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Okay, botcast. Hi.

Basically, we've been having some communication issues lately, which is... 99% on my end and my fault. orz. I'm having trouble keeping this plot straight, I don't remember what I do and don't know, and recently it led to me godmoding Soundwave a little. x_X;

Thus, this post; basically I think we need to have a discussion about our current 30 Xanatos Pileup and where we're going with it. I'm having it on this journal as that will keep it off the main comm and thus it won't get buried under 40 million other posts about other things, and we can keep this as a discussion.

That said, things I want known:

- What is your character planning/doing right now?
- What can other characters know about what this character is planning/doing?
- What does your character know about what other people are doing/planning?
- What would you like to do in the future, possibly with other characters?
- Any particular goals / things you want to have happen short term?
- Same question, but for the long-term?
- Other... stuff?

And then we are organized! Yay. This also goes for people involved with significant CR around Botcast *looks at Bitsy and Grimm*

Yaaaay?

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WHAT IS HE DOING
- Being paranoid about 'Nanashi'. Being paranoid about Soundwave. Being paranoid about Shockwave. Being really paranoid.
- Making overly large gestures to deal with the problem and thus failing even more.
- Seriously, he's more paranoid than Red Alert right now, and he's worried that he can't trust anyone. Also, very deep down inside he's upset with himself because he feels like he's fucked something up. You're supposed to LISTEN TO HIM, DAMMIT. THINGS WERE GOING WELL. GRRR.
- Starscream's thus going to be making some very stupid decisions.

Other projects he's working on/things he's involved in:
- He still has a vial of Cerberus spinal fluid that'll give him temporary enhanced strength and regeneration. He's just. Never gotten to use it. Orz.
- He's learning magic from Loki, if the mods ever OK my revision on that.
- He's got a replacement robot body 90% completed, mostly he's developing the skin at this point, which is taking him an agonizingly long time because he doesn't know much about techno-organic stuff. Still, it'll be ready to go by the time I get back from hiatus, pending mods telling me stuff.
- He's going to the Coalition dinner because he feels obligated to be there.
- There was plot with Tony Stark, but it never panned out. :(
- He's still investigating the human soul whenever he can, because he wants to do science to it.

What can other characters know?
- Paranoia re: Nanashi: Obvious paranoia is obvious. Seriously, this is common knowledge.
- Learning magic from Loki is known by Shockwave, I believe, but Starscream hasn't really told anyone else. It is, however, obvious that he's looking for information on human souls.
- I usually even forget he posesses the Cerberus fluid, so doubt anyone knows about that either.
- If anyone's been looking carefully at StarWave's spending, it's pretty clear a lot of money (A few million dollars, actually) has gotten funneled into some R&D project. Starscream also has a habit of leaving hastily scrawled designs and notes around the common room of the apartment, so you might know he's building some sort of hyperadvanced humanoid, but not what for or why.

What do you know about other characters?
... at this point I really don't know orz. Someone please remind me?

THE FUTURE
- I want him to get his physical body killed again plz. NO SPARK STABBING YET THX.
- We really gotta resolve this clusterfuck. He's this close to just killing Soundwave AND Shockwave because his paranoia is up to 11. CAN'T TRUST ANYONE CAN'T TRUST ANYONE CAN'T TRUST ANYONE *rocks back and forth*
- Idk help me out here guys D:

SHORT TERM GOALS
- ... I doubt this will happen, and I defer completely to Alba on this one, but I'd like him to learn some kind of lesson about trusting his troops and working properly with them (YES, REALLY), and maybe for after they probably murder each other in showers of blood, collectively go THAT WAS. UM. STUPID OF US. and slowly work towards some kind of accord.
And then kill each other again in a few months because who are we kidding.

Long-term
- Get better at leading
- Become a genuine threat rather than just a derpy threat
- Get forced more and more into having to choose between Skyfire and leading the 'cons!
- Probably make the wrong choice
- If Skyfire dies or gets ported out or something else horrible happens, activate Plan Omega.

idefk I'm just. So confused. Right now. Orz.

poor teal

Welp, basically Rimmer's off being Rimmer, and all lovey-dovey with his new lady, but that will all come crashing to a halt soonish, for two reasons.

1) Something going down with Raven which I don't want to spoil orz.
2) Timeswap shenanigans a-comin'.

