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Post by Barricade on Jan 1, 2010 4:24:04 GMT -5
"Terrible shame," Barricade agrees. "Wouldn't want anything like that."
Nice gap there in the fence where the chain link has been peeled up by one seam. Looks like a lower wall where it butts up against a darkened alley. Low enough for someone limber to just hop right over into the shadows. And look there, that gate's chain has so much slack. Why, an unscrupulous mech could slip right between the posts there if he'd had a mind to!
"Someone should see about making sure those pockets get filled."
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Post by Spinister on Jan 14, 2010 23:15:25 GMT -5
Spinister supposes he could just fly in. However, an area that can only be accessed by flying is an area that would seem much more likely to be used by him. So this site, which can be easily accessed by more or less anyone in this business... well, he could lame it on anyone.
Not that he intends for his actions to be so traceable, but still. Multiple levels of deniability are good.
Spinister chortles, "Working too hard for oversights like that."
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Post by Barricade on Jan 28, 2010 16:45:54 GMT -5
Barricade tilts a quirk of a thin smirk at Spinister and inclines his head in an agreeable manner, his gaze tracking a large vehicle whose bed is filled with what looks like refuse and the ordinary sort of debris stirred up and produced by such a large construction site. It slowly rumbles out through the access gate and turns down the street, a trail of packed mud and dust betraying it's customary route for a couple of blocks.
"Looks like some good, quality building materials," Barricade observes absently, letting his gaze wander back in a seemingly aimless manner across the stacks of metal girders and bales of bolts and rivets and such waiting in the storage yard of the site. "Nice enough to give a mech a warm swell of confidence, y'know?"
Emphasis on the warm. As in smelters. Yeah, he wants to know where the company that supplies all those materials are to check out their smelters for certain sure. "Looks like a lot of good, prosperous companies all working so industriously together. Good to see that sort of intelligent business acumen." Yeah, he did just use the word acumen, and worked into an oblique request to track down the foundries involved in supplying all this metal to have a look-see at their smelters. Go him!
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Post by Spinister on Feb 2, 2010 15:40:16 GMT -5
"'spose so," Spinister answers, shrugging, not one for many words. "Maybe la-" His head snaps around, tracking a moving vehicle.
Spinister has a weird sense of fun.
Today, his weird sense of fun involves loping along after one of those dump trucks, as it trundles off, laden with detritrus from the construction site, bound, doubtless, for a dump.
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Post by Barricade on May 5, 2010 19:45:43 GMT -5
Hmm... Spinister's got a good point, there; they've been given an excellent opportunity to find that dump. Lot's of good information to be found in a dump. Things like how big it is, how active it is, what kinds of trash gets dumped there.
How secure it is from someone looking to make an... after hours delivery.
Barricade jogs off after Spinister, and begins cursing the restrictivity of stupid clothing. They have got to find a decent tailor or something.
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Post by Spinister on May 6, 2010 13:10:04 GMT -5
Spinister might just kill to find a good tailor. He'll need a uniform, and he'd like one that he can actually move in, thanks.
He makes a leap for the back of the truck - never did get those anti-gravs, for some reason - and lands on the back bumper, clutching on of the hand-holds. He half-turns and holds out a hand to Barricade.
None of this is particularly safe or really a good idea, but Spinister's confident he could jump off in time to not be noticed if the driver ever comes back to check.
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Post by Barricade on May 11, 2010 12:17:46 GMT -5
How convfenient, since they're in the process of finding a few good places to dump bodies, then. They just may have to kill to find a good tailor. Barricade, however, isn't even really honestly hoping to find anyone who could tailor something to fit his kibble and transform. Maybe the blocky bots really do have something with their more straightforward transforms and structures.
Barricade never opted for the anti-gravs either. If he wants something to fly, he'll just scan something with a flying mode. Besides, he isn't sure he totally trusts anyone in his systems that much, anyway. As far as he's concerned, those are pretty much the same reasons Spinister's never gotten them, which is pretty much the embodiment of "sanity", really.
He puts on a quick burst of speed and makes the jump, catching Spinister's hand to balance himself as he finds a couple of hand and foot holds himself. Worse case scenario? He'll need a new coat and hat when he bails off and transforms to speed away. If it really comes to that.
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Post by Spinister on May 15, 2010 10:34:39 GMT -5
There are stranger things on Pz-Zazz than Barricade!
Some of them are even in their crew.
Spinister tries to grab onto Barricade and pull him in until Barricade can find holds of his own. Spinister's grip isn't particularly strong, on the weak side, if anything, but his hand is very, very steady. Go out and sit for a few days straight with his finger on a trigger?
Yeah, that's a party.
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Post by Barricade on May 20, 2010 16:36:46 GMT -5
Fortunately, Barricade isn't actually all that heavy. There's benefits of being one of the bladey, open armor type mechs. That steady hand is all Barricade needs to get himself settled upon the rear gate, toes and claws carefully clutched onto firm holds - but not so firm that he can't bail in a second, if necessary.
