Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...primus_seeressApril 21 2007, 03:58:15 UTC
*An unsuspecting Auspex enjoys the short walk between the Nexus point, and her sanctuary. It's always a joy to return to Cybertron after being elsewhere, and once again feeling the presence of her god in the very ground beneath her feet. She offers a brief prayer of thanks, for the simple things that mean so much.
As she comes within sight of the temple, however, an unnerving sense of... discord comes upon her, increasing as she approaches. Nothing looks out of place: the hills and the plains are undisturbed, the sanctuary stands, quietly solemn and anonymous as always... yet she can't lose this feeling, that something is wrong, or... perhaps an echo of something that was wrong...
She is wary as she comes closer, reaching with esoteric senses, conferring with Primus. The ground resonates with the memory of a dark, thoroughly revolting presence. She feels echoes of great pain, anger, fear... here?? At the very doorstep of her sanctuary
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...primus_seeressApril 21 2007, 03:59:35 UTC
The zambonis -- one or more of them, anyway -- seem to remember quite a bit about what happened when they were taken from Snowcat and Demolishor. Given the favorable look to the first drawing, and the apparently contested presence of the seeker in the last, Blackstar has not been seen as 'bad' by at least one of the sparklets... and Blackstar must have been in contact with them, to have obtained a copy of the drawings. Normally, that would be a pleasant relief -- it would do much to buoy his hope, after the incident with the zambonis denouncing him in the Nexus, if one of them has befriended him -- but she's beginning to piece together the puzzle, and she doesn't like it. Not at all.
Blackstar had been here, to offer the drawings as an apology and a reassurance, both. But something corrupted has visited here as well, prowled her sanctuary, and put a warden in the threshold to keep spirits out... There was pain out there, though whose, she does not know... the 'something' may have had Cybertronian origins, and it could belong to
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...attair_al_fadaApril 21 2007, 22:26:37 UTC
The other reply to Auspex's hail doesn't belong to Blackstar, either.
// Echoshift, Auspex... Starscream here. We just arrived in response to a certain distress call. // There's a tone of caution to his voice.
"Sky, you get a fix on those transmissions?" Starscream asks the huge white mech beside him.
"That I did. Echoshift is over there, atop a cliff, and Auspex is just a bit down the path from us. That white blotch over there would be her," Skyfire points out with unobtrusive gestures of his hand--no raising of arms to point, just one finger pointing from his hand held close to his waist.
"Good," says Starscream. There's something rather fierce in his optics and feral smile.
(( Auspex, Starscream & Skyfire are just up the path at your Nexus zone-in point ))
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...primus_seeressApril 22 2007, 00:16:11 UTC
*Auspex glides along at a medium pace, reaching out with her senses more than actually looking at the landscape... still finding nothing. Maybe the Nexus..? But then, she receives Echoshift's comm, and answers, still on the open channel, so Blackstar may hear, if he can. If the cultist hears... there's no time to worry about that.*
//I've just returned to my temple, and found a gift that Blackstar left for me... after I discovered the ward someone set up around my temple, to keep ghosts out, and found signs of spiritual vandalism in the sanctuary. Please, tell me he called you out here.. You're apparently too far away for me to sense you just yet, but...//
*She breaks off as she rather suddenly senses Cybertronain presences at the Nexus point not far away* //Wait...//
// Echoshift, Auspex... Starscream here. We just arrived in response to a certain distress call. // There's a tone of caution to his voice.*Auspex is relieved the new arrivals are not hostile, not related to whatever did this. It's most likely that Blackstar
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...attair_al_fadaApril 22 2007, 18:55:08 UTC
Starcream--accompanied by Skyfire and... Starscream--stand in robot mode looking at Auspex.
"Priestess." A short nod of acknowledgement. "Accompany us--you may be needed, depending on what Blackstar ran afoul of," Starscream says. It's not a request--it is the command of an officer expecting to be obeyed. "Skyfire has located Echoshift, who is with Blackstar. If your aerial flight mode is lacking, Skyfire will transport you."
// Echoshift, Blackstar, we are collecting Auspex and will be up there shortly. //
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...primus_seeressApril 22 2007, 19:59:52 UTC
//He's weak enough that he can't solidify at will?// *She sighs, liking this less, the more she finds out...*
*Auspex returns her attention to the mechs standing nearby. She makes a short, staticky noise* And I thought I might have to argue with you to let me come. If something assaulted him, using Unicron's power, and in my own sanctuary... that, I take very personally. You couldn't keep me away. *the anger is starting to creep into her voice, despite her efforts to keep it contained. No, not a happy priestess at all.*
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...air_commanderApril 22 2007, 21:02:36 UTC
"Oh, of course we wouldn't question your authority in your sanctuary," Starscream replies, his tone just sarcastic enough to give away his irreverence. "After all, it's your duty to keep order here; I'm just here to help them," he states in a more serious voice, thus delineating the conditions of his being here, lest anyone assume that Starscream would do strangers a favour.
