Is Dirty Bomb the real game name?

(SockDog) #41

[QUOTE=zenstar;410283]Mercs are “toughguys” ™. They don’t wear protection when they don’t have to, and they tend to have a much lower life expectancy anyway so why worry about some future cancer? If they really cared about long term effects on their health you wouldn’t find so many chewing on the end of a stogie!

Also: government reaction would be for the overall good of the people (and by that I mean their wallets). An increase of 1% chance to get cancer is a massive cost to the NHS so to minimise potential loss of expense fraud money they’d evacuate the city and put up a restricted zone which would be patrolled but the security would be lax (probably because it’d be handled by G4S or something) and mercs could sneak through to pillage data cores.

In reality: I read an article about a woman who rode her motorbike through the areas around Chernobyl with no more protection than a normal biker has and all she had to do was take a shower afterwards. As long as you stay in the middle of the roads the rad levels are very low. All the radiation is stuck in the plant life. Paving and asphalt don’t hold radiation too long. So as long as we’re not shooting each other in the parks then the risk is pretty low for short stints.[/QUOTE]

Yet there would be a huge cost to moving 8 million people? Shutting down all business within London? I’m not sure a small increased risk of cancer and resulting treatment would touch on any of those costs.

Okay, wild animals then. Wild animals with 3 eyes! :slight_smile:

(tokamak) #42

Few people realise that the Twin Towers contained vast amounts of asbestos. So when they went down on 9/11 those gigantic dust clouds that filled Manhattan are much more lethal than most realise. Within the next decades we’re going to see a lot of lung-cancer cases that are a direct result of that day.

Removing the asbestos from the city before moving in would be the best decision public health wise. But shutting down Manhattan for that and cleaning it up would be such a toll on the economy that it was simply out of the question. Now a dirty bomb would be different of course. Radiation is easily measurable with Geiger counters and therefore much more scary than intangible nano-fibres wreaking havoc in your lungs.

Lore wise DB does it exactly right. The surroundings show desperate attempts at cleaning up the city but due to the lost infrastructure and the immeasurable wealth in London it gave way to organised crime and multinationals fighting over it. It’s a perfect setting indeed.

(.Chris.) #43

I’d rather they leave lots things open with the explanation side of things, perhaps it was the Government themselves who set it off for whatever reason or it was the Scottish after they went independent or something, maybe just some hints dotted around the maps at few possible reasons though not actually spell it out, headlines on news stands, eviction notices on shop windows and such. Let players imagination run wild, it’s an MP game, we don’t need cutscenes at start of each map again to tell us what’s happening. :slight_smile:

Someone told me that’s why they were knocked down, cheaper than removing it. :facepalm:

(tokamak) #44

That would be the most plausible angle for conspiracy theories.

We also have a very tall building on the university and it’s getting old. The university would love to just let it sink to the ground but they can’t because of all the asbestos. They’re going to need to slowly dismantle it and that’s something they just can’t afford.

(zenstar) #45

Technically you can get mutants with extremely low amounts of radiation. I mean an xray of some naughty bits has the possibility of screwing up the dna held within the sperm. That’s why they tend to give you lead coverings if they’re taking shots of the surrounding areas.
The problem there is mutations tend to result in non-viable offspring or failed pregnancies.
It’s extremely unlikely to simply mutate into some sort of awesome video game mutant even with high levels of radiation. You’re more likely to just go sterile and/or die.

Ofc I’m not a doc or a mutant expert either so if we have a Dr Mutantexpert in the house… :wink:

(DarkangelUK) #46

I thought half the population of London were mutants anyway?

(retsy) #47

i like the parts where this thread gets temporarily de-railed because of poop talk :smiley:

(zenstar) #48

Poop is important! Do you know how much poop there is in London? There is so much poop that sometimes you’ll find it just lying on the pavement. We need to find a place that is lacking in poop so that we can export our poop to them for a profit!

(Runeforce) #49

Adding to the conspiracy theories about who threw the bomb: The Provisional Sinn Féin finally stood up against the neoliberal derailing of the british society, and went back to their roots and coordinated an attack on the british financiel center; London, together with their brothers-with-arms, the IRA, to once and for all put an end to the british emperialism. Having learned the lesson from previous encounters with the english, they decided to use a non-lethal device; a dirty bomb, to prevent massive civilian casualties and minimize the following negative media campaign arising from its use, thus some what negating the risks of a brutal british teeths-for-a-tooth style retribution.

Sounds scary, right? :slight_smile: Oops, I think I just made the SD forums raise a red flag at MI5. :smiley:

(Exedore) #50

Dang. I thought it was nukuler.

(Donnovan) #51

Who is the one who put dirty bomb on the city?

A clever and inteligent youngster, who had no father and mother near hin. Learning what the world is about though TV, delinquent friends, shoppings mostruary, outdoors, panflects, and his own fear of everything.

He choosed to do diferent from it all, he choosed to win. But to win, he must teach a lesson…

…a remarcable lesson, to remain for many years.

“The prosperity that touch my self is about to perish. The gold that forge the angry will fall dirty on your hands. I wish my father was here to aprove my courage. He would be proud… of me…” Sotrek

Comes “D” BOOM!
Comes “B” BOOM!
Comes “Diiiiiiiiiiiiirryy BOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooomb-omb-omb…” :smiley:

(shirosae) #52

Man, someone who works next to me pronounces it that way. A young scottish man who says nukuler. He’s a physicist. Who says nukuler. He can say ‘nucleus’ properly. The mind boggles.

(EnderWiggin.DA.) #53

Thanks for putting me on the government watch list Splash Damage… >:[ (j/k)

Government search watch list

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’.

Props to KiddSpooky who noticed this first.

(Dthy) #54

Haha CLOUDS in MEXICO smell like PORK and come in TEAMS.

(tokamak) #55