Late April plot: beginning
As of this post, the inhabitants of the Isle of Antikythera have invaded the Gardens. They will be here for the rest of the week, wreaking their mechanical havoc. So what can your characters do about it? They have two different options.
1. Attack and attempt to destroy the robots. This is very possible! They can be damaged beyond repair or dismantled. Some of them will be helpless to defend themselves against such attacks, while others will resist with lethal force. In any case, attacking them will render nearby robots hostile as well.
2. Teach the robots to be less destructive. This is the more complicated option and won't have immediate effects, but as the robots are shown less destructive ways to interact with their surroundings, they will begin to take on those behaviors and spread them to their fellows. Robots will remember those who attempted to reason with them in this way and be friendlier to them: for example, if a character shows a robot how to pluck an apple from a tree instead of felling the tree and slicing all the apples off the branches, the robot will begin to refrain from damaging her things and instead bring her gathered apples as a gift.
By Friday, depending on how the robots have been treated, a pattern of behavior will have spread through the mechanical horde, and they will make a last stand appropriate to their new nature. Until then, players may NPC the robots as necessary within the bounds described above and in the IC post.
1. Attack and attempt to destroy the robots. This is very possible! They can be damaged beyond repair or dismantled. Some of them will be helpless to defend themselves against such attacks, while others will resist with lethal force. In any case, attacking them will render nearby robots hostile as well.
2. Teach the robots to be less destructive. This is the more complicated option and won't have immediate effects, but as the robots are shown less destructive ways to interact with their surroundings, they will begin to take on those behaviors and spread them to their fellows. Robots will remember those who attempted to reason with them in this way and be friendlier to them: for example, if a character shows a robot how to pluck an apple from a tree instead of felling the tree and slicing all the apples off the branches, the robot will begin to refrain from damaging her things and instead bring her gathered apples as a gift.
By Friday, depending on how the robots have been treated, a pattern of behavior will have spread through the mechanical horde, and they will make a last stand appropriate to their new nature. Until then, players may NPC the robots as necessary within the bounds described above and in the IC post.