Dylan Merchant

This article may contain spoilers for

the main story of Hypnospace Outlaw.

**Dylan Merchant** is Merchantsoft's co-founder, chief operating officer, and lead programmer. He is also known as **DM\_NO1ZPUSH3R** on Hypnospace.

## Projects

### Hypnospace

Dylan created Hypnospace; in his own words, he's "the guy who dreamt it up and programmed it." However, he ignores or dismisses a lot of its problems, such as when he covers up a study showing that Sleeptime Technology keeps people from sleeping well. When Tiffany Wright posts screenshots of Zane Lofton and Corey Paul Henderson harassing her over ChitChat and asks the HSPD to help, Dylan writes it off as the ChitChat team's problem and doesn't try to help her.

### Outlaw

Outlaw is a game created by Dylan with the help of Roddy Wall in which you are a car trying to track down and apprehend the "outlaw," the car of another player. It's Dylan's passion project; he obsesses over it to the point of ignoring his other responsibilities. He insists that he's going to finish it by the Y2K. He states that it's going to be amazing when it's done, despite warnings from Re3koning and Samantha. He continues to work on it even after it causes the headbands to crash, although he does turn it into a eulogy for the deaths he caused.

## Discography

Dylan makes music under the pseudonym DM\_NO1ZPUSH3R. He created an audio-player application called DM\_Tunebox. He also has a guide to Haze music called Haze-O-Pedia. He also made the Hypnospace Tune Sequencers and many of the default pages that Hypnospace Citizens use.

#### Published Songs, Genres, and Their Pseudonyms

* Millennium Anthem (WIP) - New Digital / Ballad - DM\_No1zpush3r
* The Gizmo Factory - Weird / New Digital - DM\_No1zpush3r
* Ice Cream and Booze - New Digital Dirthaze - DM\_No1zpush3r
* DM\_Hazebeat 001 - Danceable Haze?!? - DM\_No1zpush3r
* Dimensional Voyager - Gary Spacetime
* Slap It Up - Gary Spacetime
* Age of Creation - Frank L.M.
* Millennium Anthem (2000 New Years Eve) - DM\_No1zpush3r
* Hypnospace Millennium Lounge Theme - Merchantsoft Creative Team (It can be assumed Dylan wrote this one too)
* Eulogy - DM\_No1zpush3r

## FLIST

His files on FLIST consist of the following:

November 5th

 smearpaper.hex

## Personal life

### Relationships

Adrian Merchant is Dylan's older brother. Dylan makes fun of him for being the business-minded one and "a balding stiff who knows how to make a deal or two," but he claims that he's glad to be his brother. Private ChitChats leaked by Re3koning reveal that Adrian does not understand Hypnospace. Most of his suggestions to Dylan about changing things often end up making things worse for the company rather than helping, as seen with the backlash of the Starport Castle Dreamstation.

Roddy Wall is Dylan's childhood friend. According to Dylan's eulogy for Roddy in the final version of Outlaw, Roddy was always a loyal friend, even when Dylan took him for granted. It is mentioned in Roddy's diary that he happened to help Dylan with the creation of Outlaw.

Samantha Clausson works with Dylan as one of the programmers. Dylan later passes the HSPD onto her as he focuses more on Outlaw, but resents that she tries to make him handle his responsibilities. As a result, he asks dumpy\_1 to investigate her and mock her on their website The Dumpster. In the present-day section of the game, she guides the player as they search for evidence that Dylan caused the Mindcrash.

Re3koning is a fellow M1nx member and often shows distaste and anger toward anything Dylan says, does, or suggests. Though Re3koning seems to hate Dylan, Dylan does not seem to hate Re3koning in return, even going so far as to allow them to pass out a near-free version of HypnoCure and various other hacks.

### Personality

Dylan himself is a bit erratic and self-centered. He shows a deep want to connect people and break boundaries, and these desires show in many of his projects. As far as his work with Adrian goes, Dylan notes himself to be the "creative" and "fun" one that makes the products while Adrian deals with the business side of things. He is shown to take this a bit too far, though, as various ChitChat and M1nx conversations show that he is overworking himself to the point of anxiety and breakdowns. By the end of the game, he shows deep regret for being the cause of the Mindcrash in his email to the enforcer.

## Trivia

* Dylan is portrayed by Kert Gartner.
* There is an unused eulogy in Hypnospace Outlaw's files called "dylan.htx." While it cannot be opened in-game without using console commands, opening it in a text editor, such as Notepad, shows that it simply reads "the end."
* In Dylan's FLST, the viruses "flyingwinz.hex" and "smearpaper.hex" can be found on November 5h under "\AMUSING\_VIRUSES\." It is assumed this is the only place these two viruses can be found in-game.
* If one gets FLST during the first day, both "flyingwinz.hex" and "smearpaper.hex" can be reported as Malicious Software.
* Reporting both viruses will cause the game to think you've solved all previous cases. It will send you Dylan's first email about Outlaw and a personal email about the viruses themselves from Dylan.
* Dylan is the only character you can report during the "Music Downloads Infringement" case.
* Dylan has created most of the music for Hypnospace and states on his page that he has exactly three listeners. He seems somewhat petty about this.
* It can be assumed Tim is one of the three listeners as he has the song "Ice Cream and Booze" playing on his page.
* He is a fan of Haze, particularly dirthaze.
* He thinks that Klyfta, a Cosmic music artist, and their various tracks from 1972 - 1986 are okay.
* He likes Glamocaster's album Glamoplasm (1993) and states that it is required listening for dirthaze. He recommends it to those who "like lo-fi FUZZED OUT rock tunes."
* He has grown a liking for Zared's album Celestial Reflection (1999) due to his brother constantly playing it.
* He thinks that Earthhaze is cheesy despite having a fondness for Celestial Reflection (1999), an Earthhaze album.

## Gallery

A picture of Dylan from the Merchantsoft "about" page.A picture of Dylan and Adrian from the Merchantsoft "about" page.