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Touch Base: Conclusion OOC plotting.
Suffice to say, Chiron's sent out another message:
The final vote has been tallied; you have collectively decided to spare the Shapers by a two thirds margin. Please begin rounding them up immediately.This one is, like the last, posted as a bulletin and thus impossible to reply to directly. However, you can always contact him directly.
The DACTYL droids have been reprogrammed to identify them, though the software is a little patchy. It should work in most cases, however, and help you know where to cut into the walls and find nests. Please deposit the Shapers in the DACTYL interiors, where they'll be escorted to the main launch bay and ejected. We highly recommend doing this with at least one partner, and preferably in groups, should the Shapers attempt to send you to sleep in defense. In preparation for this, we've furnished the DACTYLs with shock rods for your defense. It will not hurt the Shapers, only send them unconscious long enough to be collected.
Anyone found to be using the shock rods on their fellow recruits will be sent to the brig.
Any character who did not vote will find the entirety of this popping up constantly on their BCE for the next three days, and occasionally filling itself in on text boxes or showing up where messages are supposed to. Be careful, or your next sext will involve ancient Greek philosophy.
The final log for this plot will be going up on the 23rd, this Saturday. It will detail how the Shapers are rounded up, what happens, and more fun stuff like that.
Characters who opt not to follow the general will and kill Shapers instead will not be reprimanded. However, we'd like to know if your character is doing so, and how many they're killing, so please let us know below in the comments. Since sometimes you can't really tell how many tiny frog aliens your characters are going to kill until you get there, there isn't a due date on this one, just keep us posted, okay? It's important for... reasons.
One more thing: there are several characters planning on keeping a Shaper for themselves, for whatever reason. We kind of need to keep track of that, so please comment below to let us know. If you don't comment as such by the 23rd, your character can't keep a Shaper. Sorry, but we need to make sure our ducks are properly lined up.
Feel free to use this post to plot or plan for anything you want to in the coming log.
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Also they taste like salmon. The brains make an excellent seasoning and add a rustic flavor.
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And she likes salmon, so that's good news. Can you give me a general rundown on their internals? How frog-like are they on the inside, basically. She's gonna be dissecting it thoroughly.
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And I'm paging our zoology mod, we'll get back to you in a tick.
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And alright! No rush, I know the holidays are busy and it's not a burning question or anything.
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No, he just needs to finish eating a burrito.
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And, well, Holiday Burrito.
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Be sure to ask him how it was when he gets here.
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Prelati will observe that her shaper is ectothermic; their preferred diet of coolant seems to be a direct result of this. While they can survive on algae and the secretions of other creatures (I hope you like waking up with a shaper tongue up your nose), cutting them off from coolant at any temperature lower than 15°C/60°F will cause them to mentally deteriorate. They can survive in subzero temperatures with a proper supply of coolant; without, their degeneration will lead them to attempt consuming their own kind and eventually their own bodies.
Their anatomy, at a glance, seems similar to that of a basic ectothermic Earth vertebrate, but their skeletons resemble cartilege and their respiratory systems have the most in common with crocodilians, with a looping system of airflow. Their extremely long tongues wrap around their skulls in a fashion akin to woodpeckers. Their blood is blue and they excrete a mildly hallucinogenic mucus that causes severe mood swings (while this wouldn't be easily observed without extensive experimentation, licking a shaper will essentially put the character under the emotional sway of shapers nearby). The mucus smells like an excellent blend of tea, for what it's worth; which blend varies from shaper to shaper. The mucus tastes much how it smells (albeit with a thick, slimy texture) if taken straight from the creature, while attempting to boil it will destroy the flavor but vastly intensify the effects. Without heat, the mucus is immiscable in water.
The shapers' skin is actually made up of millions of miniscule scales, covered in a thin layer of mucus. Properly cleaned and crushed, they add a highly desirable shimmering effect to cosmetics ranging from mascara to nail polish to lipstick. Its liver, which gives shapers a certain bouyancy in water, also contains a kind of oil that makes for excellent hemorrhoid medication, but it'll take roughly a dozen shapers to amass an effective amount.
The brain also has a gland that, if not removed before consumption, will cause Prelati (or whoever she makes eat it) high as fuck. They'll be able to sense shapers everywhere, though not in any coherent way that makes sense to a human brain; to a human, it's like the equivalent of taking a hard hit of acid. Someone who eats this organ may note that the shapers are emotionally networked together as a colony, keenly aware of their fellows' wellbeing. They'll also be able to sense the emotions of other humans in their immediate radius.
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