January Activity Check

[re_alignedmods]

Hello Re-Alignment! It's time for the

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<b>Character Name:</b> <b>1st Example:</b> <a href="INSERT LINK/LOG/THREAD URL HERE">WITTY EXAMPLE TEXT</a> <b>2nd Example:</b> <a href="INSERT LINK/LOG/THREAD URL HERE">WITTY EXAMPLE TEXT</a> <b>Activity Summary:</b> (This only needs to be a small paragraph or list of what your character has done. Feel free to be general (IE 'McCrane has spent the last two months trying to find fuel to survive, getting an engine overhaul, and then building all the places.') or to be specific (IE 'McCrane has made friends with Noisy Boy, working with him to construct a punching block while trying to come up with ways for him to defeat Midas and thus gain the other robot's respect. He's also been...' etc).

AC Rules!

***For this round only, to take the hectic holidays into consideration, you only need ONE activity example per character! The next Activity Check in March will require the usual two examples.***

• -Comment to this entry using the above text box, once for each character. You may combine multiple characters into one post.
  
• -We'll be accepting any activity for this check that occurred between November 8th and January 7th.
  
• -You will need to post two Examples one example of Activity and an Activity Summary for every character you have in the game. (See below)
  
• -Any character accepted on December 15th or later will not be required to participate in this Activity Check.
  
• -You will have one week from when this post goes up to provide your activity check (so until end of day January 14th).
  

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EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITY

Examples of activity are really straightforward: we just need you to give us the URL to any two one of the following:

• -A Link-network post made by your character containing at least 20 comments of any kind
  
• -A log post made by your character containing at least 7 comments of any kind
  
• -Any thread in the main community in which your character has made at least 10 comments
  
• -Any thread in the logs community in which your character has made at least 5 comments
  

You may provide two of the same KIND of example (two Link posts, two log threads, etc.) Comment chains in which your character makes two or more comments at once will count as only one comment towards the total of the thread. If needed, you may combine multiple links to smaller threads until you have reached the minimum (so for ONE activity example, you could link to two main community threads with 5 comments each to reach the minimum ten comments.)

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ACTIVITY SUMMARY

In addition to the two examples of activity provided, you must also give us an activity summary.

An activity summary consists of a small paragraph explaining what your character has been up to since the previous Activity Check (or since arriving in the game if you are new.) This can be as simple or as detailed as you would like! At the minimum, be sure to hit any events your character has participated in (either game events or character plots) and where they're currently residing. If you'd like to get more detailed (such as drawing up CR charts, mentioning what Firstforged they've talked with, or adding links) we're not going to stop you, as this will make a handy future reference for you as well as for us!

The activity summary will help the mods in determining alignment swaps, determining future Firstforged plans for your characters, and will also keep us from missing anything important about your character. In no way will your activity summary have any effect on you passing or failing activity check, unless it is completely absent. In other words, doing the minimum on this can't hurt you, but going above and beyond can help you!

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EXCLUSIONS AND EXEMPTIONS

Characters are only expected to participate in an Activity Check if they have been in the game for a month or more. Generally, this means anyone who arrived in the most recent application cycle won't be expected to provide any samples of activity or a summary for that AC.

In order to qualify for an exemption to the Activity Check, you must have posted a hiatus of 2 weeks or longer to the official hiatus page during the period covered by the Activity Check. You may not request back-to-back exemptions, regardless of any length hiatus you may take. If you are unable to meet the requirements for activity due to real-life circumstances/an emergency, you MUST communicate with the mods before the end of the Activity Check.

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FAILING ACTIVITY CHECK

If you fail to post to an Activity Check within the week that it is open and you have not contacted the mods beforehand, then any characters not posted will be dropped from the game. The mods will put up a list of characters in danger of being dropped at the end of Activity Check, at which point they will have three days to contact the mods and provide AC and explanation for failing it. After those three days have passed, the drops will be official and the characters will be removed from the taken list and PC page.

If you post to the activity check but do not meet the minimum requirements in your Examples of Activity, you will be given a one week period in which to provide one (or two, as needed to meet the minimum requirement) new example of activity of any kind. If you are able to do so, then you will have passed activity check and be fine (although the 'new' example of activity will not be usable in the next AC.) If you fail to do so, then your character will be dropped.

Comments

[notyourblueangel]

Character Name: Thundercracker
1st Example: A pitiful cry in the night
Activity Summary: Well, as soon as the effects of the alteration wore off, Thundercracker let everyone know in no uncertain terms that that WASN'T HIM. Because. Then he went off and got drunk with Wheeljack . . . after offering to help Bulkhead (and Fracas and Skids) work on the roads . . . apparently the Seeker's actually a Wrecker at heart? Who knew? (Aerial Wrecker, that's a thing, right? He's sure Fracas would agree.) He couldn't find Skywarp, though . . . and then realized why. And threw a temper tantrum all over Haven. Thank Primus for Ventus and Shattered!Megatron, and Blurr. Though that didn't stop him from flying to IDW!Megatron's side with the intention of venting the rest of his fury on the Pillar.

