@robert.plant

[righteously]

What do we have on the local monster population? I'm looking for all the intel we can pull together.

-major incidents
-strengths/weaknesses
-what are their traits, their patterns, what do they eat, what's their habitat like
-the lore, the history we know about them
-key players
-any leads we might have
-any ties to the displaced, coincidental or otherwise

I know about our buddy Johann, I'm gonna try and make friendly with DJ Roomba at the bar for more deets, but I wanna know what else we might have already on record.

If there's already some kind of, I don't know, wikipedia entry on this, I couldn't seem to future-google it up.

sidenote, keep Morning Star: Civil War to the fifteen places it's already going down, we're sticking to business here.

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@loki.odinson

[selfimage]

You're talking the variety of mismatched creatures with the gold eyes?
That includes the Godzilla that was fought upon our first arrival, of course.

[righteously]

Especially the Godzilla

@jyn.erso

[realists]

[ jyn attaches a whole link to an ages ago post ]

Turned out I was wrong about not seeing a person with golden eyes before and then it became much more common, but the rest is still accurate.

As for the creatures, I've seen a quite a few and another displaced and I tested the DNA of some samples I brought back from outside the wall. Everything was inconclusive. The DNA was rapidly decaying because the mix of species is not meant to exist, but ever since the accelerated plant growth after Zerzura, the animals that make it to the city have been living longer.

[selfimage]

My brother and a few bolder Displaced thought it best to take it down by driving a flying car full of explosives into its mouth.
There's footage of it somewhere, I'm certain.
But more curiously was the consequence of a drug that coincided with the hurried disposal of the monster carcasses. It's still around, utilized in the fight clubs as a performance enhancer.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

I've been here for a while, so I can go over a lot. But I think the big things are:

- If someone's "inhaled" a monster, either through being infected like they were recently or through the drug or smoke that Loki's alluding to, we (specifically us) can cure it. The feeling is the same no matter what led to it.

- We encountered them in dreams. They behaved differently there. I don't just mean the prophetic ones. I mean the ones where we were in control and impacting the world. When we had the big dream, it was after two major (and now nonexistent) monster attacks. New Tokyo was destroyed, but after we had the dream, it was overwritten with a bizarre blizzard.

- And then, of course, there are the recent dreams. These happened after a trip to Antarctica.

- There were also golden-eyed creatures in the gates when we got inside. It was like they were waiting for us as ... sentries?

- I think the golden eyes on people might be linked to the amount of monster we get inside of us. The previous cases had involved smoke or it being diluted. I can't test that for sure, but it's a hunch. [Based on herself, but she's not going to say that.]

- We've been outside of New Amsterdam's walls enough to confirm that it's unlikely that there's a lab out there waiting to spit a monster into the city. This was a theory for the first attack. It's part of why we went outside to look. Some people think the monsters come from other worlds like us, but I'm not sure.

- Their DNA isn't ever consistent. So that's consistent.

@castiel.winchester

[unwings]

How dense was the population of these creatures outside the walls? Did you see them feeding from the wild?

Have all aggressive, seemingly unnatural creatures you've encountered here possessed these golden eyes?

@jack.miller

[personalwar]

There were monsters at the four Gates locations. Some of us traveled there by choice, others were taken against their will. But at each set of ruins, people ran into monsters with golden eyes.

1/3

[righteously]

A flying bomb car?
Awesome.

I heard a little about it, that's why we couldn't burn the caverns out, right? You ingest it, you go all Resident Evil. Does it do anything aside from make you crazy chicken

2/3

[righteously]

crazy chicken

3/3

[righteously]

friggin auto translate
pretend that's spanish

[righteously]

So someone slapped together a crapload of pissed off animals, and not even science can make heads or tails of their biology

How often do animals make it into the city
Not a creepy May hodge-podge I'm guessing? What kind of animals?

[righteously]

Laying on hands cures the rage virus.
Does it do anything to the monsters themselves?

How'd they behave different in those dreams?

Any specific creature at the gates or a mixed bag? Any signs on how long they'd been there? Nests, droppings, tracks, anything that said they were there for a long time before you guys showed up, or more like they just got there?

Small quantities of monster juice = no golden eyes?

[righteously]

Did you get a look at the habitat there? Did it seem like they were living there a long time before you guys showed up, or was it a recent migration?

[personalwar]

Well, I was blind at the time, so I'm probably not the best person to ask.

But yeah, the impression I got was that the monsters there had been in the ruins for a while. It didn't seem like anyone had been there in... well, a long time. Not sure we would have even been able to reach some of the lower levels without our abilities.

[righteously]

so kinda like something either put them there or they were drawn to the gates, and it was compelling enough to keep 'em sticking around for a while

when you say "long time" are we talking like a couple months of dust or like years of disrepair?

[selfimage]

Right, pretending.

And yes. That's exactly why no one wants to burn the caverns.
Nothing aside from the noticable way that our own abilities seem to be the "cure" to it, so to speak. Though a tad bit more in the blue glowy chesty thing, rather than anything tangible.
Have you cured anyone within an unnatural rage yet?

[personalwar]

I'd guess it was years. It didn't seem like anyone had much reason to go there. It was outside of the city.

My point being that I don't think these monsters need normal sustenance to survive.

@stephen.strange

[rehandle]

[ Business Talk is fine, they can do this. ]

The minds of the monsters from the recent attack were filled with both rage and despair.

To add to the list of indicators of a connection of some kind, they seemed distracted by our existence. I don't know of any of our number intentionally killed by the creatures in the same way people native to this world were - either we're very lucky or they always stopped short - and in one instance some in the vicinity of my power use were drawn to and briefly mollified by the glow.

[righteously]

[ trust, he is 10/10 skilled with ignoring all interpersonal baggage or emotional friction for the purposes of hunting monsters. that's, like, his favorite thing to do. ]

Rage I get, despair's a new one.
So emo monster senses glowing chest, gets less aggro.
Maybe they're pissed off because we stole their glow.

[strove]

No. I know that Jyn has tried it.

The different part wasn't the behavior, but how they died. They disappeared as sparkles. I don't think, if we produced the dream, we'd produce different behavior from them.

I don't have any of this information about the gates, but they looked more like animals merged together than outright monsters, if that makes sense. I've seen some animals that have mutated because of radioactivity, and I'd say these reminded me more of them. But at the same time, it was more natural.

And that's my thinking, yeah. Large quantities tend to cause it. I could be wrong.

[strove]

We saw a lot of spiders that hit us with the anger effects when they bit us, as well as a few larger creatures. "Density" would be hard to tell, especially given the way the environment was about to be on fire. We could only be out there for about a day.

But yeah, they've all possessed golden eyes. It's not a coincidence. It means something, but I don't know what.

@lance.sweets

[lifetothefullest]

I don't have a lot to add that hasn't already been mentioned, but when I tried using the empathy bond on someone who'd been turned into a monster during the attack, it burned.

[rehandle]

You'd think that would make them more likely to kill us, not less.

@castiel.winchester

[unwings]

Perhaps some element of the glow makes them see us as, partly, one of their own.

[rehandle]

I think that's more likely. That we're all fragments of a shared source. Children of the same or similar parents.