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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] milkruns 2015-01-06 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, it's kind of cute. It doesn't offer a name or anything, and she's not even sure it's Cybertronian. After all, she's never seen one this small before.

"The planet Cybertron -- or some version of it, anyway." She peers down at the little bot curiously. "My name's June. Do you have a name, little guy?"
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[personal profile] candidcamerabot 2015-01-07 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"The planet Cybertron?" Spy Shot looks around at the city with renewed curiosity. "As in, not the planet Earth?"

His red gaze fixes back on June. "I do have a name. It is Spy Shot 6." He lifts his leg and points to where his camera logo is emblazoned on it.
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[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-11 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Earth? God, no. It doesn't even look anything like Earth." June crouches down to his level though. "Nice to meet you, Spy Shot. Were you created on Earth, then?"
Edited 2015-01-11 20:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] candidcamerabot 2015-01-13 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Spy Shot gives his surroundings another intense lookover. Well, it certainly doesn't look like anywhere on Earth he's seen in person or in pictures. Humans may build much larger than he is, but this is on another scale entirely.

Another planet. How exciting!

"I am not an extraterrestrial," he confirms.
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[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-18 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I guess it's nice to meet someone from home," June says wryly. "I'm guessing you just...wound up here without knowing why or how, right?"
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[personal profile] candidcamerabot 2015-01-25 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Spy Shot tilts his head to one side. Is it nice to meet someone from home? Humans do seem to like familiar things, so he supposes it must be for them. Then again, Spy Shot always enjoyed meeting Vera every day, so perhaps familiar things are nice for him too.

"Yes," he says. "I was with Vera and then I was here."
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[personal profile] milkruns 2015-01-25 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Vera?" June asks, deciding that if she's going to talk to the tiny robot, she might as well sit on a rock instead of crouching still. "Who's Vera? A friend of yours from Earth?"
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[personal profile] candidcamerabot 2015-01-27 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Mirroring June, Spy Shot sits down in a crook of the vines. "Yes, Vera is my friend." Straightening up a little, he says, perhaps a bit proudly, "I am her camera."