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maskormenacelogs2014-07-18 10:59 pm
worstprime) wrote in maskormenacelogs2014-07-18 10:59 pm
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OPEN!!
WHO: Rodimus and OPEN
WHERE: Heropa; Arcade and foodcourt
WHEN: July 18th or therabouts
WHAT: Trying to figure out human culture, getting excessively into cheap arcade games
WARNINGS: None ATM!
Rodimus is immediately regretting how little attention he paid to humans and their culture in general during his last stint on Earth. He'd never really bothered to pick up on any of the subtleties of their interactions...never really needed to. Okay, honestly, he'd never really picked up on the broad strokes either. Same excuse.
Now, holomatter avatar all fired up and ready to go*, he's ready to do some ""research"". Get the lay of the land; pick up some basic Earth culture....stuff.
*Rodimus' holomatter avatar is of a young, colourfully dressed woman, who appears to be in her early twenties.
A. ARCADE
This seems like a reasonably popular place for people to gather and do things that look enjoyable. Rodimus spends a good long while lurking around the outskirts of the arcade before actually going in. He's figured out that the humans come here to play games, and that to play those games they use currency. The games in question definitely look interesting, although he's not yet sure how they all work or what the object of some of them is. On paper, he's here to just do some observation, and sticks to that, spending some time milling between people playing skeeball, air hockey and some miscellaneous computer-screen based games, occasionally asking painfully blunt questions about what they are doing or how it works. They all seem fairly simple, but the humans in general seem entertained. Many of the games seem to be competitive in nature, and pit two or more individuals against one another.
The longer he spends watching people, the more the urge to actually try these games out begins to grow on him though...
B. FOOD COURT NEAR ARCADE
Although his holomatter avatar neither needs or is able to eat, Rodimus figures this is a good place to try and get some cues about human behaviours. Food seems pretty integral to the culture here, so why not? There's a small food court right near the arcade that's filled with several small stalls and kiosks selling both meals and snack food of a wide variety. He spends an indefinite period of time watching hot dogs rolling in a small, self-contained ecosystem.
The sheer volume and variety of food and drinks available for purchase here is overwhelming to Rodimus...and he can't he even eat any of it. How humans even manage to decide on a daily basis is beyond him. He watches in rapt interest as the people at the juice bar make smoothies, and abject horror as others consume some fleshy nuggets from cardboard containers. There's a lot to learn here, and he's got no idea where to start. In the process, he's generally making himself a nuisance, hanging around too closely to people while they order, watching them eat, asking the employees prying questions about their food preparation processes that if his holomatter avatar were less charmingly disarming they might mistake otherwise her for a health inspector.
WHERE: Heropa; Arcade and foodcourt
WHEN: July 18th or therabouts
WHAT: Trying to figure out human culture, getting excessively into cheap arcade games
WARNINGS: None ATM!
Rodimus is immediately regretting how little attention he paid to humans and their culture in general during his last stint on Earth. He'd never really bothered to pick up on any of the subtleties of their interactions...never really needed to. Okay, honestly, he'd never really picked up on the broad strokes either. Same excuse.
Now, holomatter avatar all fired up and ready to go*, he's ready to do some ""research"". Get the lay of the land; pick up some basic Earth culture....stuff.
*Rodimus' holomatter avatar is of a young, colourfully dressed woman, who appears to be in her early twenties.
A. ARCADE
This seems like a reasonably popular place for people to gather and do things that look enjoyable. Rodimus spends a good long while lurking around the outskirts of the arcade before actually going in. He's figured out that the humans come here to play games, and that to play those games they use currency. The games in question definitely look interesting, although he's not yet sure how they all work or what the object of some of them is. On paper, he's here to just do some observation, and sticks to that, spending some time milling between people playing skeeball, air hockey and some miscellaneous computer-screen based games, occasionally asking painfully blunt questions about what they are doing or how it works. They all seem fairly simple, but the humans in general seem entertained. Many of the games seem to be competitive in nature, and pit two or more individuals against one another.
The longer he spends watching people, the more the urge to actually try these games out begins to grow on him though...
B. FOOD COURT NEAR ARCADE
Although his holomatter avatar neither needs or is able to eat, Rodimus figures this is a good place to try and get some cues about human behaviours. Food seems pretty integral to the culture here, so why not? There's a small food court right near the arcade that's filled with several small stalls and kiosks selling both meals and snack food of a wide variety. He spends an indefinite period of time watching hot dogs rolling in a small, self-contained ecosystem.
The sheer volume and variety of food and drinks available for purchase here is overwhelming to Rodimus...and he can't he even eat any of it. How humans even manage to decide on a daily basis is beyond him. He watches in rapt interest as the people at the juice bar make smoothies, and abject horror as others consume some fleshy nuggets from cardboard containers. There's a lot to learn here, and he's got no idea where to start. In the process, he's generally making himself a nuisance, hanging around too closely to people while they order, watching them eat, asking the employees prying questions about their food preparation processes that if his holomatter avatar were less charmingly disarming they might mistake otherwise her for a health inspector.
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Lost in thought, he nearly lets the puck slip by, recovering just in time to knock it back to the other side of the table.
So she knows he's not human. He's still not about to volunteer his home planet without knowing more. In the reality he's from, Earth and it's humans didn't exactly have the best relationship with Cybertronians. He's not yet sure how much of that is true here. It might be best to ask a few more questions.
"Maybe I'm not human, then," he acknowledges. "Do you...have you had a lot of aliens on Earth? This Earth, I mean."
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"Sure, we got plenty." Quick, think of an alien! She has to have met a few by now, right? "Like, uh... Thundercracker!" She's far too happy to remember that name, and snaps her fingers with it. "Yeah. Sure, there's one."
The puck, meanwhile, slips into her goal, and Carrie doesn't even notice.
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"Thu...Thundercracker!?"
Well, if he wanted confirmation about Cybertronians on Earth, he got it. Or he assumes so..."Thundercracker" can't be that common of name. Was Thundercracker still on Earth? That guy really needed to get his scrap together.
"I uh. Was this "Thundercracker"...was he, perhaps. Large. Maybe not so...organic. Maybe made of metal? Sometimes a...a jet?"
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"Can't say on the jet part, but the rest... yep." She cocks her head, thoughtful over the latest news. "Take it you know the spud. Yeah?"
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Rodimus thinks back, trying to remember the last time he'd seen the Decepticon. It was on Earth, come to think of it. It was....it was not Rodimus' finest hour, actually. Oh, yes, he remembers it all very clearly.
"I don't want to invite any rash comparisons, given our...er...political differences," Rodimus starts slowly, still treading carefully until he knows the full-extent of current Cybertron-Earth relations. "So, don't jump to conclusions when I say we're both from Cybertron, will you?"