EVENT ONE: JUNE 21ST-28TH

[luminals]

TAKE BACK KNOWHERE
When: June 21-28
Who: Everyone.
Where: All over Knowhere, ending in the Continuum Cortex and Observation Deck.

Event details are here, IC announcement is here.

Prose & Action brackets are both acceptable ways of posting to these comments, please be mindful of what threads you are posting under!

Comments

[sorrynotguilty]

What sort of fool do you take me to be?

[ not touching it for your amusement, little jet. ]

[aerospacecommander]

[Well ...]

If you're afraid, I'm sure we can just grab someone and toss them into it.

[He shrugs with a light smirk.]

[sorrynotguilty]

[ a slow, almost predatory grin starts to spread across his face plates. ]

Why, Starscream. Thank you for volunteering.

[aerospacecommander]

What? No! ... I need to be the one to do the scans. Clearly it can't be me.

[But he will just step back away from Megatron just in case.]

[sorrynotguilty]

Then do not suggest something so messy.

[ for every step away Starscream takes, Megatron will take two closer. ]

Unless you are some kind of expert, Starscream, anyone could take the necessary scans.

[aerospacecommander]

[Oh no. Still backing away. He is not going to let himself be thrown into the force field.]

Which one of us is the scientist? Certainly not you.

[sorrynotguilty]

And you are?

[ is he still being brainwashed by the Autobots, Starscream? is that a thing that is still running in that brain module of yours? ]

[aerospacecommander]

Of course I am. You should know this.

[Now he's starting to think 'brainwashed by Shockwave.' Because this is something shockwave would do.]

[sorrynotguilty]

The Starscream that I am intimately familiar with is far from the academic type. He preferred politics.

[ sneaky. underhanded. crafty. ah these are the things that he had so liked about Starscream. to start with, anyway. ]

[aerospacecommander]

Wait what? No, don't tell me. I think this is a thing I don't want to ever know about.

[Intimately? Oh god, he doesn't want to know at all. He's just going to go back to the force field because yeah.]

... So as I was saying we need readings from when something is touching it.

[sorrynotguilty]

[ well. not that sort of intimacy, but whatever. Megatron is more than okay with letting ANY Starscream squirm in his circuits. heh. ]

Only through touch?

[ because he could be pulling out a gun here. ]

[aerospacecommander]

[He still doesn't want to know.

And if Starscream had eyes to roll, he would be doing so right now. Instead he sighs and shrugs his shoulders.]

There is a possibility that if you shoot it, it could reflect the blast back at you. But if that's what you want to do ...

[He'll just move out of the way first.]

[sorrynotguilty]

Touching it is what bumped me into you, Starscream. I would rather not repeat that experience.

[ which is why shooting would be preferable...

or! hold on a minute. there is debris from these rock aliens just about everywhere. just give him a minute to find the biggest chunk. ]

Perhaps I have found a compromise.

[aerospacecommander]

... Are you going to throw a rock at it?

[This is what he assumes is going to happen anyway. Megatron always was more of a brute than actually wanting to go about things the scientific way.

Which is clearly why Starscream should be leader.]

[sorrynotguilty]

[ Megatron just scoffs. throwing a rock at it... barbaric. not happening. what he's doing is taking the boulder and setting it against the barrier. ]

Get your readings.

[aerospacecommander]

[ ... It's interesting to have Megatron actually doing the manual labor instead of just ordering other people to do it. But anyway.

Starscream approaches and does some visual scans and compares the readings from earlier.]

The energy draws towards the point of the thing that is touching it. So now if you ... theoretically ... touched it as well, it over-all might get weaker.

[sorrynotguilty]

I am not about to give you the satisfaction you crave, dear Starscream.

[ nah. he's just going to find another boulder. or something large enough that he can slide against another point in the field. ]

[aerospacecommander]

Oh, of course not. You wouldn't be you if you ever did what I wanted.

[Or other you. The whole alternate universe thing is just as strange as the Autobot Megatron thing ... though not quite as much. Close though. He watches Megatron like a supervisor who does not feel the need to be of much help.]

[sorrynotguilty]

Take your readings.

[ they are not here to discuss who wants what and who will get what. what needs to happen here is the deactivation of this force field. ]

[aerospacecommander]

Fine. I am.

[Megatrons are so demanding. Speaking of which, he moves to stand beside the former Decepticon leader as he does another scan.]

So now it's doing the same thing -- the energy is concentrating on both spots. I don't think it's enough though.

[sorrynotguilty]

Yet it is straining the force field.

[ so if they have multiple breeches at the same time... Megatron nods. ]

Can you estimate how many points of contact we will need?

[aerospacecommander]

Don't know. With this size and strength you might need quite a few. I'm not exactly a force field engineer.

[But again, this is strange because Megatron is actually listening to him. Perhaps he can use this for his advantage later. Even if this Megatron is a stupid Autobot.]

[sorrynotguilty]

Unfortunately, you may very well be the closest thing we have.

[ which is the truth. unlike the Megatron that Starscream may be used to, this one is of the mindset to try to get something done rather than sit around and just through snide comments around at each other. ]

We may need a third.

[aerospacecommander]

[This seriously has to be something along the lines of brainwashing. Which makes Starscream suspicious. So he gives Megatron another look before going back to the situation at hand.]

Or fourth. Or Fifth. Or even tenth at this rate.

[sorrynotguilty]

You have two weapons. I have one at my disposal.

[ what they need a more coordinated assault here. ]

I am beginning to regret sending Drift off to deal with the other group of aliens.