Fracture
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Post by Fracture on Dec 18, 2011 14:25:59 GMT -5
Earth, Month 2, Week 3, Day 1, semi-private, on the other side of Titan
The temple is located in blue stone mountains above the treeline. It's an imposing structure, or at least it would be if it was anyone other than Fracture and Bonecrusher looking at it.
It looks like it's been hewn out of the same blue rock as the mountains around it, then overlaid with some sort of glaze that makes it a blue-purple.
Fracture stands back and looks up at it, hands on her hips. "Nice temple."
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Dec 19, 2011 18:29:46 GMT -5
Glaring up at the building from Fracture's side, and predictably grumbles, "I hate it."
Oh how he hopes that he gets to tear it apart, rock by rock, and use each piece of stone to grind one of the locals into a mushy pulp. Turning his baleful glare on their guides, he motions for them to keep moving.
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Blast Off
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Post by Blast Off on Dec 20, 2011 21:54:41 GMT -5
Jero glares at the scribe and hisses lowly at him to get, 'get the orb ready'. The scribe runs ahead, off into a secret corridor in the back of the temple. He places a glowing yellow orb down into the head of the statue, to light up its own baleful cycloptic eye.
Jero cringingly flourishes out an arm to show off the temple to Fracture and Bonecrusher, and he says nervously, "Behold, the temple of Chugway!"
The statue, complete with single yellow glowing eye, has headfins, is very busty, and has a rod-thing instead of a hand. There are offerings of various fruits and vegetables on a carpet below the step plinth on which the titanic statue stands.
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Fracture
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Post by Fracture on Dec 20, 2011 22:07:15 GMT -5
"'Course you do, Bonecrusher."
Hey, she doesn't have to duck to enter the temple! Convenient. She likes these guys even better.
Then the talky purple squish gestures towards the temple's idol. "Behold, the temple of Chugway!"
Fracture beholds.
There is a long, long pause.
"So you guys wear purple and only have one eye. In honor of- Chugway." She makes a face at the name. It may be hard to tell. "Nice statue. Looks like him."
She taps her foot. Habit, only. Nothing happens this time. "You want to tell me about this."
It's not a question.
//Sir. You're going to want to see this.//
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Dec 21, 2011 22:12:14 GMT -5
Bonecrusher stares up at the statue of none other than one of the top Decepticons on his Hate List and growls compulsively.
Then Jero speaks. About 'Chugway'.
A deep rumbling noise begins deep in his chest, slowly rising in volume into a stone-rattling thrum. It might take awhile to realize that he's laughing.
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Slugslinger
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Post by Slugslinger on Dec 24, 2011 21:35:35 GMT -5
The word is that Slugslinger needs to see whatever's in the stupid squishies' temple, so it had better be worth it. So goes his line of thinking as he strolls along, looking around as he goes, taking in the terrain. Temple's up high; good vantage point, defensible built into the mountainside the way it is. What, he wonders, is so important about the place that they'd build it like a fort? Maybe it's to guard the source of the energy the Decepticons came here to find.
Reminded of the gadget in his hand, Slugslinger glances at its screen just before making his entrance. Maybe!
He barges on in, then stops cold, brazen comment dying as a brief squawk in his vocal processor when he takes in the statue. He stares for a couple of seconds, mind racing. There is no way this is possible. Is there?
"You've gotta be kidding me," he says at length. He'd have preferred a witty quip, but he isn't supposed to be terribly witty. Opportunity lost. Damn.
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Blast Off
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Post by Blast Off on Dec 27, 2011 22:25:04 GMT -5
"One eye sees truth. Two eyes see lies," Jero says, and he might be quoting something.
The one sky god (goddess?) seems to know of Chugway. The other is... laughing.
At least Jero's not dead yet?
He explains, "Long, long ago, we lived in darkness, thoughtless like animals. Wreathed in fire, the first sky god arrived from the heavens, and he brought with him light and order and reason and logic and civilisation. Chugway walled us here, surrounded by electric lava, to keep us from sin, and he planted crystal seeds in the ground and forbade us to touch them, for they belong to the gods alone."
This is myth. Some or all of it may be untrue. However, it's a great excuse to oppress the peasants.
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Fracture
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Post by Fracture on Dec 28, 2011 0:02:21 GMT -5
"If you can't see lies, how do you know they're there?" Fracture asks. Someone has forgotten to use her brain-to-mouth filter.
