Event Log: Is It a Wonderful Life?

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for Is It A Wonderful Life? event
Where: All over the city
When: Jan 4th-8th
Warnings: None

Throughout the next few days, you may find yourself plagued by visions and dreams of back home. The dreams will be lifelike and difficult to tell apart from reality, as the world will be constructed from what you remember of your world. However, unlike usual dreams, you won't be present, and will find yourself unable to be seen or heard by those around you.

The dreams are vivid reminders of what might happen in a world without you: a world in which you disappeared when coming to Hadriel, a world which desperately needs you back for some reason or another. You may see your parents putting up missing posters, your significant other moving onto their next relationship, or even your hated villain finally taking over the world without you there to stop them.

When the vision leaves, you're back here and nothing about the city has changed. Though maybe you have a different outlook on it now...

► This log covers January 4th-Januray 8th.
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► If you try a weird solution to make it back home, please let us know here.

Comments

[itsnotaonesie]

[Hey man, it's all good. Peter can get behind a little scientific curiosity. Just don't go too mad scientist on him, or he'll peel one of your doors off.

ANYWHO, Peter scoots back to let Knock Out see all this junk]

Nah, I don't need anything like that. Most of these were part of a built in heater, but now they just kinda sit there. The suit used to have an AI loaded into it that handled the heater and a bunch of other stuff, but that just wasn't in the suit anymore after I got here, soooo. Yeah, they don't do anything right now. I was trying to rig the thing so that I could just activate stuff manually, but then I went and got the suit chewed up, so now I gotta fix it, and yeah.

[redcosmedic]

[ dryly: ] This place doesn't seem over-friendly toward technical things in general.

Where did you get such a suit, anyway?

[itsnotaonesie]

Yeah, I've noticed. Like, it's annoying enough for us, but it's gotta be a real pain in the butt for you metal dudes.

Um, anyway. I got this from a... co...worker? Mentor? A friend. He's kind of an inventor who has a ton of money, so he's always just like, makin' junk. Usually high tech armor suits and stuff.

[redcosmedic]

What an interesting hobby that is.

[ It's said lightly, but Knock Out's intrigued. Even the damaged bits inside the suit that he can see are far more sophisticated than what he normally associates with humans. ]

How were you planning on fixing it?

[itsnotaonesie]

[It's more sophisticated than anything Peter's ever fixed before too, and therein lies the problem.]

That, I'm not quite sure of yet. We don't exactly have a lot going on by way of resources, and the old Null scraps have been more or less picked clean of circuitry and wiring. I might be able to find something if I do a little more digging, but even if I do find what I'd need, like, this is a lot more complicated than anything else I've ever rebuilt. I'm sure I can figure it out, but it might take a while.

[He's going to wing it, in other words]

[redcosmedic]

Yes, I've been meaning to get a look at those myself.

[ Hearing that their main enemy in this place were inorganics as well... that's an interesting twist to things. ]

What you need is a prototype to experiment on.

[itsnotaonesie]

There's a load of them just like, over there. Knock yourself out-- or... you know what I mean.

[Dude killer robots are so mainstream, Knock Out obviously hasn't been watching the right movies.]

If I can find the resources to make a good prototype, I'll totally do it.

[redcosmedic]

[ To be fair, Knock Out's been largely limited to the kind of movie that's been shown in drive-ins, which isn't the widest variety. On the flip side, he's now a big fan of Indiana Jones and James Bond.

Oho, this should be good. Knock Out moves over to examine the pile of scrapped Null bits. ]

Let's see what was making you tick...

[itsnotaonesie]

[GOOD TASTE, DOC KNOCK. God if only there was Netflix here.

Peter follows him over and just. hops up onto the wall. Y'know, like a normal human being. He's turned around in a super casual crouching position and is just watching Knock Out do stuff.]

I wasn't here when they attacked, so I haven't had a chance to see any of these guys in action. I'm not sure exactly what powers them, but people keep saying that they have some kind of central core sort of deal going on. Those aren't going to be in that pile, though, that might be something to ask Newt or Alphys about. Also it sounds like their AIs are all networked together, but again, I wasn't here, so I haven't had any way to confirm that.

