Potential Action in Genessia/ Accidental Voice

[hippocraticoath]

[Look, he just wanted to contact another Autobot, okay? Why was this too much to ask? As it's turned out, his attempt to utilize his comm system has instead activated the phone because his hands are too big for the device, so everyone in town gets-]

Can anyone slagging hear me or am I talking to myself?

Optimus, can you read me, preferably sometime today!

[As for Ratchet himself? I don't see any twenty foot tall robots here. Just a perfectly normal parked ambulance outside the bay cave.

Totally, completely normal, nothing weird here!]

Comments

Action

[anewhero]

Looks like a strange parked ambulance outside as Marcus shrugs and watches a bit

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[hippocraticoath]

[Well good luck, that ambulance is not moving. Not a single sound or a honk.]

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[anewhero]

[ Marcus doesn't care as it's a parked car to him. A ambulance to be precise. But still anything had a use in his post apoc world where he was from.]

ACTION

[black_black_heart]

Tannusen heard the weird broadcast a little bit ago, but he doesn't connect it with the vehicle chillin' outside the Bay. Why would he? No, and he doesn't answer the broadcast, either... look, he's already talked to like, two confused newbies today. That's his quota. He done his good deed for the month.

An ambulance being here, though. And no driver inside?

Curious.

Tannusen's been around plenty of machinery, between his years as a nomadic carnie, as a biker, and then as an on-the-run something in a souped up Class-A RV that he'd Oakenshielded the everliving shit out of. He's no mechanic, but he's a suspicious bastard.

Kenning, of course, turns up nothing.

Hm.

Hmmm.

Is there a bomb under this thing, or something? Sure enough, the tiger in a t-shirt and jeans, after walking around the vehicle a few times, drops to the ground and starts to shimmy his way under it. Jethro, parked right beside the suspicious ambulance... does nothing that anyone but Tannusen would know about, right now. But he's acting as a look-out for any paramedics or whatever rushing back over to find out what the fuck this guy is doing to their ride.

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[hippocraticoath]

HAY.

Ratchet was pretty busy trying to just look like your average, totally not poke worthy ambulance, because from what he had learned about humans, there was some measure of respect for emergency vehicles. Safety and stuff.

So no, when Tannusen decides to slide underneath him and start feeling all over his undercarriage, there is a LOUD and ANGRY blast on the horn, the sirens suddenly shooting off as the engine revs loudly, shaking the entire ambulance.

EXCUSE YOU.

[black_black_heart]

THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE CAB OF THAT AMBULANCE.

AND THIS THING HADN'T REGISTERED AS EVEN A BLIP, A DROP, A SPECK OF MAGIC.

WHAT THE FUCK.

Tannusen slid out from under the ambulance in a hurry, mostly because MOVING PARTS, MOVING PARTS.

"Jethro, are you seeing this shit?"

[hippocraticoath]

The second he's out, the ambulance goes dead silent again. Okay he hates having a holoform in the cab. Mostly because of alien racism IT'S HARD LEAVE ME ALONE. It would be a good idea to peel off like a maniac.

If... if... there had been a holoform in there.

Which there isn't as was recently established.

This isn't his fault nope.

So the ambulance just sits there silent and motionless now. Nope, you're bats, Tannusen.

[Video]

[youfool]

"Yes, perfectly! Your voice is coming through loud and clear. Is mine? I hope so. Sadly, I've heard of no "Optimus"."

[But then he's seen the pattern play out very, very often. New arrivals request the ones they knew, and were met with disappointment surely as sunset. Unless they were one of those strange "package deal" arrivals; some people have all the luck. He never knows how to break it to them beyond something so simple and direct it might as well be "you're on your own, sucker!". So he leaves it at that for now.]

"You must be new here. I'm Ted. What's your name?"

[voice]

[hippocraticoath]

[UH

NO THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PRIVATE FEED, NOT THE PARTY LINE, THANKS.

The feed goes dead silent for a full minute, Ratchet cursing rampantly inside his head.

FRAG.

SCRAP]

None of your business, this was a private connection.

