"A Wildlife Ark Spaceship Crashes Outside Of Town ..." Topic

After years of carefully catching scores of samples of lifeforms from over 30 systems, meticulously cataloging and studying each of them to see what they ate and what makes them thrive … poor Ooogoo fell asleep at the wheel.

Silently floating. Gliding in fact. And at such a gentle angle that, in the distance, the prolonged sounds of slowly grinding metal and collapsing chambers and bulkheads almost sounded like some of the loud wildlife Ooogoo had encountered on so many other worlds.

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Perhaps no one on this little green and blue planet would notice, thought Ooogoo, as he slowly drifted out of this life. As he faded away his only concern was the opened cages, and the samples getting away. He had done such a wonderful job up to this point. Even managed to get several to breed. And breed they did.

A) What critters do you think would spill out of the ship and show up in town? Have any favorite creature(s) in mind?

B) Who do you think will answer the call and come to the rescue of the local townspeople? Members of some secret federal government agency? National Guard? State Police? Local Sheriff? Corporate opportunists coming to harvest creatures for their government contracts? Regular folk, lead by a few of the more educated among them?

Hurry, Daisy Mae can't possibly do it all by herself …

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So far, she and her redneck kin have been our only real line of defense …

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Dan
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I think you could have several of those groups show up to get in on the action. Some would only care about rounding up or killing the animals, others would want to capture them for their own purposes.

You could even have "environmentalists" that want them to be free and are willing to kill to protect the animals.

It could create some interest alliances this way.

You need the "Bigfoot Hunters" out there and maybe the "Duck Dynasty" folks.

A) As for critters, I'm going to paint up some Parasachnids:

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B) How about members of a Neighborhood Watch?

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Specially Jamarcus … with his alien-gone-native issues.

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Dan

Not a bad idea. Not too far from where I live this actually happened. Well, sort of. It was a circus train, not a space ship. But it derailed and all sorts of wild and dangerous creatures escaped into, well, the wild. They hunted most of them down and killed them. Except for the snakes. They never found the snakes. But they figured it's so cold up here in the winter that they wouldn't survive anyway so didn't worry too much about it.

But they figured it's so cold up here in the winter that they wouldn't survive anyway so didn't worry too much about it.

That has horror movie written all over it. Yup, they'll be dead by winter, uh-huh …

No one has mentioned the greatest critter menace in the galaxy---
TRIBBLES!!!!!

Sundance,

I read your post about an hour ago and I still can't stop laughing! It's a perfect horror movie plot.

Dan

This is apparently a newspaper story on the wreck – it was actually well north of Altoona at a place called Eagle's Nest or something like that. Sometimes you also see it called Tyrone, but again, it's actually well north of Tyrone.

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I heard a story in the Highlands of Scotland about a Chimp escaping from a traveling show.
It was found passed out and hypothermic by two Gillies a few days later.
They couldn't figure what it was, as "It was too hairy to be a Campbell, and to long in the lip to be a McGregor."
They decided it must be one of the visiting English Aristocracy gone missing from the Lodge.

What if the locals mistake them for long lost cousins?

One of my favorite films (when I was 9-years old) -- "The Alien Factor":

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It doesn't hold up, but the Cinematic Titanic version is a hoot.

It features three alien escapee animals:

The Inferbyce:

The Zagatile (on the left):

And the spectral Leemoid:

There was an 5 minute episode of The Brave and the Bold which had Space Ghost on the beginning (I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw it).
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Space Ghost was fighting the Creature King who was rounding up creatures on an Alien planet.
Of course it involved giant sized lava shooting etc critters.

Snakes, of course …

… slimy beasties …

… one of these…

… one of those …

… and a couple of the other …

… don't forget the flora …

… or the cold weather guys …

… and there must be insects …

… I think we forgot about this, too …

Sponk!

I hate it when the cargo gets loose…

That is one groovy Sponk monster!

How about the TPB comic 'Bad Planet'????
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Yes bugs, lots of different kinds of BUGS!!

Need to have some sort of alien zoo keeper or keepers, trying to recapture all the escapes, that are trying to eat all the locals, while the locals try to kill off all the escapes and the the keepers ;D

The zoo keeper. Is he the first one to be shot by the locals? The only one who had any idea of the habits, weakness's of the creatures? The only one who knew what needed to be done?
The first causality or not? Could sway the game.