That, as it turned out though, would have to wait. Megatron had been convinced to hold off his own fury until a better plan than "hit it with everything you've got" could be decided upon. Ultimately, as it was soon after discovered that the Pillar went down to the core of the planet itself, a contingent of Haven's refugees gathered to journey deep underground to deal with things at the "root" of the problem, so to speak. Here, the "other Seeker's" experiences actually aided Thundercracker in no small measure, as hurt, fury, pride, and sheer determination mixed with some coping mechanisms learned the hard way by his alternate self helped him overcome the otherwise nearly crippling claustrophobia of the sometimes tightly enclosed spaces. Though he'd later come to wish he'd stayed topside after all. He fought off winged robowolves as the scientists worked, then volunteered to be one of those who "distracted" the Pillar by touching it, despite knowing the risks. He got far more than he bargained for.

As soon as the Pillar was destroyed . . . it wasn't. (Well, "wasn't".) Thundercracker came face-to-face with honest-to-Unicron demons and lived in a private hell until the Pillar's effects wore off. He was dumped from that pseudo-Badlands existence into the wastelands, much MUCH the worse for wear. He's been spending the past month basically recovering from the ordeal.

Oh, and now...training his new robofirelizard trine. <3

And my summaries are always stupid-long so Deckard's separate

[notyourblueangel]

Character Name: Deckard
1st Example: Deckard wonders if Alpha Trion can offer him something similar (or Prima...he should probably talk to Prima)
Activity Summary: Well, things have calmed down with everyone returning to normal finally. For the time being, Deckard continues to act as one of the police force heads under McCrane...especially in the wake of Blurr heading off for parts unknown in an attempt to find some answers that haven't been forthcoming at "home". He did, however, take a brief leave of absence to finally go searching in earnest for his MIA teammate, Drill Boy. The relief was immense when he finally found, though Drill Boy's initial fear of him (believing him to be an apparition from the Badlands come to take him away too) was heartbreaking.

When the call went out for an assault force to finally go take care of that Pillar once and for all, Deckard was all too happy to join, and even helped formulate a plan for distracting the Pillar Roots to get them taken care of before the main Pillar was destroyed. Aside from the injuries he took fighting Badlands robowolves, he came out of the whole experience none the worse for wear. He feels both grateful and . . . a little guilty for that (considering the myriad of effects many of his companions had to deal with).

[leap_before_look]

Character Name: Ventus
1st Example: Sora
Activity Summary: (General Timeline) It's been a busy time for the young Keyblade wielder. On the brighter side of things, a familiar face arrived, and although not quite the same person as he had parted ways with back in Radiant Garden, Ventus was more than happy to see his red-haired friend. With the arrival of the Pillar and the subsequent occurrences, out of concern for his new friends and this Cybertron, as well as the simultaneous disappearance of the Firstforged, the boy decided to join those that ventured down to the planet's core to see what could be done about this unexpected threat. That didn't go without complications, but ultimately the threat had been subdued, and the Firstforged returned. Ventus's concerns weren't completely dispersed because some of their team were delayed in their return, not to mention the unusual affects granted some of them from contact with the Pillar. Thundercracker had claimed to see demons, and the boy wasn't sure what that meant, nor where the Seeker had been taken before being found again out in the Wastelands. Such things still weighed at the back of his mind even with the arrival of another boy from the collection of worlds he was familiar with, and who himself seemed familiar somehow, though Ventus had never met him before. It wasn't long after Sora's arrival that Ventus also received a summons from Prima himself and went to meet with the Firstforged, the first he would speak to him ever since their disappearance. He did not expect to be informed that soon, the Firstforged would leave again, nor the offer posed him to become an Initiate of Prima...

Character Name: Hot Rod
1st Example: Apologies for Property Damage
Activity Summary: (General Timeline) Part of the expedition to investigate Cybertron's core perhaps by default as he was the only one that appeared to know the way down, Hot Rod was eager to prove himself and be of assistance in taking care of the Pillar. He was concerned when Optimus Prime was delayed (as a few others were) in checking back in after all was said and done, much relieved when he finally did hear from him. His Optimus or not, Hot Rod didn't want to lose another one while he was on duty ever again. While the Pillar's gift upon Hot Rod was not as severe as some, it was still troublesome, and in hopes to lessen any unintentional damage to others, the Autobot iceisolated himself until he was certain that he wasn't freezing over everything he crossed and touched. Of course, that didn't mean he was going to sit still and be quiet about it, as was proven by the rampant areas of iced over roadways. When he received an unexpected request to meet with Prima, full of questions, Hot Rod didn't hesitate to do so. He couldn't believe that the Firstforged would be leaving again, but further questions were forestalled with the mentioning of seeking an Initiate...

Character Name: Garrod Ran
1st Example: In which Garrod gets off to a lovely start with the locals
Activity Summary: (General Timeline) Newly arrived just a little over a month now, it hasn't been all that difficult for the boy to get adjusted to surviving in an alien territory. He hadn't been that long with the Freeden back home, so slipping back into old habits wasn't difficult at all. After attempting to carjack Prowl, it became rather apparent that the robots around here weren't like the Mobile Suits back on earth. Of course, with there being more mechanical life than organic, and robots moving and talking all by themselves, Garrod just had to remember that he couldn't scavenge off of spare parts, not that there seems to be any profit in it. At the very least, he'd found that his Gundam's been brought over, though he's been limiting use with it so far since he's not sure just yet what he'd do once it runs out of juice. On the plus side, for all that he'd heard about there being conflicting sides present around the place, he's kind of glad for the lack of wars and fighting.

