0003: NEW ARRIVALS

[crux_npcs]

Who: New Arrivals, Captain Jack Hollis, Science Captain Urist McEngineer, Graham Baker
Where: Briefing Room
When: Late afternoon
Warnings: None

When awakening, you'll find the area you're in to be very busy. The people in the medical ward are polite and understanding, but firmly refuse to answer questions until the briefing. The same goes for the robots in the hangars. Either given hospital outfits resembling very comfortable pajamas, drone bodies, or their own bodies, they are escorted by polite, unyielding people in red and black uniforms to the briefing room.

The room is large, but not quite large enough for some of the bigger Cybertronians. They've been given drone bodies at least, skinny little things with no real features beyond primitive masks made of paper plates. There's seats for everyone, at least, well-cushioned and comfortable, and the room is pleasantly lit.

A few Security personnel, dressed in their red and black uniforms, stand at ease in the rooms in strategic areas. Three men stand at the head. One is Graham Baker, a slightly nervous-seeming middle-aged man wearing a multi-layered business suit that seems rumpled and oversized. The other two men are dressed in military uniforms, one with the blue undershirt and piping of Command, while the other wears the gold of Science.

[Questions to the NPCs will go in the briefing thread. The rest of the post is there for people to mill about and do whatever with.]

Comments

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[constableodo]

"Ha!" You're in Security now? Ha. "Security can handle it." And he's almost Security.

[driftlock]

He can't help but notice the organic seems...dubious. Ouch, man, that really hurts.

"Maybe. Maybe not." He jerks his chin toward a few of the noodlebots. If they were shoved in drone bodies, they were probably just as, you know, cuddly on waking up as Deadlock was. "Depending who they are, Security could be in for some fun."

Or he could be in for some fun, but he's kind of figuring Security won't like his kind of fun.

Party poopers.

[constableodo]

"However, if you want to join Security..." Odo is not impressed by Deadlock's argument. If Deadlock has some personal problems with the new arrivals, FINE. But don't make Odo come to clean up the mess.

[driftlock]

"Security. Hnf. Boring." Though, maybe tempting. "Wait. You're security?" Because you look so........unthreatening.

[constableodo]

"Not yet." Soon. Ha.

Odo will not let himself be impressed. Because he's still not.

[driftlock]

Soon. Right. Deadlock will also refuse to be impressed. His shoulders relax. Frag. He thought this guy was Security, and noodleification was on his horizon. "So, what do you care? What the frag you doing here, then, anyway?"

[constableodo]

Odo ? He was just passing by... Nope, that's an argument for Quark.

Besides, Odo could juste tell on you.

"I care because I hate trouble."

[driftlock]

....no one likes a snitch.

"Hnf. Haven't caused any yet, have I?" Deadlock's like a ticking time bomb of trouble. He's almost disappointed with himself but........noodlebot. "Just saying, there's a fraggin' war. Don't want any Autobots here starting their usual slag." See? He's just trying to keep the peace.

[constableodo]

"Ha!" Odo was right. Deadlock is trying to involve him in his politics. Odo doesn't care for politics.

"You will not continue your war here."

[driftlock]

Deadlock's grasp of politics is shaky at best. All he wants to know is who he can shoot. Which apparently here means 'no one'.

His life sucks.

"Listen, meatsack, I spent a fraggin' week in a hangar with an Autobot. If I was gonna start something, it probably would have been then." Because Flashpoint was annoying. Compared to Mr Charming Deadlock.

[constableodo]

"You look like you're the one who's starting something if you see someone you don't like. I'm here to prevent that."

Odo doesn't know what an Autobot is, besides being Deadlock's species, but he doesn't care. Besides, he's seen war, and he doesn't want it to be brought here. There are way too many people here who might be affected.

[driftlock]

"If there's someone I don't like here, I got a reason not to like them." An impeccable logic, isn't it? Robots: superior logic and all.

[constableodo]

"Ha! And you think you can bring chaos here because you don't like someone?"

Really, Deadlock will end up sounding like Quark if he goes on any further.

[driftlock]

"Wouldn't be chaos." Sheesh, stop overreacting. Just a nice quiet energy round through the head. "And if I don't like someone, they've fraggin' done something to deserve it, if I go do something about it. I don't like you and you're still talking." And not, say a charred/greasy spot on the floor. See? He's so civilized and scrap.

[constableodo]

"Ha! There's Security for that." Odo might feel the same about Quark, but he doesn't go out of his way to start trouble; he only watches for when Quark will start.

[driftlock]

That 'ha' better be about Deadlock's amazing and hilarious sense of humor.

"Security. Which isn't you. Yet. Yeah, got it." Crabby robot is crabby, because this guy is ruining his fun. What's a little robot-on-robot violence, huh?

"Trust me, if I run into someone worth killing, I ain't gonna care what Security does to me afterwards as long as he's dead." Deadlock may just be the type to hold a grudge.

[constableodo]

Odo scoffs.

When he has an idea.

He morphs into a robot similar to Deadlock and the few others he's seen, and about as tall.

"You won't care?"

[driftlock]

That is a terrible idea. Because what the frag is going on here? Organics are organics and Cybertronians are cybertronians and thus superior and. Just. What.

"The frag kind of trick is this?"

Other than not a very nice one.

[constableodo]

Odo is a Changeling, but he's not going to tell you yet.

"It is not a trick." Ha.

[driftlock]

"Sure it is." Liar liar, robopants on fire. "Just a projection or something." Excuse him while he pokes you in the chest to prove his point. See? Just an illusion....?

[constableodo]

Odo doesn't even deign to morph liquid. See, it's all real. Any sensor would see a Cybertronian in front of you.

However, he's not impressed. He sighs.

[driftlock]

...the frag. Welp, squishy, you kind of just blew his tiny mind. And are not squishy anymore because that sure is a metallic 'thunk' under his fingertip. This can only mean one thing.

"You one of Jhiaxus's experiments or something?" Freeeeaky.

[constableodo]

Odo sighs angrily. "I am not an experiment." Deadlock may have never seen a Changeling, but still.

[driftlock]

"You're not Cybertronian, though. Because we don't do...that." Hhn. "Unless that's one of those holomatter things." That's right, the organic thing is just a projection.

[constableodo]

"I do that." Odo doesn't want to discuss this. He's tired of this conversation already. He sighs.