diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 69c4337..4bb1503 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ version = "1.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9b34d609dfbaf33d6889b2b7106d3ca345eacad44200913df5ba02bfd31d2ba9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-scoped"
+version = "0.7.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0e7a6a57c8aeb40da1ec037f5d455836852f7a57e69e1b1ad3d8f38ac1d6cadf"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures",
+ "pin-project",
+ "slab",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "atoi"
 version = "2.0.0"
@@ -377,6 +389,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures"
+version = "0.3.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "23342abe12aba583913b2e62f22225ff9c950774065e4bfb61a19cd9770fec40"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.28"
@@ -450,6 +477,7 @@ version = "0.3.28"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "26b01e40b772d54cf6c6d721c1d1abd0647a0106a12ecaa1c186273392a69533"
 dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-io",
  "futures-macro",
@@ -754,6 +782,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "assert_matches",
+ "async-scoped",
  "derive_more",
  "figment",
  "futures-util",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ddabb38..8950494 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ quick-xml = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["async-tokio"] }
 derive_more = "0.99.17"
 uuid = { version = "1.3.0", features = ["v4"] }
 sqlx = { version = "0.7.0-alpha.2", features = ["sqlite", "runtime-tokio-rustls", "migrate"] }
+async-scoped = { version = "0.7.1", features = ["use-tokio"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 assert_matches = "1.5.0"
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index a623441..c72c15e 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let mut players = PlayerRegistry::empty(rooms.clone(), &mut metrics)?;
     let telemetry_terminator =
         util::telemetry::launch(telemetry_config, metrics.clone(), rooms.clone()).await?;
-    let irc = projections::irc::launch(irc_config, players.clone(), rooms.clone(), metrics.clone(), storage.clone()).await?;
+
+    unsafe { async_scoped::TokioScope::scope_and_collect(|s| {
+        s.spawn(async {
+            let irc = projections::irc::launch(&irc_config, &players, &rooms, &metrics, &storage).await?;
+        });
+    }) }.await;
+    
     let xmpp = projections::xmpp::launch(xmpp_config, players.clone(), rooms.clone(), metrics.clone()).await?;
     tracing::info!("Started");
 
diff --git a/src/projections/irc/mod.rs b/src/projections/irc/mod.rs
index 6c36716..2a9ddb6 100644
--- a/src/projections/irc/mod.rs
+++ b/src/projections/irc/mod.rs
@@ -690,11 +690,11 @@ async fn produce_on_join_cmd_messages(
 }
 
 pub async fn launch(
-    config: ServerConfig,
-    players: PlayerRegistry,
-    rooms: RoomRegistry,
-    metrics: MetricsRegistry,
-    storage: Storage,
+    config: &ServerConfig,
+    players: &PlayerRegistry,
+    rooms: &RoomRegistry,
+    metrics: &MetricsRegistry,
+    storage: &Storage,
 ) -> Result<Terminator> {
     log::info!("Starting IRC projection");
     let (stopped_tx, mut stopped_rx) = channel(32);