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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: (i like to say "no")

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-21 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[hey there's been no EXTREME DISRESPECT yet, sentinel can deal with this.]

Around the same. I can only assume from your frantic panicking that there are not many others present.
arnhaid: (Brood brood brood.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-21 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
You got that right. ... Kinda. Panickin's a... whole other reason you probably aren't gonna believe.

[Hell, he wouldn't believe it if he hadn't lived through it SO.]
staygoldponybot: (i like to say "no")

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-22 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
You're here now. Whatever reason prior that caused you panic is gone. [basically: stop, baby.] For now, we will attempt to communicate with the natives of this city or find any others in a similar position.

[prime barked orders, gogogogo]
arnhaid: (kid what the fuck)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-22 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't panickin'.

[So there.]

You seen any "natives" around here yet? Cause I ain't seen one.
staygoldponybot: (I LOVE NOTHING)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-22 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

[bullshit.]

Not yet. This Cybertron cannot be entirely deserted. Not now.

[not under HIS leadership.]
arnhaid: (HARUMF.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-23 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
That don't answer my question much. You seen anyone else?
staygoldponybot: (i don't like giving speeches so i won't)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-24 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I said not yet. Not counting you. What part of that went over your head?
arnhaid: (Brood brood brood.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-25 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
The part where I'm stuck with a huge yellow pain in the backside...

Fine. C'mon. Let's keep lookin'.
staygoldponybot: (cultivating a manly musk)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-26 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[it's GOLD you PLEBE]

Correct answer. [a beat.] Your designation would be preferable.
arnhaid: (are you looking at my crotch)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-26 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Mellow Yellow.]

Ironhide. You?
staygoldponybot: (clear alcohols are for rich women)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-27 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[GOLD because he is AMAZING]

Hnfh. Sentinel Prime.
arnhaid: (We can't learn from our pasts)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-27 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
... You're kiddin' me.
staygoldponybot: best friend i ever had (i once worked with a man for three years)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-27 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I look like someone who jokes.
arnhaid: (We can't learn from our pasts)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-28 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, not really.
staygoldponybot: (i don't like giving speeches so i won't)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-28 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Then what's the problem?
arnhaid: (All the things we might've done wrong.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-29 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
Just wanna be sure I ain't dreamin' again.
staygoldponybot: (cultivating a manly musk)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-29 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
And why do you think you'd be dreaming?
arnhaid: (We can't learn from our pasts)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-30 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
You ain't gonna believe me if I told you, pal.
staygoldponybot: (Default)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-30 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Try me.

[go on big boy~~~~]
arnhaid: (no seriously are you?)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-30 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
... Okay. You asked for it.

I died. A crazy old bot called Alpha Trion hauled me back an' when I woke up on Cybertron, it was full of bugs tryin' to kill me. So I killed 'em first. Except there were lots of hallucinations goin' on at the same time. Hence the... dreamin'. Thing.

And then Trion abandoned me an' one of my guys. So I hit him. In the face.
staygoldponybot: (Default)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-30 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[a pause.]

You don't look like anything special.

[because shit like that would only happen to SUPER SPECIAL SNOWFLAKES, right]
arnhaid: (Brood brood brood.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-30 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what I said.
staygoldponybot: (Default)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-30 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[he stares at ironhide for a long second.]

Oh, well. Irrelevant for here.
arnhaid: (All the things we might've done wrong.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2014-12-30 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Unless there's bugs here, sure.
staygoldponybot: (keep your tears in your eyes)

[personal profile] staygoldponybot 2014-12-30 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there's much of anything...

[that's more him thinking aloud but it also answers the question because he's AMAZING UR WELCOME]

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