A Stardroids IM-RP Log

(Location: Stardroid's Ship parked in Nexus and surrounding areas of Nexus. Co-written with random_xtras.)

(My pups: The Stardroids (Terra, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Nyx), Gate, T3-A4)

(random_xtras's pups: Wingnut, Sheol, Sheol's pet R2, Pink)

Wingnut: *just fed Terra*

Terra: O.O *hair looks like he was next to a tesla coil*

Terra: *or like he has a green afro, take your pick*

Wingnut: *goes and feeds Mercury, too!*

Mercury: *startled, goes splut*

Venus: ... ... I'll get the squeegie

Wingnut: *gone to get more!*

Terra: *makes note to have talk with her about some design differences in Stardroid design due to the, er, /other/ half of their ancestry, and why being fed that way is not particularly good for them*

Wingnut: *back. Feeds Venus*

Venus: *and that's how you make a frog-bot jump that high...*

Saturn, Mars, and Neptune: *all hiding! they're weakest to electrical attacks out of the lot*

Wingnut: *happy little goblin cackle. She's doing good work here... where's Pluto. Pluto needs fed too*

Pluto: *cat napping*

Wingnut: *feed!*

Jupiter: *isn't too worried, since being an electric-weapon user he can't be easily damaged by it, but Terra's right... they should have a talk with Wingnut about this before she does more than cause static fur and a few minor shorts*

Pluto: *fur straight out, wide awake now, kitty on ceiling, claws dug in*

Wingnut: *out she goes again!*

Terra and Jupiter: *exchange glance and move to the door, Terra still trying to get his hair to lay down*

Wingnut: *heeeeyyyy, Jupiter! Feeed!*

Jupiter: *zapped, hehe, pats Wingnut*

Terra: Wingnut...?

Wingnut: *offers him some more*

Terra: *backs away, holding his hair down* We need to discuss this. I realize you're trying to help...

Wingnut: *blinks her crossed optics at him*

Terra: .... but most of us simply aren't designed to be.. compatable with this kind of energy transfer

Wingnut: *blink blink*

Jupiter: *quietly* You could actually damage Neptune doing that. He's weakest to electrical attacks... *remembers it was his weapon that Mega had used on Neptune...*

Wingnut: Not attacking!

Terra: No, we realize that. However, with the way most of us are designed, it, well... could still damage us. Particularly Neptune, as Jupiter said.

Wingnut: #$@#$#@ batteries are full, what'm I supposed to do with it???

Terra: We'll have to come up with something...

Jupiter: I'm an electic-based design, it won't damage me. And Nyx seems compatable with that kind of thing as well. The rest of us just weren't designed that way.

Terra: Despite Sunstar's origins, our shells were designed by Wily... and in that we share many of the aspects of the Wilybots...

Wingnut: *voices her opinion of Wily's workmanship. It's not printable*

Terra: *has nothing to say to that. He dislikes having to admit to that part of their origins at all, but sometimes it can't be avoided*

Wingnut: *loses a few sparks* Oops.

Jupiter: Yeah, oops. *at least now maybe Wingnut might figure out why she almost never sees Neptune*

Neptune: *hiding, so very HIDING*

Wingnut: *frustratedly tells them about the giant energy leak she found, and how even the ship won't take anymore*

Terra: *Hmm! They can't absorb it all themselves, but can't pass up something like this!* Jupiter! Find Mars and Venus and have them construct some kind of power storage unit... and have Mercury arrange to 'borrow' some of those 'gonk' droids from the Wilybots

Jupiter: I don't think the Gonk droids store power that way either, sir. *goes to grab Mars and Venus, it's project time!*

Terra: *what, had just heard they were walking batteries. why doesn't he ever get told important information?*

Wingnut: *jitters around and sparks irritably* Even fed Nyxy and her dollies....

Mars and Venus: *at the CR, having it make empty rechargeable batteries*

Wingnut: *spark spark* Somebody else might find it!

Mercury: *mentally going over all known contacts and possible solutions seen in the Nexus and who could be bartered with to the best outcome for them*

Terra: Then we should post a guard. Jupiter? *looks around, oh, there he is...* Jupiter, take Uranus and Saturn to guard this leak Wingnut has found.

