An idea for Green Mountain, and some background. [warning, reading involved!]

[Stiptikspec 25]

Firstly, Hello! This is my first post on the forums after signing up and I've gotta say, nice place you got here! Secondly being my first post this may be in the wrong place, so please mods move this to where you see appropriate and post a nice comment or so letting anyone who happens to come across this as to where it has gone! To the topic!

 

As most know the Green Mountain is a place of possible evil and terror and the occasional unfortunate "death by gate" accident, I thought up a little story which could add some depth to the game based on whether or not you think its a good little backstory! 

 

As you know if you play the campaign of Arma 2, Chernarus is a place of political and civil unrest, insurgents and military forces are appearing all over the province creating trouble for the government. So imagine the government began to descend further and further into desperation and began to research "methods" of controlling the populace into being a little more...docile. Chernarus is a place stuck in the past as evident by the areas vehicular state such as old sedans and trucks leaving the government in what I would call a "cold war-ish" mentality. That's by foundation, down to the events.

 

The government decided they would try their hand at attempting to control their unruly populace by means of experimentation with sciences barely explored. To perform such experiments they would require an area of little interest to stage a research base allowing them secrecy and peace of mind to perform their..."work". Their idea was that very few care about where their radio and television comes from, very few look up at night at that mountain wondering what lies beyond it's shrouded forest walls. Green Mountain, the government fund the creation of the Green Mountain Research Facility. Construction finished very quickly due to the pre-existence of tunnels under green mountain used for cables and what have you. The tests were going exceedingly well, the head scientists believed they were close. Until they slipped up. the governments constant watchful eye caused the scientists to hurry their research and create a pathogen with such unexplored capability that they single handedly caused the event we know as the zombie outbreak on chernarus. Scientists realising their mistakes attempted to create an antidote or a cure but to no avail. The facility was quickly becoming overrun and so the few who accepted their fate created a broadcast. The radio technology they had was attuned differently to civilian issue radios and so the broadcast can only be heard by certain radios whilst at the green mountain facility. This was their final effort to conserve humanity by pointing them towards locations at which weaponry was cached by military forces to protect scientific research areas. The existence of the facility was wiped from the few records they were mentioned in but it would not stop the facility releasing it's ungodly contents into the wild. It's utterly ravaged scientists crawled through the smallest of spaces and clawed through the thickest of walls to satisfy their natural lust for food. All that remains today of the entrance to the facility. Is a stinking pile of a mix of thick solidified mud and bodies trapped by the collapse of the internal structure. some say the screams of the infected are heard on a silent night from under the earth some say the answer lies deep within that facility. And then you? the survivor of the event created at that fateful place. Perhaps you are called by that everlasting radio tower atop the mountain, perhaps you are intrigued by the aspect of hidden secrets buried in that cursed earth. Who's to say, It's your story.

 

Thank you very much for reading and of course I would like to hear your opinions! I know there could be many plot holes but hey! The story is yours too and could be adapted to suit!

Stay awesome guys.

Edited December 28, 2013 by Stiptikspec

[ryzoh 44]

tl tr

[Stiptikspec 25]

tl tr

 

I did warn you.

[wisper 61]

:)

[Stiptikspec 25]

Perhaps i should expand the tag to [Warning, very long read!]

[attano 10]

Looks cool, Would love to open my map of Chernarus and see ''Green Mountain research facility''  or something else, would aslo love if you could like brodcast you voice to all Walkie Talkies

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

Haha the first thing I was going to do when I got in here was say something along the lines of "You should have warned us you were writing a novel," but ryzoh's got it covered.

 

Sounds like a good start though! If they don't do something special with Green Mountain by the time the full release happens, I'll be disappointed :(

[Deathlove 2286]

Looks cool, Would love to open my map of Chernarus and see ''Green Mountain research facility''  or something else, would aslo love if you could like brodcast you voice to all Walkie Talkies

Dude i have seasons 1, 3, and 4 of that show. XD

[Stiptikspec 25]

Looks cool, Would love to open my map of Chernarus and see ''Green Mountain research facility''  or something else, would aslo love if you could like brodcast you voice to all Walkie Talkies

 

That's a great idea! perhaps if the place were accessible you could use the radio tower to broadcast to any players with radios! The whole facility could be a place stocked with medical supplies but with danger to match!

[Stiptikspec 25]

Haha the first thing I was going to do when I got in here was say something along the lines of "You should have warned us you were writing a novel," but ryzoh's got it covered.

 

Sounds like a good start though! If they don't do something special with Green Mountain by the time the full release happens, I'll be disappointed :(

 

Sorry for making you read so much I generally cannot judge when to stop! I really hope they do expand out on green mountain, It's been given such an mysterious atmosphere I believe it to be a perfect place for something, anything!

