Session Start: Sun Sep 19 12:58:21 1999 * Admiral-Lilwall sits on the bridge bored * Waitstate looks over to him any news? Not since the last time you asked 2mins ago * Waitstate shrugs and unpauses his game * Snake-Eyes arrives at her store and enters the code to enter * Snake-Eyes enters and opens shop up for the day * Terrafirmafirma calls across the commons Good morning! Ok Strike, I promise, this is the last checkup * Snake-Eyes smiles and waves * Shadowstrike sighs. I certainly hope so. * Terrafirma steps back inside and resumes setting up her new display You're all done. After chatting with Waitstate, get some rest HA! I fragged ya Wait! * Shadowstrike nods to Restore and heads off to the bridge. * Snake-Eyes goes to the back room and starts the creation of new ornaments Bah, -you've- played this before. * Restore scans Diablo again, but finds no change. *sigh* I hope your friends, whoever they are, can actually help * Shadowstrike arrives at the bridge. * Restore goes to her office, leaving a few med drones to look after sickbay while she reviews scans Hey, how ya feeling? * Waitstate waves, then grabs his contoller again before Cirrus gets the drop on him again Definitely better.. good Good. Just so you know, Blacknife/Archlight is in the brig He's *here*? Ah, both of them * Shadowstrike growls Yep. Though he denies any involvment with your attack DENIES?! He's lying! Hey, I'm not doubting it. * Waitstate pauses the game again I heard him with my own audio sensors. And I saw recordings of just before it happened Hey! It was *he* who lured me outside in the first place. * Time_displaced_bot arrives in medbay through a chronal vortex * Phoenyx sits unusually quiet on Scamp's shoulder I am getting strange readings in medbay * Time_displaced_bot places a data disk next to where Diablo is and leaves just as quickly as he appeared through the vortex Maybe the bird has a virus A bot can only hope And just what's going to be done about Blacknife? * Junky_LaFord wanders through the bridge doing general maintainence. chronometrical particles are littered through out medbay Lightning, analysis? What? [com] Restore to bridge, we've just had a visitor As Restore stated. I see Sorry Cirrus. Looks like we'll need a rematch Do you think they will ever be a time when nothing actually happens to us? * Cirrus harumphs I think we have that "interesting times" curse I'm gonna go see what's going on bleh. [comm] Cuffs, meet me in Medbay * Restore checks on Diablo, and is glad to see nothing happened to him [com] on my way, sir * Stardrive enters medbay in the meantime... no one to jabber with. Lil, the bridge is yours *enters lift* that was quick... Well I'm bored chirp? you can always count on the medbay for action, ironically enough I was in my quarters... but I heard the comm... *under her breath* Maybe I ought to see to Blacknife... myself. Through my holo-spy. :) Let's go make the patients impatient * Scamp heads for med-bay looks like whoever stopped by entered on top of one of my drones. * Restore looks at the junked drone on the floor * Waitstate arrives We have a visitor? * Stardrive pulls out his verellian scanner. * Stardrive scans... Yep, appeared from no where, made a move for Diablo than vanished anyone we know? * Restore has the other med drones fix the junked med drone Chronometrical particles all over... no one I recognised * Shadowstrike scowls and leaves the bridge. check against the database * Scamp arrives at the medbay * Phoenyx squawks, announcing the arrival * A shuttle approaches the Freedom piloted by Cham We have an alert on long range sensors. A ship just came out of interphase Shuttle is approaching * Shadowstrike arrives at the brig and enters. it is one of our shuttles. [comm] would anyone care to open the shuttle bay doors? So, what's up here? There's always something happening in medbay Chameleon. Lightning... * Lightning opens the bay doors * Chameleon lands the shuttle * Recoil stands guard in the bay * Admiral-Lilwall to Chameleon, head straight for medbay. Somone paid a visit today. And tell whoever you've got with you to be polite and civil, no more carnage this week would be wonderful [comm] on our way oh the usual, someone invades the ship for 2 seconds then vanishes * Chameleon gets the others to follow him to medbay * Recoil follows, ever wary * Cuffs arrives in medbay * Blacknife lists in his cell Hey, the gang's all here Book'em cuffs heh What, Blacknife? No witty rejoinders today? * Blacknife looks ahead to see Strike none I aplogise for the delay. You're a coward. Wonder what Diablo's done now And you're not? You can't even face your own history I don't attack people from