[ 001 Ϟ VIDEO ] What do I gotta do to get a drink around here?

[shitflashpointsays]

[ This little adventure? Not exactly the vacation of a lifetime. Flashpoint's never missed her flask of engex more than now. She needs a drink, or she's gonna start rubbing the enamel clean off her faceplates. Sharing hangar number-why-do-they-need-this-many-hangars with Deadlock hasn't exactly encouraged peace-of-mind inducing solid recharge. Two extremely long weeks later she's finally got her own place though, and HELL YES the fabricators sure do make energon as well as organic food. There's just one critical problem. ]

[ They don't make booze. Apparently engex was not high on the engineering staff's list of quality of life enhancements for Cybertronians. Well, frag that. She'll just make her own. Uh. Somehow... ]

So. My people subsist on energon and the oh-so-kind engineers here have programmed the fabricators to make it but...

Mmmm...

I'm hoping to modify the formula. A little variety shall we say? Increased, uh, 'potency' most definitely.

[ Hopefully with inebriating effects. Hey, no one said it wasn't legal! Right? ]

Not a scientist though. Anyone give me a hand?

[ Yes, she really is asking for help making moonshine. ]

[And if this broadcast had fine print it would read 'proceed at your own risk; energon has explosive tendencies' but fine print means caution and caution + Flashpoint aren't exactly a common package deal.]

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[video]

[driftlock]

[Oh, look, Flashpoint, it is your former hangar-mate. And now that his noodlebot and his grenade collection of one is safely out of your meddling, let the fun begin.]

You're gonna fraggin' blow a hole in the ship.

[Not that he's not okay with that. He totally is. In fact, he wants to be close enough to watch.]

[video]

[shitflashpointsays]

[HEY LOOK it's her favorite person.]

[To harass.]

Hope you're on it at the time!

[Kiss, kiss!]

[video]

[driftlock]

Better hurry up, then. Might ship out to great adventures, any day now, you know.

[Or....really tedious 'training', which is less awesome so he's just going to skip over that for now.]

While you sit here tinkering with food.

[Make him a sammich, Flashpoint. He's a fierce warrior and you're in the kitchen.]

[video]

[shitflashpointsays]

Do try and get yourself hurt!

[HAAAA she's in the militia so she don't need no fraggin' training. Have fun in bootcamp, grunt!]

Sitting in a bar is more like. Waiting for when they call in the heavy hitters.

[Because why else would they need the militia too?]

[Video

[norefunds]

[Have a super interested ferengi.] You manage to make something inebriating for robots? I'll sell it.

[Because everyone should have the right to pay him to get drunk.]

[Video

[shitflashpointsays]

That's the plan. The inebriation part.

[She hadn't thought about the rest. But hey, maybe she should. Be a pretty sweet side benefit!]

Should work for Cybertronians anyway, no promises on the rest. [Maybe there should be waivers involved?]

Re: [video]

[norefunds]

Great. Now...exactly how dangerous is this stuff? [Because ferengis are practically born reading the fine print.]

[He waves a hand.] That's what I meant.

[video]

[shitflashpointsays]

Uuuh. Depends on how you handle and store it. So perfectly safe when not entrusted to idiots.

[Which clearly Quark is not!]

So uh, if you sell it. I get a cut right?

text - :^)

[staygoldponybot]

You have interesting priorities.

[seriously how can you enjoy that energon shit he'd been pumped full of it and feels like puking everywhere.]

[Video] bc she's lazy--UH--efficient, that is.

[shitflashpointsays]

[Clearly she has the best priorities, what even are you talking about!]

Gotta eat this stuff so might as well make it palatable.

Or so potent I forget how awful this whole situation is.

[She's hoping for the latter, but both would be a benefit. And in the event of tank purging: remove faceplate first. This has been a friendly PSA.]

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[staygoldponybot]

[that's not going to be a problem, seeing as megatron tore his face plate off.]

I will not deny that the synthetic energon leaves much to be desired, but there are bigger issues to worry about than drinking yourself into an overcharged stupor.

