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[Video - Evening] Lights amongst the dark

[The camera clicks on, and two very different Primes appear. Solus Prime is kneeling down, examining what appears to be a large, metal container as she speaks with Liege, who watches on. A moment goes by before she gives the comm, held in unmoving acolyte hands, a glance.]

-Prima's Touch was a clever addition. It will be interesting to see if his boon will help them survive the wilds more readily- Ah, very good.

[She stands, dusting off her hands with the faintest of pleased smirks.]

In the interests of continuing our work, we have elected to make this next experimental addition for improving Cybertron a bit more...visible.

[She turns a bit somber, optics softening.]

It also happens that it has been an entire solar cycle since you all have started arriving here once more. Roughly. Perhaps that is not a cause for celebration for many of you, but it is still a significant occasion to be honored.

[She gestures to her brother, who rises the lid so she can reach into the container and pulls out...what seems to be a handful of light. In actuality, it is what appears to be little glowing robobugs. They skitter across her plating, varied in design quirks but largely resembling a cross between rotor-laden dragonflies and moths with delicate metallic wiring.]

[Liege reaches out, picking one up in-between his claws and examining it closely--it might be obvious to all who were present for it that these definitely have a relationship to Jetfire's glowbugs.]

It would be best if you left them alone to do their job. They are perfectly harmless. However, they are designed to seek out raw resources and other sources of energy, so following their glow could be quite...lucrative. Consider it something of a treasure hunt, if you will.

Among a plethora of other functions. They should also be able to give us more information about the boundaries and composition of the badlands, once they depart the Haven. Until then...perhaps some enjoyment can be found in their display.

[Solus shrugs faintly, before lifting the lid holding back the swarm and vanishes in the midst of the glowing rush of tiny wings.]

...

[For those not watching the communicators or happen to be outside...from the top of Prima's glowing tower, a different sort of light slowly emerges, and seems to balloon out. The cloud gets larger and larger, like glowing smoke, before breaking up and fanning out in all directions and lighting up the sky.

For the next week, the swarm of Pixels will flock around the Haven, highlighting various, previously unknown energon pools, crystals, and even some nice finds in the junkyard. Solus Prime will be releasing a new batch each night, adding to the swarm until they eventually depart, en mass, for parts unknown.]

[Note: Those who reply to this message with an in-character action of following the pixels will be rewarded with a small item! Be creative in specifying where and how, and see what treasure awaits...]

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[Ey, if it isn't his two favorite FirstForgers, the how he happens to share a bond with.]

[ALSO DID SOMEONE SAY LUCRATIVE?]

Such intricate and useful little things. [Knock Out is already leaving the medbay as he talks.] Those will definitely enlighten our moods. Thank you.

[Blurr is doing his patrols when the burst of live and lights appears in thw sky, leaving him more than a bit confused.

He stops, expecting it to be some sort of threat and then relaxes marginally when one the bugs flies near and just sits on top of his spike for a few seconds. The glowbugs did the same and Blurr reaches for little thing, holding a finger for it to crawl over his hand.]

[Wing's not browsing the network right now, he's a little too caught up in a touch of anticipation as he enters the underground tunnels near Solus's temple. He's making his way to the communal washracks, hoping one of the energon pools is open for use. Preferably one of the few that's a little more removed, a little more private, since he's expecting company.]

[He doesn't have any of the typical items for performing maintenance that you'd expect for a trip to the washracks, rather he's expecting Drift to bring whatever they need, or maybe surprise him, since they'd both agreed to meet here. Instead he brings his own surprise, a little something from the bar, smoother than what they usually serve. He feels like he needs it after a long day of Law Committee business, okay?]

[It's then that a strange glow catches his optics. A flickering light, or perhaps not, as it seems to be moving? Wing can't tell, but curiosity draws him towards it.]

[Drift likes to get places early, especially where Wing is going to be. Just something about seeing the jet in flight warmed his spark.]

[So he's sitting on the steps of Solus's temple, holding a vial of flightpanel oil he's collected from the medics--he never did finish oiling those wings--when he sees the fluttering lights. Snow? A meteor shower? He rises to his feet, looking at them, one hand clutching the oil, the other reaching cautiously for one of his short swords.]