He's going to be Hologram Virus!Rimmer, complete with Mr. Flibble and hex vision. SO. He'll be going all evilbadnasty soon, FAIR WARNING.

...

Oh my god, Bitsy. If he's Evil!Rimmer during the time/AU shift event...

... how bad is he.

Because I'd love for him to face off against Good!Starscream.

WELL I'm going to be very, very firm on the fact that he's not going to kill anybody. So not THAT evil. (Mainly because him killing people is waaaaaaay too angsty, and Mr. Flibble needs to be FUNNY.)

But he will be causing all sorts of property damage and chaos and blowing things up really good, just because he can. And, if the mods approve it, I'm going to make it so that the Hex vision can go through the comms, because that's also canon. (Seriously. He catches the holovirus off Dr. Lanstrom because he SPOKE TO HER ON THE RADIO and she zappped him one.)

So basically yes, Good!Starscream vs. Evil!Rimmer should definitely happen.

WHAT IS HE DOING
- Making this face: B|
- Slowly learning more about human culture.
- Trying VERY HARD not to become complacent. It's so easy here, because he's not being shot at constantly/starving to death/facing 'cons 24/7, so he's almost like "oh god I can go back to science ^^" but then he's also like BUT I COULD BE PORTED BACK AT ANY TIME ALSO THERE'S CONS HERE ALSO THERE IS SOUNDWAVE HERE B|
- Thinking about how to best kill Soundwave, fuck the truce. Blaster isn't here, thus he owes it to his friend.
- ~~Pining for Drift~~
- Quietly doting on Skydive.
- Quietly liking this Nanashi guy.
- Doing CSI work for the police.
- Practicing with his guns.
- Still trying to avoid humans finding out that he's a robot.
- ... still lives in the MAC. why isn't he at Autobase yet :(

What can other characters know?
- If you're human and not Trowa? He's trying very hard not to let people know he's Cybertronian.
- He works at the police station in the CSI unit.
- He's not a very G1 or TF:A ish Perceptor. Namely? Taciturn and often scary.
- Shockwave build him guns. Shockwave now also knows that he's a dead shot with those guns.
- I think that's it?

What do you know about other characters?
- He knows mostly who is Decepticon and who is Autobot and your comm numbers. If there's exceptions, please remind me.
- He doesn't know that Soundwave's second comm belongs to 'wave, but he's wondering where the heck that guy went, since he's not seen him posting on the comms at all since then.
- He knows that no one is from his universe, and doesn't much care.
- He knows that Shockwave is a semi-loyal 'con here, but is confused by this. He doesn't trust Shockwave at all.

THE FUTURE
- I'd like him to teach Skydive how to read Autobot and how to speak and read Decepticon.
- Getting to trust Trowa and humans more / understand that the Code of Interplanetary Conduct does NOT apply here and should be broken would be a VERY GOOD THING, as it'd get him out more.
- Once he trusts Trowa more (he already trusts Trowa almost completely, as he's. Like that. It's just "But you're a human and I don't want to hurt you D: " at this point) he should teach Trowa how to read Autobot and Decepticon, and how to speak it as best he can (which is technically impossible as we know that Alastair can't pronounce it due to... reasons. That Zero made up. )
- Come more out of his shell. Along with trusting humans more? Start helping them with superscience. Autobot superscience.
- Get the Autobots better weapons and help the 'bots start to catch up with the Decepticons in that regard
- Talk more with Skyfire, apologize to him before flipping out again if he finds out about the Starscream thing. But still, science and derping, plz.
- HE NEEDS TO DISCOVER HIS GEISHA POWER IN THE MOST AWKWARD WAY POSSIBLE.

SHORT TERM GOALS
- ^ See come out of his shell and do more science

Long-term
- ^ see above, which changes contingent on getting a Depth Charge, Wheeljack, or Drift (or equivalents)

Get in the base, you. We need solidarity!

Okay. I'll need to find someone else who can kill him then. But he IS The type to go STOP, EVILDOER.

Did I tell you his powers, or..?

WELL YOU SHOULD TELL HIM TO / INVITE HIM IN

/ ORDER HIM TO

He'll help you clean everything because he can SEE GERMS and it weirds him out.

OMG YOU'RE GOING TO KILL HIM AGAIN?!

Going for the record of character deaths at C&C are we? :V

No, you did not tell me his powers. SPILL.

