[Video]

[angleofscience]

[For anyone else whose seen it, it's clear Jetfire's inside the main structure of Liege's temple, the crystalline walls of the corridors partly seen at an angle while Jetfire frowns thoughtfully up at something... probably just another wall of said corridor.]

A warning, for anyone who either lives in, or would come by Liege Maximo's temple and isn't... hm, well-versed in complex math as applied to certain self-replicating patterns--- [He finally looks down into the feed, but looks somewhat... distracted.]

The corridors are fractals, from what I've observed. Compare it to a complicated labyrinth. I haven't yet had the chance to explore them fully, but it would be unpleasant if someone got lost.

[And he is going to deliberately go in there and "get lost" at some point, to try and figure it out. For the moment, however, merely this heads-up.]

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[brokendown]

[He accepted the video transmission, saw a large white, red, and blue flier, and a little bell went off in his head. Hey, everything else he'd tried to do on this strange planet had backfired on him... even meeting up with his partner, but maybe he could actually make good on a promise. Dial up that response!]

UH, hi! Person! Um, this is Breakdown. No idea what a fracas is, but I think a neutral named Wing's looking for you. Are you a 'Bot doctor?

[angleofscience]

A fractal.

[Jetfire looked away from staring narrowly into a corridor and making some brief calculations where this was in relation to the entrance... Not that he had gone far or anything.]

... And, ah. I think you're... er, thinking of someone else. While I'm versed well-enough in frame modifications, I'm not a medic. [He paused, frowning slightly. He didn't recognize that designation at all, but...]

Who was this Wing looking for?

[brokendown]

He's looking for a big-type flier, white red and blue. Who's a doctor. But I uh... I forgot the exact name. Anyway, I guess you're not that mech, so sorry to bother you! But... if you're Cybertronian, and please say you're Cybertronian, it'd probably be a good idea if we all stuck together anyway.

[angleofscience]

... Yes, I am. [Jetfire tilted his helm, somewhat confused at the seeming intensity to the request.] Technically all of us have to, no matter who we are, even if we might not associate with each other. Our current population is minimal, and if we aren't at least somewhat ready to help those here as well, we might be left without help when it's needed.

[brokendown]

So uhh... yeah, helping each other. Look, I don't know if Megatron or Optimus are here. But this is like fighting Unicron. We should probably all work together.

[angleofscience]

[Unicron. Something out of legends and glitched processors, except for what the Fallen had said, back when he'd attempted to open the Seal of Primus. Except for the faint lingering unease he'd felt from the moment (maybe before? he wasn't sure) he'd been unthawed and had booted up completely.]

I'm hardly the first to decline such a thing, but for that, we need not just information on how to get home, but resources and ability as well. [Jetfire shook his helm, feeling somewhat odd, since it seemed this mech was trying to convince him of something he would be most likely to work towards either way.]

[brokendown]

Well, y'see, me and Knock Out are at a forge. The little Prime told us that no one's been able to get out of here, but if we can get some location equipment and then a space ship put together, we could all get home. All the primes here are too busy being mysterious to help, but... I never underestimate what hard work can do. It'd be easier if we had an entire Nemesis full of Vehicons, but them's the breaks.

[Yeah, thus guy talked fancy. And fancy talkers? They could help build spaceships.]

[angleofscience]

... Well, yes, that's a possibility. But any ship built would need to be capable of interdimensional travel, as only a scattered few of us comes from the same reality; most of us come from disparate ones.

[Jetfire released a soft, barely warm exvent and shook his helm.]

And he'd need some way of calculating all the extant realities, and be able to tag each separate dimension we want to be able to bring people home.

[So in reality... not as simple as it seemed. Not at all.]

[Accidental Video]

[raceme]

[Blurr didn't mean to make this a video, he was just checking the new posts and well...Liege's fortres, ha, you will never see him inside that place if he can help himself.]

[Accidental Video]

[angleofscience]

[He almost missed the brief flash of return video, accidental or not, since Blurr wasn't speaking, but he glanced up in time to catch it, and smiled faintly.]

Mmm, yes?

[Video] 1/4

[raceme]

....uh?

[Video] 2/4

[raceme]

[AJKSHKASA

OH FRAG. Was this thing on!?]

[Video] 3/4

[raceme]

...

[Video] done

[raceme]

My deepest apologies sir I didn't realize I was broadcasting I WAS merely surprised by the design of that temple Because, Primus, why would you even design somethinglikethatnononono....

[Video] /applauds

[angleofscience]

[... Well, that wasn't the sort of reaction he'd expected, but Jetfire waited it out, and then... had to quietly replay had just had been said to understand what actually had been said.]

You don't need to apologize; it happens. [Even if it was less possible if one was using the integrated program instead of the external device, but this mech might be using the latter after all.]

While I, ah... admit that it might be a bit of an unorthodox shape to choose to build a residence around, especially a fractal as complicated as this one seem to be in the case those less well-versed would pass through... [Jetfire trailed off and paused momentarily. He wondered about the vehemence of the reaction.]

