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Post by Raymond Stantz on Jan 7, 2012 21:42:04 GMT -5
//I wonder if she is telepathic,// Pincher ponders.
Hey. No one in this universe has heard of them. This seems like a backwater. Telepaths happen. It is a reasonable thing to ponder.
Pincher is socially oblivious enough that he isn't even sure what Drift did wrong, if anything.
He nods and replies, "I am from Cybertron. How do you know of it?"
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Jan 12, 2012 7:30:00 GMT -5
Chip takes a mental note of the gesture that Telaria makes. Alien behavior! This is not his field of expertise, but it is interesting none the less!
But he soon forgets about this when she mentions Cybertron. The wheel bound nerd glances to the assorted robots, and he shares their surprise. How does she possess knowledge of that? Even Guzzle is taken back, no longer slouching and standing up straight, hand subconsciously gripping the handle of the Judge a bit tighter.
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Post by Fleetwind on Jan 12, 2012 19:25:53 GMT -5
"Maybe news broadcasts from Earth?" Carly suggests, then frowns. "No, that doesn't make any sense," she mutters. "They didn't know about humans, and everything's digital now..." While it didn't happen all at once, switching to digital broadcasts eventually ended the age of humanity shouting all of their entertainment blindly to everyone in space who will listen - while its not exactly a secure encryption, translating things into and out of digital requires some sort of agreement on both ends as to format.
(It's probably a good thing that in many realities, Junkions finally encounter humans around 2005, and therefore in time to buy the digital converters that would soon be needed to prevent the end of civilization as they know it.)
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 12, 2012 22:22:54 GMT -5
Talaria shoots Carly an odd look. She knows some of those words, but some of them are so much gibberish.
She frowns at both Perceptor and Pincher, one fist coming to rest against the opposite hip. The perceptive might note that it's the side where she would keep a quiver, based on the hand she held her bow in. "I am not a simpleton, and while I am a person of ill deeds now, I was once respected. I know the star-charts the temple teaches. Jero himself taught me the pattern ostensibly used to find Chugway's home."
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 15, 2012 20:12:12 GMT -5
Operational Security? What's that? There's a mystery to solve here! Perceptor doesn't have time to worry about things like the aliens who have heard of their home not, perhaps, being good guys! Or the fact that she pronounced it differently! That's easily explained by dialect and bad voice acting!
So, in other words, yes, Perceptor is pretty much ignoring Drift's desire to shut his overly-large yap.
"Chugway? Who is Chugway? Could you show us these star-charts?"
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Post by Drift on Jan 15, 2012 20:43:28 GMT -5
Hey. Drift knows what apologies are. That's what losers do to show their submissive status.
And what Drift does when Perceptor tells him he fragged up.
Once again, everyone is missing the fragging point.
"Person of ill deeds. What kind." Hey, maybe he can relate. If not, maybe he can convince his team that Crazy Arrow Shooty Lady is a threat. They seem far too heavily balanced toward nerddom to have anything like a grasp on, you know, actual combat.
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Post by Ultra Magnus on Jan 17, 2012 22:41:58 GMT -5
Magnus leaves the questioning to the humans and keeps watch on Talaria. He tells himself he'll scoop Chip and Carly out of the way if trouble starts, but he can't quite stifle the urge to strike down Talaria should she go on the offensive.
OOC: Skippable until addressed.
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Post by Raymond Stantz on Jan 25, 2012 12:32:59 GMT -5
Pincher thinks that Drift has asked a very pertinent question. He mutters, "Chugway," rolling the word around in his mouth. If 'Seibertron' is 'Cybertron', 'Chugway' might be...
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Jan 25, 2012 13:30:12 GMT -5
Chip can't help but smile a little at Telaria's confusion at Carly's words. And it would seem that none of those words are insults to Telaria's religion! Then again apparently she is an atheist. If they bring up 'broadcast', 'digital', 'encryption' and 'format', they will have to do it with care."
Chip doesn't know the relevance of Chugway, but starmaps? "Oh! Yes! Could we? That would be splendid! If of course you can get us close without risking your own safety." Carly and him are protected by giant robots. That are seen as gods on this planet, apparently. He has a feeling that he doesn't have to worry for their safety, but a heretic?