[glass_secret]

Character Name: Cinderella
1st Example: Who would have thought a fairy tale princess swore so much
Activity Summary: Not much except that she arrived and started to annoy the snot out of Sentinel Prime because he was being a jerk to her. She's also keeping up her usual cover of acting like some spoiled fashionista so that people won't suspect that she's a spy. She's also very interested in meeting one of the First Forged in hopes that she could get some better answers.

Character Name: Ravage
1st Example: That's not how zombies work Ravage...
Activity Summary: He was kinda quiet these past few months. A spark eater Knock Out killed him and was brought back to life five days later. The cassettacon acted like his usual goofy self by asking if he was a zombie now, and then acting disappointed when he found out that he wasn't. Though deep down he found the experience quite disturbing and really just wanted cuddles from someone which Thundercracker provided.
Other than that, he was quiet until the Ratchet from his universe showed up.

Character Name: Rose
1st Example: Behold the 20ft tall woman!
Activity Summary:
*First off, she admitted to Liege Maximo that she is the Dragoon of the Darkness Dragon and thus draws her power from darkness. She also admitted to him that her darkness may have some kind of connection to Unicron's darkness and tells him what she knows about that power.
*She went to explore the Pillar, and joined Hot Rod, who actually touched the thing and she had to stop him from touching anyone else.
*Later, she joined the group to go down below in order to try and destroy the Pillar. Because of her boon from Vector Prime, she was one of the ones leading the way since she couldn't get lost.
*She was part of the group that served as a distraction by touching the Pillar while it was being destroyed.
*The result of touching the Pillar was that she was 20 feet tall for a few days, which she found both fascinating and annoying. She mostly spent her time looking for anyone who may still be left down below from fighting the Pillar.
*When things got back to normal she went back to her police duties until she was summoned by Liege Maximo for a meeting. When asked what she was planning to do while the FF were away she answered that she do her part to protect those still in Haven and use her Dragoon Spirit to learn more about darkness, which is something she never had to do before.

[angleofscience]

Character Name: Cliffjumper
1st Example: Welcoming Blurr back to Haven.
Activity Summary: Upset and angry over Ravage's death, Cliffjumper later wasn't any happier about the medical check-up Red Alert was insisting on, or when Blurr left the Haven for a while, since that usually doesn't end well. And with the Pillar around that could've gone worse than it did.
He was in the group that helped taking down the pillar, assisting/protecting Jetfire and Pharma with Hot Rod, and ended up losing an arm - not so bad over all. Took care of re-zombified (thanks to the Pillar) Knock Out by knocking him out with said arm and dragging him to the medbay, and helped Sentinel start to get used to his new gun-attachment courtsey of the Pillar.
Greeted IDW!Bumblebee when he turned up.

Character Name: Elita One
1st Example: Talking with Hot Rod about his ice powers and their effect.
Activity Summary: During the time the Pillar was down, Elita met with the changed Arcee at the pillar, and talked to the changed Ambulon - later reassuring him she hadn't been overly affected by him. She decided to stay topside when the group went down to take care of the pillar, but by the Pillar itself, to keep an eye on it and make sure nothing happened (or take care of something, if it had happened).
After the Pillar was gone, she talked to Starscream about the aftermath (and got hit on, again), tried to help Power Joe cheer up, and went to help Optimus who was dealing with the Pillar's aftermath-effects. Also talked to the newly arrived Metalhawk, and has promised to patrol more effectively and perhaps try to spread the crystal trees for Solus, plus log any changes that might happen around the Haven to the planet.

Character Name: Jetfire
1st Example: Planning for an expedition to the core to get rid of the pillar.
Activity Summary: While the Pillar was present, went to check it out originally and later spoke to Skids about the effect it had had on him, then organised the expedition to try and get to where it was attached to Cybertron underground, hopefully to get rid of it - thanks to Hot Rod, who knew of an elevator down to the core, it was possible. Ended up being "glitched" as an effect of getting rid of the pillar, which meant uncontrolled, very short-range teleports. While under the effect of this, he ran into Skyfire, also affected by the Pillar, and tried to have a conversation with the invisible shuttle. It went... okay.
Reluctantly went along to meet with Liege and agreed to keep an eye on Liege's labs/experiments. Is still stubbornly trying to avoid becoming an initiate. Later talked with Glados as she asked if there was any suitable/stocked or not locations for out-of-the-way labs.

[thermosomatic]

Character Name: Blitzwing
1st Example: Good morning, starshine, Cybertron says "hello"!
Activity Summary: While Blitzwing was affected by the Pillar, turning into a strictly-Icy rendition of himself, it was only for a short time before he... passed out. For some reason that he's not sure of, Blitzwing outright fell asleep, and didn't wake back up until the situation with the pillar had been all sorted out. He also said goodbye to Barricade and received a nice present from him!
So needless to say, he hasn't done much, aside from vaguely call a newcomer a liar and purr at Knock Out when the doctor replied to his message asking what had happened (don't ask).

