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Post by Waspinator on Dec 30, 2010 2:53:13 GMT -5
Day 22, Medical Bay, 20 minutes after Pred-dec-sect-icon, Private
Waspinator’s head was on one berth, his body on another. He was whispering nothing sweet in no ones audio receptors. He’d pretty much been muttering obscenities about the indignity of the situation for the last 20 minutes. This wasp may be able to survive without his head but he didn’t have to like it. At least he could use his mandibles to turn his head. The view wasn’t really worth the effort however, though the décor wasn’t half bad.
OOC: I hope I have got all the invites out: Slugslinger, Tarantulas, Hook, Blackarachnia and Screwdriver.
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Slugslinger
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Post by Slugslinger on Dec 30, 2010 8:08:26 GMT -5
OOC: Just popping by to say Slugslinger isn't actually in this thread. I was going to post him blowing off the medical detail in Pred-dec-sect-icon once his watch finished and leaving the transport logistics to Tarantulas, but the thread got shut down before I could so much as yea or nay.
So yeah. Slugslinger isn't here.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 30, 2010 21:04:57 GMT -5
Tarantulas is hunched over Waspinator's torso, a high-power magnifying lens over his optic band and delicate tools in each hand, prodding at the stub of the Decepticon's neck. "Quit your griping!" he snaps. "You're lucky to be online at all with what you've been through." If this really is Blackarachnia's work, she did a hell of a hack job. "I'm having to peel back organic tissue to get at your circuitry and fuel lines here and your grousing is distracting. Now pipe down or I'll stick your head in a drawer."
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Post by Waspinator on Dec 31, 2010 1:05:16 GMT -5
“Spiderbot even try, Wazzpinator…bite fingerz off!” compared to Tarantulas, Waspinator’s head cold just about bite the smaller predacon in half. But then the Spiderbot was currently doing potentially very dangerous stuff to his decidedly very important inner workings. “Yeah okay, Wazzpinator zorry, shutting up now” it wasn’t much of an apology but there was a genuine note there. Still when the spider wasn’t looking, Waspinator stuck his tongue out at the ‘doctor’.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Dec 31, 2010 17:20:08 GMT -5
Hook is still fussing with repairs to Ship. He finally shows up to check out the injured arrival. If it was really important, Blackarachnia would have told him to show up sooner. Secretly, that is really why Hook hired her: to tell him when things are important enough for Hook to hurry the slag up. He is not sure if she's figured that out yet or not, but she's a smart Decepticon, and if she hasn't, he's sure she will.
Ah, another big techno-organic, and cursory examination suggests something more like Blackarachnia herself than Sky-Byte. Hook asks Tarantulas, "Complicated enough injury that we can't put him in the CR bath yet?"
Given that Tarantulas is going over Waspinator so carefully, the answer is probably 'yes', but Hook has to ask. Would be sloppy methodology if he didn't.
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 31, 2010 18:40:06 GMT -5
"He got dismembered recently and his power regulation systems were disrupted when he put himself back together. If we put him in the CR tank he'll just reassemble and his core processor will start to overload again," Tarantulas says over his shoulder as he manipulates Waspinator's innards.
"Apparently Blackarachnia is involved in this somehow. Her and her 'transwarp slag.' Hopefully this mess is from her past and not her future, so she can help fix it."
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Post by Waspinator on Jan 2, 2011 13:32:07 GMT -5
Waspinator's head rotates on the spot to follow the new bot with the well chosen colour scheme; he would politely wave ‘Hi’ but well yeah. His optics flared bright for a moment from a tiny stab of pain where Tarantulas is working. Not having his head connected meant that most of the sensory feedback was dull, he could feel what the spider was doing but barely and any pain was quite minor.
“Silly queztion, can Spiderbot put Wazzpinator’s schematicz up on display? Wazzpinator have not seen the workingz of thiz body.”
