Cruor Rundown - Story Time
Nov 19, 2019 19:46:07 GMT -5
Post by Zercon on Nov 19, 2019 19:46:07 GMT -5
Spoilers and an insight to the disease ahead, since it will be concluded within the Time Skip discussed on Discord.
OK SO. Cruor did not always start out how it is currently portrayed, and in order to give the full picture we are going to loop in a few characters that are no longer on the forums to clarify and allow it to make more sense as things needed to be tweaked to accommodate for the loss of individuals.
Many years ago, the disease was much simpler, and was intended to be a brick joke. Contracted in one thread, then years later popped up to slap a couple characters and get a laugh about it at the long game with mostly harmless consequence. It was orchestrated between Toggs and myself, and first was 'birthed' when Flatline had to medically connect to Red Alert to download a schematic to try to save the Autobot's life, and in turn save his own.
A virus, a disease, Red Alert maliciously lashing back that mixed poorly with Flatline’s atypical build. Now this was meant to just be a laugh side plot that did not involve everyone else, but in a lull in the forums, it was decided a more spreading dangerous plague could incite interest and drama, and the Cruor disease was fully formed. It was cut loose behind the scenes, and it started to spread out to infect Roulette, Skywarp, and Knock Out via data lines, and Breakdown via Flatline BITING him.
Sadly, Toggs had to depart the forums after this, and it became abruptly awkward to suddenly pin a virus and disease on a past player who was no longer present, potentially screwing over a future Red Alert applicant in the process or just confusing future applicants. In a frenzy, a secondary source was formulated, keeping the Cruor diseases transmission rules the same, and merely mutating its source to a new angle that was alienated in Flatline’s past so it did not mess with others.
From here, it spread further, branching to Sparkplug through data lines, and then to Soundwave through data lines who was used as a pawn to sink the Nemesis, and crash the Decepticons down to a level playing field with the Autobots. No longer could they hide in their invincible fortress, no longer could they be completely safe. There would be fear of being followed home, fear of being found, and a scramble to find stability once again.
The disease continued to spread.
With the truce in play, Breakdown who was a carrier, interacted with Bumblebee, Energon shed during their interaction and infection branching across factions. After this, there was a squabble trying to protect Rafael from Bolo and a misunderstanding, Bolo bit Bumblebee, contracting the disease, who then gave it to Carbine when they docked. From here, there were further attempts to spread the infection. Energon shed at Sideswipe's open wounds, small injuries that were going to fling to another player, but this is where Cruor dwindled to a halt, and a cure was formulated and spread.
The Disease:
It all started with a virus, one that re-writes the core for Nanite control and instructs it to construct the corrupted Nanites instead of normal ones. This virus plagues any computer system, data pad, or really anything with enough of a memory core to hold it. This means every piece of tech that someone carrying the virus plugs into, will give the tech the virus, and in turn plague whoever plugs into it next. With the virus, the infected characters Energon becomes another source of infection.
Many years ago, the disease was much simpler, and was intended to be a brick joke. Contracted in one thread, then years later popped up to slap a couple characters and get a laugh about it at the long game with mostly harmless consequence. It was orchestrated between Toggs and myself, and first was 'birthed' when Flatline had to medically connect to Red Alert to download a schematic to try to save the Autobot's life, and in turn save his own.
A virus, a disease, Red Alert maliciously lashing back that mixed poorly with Flatline’s atypical build. Now this was meant to just be a laugh side plot that did not involve everyone else, but in a lull in the forums, it was decided a more spreading dangerous plague could incite interest and drama, and the Cruor disease was fully formed. It was cut loose behind the scenes, and it started to spread out to infect Roulette, Skywarp, and Knock Out via data lines, and Breakdown via Flatline BITING him.
Sadly, Toggs had to depart the forums after this, and it became abruptly awkward to suddenly pin a virus and disease on a past player who was no longer present, potentially screwing over a future Red Alert applicant in the process or just confusing future applicants. In a frenzy, a secondary source was formulated, keeping the Cruor diseases transmission rules the same, and merely mutating its source to a new angle that was alienated in Flatline’s past so it did not mess with others.
From here, it spread further, branching to Sparkplug through data lines, and then to Soundwave through data lines who was used as a pawn to sink the Nemesis, and crash the Decepticons down to a level playing field with the Autobots. No longer could they hide in their invincible fortress, no longer could they be completely safe. There would be fear of being followed home, fear of being found, and a scramble to find stability once again.
The disease continued to spread.
With the truce in play, Breakdown who was a carrier, interacted with Bumblebee, Energon shed during their interaction and infection branching across factions. After this, there was a squabble trying to protect Rafael from Bolo and a misunderstanding, Bolo bit Bumblebee, contracting the disease, who then gave it to Carbine when they docked. From here, there were further attempts to spread the infection. Energon shed at Sideswipe's open wounds, small injuries that were going to fling to another player, but this is where Cruor dwindled to a halt, and a cure was formulated and spread.
The Disease:
It all started with a virus, one that re-writes the core for Nanite control and instructs it to construct the corrupted Nanites instead of normal ones. This virus plagues any computer system, data pad, or really anything with enough of a memory core to hold it. This means every piece of tech that someone carrying the virus plugs into, will give the tech the virus, and in turn plague whoever plugs into it next. With the virus, the infected characters Energon becomes another source of infection.
Each Nanite will try to corrupt non infected Nanites, which is why Breakdown, Bumblebee, Bolo, Carbine, and potentially Sideswipe all became infected despite never plugging into the same technology. The plagued individual’s Energon harbors the disease, and shows the same symptoms, but they can ONLY infect via Energon and will not display any virus coding.
How fast an individual displays symptoms is dependent on how many injuries they sustained which would distract the Nanites from task, or their own personal immunity. To not force players to have their characters go feral and essentially useless, there was an option a character may not be affected at all. Perhaps a bit heightened anger issues, more volatile... or perhaps nothing at all, making them a carrier for the plague.
The growths where byproducts of the coding, growing off of the Nanite control centers like a cancerous mass from the confused systems. It was a sign that something was wrong still and things needed to be looked into.
This is the rough history of Cruor, and how its source adapted and changed. With the Time Skip in play, these details would be known by the medical personnel depending on Faction. Knock Out would know the full scenario, while Ratchet ((who was not given the digital code to analyze)) would be alienated to only knowing about the Nanite corruption. All traces of the virus coding itself, and the plagued nanites have been expunged save for any saved files that may have been made to keep on record.
If I forgot a detail, feel free to poke me on Discord to explain.
How fast an individual displays symptoms is dependent on how many injuries they sustained which would distract the Nanites from task, or their own personal immunity. To not force players to have their characters go feral and essentially useless, there was an option a character may not be affected at all. Perhaps a bit heightened anger issues, more volatile... or perhaps nothing at all, making them a carrier for the plague.
The growths where byproducts of the coding, growing off of the Nanite control centers like a cancerous mass from the confused systems. It was a sign that something was wrong still and things needed to be looked into.
This is the rough history of Cruor, and how its source adapted and changed. With the Time Skip in play, these details would be known by the medical personnel depending on Faction. Knock Out would know the full scenario, while Ratchet ((who was not given the digital code to analyze)) would be alienated to only knowing about the Nanite corruption. All traces of the virus coding itself, and the plagued nanites have been expunged save for any saved files that may have been made to keep on record.
If I forgot a detail, feel free to poke me on Discord to explain.