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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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Megatron is willing to try something new. It's not like he's particularly stubborn or proud about the way he drinks his engex, and Nautica seemed to have a bit of a passion for it.
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As she spoke, she was pouring about three fingers of engex into each glass--proportionally speaking; Megatron got a bigger serving than she did, what with being almost twice her size. She added several sweet-smelling drops from the smaller bottle to her own drink and swirled the mixture around in the glass.
"Body heat volatizes some of the aromatic compounds, meaning that the bouquet hits your nose before you taste anything, making the flavor more complex." Nautica was in fact holding the glass just under her nose and quite noticeably not drinking out of it. "Getting it too hot will catalyze the breakdown of any hydrocarbons or esters. At best it'll flatten out the flavors, and at worst create some nasty-tasting byproducts."
Who knew getting drunk was so complicated.
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He looks at his own serving and repeats her action, holding it near his nose to get a curious whiff.
"Doesn't smell like anything I've had before."
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"That's all the light aromatics that overheating breaks down, or drives off before the drink even gets to the table. Cheers." Nautica saluted him with her glass before at last taking a sip, her eyes going distant as she swirled the drink around her mouth concentrating on the flavors.
"Hmm." Not wanting to prejudice what seemed to be Megatron's first quality drinking experience, she didn't say anything more than that.
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Megatron takes a sip of Nautica's fiendishly friendly mix, following her lead and taking a small sip from his own glass. There's an inquisitive look, then a little glimpse of pleasant surprise.
He takes another, focusing on the intriguing little concoction of flavors Nautica handed him. He was quiet for the most part until he was nearly finished, a couple of larger-than-reccommended samples later.
"Interesting."
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"'Interesting' good, or 'interesting' I'm-too-polite-to-say-what-I-really-think?" she teased. She did not actually believe Megatron had a problem with bluntness.
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But it was certainly intriguing enough to the palate to stop and consider what he thought of it, exactly.
"It's good," he begins to screw the cap back on,"We should save the rest."
Could have been the last bottle of this stuff on this Cybertron, for all they knew. May as well reserve a little thing like this for when they have a reason to celebrate.
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"I agree."
He leans over the counter to put the bottle back in its shelf.
"We should get going."