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Post by Ramulus on Mar 25, 2011 4:54:40 GMT -5
Once the pod begins cranking out a very very familiar sound, Ramulus cautiously reaches out to Perceptor, blades swishing out on the hand he's not reaching with. -Snikt!-
"Perc, you might wanna get ba-... Woah!" It's the speed of the lunge that makes reflexes want to respond to Sea Spinner's attack, but Ramulus keeps them down firmly. "Fuzor" He states. No, not surprised.
Blades remain out, but the Maximal lowers the arm, indicating that unless the new arrival gives him a reason he won't be using it. The other reason that he's not jumping to aggressive posture is because he's wondering if she's another one saved by Razorbeast. He smiles hopefully at the thought!
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Post by Rattrap on Mar 25, 2011 9:54:26 GMT -5
"Funny," Rattrap drawls in his most scathingly sarcastic tone – one that this Rattrap has never used on the irascible raptor, but one that Dinobot may have heard in his time, "how you got this weird way o' hearin' things, Dinobutt, 'cause the words 'open the pod' never left my vocal processor. You might wanna get Perceptor to look at your audio circuits while he's here. Must be some Pred code still blockin' things up."
Then the pod cracks open and ruins the mood. Rattrap's reaction to the sight of the… thing that emerges from the stasis pod is something that can only be described as a full-blown and very clear "WTF" look. This only gets worse when it – she? Sounds female enough to his audio circuits – promptly goes into a fit and apologises.
She has got to be the weirdest-looking thing yet, and that's saying quite a lot.
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 25, 2011 21:44:56 GMT -5
To say that Perceptor is startled when the fuzor erupts from her pod would be just a bit of an understatement. One moment, he is staring down at the damaged controls, waiting to see if his attempt at repairs has any positive effect whatsoever, and the next, there is something with way too many legs and way too many teeth all but launching free of the pod.
And while he is relieved on one hand to see the entity emerging intact, that.... is a lot of teeth. He trips over his own feet as he tries to back-peddle out of the way. The floor... is not very soft.
But her tone is quite suddenly very politely contrite. Perceptor blinks up at their new arrival with a look of surprise as he stammers, "Ahh... Understandable..."
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Post by Seaspinner/Susannah Webber on Mar 25, 2011 22:40:51 GMT -5
"Oh my," Seaspinner says, rearing back slightly on her back three pairs of legs and touching one of her front legs to her 'chest'. Strange men are brandishing weapons at her! Somehow, despite her sharky features, she manages to look slightly affronted, and her tone is chastising when she replies to Dinobot. "You could ask nicely you know." Her black gaze fixes on the fallen Perceptor for a moment. "Goodness me, you're a large one. I would offer you a hand, but I don't seem to have any at the moment, really. Is that odd? Perhaps I can... yes, I think I recall... Seaspinner, maximize!" The spider-shark rears and splits apart, reforming into a robot* who probably doesn't look much less unsettling than her beast mode. She frowns down at her largely untransformed lower half, which gives her a vaguely centaurish look - not that she knows any human mythology. Smoothing her hands down her sides, she wonders out loud, "Is that quite right...?" Oh well, manners first! Looking back to the strangers surrounding her, Seaspinner's face splits into an exceedingly wide and toothy grin, and she clasps her clawed hand in front of her chest. "Yes, well, it is a pleasure to meet you all," Though she gives Dinobot a bit of a side-long look. "I am Seaspinner." "Would you like a hand?" she offers to Perceptor. OOC: *art by Wingus!
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Post by Dinobot on Mar 26, 2011 15:45:55 GMT -5
"My auditory pathways work fine, vermin. You might want to check yours, there may be some stray garbage lodged in your sensors from your last meal. Do you mean to tell me that assuming the stasis pod contained a Maximal, you weren't going to open it?" Dinobot snarls back at Rattrap, assuming the long-suffering tone he usually uses for these conversations.
The raptor lowers his sword as Seaspinner transforms, but keeps it at the ready. It's unlikely someone fresh out of a pod would be lying about their allegiance, but stranger things have happened. Dinobot might still get to commit violence on someone today. "Hn. Greetings."
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Post by Ramulus on Mar 26, 2011 19:27:40 GMT -5
Ramulus ignores the bickering back and forth between rat and raptor.
"Seaspinner" he acknowledges, relaxing now that she used the Maximal transformation code. Not that it says a lot, but still. "My name's Ramulus" Blades switch back into their protective covers.
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Post by Rattrap on Mar 27, 2011 12:14:16 GMT -5
"Me? I wasn't gonna open it," Rattrap says dismissively, because if Dinobot didn't have a dinky reptilian processor, clearly he'd have gotten this already. "Don't hafta with you standin' there." He keeps his blaster ready even after Seaspinner makes her introductions because as Rattrap knows all too well, transformation codes are easily altered.