[Stiptikspec 25]

Dude i have seasons 1, 3, and 4 of that show. XD

 

xD Good show!

 

 

And even The research facility name is  placeholderish name! it could be changed to anything! CPTF (Chernarus Pathogenic testing facility) and so on!

Edited December 28, 2013 by Stiptikspec

[attano 10]

Dude i have seasons 1, 3, and 4 of that show. XD

 Beans to you for loving MacGyver

[AnarchyBrownies 1383]

Sorry for making you read so much I generally cannot judge when to stop! I really hope they do expand out on green mountain, It's been given such an mysterious atmosphere I believe it to be a perfect place for something, anything!

 

Oh no it's not too much! In fact, if you're going to write a long post on the forums but want lots of people to read it, it's a good amount to be considered "a lot." I don't mind reading really long posts, as long as the topic interests me.

 

Green Mountain is the perfect place to complement DayZ Community folklore with an easter egg or two. Developing the whole mountain (maybe to include a whole underground facility!) would be fantastic. It's the one area I think it would be okay to break traditional DayZ style immersion and add a few mysterious horror features (sounds, creatures).

[Stiptikspec 25]

Oh no it's not too much! In fact, if you're going to write a long post on the forums but want lots of people to read it, it's a good amount to be considered "a lot." I don't mind reading really long posts, as long as the topic interests me.

 

Green Mountain is the perfect place to complement DayZ Community folklore with an easter egg or two. Developing the whole mountain (maybe to include a whole underground facility!) would be fantastic. It's the one area I think it would be okay to break traditional DayZ style immersion and add a few mysterious horror features (sounds, creatures).

I'm glad you read the post! 

 

The very fact that it's a location that few would give thought to makes it an excellent place to put something there, and that's made stronger by the piles and piles of videos about the broadcasts and the curse of Green Mountain, I think it would be great to add an explanation to all these and would add some "lore" (I say that in quotes because DayZ is upto you really) but I think a backstory of the mountain in this way could let players expand on it and go into a bit more detail!

[Stiptikspec 25]

Thanks to all who read this by the way! I appreciate your feedback, and I appreciate the amount of text you went through to read it!

[Bakercompany86 347]

Read the post, love the idea.

 

I've apparently given out all my "beans" for the day....and I cannot give you beans at the moment (sadly).

 

 

Please accept my beans in thought...

[Stiptikspec 25]

Read the post, love the idea.

 

I've apparently given out all my "beans" for the day....and I cannot give you beans at the moment (sadly).

 

 

Please accept my beans in thought...

 

Your mental beans are enough my friend! thank you for reading!

[Stiptikspec 25]

This could add so much more stuff to the game in the later end of development, such as the opportunity to find out how it began (though notes and whatnot) or to broadcast things to players, I imagine bandits would love to control a complex that could broadcast to anyone holding a radio! But it also helps solve that extra mystery surrounding the green mountain area! One of the main places where zombies constantly pour one after the other, perhaps humans were stockpiled there?

[Avengerki 20]

I love it. When I playing with my friends and a navigationally challenged friend joins and want to meet up with us we use Green Mountain. I mean if only they could mark this mountain with some type of beacon so we can find it.

 

Your idea is great and I could totally see your vision, or at least my vision of your vision.

[Stiptikspec 25]

If you have a vision of my vision then the idea has some depth which is good! I think it would be a fairly helpful thing to be able to broadcast maybe on specific frequencies so that your navigationally challenged friends can be guided towards you using the radio tower

[Khad (DayZ) 293]

I visited green mountain today and have noticed, that there are no corpses in the standalone ;(

 

I really want the graveyard back O_O

[Stiptikspec 25]

I visited green mountain today and have noticed, that there are no corpses in the standalone ;(

 

I really want the graveyard back O_O

Nooooooo! it must be readded at once!

[Chrome2013 3]

Loving the story puts a freaky but in a way excellent atmosphere , and i totally agree they should add more detail such as the Broadcasting to other players through the radio it just makes it feel more real haha!

[Stiptikspec 25]

Loving the story puts a freaky but in a way excellent atmosphere , and i totally agree they should add more detail such as the Broadcasting to other players through the radio it just makes it feel more real haha!

It does add a creepy feeling doesn't it! Imagine walking near green mountain and hearing quiet screaming and groaning from under the mountain!

[barrett_killz 229]

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EDIT: Actually the code used in this video (which is undoubtedly an easter egg) is translating to English. The facility operators should have been talking in Russian or Czech as they reffered to the coordinates of deer stands.

It's a very nice subject to talk about.  

Edited January 11, 2014 by Barrett_killz