behind, no. Probably the usual That was Cobalt And *you*. I heard you. * Chameleon and the others arrive in medbay* Heard yes It's just too bad for you that I didn't die, now isn't it? Ever see me? and who are these guys....? Don't you think I would show my face before I killed you? * Waitstate looks up they're patients You? You have no honor. Um... Chameleon? * Stardrive turns to the door. * Phoenyx looks up as the new bots enter You don't know me then yeah? * Shadowstrike laughs humorlessly. * Blacknife remains silent Who are all these people? I understand you let Cobalt go. Disobeying orders, attempted murder... you're just a piece of work. * Junky_LaFord finishes his repairs and continues on to the next location on the list. * Blacknife shakes his head * Misfit watches from her cell. whatever * Waitstate swings around they are the people who are going to help us find out whats wrong with Diablo Maybe I should let you out of there and settle this right now. Do as you want Misfit * Blacknife looks at the other Misfit... No offense * Ghost-Stalker looks around Medbay Commander... * Shadowstrike turns to face Misfit. You could always let me in there with him.... * Scamp boings Stardrive using his suggestions * Blacknife chuckles So, what are we all doing here in medbay? * Stardrive knocks Scamp across medbay I'll see you two later.... good question Scamp, what are you doing here? Now, that's an idea. * Blacknife then changes his mind about switching to Arch Were you saying something, Blacknife? In the pit I'm detecting a large amount of chronometrical particles here, what happened? * Blacknife grins I have no weapons That disk wasn't there before maybe it's a Transformer It would be fist to fist * Restore scans the disk *to Nova* That's what we're trying to figure out. nope, data disk Don't worry. I'm far more honorable than you are. I'd give you a fighting chance. * Restore picks up the disk and hands it to Waitstate for inspection You don't know honor if you take a dead friend's name just to hide yourself Yep, it's a disk alright * Stardrive peers over Wait's shoulder. * Waitstate finishes up his database scan, deciding to ignore everything around him for now You don't know the first thing about it. I've heard Diablo talk about large amounts of Chronometrical particles before Not from what Cobalt told me If chronometrical particles are involved, I bet whoever it was that was here, wasn't from our timezone Cobalt's an idiot. He blames her for something HQ did... * Waitstate mutters "I hate time travel..." Well why don't you inform me of the truth? Time travel... the verellians were working on that... If you're so 'honorable' mainly from around after the probe attacked him The truth is that staying who I was caused more harm to my friends than being "dead". * Blacknife looks to Misfit * Misfit glares at Blacknife Is that so... what information can you tell us this 'probe' ? Yeah, Butterknife, that's so! She was just a scapegoat... why not just say what happened? * Shadowstrike chuckles in spite of herself * Blacknife ignores the monicker * Waitstate stands up Why not tell your other LONAC Friends? The less people who know, the less danger. To them, to my old crew, and to me. As a "spy", you of all bots should know that. Oh yeah, Mis and Cobalt already proved that one was false from what we have, I wasn't able to find a match in our databases for the traveller It appeared out of nowhere in a large battle with the Decepticons Cobalt tricked me. Time travel heh indeed * Phoenyx chirps softly out of boredom Diablo was right in front of it, and it fired some sort of beam at him from behind Beam? Let's go to the brig. It seems to be the second of the only three rooms on this ship with any action * Shadowstrike turns to Mis. "Does anyone else know, besides you two?" * Scamp leaves It left him quite damaged and altered his programming slightly * Phoenyx nods and chirps louder No way! Just him... and HQ has warrants on him, there's no way he's ratting. Restore> Was this programming corrected? * Scamp arrives at the brig Join the party scamp Don't mind if I do So, what's going on here? * Blacknife chuckles * Phoenyx looks around at the bots in the brig room * Stardrive stares into space for a moment. Strike wants to kill me Blacknife behind bars, I never thought you were THAT unruly What else is new We didn't notice about the programming until some time later when he went berzerk in another battle Just asking Blacknife why he's so cowardly. * Blacknife chuckles again Ah, and what was Blacknife's answer? * Restore looks to Waitstate Oh, he claims he didn't attack me.... of course not. That's why I heard him