Have you seen him?
Techercizer
7th Player Join Date: 2011-06-11 Member: 103832Members
7th Player Join Date: 2011-06-11 Member: 103832Members
<div class="IPBDescription">This dashing superhero...</div>I have heard dim reports echoing through the halls as of late. Reports that on a cold night in Crevice, whenever there is an extractor in need or a single skulk to be fought, you may glimpse a dashing figure streaking across the night, illuminated only by a small flame at his chest. Nobody knows the identity of this mysterious hero, but they say if you listen closely, as the hiss of his presence fades from earshot, you may hear him call out his name.
Welder Man.
Who amongst you have glimpsed this daring recluse? This soldering-torch-among-men?
Welder Man.
Who amongst you have glimpsed this daring recluse? This soldering-torch-among-men?
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Those... those are like unicorns, man. So rare and majestic!
It was just as the first rendition of Refinery was being finished up. Lava Falls looked beautiful, and the team was excited to release the map. They were doing one of the final sweeps through the map after a playtest, when one of the marines noticed something peculiar. In the middle of a well-lit room was the ragdoll of a Gorge that hadn't dissolved.
The marine went over to check the body and annotate the location for the mapmaker to examine, when he noticed he was clipping over it like it was a player. On closer examination, the Gorge was still alive, and a single alien player was on the enemy team. He called out in teamspeak, then in game chat, then in text chat, asking the player what was up. There was no response.
Upon closer examination, the Gorge was covered in welder burns. It looked like he had been welded again and again, even as he healed himself, for a very long time. The power node for the room looked freshly repaired too, shiny and scorched clean. The marine annotated the map position and decided the Gorge had crashed, logging out for the night.
The next day, they still had not heard back from the Gorge PT. His Steam was offline, his emails weren't replied to, and even calls to his house went unanswered. Nobody could find him. In the course of looking around his profile for information, they stumbled across an odd screenshot that had been uploaded during the last match they played with him. It looked like the room the Gorge had been gone to kill the power in before the game ended, the same room they had found him in after the match.
When asked to recall who had restored power to the room, nobody on the Marine team could give a definite answer. They all agreed the power had come back up, allowing them to phase through and make the winning push on the Alien Hive; however, every person on the team swears they were too busy defending against a base rush at that time, and none of them claim to have been anywhere near that part of the map.
The decision was made to redo the map completely. Nobody knew exactly why, but suddenly UWE declared maps needed to be opened up. Bigger, brighter maps began to emerge in droves, and random starting locations were frantically implemented, according to the team, to keep the players guessing with each round. Bright tournaments were organized, in which hundreds of eyes were kept on the official maps for hours, watching every cranny of the map.
The Gorge was never heard from again, and no repeat of the incident followed. UWE determined the new map change in line with their "updated requirements", and christened it for 1.0. The incident faded from memory, and eventually, all that was left was a change in the guidelines, and an odd tendency for Power Nodes to repair with unusual quickness every couple of patches. That, and <a href="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/82/212786006_54f9f3e889_z.jpg" target="_blank">the screenshot</a>
Does Welderman have a romantic interest? Perhaps Gorgia is a female that has betrayed him somehow.
Welderman should have a narrator. Easily, you can fit in narration between deaths.
(in narrator's voice) "The Fade has felled our courageous hero!"
(In welderman's voice, and please make it a distinct one) "This mighty beast's claws are formidable!"
(narrator) "Can Welderman's BURNING passion see him through to the end?!"
I would happily support you in your RPing and even be a supporting character for you. But if all you're going to say is "Welderman!..." then I have nothing to work with.
And again, they release the game on All Hallow's Eve... For the second time already.
He must be pretty sad they nerfed welders. Or did they?
You don't know the half of it. I had to through the annotations the following day. It was harrowing. At the very spot where the gorge lay were hundreds of annotations, and they all said "WELDERMAN" it was terrifying I went to the PT group and said who left all these annotations it was the gorge pt wasn't it and they said no the gorge pt is dead but then WHO WAS ANNOTATION?!?!
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