Kaon was dropped.

[neverputincharge]

Character Name: Bulkhead
1st Example: Understatement of the century
Activity Summary: So once the Pillar affects wore off, he mostly regrouped with everybody, and met up with Wheeljack. Also he got plans for a Prime!verse Spacebridge left for him by his AU self. After that he talked to Skids and Fracas on the state of the poor road, and talked to people about ideas of how to get rid of the pillar. Jetfire mentioned plans to head down to the core to try and take it out from there, and Bulkhead volunteered to go since his construction knowledge could come in handy.

Once in the core he wound up teamed with IDW!Megatron of all people. The two of them worked together to find the best spots to hit the pillar to take it out, Bulkhead backed up with some kind of power from his Glyph that made it easier to find the weak spots. He also got saved by Knock Out when the con took out a pair of wolves ready to pounce on him. He was part of the team to take down the main pillar, while others worked to distract it and it's tendrils. Unfortunately, while he came out of it unscathed, the pillar decided to have the last laugh, and he spent the next few days after it was gone as a robotic wolf. Once he was back to normal, he regrouped with people again, especially Wheeljack.

The pillar also had the post affect of bringing into focus for, just how much even his small absence of a few days affected people he was close to. Thus he's starting to mentally shift more away from his warrior side, and focus on building, and more trying not to get too involved in fights unless construction is involved.

His glyph got a glow to it not soon after, and he started discovering he suddenly knew what stuff was made of. Which of course worried him until he talked to FOC!Perceptor, who convinced him it was a good thing. Sometime during this, Miko disappeared on him. And not long after that, he was confused and happy when both Ratchet and Smokescreen came back, though Ratchet didn't remember being here. He talked to Barricade, after the con announced he was leaving the Haven. But he got gifts from him in the form of Bay!Verse spacebridge plans and things, and wormhole stuff, plus a large selection of movies. He's also been talking to Fracas about doing more non road related construction, and recruiting new people to the crew.

On top of all this, he got a sudden summons from Solus Prime to go talk to her. He went expecting to get an explanation after not hearing from the the FF after they returned with the pillar gone. What he didn't expect was Solus to ask him to be an Initiate. After getting over the shock, and asking questions, he agreed.

Character Name: Skylynx
1st Example: Where art thou brethren?
Activity Summary: Sklynx woke up in Vector Prime's temple in the middle of the whole Pillar thing, and a whole new world opened up for him. For this Cybertron was far more populated than the one he'd been brought up on. He quickly met his first human and found out about dragons, and he also met Blackarachnia, who quickly asserted that Predacons can come in all shapes and sizes in other worlds. She also put the inkling in his mind that perhaps he should think of taking out Prime!Starscream. He Met Thundercracker while out flying, and talked to Sentinel Prime, Deckard and Knock Out. From Knock Out he found out they worked together to take out Unicron, and found out that Shockwave was here as well.

He also, finally, made contact with Prime!Starscream, and talked to Fracas and found out at one point that there was two Shockwaves here. He was a little disappointed that he didn't get to meet the other one. Also before the pillar was taken out, he answered a call from Thundercracker from the wastelands, and went out to rescue him. He brought the injured seeker back to Haven. Then he was excited when Darksteel showed up too, even in the same temple! The two soon met up, and he's mostly been sticking with the other Predacon since.

[deadlydoctor]

Character Name: Blurr
1st Example: Back from his trip.
Activity Summary:
-Before leaving for a whole month trip, Blurr tried to help those who were affected by the Pillar's influence. He tried to comfort a really confused Blackarachnia and do some damage control around as well as talking to Jetfire about the future trip to the Pillar. He also comforted, or tried to comfort at least, Thundercraker after Skywarp left.

While on his trip, he investigated around hoping to find any clues that could lead him to Wing or the Firstforged. When he found nothing, Blurr used his time to practice the abilities he gained thanks to his boons with Vector and Solus. He also practiced his aim, because eh promised Cliffjumper and Blackarachnia that he would get better at shooting. Later on he found a road and some more proofs that there were other refugees in the planet before them. He also found truck filled with wheels that proved to be a great and unexpected gift.


Character Name:Knock Out
1st Example: Never gonna give you up~~~


Activity Summary: This has been some busy months for Knock Out! He got a hard case of the zombie! one more time and was killed by Barricade. Once he came back he tried to approach Bulkhead and hint about what happened on their home world. He also apologized to Fracas about, well, everything, and had the bitchiest fight ever with Starscream.

Since he changed sides Knock Out's been trying to convince Bulkhead that he's now part of their team. That was the main reason why he joined the Pillar's expedition. In there he was able to fight back the wolves in a successful way thanks to Solus's boon and managed to save Bulkhead's life.

However, he's not allowed to have nice things and thus the Pillar's after effect hit him an he was back to suffering from the zombie disease. Thankfully he got better.

Knock Out checked on an injured Sentinel and turned off his paint receptors while the mech was recovering in the medbay. He had a drink (or a dozen) with Fracas after his boyfriend went missing and got protective about Four when Crow said he wanted a kiss from the little doll. Wheeljack agreed to help Knock Out and he's now making some medical equipment for the clinic that will most likely be used on him at some point. The medic also got go a lot of useful gifts from Barricade, a bunch of medical data from mechs of all sort of universes but specially Bayverse and he learned about holoforms too.

