skidaddle: (Xx-Sparkeater manicgrin)
skidaddle ([personal profile] skidaddle) wrote in [community profile] re_alignment_logs2013-03-12 09:37 pm

Dinner Time

Who: Skids and YOU!
What: Sparkeater Skids is roaming the Haven, looking for delicious robots whose souls he can eat.
Where: EVERYWHERE MWAHAHAHAHAH.
When: For a few days before and after this post.
Notes:
Skids is a Sparkeater, and as such is ravenous for the life energy that powers Cybertronians. Most robots that aren't Cybertronian are safe, but if you think your robot has anything close to a spark I'm more than willing to fudge it and have him try to give it a bite.

How does this work?

In canon, the humanoid sparkeater seems to have some method of coaxing a transformer's processor out of their head, which effectively locks them up and releases their spark, so to speak. He then eats it. However, there are other sparkeating turbofoxes which don't have so complicated a ritual and seem to be capable of just getting a spark chamber open and giving it a nom. I'm cool with whatever, so if you'd like your character to go through some spark-chewing trauma but survive intact, just note that when you post!

Skids is still Skids, just species swapped. Therefore, it still looks like him but with a lot more rust, randomly missing panels, and tentacles. Glorious, H.R. Giger tentacles. He's still himself in there, so if you're organic it will be possible to talk to him and even reason with him. If you've got a spark, though, his hunger will overpower his reason and he'll go after it. However, unless you note that you want your spark chewed (or eaten! I'm game for some good old death) then I'll let your character find a way to escape unscathed, possibly via comedic pratfall.

Questions? Just ask on plurk or send me a PM~


~~~

Everything had been hazy, since his race with Blurr. He'd been out setting up some new courses for Shepard to try her driving on and had seen the blue car zipping by. It had sparked an idea in his head.

Somehow, that idea had sparked something else.

His casual desire to chase after the racecar had turned into an intense desire to chase after the racecar, and he'd found new speed welling from within. He'd been able to keep up.

He'd been able to catch up.

He'd been ready to do so much more.

Blurr had been saved from his intense hunger, however, and when Skids tried to think how that had happened his mind became fuzzy. One moment there had been Blurr, and the next moment there wasn't. When there was no more Blurr, his need had shifted, and he'd...smelled?...something else. Something new.

Starving, he'd chased after it, only to be thwarted again. And again. And again.

Everything, now, was chasing, seeking some indefinable satiation that could quell the hunger driving him on. He'd contacted friends. He'd wanted to see them.

He'd wanted to rip them open and feast on their insides. That was simple.

It was everything else that was complex.


~~~
sariexmachina: (Talking - ahah - driving Bee)

[Action] Hehehe

[personal profile] sariexmachina 2013-03-16 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
Skids wasn't the only one who was hungry.

Thankfully, only organic food was on Sari's menu, and was far easier to procure than flighty, escape-prone sentients. Raiding the pantry at the Hub was a nice change of pace from the constant junk pile scavenging she'd come to endure - and far less likely to be gross and smelly than what she often found squashed under rubble. It was a bit of a ride from Nexus' temple, even on her scooter, but she'd be stocked up for the next week or so if she planned it right.

But human-style fuel or not, beneath that organic shell beat the spark of a Cybertronian.
sariexmachina: (PERK - sideglance)

[Action] I AM PREPARED. AND LATE.

[personal profile] sariexmachina 2013-03-22 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes Sari a long while to even notice. Under the hum of the scooter and the bumps and jolts of driving it on an imperfect 'road' to the Hub keeps Skids hidden from her for some time. It's only when she gets inside, driving on the smoother halls toward the kitchens does she get...antsy.

There is definitely something skittering around behind her, but the only people she's seen all day are just...robots. No evil bugs running around.

Still. She drives faster, and is relieved when she pulls up to the kitchens. She grabs the crate strapped on the back of her scooter and heads inside.
sariexmachina: (Grin - fooling around - working)

[Action] 83 YAY

[personal profile] sariexmachina 2013-03-31 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Inside the mismatched kitchen area, Sari is already throwing cans and boxes of non-perishables in her crate, munching on a rare and much-coveted banana all the while. Thanks to the dented mini-fridge she managed to drag into her little, lonely apartment, she can even bring back frozen foods as well, and goes right for the good stuff. Dragging over a step ladder, she can start raiding a freezer chest, chucking bags of fries and chicken fingers and even a small pint of ice cream blindly over her shoulders toward the crate.

Back to the entrance, she is oblivious to the approaching danger.