one ember | [multimedia post]

[lightupthenight]

[This starts out as a video of someone in a leather jacket and a somewhat intimidating helmet. It looks like the helmet and jacket have seen better days, by which we mean somebody's pretty clearly been through an explosion. An observant person might be able to tell by the background that this is somewhere in Megatronus' temple]

-- wasn't making them that big before. Jesus christ. I have to-- OH HELL NO. NO VIDEO YOU BASTARD

[the device is hurled across the room and shorts out. The audio's still working though]

Where's the mic? Even Wily doesn't make his shit this complica--------

[and that's the audio broken. There's nothing for a while, then, oh look, text from the same source]

holy hell my head hurts
okay listen up wily if your here i dont believe your robots shit about this being some other planet
that is seriously the stupidest bullshit youv ever fed this city and you hv fed us some stupid bullshit
i mean aliens really wily
you tried that once and nobody thought it was cool

so tgeres a few opsions:

1. robot lied and im dead this seems unlikely because my head is fucking the worst
2. this is some part of wilys complex that id didnt wknow about and hes toying with me (this seems liegit) (wouldn't put it past you to have this tech) (but in that case wow i am more fucked than i thought)
3. this is the future womehow and veryones dead adn i failed and robots are everywhere and whatever
4. it was telling the truth and this si some alien planet where robots run everything

everything is terrible and everything hurts
why am i debating this in the opn where he can see it
i mean you can see it
o yea concussion
and i am pretty sure my blood is moslyt alcohol atm




if this is another planet have you invented a hangover cure yet also a cure for concossions because yeah

Comments

[video]

[deusexraf]

[............uh.

Raf's deciding video is best for this.]

...I'm not sure who 'Wily' is, but I'm pretty sure that he has nothing to do with this. As for a concussion cure...I can ask Ratchet if he's developed anything yet

text;

[lightupthenight]

dont use video kids ist the took of the man
he can see you through the screens you know
facts

and what the hell do you mean you dont know who wily is
he put you up to this didnt he

[voice] there should be a period at the end up there :|

[deusexraf]

...is this better?

[beat]

No, really. I don't know who he is. I doubt he's here, anyway - there's been nobody on the Link by that name, at least nobody who's made any sort of transmission.

text; you said to the person who makes nine million typos?

[lightupthenight]

no you aren't getting it he
no you're clearly a plant why am i even listening to you
he runs the whole city
he build this underround complex or something i dunno maybe it was to fulfil his weird fetish for clean lines
point being
youre just being like OH YEAH ITS ALIENS FOR REAL
what did he promise you extra rations or something
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa my head

how the hell did he get me away from the explosion though the last thin i remember is going off a 200 ft drop
hmm
which just brings me right back around to dead
and if im dead this is the shittiest afterlife ever
there isnt even any beer

[voice] THEY'RE NOT IC FOR RAF OKAY

[deusexraf]

[okay Raf just

Raf is just

Raf has no idea how to respond to any of this but he'll try anyway]

I actually got over the 'aliens for real' part a few months before I came here.

text;

[lightupthenight]

are you even TRYING


[Raf, you're PROBABLY going to have to ask someone to come get him

At this point, he accidentially turns the video function back on. He's got his helmet off finally and he looks... well, awful. Bloody nose, two black eyes, pretty bad burns around his neck. Also, his pupils are WAY dialated

Someone is not doing so hot.]

Oh FUCK I thought I disabled that thing you clever... you. Right.

[Now he's just going to sit on down and kind of drop the recorder. Yeah he. Meant to do that.

He fumbles with it again and manages to turn the thing away from him]

[Video] I apologize

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Number four.

BOW TO YOUR NEW ROBOT OVERLORD.

[Whirl will wait. Go on, genuflect.]

text; | DO NOT APOLOGIZE

[lightupthenight]

COME HERE MOTHERFUCKER I GOT A CROWBAR WITH YOUR NAME ON IT

VIDEOOOOOOOOOO BRING IT YOU DAFT PUNK REJECT

[whirlybird_of_prey]

Yeah? [He likes how rage fixes your typing. Who says anger is useless? Oh, right, Rung.]