Wingnut: *transmits coordinates... and a zap*

Terra: O.o *tries to smooth down hair again*

Wingnut: Sorry >_<

Jupiter: *nods, and will get the other two over to ride chasers (similar to SW landspeeder bike things) to head over there - he can fly, but they can't*

Wingnut: *spins around, jitters and cusses, and then flies over there to ZAP that big bot that's walking past*

Sheol: *blink blink, looks up from talking to her beloved pet R2 unit* Thank you?

Wingnut: *gonna hide behind Terra now*

Terra: *just hopes she doesn't get stuck in his hair again*

Mercury: *hey, there's someone to talk to. Heads out for a word with Sheol... and doing absolute best not to look desperate as that's never good for making deals*

Sheol: You don't need to hide. That was very nice energy. *hunkering down to speak to the little bots as her R2 beeps curiously*

Mercury: 'Evening. You're one of Blackout's right? I know she trades in tech. We've been looking for some different energy storage possibilities lately...

Sheol: *perks* Oh that's why Wingnut shared with me. *soft chuckle*

Terra: *not admitting to any energy source* Well, we're trying to find some other solution for her than trying to.. share.. with us directly.

Mercury: We're not really designed for it, you see...

Sheol: *nods* What sort of energy can you use?

Wingnut: *hiczap*

Terra: We primarly use e-tanks, but Mars and Venus can convert various energy types for recharging or powering our ship...

Mercury: It's more a method of storage we're looking for... other than getting zapped.

Terra: *fought to keep a straight face, holding his hair down*

Sheol: Well, we've got banks of batteries from that Death Star, and we have an energon converter.

Mercury: *mental definition of Energon includes 'makes Waspy and Terry short out', is unaware that's pretty much just the raw/unstable energon or large concentrations* Hmm... we have Beast Warrior allies. I've heard they're more or less 'allergic' to Energon... How many batteries do you have?

Sheol: That's raw energon, like you find deposited on some versions of ancient Earth. Processed energon is safe if you stick to the mid grades and don't add any minerals.

Wingnut: *talking hair!* Miiiinerrrraaaalllsss.

Mercury: It is, huh. And this converter... could it turn the kind of stuff Wingnut keeps bringing back into processed energon we could store?

Sheol: It will turn any energy into energon, even power crystals.

Wingnut: *kerchzap!*

Mercury: Huh. And what would you be looking for to trade for that..?

Terra: O.O *manages not to yelp, fuzzy hair is badly fluffed*

Sheol: We usually deal with currency or credit.

Wingnut: Sorry.

Mercury: *bit of a grin, that made things easier with certain arrangements they had... all they'd have to do is cash in stored raw materials or mars gemstones, and that was easy enough to do in the Nexus* Any paricular currency and amount?

Sheol: Tell me the currency and I can tell you the price.

Mercury: *names one of the more common Nexus currencies, one she knows she can get a good deal in*

Sheol: Twenty thousand.

Mercury: *nods, to Terra* I'll be back in a few minutes... *teleports out to go get into one or two of her hidden stashes of stuff - she's as bad as a squirel about that*

Sheol: *settles down to wait, her optics going toward where Wingnut is hiding and muttering*

Wingnut: *muttering unprintable things about hiccups as she tries to fight them off*

Mercury: *after the aforementioned few minutes, is back with the currency* (It's in chips/hard currency, in a big bag. Mercury knows it's easier to move around that way without anyone tracking everything you do with it... and it's probably not the first time Mercury's been carting around something in a bag, like Santa in reverse)

Terra: *hair is sticking almost straight out*

Sheol: *not noticing the hair*

R2 unit: *did, but now he's complaining because all he can see is big fingers*

Mercury: *has picked up droidspeak with all the 'immigrants' lately* I think he can't see...

Sheol: *gently* No, he can't.

