The #twilightzone Bible

The Dark Ages

A time before time began, Rob Johnston set forth upon a quest to recruit bored people to come and talk together. It worked for a time, but didn't last long. The people who had gathered dispersed, and the world was once more plunged into darkness.

In the beginning, there was Holland, and a high speed permanent connection to the internet. And MelfNeerg stepped forth and installed ircd, and joined the Dudinet network. The hash twilightzone was born. And into it he placed himself, and he created the bot, amie, to be his companion. But before too long, MelfNeerg was bored by amie's impressions of Kylie, and he placed an advertisement for people to come and join him, and join him people did.

He made two of them his disciples - redvers and Motorman - and gave them superhuman powers to do with as they saw fit. Redvers instantly set about adding evil and irritating extensions to the bot, amie, while Motorman led a more reserved lifestyle.

Afternet: The land of Cheese and Camels

And so it came to pass that Dudi was to close it’s borders and the denizens of Hash Twilightzone were once more to be Exiles with no place to call their own. Cast out into the cold wastelands of the internet. After a brief Hiatus one member, Troggy was his name, remembered a country that he had passed previously in his travels that had played host to his menagerie in Trogsoft. “It was Troggy that led us to Afternet and instructed us to build our shelters there.” So spaketh Tom the Reinstaller.

Soon after they had settled in; people started to visit and the banlist started to grow.

Some people weren’t total cunts and were permitted to stay. Such as the one named after a really bad sci-fi show. Although she has been absent for some years.

It shall be noted that some things were brought with them from Dudi. Katana attacks and Cleavings of Skulls increased tenfold, as did random burnings and disembowlings. As Luck would have it Hash denizens are made of strong stuff and being torn apart and charred doesn’t even slow them down let alone stop them from talking. Noisy bastards.

The often Apostate Vicky/Lilz/Vix made occasional reappearances between long periods of absence caused by the Great Sulk. The Hash was being haunted by a strange creature with no socks named Lucie during one of these vists of Vicky. This caused equal amounts of mirth and distress to other residents witnessing the bouts of childishness that ensued. And probably caused Lilz to become apostate in a Sulk again. For 6 months.

After sometime on Afternet, a great attack happened that caused entering and remaining there nearly impossible, at it’s height the attack threatened to destroy Afternet completely and drown it within the vast sea of the ‘net. The Hash had to resort to curious methods of communication before grabbing a lifeline from Espernet and riding out the storm on the raft that they provided.

Eventually the storm passed and the attacks slackened and Afternet was able to resume. Some servers were killed in the attacks and were never to reappear.

One day in the depths of winter, a Kat appeared in their midst. A curious creature from a far away place in the West. Amazingly, despite some strange treatment she returned and has been doing so ever since.

Afternet has been treating it’s Dwellers well and now that everyone is permanently plugged into the information country lane, things have got more random. The Apostate returns upon occasion but generally is insulted by something random and fucks off again. Arguments happen but are usually forgotten. People join and don’t speak and are banned, the place gets besieged by zombies trying to sell non existent goods and are also banned forever. Nations are banned due to a citizen’s twattishness. And are forever not permitted to join in. The story of Hash Twilightzone still continues.