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My cohort and I left for the Colossus silo, hoping to light some fireworks and acquire much-needed XP. Silo 3 still had a single missile left, which we intended to put to good use. After fiddling around in the place for a long time-- "Why isn't the console working?" As  "REACTOR: Offline" is lit in red above us -- we finally get most of the things running. The reactor is carefully started through use of a Rad-Q pill and diving into the immensely irradiated power plant. The missile is filled with propellant by carefully applying the proper pump, dodging googlepede-things. We weren't sure if you could overfill it and blow the shit out of yourself somehow, but since this is HellMOO we just assumed the most lethal outcome was also the most probable.

Two things remain, really. Opening the silo, and firing it. We examine the console for a while, not seeing a command to actually open it. This is where most people assume the opening switch is located elsewhere, perhaps near the silo itself.

Indeed, this is what we thought.

My ally sits in the control room, no doubt spinning mindlessly in the egg shaped chair as I don my aviator goggles and climb out of the bunker. I pass the bonepanther on my way to the silo, from the top.

No switch on the outside. Well, that should have been expected. Only one thing left to try, then.

I begin clawing and smashing the entrance of the silo, slowly but surely tearing it apart until it's completely opened. I jab myself in the face a couple times no doubt to horrible depth perception. Huzzah! ... Silo 1. Oops. Repeat again as I accidentally open Silo 2 before getting to Silo 3.

All that was left was firing the goddamn thing. The good doctor puts his science skill to the use by turning the launch keys. Nothing happens. We look desperately for about an hour for a big red "FIRE" button. None is found.

Exhausting all options I begin swimming around in the watery bits under the bunker, finally getting to Silo 3 from another side. I climb up and find a lever. Does THIS launch the nuke? No, dumbass, this opens the silo you just ham-handedly smashed the fuck out of. Deerrrrp.

I call an admin, citing that the two ruptures we had encountered-- one with the panel, one with the reactor-- may be a bug. Either we messed things up or we're not launching it right. Apparently the rupture was in fact due to my heartless attacking of the silo hatches.

But it didn't fire because we didn't hit the launch keys simultaneously.

Voila. A simple, hour *tops* journey spanned the early morning entirely. But it was fun as hell.

I realize I must make game designers cringe. You place a pump lever under the silo hatch only to watch your player begin banging on the door from the other side.

And somehow making it work.