Mercury: *doesn't get it, shrugs, offers the currency*

R2: *wants to see the HAIR, fraggit!*

Sheol: *takes the bag and scans it, making soft clicks in response to the increasingly irate beeping from her other hand*

Gate: *heading by with T3, until the utility droid stops and beeps back at the annoyed R2*

R2: *wants to see the #$#$#@ hair!*

Wingnut: *kerchzap!*

Terra: *yelps! and has a green afro again*

Sheol: The payment's all here. *takes no notice of the hair as she turns her head toward the east and sends the order for the conversion unit*

T3: *why? it's just Terra getting zapped. Could arrange for pictures...*

R2: *because he didn't $#$@$@# get to see it! Impressive vocabulary*

T3: *R2s... young upstarts are always so fond of 'colorful' vocabulary. Droids didn't talk like that back in his day >.> (grouchy 4,000 year old antique)*

big box: *appears with a swish and a slight flash, and then Pink is flying up from it with her usual gleeful giggles*

T3: *bweeps to Sheol, querying why she isn't letting the 'little brat' see*

Sheol: *in her gentle voice she politely tells the old bot that she has no idea what he's talking about, and then apologizes for it*

Gate: I think he's concerned your friend there might short something out in frustration soon if you don't quit covering his optic sensor...

Sheol: *excuses herself to Terra, and then turns her attention to her hand, which suddenly goes silent after a startled little sound*

R2: *soft apology to Sheol*

Sheol: *clicks back and then turns her attention back to Gate and T3* He's alright now.

T3: *concerned and scared little warble, and tries to hide behind Gate*

Gate: ... *suspicious* What did you do to him?

Sheol: *softly* Explained.

T3: *suspicious and near-paranoid old droid, now tugging at Gate's labcoat with a little pincher arm. Wants out of there now*

Gate: *will just start to take T3 home then, a bit paranoidly distrustful of the whole incident himself*

Mercury: *not sorry to see them go... they're trying to do buisness here!*

Sheol: *gently sets her R2 down, and he takes a quick peek at Terra before going over and bustling around the box as he cusses at Pink and her bubbles*

Mercury: So...

Sheol: Would you like to look at it?

Mercury: *nods and heads over to look*

Terra: *mutters that he'd like to shove a Wingnut in it...*

Wingnut: I said I was sorry! *hic* Oh slaggit.

R2: *opens the crate, gets side of crate on head. CUSS*

Sheol: *lifts it off of him*

Terra: *heads over as well, does not mean it about shoving Wingnut in, but the sooner she's rid of that extra charge the happier he'll be*

machine: *disassembled, but there's a baggie tied to the side of the box with a bright orange ribbon. Inside the baggie is a datachip*

Mercury: *notes the chip* Assembly instructions?

Terra: *yells back at the ship* MARS!!!

Sheol: Yes. It's in video format.

Mercury: *nods*

Mars: *heads out with an armload of empty rechargable batteries the CR made, setting those down* Yeah, boss?

Mercury: Energon converter *explaining to Mars* I think Terra needs you to assemble it for him...

R2: *nobody mind him. He's just playing a 'Price is Right' model*

Mars: *goes over to have a look*

Terra: *oh, look, batteries... tries to gently shake Wingnut out of his hair and onto them*

Wingnut: *surprisingly isn't tangled. Is soon over there making a battery's indicator bar turn colour*

Terra: *sigh of relief, and tries to get his hair to lay back down... also probably going to have a maintenance trip to CR later to check for any minor shorted systems*

Mars: *ready to go to work on assembling the converter*

Sheol: *taking pieces out for them. She's big, so she may as well do it*

R2: *help help help, so much busy, so little actual work!*

Mars: *looks for a way to play the video, ducks into the ship briefly to get tools, then will set to work*

Wingnut: *scoots over and snatches the datachip, then studies it before making it play in misty holoform against the ground*

Mars: *watches and starts assembling the thing*

Sheol: You have our business frequency if you need any help. *gently lifts her R2 and rises to her feet*

Mercury: *nods* Nice doing buisness with you

Sheol: *turns and strides away*

Wingnut: *hic! Static on the vid. Starts over from where the static started*

Mars: *assemble, assemble*

Terra: *has retrieved his hairbrush from the ship... trying to get the static out of his hair*

Wingnut: *pauses the video and goes and STEALS energy from Terra. Goes and puts it in the battery, and then starts the vid again*

Terra: O.o *well, that was unusual, but at least his hair isn't sticking straight out now*

