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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...
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (ACTUAL SHITBABY RODIMUS PRIME)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-06 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Rodimus." You know, like Primus, Nominus, Optimus. There's kind of a trend here.

He crosses his own arms in response, still staring Sentinel down. Ugh, the old Primes.The corrupt Primes. His least favorite people.

"Great, good. Did you get told how you died? Because that's pretty great."
staygoldponybot: (i don't like giving speeches so i won't)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-07 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Cute."

If Sentinel is good at one thing, it's holding his ground and staring at people.

His tone takes on a dangerous edge, "Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me."
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (DEBATING BAD LIFE CHOICE #6239)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-12 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"At least I've actually touched the Matrix, unlike you and every other false Prime."

Sentinel is probably the worst person to mention this to. Whoops.

"What? That Megatron totally kicked your ass? That's not hard to describe." And then proceeded to not be able to kick Optimus' ass so much that there was a four million year long war, in case that implication wasn't made clear enough already.
staygoldponybot: best friend i ever had (i once worked with a man for three years)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-12 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Guess who doesn't believe Roddy touched the Matrix? This guy. This guy doesn't believe it. So much so he doesn't even touch on it.

"One of the lowest ranking oil-stain Autobots I found earlier gave me a better explanation than what you just spewed. I don't know what I expected."

Sorry, Trailcutter.
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (WHATEVER)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-18 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's rude, Sentinel.

"Any Autobot is worth more than you." So you take that back right the hell now. "You thought you could beat him, put some armor on just to make sure, and he reduced you to scrap. Can't say much was lost, but Zeta really kind of stole your crown on the whole 'how bad of a Prime can you be' thing."
staygoldponybot: (I LOVE NOTHING)

jfc that last tag was awkward DONT DO THEM AFTER AN ALL NIGHTER

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-19 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, I did hear Zeta and his successor did much better."

He gestures to the ruins around them.

"Very good."
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (DON'T TOUCH ME)

LMAO GOOD JOB

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-24 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey, Zeta was the megalomanic mass murderer. Optimus didn't do any of this."

FIGHT HIM.
staygoldponybot: (i like to say "no")

[sad trombone noise]

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-26 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, he just failed to stop a war that ravaged the planet. Much better."

Honestly he knows that's an unfair and ridiculous statement but Sentinel is also a gigantic asshole who is dealing with his problems by being even more of an asshole so go figure.
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (GESTURING WILDLY)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-28 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
"And what would you know about that, anyway? You're dead!"

SO THERE.
staygoldponybot: (I LOVE NOTHING)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-01-28 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I have a working pair of optics and audials, for one."

Y'know, seeing as every single person he's met so far has taken it upon themselves to impart the knowledge that he fuckin died.
rodders: <user name=brodinsons> (DEEP STARE OF SHADOWED WHATEVER)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-30 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Get with the program, this isn't the same Cybertron as the one we know. Or can't you tell that yet?"

Spoilers: someone's filled him in on this already, which is why he knows this. Because it completely escaped his notice the first time around.
staygoldponybot: (i don't like giving speeches so i won't)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2015-02-01 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sentinel, not being told and having no reason to assume it's a different universe, didn't know that.

"I had suspicions."

No, he didn't.

"A planet such as Cybertron does not become spontaneously empty."

Thanks, Obvious Prime.