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✈ voice ✈

[The noise of wind whistling, quite loud, like the recorder is up somewhere high, with the very faint sounds of traffic down below. The comm is registered to "Marc Brut".

Starscream has been in the City for several hours, now. Hours of not posting with distressed vocalizations or angry threats, no demands. No begging for help. Hours of holding himself back from emotional systems collapse while he maneuvers the demands of an entirely new universe is no mean feat, but he doesn't expect a medal (it'd be nice though).

For a moment there's only a soft tapping, and then a voice, pitched evenly with rehearsed-sounding tones. Edged calm. Keeping things level, but under the veneer is the shadow of distress.]

I propose an informational bartering session, with whoever is on the Network--with whoever can speak to me who is in charge.

I - have invaluable data. You won't be disappointed.

[a few moments pass in silence, and then he ends the post. But a minute later, he's clicking it back on, unable to resist the urge to add]

And if you're ignoring my hails on purpose, you know who you are, so help me--!

[hanging up again hastily before he wrecks everything]

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[ Sobbing. Why is it that his life is such that he really feels like he has to answer when someone asks for who's in charge. Oh yeah, because he's the Mayor. Luckily this came up between speeches. Everything is between speeches today. ]

If you're looking for who's in charge, well. That'd be me. [ A beat ]

Although if you're new, don't you want a rundown of the place or something?

[a few seconds of silence, an eternity to a computer mind, meeting voice to voice won't do. He doesn't know who else is listening to this.

He doesn't know, though he hasn't seen any trace of proof to this end, if Megatron is in the City. The risk is too great. He lets suave sedate arrogance carry him through for now.]

There's no need to waste our time on the basics, Mitchell Hundred. I've familiarized myself with the City's general layout. [the arrogance chips and fades by degrees, and underneath is desperation] But I need to speak with you immediately. It means the difference between on and offline. Where are you?

Today's kind of the 4th of July, I'm actually going to be unavailable off the network today.

[ New arrivals asking to speak with him immediately is always cause for caution. Plus, online and offline is more than enough of an indication that he shouldn't listen, robots weren't his people, he told himself. They weren't, but his high-minded side gets the better of him, and then: ]

COMMUNICATOR, ENCRYPT.

Go ahead. Tell me what the problem is.

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[ Even under a different comm name, Starscream ~~'s voice~~ is pretty hard to miss. ]

So the situation with Lord Megatron didn't get any better, did it?

[OH SCRAP OH SCRAP OH SCRAP OH welp too late for plausible deniability, he may as well just--]

Ah. Knock Out. What an--unexpected pleasure. [burning to ask if Megatron is here. But if he is, he'll reveal himself in time. And if Screamer behaves like he is, speaks and couches himself like he is, he won't be any worse off for revealing ignorance.

Besides that, he has timeline incongruities to worry about. Maybe Knock Out was ordered to kill him on sight after his desertion.]

I, ah. Hope you're ...functioning optimally. [how is he going to make small talk he is terrible at it]

[ He technically was, but since neither Megatron nor Soundwave are here, it's not worth the trouble. ]

As optimally as this place will allow.

[ ... And since it's audio, now he wants to know whether he also ended up organic. ]

Which isn't much, I'm sure you've noticed.

Voice;

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Friend of yours?

It's Starscream.

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done.

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Also all that was encrypted, oops.

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ok!

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[ Pinged by "invaluable data". He loves data, okay, fight me. ]

The leadership of this community does not have a formal ranking system, although it appears you have already made contact with the mayor.

Edited (MAN I REALLY HOPE I DON'T HAVE TO RETCON THIS CONVO LATER re: jaime shenanigans) 2012-07-04 18:43 (UTC)

Hundred?

Yes. And you are? [he's not going to reject any possible paths of intel, yet. Though his petty jerkwadishness is the hardest thing for him to keep control over, so it's really only a matter of time]