kismet_loop | [Text] HeLP

[Text scrawls across the screen as it is being written with words being deleted and revised several times. The errors are few by human standards, but by Cybertronian? It is pretty obvious the dictator is very likely in distress.]

I cannot function like this! I can't! I won't!1 They can't find anything wrong with me, but they aren't looking hard enough. yWhy can't anyone find the problem??

Nothing has a taste anymore. Tried everything. 8Ate everything. No point. I can feel it and see it and chew it to pieces but no taste. Enjoyment diminished by 70%. Texture, smell, color- no taste??? NO TASTE.

Tried to fix it myself.

[The video finally flicks on and those without strong tanks/stomachs will probably need to look away. Dirge's throat is torn open, ragged bits of protoform peeling away to reveal a mess of wires pulled out from beneath his chin. Below that a long tube is visible, slightly nicked by sharp, fumbling claws. A few of the wires are sparking, most are hanging limply, two are welded together in some haphazard attempt to connect them. Dirge opens his mouth, wincing as he does so, to display a much managled tongue. A segment in the middle is split open, leaving it hanging at an odd angle, the rest ummovable down from the wound.]

Did not work. Can't eat. It hurts.

gHelp.

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You really didn't, though.

And now you know better, don't you? Tell me, what possessed dear Sam to do something like this in the first place? I can't picture her running around tossing curses or whatever on people for no reason.

[Dirge snorts at this, if KO doesn't think he'd do nearly anything to restore his sense of taste, then he is quite mistaken.]

She was anGry that I triEd to mElt her.

Oh. Well in that case, I can't say that I feel too bad for you.

You are hEr friend toO?

[How does she have so many more than him? Not fair.]

Well, sure. She's been nothing but polite to me.

Is thAt all oNe has to dO to maKe a friend?

It might depend on the person. Friendship can start in the simplest ways.

It doesn't sound like you have many friends. Probably because you try to melt people.