sad Why, indeed...?
I went to see
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra earlier today.
xp It was incredibly stupid, let's make no qualms about it, but I'd actually have to say that I enjoyed it a hell of a lot more than
Revenge of the Fallen (which isn't saying much, in the greater scheme of things...).
lol But I still had fun with this silly little movie, in an entirely forgettable sense.
razz That said, I was rather disappointed that there wasn't more of Snake Eyes, as he's easily the most interesting character in this ensemble franchise, & Ray Park appeared well below his usual athletic game (thanks to being restricted by that dumb rubber muscle suit...).
stare What's more, can someone please tell me what's up with cinematic revisions these days & their apparent insistance on granting MOUTHS to animated icons of the 80's who are recognized for not having any -- first Optimus Prime, & now Snake Eyes?!
eek Anywho, it amused me just how "bish" they made Storm Shadow, by comparison, but of course they went & cast an obvious Korean in the role of the Japanese super assassin (because there are no Japanese actors in the world).
rolleyes Naturally, the producers followed typical Hollywood trends & cast the film entirely too young, which spoils things in my opinion, & the Snake Eyes backstory makes no sense (he's presumedly enlisted into the US armed services without uttering a single word), but you just have to accept all that on face value, it seems.
rolleyes I gotta say, though, Sienna Miller is freakin' HOT as The Baroness (although she looks kinda dopey with those transition goggles she's stuck with -- give me the smokin' leather-clad babe in the
wide-brimmed glasses of old any day!).
cool Yeah, that woman knows how to handle herself:
[LINK] wink There's even an unexpected (uncredited) cameo by Brendan Fraser as Flint (presumedly).
smile But I dunno -- I was surprised that
Rise of Cobra wasn't as... well... PATRIOTIC as I'd otherwise have expected it to be (if ever there was a narrative vehicle that quatifies your garden vaiety American cowboy cliché, where the world's only hope rests with the Red, White, & Blue, surely this is it!).
neutral I mean, you've got a BRIT delivering the catch-cry, for crying out loud (& honestly, what the hell is Jonathan Pryce doing playing the US President...?!).
stressed It seems really strange to me that they didn't recruit the services of Larry Hama to pen the screenplay to this venture, which I've no doubt would have made the end result so much more satisfying... but oh well, it's still entertaining enough, for what it is.
shotesu
BioBlade
I think it would be a good idea if we discussed some possibilities here in this thread. So, anyone have any ideas?
"Sora", the actor, is directed to take up a role in filming a movie which does on-site shoots at the target dam. This gives them a infiltrator and a foot in the door.
as for the dam personnel, Slipstream has blacksight create drones and equip them with very simple pretender shells, basically animate dolls.
These then take the form of some convenient scapegoat, IE, terrorists, radical enviromentalists...a anti-movie riot/mob...ect.
between these two preparations, the Dam staff and other humans on-site can be disabled and moved out of the way by the Doll squad, allowing the Cons to assume robot mode within the Dam's power chambers and drain energon off.
-the scapegoat dolls are conveniently disposed of in whatever means seems plausible, leaving no humans the wiser. Autobots may notice; but that's the point this Rp; the combat between the two. the cons could even expect them to show up to save the humans and have a trap waiting.
Someone's gotta make the first move....Indeed they do.
3nodding What's more, I'd say that, on the whole, this is an excellent suggestion.
biggrin However, that having been said, there is something I first need to ruled out -- forget about drones.
talk2hand
A PRETENDER SHELL, BY ITS VERY DESIGN, IS A PARASITIC CONSTRUCT, WHICH EFFECTIVELY LEECHES ITS LIFEFORCE FROM THE VERY SPARK OF ITS INTERNED CYBERNAUT -- WITHOUT BEING INFUSED WITH A CYBERTYRONIAN SKARKCORE IN THIS FASSION, THE SHELL COULD NOT SURVIVE. IT IS THIS ETHEREAL BOND THAT MAKES THE PRETENDERS PROCESS POSSIBLE. A DRONE UNIT, CONVERSELY, DOES
NOT POSSESS A SPARK, BEING A MINDLESS MACHINE, & THUS CANNOT BE OUTFITTED WITH A PRETENDER SHELL. IGNORING THE FACT THAT RELYING ON A CONVENIENT COTERIE OF STAND-INS MAKES FOR FUNDAMENTALLY SLOPPY ROLEPLAYING, DRONES ARE ALTOGETHER TOO RUDIMENTARY IN CONSTRUCTION & APPLICATION TO OPERATE AN ANATOMICAL MARIONETTE: AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT CONSTITUTES A DRONE IN THIS FICTIONAL REALITY WOULD BE ROLLER, AS TAKEN FROM THE "G1" CONTINUITY -- A REMOTE-CONTROLLED EXTENSION OF OPTIMUS PRIME, THIS UNIT IS ESSENTIALLY JUST A SERVICE PLATFORM ON WHEELS (while the
Roller of OUR continuity has an articulated claw, & is alternatively part of
Teletran-01, it's still much the same, when all is said & done). SO, WHILE THE DAM PLAN HAS MY FULL SUPPORT, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME UP WITH A BETTER MEANS OF GOING ABOUT IT THAN CALLING IN A THROW-AWAY CREW OF DISGUISED DRONES...
