Roddy Wall

This article may contain spoilers for

the main story of Hypnospace Outlaw.

Roddy Wall was an employee of Merchantsoft, until he became a victim of the Mindcrash and ultimately passed away on January 1st, 2000. He also has a page in the Freelands.

## Projects

### *Taurus and Muleta* fan page

Roddy runs a fan page for his favorite comic, Taurus and Muleta. It describes the comic, features its publishing history, and includes how-to-draw instructions for Taurus fanart.

### Axxelerator and the Trials of Axxeleration

Axxelerator is an illegal speed-boosting software. Roddy created it for the Freelands in response to Merchantsoft (his employer) restricting their download speeds. It is hidden behind a series of trivia-based "trials," which are supposed to allow only Freelands members to use it. However, during the game, the player discovers Axxelerator and reports Roddy to the HSPD. It is implied that this is why he gets fired.

### *MisterMysteryW*

**MisterMysteryW** is his alias in the Open Eyed zone. This is where he provides video rants about the Launcher, Search function, and various obscure features in HypnOS. The original videos unintentionally reveal his identity; however, the newer versions still provide significant proof that he runs the account. Some examples of this are his Taurus and Muleta background being shown in the video and his note that the Virtual Pets are "a project we... I mean they provide in Hypnospace."

### SamWich and Virtual Pets

Roddy designed SamWich Encryption together with Sam Parker, another hacker. Merchantsoft refused to officially support it because it has a reputation as a piracy tool. However, Roddy gave the Virtual Pets he designed a secret ability to decrypt SamWich files by feeding files to the pet. Otherwise, the Virtual Pets only float around the desktop, eat, poop, and die.

## Personal life

Despite their five-year age gap, Roddy has been friends with Dylan Merchant since childhood. He dropped out of high school, became famous for his work on SamWich encryption, and then joined Merchantsoft. He respects and cares about the Merchant brothers and Merchantsoft, but he chooses to side with his friends and rebel against them by creating the Freelands. When the Axxelerator is eventually reported, Roddy is severely reprimanded and likely fired. His project diary mentions highly strained relations with Merchantsoft, though he continues to stay on Hypnospace to see Dylan's game project to completion for the New Year.

Roddy dies in the Mindcrash and cannot be saved. Dylan's eulogy for him reads, "Roddy, you might not buy this, but I considered you my best friend at the end there. My work consumed me and became me. People who weren't helping me build my masterpiece were invisible. Through all of it, you were always willing to come back and put up with my garbage and God I wish you hadn't. I'm sorry."

## FLIST

His files on FLIST consist of:

November 5th

 testpet.pet

November 26th

 taurusx.wal

December 31st

 taurusx.wal

## Trivia

* Roddy's voice has a distinctive lisp, heard during the Trials of Axxeleration, his MrMystery rants, and the Tutorial, where his voice is intermittently spliced into the original recording.
* Roddy's voice is provided by lead designer Jay Tholen.
* The third MrMysteryW video still shows the controls section in the Nintendo Switch port despite that version not having customizable controls.