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[txting]

Who: Skipper Roberts and her cell phone, tablet, and handheld gaming systems! And ALSO YOU!
Where: Near the crater!
When: RIGHT NOW AT THIS VERY MOMENT GO GO GO
What: Intro thread
Warnings: literal barbie doll in your robots

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[ CYBERTRON UPDATE 001 ]

[robotsatan]

Cybertron was abandoned and empty for centuries before the arrival of its new inhabitants, and though they are few, slowly but surely they're making changes to the unfamiliar city. Thanks to the efforts of Valeria, Brainstorm, Nautica and Perceptor, the city now has a local network communications system. The network is equipped for text, audio, and video posts, and can be accessed via scattered public terminals around the city, any built-in comms systems the characters might have (audio only), as well as handheld devices built to work with the network, which are currently limited in quantity and are being distributed by Team Internet at their discretion. However, Valeria is also offering modifications to existing communications devices such as cell phones carried by humans and other small organics. Posts to the network can be tagged with #network.

Brainstorm has, unfortunately, already installed an entire set of emojis based on his face.

Almost as soon as the network is set up, it's host to some strange activity being generated by something other than the new arrivals -- a series of posts featuring short videos, mostly with no audio, nothing more than a series of mostly disconnected images, all of which seem to relate to this Cybertron and its fate -- both past and future. Flashing images of the Cybertronian night sky and all its constellations as viewed from several different points on the planet; in-orbit views of the planet from different, disjointed times, some with both moons visible and some without; a flicker of the rush of spacecraft in what appears to be a mass exodus; time-lapse footage of different parts of the planet, the rise and expansion to the fall and destruction of war, the erosion of war. Some may recognize one of these as the city they've been pulled to -- now it's a rusted, broken down ruin, but once it was a beautiful, brilliant city, almost artful in its architecture. Now it lies wasted, destroyed. And though there seemed to be no way to make the terminal in the forum operable, it's turned on by itself, displaying these same images on an endless loop, on and off throughout the day. Cybertron seems to be trying to communicate with its new inhabitants...but it may also resort to more direct methods.

The network activity isn't the only change around here, though. Although the planet seemed to be previously deserted of all animate life, with only the merciless wilderness beyond the reaches of the city, there is now evidence of wildlife out there that may occasionally venture into the city. There isn't much -- only small creatures have been spotted, such as the glitchmouse and the nitrodeer, which looks suspiciously like it was designed by a Swedish interior decorator. They transform into stackable ergonomic cubes. There has also been an increase in the strange technorganic flora that's been providing sustenance to the local organic population -- more and more plants are sprouting from the cracks in the city and beyond, and there even seems to be some new variation in the fruits they bear. Try them out, maybe they'll taste a little different or...taste like anything at all.

If you'd like to have your character interact or communicate with Cybertron in some way, let the mods know!

[Network] Oh Deer

[scaredybot]

[The distress call opens with a squeal of static as Mayday screeches too shrilly for his comm to deal with.

He tones it down a notch.]

Somebody help! I'm trapped! Please, they're... They're everywhere. Why are there so many of them?!

IMPOTANT

[whatbedsidemanners]

Who: This is open now
Where: Her Clinic
When: Now I guess
What: There's a sign at the door. Read it.
Warnings: None.

[There's a new sign at the front of her clinic. Wonder what it says?]

NO DRAMA
All emotional drama, rivalries, and unnecessarily
complex relationships are to be kept OUT of
the medical clinic.
Please take it somewhere else.
-Red Alert

[It's a good effort actually. Feel free to ignore it.]

[ CATCH-ALL FOR DRIFT, JUNE & REWIND ]

[auramatic]

Who: Drift, June, Rewind, and YOU
Where: mostly the city, but u know, about
When: (wiggles hand)
What: catch-all log! do the thing! let me know if u want a starter
Warnings: probably unprecedented amounts of gay tbh

( bc im supremely lazy tbh )

GENERAL DADTRON POST

[towardspeace]

Who: Megatron; YOU
Where: MORE OR LESS ANYWHERE
When: expansive shrug
What: MISC
Warnings: NONE YET

( worlds okayest dad )

[ INTRO LOG #2 ]

[robotsatan]

You don't know how you got here. One minute you were walking, sleeping, maybe dead -- then you're here, your feet suddenly carrying you down an empty street. Where's here?

( Cybertron -- but not any Cybertron you've ever known. )

STARSCREAM x3 COMBO!!!!!!!!

[whippingboy]

Who: IDW Starscream and YOU
What: The slimy robot version of Dick Cheney that no one was hoping would show up does exactly that. 
Where: Around the city/near the forum and clinic. 
When: N...ow...
Warnings: Language prolly

Starscream's arrival is honestly as much the same as anyone else's; confusion and mild outrage is a pretty par for the course reaction to have to waking up on an unfamiliar Cybertron. In his specific case, for a moment he thinks that maybe he's having some kind of nightmare or horrific vision of his potential failure to rule effectively, but once it's clear that he is experiencing neither of these things, it's simple for him to buckle down and hit the bricks to look for answers. 

By the time he transforms and touches down near the forum, he's already pretty well informed with the basics of what's happening here. Being in an alternate universe on a dead Cybertron populated exclusively by bots from infinite other alternate universes, might've been a hard pill to swallow once, but having recently experienced Shockwave talking about his insane, reality destroying plans first-hand…? Well, it doesn't seem that far fetched anymore.

It helps too that the first person that he had encountered was someone who, allegedly, was an alternate version of himself. That had honestly been harder to accept, and frankly he's still not really sure that he believes the stranger's claim. It would have been one thing if between the two of them, they had just behaved a bit differently from one another, because sure, some dissimilarities were bound to happen. For example, the bot in question was horribly unsubtle, acting with his every emotion laid out bare on his spindly little robot sleeve. But on top of that, they didn't even look remotely similar. This other Starscream had the appearance of a bare endoskeleton made out of knives.

Whether the strange, twitchy Decepticon had been lying or not, he was at least a good source of information, it would seem. Anyone who frequents the area around the forum will find Mr. Starscream The First poking about and checking up on the progress of operations here, looking over everything set up so far with a critical eye and strutting around like he owns the place. He already rules one Cybertron, so, y'know, obviously he can only have good things to contribute to this one. Whether the more tenured residents here like it or not. He won an election, OK?