The phisher sounds better as a hacker skill tree.

Clbum Concept #3: Net Activist

The Activist is interesting for several reasons. One, he does NOT get most of his attacks from upgrades. His equipment slot- “Issue”, which he can equip up to 2 at one time, gives him abilities. This means that in general the Net Activist will not be able to use all of his abilities in one attack, though most Issues give multiple abilities so he will get some.

The Activist’s Abilities are also interesting because none of them actually directly attack a forum, nor do they harm the site like hackers. Rather, they plan to attack the forum later. The abilities cause a white word (for example, if he equipped “The Communist Manifesto”, he may get an ability that could make this word “Capitalism”Log in to see images! to appear in the corner of the screen. Whenever an enemy attack includes this letter, that letter will turn red. Whenever it becomes entirely red, he will attack with the attack’s strength.

Each attack does not cause ONE word/phrase, but rather randomly selects one word/phrase from an index for that attack. The aformentioned attack may make “Capitalism”, or “Greedy”, or “Money”, “Monies”, “I WANT MONEY”, etc.

The text for most of the attacks consists of quoting all the letters that made the phrase and then saying something like, “HA! I knew you were capitalist pigs! And now I have proof in the form of your CODES!!!!!!!11111oneoneone11111111!!!!!!!!”

(As a side note, Activists uniquely get the item “What do you call a Democrat at the bottom of the ocean” as an issue rather than as a book.)

The Activist’s issue has a stat called leaning, which doesn’t help or hurt the player. Rather, the Activist’s issues must have the same leaning to function. For instance, if an Activist equips “The Communist Manifesto” and “What do you call a Democrat at the bottom of the ocean”, they’ll get the positive effects of neither.