Bonecrusher's laughing, the officer has shown up, the squishes are... doing whatever it is squishes do.
She crosses her arms, still staring up at the statue. Welp. This is going to be an interesting report back on ship. "Guess he didn't say anything useful like where he was going when he left you guys."
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Dec 28, 2011 18:30:07 GMT -5
Bonecrusher's laughter trails off and as he turns slightly to eye Slugslinger, the only thing he has to say is, "Chugway."
He says it like it's the greatest joke he's ever heard. Apparently he finds people he dislikes being called silly names hilarious under the right circumstances.
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Fleetwind
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Post by Fleetwind on Dec 30, 2011 21:44:30 GMT -5
Fleetwind arrives outside the temple flying in robot mode and carrying Blast Off in his arms. It took him a bit of time to get here, as he wasn't exactly given directions, but he's a competent scout and large robots tend to leave traces. He sets Blast Off down and looks around curiously. Then he tiptaps quietly into the temple and peeks in. Upon seeing the statue, his optics open wide and brighten when he sees the statue.
"Ah. That's... hmm. So has anyone asked how old the, erm, statue is yet?" Because it looks rather old.
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Blast Off
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Post by Blast Off on Dec 30, 2011 22:15:15 GMT -5
It is somewhat noteworthy that these are astrologer priests, and while Jero may be corrupt and self-serving, they're still pretty good at the whole star charts deal. He stares at her as she asks him how he knows lies are then and stalks off to fetch his charts. He unrolls one set of charts, which are not so much 'charts' as they are knotted ropes, and explains, "Chugway left us to spread His Word to other lands, and He went this way, marked by the numbers that move the stars."
He points with one long, scraggly nail at a fairly decent star chart, which has apparently been recalculated year after year after year... which means that... 'Chugway' left for Earth?
Blast Off, who arrives in Fleetwind's arms, just repeats, "Chugway?"
What.
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Fracture
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Post by Fracture on Jan 1, 2012 0:02:30 GMT -5
Fracture squints at the knotted thing. Okay, the squish says this is a star-chart. At least it's 3D; using ropes instead of paper is kind of useful that way. So, assuming the center is Titan, then---
It takes some long moments to hack out the calculations. Fracture's not that bright as far as Transformers go, but unlike any human scientist, she's got way more raw processing power. Also, she knows what she's supposed to be looking at.
"Earth?" she says. "He went to Earth? Okay, we knew that. But he told you guys that? When?"
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Post by Bonecrusher/Bane Crusher on Jan 4, 2012 20:58:06 GMT -5
Bonecrusher can't help it. As soon as Blast Off shows up and boggles at 'Chugway' he's off into another fit of deep rumbling laughter. This is the most he's laughed in... well, longer than he's been here, that's for certain.
He also doesn't really care at all about what's going on other than Shockwave's ridiculous nickname among these people. Really, it's not like you bring Bonecrusher along to talk nice with the natives or solve mysteries. You bring Bonecrusher along if you think you might need to threaten or destroy something. Or maybe if you want to order him to do stupid things and then laugh at how much he hates you.
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Slugslinger
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Post by Slugslinger on Jan 5, 2012 10:37:13 GMT -5
Until now, Slugslinger had no idea Bonecrusher even knew what laughter was, let alone that he knew how to. The jet smirks with the left side of his face as if agreeing with Bonecrusher's amusement at Shockwave's new name – and he files it a way for later use – but his real attention isn't on Bonecrusher or Fleetwind and Blast Off. He's eyeing that star chart and the priests.
Unfortunately, everybody else is doing the talking for him. This leaves Slugslinger with little to do but eye the device he's holding, which is busy probably wishing it could scream at him to get his attention, since he turned off the sound alerts because they were annoying. The readout shows that the energy signature they seek is quite close. But since Slugslinger doesn't want to break up this fun discussion with his news, he keeps it to himself and strolls closer to the statue to get a better look at it. He doesn't poke it… just yet.
Chugway. It'll get him in so much trouble, assuming they find the cyclops. It'll be worth it.
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Fleetwind
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Post by Fleetwind on Jan 5, 2012 18:21:23 GMT -5
Fleetwind attempts to put Blast Off down. Whether or not Blast Off goes willingly is another matter. No one actually answered his question, but he didn't really expect it.
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