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...midnightspookApril 22 2007, 22:49:23 UTC
As Echoshift reaches for his discarded arm-guns again, Blackstar manages to reach weakly towards him, trying to concentrate to invoke his own type of tangibility. There is a bare whisper of resistance as his hand passes uselessly through Shifter's leg, but it quickly fades.
"Hey Blackattack, you still there?" Echoshift asks. "We should probably get you off the cliff top in case that weirdo Autobot decides to come back, you know..."
Blackstar would like that. He would like that very much. He hasn't been hurt like this... He's never been hurt like this before, but he hasn't been badly injured in a very long time, short of the one that killed him. That had been blessedly swift. He's never felt pain like this, hadn't understood until now just how vulnerable he truly is. He would like nothing better than to get away from this place, get somewhere safe where he can rest and let the ache and the burn and all the pain heal
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...0ut_of_sightApril 22 2007, 23:44:34 UTC
It's a bare whisper of a touch, but it's enough to get Echoshift's attention. Having returned his gaze to the direction of Auspex's temple a moment ago, he now looks back down again.
"Oh hey, so you're awake after all," and he even manages to follow the light teasing with a chuckle and a grin. The banter at least was familiar where everything else was not.
//'Fraid so,// he answers Auspex's question. Still crouched next to Blackstar, Echoshift's gaze is momentarily drawn back to the metal stake still held in one hand. He looks back up and glances at the place where Blackstar rests a hand over a particular spot on his chest. //Would you rather save the gruesome details for when you get here, or have me give them to you now and get it over with?//
His gaze goes back to Blackstar again. "Hey..." He taps the other's shoulder to get his attention. Or rather, he tries to. Blackstar isn't exactly very solid right now. "Stay here, okay? Don't go fading off before the others get here or something. They'll be here soon." Concentrate,
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...primus_seeressApril 23 2007, 00:08:05 UTC
//Would you rather save the gruesome details for when you get here, or have me give them to you now and get it over with?//
*Auspex sighs* //It's enough to know they're gruesome... I'll take your word for it, for the moment.//
Er.. *Auspex isn't sure why this is necessary... but she balks for all of half a second, before drifting up into Skyfire's cargo bay. Once she's there, she transforms, since she won't be going there on her own power, anyway. She seats herself, slight fidgeting giving away her anxiousness.* Thank you..
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...air_commanderApril 23 2007, 00:14:26 UTC
Starscream doesn't wait for Skyfire and Auspex, flying to the cliff-top as fast as his counterpart, if not faster. As he said to the others, distance is nothing to one no longer bound to the confines of a mortal body.
Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...attair_al_fadaApril 23 2007, 00:34:54 UTC
Starscream transforms and touches down beside Echoshift, almost in sync with his other self. He barely has a glance for Echoshift; ruby optics glow brightly as he looks over Blackstar
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Re: Someone Has Been Prowling In My Sanctuary...0ut_of_sightApril 23 2007, 00:46:37 UTC
Echoshift boggles a bit.
"Two Starscreams?" He looks from the F-22 to the F-15. "Say, weren't you the one who randomly showed up at 'Cat and Dem's party just yesterday?" he asks the F-15.
He stands from his crouch and moves out of the way as Starscream -- the F-22 -- drops to kneel by Blackstar. He can't see what the other Seeker can; he has no view into the realm of the spirit world. So he simply remains nearby and watches, the metal spike of meteoric iron still gripped in one hand but forgotten for now.
As she comes within sight of the temple, however, an unnerving sense of... discord comes upon her, increasing as she approaches. Nothing looks out of place: the hills and the plains are undisturbed, the sanctuary stands, quietly solemn and anonymous as always... yet she can't lose this feeling, that something is wrong, or... perhaps an echo of something that was wrong...
She is wary as she comes closer, reaching with esoteric senses, conferring with Primus. The ground resonates with the memory of a dark, thoroughly revolting presence. She feels echoes of great pain, anger, fear... here?? At the very doorstep of her sanctuary ( ... )
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Blackstar had been here, to offer the drawings as an apology and a reassurance, both. But something corrupted has visited here as well, prowled her sanctuary, and put a warden in the threshold to keep spirits out... There was pain out there, though whose, she does not know... the 'something' may have had Cybertronian origins, and it could belong to ( ... )
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//...'Spex?//
Out on the cliff top, Echoshift stands up from his crouch and looks towards the temple.
