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[sword_redemption]

[There was Theophany, and fighting the Galactic Council troops. And then he heard Rodimus say something over comm, and there was a blinding flash. And now he was here, alone, standing in what looked like a courtyard, still half braced for combat. But Cyclonus wasn't next to him. No one was. Even the snow itself seemed undisturbed, a thick blanket of white, crunching under his feet. ]

[He reached for his communicube, stowing one of his twin blades, coming up instead with...a book? He'd seen them on Earth, of course, but, well, not on Theophany. And not in his own storage.]

[He flips through it, talking to himself.]

...must be the Metrotitan. All the old stories say they could teleport. Maybe he went after the others. To find the Knights of Cybertron.


But....[He looks up around the walls of the Cair rising around the courtyard.] Where is everyone else?

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[whistles_the_blues]

[A whistle could be heard as Blues entered the courtyard. The tune came to an abrupt end however, when he found himself face to face with another robot. He had just been repaired from his last encounter with another robot, he wasn't exactly looking to have a repeat of the same situation. He took a few cautious steps toward Drift before simply saying.]

You look lost.

[sword_redemption]

[The sound startled him, but didn't sound alarming. Just...strange. ]

I, uh. Yes. Lost. There should be others with me.

...wherever this is.

[whistles_the_blues]

I assume you just "arrived" then?

You're in a pocket dimension called Paradisa, It's unlikely that the others you were with were brought here too.

[sword_redemption]

But.

I need to go back. This is all a mistake. Or something.

[whistles_the_blues]

Not really a mistake, more like a kidnapping.

[sword_redemption]

Kidnapping? But.

[He shakes it off, puzzled.]

You're strangely calm about it.

[whistles_the_blues]

There's more here for me than there is where I came from.

Even if I wanted to return, this world decides when that happens.

[sword_redemption]

That may be true for you. They need me back home.

[He's always felt like he was needed. It's too much to think he could just be irrelevant.]

So you just sit back and let it keep you hostage?

[whistles_the_blues]

[Ouch, that stung.]

When the alternative is worse, yes.

[sword_redemption]

[He's really sort of bad with the manners.]

What's worse than being kept prisoner away from everyone who matters to you?

[whistles_the_blues]

[Blues just has a complicated home life.]

Being taken away from everything that matters to me.

[sword_redemption]

[Well, touche, Drift. He has you there.]

So how can you be so complacent about being here?

[whistles_the_blues]

After from initial kidnapping, aside from the odd mishap, this place is rather accommodating.

I can imagine being in much worse places than here.

Dictated

[originalcopy]

Welcome to Castle Wonderfuck new guy.

[ooc: lol robot convention!]

Dictated LOL!!!

[sword_redemption]

Is that what it's called?

[Because that, uh, that doesn't sound very, you know....]

Dictated all the way down

[originalcopy]

Nah, it's actual name is Paradisa. Wonderfuck is just more appropriate.

[sword_redemption]

Oh. Well that's...something.

[It sure is a something. Yup.]

Look. [You're a fellow robot; you're cool, right?] I really need to get back.

[originalcopy]

Good luck with that. I hate to break it to you, but it's not that easy.

No one has figured out a way to escape yet.

[sword_redemption]

There has to be a way, though. I mean, we can't just sit around doing nothing.

[originalcopy]

Fuck no, this place doesn't just let you sit around doing nothing. It likes to mess with us too.

Eventually it will do something... crazy psycho viruses, magic kissing, mirrors that drag you into trippy wonderlands. You never know.

Basically, this place sucks in just about any way you can imagine.

[sword_redemption]

[Magic...what now? He probably doesn't want to know.]

Sounds, uh, [Terrible? Horrible? Are you quote sure you're sane?]...interesting.

Who is it, though? I mean, someone has to be behind it.

[originalcopy]

Just wait until your first mindfuck...
[yeah, go ahead and sound skeptical noob.]

From what I've been told it's the Castle itself. It's alive or some bullshit.

It also took something from you. An ability, a memory or something else. Because apparently, it's just that much of a bastard.

[sword_redemption]

I can hardly wait. [Semi-deadpan.]

Like a citiformer? Like Metroplex? [Because of course you know what those are.]

Took something? [And then it hits him: the weight he's so used to feeling between his shoulders. Gone.]

....where? WHY?

[originalcopy]

City-what? What the hell does a movie theater have to do with this?

[No clue buddy.]

Ah, just figured out what it was...

[sword_redemption]

Movie....?

Metroplex. No. He's one of the cityformers. Or he used to be. He's out there somewhere.

[But Drift doesn't think this kidnapping thing is quite Metroplex's style.]

Yes. [He's going to try to play it off lightly, like it's not, OH the worst thing in the world on top of ending up here.] I don't suppose I can get that back, either.