Re: OOC
I've decided to discontinue this game. I could recruit new players, but I think it's getting too complicated and hard for them to understand. I think I will retool the rules to make them easier and restart from scratch. But that might take some time given my schedule.
So here is the plot summary of what I was planning:
You find that all the groups are after you, and you confront about one group from each of the factions, including the Faceless Ones and Agents. You successfully put the virus into the system, only to find out that it doesn't work.
In the meantime, you keep hearing the strange warnings of the little girl.
So with time running out, you realize that the strange worm creatures are the key, and you find a way to lead them to Zero-One's central node. Through a final confrontation, you destroy Zero-One and bask in victory.
And then you find out that this little girl still talks to you. With the Matrix down, that shouldn't happen...should it? You have also started to find, strangely enough, that your Matrix "powers" are seeming to work outside the Matrix.
Finally, you discover what the Redundancy is. It is Zero-One's back up system. In other words, the Matrix was inside another Matrix. So you thought you destroyed Zero-One, but really you just destroyed the first layer and have never, ever left the "Matrix" at all. Even Zion was inside a matrix system, just a different one in which the Matrix was contained. So the girl has been talking to you from beyond the Redundancy...
...and then it could lead into a new beginning from there...or end. That was my "surprise" ending.