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César Salazar ([personal profile] pineapplesalmon) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2024-05-02 01:31 pm

2nd Contraption - Oh, Worm?!

Who: César Salazar ([personal profile] pineapplesalmon), YOU, and a giant frigging worm
What: The larvae inside César from the ship mutates into a giant EVO worm when it encounters one of César's nanites, which activates
When: May 1st (May Day) for fight; May 2nd for revival, May 3rd (late) through 9th for mandatory vacation
Where: Battle mostly in the field and forest nearest the path to Pumpkin Hollow from the nearest trolley stop to César's farm
Warning(s): giant green worm/larvae (MANY many eyes, fourth human arms around its mouth, rows of throat teeth), burning worm flesh does not smell like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
NOTES: Harvey has given sign-off that some of this can be canned for later. Because. It's a lot. So bountiful groceries for the price of basic! Or free if you are a food producer.

1. [CW: Debugging, chest-burster followed by crushing death, worm warnings (see above), fire, violence, o] A closed log to Magne and Dabi. César's death with potential haunting of Magne to follow. You stay by your soil-mate's side, you know?

2. [CW: worm warnings (see above), worm on people on worm violence, holes, only attempted vore because it's in too much pain (UPON REQUEST), can spew dirt on you (emeto, UPON REQUEST)] BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF IT. Shorter threads because that bastard is gonna run away.
The Floor is LarvaeA shrieking roar in the distance and yelling from people breaks the peace of the afternoon, followed by a spray of dirt as the ground shakes. More commotions ensue. Then sudden, the earth begins to tremble, then rumble, and then shake. It's coming towards you.

With another shrieking roar, a giant grub slams out of the ground, spraying dirt and rock everywhere. It's angry. It's hurt. And it has just spotted you.

Everything's been attacking it, and so will you, so it must attack you first.

3. [CW: (now dead) worm warnings, holes, likely someone eating it] GENERAL MINGLE THREAD. Touch the body. Be glad you can't get nanites.
The Still Worm BodyThe worm finally dove down into the earth and came back up in a place without anyone to attack it. Unfortunately for the grub, it was only to die. The body lies still in a field. It's four arms around his mouth are slumped down, it's dozens of red eyes are open in a death stare. The tusk-shaped claws close to its body and its hundred or so of throat teeth are almost all attached. Some of its flesh is burnt, some of missing, some of it punctured such that it oozes.

The corpse is ripe to be picked over. After all, its not using it anymore. It would be a bad thing to let this much raw material go to waste, unstudied and unused.

4. [CW: Nonconsensual vacation] I'll post this one a bit later! But wildcarding will be heavily encouraged. :) César's getting a mandatory vacation because he died and WON'T FRIGGING REST.

WORM GENERAL INFO32 second YouTube Video of the Worm EVO in action - Attempted VORE
Here's a reference to caterpillar anatomy! And also a picture of its head. This is what the caterpillar USED to be.

The caterpillar is as tall as a single story when lying flat. Segmented. Green with some fuzz. Many, many red eyes. Four human arms have replaced its maxillary palps, two on each side of its mouth which leads immediately into rows and rows of very pointed teeth down its throat. The spiracles have become engorged yellow sacks. The true legs and protolegs are now capped off with claws.

CW: Talking about butchering of the animal in this section!
Worm body scavengingPER talking with Drake, the CW: DEAD ANIMAL AS FOOD DESCRIPTION FOLLOWING THIS flesh is definitely a bit similar to the internals of lobster. So. Uh. Someone please don't let all this high protein stuff go to waste. It will respond well to canning. And there will be no nanites in whatever is canned. It will also give you the bonus of bountiful groceries for the price of basic. Which means if you get free basic, you'll get free bountiful! Or it can be used later.

The claws of the legs (the length of an adult human forearm) and the teeth (many fitting well in a human hand) are big enough to be very useful. And also the eyes are solid, so they might... be interesting to keep around? The skin would be more mammalian, so it can be used for making green leather.

EVO WORM PICTURESFrom Generator Rex, Leader of the Pack
From Generator Rex, Leader of the Pack
From Generator Rex, Leader of the Pack
From Generator Rex, Leader of the Pack
From Generator Rex, The Forgotten
From Generator Rex, Back in Black
From Generator Rex, Back in Black
iamthepyre: (009)

[personal profile] iamthepyre 2024-05-31 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Dabi is watching the worms path before looking back at Magne. It's clear in how tense his muscles are that he's ready to spring into action, ready to run after the worm if need be. But then Magne mentions sticking with her and he relaxes. He looks confused, she's talking to him but also...not?

"Right...how does the whole returning thing even work? I don't think I ever heard about that process."
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[personal profile] sistermagnetic 2024-06-02 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing that he's still there is doing a lot to keep Magne from just going off on warpath and hunting the thing down to kill it with her bare hands for the perceived personal sleight.

"Look," she huffs, taking a step away from where she can feel César to point out at where his body was. There's a smear of red there where the caterpillar had come down on top of his body after it ruptured, but the body itself is nowhere to be seen. Dabi doesn't have to see yet another person he cares about exploded from the waist up. "As soon as his body was out of sight, the powers that be whisked it off. His soul's still here, and presumably as soon as the body's fixed, he'll be put back in it and be fine. Sort of. We don't always come back completely unharmed, but I think that's just the goddess' way of telling us to be more careful next time."
iamthepyre: (Dabi014)

[personal profile] iamthepyre 2024-06-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's definitely good that he doesn't have to see César's dead body laying there. He even lets out a breath he doesn't realize he was holding. Instead he breaths and nods, listening to his friends explanation.

"Alright so...we handle this and then what...go home and wait?"
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[personal profile] sistermagnetic 2024-07-06 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Magne's hand comes to rest on Dabi's shoulder, giving him a gentle squeeze that he's unlikely to feel.

"We don't have to. We can either chase it down and make sure that it doesn't do more damage, or help to clean up the aftermath so that nobody else gets exposed to the nanites. There's always something to do. You'd make a great autoclave," she jokes, just trying to shake him out of the distress that he doesn't exactly telegraph.