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Post by Kup on Feb 25, 2011 22:46:35 GMT -5
Kup gives Clipper a faint smile when she accepts what he has to say, but it's not there for too long.
Wouldn't want anyone to think he was going soft, now.
He then turns towards Dinobot and shakes his head. "We... don't think it can. Emirate Xaaron has something else that he seems to think will work, and now that everyone knows about what's going on, we can work on other weapons as well."
"I doubt 'we'll think of something' is what you want to hear, but for one thing, it's more, 'we've thought of something, and now we're thinking of other things.' But besides that..." he trails off and shrugs. "I'm not advising rushing into a situation without a plan and just hoping that the answers will turn up, but sometimes, that's what you've gotta do, and to be honest, that's what we were doing the first time around. Only assurance we had that the Matrix would even do anything was Hot Rod's yammering, and none of us could figure why the blazes he knew what he did or why he was so certain. But I know for sure that one thing I learned from that whole business was... I can trust that lad's instincts. They're good ones."
Then he looks over the room, optics narrowed, and jabs his index finger at the assembled crewmembers. "And if one of you processor-shorts lets slip to Rodimus that I said that, you'll be on p-way scrubbing duties until Unicron himself has rusted out, got it?!"
He turns towards Sentinel Prime and shrugs. "That I don't know. We didn't really get into the living conditions of the dead when we was going over this."
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Omega Supreme
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Post by Omega Supreme on Feb 25, 2011 23:31:49 GMT -5
OOC: Posting back in, but still skippable.
Omega Supreme looks down and gives Clipper an encouraging smile. Unlike Kup, he doesn't worry about ruining his reputation. This body and this colour scheme have pounded his reputation into the ground.
He looks back up and nods when Kup vaguely outlines options. This fight is too big for Omega Supreme. It always has been. He just has to hope that the people who can do something will.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 27, 2011 21:05:46 GMT -5
Clipper smiles back, leaning against Omega's claw. He's a very nice mech to let her cling to him like this.
"So, umm... What can we do, then, Mister Kup, sir?" she asks hesitantly.
ooc: skippable.
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Feb 28, 2011 18:37:02 GMT -5
Don't feel bad, Omega. Dinobot still thinks you're enormous.
Dinobot's vocal circuits make a noise that would be equivalent to clearing his throat if he was a human. "Since we're on the subject, is there a contingency plan in place in case of the death of Rodimus Prime? Would Unicron immediately be released from the Matrix?"
Master of tact and subtlety, Dinobot is not. The fact remains, they are at war. People die in wars, and Rodimus is a high-value target.
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Post by Sentinel Prime on Mar 1, 2011 9:53:23 GMT -5
Sentinel Prime's antennae pin back when Kup yells, and his fingers tightly clutch at his notes, almost cracking the datapad. He jots down a note to himself: Ask Rodimus Prime about living conditions of the dead. Sentinel Prime stares at the note bleakly and reflects that he feels sick, like he just did a keg-stand with a barrel of engine grease. Not that he's ever done anything like that, of course! That's what being a Prime means, in some realities? Babysitting death incarnate? No thanks! Dinobot's question just makes everything worse. - - - OOC: Skippable. All the cool kids are.
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Post by Kup on Mar 1, 2011 12:00:12 GMT -5
Kup scowls. Dinobot's question is not an easy one, but it's a fair one, and they deserve an answer.
"For the short term, the Matrix itself would hold. Don't forget that we've got allies on the inside, after all." Just don't ask Kup about their living conditions. "The long term solution would involve finding a new Prime. Now, since yanking the Matrix out and passing it around to see who it clicks with ain't really such a hot idea, we don't really have a choice besides waiting until we get to that bridge to cross it. If we get to that bridge. In the meantime, best thing we can do is make sure it doesn't come to that."
"Which... brings up another problem."
"Perceptor recently figured out that Rodimus is aging... a lot faster than he should be. We suspect it's connected to Unicron being in the Matrix, and we've got confirmation from Twin Twist that when Unicron gets taken care of, that'll get taken care of. It's not an issue yet," he says, emphasizing that point loudly. "We've still got a few centuries before his aging'll be advanced enough to cause problems. But Perceptor predicts that it'll start to be visible before too long, so you guys need to know before that happens."
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Nimbus Tsura
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Post by Nimbus Tsura on Mar 2, 2011 12:11:04 GMT -5
Skyblast frowns. He has to admit that he used to think Rodimus Prime was pretty attractive. The whole Unicron thing kind of kills that, and then ultra-aging on top of that?
However, it does remind him to asks, "At least in my reality, not getting proper energon nutrition speeds up aging. I don't know if that happens in his reality, too, but uh... maybe medical can look into it?"
Keeping Rodimus Prime plastered is obviously the way to go.
OOC: Still skippable.
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Mar 2, 2011 21:48:50 GMT -5
Dinobot's brow creases. "Is the Prime's aging truly a problem? We are a hardy race, with regular maintenance. You yourself are no fresh protoform, Kup, but you remain a capable warrior."
Dinobot does not see the problem with Old Rodimus. As long as he gets Kup old and not Jetfire old.
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Post by Kup on Mar 4, 2011 20:51:50 GMT -5
Kup hesitates. The problem, here, is that from what Kup's heard, he gets Jetfire old.
And Kup's not having an easy time dealing with that.
"It's not a problem if we don't let it go for too long. And we're not going to let it go for too long," he states firmly. Then he turns towards Skyblast and pulls back the right corner of his lips in something that almost looks like a smirk.
"I'll... run the suggestion by them." Why not? They've already had Emirate Xaaron recommend that he transform more often. "I'm pretty sure they're already working a number of angles on this one, though."
They'd damn well better be.
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Dinobot
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Post by Dinobot on Mar 5, 2011 14:49:34 GMT -5
Dinobot nods, folding his hands together. He is apparently satisfied with Kup's explanation.
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Post by Kup on Mar 6, 2011 20:45:42 GMT -5
When Dinobot nods, Kup looks across the room again. "All right, then. Now, with as many people as now knows it, the 'Cons finding out eventually is pretty much a given. Sooner or later, someone will slip, or they'll find some way to get on our frequency again, or maybe they'll just have someone showing up from Rodimus's timeline at a point when it isn't a secret, and they'll find out, and odds are good, someone's going to try to find a way to use it against us. Not sure how, and you'd think most of them have better sense than to invite a Chaos God into their parlor, but... Decepticons are Decepticons, and it's not like they always think through the consequences of whatever stunt they're pulling."
"Maybe a bit worse than that, though, is that, as you probably notice, Unicron worship's seems real common in this reality, and you can probably bet that there are folks who won't take kindly to our second-in-command keeping an alternate version of their god locked up in his chest."
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Post by Kup on Mar 16, 2011 21:02:25 GMT -5
OOC: It seems like there are no more IC questions? Wrap-up time, then?
Kup looks around as the group listens, no one else asking question. He rubs the back of his head for a moment. "Well, then. That's what I got. Unless anyone else has any questions, I guess we're about done here." He waits a moment, to see if there's anything else.
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Post by Kup on Mar 20, 2011 21:00:18 GMT -5
Kup dips his head in a faint nod as no one speaks up. "All right. Any new questions, you know where to find me. Door's always open. You guys are dismissed." Kup will stay behind in order to clean the training room back up, but now, the meeting is over.
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