[They flutter around, like a cloud of glittering light and then start to float off. He checks his chrono: he still has time, and he moves closer, following the fluttering lights.]

[Huh. Those look familiar, in a way. He's out picking more supplies out of the Junk Pile when he sees them and get the transmission. He keys up a communication.]

Interesting. Figure out a name f'r the little guys?

[In the meantime, he's going to set out after them. Rumble is with him, flying a little ahead to keep up with the glowing cloud. Every once in a while he chirps back at Barricade.

[Ravage was just outside, on a large rock, when he saw the post. He did pay attention to it up until he saw all the lights come out of Prima's temple. Result, his attention span went completely out the window, and he forgot what the whole point of the glowbugs was.]

Ooooo pretty!

[He continued to watch until one of the bugs got closer, and then his playful nature kicked. There was just something about an object fluttering by that mad Ravage want to chase and pounce at it. The new bugs were no exception. So off he went to chase the bug, heading in the direction of Nexus's temple. He pounced at it every now and then but it always managed to stay out of his reach.]

[Rose wasn't paying much attention to the network at the moment. Rather she was enjoying a walk when she saw the burst of light come from one of the temples.]

What in the...

[Her hand was on the hilt of her sword as she continued to watch as the cloud of light spread. She didn't relax until some of the sources of light came closer and she was able to see that they were bugs. One of them landed on a rock near her, and she got curious enough to more towards it, her hand held out.]

[After that whole business with Mirage... there's a lot of energy in this Autobot to burn. A lot of restless, useless energy.]

[So he's made a training dummy, out in the junk pile. When the creatures find him, he's busily beating the ever-loving scrap out of it with single-minded determination. Pretty much nothing else registers right now. Nothing except his target, except working off this restlessness.]

[At least, until a bunch of flitting little lights pop up, dancing around the dummy. He tries batting them away at first.]

Go on, shoo. I'm busy here.

[Once more, up on the roof of Trion's temple is the resident ninja.]

[He's still discomforted by everything that's happened. Unsettled, worried. Things aren't okay, anymore. Not that they ever really were. The loneliness is eating at him more so than usual tonight, while he looks out over the sector. More than anything, right now, he wishes his reason for existing were here.]

[He'll get over it, he knows. This is a passing moment of aching loneliness. Kay is just downstairs. One of the most irritating members of the Brave Police told him he was part of them. There are living robots here who want to help. He knows all this.]

[It makes it easier, now.]

[And these thoughts are abruptly interrupted by a swarm of lights. He pulls his head back, wings flaring, to stare at them in shock.]

... Who? What are these...?

[But then holds out a hand, very still, as if inviting the creatures forward.]

[Perceptor doesn't even notice the big to-do on the network. He's too busy... being busy. It's his way of coping, really, with all that's gone on.]

[The appearance of the dancing lights, the little creatures, barely seems to register with him. Though, when some dart in close enough, he does snap a hand out, in an attempt to grab one.]

[You know. For study.]

Quite the light show you two are giving us. I might just have to see where they lead me.

[A certain black widow is already on her way to investigate. Who was she to pass up such an interesting treasure hunt. Especially if it proves beneficial to her.]

[Her reply is somewhat lost in the humming of thousands of pairs of little rotors, but Solus sounds pleased at least.]

[Meanwhile, the pixels are only just reaching the area around the medbay, flying low to the ground as they swarm and converge on one another in their search. However, they seem to be circling around to the back of the building...]

[The pixel contentedly crawls along Blurr's hand, harmlessly indulging the same attraction to people as it's glowbug predecessors. It only takes off when another swarm swirls by overhead, joining the horde in their search. A few settle on the ground, crawling along fragments of scrap, but most continue on into the emptiness off the beaten path.

Will Blurr follow?]

[The glow isn't coming from the tunnel that leads directly to the energon pools, but from a side path. Previously, it led to nothing but barren, craggy metal and the long way around to the pools, but now?

Now there is an ever-growing swarm of flickering lights highlighting the edge of every rock and crack. The strongest concentration is on the ground, surrounding a deep fissure. More arrive every few seconds, trickling over in twos and threes.]