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Post by Perceptor on Mar 27, 2011 21:12:33 GMT -5
Between the snarking dino and rat, and the looming ibex, and the utter incongruousness of the... um.... the, uh.... ah.... the.... of Seaspinner and her diction, Perceptor is still mostly speechless. Silverbolt did not prepare him for.... uh... this.
"Ah... greetings, Seaspinner," he manages after just staring for longer than would be considered polite as he tries to gather his scattered thoughts. "Ah, yes, thank you." He reaches up to accept her help up from the floor, taking the moment of closeness to examine her structure, before stepping back a bit with a bit of an embarrassed cough.
"My apologies. I must admit that I have never observed a Maximal with quite your, ah, form, before."
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Post by Seaspinner/Susannah Webber on Mar 28, 2011 12:28:59 GMT -5
"My word," Seaspinner says at Dinobot and Rattrap's sniping. How very uncouth! Well, at least some people here have some manners, and she cheerfully helps up Perceptor as best she can given that he's rather taller than she is.
"Salutations Ramulus! Pleased to meet you. And you are very welcome, mister...?" She tries to give Perceptor a curious smile, but it probably comes out looking more predatory than anything despite her intentions. Her smile drops a little at Perceptor's comment, giving way to slight confusion. Looking herself over she asks, "Really? Do I look strange? I'm not sure I know..."
She touches a hand to her forehead. "Dear me, I'm afraid I'm a bit out of sorts. Things are all a bit jumbly. Am I supposed to be here?"
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Post by Dinobot on Mar 28, 2011 21:55:16 GMT -5
This is usually the point at which Dinobot's little conversations with Rattrap degenerate into shouting. Rattrap knows darn well he was going to open, or cause to be opened, the stasis pod. Smug little such-and-such. Dinobot snarls and tightens his grip on his sword, bowing to Seaspinner (though not so low that he can't skewer her if she flips out.)
"Forgive my ill manners. I am Dinobot. The odor you are detecting is Rattrap," he says, motioning at the saboteur. "You do look somewhat strange. You are a fuzor, incorporating two animal species into a single beast mode. It is an unusual occurrence, but not unheard of." She looks a lot weirder than Silverbolt or Quickstrike, though.
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Post by Ramulus on Mar 29, 2011 19:20:48 GMT -5
Ramulus doesn't really need to say anything in the case of explanations, they've got it down.
To their resident scientist, he mentions carefully; "You'd might be able to check the stasis pod's scanner logs to confirm that she's not in danger of funny surprises... besides having a fuzed beastmode?"
//And perhaps certain traces of viral codes having been received should her pod be one from the Magmatron timeshift.// C'mon, you don't really think Ramulus trusts an unconfirmed stasis pod entree, do you?
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Post by Rattrap on Mar 30, 2011 19:27:55 GMT -5
Dinobot introduces him and Rattrap just gives Seaspinner a jaunty little wave without making any effort toward moving himself from his chair. For once, he can't really argue with Dinobot's assessment of him – and that is even freakier than the spider-thing. He makes a note to himself to check later for other signs of the apocalypse.
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Post by Perceptor on Apr 6, 2011 14:05:22 GMT -5
"Oh!" Perceptor exclaims, shaking his head. "How rude of me. Perceptor. My name is Perceptor. Pleased to meet you."
"As Dinobot explained, not common, but not unheard of," he adds, realizing in retrospect that his comments could be taken to indicate some sort of displeasure with her appearance. "Please forgive me, but I am a scientist, and all uncommon phenomena intrigue me," he offers with a gallant smile.
// Ah. Yes. Thank you, Ramulus. I shall do so immediately. //
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Post by Seaspinner/Susannah Webber on Apr 9, 2011 18:36:51 GMT -5
Seaspinner sniffs slightly at Dinobot's mention of odors. She had noticed someone smelling rather riper than the others, but it didn't seem polite to mention it.
"Dinobot, Rattrap, Perceptor, and Ramulus!" She repeats, ensuring she commits their names to memory. She'd be positively mortified is she got caught forgetting someone's name! "How delightful!"
Fuzor, hm? "Well, I suppose two beast modes are better than one!" Ramulus's comment about funny surprises goes entirely over her head, especially with Perceptor being so charming, if in a bit of an awkward, science-y fashion. Rather endearing, really. She gives a husky chuckle. "Intriguing, hm. I'm flattered."
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Post by Dinobot on Apr 11, 2011 18:11:06 GMT -5
Is Seaspinner flirting with Perceptor? Eh, whatever. Dinobot doesn't really care. He just nods when the fuzor recites everyone's names correctly.
If he was a more frivolous mechanism, he might call Not It in regards to having to explain the current situation to Seaspinner. As it is, Dinobot just keeps silent, fading into the background and letting others do the speaking for the moment.
OOC: Skippable unless addressed.
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