Wingnut: *still has hiccups, so the video's going to be a little jerky*

Pink: *looks down from the top of the box at them*

Mars: *is pretty good with technical things, so as long as there aren't any big jumps can follow*

Wingnut: *always manages to find her place again*

Mercury: *keeping an optic on Pink*

Pink: *blows bubbles with her pretty twisted wire butterfly bubble wand with the shiny things on it*

Nyx: *wanders out to see what all the fuss is... sees bubbles... chases!*

Pink: *happy! Will fly about and make bubbles for Nyx!*

Nyx: *will stalk and chase and fly after the bubbles*

Wingnut: *looking from video to Mars* No... that's backwards.

Mars: *had been briefly distracted by Nyx* Huh? Oh...

Wingnut: *starts that section of video over again*

Mars: *working*

Wingnut: Energy there for a long long time. *crossed optics brighten with glee*

Mercury: *nods* And with some way to store and stockpile it, we'll be able to save it for when we need it. And you'll be able to send some home to the other Sewercons

Wingnut: *droops* No. No I won't.

Mercury: *puzzled* Huh?

Wingnut: The reality's closed. Nothing goes in or out.

Mercury: Oh. Sorry. *will offer a hug*

Wingnut: *chatters at her and scoots out of reach*

Mercury: *fine with that, no hugs then*

Wingnut: GIRLY!

Mercury: <.< >.> ... well... there is a reason for that, remember?

Mars: *not talking about that, SO NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT!!*

Wingnut: Thrrpt! *plays video*

Mars: *tries to finish assembly*

Pink: *scoots over to help hold something up, trailing bubbles from the wand she's not holding in her mouth*

Mars: *absently, mind on work* Thanks

Nyx: *still chasing bubbles~*

Pink: Here, this part goes here. *pauses to blow more bubbles for Nyx*

Nyx: *chase, chase, chase the bubbles! bat bat*

Pink: *help help, make bubbles. Finally pauses to find some wire in her storage pocket and make a loop out of it. Then offers the loop and the cup of bubble stuff to Nyx*

Nyx: *gives her a puzzled look at that*

Mercury: *chuckles* Here, I'll make them for you *will reach for the loop and bubble stuff*

Pink: *gives her the things, and then turns back to helping Mars*

Terra: *watching, just a bit, hopes to get this done soon so they can start harvesting the energy Wingnut has found...*

Pink: This is the last piece! *holds up a plaque and looks at the Decepticon symbol, then throws it over her shoulder* You're done.

Nyx: *was pouncing bubbles until she sees someone toss a SHINY! pounces the symbol*

Wingnut: Hey! What did you throw that away for?

Pink: *scoots into the air* Because it's the Fallen's ugly face. *gone!*

Nyx: *does not get it... well, got the symbol, but can make no sense of what Pink said. And doesn't much care... got the shiny!*

Nyx: *thinks she might hang it up in her room~ Yay, shiny!*

Wingnut: Done? Yay! *streaks away*

Terra: *nods now that the machine is done*

Mercury: *plots locations to stash the horde*

Wingnut: *back! Gone. Back!* What's taking so long???

Nyx: *chases mommy!*

Wingnut: *perks when she sees the youngbot* Bring batteries!

Nyx: Ok!

Mercury: *overhears and facepalms... then runs for the batteries*

Wingnut: *more zooming around as she waits for Nyxy to get batteries*

Wingnut: We need more! ...I guess I should PINpoint. Come on, guys!

Mars and Terra: *going to guard the converter*

Other Stardroids: *grabbing batteries, and heading for ride chasers (Bikers from Spaaaace~)*

Wingnut: ...PINpoint.... We won't have to carry the batteries so far if we bring the converter!

Terra: *!* Right... *it's such a good idea he acts on it instead of balking, insisting he gives the orders around here, and then repeating it to someone else*

Terra: *and they're on their way~*

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[A Mun's Note: I noticed after RPing this, some time before going to sleep, that the Stardroids for some reason didn't think of teleporting to the energy source. I'm not entirely sure why, since they're all capable of it. I'll plothole-patch if something occurs to me (Until then, I suspect some Nexus or LOL related problem)]