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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...
sorry you're stuck with a robot care bear dude
nauts will you at least comfort him when megatron stomps his shit in
He needs a minute. There's a headache coming on.
...maaaaaybe? she doesn't really approve of violence when lives aren't at stake
"Are you okay?" This couldn't possibly be about her altmode, since 1. how rude and 2. her altmode was great.
this nerd with morals
Which is pretty hypocritical because Sentinel doesn't have wheels himself - he has tank treads. BUT STILL
"moral philosoophy" IS one of the things she rattled off to swerve
"Don't wait on me, then." She made a shooing gesture in the direction of the city. No company was better than a mech who'd been raised by turbofoxes.
you have an answer for everything!
"Don't be a moron."
i didn't think i was ever going to use this icon tbh
And looked at it like she'd just been handed a dead weasel.
"...Thank you?"
UR WELC
"...Tell me you at least know how to shoot it."
/tears of joy
She'd read a book on it, naturally, but even outside Nautica's general spaghetti-armed nerdiness, Camiens didn't use guns. On a planet with a resource crunch, it was simply too wasteful to throw away a projectile or an energy blast.
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You really are something, Nautica. Once again, you've reduced the Prime to one word fragments. Amazing.
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Why would you have expected her to know how to use a gun, Sentinel, really?
Besides the Autobrand. Apparently they were just letting anyone in now, gross.
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"And my training was fine. I can take a quantum drive from cold shutdown to jump-ready in under five minutes." Hmph. She'd like to see you do that, Mister.
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Look not everyone will just stand down OKAY he doesn't want to have to scrape your pretty remains off a wall some time.
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What would it hurt, right? Besides whatever Nautica managed to hit...which was likely to not be the thing she was aiming at more often than anyone would like.
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Look he doesn't despise you as much as he usually does because Nautica is obviously smart and useful but GODDAMN
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Jeez, Sentinel. There wasn't anything much to aim at in the crater, anyway. Besides him.
Nautica switched her wrench to the hand that was holding the briefcase so that she could also carry the gun, since she didn't have a holster, or the frame mods to carry a gun without one. She must really have blown the top off the engineering evaluation scores to have earned that Autobrand. (Or however they decided who got to join in Sentinel's day idek.)
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But... he's staying. Not leaving like he'd initially intended. Doesn't trust her to not get killed.
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"How's anyone supposed to get good at something without practicing?" Except Skids, but he didn't count for the purposes of this discussion. It didn't occur to her he meant she should already have put in the practice.
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Yes, that's exactly what he meant, "You should have already done so. When we get to the city I expect you to stay low and not get your head blown off."
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"...I'm not going to run out into a gunfight. Assuming there even is one to run out into. This place is deserted. If there were a battle going on, I'd at least have picked up some encrypted radio traffic, but there's nothing."
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So maybe Sentinel is a bit paranoid. MAYBE. Maybe being pulled here hasn't helped, either.
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"I guess there could be something over the horizon I'm not picking up, but there hasn't even been a single satellite pass since I got here." All the nothing was starting to get to her. Where was everybody?
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...Right?
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She wouldn't expect to find anything much in the impact crater, but in the relatively intact part of the city, there could be some signs of what had happened to the population. Cybertronians were tough, even in death--if the buildings were still standing, there should be some trace of the inhabitants, too.
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