Cases

In Hypnospace Outlaw, players will be assigned **Cases**. The enforcer's job is to find and solve these cases by banning the infringing content related to the case.

## Usage and Design

Hypnospace Cases are a result of complaints generated by Hypnospace citizens or by leads that the HSPD has. They are assigned by an HSPD dispatch agent. Samantha Clausson, an employee at Merchantsoft, is one of the agents in the HSPD who assign the player cases and help them out.

They are accessed on the HSPD Enforcer Dashboard in the cases section. They are designed to look like folder tabs, with each tab representing a new case. There will be a picture on the left related to the case, and a description of what the enforcer must find. The list of violations needed to be found is at the bottom.

## List of Cases

The following is a list of possible cases that the player could be assigned. Some of these cases are optional. They are in order of how they appear in the cases tab in-game. Note that these are expandable due to there being spoilers! So be wary if you're wanting to avoid those.

### Gumshoe Gooper Infringement

* **Assigned:** November 5, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Content Infringement
* **Zones:** Goodtime Valley
* **Bio:** This is a CONTENT INFRINGEMENT notice regarding any content that COPIES OR BEARS THE LIKENESS OF 1962 CARTOON CHARACTER GUMSHOE GOOPER. Look through YOUR ASSIGNED ZONES for AT LEAST THREE possible violations

This is the first case assigned to the player. It is assigned to all enforcers. The player has the choice to not complete the case and report other content aside from the Gooper and wait for their second case. This case ultimately leads to the Stand With Gooper movement.

**Reportable violations:**

* AbbyWrites58
* MTNestSandy

Solving the case:

### Teentopia Harassment

* **Assigned:** November 5, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Harassment
* **Zones:** Teentopia
* **Bio:** ZANE\_ROCKS\_14 has been reported for HARASSMENT in TEENTOPIA. Please look for possible violations and utilize your enforcement tool to report and remove them. If ZANE\_ROCKS\_14 accrues enough points, please Flag them. Remember that pages may be unlisted, but may still be accessed through search tags.

This case introduces the player to Zane, a recurring character with his own side plots. This is one of the first examples of a case where infringing content is found on an unlisted page, and the player must utilize the search bar to find it.

**Reportable violations:**

* ZANE\_ROCKS\_14
* ThatBrassyKid

### CapaCash Extralegal Commerce

* **Assigned:** November 5, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Extralegal Commerce
* **Zones:** Open Eyed and all other previously assigned zones
* **Bio:** This is a notice that the CAPACASH PAYMENTS SYSTEM is considered extralegal commerce and has been added to our blacklist. Look through YOUR ASSIGNED ZONES for AT LEAST FOUR, POSSIBLY MORE possible violations and utilize your enforcement tool to check them.

This is one of the few cases that utilize the Extralegal Commerce law. This case also requires the player to download an external program to help find the CapaCash violations.

**Reportable Violations:**

* SherriHeals
* ProfessorHelper
* Y2K Survival Kit
* Blood Money book
* Katie’s Kuddly Kat Corner
* Free Cruise and Credit Report

### Malicious Software (General)

* **Assigned:** November 5, 1999; November 26, 1999; and December 31, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Malicious Software
* **Zones:** Goodtime Valley and Coolpunk Paradise
* **Bio:** BESTDEALSTERRY has been reported for MALICIOUS SOFTWARE in the zone GOODTIME VALLEY. You found these violations before being assigned a case for them. Close this case at your discretion.

Terry's General Store sells multiple packages that are Trojan horses since they contain the thehunger virus. They are Terry's Halloween Sticker and Scary Eye Pack, the Mega Forest Sticker & Background Pack, the Garden Sticker Pack, and the Jungle Sticker Pack. All of the packs are sold for all three days except for the Halloween Sitcker and Scary Eye Pack, which is sold on November 5th. Terry's Halloween Sticker and Scary Eye Pack includes a SamWich-encrypted Second Sight file. Use the gavel on the HypnoCoin payment buttons for the Trojan horses and not the text describing their prices to report this malware. You must report one of these to be assigned this case.

The other malware that can be added to this case can be found by searching for the keyword "Christmas" after you have been assigned to Coolpunk Paradise. If you search for the keyword before you gain access to Coolpunk Paradise, you will not be able to find this page as keyword searches do not work on pages that belong to zones that you have not been assigned to. This page has a link to the drive-by installation page of the True Tranquility a.k.a. festeringorfice virus.

