I'm sorry! It's weird to explain. To end an effect like italics, it's [/i] only in the less-than and greater-than alligators instead. I should have put it that way to begin with.
I meant to tell you more before I ran out of time! Loathsome Lunchboxes are clockwork constructs so named because they're about the size of a lunchbox, though they have little appendages that unfold. They do nothing except disassemble machinery and use the pieces to construct more Lunchboxes (and possibly defend themselves; I don't remember). You can imagine how quickly they can become a problem, given their drive to self-replicate... and what they'll cannibalise to do so!
What if an infestation occurred in Deena's Walmart? Imagine if Lunchbox Zero had gained entry to a shipment of roombas or lawn tools or what have you, and when the semi was opened the things SCATTERED: some into the store, some into the neighbourhood.
OMG in a shipment of Roombas loose in Deena's Wal-Mart. I love this idea. Then you have these constant Roomba attacks all over the store and the potential in that scenario is so great.
You have the lunchboxes being chased, the lunchboxes doing some chasing, an effort to defend the machines in the store---from power tools to Power Wheels to exercise equipment and the electric pallet jacks back in the stock room, to the appliances!---from the lunchboxes, and heaven help them all if any get into the parking lot, and the whole disaster compounded by the need to get customers collected (I like your free fries at the McDonald's bit, that's a good idea) so that they can be quietly escorted out.
Darnell and Sam are probably only there for a few ingredients, but... Sam will observe for a bit, and then offer to help, because hot damn do these people have a mess on their hands. Despite his understandable uncertainty, Darnell'd be inclined to help, too. (BETH: AMRITE?)
Much later, there's the question of who built Lunchbox Zero.
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Date: 2017-09-24 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-09-24 03:30 am (UTC)This is fun to figure out though!
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Date: 2017-09-27 06:30 pm (UTC)I have a seed of an idea for something set in Deena's Walmart! It involves a construct from UA2: 'the loathsome lunchbox'
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Date: 2017-09-27 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-27 09:14 pm (UTC)What if an infestation occurred in Deena's Walmart? Imagine if Lunchbox Zero had gained entry to a shipment of roombas or lawn tools or what have you, and when the semi was opened the things SCATTERED: some into the store, some into the neighbourhood.
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Date: 2017-09-28 02:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-03 07:05 pm (UTC)You have the lunchboxes being chased, the lunchboxes doing some chasing, an effort to defend the machines in the store---from power tools to Power Wheels to exercise equipment and the electric pallet jacks back in the stock room, to the appliances!---from the lunchboxes, and heaven help them all if any get into the parking lot, and the whole disaster compounded by the need to get customers collected (I like your free fries at the McDonald's bit, that's a good idea) so that they can be quietly escorted out.
Darnell and Sam are probably only there for a few ingredients, but... Sam will observe for a bit, and then offer to help, because hot damn do these people have a mess on their hands. Despite his understandable uncertainty, Darnell'd be inclined to help, too. (BETH: AMRITE?)
Much later, there's the question of who built Lunchbox Zero.
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Date: 2017-10-03 09:55 pm (UTC)"That wasn't very nice. I don't appreciate mean-spirited happenings in my Wal-Mart, y'understand? So we might have a problem here."