Tanki Online – The Hacker in Hohloma Part 1
As time passes and I continue to very slowly climb the ranks of Tanki, I feel ignored. My first account has been hacked. All of my friends are great ranks and have great power, while I am left to play alone. My friends are recognized, and I am not. I knew that I need to do something big to get the recognition that they do, but what…..
I sit, playing an Iran CTF and pondering this thought when something catches my eye. It is your average M3 Smoky – M2 Dictator, but something doesn’t seem right about it. I look at the scoreboard to identify the player as TheBest321, but what is shocking about this tank is the score. In the first 10 minutes of the battle, TheBest321 has amassed 750 points! I turn back to the tank, but it is gone. Suddenly, he is racing by me with our flag! The speed is uncanny for an M2 Dictator, so I recognize it as a speed hack. I report him using the Vote control right as I am killed. I spawn near the flag to find TheBest321 sitting right next to me. I find yet another odd thing about him. On the top of his Smoky lies an ominous bright green dot. He is then kicked out of the battle by the moderators, thanks to the Vote control. I return to my garage to change weapons and see one of my friends talking in the lobby. I invite him to join a battle, and he accepts.
As soon as we join, we are greeted by 4 of the red team members at our base. They are sieging our flag. We are easily defeated by ricochets, and my friend types in the chatbox, “Let’s leave. This is a lost cause.” I tell him to hold on, for a flash of bright green light, not unlike the one I saw in Iran, catches my eye. I raise my cameras to find 21CoolDude, who is using a flag hack to easily steal points from his team of ricochets. Again, a bright green dot graces the top of his gun, an m2 thunder. I tell my friend to look at this tank, and he gasps in horror. I ask him what is wrong, and he tells me to leave and come to his garage immediately.
When we are at the garage, he gets onto his computer and types in “the hacker in hohloma”. We are greeted by only one link: a newspaper article from 15 years ago, today. Hacker in Hohloma taken down by Thunderbirds, it read. My friend told me to read it through, and so I did.
“Today, after 3 months of wreaking havoc on the battles of Tanki Online, the Hacker in Hohloma was finally taken down today on the battlefield of Chernobyl. He was defeated by none other than the Thunderbirds Clan. “Yes, it was hard work, but this is what we can do when we work as a team,” leader DaMan32 said after the victory. “If we can beat 300 tankmen with only 30 of our clan members imagine what we can do in a clan war!” he joked. The hacker, who controlled unsuspecting players with a bright green light on top of their tank, will have all of his possessions stripped from him and will be forced to leave the game. He is the reason for the abundance of hackers, and also for the abundance of battles in Chernobyl. According to our sources from that city, he has been teaching new hacks and tricks to his minions there for at least 6 weeks. He has also been hiding out, using the nuclear reactors there to further his control and use of innocent tankmen for his own selfish reasons. “Thanks for all the help with this hacker problem,” developer Elder_one said. “We couldn’t have done this without all of the Tanki community helping to report these hackers. So, in return for your help, we are giving each and every member of Tanki 2,000 crystals as a reward. Have fun, and see you on the battlefield!”
“No way… no way,” I manage to utter. “So, this means…”
“Yes,” he said grimly. “This has happened once before, 15 years ago, on this very date. And, this is the day Tanki has finally let him reregister. No one thought he would even think about reregistering, but it seems that he has.
“So what do we do?” I say.
“First, we have to notify the developers,” he said. “That way, they will know about the massive amounts of bans that will soon come. Then, we only have one other very taxing thing to accomplish…”
“What’s that?” I ask.
“Reunite the only group of tankers that was ever able to stop this menace: The Thunderbirds.
While we were notifying the developers through PMs, something was happening back in the town of Chernobyl…..
“Finally, my army will arise again! And this time, not even those meddling Thunderbirds will be able to stop me!” the Hacker roared out before the crowd of tankmen controlled by his nuclear generator. They all cheered half-heartedly, as if in a trance, about 700 in number, all wearing the Hohloma paint that the generator had forced them to buy.
“Tonight, we rise! And nothing will stop us from taking over the world of Tanki!”
End of Part 1
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