[The pixels weave a path around boulders and metal slabs, a few constantly dropping off to explore the ground even as more and more join the main swarm as it flies on.

They are going in the opposite direction of the pools, away from the beaten path, but not by far. Their glow seems to vanish on the far side of a large, roundish boulder that is practically crawling with the things.

Should Drift continue on to the other side, he'll find a crevasse that is something of a tight fit for a mech, but glows brightly from within. Does he continue?]

[When Solus opens the communication, the buzzing of tiny rotors has yet to recede enough for her to be heard right away. She doesn't bother with video; no reason for people to see her covered with a glowing suit. Eventually, he gets an answer;]

Hn. Pixels, I believe, due to their size.

[Meanwhile, the junk pile is looking far prettier than it ever has. Almost every mound is dotted with a least a dozen or so, but some are clearly attracting a lot more attention.

...one pile, in particular, is quickly turning into more robobug than junk. Will Barricade investigate?]

...Huh, can't say I really expected that. ...Then again, you're always full of surprises.

[Wheeljack's out in the Solian sector, happening to catch this little display as he took the time to get some air. After Magnus's arrival, he needed it. So when he sees the pixels scattering all over the Haven, he notices a few that seem to come by him, floating precariously close to his position.

Enough for him to attempt to reach out, to take one.]

[The pixels swirled almost playfully out of reach, though that was more likely due to accident than design. They seemed inclined to stick near the ground where they could search properly, and led Ravage on a winding chase around any number of boulders and angular metal formations on the edges of Nexus Prime's territory.

When they abruptly settled, it was along the angular 'branches' of something almost like an earth tree made of hundreds of copper wires, sitting alone and forgotten among a circle of boulders. Be it mech-made or naturally occurring, something glistens at the end of the branches, even under the light of all the pixels coating the surface.

Will Ravage investigate?]

[The pixel crawled along the rock briefly, exploring in circles before flitting over to land harmlessly on Rose's hand. If left alone, it will eventually crawl up onto her armor to sense the composition.

Meanwhile, swarms of other pixels fly along in glowing paths overhead, going in every direction. Will Rose investigate?]

[While the breeze from the motions send several pixels tumbling away, most are unintimidated. A handful attempt to land on both Sideswipe himself and his dummy, while the majority of others swarm down around the Autobot, pooling light around the base of a junk mound near his tires.

They seem attracted to something under the scrap. Will Sideswipe investigate?]

[The pixels show no fear, and land readily on the offered hand; where one lands, it seems to attract others, and if Kagerou doesn't move to shake them off he will quickly find his hand covered.

Meanwhile, the swarming light seems to grow overhead, trailing down to gather behind Alpha Trion's temple. Kagerou is free to investigate...]

[Given their lack of fear, a single pixel is caught quite easily. It crawls around inside Perceptor's palm, glowing bright and currently free from distress...though that could change, depending on how it is treated.

A few others hover nearby, attracted by the glow of the captured pixel, while others continue to drift on by, forming a bright line in the sky that seems to heading off in purposeful direction.

Perceptor is free to follow the trail... Or to remain.]

[Solus' voice is almost droned out by the sound of buzzing; at least she sounds wryly amused by it.]

Given their current numbers, I had hoped they would be somewhat impressive, more-so when they are all completed.

[The pixels themselves are certainly leaving an obvious trail, even with the number that scatter and settle on everything around. The nearest swarm seems to be heading toward the junkyard.

Will Blackarachnia choose to follow?]

[Oh she's following alright. There's a certain spider tracking the little glowing bugs even as she speaks.]

Well, I'd say you've accomplished what you set out for. So where did you get the design idea? I could have sworn I've seen something like this before.

[Under the sound of loud pixel buzzing on Solus' comm comes a soft laugh.]

I do try.

[Same as the glowbugs before them, the pixels have no problems with fearlessly landing on and among people; Wheeljack is no exception. One lands right in his seeking palm, followed by another, and another. If left alone, the glow of one will attract dozens more.

Meanwhile, streaming trails of the things fly by overhead, carving numerous paths around Solus' temple that are open to investigation...]

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