robotsatan: (Default)
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> (HEY)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-28 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Actually, yeah. It was a map - er, the half I had."

Don't ask him about the past tense, Ironhide. Please don't ask him about the past tense.

"My best friend! He used to be a Decepticon, come on, Ironhide. Everyone knows who he is!"
arnhaid: (IT'S STAR-SCREAM)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-28 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Had?"

Oh, he's going to ask. You can't tell Ironhide something like that and then expect him not to ask.

"Well I don't! I don't -- I don't remember anything!"
rodders: <user name=ladyofdragons> (I FUCKED UP I FUCKED UP I FUCKED UP)

[personal profile] rodders 2015-01-29 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
"It disintegrated, okay?"

Whoops.

"Okay, okay! You don't know anything but I'm trying to tell you what you missed!" Mostly. He's doing a terrible job of it.
arnhaid: (but my HANDS)

[personal profile] arnhaid 2015-01-29 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
"It what?"

No, Rodimus. Stop. Literally nothing you're saying right now is helping him calm down or feel better about the huge gap of missing time in his head.

"No, you're just makin' things worse!"