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]

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!

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>

[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

[aminerproblem]

They would definitely be driven to munch on things like metal (or partly metal) prosthetics. How voraciously the scraplets will react can be determined by the player to fit whatever's most convenient.

[aminerproblem]

maybe they can save the crying for later

[redshitlord]

fine ok ill do it ill be bait

whatwouldbumblebeedo

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"?

[aminerproblem]

They can be smashed apart fairly easily, actually. Feel free to bat away!

With heat, if the fire is hot enough to easily melt metal it will probably melt them (keeping in mind metals from Cybertron tend to be a little hardier than Earth ones).

[aminerproblem]

Canon doesn't really touch on that, so my best guess is that it would depend on how convincing the mimic is.

If it's like plastic with a metallic finish on it, probably not. If it's some kind of material that looks, bends, and behaves like a metal would it's probably getting chomped up.

There's no hard rule though, so it can be pulled to whatever's most useful to what you want to play!

Re: Counterattack Plotting

[rraidergirl]

hear me out.

roombas to the rescue.

[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

[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:

Re: Counterattack Plotting

[aminerproblem]

Not gonna lie, that would be kind of amazing. What would you see them doing?

Re: Counterattack Plotting

[rraidergirl]

being used as a distraction or a lure to draw out the scraplets, primarily. like strap more scrap to them and send them down a hall and into a trap or out an airlock. lara's been screwing around with them, so they can motor pretty fast.

[aminerproblem]

They get most attracted to things that have some kind of energy/power running through them, so I'd say yes if it's something that'd have some kind of noticeable energy source in it.

[aminerproblem]

A Roomba Rescue Team brings out the most amazing image. Let's make this happen. They can be part of luring them out of the ship.

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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.

[dragonspride]

...Welp, his scales have been made into jewelry before like metal, and I am always up for new and interesting ways for him to get injured. >w>

[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.