SESSION 2 [DATE: 7/20/2023]
Swindle doesn't make any attempt to move from his standing position, giving Blastoff the perfect opportunity to hit his gestaltmate in the back of the helm and knock loose whatever he was trying to cough up. To everyone's disgust, this glossa creature is alive and scurries away into a hole in the wall. Knockout is quick to dismiss it seeing as his work there is done, but Brawl notes that he saw Blitzwing trailing behind Swindle in the hallway when he was infected with this parasite.
Hover makes her way over to Blitzwing to ask him what happened, but he responds that he doesn't remember seeing such a thing but thinks he might know who does. It is then that he has no choice but to force a front switch to interrogate the tertiary identity of his who did witness it. This hotheaded alter is reluctant to answer, but before he can, Slipstream is pushed through the door by none other than Megatron's very own second in command, Starscream.
He explains to everyone there that from that point forward, no one is to listen to anyone else regarding plans of the exodus except for members of high command, revealing that Slipstream gave the false "old blue" code because her room was falling behind in productivity and she wanted to sabotage the leading room by causing a riot. Her punishment for this is the full removal of her t-cog, dooming her to a painful grounded existence. He then goes on to say that this event has actually expedited the exodus's formulation and that they are ready to present the actual plan to them right now. Ultimately, it boils down to "don't do anything until you hear the siren of the Seekers over the P.A. system, during which you should be able to just walk right out without any friction." This doesn't sit right with his audience, and by the look on his face as he leaves the room, it can be inferred that he's not too confident in it either.
Abandoning Blitzwing's line of questioning, the party gets distracted by Onslaught pointing at an individual who they had never seen before. Usually everybody knows everybody in the stockade, but this strange minicon is floating around like she's lost. She explains in sign language that she is a lost Cassetticon named Dynamix who ran off when Rumble and Frenzy were picking on her, and she's trying to get back to Soundwave. The party expresses hesitation to take her with them for fear of Soundwave's wrath if he finds out and gets the wrong idea, but in the end, they have no choice but to have her bunk with Hover.
Recharge falls upon all of them, as they will need plenty of it for the storm brewing the following cycle.
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SESSION 1 [DATE: 6/29/2023]
Our story begins on any normal cycle in the stockade. It's been about six hundred years since our party and their faction were locked up, but without the use of their chronometers or their t-cogs, it's anyone's guess. Surely the big breakout that their leader Megatron is planning could happen any day now, which would be great if they were even allowed to see him let alone be informed of the plan directly from the source.
The first rotation of factory work finishes, giving way to their brief mandated energon break. Shift found some time to catch up with their old friend Dragstrip, Hover offered to help Vortex with a problem regarding a strangely behaving Swindle, and Jetrush called Slipstream on her bluff for giving him a false secret code. The break was over just as soon as it began, and they all went back to their work stations.
However, the platitutinous monotony of the second rotation was interrupted by Astrotrain heckling Kup as per usual, but due to a joke he took a little bit too far about someone Kup lost, the old guard started beating down on him. He doesn't resist because he knows what will happen if he does, but instead he calls out "Hold old blue!" Jetrush recognizes it as the code that Slipstream gave him, but she was stationed to another room. It would seem that she informed everyone else in the room of that code as well, though, because that is the catalyst and soon there's a full-room fight between the prisoners and guards.
After trying and failing to escape amidst the panic, Shift, Jetrush, and Hover awaken in a storage room that had been turned into an emergency infirmary. They are greeted by Knockout, the only other medic on their floor, who greets them with ire and points them towards Swindle's sorry state. He asks for Hover's advice because he's never seen anything like this, and Hover eventually deduced that something was wrong with his glossa. After some unorthodox attempts to extract it, Hover eventually resorted to mneumosurgery to figure out how it happened. She is greeted by the view of something popping out at Swindle from a hole in the wall.
An argument breaks between the four of them and the other Combaticons standing by to hold Swindle down, but a stroke of bad luck interrupted their bickering. Brawl lost his grip on Swindle, and he rose to his twitching, creaking pedes.
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