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robothell2014-12-19 11:20 pm
robotsatan) wrote in 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...
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...
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He grins as Mayday looks disgusted. "Hey, totally natural. I bet you guys have an exhaust pipe or something right?"
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He throws up his hands. "But that was really weird and also totally irrelevant to the current situation and we don't talk about people's exhaust emissions that is rude."
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"C'mon, we aren't that bad. I bet you liked it a little bit. Food is amazing, right?" he grins, before leaning back on his palms and looking up at Mayday. "I didn't know giant robot alien farts was a touchy subject, sorry dude."
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Then he huffs, because he really is way too easy to tease, and says, "It's- it's not touchy, it's just gross! You're gross!"
To prove his point and his utmost maturity, he sticks out his tongue at Newt.
omfg i love these two
"I'm gross? Wow! Who's being rude now! Isn't that just part of nature, man. I mean, you guys eat and have waste products, right? Inquiring minds gotta know. Everyone poops."
gosh they are hilarious together
"We process energy and oil very cleanly!" Mayday sticks his nose in the air huffily.
SO GOOD BROS FOR LIFE
"Mmh, yeah, but you still have exhausts," he grins, leaning right back on his palms. "So wait, do you actually eat? How are you even alive?"
what a pile of nerds :,)
Mayday is just going to glare childishly at the mention of exhausts. "We totally eat! Er, well, drink mostly. Just because our fuel is different than yours doesn't mean it's not fuel!"
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Dead people didn't get hungry.
"Please tell me you have human-friendly fuel in this place?"
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"Um. I dunno," Mayday says, scratching his head. "I, uh, haven't really been here long? There are these weird plant-things growing around, though. That's the closest thing I've seen to something human-edible..."
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"Man, how am I even breathing? Does this planet even have an atmosphere? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm happy about breathing but this shit is messed up."
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"Why wouldn't it have an atmosphere?" Mayday asks.
His Cybertron has an atmosphere similar enough to Earth's that humans can wander around on it and hock loogies at people. It never occurred to him that thus Cybertron shouldn't have a breathable atmosphere.
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"Uh, I guess I just assumed other planets wouldn't. Do you guys breathe?"
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"Atmospheres are pretty good for cooling, though. Convection is much more efficient than radiation, you know?"
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"Yeah, I mean, that makes sense, but why would it specifically breathable to humankind? Did you guys need air to evolve and delevop? There's probably better conductors for cooling than just air, right?"
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He's an space craft engineer, not a scientist!
Then he lets out a bit of a giggle, "Heh, evolve."
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"Woah, woah, woah. Did you just laugh at the word evolve? So, what, you guys just popped into being or something? Who even built you?"
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He squints at Newt, then adds, "Honestly, it's a lot neater than how you guys do it."
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"You're gonna have to explain that in a little more depth, man, because," he waves a finger around, "Everything you just said there makes zero sense."
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"Proto-matter is what you use to make a protoform. It's a special metal that you can mine from the planet. A protoform is the rough structure of what will become a person's body. It can be moulded into a particular form or it can just be left to do its own thing. Then the Allspark is a- well, it's a-" He waves his hands around trying to approximate the shape of the Allspark and its container. "Um, it's a really powerful thing. That makes sparks to bring the protoforms to life."
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"So, you sort of build yourselves? Sometimes? That's weird. When you guys are formed, do you have like, an infancy or child life stage or is it straight to I'm an adult and I'm gonna live for a billion years?"
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"But, um, you just come online as yourself? Except young and naive? But there's people to help orient you. And then... Yeah! You just sort of. Live and work. As, y'know, another cog in the great Autobot machine!"
He gives a nervous laugh.
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As Mayday continues, he gives a small nod, taking in everything. "Aw man, so you guys don't even get a childhood? Bummer."
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Parasitic acid-blooded monsters are just terrifying.
But he does admit, "I guess all reproduction is kind of weird."
One of his eyebrows goes right up. "Why would you want childhood if you could avoid it. My human childhood was pretty terrible." He didn't actually live it. He just had the memories of it. Or something. Everything about his time as a human was weird.