Skyfire
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 22, 2007 13:48:23 GMT -5
"Thank you, Counterpunch."
Skyfire turns his head toward Shortround, and also notes Blackarachnia. Both get curious looks; Shortround is far more complex a mech than the usual run of support mechs from his era (which tended toward blocky and non-descript), and Blackarachnia is flat-out weird. She looks like an alien creature rather than a Transformer--and she's so tiny!
In fact, he mistakes her for an alien. "Hello, Blackarachnia. Are you one of the alien survivors?"
Skyfire spares Shortround a friendly glance. "Short-round? I'm Skyfire."
[private to Starscream]: // What's wrong? You were upset about something, // Skyfire asks, sounding concerned, // and some of your men are on edge. I'm not oblivious, I know I'm not in the loop here--but please don't cut me out if I could help. //
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Starscream
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"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
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Post by Starscream on Sept 22, 2007 16:13:38 GMT -5
Starscream replied to Skyfire. //Nothing to worry about. A new face is going to be unsettling to some of them. We have already dealt with a traitor in our midst once. They will learn to accept you, in time.// Not that we have any traitors here at the moment, right, Counterpunch?
Speaking of the new initiate, Starscream greeted him. "Hmm. I've heard some things from Dead End about myself in that era. I thank you for being more straight-forward in your information than he was. Spinister, my lieutenant, is interviewing people. Tell him about yourself and what you know when both you and he have a moment spare."
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Blackarachnia (BW)
Rookie
She lay back on the ground and let the soft earth envelope her body.
Miss Predacon Blackarachnia, at your service.
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Post by Blackarachnia (BW) on Sept 22, 2007 16:18:26 GMT -5
Blackarachnia just went "Hmm." at Eye-Fire's greeting. And then Skyfire asked if she was an alien survivor. "Am I a what?" she asked incredulously. Wait, that's right, he's REALLY an ancestor. "So you ARE Skyfire? Okay. And no. I'm the next generation of Cybertronian. I'm called a Predacon." She then peered at Shortround. What's his problem?
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Counterpunch
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The Overlord, His Peerless Highness, Arch Duke Counterpunch. The Salient Vanquisher of His Own Mind
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Post by Counterpunch on Sept 22, 2007 17:03:20 GMT -5
No, Starscream! No traitors here! Counterpunch is completely loyal to his true faction!
Counterpunch steps away from the others, attitude still sullen, but he falls into silence, seemingly withdrawing from himself. He turns his gaze towards... ah, this would be that 'semi-organic spider-thing' Jetstorm mentioned. So Blackarachnia is her name, hmm? Then he seems to focus again on Skyfire, Starscream, and their conversation.
He falls into observation for the moment, taking note of the names of the others. Eye-fire, Shortround... Shortround's an odd build, but considering he has already encountered Jetstorm, certainly not the oddest he's encountered so far.
The spy nods to Starscream. "I will," is his only answer. Although he'll probably do his best to make sure he and Spinister don't have a coinciding moment to spare until he's had a chance to find out more about this lieutenant he's never head of.
It's likely that, before too long, he'll wander off again.
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Shortround
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Post by Shortround on Sept 22, 2007 23:16:03 GMT -5
Shortround blinked at everyone looking at him. Dammit, he was a scout, not the centre of attention!
"... It's the claws, isn't it?" he asked, looking down at them himself, and coming around from behind the building. If no one noticed the storage boxes piled haphazardly on his engines before, they're certainly noticeable now.
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Eye-fire
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Post by Eye-fire on Sept 23, 2007 2:34:50 GMT -5
Eye-fire put the boxes down to his toy collection, and decided to stay away from them. He'd rather not get Shortround angry.
"Its shocking what we become, isn't it?" He says in reference to Blackarachnia.
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Skyfire
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 23, 2007 16:22:23 GMT -5
Skyfire notes the pile of boxes marked with alien glyphs on Shortround's engines (and which looks like it may be a cargo deck when he transforms). Evidentally he's been salvaging useful materials from the abandoned buildings. Judging from the gaudiness of the markings, they were either consumer goods or hazardous materials, or possibly both.
"Yes, I am Skyfire." He ponders Blackarachnia for a moment. Smaller, much smaller, probably more fuel-conservative, extremely versatile with the extra manipulators--possibly a specialist unit? But if they've gone to that extreme of fuel conservation...
"Starscream, did the trend of increasing energy consumption versus static energy generation that we'd started to notice continue at the same rate for a prolonged time? Did the exploration program not find anything we could use to reverse that trend?" A trend that would have left the few survivors starving in the dark if it had been carried to its logical--and ridiculous--extreme, Skyfire thought.
Old hypotheses tested, found inadequate, and discarded. Current hypothesis: Starscream is basically telling the truth; they are at war, the two factions call themselves 'Decepticons' and 'Autobots', and since Skyfire recognizes Cybertronians on both sides, it's a civil war. Starscream's group is probably composed primarily of military units, and they are in a warzone, and probably on alert, expecting enemy attacks.