... Are you all right?

[That actually seemed slightly more important to ask than why the blue mech was having this reaction.]

[Video] /bows...thank you XD

[raceme]

Thank you for understanding sir. [He uses both, since he think his comm link is still failing at times.]

Unorthodox shape is a way to put it...Ah! yes yes I am alright it'snotlikeIwouldbehavingaslightlypanicattackoranythinglikethatifIgetinthereonlybecauseofwhathappenedwhenShockwavekilledmeusingtwomovingwalls...that would be silly of course. [He's a tiny bit nervous, can you tell?]

[Video] xD

[angleofscience]

[And then he has to run that brief memory file again, slower, because apparently how Blurr had been speaking earlier wasn't fast. At all.]

That... er. Doesn't seem pleasant at all, no. These walls are quite still, though.

[He gently knocks on the nearest wall to show what he means; the corridors might be complicated, but they're not moving. And he's not sure which would be worse, having died and known it has happened... or knowing within near-certaintly that it will if you go back (unless time does not thoughtfully stop for them all, in which case there's nothing left of a great part of Earth...) where you belong.]

[Video] ♥

[raceme]

The whole place still looks a bit stressing too me. [And no one wants to see Blurr stressed, trust him on that.

He's glad to see the walls really doesn't move, thought.] "I wonder why Sir Liege choose to make it this way."

[Audio]

[my_own_trope]

And what are you doing here? Who are you?

[Audio]

[angleofscience]

... Currently, I have a room within Liege's halls. Even if I didn't, I have neither seen nor heard anything about being forbidden from visiting the temples of those you aren't... ah, given a glyph from.

[Jetfire's taking that belligerence in stride, voice even patient as he speaks... At least using only audio means he can continue to concentrate on the corridors. Even if he has decided he's not going very far in at this point.]

My designation's Jetfire.

[Perma-Audio and now Private]

[my_own_trope]

[Huffily]
Well at least you aren't introducing yourself as another one of the First Forged.

[Someone's still sore they didn't get to do that first. Also, Jetfire, you're Xbox large, about Liege hugeness actually. You can't blame him for assuming the worst.]

[angleofscience]

... Er. No. While I've met an individual that came from before our recorded time, who might be the same as one of these... er, Firstforged... I am hardly one of them.

Any particular reason you apparently assumed that I was?

[Well, Liege is still about 15-20 feet taller than he is, but, perhaps it's close enough to give the illusion, especially when there's nothing good to use as a size-reference in view.]

... And would you be inclined to introduce yourself?

[Even if some parts of the attitude was... familiar.]

[my_own_trope]

[In Starscream's special little version of his own reality, the world of heights is divided thusly:
- Smaller than him
- His size
- Bigger than him but smaller than Megatron
- BIGGER THAN MEGATRON AND WHY WOULD SOMEONE EVEN MANUFACTURE SUCH A MONSTROSITY, NO SERIOUSLY WHY WOULD YOU EVEN???

Guess which category you fall into, Jetfire?]

There's apparently more 'First Forged' running around here. You can't deny it isn't good to know who is calling themselves what.

[Honestly though, Starscream is just guesstimating heights here, and has got nothing to compare against by the video.]

You're an Autobot aren't you?
[And if he's ever been familiar with another Autobot 'Jetfire', he doesn't give any indication]

[angleofscience]

[Hey, now, while he might be somewhat taller than Megatron, it's not by... that much. Really. He's not even close to 40 feet, even less Liege's height!]

Ah, yes. Our... er, hosts. And considering most of them seem to share the naming tradition of "Prime" in their designations, it ought to be marginally more easier to deduce who is a... Firstforged or not.

[Pause. Helmtilt.]

Though that does, of course, require one knows all the Primes of not just one's own, but other's realities, to be sure they arent't simply a Prime, but their general size would minimize the confusion a bit.

[Jetfire's optics briefly flicker at the question, and then he just smiles. Dryly. He does let the camera in his arm-mounted screen pan out to show more than a close-up of his helm and the... very obvious... Autobrand in the middle of his chestplates.]

Yes, I am.

[Does he sound a bit tired, though? No, probably imagination. Also, nice dodge.]

[my_own_trope]

[I'm sorry, he can't hear you over how tall you are. Also, you're all the way up there. Plus anyone Megatron and bigger is just gross (unless it's Starscream himself, in which case, carry on polishing his shiny new Apax Armour, he doesn't mind~). But seriously, look at all your bulk, maybe that's what's throwing him off.]

Optimus is hardly a 'First Forged,' so I wouldn't really stick to that nomenclature if I were you. [/sneer] And you can't expect me to know all the First Forged to have existed in ever separate universe -- if indeed any of them ever truly existed at all!

Besides, we can't all have had the pleasure of meeting all of the ones that this planet has to offer. Forgive me for not being previously aware of the scale of each and every one residing here. But by all means, feel free to pass along a list of their measurements, Autobot.