there. Ok Icy Oh Blacknife, how could you? heh the Decepticons eventually learnt of this and used it to their advantage That could explain the extra agression he carried when he arived back here yesterday You can't hear yourself...he set me up, I have witnesses What other evidence you have against Blacknife? All who saw me at a bar in a spaceport *to Misfit* I'll see what can be done about you... no promises. so what's on the disk that was left? *to Blacknife* And you. You're going to wish that you had killed me down there. Perhaps we should find out. * Shadowstrike leaves the brig. * Blacknife sighs Aw, there goes all the action * Phoenyx squawks and stretches her wings the chronometrical particles were only detected previously in situations where normally we'd be dead without the help from whoever is the cause of them * Waitstate picks up the disk and loads it into the terminal I actually feel sorry for you... almost. * Misfit laughs * Stardrive stops staring into space and goes to the terminal to look over Wait's shoulder some more. let me take a look at it * Chameleon lets spiderbot loose * Meteor enters the plaza and looks about at his three choices. The bar, or one of the two stores Why is that Misfit? * Novaburst looks over the information being displayed carefully Misfit, sounds like something out of the 20th century * Stardrive looks over his shoulder It should * Meteor decides to enter the bar, taking a seat in the back and letting his mind wander hmm, it seems as if there is something hidden amongst the data here Maybe you're the time traveler heh Me? No. Pirate, not a traveller. * Phoenyx whacks Scamp on the head with her head, playfully Pirates don't travel? Not in time.. Who're you? dang bird. Don't pirates need birds? I'm going to need more time to look over this I'll consult with you. I don't think there's anything else you can do here Waitstate. * Spiderbot jumps onto Stardrive's head * Shadowstrike sits down in the bar by herself you're right I'll be elsewhere * Waitstate leaves < Lightning> We are being hailed Put it through Cargo is ready for transport, Freedom. Please pick it up within the next 24hrs or the job will go to someone else Understood, we'll have something arranged shortly * Stardrive releases a holo-cam into the room and follows Wait * Admiral_Lilwall turns to Artifice Want a bad job? * Waitstate stops Stardrive, do you need something? Nope. * Meteor gets up and leaves the bar I'm going to take a look around here, see you guys later I recommend the plaza, deck four * Shadowstrike is deep in thought and doesn't even notice Meteor leave. how bad is the job? Just wondering what more can happen... why are you following me with one of your freaky holograms? I'll take a look there I'm not... it's really me. * Firestorm leaves medbay * Stardrive does a little dance. See? * Waitstate activates a scanning laser How would you like to round up some bots and go down planetside with a few shuttles and pick up our cargo? heh, so it is Eh, why not. I'm not doing anything right now anyways * Meteor arrives back to the bar and places an object on the table in front of Shadowstrike So... what's up then? * Shadowstrike is startled... "What...?" Snake-Eyes said it was a hope charm It seems that underneath all this data is information regarding the probe Well... there was yet another "conversation" in the brig... but that doesn't seem to be a big problem. Heh, ironic. * Stardrive stops for a moment. * Firestorm enters the plaza Whatever it is that troubles you will sort itself out in the end. Sometimes answers that seem far, are right before us. Nova found something about the probe. Try not to let it overtake you. :) Cya later I wish I could believe that. But thanks, Meteor. * Meteor leaves the bar again Take a look at this, it has all the specifications for the beam that hit Diablo The brig, eh? [comm] going planetside for some cargo, who's going? * Waitstate changes course Why would a time traveller give this information to us though? * Shadowstrike picks up the hope charm and studies it. * Stardrive follows Wait [com] sure! if I can get a looksie at them femme bots down there again why not? No idea, maybe he's trying to help us. This person has helped us before without us realizing. * Waitstate steps inside a lift to deck 7 * Meteor also goes with Artifice [comm] No thanks, Artifice I'm going to go to the plaza with Starstorm and Ghost-Stalker, msg me over the comm if you need me * Format meets Artifice Meteor and Fragment on the flight deck* * Waitstate arrives in the brig Alright Cham * Misfit looks up at Waitstate * Phoenyx chirps happily as Waitstate enters the room * Stardrive walks in