1. Killing Derpscream is slightly different, as I'd want him to go out via Heroic Sacrifice. Alternately he can NOT die, but still be severely injured/on the verge of dying and then get ported out, and Screamer gets ported back perfectly fine.

And yes, yes, I am.

2. Energon Swords - he's got a pair of crystal blades that he keeps in subspace. They're somewhat, but if they break he can summon new ones; this, however, kind of hurts and leaves him exhausted. Ironically, they're made of material that could permanently kill the REAL Starscream; they're also really, really, really sharp, and can cut through solid steel. And yes, he can use them, very well.

Supersonic Flight - Unlike the real Starscream, SG Screamer has all the Required Secondary Powers that let him fly his top speed. Which is Mach 4, about twice as fast as Starscream can go.

Microwave Lasers - His lasers cause the molecules in objects to agitate until they overheat and explode. It's canon I swear. I'm kind of making this just heat beams instead so it's not godmody. They are much more powerful than Starscream's.

Fragile Health - He has a huge, glaring weakness to make up for all this - his health. Sucks. He's nearly blind without his glasses, his skin is severely sun-sensitive (he will ACTUALLY be albino!), he's got a horrible cough paired with dizzy spells and bad knees. Thus, while he can hold his own in a fight, he can't do it for very long before his body just cuts out on him.

discovering the geisha power you sayyyy hmmmmmm?

but will shockwave discovering it be appropriately hideous.

My goodness. o_o

Damn, this is tempting me to have Derpscream kill Rimmer. ._.

i neeeever said anything about shocky discovering it

but if he does i could make it hideous

He won't kill people though unless he HAS to, and he's been around humans long enough to know how not to hurt them.

well

either way I want it to be hideous

Ah, okay. Fair enough.

This is going to be hideous.

one word: billy

oh christ

you know you want it

WHAT IS HE DOING
- Attempting to salvage his situation somehow so that nobody has to die... except possibly himself. But preferably Starscream.
- Watching for a way to kill Starscream.
- Being silently pleased with having not completely gotten his ass kicked at Edgeworth's.
- Being silently DISpleased at having been made into a kitten for four hours.
- Following orders from Soundwave to a) keep watch over Ravage, b) go along with pretending to believe Soundwave is slipping loyalty/leaving/wanting to overthrow Starscream to kill time until a better idea is put together.
- Struggling over whether or not to dismantle Arsenal now or save the mech for in case there's an emergency.
- Trying to continue learning about/interacting with Soundwave and Shockwave in an attempt to understand/accept them and himself and/or seek answers to meaningful personal questions.
- Watching the network to find out who has been hurting Waspinator.
- Attempting to discover more about the various Autobots and possibly befriend them if they'll let him do so as a human instead of needing to repeat the spy process.
- Attempting to make something of his life as a normal teenager and help animals, since he kind of prefers them to nearly all humans.

What can other characters know?
- Quatre knows just about every move Trowa makes.
- Starscream and Shockwave know about the lion forms; Soundwave and Starscream know about the agility powers.
- Shockwave and Soundwave know about Trowa's attachment to Quatre. Both know Quatre's real name, but only the latter knows Trowa's.
- Shockwave has a few other pieces of knowledge stolen from Trowa. I believe he's kept them to himself?
- Those two and Starscream know he infiltrated the faction. Waspinator knows someone did, but hasn't been told it's Trowa. Trowa is keeping Thundercracker and BlackArachnia in the dark so far. Nobody else knows.
- Thundercracker and BlackArachnia, however, do know that 'Arsenal' had a hand in their current misery, whoever that bot is. Slipstream knows as well, if from an opposite viewpoint.
- Perceptor is aware that 'Nanashi' is a human who seems to know far too much.
- Skydive has spoken to 'Nanashi' once or twice and that he's willing to help. Cheetor knows that name as well. Skyfire has been asked for help with the shelter by that name.
- Soundwave is probably the most well-informed character out of everyone as to Trowa's real actions/motives, since that's who Trowa speaks with the most of botcast and with the most openness.

What do you know about other characters?
That would probably be easier to list out if specific people requested info on what he knows on their particular char. >_<

THE FUTURE
- Will be running around Jordan with Quatre from Jan. 8-13 but watching the comms during this time.
- Will have opened that shelter project of his on the 15th.
- Depending on when the timeswap shenanigans happen, will be his younger canon self at some point. This self may well react differently to plans/events than older Trowa.
- May die? May live? May kill someone? May save someone? May get someone killed? Or tortured? May flip his shit and attempt to bring things down around his ears? Might have deliriously happy ending? May become robot and forcibly somewhat programmed as a Decepticon for Screamer's kicks? I DON'T KNOW HELP ME OUT HERE AUGH.