[Don't mind him, he's just talking nerdy nerd shit]

[redcosmedic]

[ Knock Out pauses in what he's doing to regard Peter for a moment. ]

You're very strange when you do that-- sticking to things.

Alphys, yes. That's the name I was told to contact regarding lab things. Newt is a new name, are they also in charge?

[ Knock Out selects the most complete piece of carapace and hauls it easily up onto the nearest empty table. One of his servos transforms into a drill, spinning up with a whine. ]

Still, this will make a decent start. All autopsies begin somewhere.

[itsnotaonesie]

That's not the only time I'm strange.

[EYYYYYYYYY i mean he knows he's weird, he just owns it these days.]

I don't know that Newt's in charge, but he is the guy that collects all the creepy monster parts and stuff. If you're ever in here around when the new arrivals start showing up in the colosseum, he'll be in here dissecting something.

[DUDE IS THAT A DRILL THAT'S AWESOME except that it's also like yikes bro. That drill is a little much.]

Aren't autopsies a little more like... Y'know, delicate?

[redcosmedic]

Well, I'm not about to argue that point.

[ A fellow dissection aficionado - now Knock Out definitely has to meet him. ]

Delicacy has its place.

[ It's not a complicated piece of Null carcass, but he's got it stripped down to whatever individual parts were present in mere minutes. His drill transforms back into a servo as he picks one of the pieces up and looks it over with a critical, studious expression. ]

[itsnotaonesie]

[I mean if robro is a doctor theeeen Peter's hoping that means he's less... drill handsy in the clinic.]

I mean, some people would say that a laboratory would be a pretty good place for delicacy.

[redcosmedic]

[ He'll try to remember, Peter, but there's ever so many things a doctor keeps track of. ]

These things aren't getting any deader. Besides, these are our enemies, are they not? Or what's left of them.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Don't drill me bro!!!]

I mean, come on, a little respect for the dead probably wouldn't hurt? I mean, I guess they were alive? I don't know, man. I know so many robot people these days that I'm like, where is the line between "alive" and "machine" anymore? I pretty much just assume that everyone is like, living, but then these are the guys who are trying to murder us. Is it weird that we're using them for parts?

Oh man, I think I just creeped myself out.

[Don't mind him, he's just overthinking literally everything he's ever known.]

[redcosmedic]

I respect that they're dead, isn't that enough?

[ Because honestly? He's been known to dismantle mechs before they've fully reached that stage before. ]

Why would it be weird? That's essentially my job description -- fix the living so they stay that way. If that requires parts from less fortunate mechs, so be it.

[ Which it almost always does, given how Team Prime goes through the Vehicons like... well, like cannon fodder. ]

[itsnotaonesie]

[I mean I guess that counts as progress]

Well, I guess that's not really much different from organ donors, only instead of organs it's... I dunno, motherboards.

[That is a lot of dead robots. The Autobots sure did do a whole lot of murdering]

[redcosmedic]

[ cheerfully: ]

Close enough. Don't tell me you're morally squeamish, you've been doing so well at being interesting up until now.

[itsnotaonesie]

[Doc bro you are kind of a weirdo ok]

There's nothing squeamish about my morals, dude. They're rock solid.

[redcosmedic]

[ He gets that sentiment a lot. Peter as no idea. Knock Out just chuckles at the reply and shows Peter a burnt out piece of the remains. ]

Just checking. Does this look like what's left of a power cell to you?

[itsnotaonesie]

[Peter kind of rolls his eyes, but hey, whatev. He leans in for a closer look at this roasted up robot chunk.]

Something like that, like some kinda battery if I had to guess? Probably wouldn't be able to get any juice out of it in that condition, though.

[redcosmedic]

[ Knock Out shakes his head. ]

Interesting, but I'm much more curious in what would happen if we can find a complete enough one to put power into it.

[itsnotaonesie]

Okay, okay, I dig where this is going. What would you do with something like that, though?

[redcosmedic]

I want to see what it does.

[ That's reason enough for him. ]

[itsnotaonesie]

[Yeaaa that's about where Peter is with all of this, too. He just shrugs.]

You know what, fair enough.