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Author Topic: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog  (Read 1956 times)

Eternauta

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[Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« on: January 04, 2012, 04:22:40 am »

You’re sure you’ve heard the name Ibarra before… Heard rumors about an attack on the train, about deaths in the Boneyard ruins…

You believe you might have seen Jake around during your travels. Or maybe you saw him in the Boneyard, years ago, when we was just another young scavenger. You probably did not pay attention to him then, you probably don’t remember after so many years.

But now his name can be read on papers, according to which there is a price on the man’s head. The NCR government is willing to pay a reward of 140.000 caps to anyone who kills Jake Ibarra or takes him to the NCR Hall of Congress, in Shady Sands.

While Ibarra is most probably moving from one place to another, running away from NCR authorities, he does not seem to have any problem to speak about his situation with people he meets. Indeed, there are travelers who claim to have met him, and heard his story, but how can you know for certain? They might just be false rumors.

The only thing you are sure about is that you should start your quest in the ruins of what once was the Old World city of Los Angeles, where this man was born. There, you might find out more about Jake Ibarra, or the “Boneyard Dog”, as the local Scavengers and some Regulators call him.




STATUS: CANCELLED

This is a very simple player driven event in which players who wish to participate need to look for Holotapes with clues about where Jake Ibarra has gone. Each Holotape will tell you where to look for the next one, and they will lead you to the end of Jake’s travels, where you’ll find out there’s more to all this than just bounty hunting.

The tapes are messages recorded by Jake Ibarra or by other characters. Most are monologues, but some are dialogues.

There are eight tapes that could be considered “vital” to the quest. But there are also six Holotapes in certain locations inside the Boneyard area. These will make it a bit easier to look for the others, but also they will offer a lot of information about Jake Ibarra, his past, and why the NCR is after him. Also, if you find any of them, you can take a screenshot of the tape’s content and post it here to claim your reward (10.000 Caps each).

The titles of these six holotapes are:
-“George is leaving” - Found by falloutdude.
-“A warning” - Found by falloutdude.
-“Lots of deaths recently” - Found by falloutdude.
-“Ryan Vega interviewing a survivor” - Found by falloutdude.
-“Rumors confirmed” - Found by falloutdude.
-“Leaving” - Found by falloutdude.

You will also find a few more tapes scattered around in different places. These ones are for the lols :)

You can look for Jake Ibarra on your own, or you can work in a team. Also I don’t care if someone wishes to drop misleading holotapes with false information or even “roleplay” characters who are sympathetic to Jake Ibarra and shoot the bounty hunters :D

If you find Jake Ibarra, you can of course fight him and travel to Shady Sands for your reward (which will be given to the same character that confronts Ibarra)… or you can try to go for a rather peaceful solution (hint: you could get a better reward this way! ;)).

The Boneyard Dog will be waiting.



I want to thank:

-Jackall, who helped me get all those damn tapes!

-Wipe, thanks to her you can be sure the reward from this quest won't give you an unpleasant surprise :P

-Surf, always willing to read my texts and share his opinion.

-Anyone who has wasted some minutes listening to Jake's story while being trolled by NCR thieves and the like.

-Any player who participates in this little shitty event.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2012, 02:48:01 am by Eternauta »
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« Last Edit: January 04, 2012, 05:21:44 am by falloutdude »
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Re: [Player Event] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 06:35:22 am »

Very nice, maybe you could post all the clues/hints/stories in one piece somewhere too? Congrats for falloutdude for being able to find them all too. :D

EDIT: Damn, I misread. Blame it on that I just woke up and still am sleepy. :P Wonder who'll find the remaining ones.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2012, 06:38:08 am by Surf »
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Re: [Player Event] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 06:43:31 am »

I will gladly post screenshots of all the Holodisk messages when the event is over. However, I only have the six Boneyard tapes and the eight "vital" ones, the others were just random stuff about the character and are not really important.

But anyway, we still have to wait until the Boneyard Dog is found :D
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Re: [Player Event] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 08:53:26 am »

E, i missed this event but i can tell form reading it, it's excellent. Good work! Thanks for adding some fun content to the game. Excellent excellent excellent.

This makes me want to do something similar. Can i send my ideas to you?
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Re: [Player Event] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 09:06:41 am »

The event is not over, you might want to contact falloutdude on IRC or PM and team up with him :)

And of course we can talk about any ideas you have... If we gather a group of people we could organize something much cooler than this shitty Boneyard Dog event :D
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2012, 02:53:46 am »

As I will not be playing FOnline tonight, everyone is busy with prewipe madness, and I probably won't touch the game before the wipe, this player event is now cancelled.

I will probably make something similar after the wipe, but it will not be after a short time, as I suppose everyone will be busy setting up their factions and stuff like that.

Thanks falloutdude for trying to complete this event, and thanks to anyone else who thought this was interesting :)
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2012, 03:50:56 pm »

It's a pleasure to help with the holotapes, to see that this event turned up interesting, and to have gangmates like you.

Only shame I did not have any chance to participate :(

Of course you can count on me for setting this up after the end of the world!
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2012, 05:06:02 pm »

I found numerous tapes, followed directions, all obvious and slightly related places were searched and found nothing. Some other towns that didnt make sense in searching were also completely searched. I must know where he was after spending all night searching every city and area on map.
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2012, 05:11:14 pm »

Well, I was going to post all tapes and tell everything, but I'd rather keep all those .txt's classified in case I pull out this quest or something similar again after wipe :)
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2012, 05:52:43 pm »

I see taped events are getting more cool, and with BETTER writer they can be better thought ( do not metion my event which was done in couple of hour for writting).
Eter, thanks anyway for making such event, hope you'll make more :D.
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2012, 06:06:51 pm »

Good to see the idea could catch people's attention. However, although this event could not reach its end, it was enough for me to see all the limitations you have to face when doing it almost on your own. Next time I'd like to work in a group so we can think of better stories, make the events a bit more complicated and not so linear, etc.
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Re: [Player Event - cancelled] Jake Ibarra, the Boneyard Dog
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2012, 07:07:06 pm »

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I think it's much better now. It's strange to see how everyone is a millionare in a wasteland..
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