SHORT TERM GOALS
- IDK something should probably get figured out about what they're going to do with their little spyboy, if anything.
- See also: inform Waspinator about who he is.
- OOCLY? Freak out anyone who was here when Optimus Prime was by making some kind of voice post as Arsenal. SOMEHOW.

Long-term
- Will have something--whether botcast related or not--that causes him to cut himself out of people's lives for a while and run away to go be alone and away from everyone/everything for their safety and his own sanity; this could be a month from now or this could be eight months from now. I just know that it's probably going to happen at some point. Not the when or why.
- Other plot-spoilery stuff that can't be mentioned yet sadly

IDK I FEEL AS THOUGH I HAVE CONTRIBUTED NOTHING BEYOND THE OBVIOUS but it is late and i'm not sure what else to put that I CAN put atm

Edited 2010-01-03 06:16 (UTC)

NO THIS IS STILL REALLY HELPFUL I PROMISE

Also what does he know about Starscream specifically :|a

Annnd I'll have more helpful stuff tomorrow.

*sob*

yeah

yeah I do

okay as long as you promise. i can tl;dr at length actually my memory for stuff is. a little ridiculous.

i shall tell you what he knows about starscream when i return from work tomorrow in the early evening; for now, sleep. yes.

What is your character planning/doing right now?
- Running the police force (like a boss).
- Running the prison (like a boss).
- Running the Autobots...like a boss? No seriously, what's there to run? WHAT HAPPENED TO US, GAIZ? And more importantly, how did Optimus put up with this stuff?
- Spending inordinate amounts of time with his new tank.
- Being a jerk.
- Creepering on everything Thundercracker does as long as he's in the superjail.
- Trying to lure in those Autobots who are kind of hanging out on the fringe of things. I'm looking at you, Blurr. And Skydive. And Perceptor. /fails at recruitment
- Suppressing the complete emotional clusterfuck he's having regarding Blackarachnia

What can other characters know about what this character is planning/doing?
You know, for once in life, I don't think Sentinel has anything to hide. CLEARLY THIS NEEDS TO BE RECTIFIED. His alliance with GLaDOS has already blown up in his face, though in a rather different way than originally planned, and at this point I'm not sure how much, if anything, anyone knows about it having happened. I'm not sure how much, if anything, people know about his history with BA either. Other than Thundercracker, he seems to have been pretty well clued in.

What does your character know about what other people are doing/planning?
My ignorance and Sentinel's are one in the same. No, seriously. He has no fucking idea what's going on with the 'Cons right now. Outside of being obsessive over BA, he doesn't particularly care, either. He probably should, but...yeah. He doesn't.

Future business
I refuse to use categories because I don't have things planned well enough to divide into short-term and long-term goals.

Anyway, yeah. I know Arei and I have discussed some BA creepering on Sentinel action to occur in the near future. Being pushy with Blurr in the hopes of getting him over his Prime-phobia. And since I've failed completely at getting involved in plot things for the past...oh...two months, I should. Maybe. Get involved in more things. Yeah.

Other stuff...well, the stuff above regarding BA and GLaDOS is more than up for grabs for people to use against him in some way. I'd like to see him backed into some corner and completely screwing himself in the attempt to get out. More "come to the dark side" business with Starscream is always welcome. And I would really, REALLY like to kill him at some point. Heroically. The kind of death that says to people "wow, he's more than just some jackass who runs his mouth all the time", since I feel he was utterly deprived of his redemption (or any arc closure whatsoever, actually) in canon.

Longer term? Escalating hostility between him and Starscream. Possibly the end of the truce if the 'Cons are slowly becoming a legit threat. More complete and total leadership fail that he might actually LEARN from. And speaking of learning, I'd love for him to get a good thorough education on the other TF universes sometime, to learn about his alternate self and the Optimus Prime who is actually competant and awe-inspiring and stuff. He's heard bits and pieces. He doesn't believe half of it, and thinks the other half proves that everyone else's universes are backwards compared to his. He needs to be beaten over the head with this stuff.

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