**Reportable Violations:**

* BestDealsTerry
* hs\_citizen\_004A353B (This name is fake, but the page is possibly the work of T1MAGEDDON.)

### Shock Images Illegal Content

* **Assigned:** November 5, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Illegal Content
* **Zones:** Coolpunk Paradise and all other previously assigned zones
* **Bio:** This is an ILLEGAL CONTENT notice regarding DISTURBING VIOLENT AND PORNOGRAPHIC IMAGES that may be in ANY ZONE. Please look for violations and utilize your enforcement tool to report and remove them.

This case introduces the player to the work of the teen hacker T1MAGEDDON, who would become a major character later in the story.

**Reportable Violations:**

* BurnRubber50
* RealChowderMan
* ARLAN\_FER\_OBBEE
* ParkerStudios\_1

### Gumshoe Gooper Infringement

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Content Infringement
* **Zones:** Goodtime Valley
* **Bio:** This is a CONTENT INFRINGEMENT notice regarding any content that COPIES OR BEARS THE LIKENESS OF 1962 CARTOON CHARACTER GUMSHOE GOOPER. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case. Close this case at your discretion.

This is one of the cleanup cases that occurs during the return to Hypnospace on November 26. When the player returns to Hypnospace, they find that Goodtime Valley has started a Stand With Gooper movement, arguing that the banning of their content infringes on Amercan's rights to free speech. Users in Goodtime Valley start posting lots of Gooper Content all over their pages. Reporting BurnRubber50 for the Shock Images case and this case enables you to flag him, if you do it results in BurnRubber50 being permanently banned even though MS\_Samantha states to you in an email she didn’t want to ban him and only did it to show the citizens of Goodtime Valley that their behavior will not be tolerated.

**Reportable Violations:**

* AbbyWrites58
* BurnRubber50
* ARLAN\_FER\_OBBEE
* SouthernGentRR

### Capacash Extralegal Commerce

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Extralegal Commerce
* **Zones:** Open Eyed
* **Bio:** This is a notice that the CAPACASH PAYMENTS SYSTEM is considered extralegal commerce and has been added to our blacklist. Look through YOUR ASSIGNED ZONES for possible violations. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case. Close this case at your discretion.

This is one of the cleanup cases of the return to Hypnospace on November 26. During the time skip, SherriHeals fixes her page after her CapaCash buttons were removed during the last case with her. The enforcer can go back and report them again.

**Reportable Violations:**

* SherriHeals

### Speed Booster Malicious Software

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Malicious Software
* **Zones:** Starport Castle Dreamstation (Freelands)
* **Bio:** This is a MALICIOUS SOFTWARE notice regarding UNAUTHORIZED SPEED BOOSTING SOFTWARE reported in STARPORT CASTLE DREAMSTATION. Please utilize your enforcement tool to report and remove it as soon as possible.

This is the first non-cleanup case the player is assigned to on November 26. Starport Castle Dreamstation members are angry that their original zones have been deleted and they have all been moved under one zone. In retaliation, they create a zone of their own, called The Freelands, which takes the form of a huge fantasy-like map. The size of the zone also means longer loading speed, and the Freelands' leader, GillSCreates, asks programmer Roddy Wall to create speed-boosting software for the citizens of the Freelands. The reporting of the infringing content ultimately leads to the firing of Roddy Wall, a Merchantsoft employee.

**Reportable Violations:**

* RingleaderRoddy

### Teentopia Harassment

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Harassment
* **Zones:** Teentopia
* **Bio:** MULTIPLE CITIZENS have been reported for HARASSMENT in the zone TEENTOPIA. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case. Close this case at your discretion

This is a cleanup case occurring after the return to Hypnospace on November 26. After breaking up with their fake girlfriends, Zane and Corey both try to message and make advances with Tiffany Wright. The entire situation uneases her, and as she rejects their advances, they both become hostile. She posts screenshots of the messages, which are reportable for Harassment, but all of the violation points are accrued by Tiffany.

