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[sword_redemption]

[Haven, you know what? You look like you could really use one of Drift's wackadoodle theories right now. ]

The First Forged aren't telling us everything.

[Drift does not mince words. Bad guys, yes. Words, not so much.]

There were other settlers here before us. Over and over again. They died. We're not the first. We're not special or chosen. [And part of him hates that thought.]

And the First Forged couldn't--or didn't--protect them. [This is all review for the old-timers, but there are new people here, and besides, it's a dot he's trying to connect up.]

Wing and I and the others found a cave where some of them had lived. They died. All of them. But they're trapped here, as ghosts. [Another dot.]

And worse--we went back, and their bodies were...reanimated. Like zombies. They attacked us. They were trying to protect something in the cave.

[He frowns, because he really doesn't like public speaking, especially this next part.]

A lot of people disappeared recently. Like whatever it is--the call, Unicron, whatever--like it's gaining strength, picking up steam. We need to do something. Because I don't know about you, but, well, for a lot of reasons, I don't want to have to suddenly find myself fighting a zombie Ultra Magnus.

[Or Vandal. No, he can't even go there in his head. He's connecting dots and it is a really unpleasant picture.]

Comments

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[lovethathatch]

Whoa whoa whoa, wait. You guys got attacked by robot zombies?

[Sorry, Drift, he's glad you made it out alright and all. But robot zombies. Once that question's out of the way, he gets a little more genuinely curious.]

So there were people here before... you? [He can't say 'us', as he hasn't been here that long. But he's making a bit of a reach for this guy having been here longer.]

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[fun_police]

You find this surprising? It's obvious by their actions that we're not much more than symbols of property to them. They have no obligation to tell us anything.

[Hi Drift, it's your favorite Cybertronian.]

[Oof. And he's feeling extra cynical today!]

[He'd normally doubt the existence of zombies(especially considering who it was coming from), but considering everything he had seen here, he's willing to take give him the benefit of the doubt.]

I agree that this must be investigated.

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[namesnotprowl]

Those in power rarely tell anyone everything.

I ain't expected to be special or chosen since I dropped through my first dimensional space-time rift. Probably because it was obvious I wasn't. [He never had the illusion so it never had a chance to break.]

And from what I heard, they weren't just 'like' zombies. They were. And they need to eliminated. And maybe we need to be prepared for the possibility of fighting the remains of our friends, but it sounded like our undead guests were mostly localized to that settlement we found.

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[organ_pharming]

...Ghosts. And zombies. [Pinches the bridge of his nose.]

Utterly preposterous.

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[neverputincharge]

....they weren't glowin' purple, were they?

[deadlydoctor]

I only have a questions, were those zombies purple-ish? If not, did you check if there was a human inside?

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[catwoman]

Zombies? And here I was hoping to avoid the scary movie cliche. Are we talking epidemic level or just a few undead?

[Video]

[wherenobotsgone]

That's even worse than I thought, then.

Energy imprints of dead mechs are one thing. But reanimated bodies...

[He won't say it's impossible that it could happen on its own, but - it is highly improbable.]

[winged_knight]

Do you really think there's a chance we might...encounter..._{people we know}?

[The fact that they're gone is haunting him enough. The idea of having their remains, physical or ethereal, return...is not comfortable in the least.]

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[vectorianpolarity]

[hey, Drift. hope you're used to this guy popping in on you. He looks somewhere between Not Happy and Intent and Concerned.]

Where?