Open Event: FEEDING FRENZY! (3/25-31)

[aminerproblem]

 

Summary
On March 25-March 31. the Moira will be suffering from an infestation of scraplets, making a mangled mess of the ship's systems as they chew their way through its internal workings. They will then try to make meals of any non-fleshy crewmates that happen to cross them until they are exterminated from the ship.

What are Scraplets?
A horrid mix of termites and flying demon pirahnas, Scraplets are a pest from the planet Cybertron. They consume anything and everything metal, and make mincemeat of Cybertronians in large enough hordes. Although they can basically eat giant robots alive, they are harmless to anything that isn't food. They are even shown to be friendly to organic species, as long as they have no metal bits to them.

A lone scraplet is a pomeranian-sized bug-like robot with deceptively adorable eyes, and can generally easily be destroyed by itself. The problem is that there's never just one of them.




One of the greatest killers to stalk the surface of Cybertron.

TIMELINE

PART 1: Arrival (ICly, March 25)

Due to Megatron's Space Bridge increasing in activity, a  frozen canister will be spit out of his chest portal into the cargo bay. After the canister thaws, the scraplets will begin to chew their way out and make their way into the Moira.

PART 2:  Escalation (ICly, March 26-29)

As the infestation begins to spread, they will begin to make a mess of the internal systems: Lights may go out, doors may stop working, there might be leaks in places you'd least want them. Scraplets have a preference for living metal, though, so the horde will eventually gnaw to the surface and try to attack and eat any crew members that happened to be made of their favorite food source.

PART 3: Counterattack (ICly, March 30-31)

The infestation will start to threaten critical systems if left unchecked, and will need to be taken care of. Because the Cybertronians on board are(mostly) from another continuity, they won't immediately recognize the scraplets for what they are and will pretty much be on the same page as everyone else.

By now it will be known that:

• There's a horde on the ship
• They consume any and all metal, metal on living beings is preferable
• They ignore everything else
• They are vulnerable to the cold

So they will need to smoke them out and get rid of them, through cold or the void of space. The event will be played in a catch-all log for whoever would like to participate! The plot is OPT IN, so you can feel free to participate however you'd like. However, those interested in being part of exterminating them should sign up so that I can keep track of who will do what for the Counterattack phase of the plot.

Comments

Questions

[aminerproblem]

[redshitlord]

I HAVE A QUESTION AM I ALLOWED TO CRY.

Re: Questions

[warandpeace]

So for all the people that have prosthetics with metal bits in them :< ....

I ask in the right place now

Re: Questions

[skatebird]

How are the adorable, terrifying little guys with fire as opposed to cold? And how resistant are they to smashing/crushing damage that could be done by a guy with a baseball bat?

[dragonspride]

How good are they at distinguishing "metal" from "mimicking metal"?

[abide]

sorry if i missed this BUT would the scraplets still be able to sense the metal attached to living things if they wrapped it up with clothes or concealed them in some way? :>a

[heart_breaking]

What are the chances of an organic someone successfully trying to keep one as a pet? Asking for a friend.

Re: Questions

[whoami]

What about circuitry? Does that fall under the heading of 'living metal' or something else altogether? Because It's not really organic either...

And ngl I thought it would be funny as hell if poor Sam got his clothes eaten off

[diamondslap]

[visionarie]

.... You knew this was coming. :|

A few questions....

1) Would they try to eat an android who's "flesh" is made up synthetic cells coated with Vibranium (an exotic metal from outer space that absorbs kinetic energy as a specialty and overall one of the most durable substance on the planet)?

2) If they eat a part of him, what happens to that portion of himself? Is it gone for good?

3) Vision has the ability to phase through anything and unphase inside it to destroy it from the inside out. Could he destroy the scraplets in this format?

4) Vision has an infinity stone called the mind stone lodged on his pretty little head. Will the scraplets be able to to sense it? Will it deter or attract them? Meaning will he be pounced a lot more than your every day android or be left mostly alone?

And lastly, not a question but:

5) I'm not quite sure how dangerous the scraplets would be to Vision since he can just fly away or even blast them with his energy beam from the stone, or Q3. I don't know how well they'd fare against him so any clues would be greatly appreciated!

Counterattack Plotting

[aminerproblem]

The current idea to end to plot was that someone (likely many of the Cybertronians) could be used as bait to lure the horde out of hiding into a large space like the cargo hold, and then blast them out into space.

HOWEVER, I am totally fine with any suggestions or alternate ideas anyone might have in mind. So if you have one, feel free to drop them here!

Re: Counterattack Plotting

[rraidergirl]

hear me out.

roombas to the rescue.

Re: Counterattack Plotting

[hellsbel]

The ship might have a supply of liquid nitrogen. Say, in medbay or engineering. Having been through the great January cold snap, Bel wouldn't like the idea of turning off life support in successive sections of the ship to flush the scraplets out of the vents, but that might also be an option.

Counterattack Sign Up

[aminerproblem]

<b>Player</b>: NAME <b>Character(s)</b>: NAME <user name=NAME> <b>What will they be doing?</B> Do you see your character researching the infestation, physically helping lure out the horde, or perhaps something else?</a>

[peridork]

Player: Possum
Character(s): Peridot peridork
What will they be doing? Researching and doing any repairs on the poor bait would be preferable! And like. Anything else. I'm open to w/e C:

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[skatebird]

Player: Kiki
Character(s): Misaki Yata skatebird
What will they be doing? Yata will be primarily smashing the nasty little things and, on occasion, melting them when he gets his hands on one for long enough. So mostly smashing them, and probably herding them towards the final staging area.

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[heartscold]

Player: Mel
Character(s): Leonard Snart heartscold
What will they be doing? He's got a brand-new cold gun he'd love to try out on these things. Vulnerable to the cold? Awesome.

[notpatsy]

Player: Hanna
Character(s): Sif fiercestwarrior
What will they be doing? I mainly see her destroying a lot of scraplets. She could probably be an okay distraction since she tends to wear armour and fights with a metal sword.

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

Player: Zapperkat
Character(s): Nihlus Kryik beautifulspaceraptor
What will they be doing? Will be taking part in finding ways of corralling them out the airlock.

[diamondslap]

Player: jabbers
Character(s): aurelia hammerlock diamondslap and riptide knaval if he HAS TO, UGH
What will they be doing? aurelia's ice diadem can probably freeze several at a time and as much as she likes seeing the robots Suffer, she likes not suffocating more. also, moving targets :3c

riptide will probably be crying or something idfk

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[tsunclonus]

Player: MonkeysInPants
Character(s): Cyclonus tsunclonus
What will they be doing? Cyclonus has a marshmallow to protect with violence. :T

[visionarie]

Player: Blithe
Character(s): Vision visionarie
What will they be doing? He would volunteer to physically help lure out the horde as well as repairing any damage done to the ship considering he's the cybertronics Technician... they're going to give him a lot of work...

[daintylegs]

Player: Lady
Character(s): Tailgate daintylegs
What will they be doing? Tailgate will immediately offer himself up as bait because that's the noble Autobot way of doing things. Undoubtedly he will be heavily discouraged from this, but he'll do whatever he can to help anyway.

[coolskeletonnyehntyfive]

Player: Sarah
Character(s): Papyrus coolskeletonnyehntyfive
What will they be doing? Someone trying to hurt the cool robot friends? Not on Papyrus's watch! He'll be using his magic to help drive/push them back, but they're super cute so no promises he won't stop fighting early/try to keep one.

[backsassin]

Player: Sue
Character(s): Zam Wesell backsassin
What will they be doing? Cursing profusely and killing as many of the things as possible with their blaster pistol.