[0perator]

Character Name: Alia
1st Example: Postin anyway because why not.
Activity Summary: Alia arrived. She is slowly developing a twitch as most of the people she's talked to have misidentified her as human. She won an awkward conversation award trying to cheer up Kagerou, volunteered to write training sims for Shepard if the hardware can be located, and was seriously creeped out by that wannabe Maverick that other Ratchet. She has an appointment to SCIENCE with Jetfire at some point after she's exhausted herself trying to make the numbers surrounding the Lambda make sense. Also, potential condemning herself to childcare after telling Isaac she'd help watch the kids. So, stuff and things.

[treacherous_widow]

Character Name: Blackarachnia
1st Example: Is everyone done getting their circuits crossed yet?

Activity Summary:
Lately Blackarachnia's been one busy little bot. She's finally finished and perfected her little robo-flu/ Organic flu and is just waiting to release it for tested [Will be happening from the 18th- 31st] to see how her virus works. And then give out samples of her vaccine to medics to make sure that works too.

She's also managed to test her drug cocktails on an unsuspecting Prime!Starscream because he pissed her off and had fun recording and documenting the little drug trip he went on for her own entertainment.

And of course, she's had a nice talk with her lovely FirstForged Liege about becoming one of his initiates. She said yes, so now it's just waiting to see what happens next on that front. She's pretty eager and interested in playing more with his labs while he's gone.

Otherwise, it's just various conversations here and there. Whether it's keeping tags on Knock Out or Blurr, welcoming new arrivals or getting pissed and regulars. [Like say Sentinel who she is determined to strip his paint job when he least expects it.]

And when she's not doing all that? She's continuing on with her experiments.

[aerospacecommander]

Character Name: Starscream
1st Example: you are all crazy
Activity Summary: So Starscream stalked followed Megatron and Jetfire to the freaky pillar thing and was one of the few who didn't feel the need to touch it because touching strange things was usually a bad thing. He did go along with the mission to destroy it though and he was one to destroy a big tendril thing! Which was after he made Kevin touch it. And then he later threw him into the badlands whoops no one saw that. He managed to get away with some electrum and actually didn't end up with any crazy side-effects. He's saving the magical gold stuff for a chance to kill Megatron rainy day.

Other than that he has gotten into a few fights with people, but that's mostly because of grudges people have with his alternates: See Metalhawk who tried to beat him up with one arm.

Since then he's been invited to have a chat with Megatronus and we'll see how that goes.

[primest]

Character Name: sentinel prime
thingers i accidentally deleted this oops: 1 2

Summary:
WOW I NEED TO UPDATE MY CR CHART

anyway sentinel has been a jerk. what a shocker! he went down to the pillar and managed not to fuck anything up and took an upgrade from it which he has vehemently denied doing and is sticking to his story of finding it in the junk pile, which some people doubted but ultimately didn't care enough to question. sentinel was also very rude to those who had debilitating effects even though i forgot to tag into optimus's post, like telling albert he's gonna be useless and basically laughing at bulkhead.

he also showed himself to be a valuable addition to the police force by being a complete asshole to the new arrivals and while he has tried to take some initiate - such finding out should there be an attack on the haven percy can help the ones who aren't suited for combat, he did it in his own asshole way. he is fully intending to take the credit for any of this should anything happen because he asked about it wow what an amazing autobot

[wherenobotsgone]

Character Name: Skyfire
1st Example: Log here

Activity Summary: Skyfire took part in the expedition to the Pillar that Jetfire organized. Although he was there mostly to help with the scientific side of the job, he ended up helping Hot Rod distract one of the tendrils so Cliffjumper could destroy it. This caused him to become invisible for some time, but he did manage to communicate with Jetfire and compare effects. Some time later, he was invited to talk with Alpha Trion about the possibility of becoming an Initiate.

He also received the Alignment bonus of universal translation, but hasn't IC-ly discovered that yet.

[cec_engineer]

Character Name: isaac clarke
1st Example: only one for isaac he hasn't done much

Activity Summary:
isaac went to the pillar and met strelok, where he touched it after a discussion about how touching it would be a really shitty idea

then he tried to kill strelok

surprising

apart from that he's tried to be nice and helpful despite being a nervous wreck half of the time and recently was saddened by mccoy ollieing outtie of the haven

[organ_pharming]

Character Name: Pharma
1st Example: Texting his Ex
2nd Example: Impressing the new girlfriend
3rd: http://re-alignment.dreamwidth.org/265748.html?thread=27879700#cmt27879700
4th: http://re-alignment.dreamwidth.org/269722.html
Activity Summary: Pharma returned and instantly started a fight with Ambulon, which he lost. Sadness. To make up for that, Red alert seems interested in him- or at least his skills. She offers to officially check his sanity meter and asks him if he'd like to participate with her and Shockwave in creating a spark. He agrees to both. After that Starscream woke up, which disappointed him because he'd just gotten permission from Liege to take him apart in the name of SCIENCE. Then Four popped up with a question about morality that had Pharma explaining that one should do what they must because there is no black and white. He also called Four a tool. Rude.