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[youfool]

[Ted assumes something happened to him to be quiet so long, so he goes on his merry way. What a shock to find a chide a full minute later. The nerve of these newbies!]

"Aha, sorry. Unless I happen to miraculously have this Optimus' number, I'm quite certain it went out to all and sundry. Ah well, I leave you to your sublime solitude."

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[k2so]

We can hear you, although I can't speak for the quality of the content. of your message.

Who's Optimus?

voice

[hippocraticoath]

[He's starting to get the fucking idea that wasn't as private as he wanted it and the prior human hadn't been a gross hacker.

He's not calling him back to apologize.]

Someone I need to get a hold of.

[Yep! That's all the information he's giving SORRY KAY.]

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[k2so]

[Amazing deduction skills right now right there, Ratchet.]

Clearly that person doesn't want to talk to you. Or they're not here, there's a 70% chance of that being the case.

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[reachnotflexibility]

[ Garrus had decided he wants to investigate the Bay that day on his quest to find out what's really going on here. He hadn't expected to find an ambulance. Or hear a call to one, either. He peeks inside, but nope, no one there. But it sounds like someone is trying to call it, and when someone's calling an ambulance they usually need help.

So he opens the door, climbs in, and picks up the radio. ]

No Optimus here, sorry. Everything okay?

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[hippocraticoath]

[wot

U WOT

Ratchet actually doesn't lay on the horn and sirens immediately because he is too busy trying to process what just happened.

there's some weird organic

sitting inside of him

HELP

There's a great deal of sputtering over the radio before-

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEEEP

SIRENS GOING, ENGINE REVVING]

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!

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[reachnotflexibility]

[What the fuck.

Garrus had just been trying to do a good deed and now the ambulance has seemingly come to life. He's not sure how he triggered the alarm, but he's fairly sure he knows how to shut the damn thing off. He begins tinkering with his omni-tool.]

Answering your distress call and apparently setting off the damn car alarm. Hang on.

[Another stroke, and the decryption should let him turn it off.]

Action;

[no_protesting]

[An adorable girl in a white out and about, enjoying some fresh air and sunshine while she makes further attempts to familiarise herself with the odd buildings mystical lights.

And then Maria spotted the ambulance. She has seen these horseless wagons before, but never bothered to get a good look at one. She was also was intimidated by the rumbling they make. This one seemed like it was asleep, or something. So she approached.

She circled around it once before stopping on the passenger side.]

Hmm...

[Maria gently pokes the ambulance with her Heal staff to see if it's alive.]

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[hippocraticoath]

[No movement, no sound.

Just a little poke with a stick, keep yourself together. He doesn't give a crap if someone nudges him with a stick.

He is, however, trying to figure out how to quietly commlink Optimus.

FRAG.]

Action;

[no_protesting]

[No reaction? Is it asleep? Or injured? She really shouldn't be bothering an armored beast/wagon thing that is three or four times bigger than she is, but she is a sweetheart and a benevolent soul. She doesn't plan to hurt it. Quite the contrary, even.

Maria channeled her white magic to her staff, the glass orb on the tip shined and glowed, emitting a soothing healing light towards the thing.]

[voice]

[captain_by_the_book]

Your radio is functional.

[ This is Cassian, being helpful. In a certain manner of speaking. ]

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[hippocraticoath]

Yes, thank you. I've noticed.

[captain_by_the_book]

You asked.

[ Look, nobody ever said his humor is quality. ]

[Action]

[generalgrievous]

[Having not paid much attention to the accidental broadcast, Grievous was shortly afterwards walking past said ambulance and again he paid it no mind. But Ratchet may notice the seven foot tall cyborg striding past in his fancy cloak and aggressively glaring at anyone he passed.]

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[hippocraticoath]

[what the fuck is that

... Sick, actually, is what Ratchet is deducing. He might not be the go to guy for alien biology, but from what cybernetic parts he can see-

Someone needs a doctor.

Ugh.

UGH-]

... I don't suppose you have a physician to go to.

[CRANKY. And yes, that voice is coming from an ambulance nowhere]

[Action]

[generalgrievous]

[Pausing, Grievous looks around for the source of the voice.]

Who said that?