behind him. ah, Scamp... can you excuse us? I'd like to talk in private * Chameleon, Starstorm and Ghost-Stalker leave medbay for the plaza* Come visit again sometime... *to Artifice* So we got ourselves another cargo haul eh? * Stardrive looks up at the ceiling and notices a leg... The hell? * Misfit laughs. "Nice topper. * Stardrive knocks spiderbot off his head. [comm] Scamp, you're coming with us * Spiderbot gets angry and runs around then leaves Normally I'd argue * Phoenyx nods but today's different, talk to you later * camp leaves for docking bay* * Chameleon, Starstorm and Ghost-Stalker arrive in the plaza and meet Firestorm * Meteor, Fragment and Format enter the shuttle and wait for Artifice, Scamp and presumably Phoenyx Sorry Stardrive... I'd like to talk in private * Stardrive walks out... * Spiderbot jumps aboard the shuttle computer, sweep for and remove remote A/V devices * Stardrive chuckles to himself... "like it will make a difference that I'm not there." I guess we're all here, let's go *from the other room* Hey * Blacknife looks up Oh took long enough * An energy sweep washes over the room, destabilizing any remote devices *ahem* and jamming non-shipbased comm * Stardrive tosses another unseen holo-cam into the room... * Artifice gets in the shuttle and redies it Captain's Mast? * Phoenyx jumps off Scamp's shoulder as he enters the shuttle, and sits near spiderbot, looking at it with great curiosity * Misfit smirks * cam connects to a wall... and its wiring * Meteor goes co-pilot * Scamp shuts the shuttle door quickly * Spiderbot runs around in circles * Waitstate sees it and fries the thing computer, seal entrances and continue sweeps [comm] Open docking bay doors, we're leaving I'm not here to talk to YOU Blacknife. At the moment, I have nothing to say. Rats! [comm] have a good trip artifice * Blacknife looks at Misfit and chuckles I was looking forward to someone else reaming him. computer, opaque Blacknife's security field, and mute 2-way sound * Artifice pilots the shuttle out of the LSS Freedom and towards the planet I hope we will Admiral * Waitstate smirks as BK is cut off What can you make of the information so far? * Blacknife doesn't care * Waitstate pulls up a bench I like my privacy hm, difficult to say, I've never seen such technology. further study will be needed So I see. Not that I mind, I've had enough of Butterknife. * Artifice enters the planet's atmosphere Now then... *sits down* Who are you? whoa..talk about your bumpy ride.. * Spiderbot stops running around Name's Misfit. yes, I figured out that much I'm a friend of... of Strike's. Weather has intenisified very quickly, looks like a massive blizzard is moving in at top speed. We better get to the city as soon as-- * Artifice tries to hold the shuttle steady * Chameleon, Ghost-Stalker, Firestorm and Starstorm sit at a table in the bar * Giant clusters of ice bombard the shuttle Is that friend in the past-tense? or are you still friends? I - can't - hold- her * Spiderbot hides behind a seat * Shadowstrike looks at the three, moves farther to the back, and sits, thinking. * All on board are thrown about like ragdolls as giant cluster hits * The shuttle careens through the New Iceland atmosphere helplessly I guess that depends on her. * Misfit looks sad. * Meteor, Phoenyx and Format are knocked out tell me about yourself, and your relationship with Shadowstrike * Spiderbot flies to the front of the shuttle see... she IS my friend, present tense. I have lost contact with the shuttle, intense ill weather is jamming all scans * Artifice slowly loses conciousness as he watches the ship's decsent in the monitors Well... we are... well, she was anyhow... Decepticons. She was my commander. * Moments later, the shuttle hits the planet's surface AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! mind if I run a scan on Diablo? go for it We ran supply runs for a long time. Great, let's hope they made it to the city before the blizzard took them down * Spiderbot makes R2D2 like sounds * Fragment goes offline when the shuttle hits I don't know what you want to know. * Novaburst runs a scan on Diablo * Misfit trails off. * miles later the shuttle hits a cluster of ice and stops what I REALLY want to know, is what happened with her. It involved you, and seriously affected her entire outlook on life * Shuttle is buried in snow over the next few hours * Misfit sighs, a long suffering sigh. She's been through a lot. She's so... closed in. I want to know WHY * Blacknife can almost imagine the conversation She's been that way since ... well... she, and I, lost a good friend. She never was open, but that was the breaking point. * Stardrive