~Retroverse~ {OPEN- Spaces Limited}

[JurassicParkour]

(I'll DM the fourth person and ask them if they're here. If they don't reply today, we'll go ahead and start.)

[JurassicParkour]

(Anyone in particular wanna start or shall I?)

[InfectedHau]

(I'm fine with whatever)

[rahma]

[ It might be best if you started Folie :) I need a refresher on how this world is like. ]

[JurassicParkour]

(I wrote this over a few days when my mom's back was turned so forgive my errors if I made any! )
Statos looked over his final blog entry, a little proud, and flashed a small smile across his screen. It would be the first expedition into the barren wasteland outside the city in a long time, but it meant more than that to him. It meant proving he was right and possibly saving the world in the process.
According to his calculations, he would arrive in the Lilydale ruins about the same time the power would fail. It was a win-win: either he would overheat or his battery would die in the worst case scenario, and at best he would save the world (or so he put it, because saving the power sounded far less heroic). His feet carried him to the street, bumping past other robots as he went to fetch his emergency batteries from the store. Everything seemed so normal, it was almost unnatural.
Fourteen days. Everyone only had fourteen days. Statos didn't mind the impending doom or inevitability of the end so much as he minded the fact that no one else seemed to be trying to change anything. It was so... Depressing.

[InfectedHau]

Xau strode into the city with what she hoped looked like confidence, ignoring the states that peppered her sleek black frame like buckshot. Not for the first time, she wished she'd had the forethought to put some clothes on. Everyone she saw seemed to be wearing them, and that was probably the source of the staring, but it was too late to back out now. Still, it was strange having a HUD that told her things Besides the fact that her battery was low. Not that what she saw made any sense, most of these robots had makes and model numbers that she'd never seen before. But that was no surprise, she was unaware of most non-military androids.

Xau picked up a small commotion from further up the street, and a robot with a TV for a head rushed past, bumping into her as he did so. Without quite knowing why, the infiltration unit turned and followed him, both interested in where he was going and who exactly thought it would be a good idea to make a robot with a TV for a head.

[rahma]

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tagged; open
location; store

"Alright, you're done for now. Come back by 7 and we'll do another scan for more... definite results."
Such were the words of the robot, Greysen, the silver-screened telebot, as he scanned the data-filled screen for the umpteenth time with a despairing look. As Jem pulled on his dark crimson jacket, he couldn't help but feel a sense of anxiety. The Lab robots, so he called Greysen and the others, had been the ones that witnessed his awakening and ever since had been following him for years. And when he meant years, he meant practically a century. It had all been to try to save the world from impending doom, and it was why Jem was created in the first place. Not that he's been any help.

"Okay, I'll be back. Do you need anything?" the cyborg offered, unsure of whether or not he should try to console the Lab robot. Greyson turned and flashed a smile with a sweat drop on his screen. "It's fine, Jem. Just come back later." Jem gave him a small nod and turned to exit through the automatic doors. 'It's not like you could help anyway. You're just an insignificant actor at the end of the world.' As Jem entered the streets, bustling with robots, he pulled his hood up to make himself smaller. He knew what the Lab would do - discuss the troublesome lack of updates, the 2 weeks they had left, Jem, and put up a somewhat optimistic update on their blog, called the End Lab Project.

As for Jem... he didn't have much to do. He didn't know anything about James - his namesake, the human -, wasn't very good with technical stuff, and had already finished recording for his show. But he really did not want to go back to his empty apartment and ponder over all of that again. Almost on the spur of the moment, he turned towards the store nearby. 'Mai is always complaining about losing her spare batteries. I might as well buy some.' Within a few minutes he had entered the store, hood still up, absentmindedly deciding between Albaprim and Cue batteries.

[Sorry guys, this has a lot of rambling. I won't be posting as often or as well as I'd like for a while :)]

[JurassicParkour]

The telebot quickly crossed the streets to a shop to pick up his order and stuffed the batteries in his backpack. There was a funny looking android or cyborg of some sort hovering in the store- definitely cyborg, he determined upon seeing the defined shape of a humanoid nose poking out from behind the hoodie. Probably an actor; not like Statos cared. A flyer advertising his expedition (the meet point and what it would entail) slipped out of his backpack as he left the store. He continued to walk, whistling quietly to himself all the while and posting up flyers as he went. Funny, it almost sounded like someone was following him. Normally he would be all over that- the perfect conspiracy theory hummed through his system. The lack of resources must be caused by the government, and they were trying to stop him from finding the alternate energy source because they wanted the power to die, and the aliens-
He let out a small whirring sound in place of a sigh. Most likely, it was just someone who happened to be going the same direction as him. It usually was. But as he continued walking, he became less certain of it. He was near city limits and the soft sound of footsteps continued to follow him.
Statos spun around, but his scanners didn't detect anything.
"Hello?" He called out tentatively.

[InfectedHau]

Xau was surprised to hear the thing speak. She wouldn't have thought there was room for a vocal processor in there, especially since it looked like the other robot's head was a CRT monitor. It must've been designed to look that way. It didn't seem to detect her presence, which confused Xau for a moment- she was right behind him, how could he miss her?- but then she remembered the sensor cloak. In order to be a succesful infiltrator, she had to appear as human as possible, and that meant disguising the fact that she was an android to other machines. Essentially, it coated her body in a mild electromagnetic sheath that made her invisible to almost any sensor or scanner. She could still be seen visually, of course, but that wasn't really important. She had thought that she'd turned it off, but it must've reactivated somehow. Probably what had been draining her battery so much. Going into her applications menu and turning off the cloak, Xau stepped out from behind the building that she'd been hiding behind, one hand resting easily on her hip. "So, what'd they build you for?" she asked, deciding to open with a friendly joke, "To kill the radio star?"

[JurassicParkour]

Statos' screen flashed bright colors in surprise- probably his only defense mechanism. The colors slowly dulled and swirled into a simple graphic of an eye. "It's not polite to sneak up on people," he huffed. His feet shuffled a little, softly scraping the street. “Sorry, I should introduce myself before I say anything about manners. I’m Statos,” he introduced. “Some people call me Stat, but they don’t usually survive it.” His screen began flashing again; this time it flickered an uncertain smile at his poor attempt of a joke. He certainly wasn't starting out well, although the oncoming apocalypse made that seem rather irrelevant.