[mccrane]

McCrane:
McCrane had his hands full when the reality warping shenanigans from the pillar struck. As one of those not affected, he spent his time trying to keep order and identify problems in the 'newcomers' while still carrying on as leader of the Police force. He was particularly fascinated by the changes in Kagerou, as they hinted at an alternate world in which Brave Police ruled instead of protecting. With some of the changes Prowl has been making, lately, its causing him to think. Is it better to sacrifice some morals in order to keep the peace? He doesn't like the idea, but it might become necessary soon.

When teams went into Cybertron to take care of the Pillar, McCrane stayed on the surface to monitor things there. He's been helping Deckard to learn the ropes on Cybertron, and also has really been enjoying the presence of another Brave Police. Seeing his old leader, now, reminds him of how far he's come...and how far he still has to go. Thankfully he's got good friends and good troops to get him there.

OR SO HE THINKS (dun dun dun...)

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Skids:
Skids spends his days happily with the road crew. Building and Zoning give him a bland sort of busy-work that isn't challenging mentally (which he regrets) but that also doesn't leave him feeling hollow afterward (which he appreciates.) So long as they're getting something done at the end of every day, then it doesn't have to be new and exciting. Lately, he's taken to helping out with non-road construction as well.

To keep him sharp, he makes the occasional visit to Perceptor to see what is going on with the Re-Aligned science crowd. Perceptor is someone he'd like to get to know a bit better, while at the same time he's starting to realize the microscope's feelings are for another bot. This disappointment is mitigated by the presence of Knockout and Drag Strip both, and while Skids feels strange at having so many Decepticon friends now he doesn't regret the stimulus he got from trying something new...and they're both too important to him now to give up. Granted, Knockout DID cause him to turn into an energon-seeking zombie/vampire, which caused him to almost take a bite out of Prowl (AGAIN), but he's been seeing Pharma to try and get that fixed.

The way he sees it, if something goes wrong and he drinks Pharma dry, the Haven won't be missing out...but if Pharma manages to help, then it's a way he might redeem himself...

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Megaton:
Megatron's desire to take control of the Haven has been increasing...and with that his activity. He does not believe that enough has been done to secure the region, and he wants to begin uniting the separate groups together so that someone can start figuring a way to defeat the badlands.

More than that--he wants the Lambda brought under control so that he can go home.

As such, it was infuriating to him to take a step BACKWARD when the Pillar came down, and it was particularly wounding that it showed him a dimension in which things had gone much, much better than they had for him. Because of that, he was impassioned with the desire to rid the Haven of the Pillar, finding Unicron's intrusion to be much, much too personal. He and Jetfire led the charge down to the center of the planet with help from many others...and Megatron is hoping that such an expedition proves that Decepticons, Autobots, and Neutrals can work together for a common goal.

However, it is a common goal that he still intends to be at the head of.

He did pay for his arrogance in challenging the Pillar, of course, and was trapped in 4's body for several days. This did give him an appreciation for 4...but more than that, it gave him an appreciation for his own powerful form. He intends to use it, very soon.

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[tearsofsteel]

Character Name: Albert Heinrich
1st Example: Albert becomes kidbert
Activity Summary: Albert had faced the effects of the Pillar, transforming into a kid in return for knowledge about his teammates. The younger Albert met with several robots, both confused and fascinated by the child cyborg. However, doubts about his team remain as he continued to delay seeing that DVD set. Should he see it? He's not sure anymore, yet the temptation's there.

Character Name: Crow T Robot
1st Example: The Swayziest Christmas ever
Activity Summary: Crow managed to survive the past two months deathless and traumaless. He even slipped one by Megatron stuck in the form of Four and vice versa. The robot also created a new tradition by singing a Christmas carol honoring the star of Roadhouse! But despite all that, the robot still remembers home. And he misses home...much more than he thought.

[redshirtrobot]

Character Name: Fracas
1st Example: Boyfrand is gone 8(
Activity Summary: Fracas had a little bit of an awkward time, really. He was briefly turned into a revolutionary by the Pillar... and left a lot of very up-beat and go get 'em notes for himself for when he got back to normal. This was confusing enough, but then Bayshocks and the Driller disappeared. He informed everyone and was met with a few condolences and one 'good riddance'... and with Wheeljack offering to train him in Bayshocks' sted, which both confused and encouraged him. He also had a chat with Solus Prime, which got weird fast when he questioned why he was resurrected and attempted to explain why No One Cares About Mooks Back Home. In addition, he finally screwed up the courage to tell his Starscream that he's a Vehicon, and to challenge him. Nothing really came of it but Fracas deciding to bang his head against a wall because that was a stupid decision on his part. More recently he has decided to move back to Solus Prime's temple... because there is a new Ratchet in Megatronus's temple and HE IS CRAZY. He also suggested to Bulkhead that they put up posters to encourage people to join the Road Crew/Construction, which also helped in building Rarity's spa.

