Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 12, 2011 20:48:37 GMT -5
Swoop frowns in concentration. This is a lot to take in! "Who all them people? Junkons and Hot Rod and Ultra Mongoose and Unicron?" Grimlock keeps adding new characters without introducing them properly, and it is baffling half his audience.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 12, 2011 21:11:35 GMT -5
"Yes, you Grimlock need dramatis personae!" Bambi agrees. It does not occur to her that Grimlock might not know what that is.
She also has no idea who all these people are.
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Grimlock
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Post by Grimlock on May 14, 2011 2:00:30 GMT -5
Grimlock stares at Swoop for a moment. "Him Hot Rod who Rodimus Prime used to be! Junkions robots made of junk. Them talk funny, but them tough. We got few around here. Him Ultra Magnus big blue robot with thingies," he says, miming his fingers on the sides of his head to look like Magnus' antennae. It is not very convincing.
Grimlock then gives Bambi a funny look. "Why me need drummy persons?"
(This is why Kup is the better storyteller than Grimlock. He tells the buildup stuff. Grimlock just skips to the good part because he is a dinobot and impatient.)
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 14, 2011 11:28:39 GMT -5
Swoop just looks over at Bambi confused when she starts throwing around Terms. He doesn't know what dramatis personae means either.
"Okay, but who him Unicorn, then?"
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 14, 2011 22:31:26 GMT -5
"It list of people," Bambi says, and one wonders why she didn't just say that in the first place. "Anyway, him Unicron turn into evil cannibal planet, and him not a god, not matter what them say."
Bambi will not have Swoop buy into naive theism if she can prevent it! She will train Swoop in skeptical freethinking or... probably give up on it as a lost cause.
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Post by Grimlock on May 18, 2011 23:17:37 GMT -5
Grimlock just stares at Bambi. "Why me Grimlock need list of people? Me remember who was there just fine!" And there goes the point, riiiiiiiiiiight over his head.
"What her Bambi say - him Unicron big planet robot that eat other planets. Me Grimlock kick him in butt with help from Rodimus."
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 19, 2011 21:37:33 GMT -5
Swoop gives both Grimlock and Bambi a look of polite incomprehension. He's still a bit hazy on the concept of planets, let alone Transformers that turn into planets. He has not seen The Video yet, so he has no real reference for Unicron. He mostly just takes their word for it. (If Bambi and Grimlock told him giant unsmashable ponies that shoot rainbow death rays from their eyes were coming to kill them, he'd probably start barricading the doors. If he can't take the other Dinobots' word for it, he can't trust anyone.)
"So him Unicron bad guy, then."
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on May 24, 2011 20:26:00 GMT -5
"Us not there!" Bambi protests to Grimlock.
Bambi could talk about moral relativism and the ethics of hunger, but... would Indiana Jones say Unicron is evil? Yes, Indiana Jones totally would. So Bambi says, "Yes, him Unicron pretty bad dude."
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Post by Grimlock on May 26, 2011 13:08:25 GMT -5
Grimlock would tear those barricades down to go fight the ponies alone. It's not unsmashable until he tries and fails to smash it himself!
For a long moment or two, Grimlock stares at Bambi. "Not me Grimlock's fault you not there! What me supposed to do about that? Me telling story, what more you want?"
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on May 28, 2011 11:04:17 GMT -5
Bambi could talk about moral relativism and the ethics of hunger, but Swoop would get confused and bored and start picking at the discolored spot on the floor he just noticed, so it's probably for the best that she doesn't.
The pteranodon tries to think of a good way to tell Grimlock that them not being there means they have no idea who all those people are, and it would make sense for Grimlock to explain who they are in the first place rather than Bambi and Swoop keep having to ask him, but that seems like a lot of effort, so he just makes a frowny face and a humphing noise.
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Jun 1, 2011 20:09:20 GMT -5
Bambi puts in the effort and explains, "Him Grimlock, us Dinobots not there. Us not know about other characters like you Grimlock know about other characters, so when you Grimlock mention other characters and no explain them, us have no idea what you Grimlock talking about."
She finishes with a flourish of a clawed hand.
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Post by Grimlock on Jun 5, 2011 8:29:35 GMT -5
Grimlock stares at Bambi for a minute, as if he's actually pondering this. "Me think you actually have point, me guess."
Another pause.
"...now me Grimlock forget where me left off in story."
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Post by Swoop on Jun 5, 2011 21:14:53 GMT -5
Swoop's face screws up in a look of intense concentration before he answers. "You Grimlock and them car robots were going to fight him Unicrorn."
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Post by Lynn Deanna Payne on Jun 6, 2011 20:28:00 GMT -5
Bambi looks smugly satisfied as Grimlock admits that she has a point. Hah, she wins! Then Bambi looks crestfallen when Grimlock forgets where he was in the story. However, Swoop comes to the rescue and reminds Grimlock. "Yes, that."
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Post by Grimlock on Jun 8, 2011 23:05:39 GMT -5
"Oh, right. So we all fly to Cybertron! Him Unicron transformed into biiiiig robot, standing on Cybertron and beat up everything. Me Grimlock lead Dinobots to go around and kick him Unicron in butt. It not go so well, though. Him almost grab us, so we go off and figure out different strategy."
Grimlock folds his arms. He's not happy with how stuff went that day in regards to the fight. Mostly because the Dinobots got screwed over in it. And the Devastator fight before, come to think of it.
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