Great Arrow Crisis
The Great Arrow Crisis was an event midway in the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' history caused by the sudden rise in the price of the wood the Cupids used to fashion their Cupid Arrows.
History
Context
The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat was founded, like many other Strangely-Colored Secret Societies, as a result of the First Horde laying off many of its members but imperfectly wiping their minds of their time as Horde operatives, leaving behind a drive to participate in Horde-like activities but not actual knowledge of the organisation. Unlike some, the newly-minted “Muskrats” kept their eyes on the prize and sought to locate the Lost City of Atlantis, but they lacked funds to do so, causing them to shift gears to covert corporate takeovers to build up captial. (PROSE: The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies, The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
Prior to the Crisis, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids got the wood it needed for Cupid Arrows from a lumber mill on the Prime Earth whose owners had been romanticised and thus let the Cupids have the wood for cheap. (PROSE: The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
The Crisis
After buying out the lumber mill, as well as the chemical plants whose products the Gang of the Green Gorilla used to power their brainwashing rays, “MuskCo” raised the prices steeply. The Cupids, who had limited funds, were unable to afford their next scheduled shipment of wood, meaning that they soon ran out of arrows. Dispatched to the Prime Earth to figure out what had gone wrong, the Scarlet Wings investigators found the company's headquarters and realised it was a front of the Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat, a Strangely-Colored Secret Society they had not previously encountered who greatly outnumbered the party of Scarlet Wings. (PROSE: The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
Resolution
Back in the Homeworld, the Scarlet Wings reported to the Cupid Parliament who ultimately ordered them to attack the Muskrats straight-on. When the Cupids returned to the Muskrats' HQ, they found it already under attack by the Green Gorillas, and stayed out of the fight until the stronger and more numerous Gorillas had won the fight, getting the Muskrats to sign ownership of the chemical plants over to them. The Scarlet Wings then romanticised a few of the Gorillas by lobbing bottles of Love Potion at them, and got the Gorillas to further intimidate the Muskrats into signing the lumber mill over to the Cupids. (PROSE: The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
Aftermath
Subsequently, though they made no further attempts to directly gum up the Cupids' operations, the Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat took every chance to inconvenience them. The Muskrats, and the Crisis, were documented by the Cupids in their archives as Cupid Fact File #192. (PROSE: The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
