[audio, airborne]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

 [You know what Whirl doesn't like?  Okay, everything. You got him there, smarty bolts. But more topically, Whirl is not fond of waking up in strange places and being fed ridiculous stories about blah blah the First Forged blah. And the fraggin' Acolyte would not shut up. 

[At least, until Whirl had punched him in the face.  Just a little friendly feedback to stop being so damn boring.  So he's doing some information gathering, the old fashioned way--flying around looking for trouble. ]

So. Stupid mech was telling me something about a fresh start. 

I dunno. Maybe it wasn't 'fresh start.'. Maybe he meant like, fresh tar or  freeze tarts or something. Kinda hard to enunciate after some editorial knuckles. 

[Which are Whirl's favorite flavor of knuckles.]

Thing is ['scuse him while he shoots something.  Because...uh...reasons. It needed shooting. Damn piece of scrap metal ]   I've heard that before. And let me tell you:  there's always a price. 

Anyone figure out what it is yet?  

And don't give me any boo hoo slag about never going home again.

Comments

[my_own_trope]

You'd know if you met them.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah. [Logic, yes. But this is Whirl.]

Question is, if I had, why would I tell you?

[my_own_trope]

Frankly I don't care. But you asked for the angle, well, there's your hint.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah. Got that. The whole Acolyte--pre fist--went on about that.

You don't think they spill the whole fraggin' story in the intro brochure, do you?

[No Wrecker mission has EVER gone by the specs. NOTHING goes by specs. Specs lie.]

[my_own_trope]

Those attempting to rule rarely share their grander plan.
[grump grump He'd know]

[whirlybird_of_prey]

So I just take it no one's figured it out yet.

[Good to know. At least he's not behind the power curve, right?]

[my_own_trope]

The rabble seem entirely willing to simply accept their lot.

I'm hardly surprised.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[Whirl bristles at the word 'rabble'. One of those.]

Yeah. Handy, that, huh?

[my_own_trope]

[One of those and then some.]

It depends on the vantage point.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah? What's yours?

[my_own_trope]

It remains to be see. And yours?

[whirlybird_of_prey]

I'm the guy that gets screwed over no matter who's in charge.

[my_own_trope]

Sounds to me like you need a new team.

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah, because getting screwed over by new guys at least has novelty.

[It's like he's the anti-Drift when it comes to optimism.]