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robot satan ([personal profile] robotsatan) wrote in [community profile] robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm

[ INTRO LOG ]

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?

Any Cybertronian would recognize this as their home planet, Cybertron, but it's not a Cybertron they've ever known. It has all the familiar hallmarks, but none of the specifics -- the city isn't one anyone here could identify, and even at a glance it's obvious that no one's set foot on the planet's surface in hundreds of years. The city and its surrounding areas all bear the marks of devastating war, of dust and rust collected over centuries. With no one in sight -- right at first, anyway -- there's plenty to explore. In fact, if you start walking, you'll find that your feet may just carry you in one particular direction.

A) The crater.
On one edge of the city is a massive crater left by some wartime weapon that seems to have taken out a large chunk of the surrounding metropolitan area. At the center of the crater it's broken through the surface of the terrain to reveal what looks like it might be a promising energon deposit. There is some strange but native vegetation growing around the edges, too, that no Cybertronian would be able to identify -- small, metallic, brittle-looking sprouts that bear a curiously organic-looking fruit of some kind that doesn't look like it's intended for consumption by any natives of the planet. In one rocky nook of the crater, light catches on the surface of a pool of water, which seems strangely out of place on Cybertron. On closer inspection, it seems that somehow an underground water source has formed a spring in the crater.

B) The center of the city.
If you follow where your feet seem to want to carry you, you'll find yourself in the middle of the ruined city. It seems that the center of the city was once home to a massive forum, and some of the pillars and structures still stand. At the very center of the forum is a massive, elaborately constructed fountain, although it has now long since run dry of whatever used to fill it. One of the low, inner walls of the forum has a terminal embedded in its surface, although it looks curiously ancient, out of place with the rest of the city, and unlike the rest of the technology still left around, there doesn't seem to be any way to power it on or operate it. There are a few scattered pools of water and a few of the strange metallic plants in the city, too, but they're not quite as plentiful as in the crater.

The planet was obviously once home to a massive network of communication relays, but those have all been long since destroyed. However, with the bits and pieces left behind and a few determined minds, it wouldn't be too hard to build a working, if rudimentary, one...
milkruns: (we gotta hold our heads up high)

[personal profile] milkruns 2014-12-23 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
June narrows her eyes in suspicion. Okay, seriously, what is with all of these Megatrons not actually acting like Megatron?? This is deeply rattling what little of her personal reality there is left to cling to.

"There's definitely more than a time travel problem here," June mutters, but she starts to emerge slowly from behind the rock. SLOWLY. "All right, I want answers, because this is giving me a headache -- who are you?"

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2014-12-24 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Well she's coming out from behind the rock. That's... good, right? He's going to tentatively assume that's good.

"I am Megatronus."

Awkward pause.

"I... don't suppose you have a name?"
milkruns: (yeah she's a good one)

[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-01 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Megatronus? Great. You look like Megatron, but you aren't Megatron -- you don't look like Megatron but you are Megatron -- will at least one of you get your story straight here? God!"

Okay, so instead of a name Megatronus gets a frustrated outburst from June, who is getting seriously tired of meeting all these Megatrons.

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-01-08 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
To be fair, this is a lot of Megatron to deal with.

Megatronus just kind of looks around -- maybe someone else is around that can intervene somehow, with explanations or to calm this weird alien thing down or something. "...I'm sorry?" It's a question and an unsure apology, mostly because he has no idea what he's really apologizing for.
milkruns: (how far she'll get)

[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-11 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's okay," June huffs, regaining her composure, and she shakes her head. "Sorry, it's just -- it's been a day. My name is June."

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-02-18 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"June." Megatronus nods slowly, staring at her face a little longer than is necessary. Committing to memory and all that. He eventually pulls back. "Yes, ah. Things are definitely strange."