thinks there's too many secrets around here lately. * Novaburst takes the results from the scan and compares it to the information on the disk Our ship was involved in a firefight with some Autobots. We were set up by our own - some higher ups wanted to get rid of her and the rest of us. * Snake-Eyes decides to visit Terra's shop *sigh* Our backup took off. So what have you guys and the rest of the Autobots been up to lately? * Misfit lowers her head at the memory * Snake-Eyes enters Another slow day eh? sorry for bringing up such a sore subject Good morning again :) Not a whole lot, its been real quiet lately * Waitstate looks around... Would you like a drink? It's ok. She's worse than I am. Yeah, I really would... * Waitstate pulls a Core Dump from seemingly nowhere I see there's a few Autobots on board, wonder how things are on Cybertron Gosh, haven't seen one of those in a while *laughs* heh, I assure you, this is something new the alien programming in Diablo matches the information on the disk Heh, ok. * Waitstate drops Misfit's screen for a moment and sets the drink inside Hm, if only there was a way to trace time travel. * Screen closes up again * Misfit picks up the drink. "Thanks... " It's a specialty of mine. My own recipie, as it were * Admiral-Lilwall stands and turns to Lightning yeah, plus there's a whole heap of younger bots around now, so we decided to take a bit of time off * Misfit takes a sip. "Geez, that's got some zap!" Look after things here. I'll be in the conference work working on a mound of reports that are waaay overdue 'Strike is quite fond of them * Lightning nods, Lil enters the conference room Hehe, she would be. that would help wouldn't it * Waitstate produces an ener-ale of his own, and takes a sip Hey, how are you making the packaging for this stuff? Is she ok? I know Cobalt and this one went after her... Fairly standard energon containment. I had Junky fabricate them. Quite a multi-talented fellow. I did the label art of course. * Opal enters Terra's shop Heya :) She's fully recovered and as grumbly as ever * Misfit smiles in relief. Welcome to the Quick Bite. How can I help you? Ah I see. Hi Opal. :) just looking for now I guess :) Free sample for first time customers :) I'll be in for that :D If I get a hold of Cobalt, I'm going to make him sorry for what he's done. You and Shadowstrike were very close? She's my mentor. * Admiral-Lilwall mumbles something to himself and opens his com She's gotten me out of a lot of trouble. I didn't pay her back too well :/ * Terrafirma hands Opal a sample in a red container and Snake-Eyes one in a green container * Snake-Eyes and Opal try the fruity ener-juices that is good stuff, how much for it? * Waitstate nods understandingly She's always seemed to be... heh... more than met the eye not bad at all, I'll have to pick some up later, but for now, I better tend back to my own little store :) catch ya later * Snake-Eyes leaves for her shop She never was really open. have a nice cycle! What do you think, Opal? It's amazing how much people open up to a C/O , when he also happens to be their bartender. But she still avoids her past * Misfit thinks about what she's going to say. She doesn't trust anyone. She lost the only one she ever really trusted. a half credit for a small, 3 for a large. I don't think she wants to remember. Hm, what the heck, I'll take two large ones, the blue and the green ones :) I can't say I blame her... *long sip* * Terrafirma takes down the requested items from the top shelf and rings them up Ship account or hard currency? hard cash today :) *hands over the creds* After what happened, I took her to a friend who repaired her. She took off afterwards... I tracked her down through a mutual friend. Cobalt suckered me into letting him come with me. * Terrafirma takes the cash Enjoy! And come back later. I have a lot more planned in the future :) * Opal waves and leaves for her quarters* * Terrafirma waves *to self* My first sale! Looks like that was a mistake, eh? *grimly* that's one way to put it. If it helps, he's on my "shoot on sight" list at the moment. * Admiral-Lilwall to Overwrite, where are the most recent files on the Waste Plague? I can't find them in this new system of yours. * Misfit nods. [comm] *contempt* Have you tried looking under "W"? Just as long as he can't get to her again. Sigh. I liked Waitstate's 'N' files better... * Overwrite transmits an exact path to the information, and yet another index file * Admiral-Lilwall muses to himself about Wait's N files.... Near Death Experiences [comm] thank you Overwrite *turns off comm* *grim* Not if I can help it he won't Maybe I was wrong to try