**Reportable Violations:**

* DarkTwilightTiff

### Janitor Malicious Software

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Malicious Software
* **Zones:** The Cafe
* **Bio:** This is a MALICIOUS SOFTWARE notice regarding UNAUTHORIZED JANITOR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE reported in THE CAFE. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case.

**Reportable Violations:**

* hs\_citizen\_004A353B

### Coolfest Harassment

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Harassment
* **Zones:** Coolpunk Paradise
* **Bio:** MULTIPLE CITIZENS have been reported for HARASSMENT in the zone COOLPUNK PARADISE. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case. Close this case at your discretion

Another one of the cleanup cases that is assigned during the first portion of November 26. After the disaster of Coolfest '99, user CPColdSnap goes online and mocks the entire event, eventually going overboard, making the content illegible to be flagged for harassment. He also uses an alternate account to poke fun at other coolpunks.

**Reportable Violations:**

* CPColdSnap
* CPColdSnap2

### Music Downloads Infringement

* **Assigned:** November 26, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Content Infringement
* **Zones:** FLIST
* **Bio:** This is a CONTENT INFRINGEMENT notice regarding MULTIPLE INSTANCES of UNAUTHORIZED MUSIC DISTRIBUTION reported in UNKNOWN ZONE. Please utilize your enforcement tool to report and remove them as soon as possible.

Multiple bands have filed copyright infringement complaints saying that a user has been illegally distributing their music on Hypnospace. It turns out that this is actually Dylan Merchant, who has been uploading the music onto his FLIST page. Reporting the content angers Dylan, who immediately removes you from enforcement duty.

**Reportable Violations:**

* DM\_NO1ZPUSH3R

### Y2000 Mindcrash Attack

* **Assigned:** December 31, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Malicious Software
* **Zones:** Teentopia
* **Bio:** This is a MALICIOUS SOFTWARE notice regarding AN IMMINENT YEAR 2000 HACKER ATTACK in TEENTOPIA. Please figure out how to disable or prevent the attack. (Note from Sam: I wish we didn't have to do this IMPORTANT thing IN CAPS thing because it's a pain to keep it consistent.)

Tim, the hacker responsible for the illegal shock images on November 5, is saddened that Tiffany no longer wants to be friends with him. He hacks the Teentopia zone page in an attempt to get Tiffany to notice so he would be able to talk to her. The hack is wrongly believed to be the ultimate cause of the Mindcrash.

**Reportable Violations:**

* T1MAGEDDON

### Teentopia Harassment

* **Assigned:** December 31, 1999
* **CHIME Law:** Harassment
* **Zones:** Teentopia
* **Bio:** ZANE\_ROCKS\_14 have been reported for HARASSMENT in the zone TEENTOPIA. THIS IS A CLEANUP CASE: You found these violations before being assigned this case. Close this case at your discretion.

Zane, angered at being rejected by Tiffany and the screenshots being posted on Hypnospace, creates a new episode of Got Game or Way Lame, entirely meant to harass Tiffany. Its content can be reported, and if Zane is flagged, he will be permanently banned and subsequently spared from the Y2K Mindcrash.

**Reportable Violations:**

* ZANE\_ROCKS\_14

### To Sam: Medical Evidence of Harmful Effects

* **Assigned:** Present Day
* **CHIME Law:** N/A
* **Zones:** The Cafe
* **Bio:** I need some sort of hard medical evidence that Hypnospace is unhealthy for people. Not sure if this even exists in Hypnospace, but there were a few hackers sniffing around back in the day. (Not going to bother with the fake RANDOM CAPITALIZATION that Dylan used to make us do for these.)

**Reportable Violations:**

* Re3koning\_inc

### To Sam: Merchantsoft Admission of Guilt

* **Assigned:** Present Day
* **CHIME Law:** N/A
* **Zones:** The Cafe
* **Bio:** I need something that proves that Merchantsoft KNEW that the Year 2000 update had problems and that Hypnospace could pose a serious health risk for its users. Emails, recorded conversation, chat logs, that kind of thing.

**Reportable Violations:**

* Re3koning\_inc

## Trivia

* All of the case descriptions are written by an HSPD dispatch agent, and not autonomously generated. Samantha Clausson complains about how she finds it annoying that she has to constantly "randomly capitalize" important words in the case descriptions.
* Cases can be left open indefinitely at the player's discretion, as game progression doesn't rely on closing the cases but rather on finding violations.