The arrival of Transformers from up-, down-, and cross-time complicates things quite a bit. Do they all have the some common ground?
He looks at Starscream. "It must be quite a task, finding some common ground among all these Transformers, pulled in from so many different, er, backgrounds."
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Starscream
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"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
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Post by Starscream on Sept 24, 2007 5:35:05 GMT -5
Starscream pointed to left wing's emblem with his right hand. "I've found that is enough... for most of us..." he trailed off. "Plus, given that we're up against some powerful Autobots.. sometimes we find common ground." Crushing their enemies under their feet for example.
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Blackarachnia (BW)
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She lay back on the ground and let the soft earth envelope her body.
Miss Predacon Blackarachnia, at your service.
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Post by Blackarachnia (BW) on Sept 24, 2007 5:51:11 GMT -5
Eye-Fire doesn't want to anger Shortround and then mocks Blackarachnia openly.
"And just WHAT are you referring to? Just because I--" Oh dear, ego gets in the way of nicey-nice times for Skyfire. Blackarachnia took a moment and recomposed herself. With displeasure--but not rage--she intoned, "...if you think there is something wrong with my design, in any way, you are sorely mistaken." Blackarachnia decided that was enough of hanging around here. She'd either end up doing something she regretted, or at least regret not 'decalibrating' Eye-Fire with extreme prejudice when she had the chance. Her morsel of information would have to wait for another day. She drew her gun again, firing off a grapple towards a high building, swinging away to find what else was going on.
OOC: Exit Blackarachnia.
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Counterpunch
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Post by Counterpunch on Sept 24, 2007 7:18:51 GMT -5
Counterpunch does not smirk beneath his mask. Allowing such an expression, even if he knows it's covered, is sloppy work. Instead, he watches with only a mild level of interest as Eye-fire comments on the supposed future, and Blackarachnia takes offense to it. His stance, however, gives a distinct impression of boredom, and only moments later shifts his right shoulder then his left, as though working out a kink, then gives an absent nod to anyone looking, activates his antigravs, and returns to the edge of the crater, at which point he starts to wander away.
OOC: You all have a round to do something to stop me, or address me in some way, but if no one does, consider me gone and skip me next round.
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Shortround
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Post by Shortround on Sept 24, 2007 9:06:17 GMT -5
Shortround watches BlackArachnia swing away. He makes a note to not annoy the small Transformer, as he'd rather not find out why she wasn't cowering in fear from the larger ones. He guessed she had some sort of extremely painful weapon.
With attention taken off him, Shortround transforms back into his hovercraft mode and hovers onwards, the boxes still perched on top of him. He doesn't leave the crater area, but instead just goes over to a nearby building which he has claimed as his warehouse, in order to unload the bootlegs. Sure are a lot of techno-dragons in this lot...
No, looking at the bootlegs and using them to guess what nearby lifeforms look like has not occurred to Shortround
Shortround is technically here ICly, but I won't be posting. He's sorting through toys
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Eye-fire
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Post by Eye-fire on Sept 25, 2007 0:49:03 GMT -5
"We work together as we always have. Most of us knew each other at least at some point in our origonal times. Those we don't know all supported the same cause, and as such, we need no more motivation than that to work together." Eye-Fire says.
Eye-Fire doesn't particularly care that Blackarachnia left in a huff, she started it. And until she's promoted above him, he'll be happy to continue on his merry way.
"Now please excuse me, I have other duties."
*Edit*
OOC: Moving off to the "Still just a rat in a cage" thread
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Skyfire
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 25, 2007 10:43:12 GMT -5
"That helps, if there is a core cadre already used to working together," Skyfire muses out loud.
Blackarachnia, the Predacon--a sort of... microbot--seems sensitive about her size or appearance. Skyfire files that thought away under "puzzle pieces that we don't have a common edge for yet" and "sensitive points not to stomp on in conversation with this person". Counterpunch and Shortround both reacted in a distinctly "Eh, the excitement's over. Ho-hum" manner now.
"Hook is this way?" Skyfire indicates with one large hand the general direction that Eye-fire had indicated earlier.
---- If people are ready, we can duck into the Hook Repairing people thread. Since everyone else is either non-posting or bugged out, consider Skyfire out of this thread into the Hook thread
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Starscream
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"Sometimes I can almost feel it!"
strangely enough, male.
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Post by Starscream on Sept 25, 2007 19:31:52 GMT -5
It takes a moment for Starscream to remember that shooting Blackarachnia and yelling 'SHUT UP he'll notice we're aggressive!' would not make matters any better.
"I believe so," Starscream intoned to Skyfire. "I trust Eye-fires ability to locate others." Partially because that is his job, before he shoots them. "Let us introduce you to your new sub-commander."
OOC: Fine by me.
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