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Savage Beast Wars

I'm going to give everyone a little more time for a post-crash response, but making Sunday my deadline: Next post will be up before Monday, does that work for everyone?

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Looking for feedback:

Sideways

Name: Sideways
Faction: Predacon Maximal Yes
Protoform: Spy bot

Sideways is one of Megatron's spies. He is presently posing as a maximal within the ship's ranks as a sleeper agent, ready to be activated in case Megatron needed a new ship. Likewise, he is gathering intelligence on the other predacons, looking for any weeds to root out.

Beast Mode: Chryssalid

Sideways transforms into a terrifying insect form, with four sharp claws for legs and mandibles with a powerful bite. As a spy bot, his armor is quite pathetic, however his speed is only trumped by fliers, and he can easily burrow underground.

Personality:

Determined - Loyal - Cunning - Brutal - Snarky - Has hard time making decisions

Background:

Sideways' background is shrouded in mystery. It is not known if he is even originally cybertronian, having crashed in Kaon with his ship from outter space. Whether he has left cyebertron long time ago or originates somewhere else even he does not know, due to amnesia caused by the aforementioned crash landing. Strangely, he possessed a beast alternate mode from the get go, although the beast is nothing like any lifeform on either cybertron or the planet where the ship crashed, suggesting it was obtained on another planet on his travels.

@Forsythe

Hmmm... Could be interesting

Edit: the link for your beast mode doesn't seem to be working? the link works, but the image doesn't actually appear

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In the original Beast Wars, the cybertronians had to take beast forms because it protected them from 'energon radiation' or something. Is that going to be what prompts our characters to take on beast forms as well?

@Stern Algorithm

Though it's canon-icity is dubious, Beast Machines (the follow up series) did portray/suggest that there was some precedent for Beast Modes- a new character introduced in the first season of that series had been the only survivor of another exploration mission, and fallen into similar circumstance (stranded on a planet and unable to remain in bot mode indefinitely). However, the lifeforms were exclusively plants, even the ones that run around and behave in animal like ways.

So, I guess it's not that hard to imagine, but it wasn't common.

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Posting later today

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What's the point of asking to divert power and then advancing the time so far as to make it irrelevant? XD I wanted to take a couple of pot shots at Wingwraith, if only to make him soil himself :D

@Forsythe

I hadn't thought of that. I have no excuse, it was late and I was tired.

I will point out that you can still technically do that; at least a few actions can still happen in the time represented by the line I put in there, and I'd even let you assume you landed a shot or two.

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The ship replied, "Weapons systems are not currently energized, but functional. Do you wish to divert power from the thrusters?"

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With thrusters at least, Septishock was able to attempt to negotiate a landing they might walk away from!

"Warning: We have fully entered the atmosphere. All occupied stasis pods successfully launched, and damage from the hull-breach has been quelled.

Brace for impact."

The atmosphere wasn't so dense that they couldn't see a land mass becoming clear- the ship clipped some kind of glacial formation, and spun counterclockwise partly before beginning to glide on water! The ship made a big splash before flipping, twice, and finally hitting ground below water, coming to a rough stop on a shore, with the bridge portion fulling submerged!

"Status Report: The ship has come to a full stop. Hull integrity at 60%; launch bay doors: Destroyed; interior explosion. Forward wing on the port side: Destroyed; collision mid-landing. Aft-starboard main thrusters: misaligned and severely damaged; impact with celestial body, probable.

Initiating environmental scans... Scanning... Scanning... Scanning..."

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It occurs to me we don't know what Einhorn is up to, but I'm going to assume he is trying to help how he can.

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Working up a post, aiming to get it posted this weekend.

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You can totally do that

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Good post, @Duthguy. My next post needs to be a lot better. >_>U