Character Name: Strelok
1st Example: Christmas in Stalkerland
Activity Summary: Strelok was pretty quiet for a while after he took Isaac to the hospital to deal with his gunshot shoulder and his head injury that Strelok caused oops. The reason for this was because Strelok was building himself a house! He's tired of just living in someone else's place. Besides, all of those other places are way too nice for a hobo like him to live in. He also decided that he would celebrate Christmas the Stalker way, and got people together for drinks in the medbay so his buddy Isaac could be part of Stalkermas. It was all very lovely. And then he offered to help Shepard build a shooting range closer to Hub than the Games Caldera is. Sadly, shortly after the New Year, McCoy left, and he agreed to try to help Isaac look out for the kids still in the Haven. How well this will work out, only time will tell.

Character Name: Darksteel
1st Example: Apped in the most recent cycle 8D

[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Character Name: Ambulon
1st Example: boop
Activity Summary: Ambulon fell under the effects of the Pillar, beat the crap out of Pharma, made a couple new enemies in the process, returned to normal, is a bit dazed, and has gained a cool new trick he is going to try out soon. Oh! Also! He fell into a coma.

[drillsandballs]

Character Name: Megatron
1st Example: I've got nothing
Activity Summary: Megatron has been doing a lot of spending time in the library, and trying to work out things for the school. He's also been working on a personal theory about those that 'return' to Haven either from the badlands, or from the Lambda, which he finally presented to others, accepting other's discussing his theory with him. He also had a strong, and negative, reaction to the sudden arrival of the Ratchet from his world.

Character Name:
1st Example: return of a drill derp? (note I know the final tag is from within the dates of the activity check... and it will not be use to qualify for A/C next round)

Activity Summary: Drill Boy spent the majority of the past two months recovering from being lost and trapped, and generally sticking close to the rest of the Brave Police.

I'm so sorry

[wheeljackofalltrades]

Character Name: Wheeljack
1st Example: Actually Tony Stark
2nd Example: Double the Tony Stark, double the fun
Activity Summary:
Wheeljack did the only normal thing you should do when bad stuff goes down in Haven--get drunk. For the first few weeks, Wheeljack spent his time at the bar, swirling down drinks and talking to other people who got affected. This included visiting Barricade in jail talking about multiple universes, to helping Ambulon fix his broken medical drone. After his little episode, he ended up taking two 'apprentices' under him: Drag Strip and Fracas. More like sparring partners, really. The first was out of a sparring match, and the second was to make up for Fracas losing Shockwave.

He's starting to notice just how fragile things are now, with Barricade leaving, more Wreckers being lost to the Badlands, and the results of the Pillar event. Bulkhead turning into a wolf and basically being under the radar and Perceptor LITERALLY untouchable might have caused a slightly buried panic.

Not only that, but he's started noticing his Metallurgy, testing it out as he explores more and more of Solus's sector. It was here that he found a cave in a ravine, deciding to use it as a 'secret base' of sorts, complete with a second armory. To go along with that, Solus invited Wheeljack to have an interview with her, where she discussed making him an initiate. After a series of questions, and maybe one or two sassy remarks, he accepted, figuring that he might as well go all the way.

Barricade left, giving Wheeljack blueprints for weapons for his second armory as well as Firelizards, with a bet that they'd see each other again. And now with Ratchet, Smokescreen and Dead End returning, he's got slightly more hope now--maybe even enough to reach out to another human (like Sora).

Character Name: Power Joe
1st Example: It's not like he was worried
2nd Example: You just don't GET my problems
Activity Summary:
After the Pillar event caused Arcee to completely change, Power Joe had a hard time adjusting to the fact that...well, his first real date didn't go as planned. He's not one to handle change very well. This included Starscream telling him that he doesn't know the difference a gender makes, to which Power Joe could only innocently say 'It's just how they are!'

Although despite that, Arcee still wanted to date him, so that definitely brought his mood up from just pouting in the junkpile.

Despite this, however, he bounced back enough to help Deckerd search for Drill Boy. Family comes first before personal feelings like this.

Other than that, he's been being himself around the Haven, doing Police work (what little he does) and drawing mustaches on any posters of Prowl that may be postered up. When Sora arrived, Power Joe helped transport him to the place where Kagerou was making fireworks, joining the Ninja in the celebration of the new year.

Character Name: Mirage
1st Example: First World Ferrari Problems
2nd Example: Arrivederci
Activity Summary:
As natural for the Ferrari, Mirage kept on the downlow as of late, because of his terrible experience with the pillar, and because of his Stealth ops. Barricade's been like his mentor in the shadows, offering advice through the Link to the bot, and maybe slowly showing the other side of their war back home. It's not a huge leap in understanding, but Mirage is definitely not jumping to as many conclusions now. Although he's still avoiding telling Sideswipe about what happened back in their world, so he's not incredibly forward just yet.

He's been keeping tabs on some of the newcomers, though, as they seem to know Prowl, who he's not overly trusting of just yet.
Then, when Barricade said he was leaving, he wanted to speak to Mirage personally. Feeling a bit apprehensive, he went to see him, where Barricade gave him two data sticks--one for the end of the war, and the other as a piece of personal advice to him. The Ex-Con's departure had a lot more of an effect on him than he would have liked to admit.

