EPISODE 2 - "Contagious"
Mar 26, 2013 18:54:31 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2013 18:54:31 GMT -5
EPISODE 2: MECH/VIRUS PLOT PROPOSAL
Soundwave’s hack of the NEST facility has given the Decepticons a lead - what looks like a source code hacked into NEST's auxiliary database out of Germany. After the time jump, they follow this lead to its source: a MECH operative, then a MECH facility, where Laserbeak (or Ravage) attempts to infiltrate. Unfortunately, Electrocap has been tracking Soundwave's deployers and they simultaneously infiltrate the facility in search of data that has clear Cybertronian course code. They both run afoul of eachother and bust some stuff up in a lab, then run.
Both bring home a virus.
Direct physical contact is the vector of transmission. The virus does not survive most surfaces. Only metal that has carried a Spark charge at some point (AKA: the containers MECH uses for this stuff was previously some part of a Cybertronian.) Some Cybertronians are immune, but their immunity cannot quickly be developed into a cure. Soundwave is infected. Back at the Bot Base any of our current OC NPCs are infected. The plot is this: The virus is a modified strain of the Cybonic Plague. Both sides have the cure for the original, but Electrocap and Laserbeak (or Ravage) each got only one half of the data on this new strain. So the must either work together or key members on both sides will die.
The human twist: the original source of the virus is not MECH, but NEST. MECH took the original strain from NEST and weaponized it fully against the Cybertronian race using the data they got from Breakdown. This may or may not be uncovered by the Autobots in this plot depending on how we want to play it, or if we want to keep it a secret within the humans. There may be pressure from the higher ups to keep this weaponized strain for later use against Cybertronians. The humans and some Bots will likely be hunting down clues as to the source of the NEST leak to MECH so human/Bot cooperation plots are a go... or humans sabotaging Bots. It's up to the human players.
The Neutral base may become the ground where Ratchet and Knockout and the Solus medical team work on a cure. Factions may choose to reveal who among them is and is not infected, try to get intell from one another, or just panic about the virus. Likely only select few from both sides will be allowed on base at the same time: anyone infected that needs treatment and is not being quarantined in the Nemesis or the Bot Base, medics, and faction leaders. Some muscle or those visiting the infected may come but only with clearance from team leads and Elita One/Cleaver.
There will be NPC casualties.
MOD NOTES: Suggestions and input for this plot are welcome. This is where people can yay or nay the plot. The in-game time frame for this plot is likely to be about a week or so.
-Stark
Soundwave’s hack of the NEST facility has given the Decepticons a lead - what looks like a source code hacked into NEST's auxiliary database out of Germany. After the time jump, they follow this lead to its source: a MECH operative, then a MECH facility, where Laserbeak (or Ravage) attempts to infiltrate. Unfortunately, Electrocap has been tracking Soundwave's deployers and they simultaneously infiltrate the facility in search of data that has clear Cybertronian course code. They both run afoul of eachother and bust some stuff up in a lab, then run.
Both bring home a virus.
Direct physical contact is the vector of transmission. The virus does not survive most surfaces. Only metal that has carried a Spark charge at some point (AKA: the containers MECH uses for this stuff was previously some part of a Cybertronian.) Some Cybertronians are immune, but their immunity cannot quickly be developed into a cure. Soundwave is infected. Back at the Bot Base any of our current OC NPCs are infected. The plot is this: The virus is a modified strain of the Cybonic Plague. Both sides have the cure for the original, but Electrocap and Laserbeak (or Ravage) each got only one half of the data on this new strain. So the must either work together or key members on both sides will die.
The human twist: the original source of the virus is not MECH, but NEST. MECH took the original strain from NEST and weaponized it fully against the Cybertronian race using the data they got from Breakdown. This may or may not be uncovered by the Autobots in this plot depending on how we want to play it, or if we want to keep it a secret within the humans. There may be pressure from the higher ups to keep this weaponized strain for later use against Cybertronians. The humans and some Bots will likely be hunting down clues as to the source of the NEST leak to MECH so human/Bot cooperation plots are a go... or humans sabotaging Bots. It's up to the human players.
The Neutral base may become the ground where Ratchet and Knockout and the Solus medical team work on a cure. Factions may choose to reveal who among them is and is not infected, try to get intell from one another, or just panic about the virus. Likely only select few from both sides will be allowed on base at the same time: anyone infected that needs treatment and is not being quarantined in the Nemesis or the Bot Base, medics, and faction leaders. Some muscle or those visiting the infected may come but only with clearance from team leads and Elita One/Cleaver.
There will be NPC casualties.
MOD NOTES: Suggestions and input for this plot are welcome. This is where people can yay or nay the plot. The in-game time frame for this plot is likely to be about a week or so.
-Stark