and take her away from here. * Waitstate looks at her in surprise Take her away? Damn right it was *defensive* She belongs with us. I beg to differ. She belongs with US now. You barely know her. I know her well enough to know she's happier here than she was elsewhere. Well, aside from a few recent events those rather did put a crimp on things *sighs* if she wants to stay here, that's her choice, and I shouldn't have tried to make it for her. * Lightning looks over to Junky, annoyed by the ruckus he's making while doing whatever it is he's doing Nearly getting killed... yes, but that came AFTER you arrived, now didnt it? Partly my fault, yeah. Mostly my fault, probably. What ELSE happened? well, there was that whole nasty plague thing. But I suppose she would have been worse off elsewhere Oh... yeah, that. I don't think any of us particularly enjoyed that actually What's going to happen to him *indicated BK with a gesture* for what he did? I'm not sure yet. Ever since he returned to us from his leave of absence, he's been... different. And what happens to me? That is an entirely different question. Unfortunately, it has the same answer at the moment * Misfit makes a face. It's not like I've got anywhere to go. well... you DID attack my ship and try and kidnap one of my crew. Not exactly a shining first impression. I'm sorry for attacking you. But not sorry about the thing with Shadowstrike I imagine. Why did you want to take her? Because I thought she'd change her mind away from you all. Judging by her reaction, I'd say you were the last person she wanted to see She doesn't want everything to come crashing down again. * Waitstate takes a contemplative sip Neither do I. * Waitstate stands up it's been an enlightening conversation Tell Strike to come by and visit me again. * Waitstate nods, then exits, pausing to reset the brig settings back to what they were before he entered * Misfit leans against the wall of her cell and sighs. "Back to the old solitary." * Waitstate checks the duty logs, then heads to the bar * Shadowstrike sits the hope charm down on her table and leans back against the bar wall. deck 4 * Lift moves * Stardrive waits by the lift doors for Wait. * Waitstate enters the bar * Waitstate sees 'Strike Thought I'd find you here * Stardrive runs after Wait who so rudely ran past him. I don't know that I like the sound of that... What's wrong? * Waitstate notes SD coming in, looking quite annoyed * Waitstate sits down anyway Nothing's wrong... * Shadowstrike looks at SD. Are you sure? I just had a long talk with our remaining guest though Oh. * Shadowstrike fiddles with the hope charm Meteor gave her. * Stardrive rummages for mini-cubes she seems to care about you a great deal Awfully foolish of her. * Waitstate gives an eyebrow-raising type expression why's that? Everyone who cares about me ends up in a bad way. Enough about me. What are you planning on doing with her? * Waitstate is a bit taken aback by the abrupt change of topic um, well... that's kind of why I came to see you * Stardrive pours himself some overcharged energon. Oh. * Shadowstrike tries to keep this brief. His having talked to Misfit can't be good news for her. * Junky_LaFord does some general maintainence somewhere not very important or recognisable. * Waitstate looks at 'Strike expectantly. What? I'm to decide? I want your opinions on the matter, yes * Shadowstrike looks down at the charm again, trying to avoid Wait. What she and the other one did is out of character for her. I don't think she's a threat. she was right... you aren't very open at all * Shadowstrike mutters. So who was he? *trying to avoid it* He who? Or she... Misfit wasn't that specific * Shadowstrike sighs... The person who's death affected you so much that you totally withdrew from everyone He was my best friend. * Shadowstrike looks away. Sounds like that's quite an understatement. But, no need to elaborate on that. What happened? *quietly* He saved my miserable life, like he always did when I was in trouble. Except the last time, it cost him his own. * Waitstate sighs... perhaps he shouldn't have brought it up afterall * Shadowstrike clenches her fists. I'm... sorry I'm sorry it wasn't me. He would've kept things together. Me, I just continue to fall apart. *mutters* can't even defend myself anymore. come on... it was an ambush We were undergunned. My ship, my fault. your backup was gone. You can't blame yourself for that. And Cobalt, he blames me. *I*'m the commander, I should've known better. no one is omniscient And some military consul I make! Lilwall and Deadlift practically had to drag me back up here. I couldn't even manage Cobalt and Blacknife.