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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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His head tilts, to the foliage he was recently studying.
"And I'd have to now who you are, wouldn't I?"
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He doesn't look anything like a plant. How could anyone reasonably intelligent mistake him for one? That was just...
That was stupid.
"You could know. You could be lying."
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He smiles.
"I'd like to go with the former, though."
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Sorry, Nightbeat. Kagerou can be incredibly blunt sometimes. The problem with being a child.
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Brains aren't too strong in your family, are they Kagerou.
"Nevermind. Point is, if I was looking for you don't you think I'd have done something by now?
Aside from the obvious 'I just met you'."
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"I don't..."
He shifts his weight, backward a bit. He doesn't know how to proceed. How does he... interact...?
"I don't know."
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"Let's try this."
He holds out a hand, slowly.
"Hi, my name's Nightbeat. And you are?"
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He looks down at the hand.
Then up at the robot.
His own hand lifts, awkwardly mimicking the other robot.
"Kagerou."
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"Nice to meet you, Kagerou."
And then, almost as fast as that happened, his attention turns back to the fruit. "Now if only I could figure out THIS mystery.'
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But it doesn't. His hand is just... waggled around for some reason.
"What are you -- "
And then the topic changes. "What mystery?"
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He bends down again, putting a finger under one of the leaves of the plants, looking up.
"These aren't Cybertronian native, I don't think. And yet here they are. They're almost suspiciously organic. Almost EARTH-like."
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"They're just plants."
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"An accurate assumption. But here's the kicker--I've never seen them on this planet. They're surprisingly organic in nature, which is something Cybertron lacks.
So the question is...how, and why are they here?"
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Kagerou, no. That's not the important question here.
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Did you seriously just ask that.
"Well, do you eat plants or use them to breathe? Us either."
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He makes a face, having the good grace to look slightly embarrassed.
"Human beings do..." And don't you have humans, Nightbeat?
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"True, true, you're right on that, but...Cybertron doesn't really HAVE humans."
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Because clearly, he's talking to another AI, right? Not a living robot. That's just absurd, isn't it?
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Oh god. OOoooh god that's awkward. And thankfully you said it to Nightbeat, who wouldn't take that much offense to it.
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It wouldn't be the first time he's made that assumption. The concept of everything else is just... so beyond him. He can't even imagine it.
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Time for a biology lesson.
"I'm actually a living mechanical being."
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Wow, good job, Nightbeat, you just about blew his mind.
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He smiles, holding out his arms.
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As if looking for a heartbeat.
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Well, he's just been groped by a stranger. Knock that one off his bucket list. "Uh...you okay there, buddy?"
He's not offended, just...weirded out.
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