"Gonna share with the others?" Barricade asks Spinister. It would be helpful for some of the other 'Cons to have ready body dump sites, after all... but Barricade is possessive. Plus, he doesn't want a good site screwed up by someone's sloppy dump. He isn't exactly a cargo hauler, though, to take care of someone else's dump for them.
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Post by Spinister on May 21, 2010 9:32:55 GMT -5
Spinister laughs, which is a rather rattling, echoing noise. "Share? No." Decepticons try to avoid sharing like the plague! "Barter? Hnn. Maybe."
Well. He'll probably tell Needlenose, but that, too, is bartering of a sort. Making Needlenose's life less inconvenient makes Spinister's life less inconvenient.
Everyone else would need something a little less intangible on the table, though.
The truck isn't taking too many insane turns, just ambling along, though the Pz-Zazz streets are laid out in something of a mad fashion, so it isn't exactly taking a direct route, either, to wherever it is going. No one really gives the robots a second look - no one wants to look at a garbage truck.
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Post by Barricade on May 21, 2010 10:37:26 GMT -5
Barricade chuckles his deep, rumbling amusement, shooting the sniper a toothy grin. "Fair 'nuff. Just let me know which ones are compromised, eh?" Because honestly? Barricade really only trusts himself to be compentant enough not to screw everything up.
Okay, Spinister is slowly gaining some competancy credit, too.
"Got Frenzy in the systems looking for resources, too." Unspoken, that Barricade will share that with Spinister if the little hacker finds anything useful. Of course, there's no guarantee that the little spaz hasn't gone off and gotten himself distracted by something shiny and dangerous by now, either. That will bear checking into later, once they've finished their little field trip.
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Post by Spinister on May 21, 2010 14:39:33 GMT -5
"Will if you will," Spinister replies evenly. If Barricade wants to know which sites Spinister has 'compromised', Spinister'd like to know the same. Be nasty to try to dunk a body in concrete only to find the concrete occupied. Embarrassing, too.
Of course, Spinister needs to go find the morgue, too. Sometimes, hiding something in plain sight is the best option.
But Barricade has mentioned that Frenzy is on the ball? Interesting. Well, of course Frenzy would be, but it's a nice courtesy to have it directly mentioned, that or... Barricade thinks Spinister is dense enough to not realise that Frenzy would be off trying to get his claws into any system he can? Hrm.
Or maybe Frenzy has somehow acquired a house of ill repute and is now... wait. No. That's too plausible. Spinister's not going to think about that.
Spinister ducks down a bit, and he peers around the side of the truck, down below the view range of the mirrors. Near city limits, now, probably getting close to the landfill. He pulls back and straightens slightly.
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Post by Barricade on May 26, 2010 13:16:37 GMT -5
"'Course." Then again, Barricade trusts Spinister to dump a body right. Mech with a clue? Yeah, they can fit a couple, three bodies in a single spot. It's everyone else Barricade doesn't trust not to screw it up.
Of course Frenzy's out tinkering. Even if Barricade had ordered him not to, the spastic little hacker wouldn't be able to keep his probes to himself for very long, and, really? No good can come of a bored, antsy Frenzy for anyone. Barricade's just mentioning it out of courtesy.
"Got any special requests for the little glitch?"
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Post by Spinister on May 26, 2010 14:25:51 GMT -5
Spinister notes how Barricade refers to Frenzy, and he suspects that if anyone else referred to Frenzy in similarly endearing abusive terms, s/he'd find her or himself quickly throttled by 2.2 metric tons of angry police car.
He ponders the offer. He certainly doesn't want to be indebted to Barricade or Frenzy. Being indebted to anyone is a nuisance, but there's making a deal with a loan shark, and there's making a deal with Unicron, and Barricade and Frenzy are probably more on the rotund and orange side of the scale than the fishy side.
On the other hand...
"Mentions of Cybertronians."
And there's the dump! Heralded by a chorus of squawking seagull-like aliens. They ought to be jumping off soon.
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Post by Barricade on Jun 8, 2010 13:53:42 GMT -5
Perhaps not an immediate intervention of 2.2 metric tons of angry police car - that's tipping his hand too much, and one thing Barricade has learned over the years is that one should never let the enemy see where one partks their goat. Stealing other folks' goats is one of his specialties, after all.
But later, when one is least expecting it... Yeah, maybe then. Or maybe not. Depends on if the little glitch has pissed Barricade off recently or not. Or if Barricade is just looking for an excuse to beat the slag out of someone. It usually doesn't take much.
"Got it," he replies as he passes the notaing on to the "micro-spazz" - and gets a high-speed warble of cursing back for his troubles. "Anyone you don't want in the know?"
Because withholding info is just as important as sharing it, depending on the circumstances.
Oh look, flying pests. He glances toward Spinister with a nod and steps off that back rail, letting go of his handhold to tumble to a controlled stop.
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