And from what Barricade said...there's something suspicious about Chromedome. He's asking Blurr on it as well as asking for Sideswipe's assistance, since they're the only two from their world left. He's going to be doing some spying, he is.

Character Name: Kay Faraday
1st Example: Dad's home
2nd Example: Gained one uncle and a fancy hologram device
Activity Summary:
Since the Pillar event, Kay's been making sure Kagerou's up to speed and back to normal with everything that's been going on. She hasn't been as vocal around the network as she's used to, but a lot of that is taken up by training by both Kagerou and on occasion Shepard.

When people went down to take care of the pillar, she noticed that it seemed pretty hush hush, and in turn, kept on the low profile as well. Not that she wasn't glad it was taken care of at all. In fact, that was the best day of her Cybertronian life.

She met Isaac, who helped turn her Little Thief device into a much more handy portable device built into her armor glove. It was here that Isaac told her that she was pretty much a legend back home (lying to kids, shame on you!), so that brought up her moral by a tone.

Character Name: Rewind
1st Example: Loving Couple
2nd Example: Counting stars
Activity Summary:
Rewind's been busy at work since his last talk with Alpha Trion, burying himself in the library to do research or venturing out late at night to stargaze. With such a tiny camera and the entire cosmos above him, it took awhile for him to get even 1/4th of the sky mapped. Of course, he had the help of Chromedome from earlier with their constellation work.

However, he's noticing Chromedome being just as busy as ever (since Chromedome got his needlefingers back) and is slightly suspicious, even if he knows he shouldn't be. All that trust-in-your-partner and what not.

Still, he can't help but feel this tugging sensation that Chromedome isnt' telling him the whole truth about things.

Which is heartbreaking.

He was recently invited for an interview with Alpha Trion to become an initiate. Despite being relatively new to the planet, A3 saw something in him and his archiving abilities.

Character Name: Metalhawk
1st Example: Because why not
2nd Example: Meet the Predacons
Activity Summary:
Metalhawk arrived on Cybertron and immediately went to the medical bay, meeting up with Bumblebee, Kagerou, Starscream, and some others. He's currently recovering from his injury (of dying) and getting his arm replaced in the medical bay by Red Alert.

Talked to Megatron about how WAR IS BAD.

Met Darksteel! He's a rather impressive Predacon, and he didn't hesitate to show Metalhawk just how much, either. He seems to have gained the baby's favour, at least. And then talked to Ironhide about bringing Prowl to the medical bay after he passed out. Ironhide doesn't seem to remember him.

[fugitrix]

Character Name: Arcee
1st Example: What are feelings
Activity Summary: Arcee's been prowling around. HA HA HA.

In reality after the AU event she was extremely unsure with herself as a person, since if she was never tortured, she apparently would have become something she personally hated (ie a douchey Decepticon). She caught up with Power Joe and somehow ended up agreeing to date him again, since well... he asked. She doesn't quite get why he feels that way and is still struggling with that. Otherwise, she's spoken to Leige about being Prowl's shadow police/enforcer/babysitter. She probably would personally feel 'babysitter' fits best since sometimes Prowl doesn't know what he wants and she sure does

[fun_police]

Character Name: Prowl
1st Example: Prowl almost gets carjacked
Activity Summary:
- With Arcee's help, Prowl discovered a spy looking for data on his personal activities. After setting up a creepy den out in the middle of Liege's quadrant, he had the spy(Kagerou) captured and interrogated.
- Chromedome attempts to back out of their Shadowplay operation and Prowl gets assmad. Prowl then threatens him by saying he'd resort to messier alternative methods to take care of Kagerou if he didn't get his needles back. It eventually works and Chromedome gets the tools back to erase Kagerou's memory and make him a sleeper agent.
- On the flip side, Prowl was nearly carjacked by Garrod while waiting for someone in vehicle mode. While a bullet in his window was annoying, he sympathized with him due to what he saw on Earth, and helped him get to the Junk Pile as well as acting as the Welcome Wagon.
- Talked to Liege about an information gathering mission and agreed to help him. Considering he has his fingers in everyone's pie at this point, draining a little data from his sleepers shouldn't be a problem.
- Passed out at a bar with Ironhide due to the Lambda. He later woke up with new memories and a new body - and he's very unhappy about his situation. But Prowl's always unhappy.

Character Name: Shockwave
Activity Summary: As a testament to my slow ass flopping around with him I haven't quite found enough AC for Shockwave, so I'll be letting him idle out this AC round.

[dinnerdate]

dead end [tfp]
   1st Example: one
   2nd Example: was accepted late December
   Activity Summary:

   • Deads returns! And is completely the same gloomy guy.
   • Responded to Trion's invitation and went to speak with him. Was paranoid as heck.

[arnhaid]

Character Name: Ironhide
1st Example: calm down son thing
Activity Summary:
+ Ironhide was pretty much a parent this season
+ Tried to help PJ recover from the loss of his ... date
+ Worked out a lot in the junk pile.
+ HEY bumblebee is here! ... but different. So that was weird.
+ Met with Megatronus. That didn't go too well.
+ TOOK PROWL OUT FOR A FUN NIGHT. And then Prowl passed out on the table. Poor table.
+ Grumped around until Prowl woke up again, then got mad.