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One-off plot!: The Day the Danger Shop Went Crazy
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vdistinctiveHello lovely people! We interrupt your BDE planning probably already in progress with news of a one-off plot happening Tuesday, December 13. So, two days after y'all're done dealing with creepy monsterpocalypse taking over the island.
Tis the season.
On that Tuesday, Eliot Spencer will be opening up the Danger Shop to the public at large at the end of the school day to give his shop students a chance to show off their stuff to their classmates, teachers, and townie friends. What Eliot doesn't know is that his less-than-expert attempts at wrangling the Danger Shop programming and digging up the old shop class programs of yore have also unearthed a long buried, belligerent AI: Hal.
That's right, we're recycling a ten year old plot. It'll be just like rereading an old classic, only without weird unfinished OCD and threads broken by ancient journal purges!
Basically what's going to happen is this: once everyone has arrived for the Danger Shop open house and Eliot gets up to introduce the class, the doors to the shop will slam shut and lock. The carefully constructed safeties will fail. The Shop will turn into a junkyard, where all sorts of classic, multifannish robots will build themselves and converge on the people. Robot attack chaos ensues. Much clank. Very fighting. Wow.sorry The only escape will be a limited amount of space in the small control room, where a few good computer nerds will be needed to bust into the rogue Danger Shop programming, seek, out Hal -- who is just crazy enough to probably be doing an evil AI monologue about how much he hates shop teachers -- and take him down. Everyone else will need to use their hard-earned shop skills -- and general life experience of being in Fandom -- to defend themselves and each other from robot doom. The whole plot will take place ICly only over a few hours, and violence will be limited to the Danger Shop itself; no one who skips the open house need be involved. It'll be like a dance post. But with violence.
That's it. It's a one-off, like I said, a nice simple plot. Mostly a robot melee. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to ping in on the day(s) (the post will go up Monday for timezone and slow play glory, we're not nearly as fast now as we were in '06), for either NPC'd or modded robot battling. The only sign-ups I'm looking for are for the computer team, which will be preplayed, and for that I only need a few people. If we get more than three sign ups, I'll RNG our final team.
So, easy-peasy post-BDE lemon-squeezy. Deadline for signing up will be Saturday, December 3, to give us a little extra time to preplay around the BDE action.
Questions, comments, and general absurdity welcomed below.
Tis the season.
On that Tuesday, Eliot Spencer will be opening up the Danger Shop to the public at large at the end of the school day to give his shop students a chance to show off their stuff to their classmates, teachers, and townie friends. What Eliot doesn't know is that his less-than-expert attempts at wrangling the Danger Shop programming and digging up the old shop class programs of yore have also unearthed a long buried, belligerent AI: Hal.
That's right, we're recycling a ten year old plot. It'll be just like rereading an old classic, only without weird unfinished OCD and threads broken by ancient journal purges!
Basically what's going to happen is this: once everyone has arrived for the Danger Shop open house and Eliot gets up to introduce the class, the doors to the shop will slam shut and lock. The carefully constructed safeties will fail. The Shop will turn into a junkyard, where all sorts of classic, multifannish robots will build themselves and converge on the people. Robot attack chaos ensues. Much clank. Very fighting. Wow.
That's it. It's a one-off, like I said, a nice simple plot. Mostly a robot melee. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to ping in on the day(s) (the post will go up Monday for timezone and slow play glory, we're not nearly as fast now as we were in '06), for either NPC'd or modded robot battling. The only sign-ups I'm looking for are for the computer team, which will be preplayed, and for that I only need a few people. If we get more than three sign ups, I'll RNG our final team.
So, easy-peasy post-BDE lemon-squeezy. Deadline for signing up will be Saturday, December 3, to give us a little extra time to preplay around the BDE action.
Questions, comments, and general absurdity welcomed below.