[STERN PRIME DISAPPROVAL.]

perma video bc she's SO charming! /CACKLES

[shitflashpointsays]

[Well hey look, there's a bright side to everything, even faceplate injuries. No threat of backwash!]

What? I got a job--maybe two--a place to live and I don't know scrap about dimensional tears or space folding or any of that. I'll leave that to science nerds who know what the frag they're doing.

[A little recreation is clearly justified! Yes that's what we'll call it, recreation. It's not therapeutic drinking at all! SHUTUP.]

[video]

[abtakha]

[Cassie has misinterpreted this situation. She sees: a mechwarrior, filming from inside their mech, and requesting booze while in there. Thus:]

...Sure foxtrot well hope you're planning on getting out of the cockpit before you start getting tipsy.

[video] Ah YISS one of my favorite bits of cross canon CR

[shitflashpointsays]

Fox-what?

[Flashpoint is having some confusion too but maybe that's just her translation matrix fritzing.]

You sayin' I shouldn't drink and drive?

[TSK. As if she's ever done that before. On purpose. COUGH.]

[abtakha]

Yes, that's what I'm saying, deadzone. There's plentya goddamn bars around here, but you gotta climb outta there first before you squish some poor tech.

[zouichi]

Maybe you should give some to that Deadlock guy. He sounds like he could use a drink.

I'd offer to help, but I'm not really familiar with complex chemical reactions.

[shitflashpointsays]

[Or a punch in the face maybe.]

Tell me about it. Here I thought I was screwed tight. He's so torqued I don't think he even knows which way he's facin'.

Me either. Not making them anyway, just putting them to use. [Hmm, there's an explosive theme brewing here.]

[zouichi]

Yeah, I noticed. [Kinda hard not to!]

So if you also need this Energon stuff, does that mean you're also a Cybertronian?

VIDEO

[tomemyoutliers]

If you're still needing a scientist, I might be able to help.

( 100% friendly scientist here, who definitely doesn't turn into an emotionalless decepticon later. )

VIDEO 1/2 aaaaha I had to make a another icon for this XD

[shitflashpointsays]

[She almost doesn't recognize him. Because it's been a loooong time and there's holes in her memory files, lost faces and pixelated details. And because that particular face hasn't been seen around for a long time.]

[Hard not to recognize that paint scheme though (well, one of several). She just stares for a moment though, recognition slowly chugging past the memory fragments and registering on her face.]

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[shitflashpointsays]

Aaaaaahhh YES! A scientist! Which...you would be. Of course. Help would be...Great!"

[Wow, awkward. This is the part where she takes deep in-vents and reminds herself that he's not mono-lens-faced yet and therefore would have no reason to recognize her. Unless she's wrong and this is a complete stranger to which she's just made an aft of herself.]

VIDEO

[tomemyoutliers]

Excellent. ( have a smile, flashpoint! although-- ) Are you alright?

( DON'T MIND HIS FRIENDLY NATURE AND CURIOSITY but that was a rather... unusual reaction. )

[audio]

[semproteustyrannis]

[The fact that Flashpoint is one of the handful of Cybertronians on this ship means that Proteus has to be concerned and annoyed by what she does. The only way he's making any leeway in this place is by looking after the herd of cats that arrived with him and making sure they don't piss off the human hosts. Because that would make him look bad.]

[And yeah, a warrior handling dangerous chemicals is high up on the list of 'stupid ideas that should never see the light of day'.]

You should keep your hands away from energon until you get someone more qualified.

[audio]

[shitflashpointsays]

[Who the frag is it this time? She'd check for a network ID or something but she's too busy being insulted and saying the first thing that comes out of her mouth, oops.]

Is that a shot at me not making intellectual class? If so it's pretty cheap.

[OH NO YOU DIDN'T. But yes, she sure did call you cheap.]

Re: [audio]

[semproteustyrannis]

[UGH. You warrior class blockheads are so goddamn obtuse. Can't you see he's trying to make your lives simpler and easier to understand?!]

No, it's me insuring that you don't blow a hole into the hull of the ship.

Unless you're aware of the minutiae of energon distillery, I would suggest keeping clear until you find someone who does.