Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 11, 2010 19:58:37 GMT -5
Rampage would probably just regenerate away a mechanoma. Of course, making sure no-one finds that out is why Tarantulas is here in the first place.
"Good to know," he replies to Hook in as subservient a tone as he can manage, hurrying down the hall and dreading that at any moment the Constructicon will call him back and the jig will be up.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Dec 11, 2010 20:49:49 GMT -5
Hook has to walk past the scanner in order to go grab some Space Caulk out of one of the cabinets. Walking back past the scanner, on the second go, he notices an angry blinking light on the scanner, and he narrows his optical band. Voice oddly light and quiet, but pitched to carry, he calls, "Hold up a moment, Tarantulas."
The Transformers will return after this commercial break!
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Post by Rampage/Xavier Goodkind on Dec 14, 2010 14:06:25 GMT -5
We now return to The Transformers!
Rampage freezes and swings around to glare at Tarantulas, one of his hands twitching in preparation of pulling his cannon out of subspace. Did the spider botch things up? Did he do it on purpose? He swears that if he ends up on a dissection table with cold implements being prodded into his spark, no force in the universe will keep him from breaking free and ending Tarantulas in the most horrible and painful way possible.
He may be a bit tightly wound from his visit to the medbay.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 15, 2010 13:48:30 GMT -5
Tarantulas freezes in his tracks, spark going cold, but quickly recovers, turning casually around. "Yes, Hook? What is it?" It could be nothing, after all. And if it isn't, he's pretty sure he can outrun both Hook and Rampage.
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Dec 15, 2010 15:24:17 GMT -5
Hook frowns rather severely and berates, "You didn't do the warm-up sequence. That medical examination you did is completely garbage data! And you may have damaged the scanner in the process. You're going to have completely re-do Rampage's examination. After that security interview, I suppose." Hook sniffs, clearly not thinking the security interview is as important as the medical exam.
He looks over at Rampage and adds, "I don't usually tolerate this level of sloppiness, you must understand. Don't judge the quality of medical care here by Tarantulas."
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Post by Rampage/Xavier Goodkind on Dec 16, 2010 15:16:13 GMT -5
Wait, didn't do the warm-up-?
One of Rampage's brows immediately shoots way, way up and he gives Tarantulas a look most accurately summed up as 'What.' Then he reassures Hook that, "Don't worry, I won't hold Tarantulas's terrible medical skills against the rest of the medical staff." He'll hold the fact that they're medical staff against them instead.
His brief anger with Tarantulas has evaporated. As much as he hates the idea of having to return to the medical bay so soon, given the timing of Hook's arrival he can't exactly begrudge the spider for skipping the warm-up step.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 16, 2010 23:02:35 GMT -5
Tarantulas shoots a look of relief back at Rampage. It appears both their metallic hides will remain intact for the time being.
"I'm not a medic anyway, I'm a scientist. That's the exact opposite of a medic," the spider mutters under his breath. Medics fix people and scientists find new and more exciting ways to break them, is his feeling. "I'll redo the exam after his interview, yes," he says out loud.
"Half those start-up procedures are junk and he knows it," Tarantulas asides to Rampage. "I didn't subject you or the machine to anything that wasn't well withing safety margins. Hook just has an industrial girder up his exhaust port."
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Dec 21, 2010 18:53:24 GMT -5
Those start-up procedures are all completely necessary. If the positron pumps aren't properly primed, they whole thing could explode! And then crush the scannee inside.
However, Hook does not have super-hearing. He's not Nightbeat. So he does not hear the spider-snark.
He did hear the first part, though, and he sniffs, "I'm not a medic, either. I'm a surgical engineer. You don't need to be a medic to know how to do a simple warm-up sequence. Luckily, Rampage seems to be a forgiving soul."
So very much not.
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Post by Rampage/Xavier Goodkind on Dec 24, 2010 13:28:40 GMT -5
OOC: Dah! Forgot I was up here, terribly sorry.
Medics and scientists are close enough, as far as Rampage is concerned, and he dislikes the lot of them. He can't help but chuckle, however, both at Tarantulas's commentary and the idea that he might be a forgiving soul. But as relieved and pleased as he might be over not having been found out, he does still have a security interview to get to.
He'll have to be careful with that.
"Come, Tarantulas, let's see if you make as incompetent a guide as you do a medic." A moment of shared relief doesn't stop him from being irritated about the blackmail. Prepare to be insulted whenever the opportunity arises, spider.
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 24, 2010 22:51:00 GMT -5
Positron pumps can explode whether they're primed or not. Any idiot with basic particle physics programming knows that. It's the inherent danger of positron pumps! It's why the spider prefers neutrino pumps.
Being around Rampage is going to be a barrel of laughs, Tarantulas can already tell. "Yes, yes. It's this way."
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Post by Dr. James Hook on Dec 25, 2010 14:23:21 GMT -5
Neutrinos pass through most ordinary matter and ignore electromagnetic forces. They keep escaping the pump. Hook doesn't wave as the two Predacons leave. He is wrapped up in measuring girders. After all, measure twice, cut once. He does, however, suggests, "Tarantulas, install a more efficient path-mapping algorithm, or you'll waste Rampage's time." OOC: Presumably out of thread due to the main characters leaving the room!
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Post by Rampage/Xavier Goodkind on Dec 27, 2010 0:35:18 GMT -5
"Yes, Tarantulas, you'll waste my time," Rampage says, sounding terribly amused.
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 27, 2010 12:57:09 GMT -5
You just have to build the pumps out of electromatter, matter's badaft grandma. Then they work fine. It's a bigger initial investment, but neutrino pumps are still better overall than positron pumps. Hook would know this if he wasn't an archaic outdated mechanism.
Tarantulas whirls around and almost snaps at Hook that he should upgrade to a smaller body so as not to waste energon, as long as we're on the subject of wasting things, but he stops himself in time.
"I'll be sure and do that," he says, murder lurking behind his tone. "Come along, Rampage!"
OOC: Stick a fork in it?
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