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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...
smarterthandad: (leave that to me)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2015-01-09 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure, I'll give you a hand." Often abrasive personality aside, Val really did want to be helpful and work for the common good. She was merely appalling at anything that even slightly resembled ethics.

"I'm the best there is with machines." Darn right he was lucky to have her around. Valeria was not burdened with false modesty, or indeed any sort of modesty at all.

[personal profile] luckyfaceplate 2015-01-10 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thankfully, Optimus has has a crash course in that attitude thanks to Prowl. Although what exactly was run by Optimus during the war is still kind of fuzzy.

His plating rises a fraction at her statement, a gesture of amusement.

He really likes you, Val. Your confidence speaks volumes. "I saw technology further into the city. Perhaps you could take a look at that."
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[personal profile] smarterthandad 2015-01-11 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
She and Prowl will get along like a house on fire. It'll be horrifying.

"'Technology' doesn't narrow it down much...not that it matters at this early in the game. I'm going to have to teach myself your whole design philosophy from the bottom up no matter where I start." The prospect of an entirely new technological society delighted her, her happiness at the idea only somewhat dampened by the circumstances.

[personal profile] luckyfaceplate 2015-01-12 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Please god no.

"If there's anything I can do to provide assistance, let me know, I'll do my best to provide you with it."

Because right now, she's his best link. Strange...he was so small. Then again, size didn't really matter.
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[personal profile] smarterthandad 2015-01-14 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm gonna need some heavy lifting."

Darn right Val had no problem bossing around giant space robot Captain America for the purpose of moving big chunks of metal.

[personal profile] luckyfaceplate 2015-01-16 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's certainly not the thing he had in mind. He assumed age-old wisdom or...a Prime thing.

But...heavy lifting works.

"Of course...wherever you may need it."
smarterthandad: (leave that to me)

[personal profile] smarterthandad 2015-01-18 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
She doesn't need wisdom she has science. (She needs so much wisdom Optimus you don't even know.)

"Cool." Valeria was gracious in victory.