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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...
planate: (Default)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-11 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
[thank you primus]

Same as you, I reckon. Woke up here all of a sudden with no idea how or why.
arnhaid: (We can't learn from our pasts)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-11 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Huh. That... don't sound good. At all.

... We should probably find somewhere a little more defensible than a street, then.
planate: ([intensity intensifies])

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-11 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, bit ominous.

Lead the way!
arnhaid: (kid what the fuck)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-12 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Why me? I haven't been lookin' anywhere.

Have you?
planate: (heeee)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-12 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope. But. You're huge!
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[personal profile] planate 2015-01-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)





...I guess it doesn't matter who leads. Alright, let's go.
arnhaid: (you ever lay awake at night)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-16 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yep. Just stick close, kid. We'll get somewhere... useful, I guess.
planate: (Default)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-16 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Eventually...

[he looks around. boy this is a shitty situation huh]
arnhaid: (siddown dinobot we're talking)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-16 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Don't say it like it's a bad thing, either. 'Eventually's' better than never.
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[personal profile] planate 2015-01-17 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally! I mean, I'm not pessimistic at all. What are the odds we'd run into each other, right?

[a beat.]

So, uh. What's your name?
arnhaid: (siddown dinobot we're talking)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-18 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, keep a chin up and all that.

Ironhide. You?
planate: (it's half full)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-19 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Pipes.

I think I've heard of you before, y'know.
arnhaid: (Say wha huh now?)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-19 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
What, really?
planate: (talks)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-19 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe? It was definitely Iron-someone. We kind of got all the news really watered down on the space stations...
arnhaid: (The battles you've won)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-20 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
... Iron-someone, huh?

Well. I'm Ironhide. Guess that counts as "someone".
planate: (heeee)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-20 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[he claps happily]

It does! I'll have to get your autograph when we find somewhere to settle.
arnhaid: (That's not where your gun goes.)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-21 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Autograph?

You're kiddin' me, right?
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[personal profile] planate 2015-01-21 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally. We should get a picture instead.

[look he wants MEMENTOS FIGHT HIM]
arnhaid: (Say wha huh now?)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-21 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Kid, I dunno who you're thinkin' of here, but I really ain't that big a deal...

I'm just a bodyguard.
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[personal profile] planate 2015-01-21 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
But you're new! I've never seen you before!

[he grabs ironhide's hand with his tiny infant ones.]

I want to document this Cybertron experience, including the first mech I met.
arnhaid: (No I'm not surprised)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-22 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He just sort of lets Pipes do that.]

You should really save all that excitement for a better bot than me, kid.
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[personal profile] planate 2015-01-22 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see anyone else around! Plus if we're gonna be stuck here together we gotta get to know each other eventually anyway!
arnhaid: (are you looking at my crotch)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-22 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah, but 'get to know each other' doesn't have the same kinda... ring as 'can I have your autograph'.

See?
planate: (talks)

[personal profile] planate 2015-01-22 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
There's like a 20% chance you're a really well known person though!

[he shrugs] You do have a point, though.

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