King Smeagol
shotesu
The Hegemon
It sounds good to me.
As for the creation of Energon cubes, there's just one small issue. We've already agreed that Energon needs to be refined before it is usable or stable enough for transport. This would mean that you would have to refine the energon on-site. In other words, it wouldn't be as simple as a quick raid. You'd have to entrench your position, especially if you were expecting Autobot retaliation.
I have got it. Sandy is into photography, his main obsession is dams. He takes photos of dams at certain view points. Strategical points.
He also loves getting structure plans that are available to the public. Of course, a cybertronian can easily get more than that, especially of a dam.
What day of the week is it in the RP? It might make it easier if we had dates and days, etc.
All I need is WHAT dam we are targeting, so I know what the hell I am RPing. Because I would need to see the landscape of where I am going and a picture of the actual real dam.
Well, as far as
location is concerned, why don't we look here:
[LINK] whee Merely a suggestion, of course, & feel free to argue conversely, but it seems to be (thematically) appropriate to me, especially given past exploits to come out of the mythos.
BioBlade
King Smeagol
Chief Magistrate OVERSEER
King Smeagol
G1 transformers actually MORPHED, because there was really no transforming, just everything changing into a shape.
Dude, what the
hell are you even talking about?! Seriously, if the original cast didn't transform, as you say, then what exactly do you call this:
[LINK]Oh Sorry Chief, I meant it looked like all the components the transformers were made up of got in the way of each other... So it didn't really look like they were actually transforming.
I do sort of understand......a bit of cheating was done in the old series, and not everything folded quite seamlessly. It wasn't really till stuff like Transformers Cybertron that you could see transformations pulled off without things morphing together......and frankly the bots suffered for it, becoming little more than giant
blocks.
Alright, I'll grant you that much -- representative
distortion is as much a part of traditional animation as is movement.
xd But the same is true of the more "realistic" mechanical conversions depicted in the live-action franchise, which cheat processes just as gratuitously (Bumblebee, for instance, never transforms the same way twice).
shotesu
One detail I LOVED about the 2007 and 2009 movies is the cybertronian language, and how it is spoken fluently. Thus, does such a rule apply here? I mean, can the various cybertronians communicate in a high-pitched, sonic stream of electronic-audio mesh? Well, seeing as how
Cudboy referred to the indigenous binary dialect of Cybertron on
numerous occassions throughout his tenure in the original roleplay, I think it's safe to say that something like that might just apply for us as well.
lol So, if that's the case, then you'd presumably find that you'd be dealing with something like this:
01110111 01101000 01101001 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101001 01110100 01110011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101100 00100000 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101100 01111001.
mrgreen Paint a clear enough picture for you?
surprised Hey, sweet -- I didn't know you had an illustrative flare up your sleave too, dude!
blaugh Nice work.
King Smeagol
shotesu
While trying to create my own personal vision of how Basixilus Looks, I had a idea. as Smeagol was previously lamenting his character's lack of offensive menace, I mentioned the idea, it he likes it a lot.
DEATH.
That is, a death-priest theme. Give him a reaper-style feel, with the staff as a now-lost design of a energo scythe, and shift his philosophy: that cybertronians who fight are in torment, and death frees their tortured sparks to go on to primus and peace. It is his job, as a messenger of primus, to grant the only peace possible from a impossible and impure existence. This could have been realized when he was left alone on the battlefields of cybertron.
It also strengthens slipstream's tollerance/sometimes-alliance with him; they would share common goals: remove those who cannot fight, for the sake of their sparks and cybertron's future.
This makes his alt-mode more fitting, and gives him added menace. It also makes the "old man" aspect not so...laughable. That is, the reaper is old and timeless, being more sinister with age, as to remind us that time is the staff to which the blade of death is mounted.mayhap the GM's would give their good graces for the needed revisions to the profile? Yeah, Basilixus does need major revision.
So if there is agreement, I will change bits and pieces of his profile so it fits with Shotesu's idea!
Funnily enough, I was kinda under the impression that
I'd cast similar remarks while issuing approval for this profile's publication -- correct me if I'm mistaken, but did I not speculate that the Decepticon
Deathnell, an established character from the original
TF: P (who also transforms into a hearse & weilds a scythe), could conceivably be seen as being a disciple of
Basilixus & his arcane teachings?
ninja Sharing such ideologies stands to reason, if you ask me, so it certainly fits.
pirate But sure, why not -- if you'd like to add a section incorporating these concepts, feel free to forward a revised draft my way, OK?
Oh, & just to wrap things up, there's a new promotional item available for those who might be interested:
[LINK]
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