hadriel_logs | Event Log: Is It a Wonderful Life?

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...

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And Knock Out will have another distraction to distract him from his own distractions. "Can you believe these visions?!" Is all Starscream mutters as he waves his arm with an angry flourish as he comes up to Knock Out. It's not exactly hard to find the other.

"As if anyone would forget me, as if things would not have progressed as they should have without my intervention." Good thing that Starscream's ego is so huge that he's not entirely phased by the visions, aside from being grumpy and annoyed of the sheer audacity of some of them.

"Have you had them too?"

Ah, the familiar sound of Starscream's grousing and grumbling. Knock Out hadn't even realized that he'd missed it until just now, showing up and wanting an audience for his frustrations.

"Yes. Yours sound similar to the ones I had," the medic replied easily, pausing obligingly in his weapons maintenance to give Starscream his attention. "Feeling a little shuffled off to the side, are we?"

Starscream just guffaws at that accusation and he'll point one lone finger at Knock Out in an accusatory way. "I'll have you know that without me we wouldn't have as much energon as we do." He'll cross his arms over his chestplate.

"Lord Megatron wouldn't have chosen me over that...that brute, Dreadwing either. You can't possibly think that any of these visions are true. It's all those...gods doing anyway."

Said with a flippant wave of his hand and a roll of his eyes. Honestly Knock Out don't get so bent out of shape.

That's true; energon production under Starscream's purview while Megatron was off the ship had been at an all time high, but he does feel the obligation to point out: "And which one of us did the majority of that energon scouting for you to order mined?" he said with a raised ridgeplate.

"Technically he did choose you over Dreadwing when he punched a cannon blast through Dreadwing's chassis," the medic pointed out. But it was sounding like Starscream hadn't had the same kind of visions after all, and now Knock Out was even more curious.

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Starscream waves him off, "yes, yes, of course. You were the one to do so. And you are one of the only ones to follow my orders as well." Which he would say he's appreciative of it but what is giving compliments and being thankful for things to Decepticons?!

"And that is precisely why these...visions or what not are completely unfounded." Aside from the ones he's seen where his lack of involvement led to a faster, easier, terraformed Earth. Or the one with a fully revived Cybertron, without him present of course to see it. He doesn't make mention of those, of course, because he's too full of himself to believe any of that to be true.

"You shouldn't let it...get to you. After all the gods of this planet tend to feed off our emotions for power. I wouldn't expect anything less from such treacherous beings. Using our deepest faults and thoughts for their own power. It's really no surprise why these null want to snuff out their sparks so badly."

Knock Out will take what acknowledgement he can get, and Starscream's not wrong: he did, for the most part, follow orders. It helped a lot when he and Breakdown had been given a general directive and then left to their own methods to accomplish it, they'd worked best that way.

"Who says I let it 'get to me'?" he countered. "Just answer me one thing: I am still listed as the Chief Medical Officer on the Nemesis, aren't I? That wasn't also given to Shockwave along with my projects?"

All right, he's a little sore-afted about that one bit.

Ugh Shockwave. Even for Starscream the other is a sore spot, so they can bemoan the other's existence together. "Your actions are rather telling, Knock Out." And he doesn't really question it, honestly, Starscream would be peeved too if his ego was so gigantic that he'd be affected.

"Of course. Shockwave might play mad scientist, but there is still only one medical officer that Lord Megatron trusted.

... Well, he supposed that much is true, but he's still going to offer a defense for his actions. "My energon prod has never been the same since Silas snapped it," he mutters resentfully. "I work on it from time to time, that's all."

The reassurance that his vision had gotten at least that much wrong, no matter how trivial, does make him feel better.

"Speaking of the Null... I'd like to get my servos on one to get a better idea of what we're dealing with. Apparently if you wake any of the ones offlined around the city, they all know of it. So it seems best to deal with one... elsewhere."

"Well that can be arranged, surely, the two of us could easily acquire one with minimal effort. It's blocking its process of alerting others that is the hard part." Yeah those pesky hiveminds.

"They are also able to...shapeshift dare I say like us in a way. Of course it's not the same, but I haven't come into contact with one to really assess whether or not they have a mechanism similar to our t-cogs in order to do so."

He waves a clawed hand before he puts them behind his back in thought. "The humans only have parts, but surely acquiring a whole specimen would be simple enough. I am curious to see for myself what exactly these...Null are."

"All the more reason for an autopsy," Knock Out agrees. But Starscream had brought up the same point that the medic was thinking about, how to isolate whatever Null's mechanism for communicating with others of its kind to prevent them all from waking. And part of the problem was, he wasn't sure exactly how much poking and prodding he could do on one without triggering its wake sequence.

"On the off-chance it's a distance thing, we'll need to be away from the city," he pointed out.

"Perhaps the energon prod will work on it. Stunning it or otherwise immobilizing it might prove to be effective." Though he has to wonder if energon will work on these things. But that's another experiment for them to try out.

"Yes, yes, of course. Not that the city needs protecting, given the sorry state of it." But he'll be nice and make sure no humans are harmed...maybe.

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