Dark Energon Event

[slenderbot]

DARK ENERGON EVENT

For about several months now, Soundwave has been gathering information and parts to build a space bridge. With the help of several other mechs (Shockwave, Deadlock, Soundwave, Knock out, Breakdown), he's finally succeeded in completing it. In Prime canon, malfunctions can cause space bridges-- and ground bridges --to create time/space dimensional rips. Soundwave abused this apparent malfunction to create a dimensional portal, using his own as the test subject.

And that's where it goes all horribly wrong.

As of the 21st (aka Monday), he activates the space bridge and finds while successful in creating a dimensional portal, it was nowhere near the time span or location he wanted. In such, he pinpoints a time in which his Cybertron had been recently infected with Dark Energon and unleashes the walking dead on Sacrosact.

TL;DR: GIANT ROBOT ZOMBIES. With handy visual reference!


TERRORCONS
The Terrorcons-- robot zombies --are the result of Cybertronian corpses becoming infected with a substance called Dark Energon. Like any good undead horde, they pretty much hate anything living. Also like any good undead horde, they're hard to kill without slicing them to pieces and their fluids are the same infectious fluid that animates them.

DARK ENERGON
So what is Dark Energon? While Energon is the fuel that gives Cybertronians life, Dark Energon is the opposite of that. It's pretty much the blood of an evil robot deity, Unicron. Obviously this means that it has some really nasty powers and all that fun jazz. It can be neutralized with regular energon, but here's a bit of a breakdown and what it can do:

• Humans - It makes humans very sick. Like dying sick. Contact with Dark Energon is a slow and painful death because it's literally poisonous. Fortunately, it's not incurable . An infusion of Energon pretty much perks them up since it couneracts the effects.
• Cybertronians - If you're dead, well it can reanimate your corpse as a shambling zombie. If you're not, those of weak constitution might feel dizzy and sick. Others tend to get a drug-like power boost. Stronger, faster, heals quicker. Also tends to make you bugfuck nuts.
• Non-sentient electronics - A drop of this stuff can animate your toaster into a tiny evil death bringer robot.

More in depth info on Dark energon can be found at the wiki page here.


My character isn't any of those! What can they do?
You're in luck! Dark Energon is pretty much a macguffin. Maybe it makes trolls high or Asgardians insane. Maybe it doesn't affect them at all! Really, it's up to you.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. Taking advantage of his screw up, Soundwave just kinda rolls with the hit and decides to wing it. A giant mechanical undead army can work in his favor and all, so the mech is gonna attempt to use them for conquest in Megatron's name. Won't he be pleased! Don't get him wrong, he's less interested in conquering the residents as he is with conquering Sacrosanct, killing Hypatia, and seizing the planet below. If he has to kill anyone, well, acceptable losses and all.

The event is going to last a week, so that's the 21st-27th. Zones that will be affected are Garden Zone 03, Residential Zone 02, and Residential Zone 03. It can spread to other zones depending, but that'll be where the zombies are.

Comments

[slenderbot]

Sob I hope that's coherent.

If anyone wants a run in with Soundwave, maybe some CR, etc. Feel free to hit me up here.

ALSO ANY QUESTIONS feel free to ask them in the post too.

[token_vengeance]

So Erik, Mr. Mags himself, has the ability to smash and tear most metal things into itty bitty tiny bits.

...would he be able to do this? I mean, given if the goo gets on him, or anyone around him he's fucked, but I just want to make sure that he's good with putting up a defense of "fuck shit up" while this is going down.

[roseintheshade]

What, no boss fight with Trypticon in freefall? What kind of Dark Energon event is this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[myownbestfriend]

Come get the kids, darling. Auntie Emma needs to take out some frustrations.

[slenderbot]

Cybertronians are pretty much giant walking hunks of metal. I'd say sure, he can Magneto the hell out of them.

[slenderbot]

oh sorry.


amendment: and then a mini trypticon came through so we can have a boss fight

[token_vengeance]

/gonna underdog that shit aww yeah

[token_vengeance]

It's gonna be a good time for the Eriks awww yeah

[myownbestfriend]

Okay, since Marvel metaphysics makes approximately as much sense as Transformers metaphysics, what happens when a telepath tries to analyze the stuff/something affected with it? (Marvel telepathy canonically works at least a bit on sentient machines, unless the plot explicitly requires that it doesn't.)

[hairthatglows]

oh boy zombie robots trampling right through the zone where rapunzel's camp is

[roseintheshade]

<--- Me.

[myownbestfriend]

There are four EM manipulators. The mutants could pretty much stay put and ignore this event, couldn't they? XD

[token_vengeance]

But Emmaaaa...this is Erik's first event. He wants to get out there and do things /whines

[myownbestfriend]

/sigh

Boys.

she's just fronting; she totally thinks it's hot when Magnetos throw giant robots around

[slenderbot]

I imagine if Emma tried analyzing a zombie, then well. I don't think that would go over too well since they're dead in the sense that... They'll show up as life signs if someone had been monitoring them, but their spark (ie their soul) is gone. So they're brainless.

A non-sentient machine like your toaster oven or your hair dryer might show up as something with less-than-human intelligence. ie like a rodent or such.

