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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...
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[personal profile] pullingamiko 2014-12-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"I do think so. If there did seem to be some way we could leave right away, it would probably be some kinda trap or something."

She glanced over at the less steep area, then at the sheer drop in front of her. "...Eh. Fine, whatever." She totally could have made that though. Obviously.

She glanced at Brass again before heading toward the indicated area. "You gonna come down, too?"
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[personal profile] sailormulti 2014-12-30 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
She hesitated a moment before following after Miko, "Yes. I'd like to go with you." The last thing she wanted was to get left alone again, and this way she could help if there was any trouble. Much as she didn't want for the girl to get hurt, she rather liked her gung-ho attitude.

"By the way, I'm Brass," she said, realizing she had never introduced herself.
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[personal profile] pullingamiko 2014-12-31 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Miko grinned took a couple half-hopping steps down the slope, backward, because of course she would find a way to make even this dangerous (at least until she turned around to walk properly). "Name's Miko! Nice to meet'cha."
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[personal profile] sailormulti 2015-01-03 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
As they kept walking, Brass continued to look around the crater. She'd never seen any thing like it, except maybe on the news.

"I wonder what made this crater. Do you think there might be a meteorite at the bottom?"
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[personal profile] pullingamiko 2015-01-03 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe! Man, that'd be sweet." She spun around to peer into the crater again, checking for anything notable. "Looks like there's something in here... just looks like a puddle or something, though."

She sounded slightly disappointed. Obviously there was no reason to be glad to find water on an alien planet supposedly hostile to organic life.
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[personal profile] sailormulti 2015-01-03 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"The water might have filled in afterwards, like the lakes that form in volcanoes," she said matter of factly. As far as she was concerned everything here was interesting.

"Do you know a lot anything about where we are?"
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[personal profile] pullingamiko 2015-01-04 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately Miko was largely disinterested in most aspects of volcanoes and the like that didn't actually involve fire or explosions. Brass's question about where they were, however, did catch her interest.

"I'm pretty sure it's Cybertron - I know some guys from here, and I've been here before," she explained matter-of-factly, conveniently leaving out that she was here because she got kidnapped. "But it's weird."