//'Spex, it's Shifter. Where are you? What happened?//
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// Echoshift, Auspex... Starscream here. We just arrived in response to a certain distress call. // There's a tone of caution to his voice.
"Sky, you get a fix on those transmissions?" Starscream asks the huge white mech beside him.
"That I did. Echoshift is over there, atop a cliff, and Auspex is just a bit down the path from us. That white blotch over there would be her," Skyfire points out with unobtrusive gestures of his hand--no raising of arms to point, just one finger pointing from his hand held close to his waist.
"Good," says Starscream. There's something rather fierce in his optics and feral smile.
(( Auspex, Starscream & Skyfire are just up the path at your Nexus zone-in point ))
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//I've just returned to my temple, and found a gift that Blackstar left for me... after I discovered the ward someone set up around my temple, to keep ghosts out, and found signs of spiritual vandalism in the sanctuary. Please, tell me he called you out here.. You're apparently too far away for me to sense you just yet, but...//
*She breaks off as she rather suddenly senses Cybertronain presences at the Nexus point not far away* //Wait...//
// Echoshift, Auspex... Starscream here. We just arrived in response to a certain distress call. // There's a tone of caution to his voice.*Auspex is relieved the new arrivals are not hostile, not related to whatever did this. It's most likely that Blackstar ( ... )
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"Priestess." A short nod of acknowledgement. "Accompany us--you may be needed, depending on what Blackstar ran afoul of," Starscream says. It's not a request--it is the command of an officer expecting to be obeyed. "Skyfire has located Echoshift, who is with Blackstar. If your aerial flight mode is lacking, Skyfire will transport you."
// Echoshift, Blackstar, we are collecting Auspex and will be up there shortly. //
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*Auspex returns her attention to the mechs standing nearby. She makes a short, staticky noise* And I thought I might have to argue with you to let me come. If something assaulted him, using Unicron's power, and in my own sanctuary... that, I take very personally. You couldn't keep me away. *the anger is starting to creep into her voice, despite her efforts to keep it contained. No, not a happy priestess at all.*
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"Hey Blackattack, you still there?" Echoshift asks. "We should probably get you off the cliff top in case that weirdo Autobot decides to come back, you know..."
Blackstar would like that. He would like that very much. He hasn't been hurt like this... He's never been hurt like this before, but he hasn't been badly injured in a very long time, short of the one that killed him. That had been blessedly swift. He's never felt pain like this, hadn't understood until now just how vulnerable he truly is. He would like nothing better than to get away from this place, get somewhere safe where he can rest and let the ache and the burn and all the pain heal ( ... )
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"Oh hey, so you're awake after all," and he even manages to follow the light teasing with a chuckle and a grin. The banter at least was familiar where everything else was not.
//'Fraid so,// he answers Auspex's question. Still crouched next to Blackstar, Echoshift's gaze is momentarily drawn back to the metal stake still held in one hand. He looks back up and glances at the place where Blackstar rests a hand over a particular spot on his chest. //Would you rather save the gruesome details for when you get here, or have me give them to you now and get it over with?//
His gaze goes back to Blackstar again. "Hey..." He taps the other's shoulder to get his attention. Or rather, he tries to. Blackstar isn't exactly very solid right now. "Stay here, okay? Don't go fading off before the others get here or something. They'll be here soon." Concentrate, ( ... )
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"We fly," he says. "Sky, load Auspex and let's go." With that, he transforms and circles once, then flies straight to the cliff-top.
Skyfire transforms into his shuttle form and lowers his aft cargo ramps. The two aft bay doors yawn open wide.
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*Auspex sighs* //It's enough to know they're gruesome... I'll take your word for it, for the moment.//
Er.. *Auspex isn't sure why this is necessary... but she balks for all of half a second, before drifting up into Skyfire's cargo bay. Once she's there, she transforms, since she won't be going there on her own power, anyway. She seats herself, slight fidgeting giving away her anxiousness.* Thank you..
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"Two Starscreams?" He looks from the F-22 to the F-15. "Say, weren't you the one who randomly showed up at 'Cat and Dem's party just yesterday?" he asks the F-15.
He stands from his crouch and moves out of the way as Starscream -- the F-22 -- drops to kneel by Blackstar. He can't see what the other Seeker can; he has no view into the realm of the spirit world. So he simply remains nearby and watches, the metal spike of meteoric iron still gripped in one hand but forgotten for now.
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