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[Accidental Video] Backdating this sucker by at least a week omg

Okay . . . First-Forged aren't here. How the frag am I not still dead?

[Guess who took enough fireworks to the cockpit to punch through his spark chamber? Same mech who's sitting on his berth looking like he's got the MOTHER OF ALL PROCESSOR ACHES, with worried, chirping robo-firelizards around him.]

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No, that's fine. Where do you want to meet? And when?

Meeting now would be nice, if that works for you, and wherever is good. I can book it over, or meet you at the Atrium, or...?

[He nods.]

I'll head for the atrium.

Seeya there in a bit.

[True to his word, the Seeker is hanging out along the edge of the space when she gets there, sitting on a giant bench designed for Cybertronians, his robo-firelizards perched on his shoulder vents and wingtips. The lizards start chirping and chittering, wings flapping, when they spot her. He gives a nod of greeting.]

[Sam waves, limping up to a conversational distance.]

Hey.

[She eyes the firelizards curiously, but they don't quite manage to pull her attention from Thundercracker.]

How're you doing?

[The Seeker shrugs, venting a sigh through his intakes.]

Tired.

[In more ways than one, though he's chocking it up to recent resurrection. ~~He's also just starting to feel the edges of the pull of the Miasma, not that he has any idea.~~]

So what more did you want to talk about?

Ah, lessee. How this whole 'back from the dead' thing works, if I'm not asking too indelicately? And if the people the First-Forged successfully reanimated were all Cybertronians, or just all robots from wherever, or what? And some other stuff, but that, that's a good start.

[TC shrugs.]

I don't know how it works. I asked that once of the one I was bound to. Even he couldn't explain it fully. I think it had to do with their connections to us, the ones forged through their Glyphs that we all wore to keep the Lambda from driving us murderously insane. [a grimace at that…but he witnessed what happened to those /not/ bound, so not like he could argue.] He said it had to do with attempting to call the deceased's spirit back and binding it to the body. Except . . . I don’t think it always required having the body to do it.

I don’t remember if non-Cybertronians were ever killed and restored in the past. Nowadays, it's not the First-Forged anyway. At least, I don't think so. From what I understand, they're all dead. What I can tell you is whatever force is at work these days, whatever brought me back, does work on organics too. Jendayi was also killed by an explosion, and she's been restored.

[There's a pause as Sam just sort of... processes all this. As much as she's come to accept---before and after being stranded on an alien planet---people being brought back from the dead is something else. Especially since it seems they aren't coming back wrong, which is what she'd expect elsewhere. Thundercracker's aura is a little muted, maybe, the colours (such as they are) sort of desaturated, but it's not that far from what she'd see on anyone feeling tired or flat. What's there isn't anything to raise a red flag.]

Wow.

Look, I'm sorry to be grilling you, but would you mind filling me in on the Glyphs and the being bound to the First-Forged? Even if it's no longer applicable, it's context I'd appreciate. But, I get it if I get 'some other time,' because... yeah. You've kinda had a day here.

...I'd also like to hear what the hell they told you---and who 'they' were---when you woke up because this is kind of a curveball.

((ooc: I let his paid run out and now all I've got are this, his default, and all the crack icons. >,>))

[Thundercracker shifts, the fire-lizards on his wings and vents twitching and chirping as they rebalance.]

No one was there when I woke up. I just found myself on the berth in my apartment.

As for the Glyphs . . . they were energy signs embedded on someone's surface, usually on a shoulder. There were five that I know of, each denoting a different First-Forged. Mine marked me as . . . "belonging", for lack of a better word, to Alpha Trion. A little of his power bound to my spark - or whatever - somehow kept me from being driven violently psychotic by the energies of the Lambda that tainted me by having been pulled here through it. Same for everyone else. Apparently, we'd arrive somewhere in the junkyard directly below the Lambda - where the Warehouse is now - and acolytes of the one of the First-Forged would find us and take us back to their temple, where we were bound to the First-Forged before we gained consciousness.

Unfortunately, that's about all I know.

[There's a little noise at that; something to approximate 'huh, that's weird' without actually interrupting. After Thundercracker finishes his explanation, Sam claps her hands together.]

I'm going to do the decent thing and cut myself off before I get on the questions to come up off all that, but I wanna thank you for giving me the run-down and patiently fielding everything I've asked.

[Thundercracker shrugs, mindful of the fire-lizards.]

No problem. Not like I was busy.

[And...not like he couldn't use some company, if he were honest.]

[One of the fire-lizards, a brown/tan/yellow one (Numbers), leaves its perch on the tip of TC's wing, gliding down to a low branch close to Sam. It looks at her, chirping and "fluffing" its wings (sort of - they're mechanical and bat-like) at her.]

[Sam shrugs, content to leave it at that. Her attention shifts to the fire-lizard as it moves, and although she's had very little to do with any of the creatures, she's unworried as she watches it descend. When it chirps, she smiles, taking a couple of steps closer and stretching up a hand for it to lean down and sniff at/otherwise inspect, if so inclined. It's what she'd do for almost any other variety of pet.]

((OOC: Aaaaaand I don't really have any more ideas for this one. Call it good?))

((OOC: Sure.))

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