Sorry. Ooogoo didn't make it. All that is left of Ooogoo is a puddle of goo.

Dan

Oh poor Ooogoo in a poo of goo :(

I suspect that the locals had better bring BIIIIG guns for most of those monster miniatures. :) 5.56 may not be enough gun for them…

Good point.

But the little critters are easy to miss, and could spread far and wide without being detected until it's too late.

Dan

Ok….here's a second vote for TRIBBLES…..only this time…give them TEETH!!!!!! Mwah-hah-hah….

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You might like these Kratos:

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Or these tiny ones here:

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Dan

Those not-Crites are sweet, but the mouths just don't quite look enough like bear traps. Hard to do at the scale, mind you; just sayin'…

Would like to point out just having the initial occurrence the crashing of a spaceship as to being on a Spaceship forum seems a bit of a cheat. Now if you left the beasties ON the ship, and erstwhile rednecks decide to have a look inside…

Awful Green Things/Wreck of BSM Pandora RULE!

AND, folks will come up with neat discovery rules for all those deckplans I've been collecting… ;->=

Doug

Rednecks poking around in an alien spaceship full of alien critters, what could go wrong with that. I lke it! :D

I like that too!!! TheBeast, you're a genius!

Dan

No. no. no, Dan.

I was pointlessly complaining. REALLY.

I'm a curmudgeon.

Everything else is an accident, obviously.

;->=

Doug

I've made several attempts at making this fella here in 15mm, but no luck:

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That critter would scare the bejesus out of me!

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CC
I like that one that you have made you should see if someone would reproduce those. :D

I 2nd the War Monkey suggestion. I like your attempt and would like one, also.

>>They hunted most of them down and killed them. Except for the snakes. They never found the snakes.<<

"Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?"

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these ovulator-frackin' Krites on this ovulator-frackin' saucer!!!!!"

Maybe the tiny "Metepec creatures" were supposed to be captured specimens kept on the UFO, instead of the alien pilots of the craft:

Dan

How about using 'Alien Pig Farm 3000' as an option/background!?

Thanks!

I've only seen a couple of images of APF3K, so I'll have to delve a little deeper on the story.

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Dan

Check out these critters, just itching to get out:

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Imagine a few of these suddenly seen running around in the woods by your house?

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Dan

I'd not only use some Awful Green Things from Outer Space (as per the classic boardgame), I'd borrow the idea of random, unknown weapons effects whenever an Earthling uses a conventional weapon or attack against any of the alien forms. The attacks might be effective, ineffective, or have weird effects such as shrinking/enlarging, multiplying, or other results. Turn radioactive! Explodes! Frightens! Embiggens! Etc.

"Multiplying"?!?!?

Too cool. Love that idea!

Dan

This is going to be a repeat of the stuff I posted on the other post.
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Thank you for posting this. I immediately thought of CC's posting about a Ark in Space when I saw this

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I'm not the fastest thinking fellow around but it finally dropped for me.

So I picked though my stuff and can get a few movies I mean games with the stuff inspired by these two links.
Thanks again TMPers.

My son wants to throw it all into one mega game, but I'm happier with smaller linked scenarios.
Although I doo like the idea of having a Crab Monster, Green Slime, Robot Monster and scratch built Metalunans can be in the same game as the sheriffs, TV crews, the (army surplus equipped) National Guard and Terrified civilians.

I do like the idea of the crew hiding amongst the exhibits.
How about some Space orcs or Mangalores/Kurgan escaping from being exhibits and getting hold of weapons?

I also think the Moon Beast should have traits similar to an elephant or a giraffe. The biggest scariest ugliest thing being a large, mostly harmless herbivore.
Which can jump like a flea proportionally to it's size. But the damage caused by an elephant which can jump the length of a city block is…?

Need a few little fellows who are the real nasty's. Something looking like kittens……

Plants. An issue of Trigan Empire was about the Red Death a weed which spread at a deadly rate. What If it had a degree of thought ability and movement?
Pollen or spores or a small virus which causes zombie like outbreak?

Security droids which race out and try to automatically round up the contents of the ark? And sweep up any by-standers who happen to be in the way?

Dan