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soundwave [ prime ] ([personal profile] slenderbot) wrote in [community profile] singularityooc2012-05-19 08:35 pm

Dark Energon Event


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.
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[personal profile] token_vengeance 2012-05-20 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] roseintheshade 2012-05-20 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
What, no boss fight with Trypticon in freefall? What kind of Dark Energon event is this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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[personal profile] myownbestfriend 2012-05-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
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.)
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[personal profile] hairthatglows 2012-05-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
oh boy zombie robots trampling right through the zone where rapunzel's camp is
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[personal profile] demon_brat 2012-05-20 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
... 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.
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[personal profile] circuitry 2012-05-20 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE BET ON THE ALIEN ROBOT ZOMBIE DISASTER WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE
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[personal profile] extinguishescandles 2012-05-20 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)
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[personal profile] puncturing 2012-05-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
... clove is just going to be like W T F
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[personal profile] swagneto 2012-05-21 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] fe_male 2012-05-23 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
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.