I'd have fifty rounds with your name on them but I don't care enough to know what your name fraggin' is.

[And clearly, they are going to be besties.]

video; daft punk please, we are queen rejects :vb

[lightupthenight]

[Joe's concussion has gotten worse, so now the video is on, but... kind of just pointing at... empty space. But you can hear him, at least.]

Tha's better be rounds of beer, asshole, since when do robots use guns anyway. Real robots use knives. Like men. You know that helmet? That is a robot head. From a robot I murdered.

I will make hats of you all.

video; /dying

[whirlybird_of_prey]

[ Yeah. Whirl's in terror of what you can do with a crowbar when you can't even find your own face with a camera.]

Then real 'men' are stupid and don't appreciate ranged weapons. [Like Whirl's personality. Lethal to 30 yards.]

Yeah? You don't mind if I record that whole robot murder confession thing and report it to the ROBOT POLICE, do you?

[Oh he's learned a few tricks from Empurata. Number one: use the police to do your dirty work.]

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Yeah, I think it's best you seek medical attention, because I think you're malfunctioning at an abnormally fast rate here.

[audio]

[lightupthenight]

[excellent observation Ambulon, in fact he's switched to audio because he can't quite make the keys hold still]

Like anyone in this fucking place is going to help me. I just blew up the whole damn tower. Not that it did anything, I think. I don't know. Everything's confusing.

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

[BEST DOCTOR AWARD TO AMBLEG]

Tower - Look, right now that really doesn't matter. You need to see a doctor; I'm sure by now you've heard the name of 'Ratchet' thrown around a few times. No matter what you are [you look humanoid, but that helmet?], he's the one most qualified to fix you. No matter what 'tower' you 'blew up'.

[audio]

[lightupthenight]

I think there's some dude named Ratchet talking to me on the other channel, yeah.

And what the hell else would I be? I'm not a robot.

[audio]

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

You could very well be a hologram or a creature composed entirely out of slime.

[He sounds totally serious here, but is he? We'll never know.]

VIDEO;

[inferiordude]

O-oh. Are you all right, little dude?

Yeah, the acolyte was tellin' the truth. You're here now, dude. Uh, can I get you to the medbay or something?

VIDEO;

[lightupthenight]

Robots go away.

[but he's too tired to really keep up that argument]

Seriously, did y'all just murder all the humans 'cept that kid or something? Anyway, somebody's comin to get me, I think.

[and then, he just sings:]

I'm just a man who's circumstances went beyond his control

VIDEO;

[inferiordude]

Nnnno? Raf showed up here on his own. I didn't kill anybody here, or any human ever.

[He pauses at the song. Really, dude? Mr. Roboto.]

You ain't got a bad tone, just need a better slice of tunes, dude.

Are we human or are we dancers?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold,
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer:
Are we human or are we dancers?

Re: VIDEO;

[lightupthenight]

Come on man, Styx...

Was terrible. Okay. But awesomely terrible.

[he frowns. What's music that happened after 1995? HE HAS NO IDEA]

Ain't never heard what you're singin before. Like the tune though.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

Oh my, I'm not sure if there's anyone here knowledgeable in human medicine, but I sure hope so. Drinking with a concussion sure doesn't sound like a good idea.

[video]

[lightupthenight]

It's more like I was drinking, then I got the concussion.

[but drinking sounds like an amazing idea actually]

[also you look more... human? Ish? ... less robot than other robots? Confusing.]

Yeah some robot's coming to prolly murder me or turn me into a cyborg or somethin, whatever. He says he's gonna get me patched up, but... robots.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

I don't know what kind of robots you're familiar with, but I don't really know anyone who'd just kill you with no reason. There are other humans here and not a one of them has been murdered or turned into a cyborg.

Trust the docbots to take care of you, okay?

[video]

[lightupthenight]

I ain't gonna trust 'em, but I don't have much choice in whether or not they're gonna look at me.

[video]

[glacius_passio]

Hmm. I guess it's too bad we don't have any human doctors here. What's made you so untrusting of robots anyway?