Nightbeat
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Lord High Instructor, Duke of Snack
Cybertron's Greatest Detective
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Post by Nightbeat on Sept 16, 2007 22:23:01 GMT -5
//Can I help? Can I help? Did you forget who you were talking to, Chief?// Nightbeat replies, his amusement projecting even over the communications unit. Not the being alive, Transformer or otherwise, he can't get a confession out of.
He transforms and jabs a finger in Slingshot's direction. "Ah, shut yer own yap, Flyboy!"
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
"And *I'll* live happily ever after..."
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Post by Screwdriver on Sept 16, 2007 22:49:09 GMT -5
Screwdriver, like Bumblebee and Nightbeat, transforms, although she looks rather disappointed when the music ends, and gives Slingshot a rather sour look. She tilts her head at Nightbeat and asks, "The crowned-emir is the man behind the curtain?"
OOC: Apologies for lame-post. Don't want to hold anything up.
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Post by Slingshot on Sept 17, 2007 18:15:42 GMT -5
Slingshot hates you all. You can see it in his glare.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Sept 18, 2007 18:35:07 GMT -5
"What sorts?" Emirate Xaaron continues to press Hardwire. "It must be a pain, getting all those salvage permits."
He nods at Bumblebee's salute, acknowledging it, and greets, "Good to see you well, Bumblebee."
Emirate Xaaron notes coolly, //I did not forget, Nightbeat. I know that you could make just about anyone talk, in the end. I'm asking if you can get him to talk without him knowing that he talked.//
He smiles at Screwdriver and welcomes her with a sweeping flourish of his arm. He says smoothly, "My dear Lady Screwdriver, you must forgive me. I know very little of your culture. I do not mean to offend. How might I make amends? What do you seek here?" He's being a wee bit of a ham here, but once he gets past her speaking style's sheer oddity, it strikes him as a bit formal, and perhaps she'll pay formality back in kind.
If this fails he can always just have someone shoot her until she stops reassembling herself.
Emirate Xaaron wonders if he should dismiss Slingshot but nixes the idea. If Screwdriver and Hardwire went enemy at the same time, he doesn't want it to be Nightbeat, Bumblebee, and him against two unknowns.
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Cannonball
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Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
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Post by Cannonball on Sept 18, 2007 22:32:47 GMT -5
"Th' sort wut finds stuff that be buried, or long 'idden. An...nevah 'ad issue with salvage permits. We donnae use 'em in me culture." Well. Pirates don't need permits. Pirates don't take orders. Except from Cannonball, that is. "One might say ah'm the bloke wut would issue 'em, if'n we used 'em" he adds, stopping there to watch the strange display.
"Oi, wot's 'is aboot curtains?"
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 19, 2007 6:48:08 GMT -5
Bumblebee shrugged pleasantly at Emirate Xaaron's remark about him being active again.
I get knocked down, I get up again, they're never gonna keep me down...
Screwdriver wasn't making much sense again, so he looked at Nightbeat, transmitting privately //the orange one is difficult to interpret. perhaps i haven't learned enough about earth yet.// Finally, Bumblebee offered a polite wave to Hardwire, since he hasn't told him to shut up yet.
"Tubthumping" - Chumbawumba.
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Nightbeat
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Lord High Instructor, Duke of Snack
Cybertron's Greatest Detective
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Post by Nightbeat on Sept 19, 2007 21:50:13 GMT -5
//Doesn't make a lick of sense to me either,// Nightbeat admits. //Haven't done much studyin' of Earth yet... but maybe I oughta.//
"Screwdriver here has some kind of funky dialect," he explains to "Hardwire." "What she's sayin' makes sense--more or less--it's just hidden under a cloud of metaphor."
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
"And *I'll* live happily ever after..."
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Post by Screwdriver on Sept 19, 2007 22:58:48 GMT -5
In answer to Emirate Xaaron's question, Screwdriver claps her hands together and burbles happily, "I don’t want ever to be a man! I want always to be a little boy and to have fun!"1 Yes, yes, that's right. She just completely swapped out her own gender.
