she’s up to it) a description of your character. I will post the descriptions in a separate thread. You can resource that thread when reading and adding on to the story, so you can’t keep straight which character is which.

The story will begin once I have more characters involved than just me!

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Count me in. lol i only can't choise what power i whant. to be able to fly or to be able to shoot energy beams.

will you start off the story, when enough members have counted in ?

Hell yes! Expect my PM very soon!

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PM ThereIsNoMatrix, I'm kinda busy as of late. ;)

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Send yer applications to me alone then



Aye, once enough people join I'll start out the story, then you guys take it in whatever direction you want.

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So how many people need to sign up for degraded b4 it starts? cos im waiting for this with anticipashum

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We got about 8 people so far... We'll give it a little bit more time, I'll prolly start it off later tonight or tomorrow.

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where do you live, or what time zone are you in?

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I'm in central time... Looks like the story will have to start tomorrow - I just got home from an orchestra concert that took FAR too long (2 hours more than I thought it would take in fact). I'm sitting here in my tux and dress pants... I look a bit like Smith

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cool suit! So you're 2 hours ahead of me then, right?( I live in California)

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mmm, CA,
"I wish they all could be California Girls..."
You like Van Halen?

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