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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...
fuckinstoplights: (That makes no sense.)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-10 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"... Why does it lack plants?"

Kagerou, no. That's not the important question here.
caseopened: (Apparently I'm insufferable)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Did you seriously just ask that.

"Well, do you eat plants or use them to breathe? Us either."
fuckinstoplights: (How many licks DOES it take?)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-11 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes he did.

He makes a face, having the good grace to look slightly embarrassed.

"Human beings do..." And don't you have humans, Nightbeat?
caseopened: (I wanna see!)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-12 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh right...he's not dealing with a Cybertronian. It's slightly a point in Kagerou's favor, he'll probably get little to no confustion.

"True, true, you're right on that, but...Cybertron doesn't really HAVE humans."
fuckinstoplights: (Crap I dropped it.)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-12 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then... who made you?"

Because clearly, he's talking to another AI, right? Not a living robot. That's just absurd, isn't it?
caseopened: (Apparently I'm insufferable)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-13 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Who made me? What are you--you think I'm a robot?"

Oh god. OOoooh god that's awkward. And thankfully you said it to Nightbeat, who wouldn't take that much offense to it.
fuckinstoplights: (How many licks DOES it take?)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-13 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
"... Aren't you?"

It wouldn't be the first time he's made that assumption. The concept of everything else is just... so beyond him. He can't even imagine it.
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[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-16 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
"Not...exactly. I can see why you'd make the mistake though."

Time for a biology lesson.

"I'm actually a living mechanical being."
fuckinstoplights: (Crap I dropped it.)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-16 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
"A... what?"

Wow, good job, Nightbeat, you just about blew his mind.
caseopened: (I'm gonna open it)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-18 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"A living mechanical being. I know, sounds crazy, but we're out there. If you need proof, I'm right here."

He smiles, holding out his arms.
fuckinstoplights: (Every step you take I'll be watching)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-19 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
And Kagerou takes that as an invitation, stepping forward. Right up into Nightbeat's personal space. He puts a hand on his chest.

As if looking for a heartbeat.
caseopened: (Apparently I'm insufferable)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-21 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
...

Well, he's just been groped by a stranger. Knock that one off his bucket list. "Uh...you okay there, buddy?"

He's not offended, just...weirded out.
fuckinstoplights: (So wait it's tab A slot B?)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-21 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Living things have heartbeats."

He says it completely seriously. Looking between his hands and the other robot's face.
caseopened: (Look at my massive chin)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-26 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Heh," his hands go to Kagerou's, taking them and slowly pulling them off his chest. "Only if you have hearts, right? We don't have those, but something close."
fuckinstoplights: (Oh hell no you did not.)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-26 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
His wings bristle a bit, when he's touched -- despite the fact he was feeling up Nightbeat a minute ago. "Then... why can't I feel anything?"
caseopened: (Hey check out this sweet fox)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-27 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, you're feeling metal, there, buddy. It's pretty well protected, and for good reason."

fuckinstoplights: (Since when did waffles fly?)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-27 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
"... So there's no pulse?"
caseopened: (Apparently I'm insufferable)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-01-29 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not one you can feel by putting your hands on my chest--which we never covered requires a little asking beforehand."

Seriously, Kagerou, you can't just grope him even if that's the most action he's probably ever gotten.
fuckinstoplights: (Every step you take I'll be watching)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-01-29 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"... Asking?"

Sorry, Nightbeat. He's not entirely sure what this whole "personal space" thing is about.
caseopened: (In a tidal wave of mystery)

[personal profile] caseopened 2015-02-03 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. Saying 'is it okay if I put my hands to your chest'. Common courtesy goes a little ways, yeah?"

Says the king of badly timed curiosity.
fuckinstoplights: (Crap I dropped it.)

[personal profile] fuckinstoplights 2015-02-03 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
"I... didn't know that was a thing you had to ask."

Says the guy who lived in constant contact with one other person his whole life.