Send in the Probes (Plotting Post!)

[staresat]

Shockwave's been rather reclusive and locked up in his hidey hole. Of course, he hasn't been loafing about all that time, he's been creating a large fleet of hovering drones. The drones themselves are disk-like and small by Cybertronian standards (only about 3 feet in diameter). They aren't armed and they aren't aggressive(unless aggressively scanning counts), but there sure are a lot of them.

Their purpose? To map out every square inch of the Haven they can squeeze into(Think of the spectragraphs from Prometheus). They will be traversing over large swaths of land and going into the Temples to see what they can find. They'll swoop in, scan, and leave. They also will travel individually, there won't be any groups sticking together.

Naturally, I'm going to assume all character locations are locked (and thus inaccessible) unless otherwise stated. If you want to have a drone snooping about your character's location feel free to post about it after Feb 20th. I'll be tossing up a Comm Post by next Friday, Feb 22, where I'll play the drones if you want someone to interact with them.

Here's some more deetz:
* The drones are fairly disposable and expected to disappear. Destroying a couple will go about unnoticed, but vaporize a large group of them and it will probably attract Shockwave's attention. He may just need to visit this place in person. 

* Considering Shockwave programmed them himself, tampering with the drones electronically will require a fairly high degree of skill(any scientists/engineers/tech-focused characters fit the bill). Attempts to hack them or tamper with them will result in them self-destructing unless your character is quick/skilled enough to disable the defense mechanisms.

* If the probe is hacked, one could figure out where it's transmitting it's scans: to a computer somewhere within Liege's quadrant(ie. Shockwave's creepy basement). It'd also be clear that they're sending back coordinates and data for the construction of a 3D map of the Haven.

What for? Well, that would require further investigation.
 UPDATE: The post will be moved to the 24th-25th

Comments

[raceme]

Ko is stealing borrowing 3 of them for his new clinic and hacking them into change his programming to clean stuff instead of just scanning. If that's okay :3


Can Frank chew on...play with the drones?

[staresat]

Three drones should go about unnoticed, KO can feel free to nab em. Shockwave might comment on it if he sees them in the Med bay, but it's such a small number that he wouldn't really act on it. Probably

just

be like: "oh."

"you've managed to bypass their defense sequences. good job. /gold sticker"

And sure! FRANK STAHP CHEWIN ON EM THEY NEED TO SCANNNN

[deadlydoctor]

Gotcha,thank you. Ko will be all >.> YOU DON'T NEED THOSE, RIGHT?

He's the tech advisor for a reason :> Ko will be glad Shocky is not mad at him.

HE ONLY WANTS TO PLAY >:

[sword_redemption]

Whirl should be on failatus, but part of me really really wants him to do something horrible to some of them. Any thoughts? I'm thinking something, you know stupid like making them wear masks and fight each other, and maybe trying to send one back with a bomb?

[staresat]

Haha, masked drone fighter battle tournament sounds amazing. They don't have any weapons, they'd probably only be able to bump at each other at reasonably high speeds. Making little tink noises.

Sending one back with a bomb could also work, though that'd piss off Shockwave enough for him to get out of his basement. He'd want to look for THAT PUNK THAT SENT A BOMB TO HIS HOUSE >8CCCC

[sword_redemption]

So like little bumper cars?

CAN WHIRL USE LUCHA LIBRE MASKS?!?!

and oh yeah Shocky, you might have to get out of the basement. :D

[staresat]

YES LIKE LITTLE BUMPER CARS. Whirl's just gonna have to find a way to reprogram them before they self destruct if he wants a little lucha libre tournament with shockwave's drones. It will be a barrel of laughs.

UNTIL HE SENDS THE BOMB BACK. 8D

[hellkitty]

OH HEY I have a question. What would happen if Whirl, say...uh...sat on one? Would it get squished or would it still be able to move or...what?

NO REASON JUST CURIOUS.

[staresat]

UHHHHHHHHH it'd probably get squished. Whirl you have a big ass compared to that tiny thing.

we could always just handwave that for Rule of Funny

[dinnerdate]

if any go into any of driller's holes he's likely to eat them D3

[staresat]

DRILLER NO. >8c LET THEM SCAN YOUR HOLES

[dinnerdate]

THEY LOOK LIKE TREATS

[aerospacecommander]

Starscream is totally taking one.

[staresat]

D8<<<<< those are not yours starscream

one will go unnoticed

[doctordon]

Don is definitely the type to pick one of these up and screw around with them. He's also the comic relief, so one or two may blow up in his face before he gets the whole thing figured out. Yes, definitely I would like to be involved.

[showboater]

marvelous will shoot any don hasn't claimed on sight if they make it aboard the galleon, for the record

[staresat]

Both are totes fine! I look forward to playing the unfortunate drones that get caught! ): they just wanted to do their jobs...

Would Don investigate the signal or just fiddle around with them out of curiosity?

[doctordon]

He would definitely investigate. He's not the kind of guy who assumes that things floating around are automatically on his side. He'd probably have to ask Marvelous, since he knows what's up more than Don does, but yeah I'm pretty sure Marv would be of the opinion that little spybots are worth investigating.

[rednotbluethx]

IT'S COOL I GET TO BEAT UP A FEW AND BREAK A FEW RIGHT MOM

[staresat]

DANGIT FRENZY.

fine but only a few >8c

[rednotbluethx]

GOOD

also megatron told me to keep an eye on your butt mom so i might have to keep the intel of some of the drones i destroy ok thx

[headcollector]

INTERESTED IN AN ANGRY DINOBOT SMASHING THEM??

God he hates Shockwave, they should meet.

[staresat]

GRIMMY HOWS IT BEEN? Enjoying that dinosaur form? Of course you are. Dinosaurs are fantastic creatures aren't they?

he might just have to fly over and investigate when he sees that Grimlock is around. From a safe distance. In the air.

But nonetheless, he'd want to know how his creation is doing. 8D and definitely not plot anything. nope.

[headcollector]

NO IT'S TERRIBLE. WHY.

He's unaware of Shockwave around, but he'd probably go ballistic once he knows.

[staresat]

Don't be that way Grimlock. (:

Think of all the fun times they had together. <3

Did you miss him? He certainly missed you.

[spacerhero]

The chance to shoot synthetic things without being yelled at? Sign Shepard up!

[staresat]

don't fry too many of them Shepard ): they're all lovingly hand-crafted

[thermosomatic]

I mentioned that Blitzwing's probably gonna get in on this. He'll probably kidnap and poke at some of the drones in curiosity.

And then break them by trying to surf on them. Or destroy every single on in his vicinity because they annoy him after a while.

It all depends, really, he's a rather unpredictable sort (and I'm really indecisive :x).

[staresat]

they're gonna keep invading your space Blitzwing even if you crush em all (:

/scan

(If it's a large enough area Shockwave may go to investigate - would you want to set that up?)

[thermosomatic]

THEN HE'LL CRUSH EVEN MORE OF THEM

(Oh yesss. Especially since I'm being the biggest derp and can't come up with any ideas whatsoever. 8C)

[staresat]

(That'll work <: Just toss something up on the log and I'll tag it back! )