When Hardwire asks her about curtains, she turns her large red optics towards him, blinks them once, tilts her head, and says, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"2 Her tone seems to imply she thinks this the obvious answer. She continues to look at Hardwire, a bit confused with his confusion, until Bumblebee starts singing again, and then her expression brightens into a smile.
1 Peter and Wendy 2 Wizard of Oz
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Post by Slingshot on Sept 19, 2007 23:16:31 GMT -5
It's a wonder that Slingshot's managing to stay mostly quiet and in the background. Glaring at all and sundry, but still not saying anything.
He keeps darting glances back at the Autobot base-building and skyward, though.
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Post by Emirate Xaaron on Sept 20, 2007 18:16:32 GMT -5
No permits? Interesting. Emirate Xaaron continues to chatter, "What are some of your favourite treasures that you've found? I do believe our fair lady here is using a metaphor of some sort."
Man behind the curtain... power behind the throne?
He pinches his nose between his eyes, trying to make sense of her next words. She is one of those new-fangled female Transformers, he sees. He's not really sure how one would turn one into man. Wouldn't it just be a pronoun swap?
Ah, he's fixating on the wrong thing. A boy is a young man, yes? She doesn't want to grow old. Given how old their kind can get, he guesses that she wishes to remain childish rather than meaning that she wishes to die young. Emirate Xaaron can deal with people who act childish. It just takes some coaxing.
Yes, this long, tedious task will be fun.
Emirate Xaaron continues, "And just what do you find fun, my dear?'
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Cannonball
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Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
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Post by Cannonball on Sept 20, 2007 20:59:55 GMT -5
Hardwire shrugs a bit. "T'would be 'ard to describe 'em without bein' able tae show ye 'em in person, y'know."
Turning his optics from Xaaron, Hardwire investigates the strange yellow Transformer. Blighter looks half-naked, he does. He squints a bit, thinking back, and wondering if he'd seen any of his crew members bring him on board during the rare times they came ashore in some of the seedier parts of Cybertron. Then again, Cannonball had seen very few male hookerbots in his time, so they probably all ran together in his head.
He just shakes his head a bit, clutching it with his hand. "This 'ere place be gettin' weirder an' weirder..."
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Nightbeat
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Lord High Instructor, Duke of Snack
Cybertron's Greatest Detective
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Post by Nightbeat on Sept 20, 2007 21:52:47 GMT -5
"Personally," Nightbeat says, putting on a smile, "I'm starting to think it makes more sense than most of the stuff that went on back home."
Parts of his mind are now dedicated to ferreting out any additional details he can about Hardwire, and several subroutines are not dedicated to coming up with appropriate lines of questioning.
And, of course, one subroutine is exclusively for searching for the appropriate detective cliche to use.
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Screwdriver
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The Lady Protector, Her Splendid Primacy, Grand Duchess Screwdriver. The Devout Silencer of Common Sense and Logic
"And *I'll* live happily ever after..."
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Post by Screwdriver on Sept 20, 2007 22:12:35 GMT -5
Screwdriver enjoys being the center of attention, make no mistake, but with so many dour faces around, she's beginning to get a bit unnerved once more. She steps from one foot to another, but then the bright smile returns to her face. In answer to Xaaron's question on what she does for fun, she says, "I build and break and mend and make!"
Because the Autobots didn't have enough in the rhyming department with Wheelie.
"And when I've made, I share the fun! An unused toy is a sad thing indeed, and a game of one gets tiresome!" She smiles up at Nightbeat. "The chase with Puss in Boots was most fun indeed!"
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Post by Slingshot on Sept 20, 2007 22:30:12 GMT -5
Slingshot's getting a little antsy. He's not needed here, and there's way too many people crowded in the same area as him. None of them are his brothers or Optimus, and it just digs at the underside of his armor like prickleburrs.
Time to hit the sky.
He starts to drift away slowly from the other Autobots.
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Post by Bumblebee on Sept 22, 2007 8:25:25 GMT -5
Bumblebee offered a bit of sympathy towards Screwdriver's feelings about wanting to remain a 'boy'.
I'd rather die, before I get old...
Hopefully this isn't interpretted as some kind of suicide pact and it is more the notion of remaining young at heart.
When Hardwire starts to stare at him, Bumblebee looks back silently, tilting his head out of curiosity.
My Generation - The Who
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