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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...

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2014-12-24 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, this is getting nowhere. Now Megatronus isn't even attempting to vocally argue with Miko, instead just starting at her blankly and expectantly. Oh wait, that might have been a slight shaking of his head. Still nothing, weird squishy creature thing.
pullingamiko: (whoa)

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2014-12-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a long pause before, slowly, she lowers her hand. It might still be a trick (it's gonna take a lot more than this continuous confusion for her to believe Megatron of all people on this), but it... might not. Which would be kind of weird.

"You... seriously don't remember? At all?" Is this like that time Optimus forgot everything that had happened? "So what do you remember?"

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2014-12-26 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Nothing like you ever being on Cybertron, for one."

Megatronus pauses with that, taking a moment to think of how to word this properly - best to keep it simple. "...I was discussing important business with my... an acquaintance, Orion. Orion Pax -- I don't suppose you know who that is."
pullingamiko: (that was unexpected)

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2014-12-26 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
...holy crap it is the same. "Uh. Actually, Iiii... kind of do?" Vaguely. She knows that Optimus used to be him, and also he was a librarian or something?

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2014-12-29 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Megatronus' eyebrows raise at that. "You 'kind of' do? Interesting -- how so? Orion has talked to me about many things, but he never mentioned anything like you before."
pullingamiko: (whoa)

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2014-12-29 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Yyyeah... that's 'cuz when you knew him, he, uh... wouldn't really have met me yet. Or any humans. It's a little complicated." She's not so sure she wants to be the one to tell past-Megatron that he and his best bud are going to be locked in a millennia-long war, but it's looking like that may be what's going to have to happen.

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-01-08 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Megatronus sighs, shaking his head and closing his eyes with a vague frustration. "Everything seems complicated today. I... don't suppose you've seen any sign of him around? I'd rather regroup with someone before going into clearing up all of this confusion."
pullingamiko: (that was unexpected)

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2015-01-08 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Nah, haven't seen him." She considers telling him what happened right then, but how? What if hearing about the war and stuff makes all his memories show up again or something?

And then, of course, there's the possibility that he's faking (she hasn't totally let go of that possibility yet!), in which case she isn't sure what would be best to do.

Wow this is weird.

[personal profile] d_17nolonger 2015-01-11 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Megatronus nods, frowning slightly in disappointment. Finding someone who doesn't mix you up with someone else that is clearly bad news would be too much to hope for. "I see. Thank you, anyway."
pullingamiko: (whoa)

[personal profile] pullingamiko 2015-01-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
She keeps staring at him. Hearing those words, in that tone, coming from that face? It's sorta ridiculous, honestly. "Uh, yeah. No problem?"

Her tone and expression, meanwhile, are very much those of someone who is not entirely sure what just happened but thinks it might have all been a trick somehow.
Edited 2015-01-15 02:33 (UTC)