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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...
staygoldponybot: (keep your tears in your eyes)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-03 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fantastic." Awful. He waves a hand. "After that."

Oh no is that... an emotion? Is Sentinel perhaps making it clear he's rather unhappy about that?

No, not really. He just looks as angry as before.
gimmicky: (STILL APPROACHING)

[personal profile] gimmicky 2015-01-04 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Megatron proceeded to gain power and...started a war. Optimus Prime led the Autobot side while Megatron lead the Decepticon side."

That's right. Optimus Prime.


Let that one sink in.
staygoldponybot: (i am a simple mech)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, look, he would've been more shocked to hear there WASN'T a Prime after he died.

"Hm. A full war?"

AMAZING JOB, OPTIMUS

[personal profile] luckyfaceplate 2015-01-04 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
SORRY HE CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF YOU LOSING TO A MINER WITH NO REAL FIGHTING EXPERIENCE.


WITH ARMOR.
gimmicky: (Geez! What was that for?)

[personal profile] gimmicky 2015-01-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
He expected you to have a little shock that it was that A-hole you tried to kick out of the Senate okay just sayin' just sayin'.

"Yeah...four million years long."

Everytime it's said, it feels so deadpan. As if it was no big deal.
staygoldponybot: (i don't like giving speeches so i won't)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-07 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
Of course he's shocked and disgusted, but Sentinel doesn't show his emotions.

"Have you come off the tail end?"

Like, four million years as far as Teebs knows, or...
gimmicky: (Gonna do something stupid)

[personal profile] gimmicky 2015-01-07 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, if you're looking for good news..."

He can smile for this, at least.

"The war's over. Autobots won."

Because THAT'S what you want to hear, isn't it.
staygoldponybot: (i am a simple mech)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-09 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Four million years."

He says, flatly. Yeah they won but AT WHAT COOOST
gimmicky: (Geez! What was that for?)

[personal profile] gimmicky 2015-01-09 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Four million years. Turns out Megatron's hard to kill."

You can say that again, Trailcutter.