OOC: I can just imagine "Oh look, Wazzpinator have a thingimagig and a doodad"
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Post by Screwdriver on Jan 2, 2011 20:38:22 GMT -5
Screwdriver tends to more or less wander around at will, although due to the fact that the Decepticons tend to tolerate a rather large degree of eccentricity in their 'soldiers', she occasionally stands various watches (most of which are spent disassembling things that really aren't supposed to be disassembled and reassembling them in interesting, but operational new ways). Screwdriver does not enter due to a watch at the moment. This is really 'wandering around at will' time. That, and some of the most interesting toys tend to be in medical (at least, the ones that are not on the planet below, but it's probably best not to discuss the little... workshop she's found herself). She looks around at the room, optics wide at its busier-than-normal, more crowded-than-normal state. "And many people hurried together, all of whom wanted to see everything!" 1 she declares. Then she looks around and, spying the disassembled Waspinator, grins broadly and practically skips towards the berth containing his head, chanting, "Drive you crazy, really lazy, eye rollin', funky strollin', ball playin', Hip swayin', trouble makin', booty shakin'!" It seems to have nothing to do with what she's actually seeing, unless someone recognizes her source. 21 The Two Kings' Children2 Chilly Down OOC: Treat Screwdriver as skippable. She's a bit tricky to post, and I don't want to hold anything up.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 2, 2011 23:19:21 GMT -5
There are no colours better than green and purple. None.
"Ah, yes, we'll need to update his internal schematics with the fix," Hook agrees. If Waspinator's internal schematics code for the wrong thing, his self-repair system will try to 'fix' the right thing back to the wrong thing, like an auto-immune disorder.
He answers Waspinator dryly, "Tarantulas can, but as far as doing so goes... ah. Screwdriver. Do that."
Hook doesn't expect she actually will, but it was worth trying. He himself goes after the logic probe.
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 3, 2011 22:22:45 GMT -5
"I can bring up your schematics easily enough if I patch into your circuitry," Tarantulas responds, putting down the tools he's working with and picking up another one. He's interested to see how Waspinator fits together himself, actually. The spider finds an interface port and plugs Waspinator into a nearby computer, pulling up his schematics.
"Well, this is interesting," he says, turning the flatscreen display so Hook can see it.
It's displaying a wireframe diagram of Wasp in his carformer body.
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Post by Waspinator on Jan 4, 2011 5:15:41 GMT -5
Waspinator stuck out his tongue at the display “obzolete old body, so much Autobot junk, technorganic Megacool™ Wazzpinator much better upgrade.” Waspinator's optics go wide at the realisation that his internal self database is not coding for his new format. “Oh scrap, out of date schematicz iz not good right?”
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Post by Screwdriver on Jan 4, 2011 10:06:46 GMT -5
Screwdriver gives an absent shrug. "All the king's horses and all the king's men should have no problem putting Humpty together again. Can't make an omlette without breaking a few road maps, old maps, drive baby drive, fly without a net! We can do it!"1
Rather than actually, say, doing what Hook told her to do or anything, she skips towards the nearest piece of the insect that is neither the head nor whatever Tarantulas is working on and picks it up, examing it with wide-eyed curiosity.
1 RIP, Geraldine Doyle.
OOC: Still skippable. Assume skippable through this whole thread for me.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Jan 4, 2011 19:57:20 GMT -5
Hook looks up at the schematics and rubs his chin, saying softly, "Ah. Ex-Autobot. Extensive rebuild. You're in luck. I am very familiar with that sort of deal."
Hook might not look like it, but he did have an extensive rebuild when he became a Decepticon - try pulling apart to form the head and shoulders of a combiner and add in anti-gravs for kicks and giggles.
"So, we put him back together, fix Blackarachnia's mistakes, update all his drivers, and update his internal schematics. Easy enough," Hook concludes.
He asides to Screwdriver, "If you break that, I'm taking the spares out of you."
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 5, 2011 22:21:55 GMT -5
Tarantulas doesn't know much about Hook's origins. Despite their fame, history is very fuzzy on how exactly the Constructicons came to be.
"Out of date schematics are not good, no. It means we have to guess at your baselines," Tarantulas says to Waspinator before looking up at Hook.
"I've some familiarity with partially organic Transformers, obviously, but the integration of the biological components with his systems is greater than I've seen before. Nothing I can't handle of course, but it would be nice if Blackarachnia was here to provide her unique insight on the situation."
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Post by Waspinator on Jan 6, 2011 13:56:21 GMT -5
Waspinator is a little bit worried him self about what the one with the mouth of pure confusion just might do with the piece she (she?) had picked up, “yez, please don’t break Wazzpinator, any more than current statuz anyway”.
He’d also been a little worried about something else, he just hadn’t dare ask because he didn’t know how he would feel about what he thought the answer would be, but then, things couldn’t get much worse could they?
“How iz Chickbot known here?”
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