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Post by Fleetwind on Jan 25, 2012 18:27:31 GMT -5
Carly would totally ask what sort of ill deeds that Taleria is a person of, but it seems like Drift has already asked that for her. She looks up at Drift, then over at Taleria, puzzled. "You seem all right to me. I mean, sure, you were firing arrows earlier, but we are strangers, and you were willing to talk after that..."
So there. Carly has decided that she's a nice person.
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 26, 2012 9:27:35 GMT -5
"I do not believe in sky-gods," Talaria says, lifting her chin defiantly. "I believe in reason and common sense."
Ideally, these should be virtues in the religion of Chugway.
"I will not stand idly by while the priests use their standing to enslave and rob my people! I will not let people die of starvation because they gave all of their harvest to the temple! And if the greatest store of food is the temple, so be it!"
Her antennae tremble with the force of her anger, then she almost visibly reins herself in. She spreads her hands. "So that you know: I am a heretic, a blasphemer, and a temple-robber."
She plans to add 'iconoclast' to the list before too much longer.
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Post by Perceptor on Jan 27, 2012 18:57:51 GMT -5
A "person of ill deeds" sounds an awful lot like a scientist to Perceptor. Or at least a skeptic.
"You do not believe in the divinity of these so-called 'sky-gods'?" Perceptor asks, quirking up a brow ridge. "Or you do not believe that these 'sky-gods' exist at all?" He motions to all of the assembled robots who, if they are not "gods", certainly fit the descriptions he recalls that his Talaria had shared of the "sky-gods".
"Do your priests not realize that if the people starve, they will have no harvests at all?" he adds, perplexed. He doesn't understand what would possess a leadership to oppress its people; it seems a counter-productive behavior to him.
Then he remembers Drift, and what little Drift had shared with him over the past months regarding his Cybertron and the oppression and injustice before the war had broken out there. He flicks a look toward the white swordmech, and shifts as if he wants to sidle closer, but doesn't want to crowd Drift. Especially now, when Drift is trying to be their bodyguard.
Meanwhile, he is still turning "Chugway" over in the back of his processor. Something teases at the edges of his thoughts as he examines the lingual shift...
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Post by Drift on Jan 27, 2012 19:19:37 GMT -5
"Hnh." Yeah, pretty much as Drift suspected. Those who 'have' run around slapping labels on those who 'have not'. "Sounds worse than where I came from: they make you turn over your own harvest?"
Good news, everyone! Drift no longer wants to stab Talaria into an alien-kabob. Nope, now his optics are narrowing, thinking of ways to destroy this temple without damaging food stores it has.
He snorts at all of them talking about these 'sky gods'. He turns to Perceptor. "They don't care what it does to the people, Perceptor. As long as they get what they think they deserve." Which is...everything.
Drift looks furious but not at anyone here. "You're not a blasphemer. They are. No 'gods' if they existed would want anyone to suffer."
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Post by Gertrude Huldon/Guzzle on Feb 2, 2012 20:47:03 GMT -5
Chip smiles brightly as Telaria declares what she believes in. "A very good stand point! Do you seek knowledge, too?" An alien, tribal scientist would rock his socks off!
Though he feels bad about being so damn chipper when a moment later she sets off on a tirade. He listens closely, though. And if he had any common sense whatsoever, he'd turn to the others, ask them to step aside, and ask whether it's really such a good idea to get involved in extra-terrestrial religious affairs.
"Perceptor and Drift are right. Your people are suffering for no reason."
Unfortunately, Chip's common sense was replaced at birth by one part intolerance against bullies of any kind...
"We will help you."
...And two parts courage.
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Skipping Pincher due to time out.
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Post by Raymond Stantz on Feb 4, 2012 21:23:58 GMT -5
Pincher can see that Talaria is angry, but being upset does not necessarily mean that she is in the right. It is entirely possible to imagine that farmers normally grant, oh, 10% of their crops to the temple in exchange for services such as education and medicine, but some farmers think that 10% is too much, because it means that they can't have dessert with every meal of the day like they enjoy doing. So they want the temple to get by with 0% of the crops but still provide the services of education and medicine, and Talaria is a member of this extremist party.
It would also be possible for both parties to be in the wrong. Perhaps the farmers want to give the temple 0% of the crops for services rendered, but the temple wants 100% of the crops instead.
It is certainly possible that things are as Talaria says they are.
Pincher just isn't going to believe it until presented with evidence. In fact, this is enough to prompt the shy engineer to speak, "Actually, can you prove your accusations? You must excuse me for not accepting the words of another on faith."
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