Sentient robots might produce flashes of DEATH AND DESTRUCTION and crazy since they're literally getting high on a robot Chaos god's blood.

ANYONE ELSE? Up to the players, I guess!

[myownbestfriend]

Righto! I was checking for any "bleed out the nose and collapse" potential, but it sounds like all the Marvel telepaths on the station are too strong for it. :|9

[token_vengeance]

With those big ole hands...

[slenderbot]

Really, it's a huge macguffin. TAKE IT WHICHEVER WAY YOU WANT. It's Robot Devil blood.

[slenderbot]

NOW MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO MOVE, RAPUNZEL...

Although they're huge. Not hard to miss.

[myownbestfriend]

I went looking for Robot Devil Futurama clips on YouTube, but there aren't any good ones. :<

[slenderbot]

I badly want him in Sing, ngl.

He can do nefarious plans like taking people's hands.

[myownbestfriend]

she hasn't gotten laid since December this "good girlfriend" thing is killing her

[myownbestfriend]

You may have to make a metaphorical deal with the Devil.

By Devil I mean Robot Devil

and by metaphorical I mean get your coat.

[token_vengeance]

Headcanonly, Erik has been too busy with REVENGE to have sex. For years. so...he feels your pain.

[notsoloyal]

come here soundwave

[slenderbot]

hello shockwave. c:



i'm not done disappointing you yet. Have i achieved maximum disappointment rank?

[notsoloyal]

as a soundwave i don't think it's possible to reach maximum disappointment, but there is more disappointment... although shockwave still wants his own zombie and some dark energon

[slenderbot]

done and done


because it pleases you.

[notsoloyal]

all but your idiocy is forgiven!

and then they tried to take over the planet together

[demon_brat]

... CAN DAMIAN KILL GIANT ZOMBIE ROBOTS? CAN HE? CAN HE? With a possible side of dying, since it's not like the brat is going to be missed...

Also also also how susceptible would they be to Banshee's sonic blasts? I'm thinking more as means to keep/push them back than actually busting them, though if they get too close to Mutanthaus, he might try that, too.

[circuitry]

YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE BET ON THE ALIEN ROBOT ZOMBIE DISASTER WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE

[extinguishescandles]

Random question that's only going to impact three people BUT would it be safe to consider the terrorcons to be steel type as far as pokemon effectiveness goes? Obviously they aren't pokemon so the whole super effective take you out in one hit thing wouldn't really apply here, but certain types of moves (fire, ground, fighting) would have more of an impact than say, oh man I totally vine whipped your robo-ass right there, y/n?

Or would attempting to use pokemon just be useless since they're so big? (Though, granted, there are some pretty large pokemon on the station as well.)

[puncturing]

... clove is just going to be like W T F

[swagneto]

So I'm the latest with questions haha.

If someone gets affected via the dark energon stuff, is there a way for them to get Energon/aka ask for help? Such as in the vein of fostering some CR or something like that.

[slenderbot]

LATE WITH RESPONSES since I was MIA yesterday.

GO AND KILL GIANT ROBOTS. GO.

Sonic blasts could probably push them around. Remember they're big metal guys and metal is pretty susceptible to getting rattled by sound.

[slenderbot]

NOW IT'S TOO LATE.

[slenderbot]

If we're talking pokemanz, I figure they'd be kind of a steel/ghost combination. If just because they're made of metal but are of tougher undead stuff than the usual kind.

Ground and fighting definitely would be pretty effective. :|a In a non-pokemon situation, they're pretty weak to getting tossed around/crushed/ripped apart and so on.

[slenderbot]

Barricade has a bar in which he pretty much serves the stuff. Shockwave also makes it, and I do believe Skyfire has some lying around as well. As it's the stuff Cybertronians generally well... eat, instead of usual food. Just pick a robot, they're bound to have some.

BUT. Best bet would probably be Barricade.

[namesnotprowl]

I think Optimus Prime knows about how to cure Dark Energon infections. And Barricade has an abundance of Energon that he'd willing to offer up - either himself or via whoever he puts in charge of his bar while he derps off after zombies - so there would definitely be chances to get CR that way if you want it.

[demon_brat]

THAT IS FINE!

YESSS he has a lot of energy and training that can use that. He might even be in a good mood. Until the dark energon starts taking its toll on him or something. *shall ponder this*

*nods* that makes logic, but I just wanted to ask so as not to, you know. Do things I shouldn't. Seeing as my ignorance about the giant robots is still abysmal.

[extinguishescandles]

I wasn't sure about the ghost parts so I didn't mention that but it totally makes sense! Awesome, thanks! :D

[sarcasticpelican]

SHE PUT FIVE CREDITS DOWN ON ROBOTS.
TIME TO COLLECT?

[fe_male]

MOST LATEST.

Does JARVIS count as a ... non-sentient electronic..? Or would that be just the suit. Not that either is a definite, just that yay options.

[slenderbot]

:|a Not sure about AI. The best example I have to base off that is that dark energon caused a ship AI to temporarily gain sentience and ignore/defy commands.

SUIT MIGHT COUNT. It's electronic, made of metal... UP TO YOU.