[Video -> Text] [Transmission Originating From: Outside Haven]

[wakizashi_straight]

[The video comes on for a brief moment, showing a static-laden image of a helmet that looks rather similar to a shogun warrior’s, in purple with yellow accents and bright yellow optics. His chin tilts down slightly, the sound of pistons whirring off-screen. Eventually the image cuts off in favor of text.]

I hope this message gets through. I am Noisy Boy. I do not know how many of you might recall me, or how long it might have been, and I have some inquiries to make. First, I am looking for a bot named Midas. He is eight-foot-two inches, with gold plating and a red fiberoptic Mohawk. He is extremely abrasive and uses text like I do, so he will likely be easy to pick out.

My second inquiry is a request to speak to anyone with experience in either programming or upgrading. I will require alterations if I am to survive on this planet.

My final inquiry is for pick-up. I am uncertain as to where I am at the moment.

Comments

[wakizashi_straight]

Sometimes you cannot stop things. No matter how much you would wish to. Given that he and I both vanished and I have reappeared...

[It seems like an easy conclusion to draw, to him.]

Drift. Would Wing be upset if you picked me up? That does not seem like something he would do if you were not injured right now.

[Noisy Boy is not that naive. He totally sees through you, brobot.]

[sword_redemption]

I know. Believe me.

[He's tired of failing to stop bad things from happening, honestly.] Maybe we should keep an optic out for Midas.

[One way or the other, right?]

[....drat.] I'm not that injured. It's just, well, Wing worries about nothing a lot.

I mean, he was trying to put me in stasis cuffs out there.

[HAHAH it's funny now. Kind of. A little bit.]

[wakizashi_straight]

It is a difficult thing to accept, even if you know.

[He just didn't have much choice in learning to accept it.] It would not hurt to do so.

Why was he attempting to put you in stasis cuffs? What happened while I was absent?

[What have you people been doing without him here D:?]

[sword_redemption]

Yes. Exactly.

[He wishes he could stab it. It would help. Maybe.]

Right. As soon as I can, I'll start looking out. Just in case.

[Cough cough ahem. ]

Uh. He thought I was going to freak out and wander off and not come back. Some stuff happened. Mechs without glyphs came out of the badlands.

...they weren't themselves.

[wakizashi_straight]

It would seem I have missed a great deal, then. [More importantly, a great deal that Drift seems to not want to tell him, which means it's probably bad.] That is unfortunate.

However, it was my understanding that the majority of what comes out of the Badlands are monsters.

[Which tends to be what bots without glyphs are, really.]

[sword_redemption]

[Yeah there's probably something nice and suave and consoling to say right about now. But this is Drift so he has no idea what that might be. ]

....good to have you back, though.

[Close? Maybe?]

There have been some here with glyphs who are also monsters.

[Tarn he is thinking of you so hard.]

[wakizashi_straight]

I do not remember leaving, but I am glad to be back. Thank you, Drift.

[Very close. Noisy Boy is just glad to hear from people he calls friends, really. It means not everything has changed.]

Do I need to be concerned about them?

[Is something horrible going to happen?]