March 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!

• -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 January 11th and March 7th.
  
• -You will need to post two Examples of Activity and an Activity Summary for every character you have in the game. (See below)
  
• -Any character accepted in the most recent application cycle (February 15th onward) 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 March 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 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

[pendragon]

Character Name: Saber
1st Example: Joint link post with Vandal announcing the dance - I replied to near everyone who posted here, so I think it's a good example!
2nd Example: The dance log itself - Not as many comments as the first thread, but definitely more than one thread. Here is Saber's dance floor log, where five people tagged her. She has more where she replied to others, but I think this should be enough?
Activity Summary: In late January, Saber took a part of assisting others during the Badlands' event and also answered Megatronus' call in the beginning of February. (She took part in both the traveling to the fight and the fighting itself.)

After the Badlands' event calmed down, there came the dance announcement and dance itself. Saber and Vandal were the primary coordinators, and Saber played security most of the night. During the week that the dance was being planned, Saber moved permanently into the dormitories in the Haven's Hub and spoke with Wing about the upcoming renovations. She was assigned the task of organizing the future organic food pantry - where organics may donate, pick up food if needed, and barter with foods they do have. Saber also decided to watch over the eatery until they found a new potential manager for it. They're currently under progress, but Saber is working with Wing on them.

In the middle of the month, Saber made contact with Vector Prime and was assigned a task of patroling the Eastern (outer) end of the Vectorian quadrant. For this, he gave her a small device that lets her call his Acolytes. (This was handwaved with permission of Vector's mun.)

In early March, Saber confirmed her position in the Police Force when McCrane and Ultra Magnus did their summon.

Although no longer focusing on it since they've mostly ran out of room, Saber still does her odd junk pile runs to bring back items that would be useful to the Hub. Now, working with Wing, she's working on the Atrium's future food pantry and eatery. Asides from that, she used a good chunk of this period of the time covered in this activity check to work on organizing and setting up the dance, and then began her daily and frequent patrols of Vector's quadrant once assigned that.

[re_alignedmods]

Regarding your first activity link: in future, please link the specific comment threads Saber participated in. Since the post was made under Vandal's account it cannot be counted as Saber's post. (You are correct, however - Saber has enough comments in the post to count towards her AC.)

Activity Check cleared, thank you!

[shutupndrive]

Character Name: Smokescreen
1st Example: Valentines Day is just not for Smokescreen
2nd Example: Dance dance dance~
Activity Summary:
Smokescreen's had his ups and downs as of late but he's starting to pull himself back together, mostly thanks to Perceptor, Bulkhead, and Arcee. He's been helping Perceptor rebuild his lab, attended the dance even though he initially didn't want anything to do with it blame Sideswipe, and has been doing his best to try and interact with as many people as he can when he's not chilling out in the library at Alpha Trion's temple. (Which has become something of a safe zone for him.) Oh, he's also gotten quite..buddy buddy with Knock Out as of late.


Character Name: Rung
1st Example: Calling all Police Force Members
2nd Example: At the dance with Dead End C:
Activity Summary:
Rung has been caught up in a lot of things as of late, outside of getting trampled on by centipedes and having to be saved by Skids. (Though after getting injured and having a bit of a...harsh discussion with Knock Out, he did end up confessing his feelings to Dead End and now they're a couple.) Finding out about Four's death, which explains the little stitchpunk's absence, Rung contacted members of the police force to inform them of Tarn's apparent involvement; though a recent conversation with Frenzy has made him rethink this apparent claim. He's also had a bit of a tiff with Sideswipe as of late, getting rather sharp with the other bot on the topic of factions and 'getting rid of the enemy'.


Character Name: Rocket Raccoon
1st Example: Calling all worm hunters!
2nd Example: Rocket doesn't make friends very easily
Activity Summary:
Rocket's been having a pretty fun time lately. Shooting up giant robot centipedes things was right up his alley, especially with Wrex to help him keep things interesting. He skipped out on the dance, not really into that sort of thing, and has just been keeping a low profile around the junk pile for the most part. (Where he ran into Shira who he does not get along with. At all.) He checked in with the Police Force and will continue to work with them in the future.

Character Name: Mordin Solus
1st Example: Studying Cybertronians is Mordin's new hobby
2nd Example: Normandy Reunion~
Activity Summary:
Mordin's still pretty convinced that Haven is the afterlife, though it's an interesting afterlife. (And there's also the part of him that can't accept it as the afterlife, at the same time, because he's a scientist and that sort of thing just doesn't make sense.) After his initial reunion with the Normandy crew in Haven, Mordin seems to have started up an interesting friendship of sorts with Perceptor over their mutual love of science, promising to share data with the other. He's also recently asked for volunteers for individuals of the Cybertronian nature to help him learn more about them, since nothing like them really exists where he's from. Mordin has also taken an interest in Shira because of her prehistoric nature and wants to learn more about her and where she comes from.

[re_alignedmods]

Activity Check cleared for Smokescreen and Rung, thank you!

Rocket Raccoon's first and second activity links are below the minimum requirement. Please provide links to an additional 3 comments in the main community, and 1 additional log comment.

Mordin's second activity link is below the minimum requirement. Please provide a link to an additional 4 log comments.

You have 72 hours to provide the requested links.

[raceme]

Character Name:Blurr
1st Example: Times are a-changin'
2nd Example: Party Hard
Activity Summary:

-Blurr fought the centipedes monsters and his turbofox pet got injured in the process.
-Helped Leviathan to find her lost pet.
-He’s teaching Sissel how to read.
-Made a deal with Swindle. As long as the Con doesn’t do anything illegal Blurr won’t bother him. In exchange, Swindle made him a badass sword.
-Blurr gave said badass sword to Wheelajck on Valentine’s day.
-He resigned from the position of Head of the Police Force, but he still works there. He’s quite burned out because of the job, certain bad encounters with people and lots of insecurities.
-Cliffjumper and him explored the planet and nearly got killed one million times or so.
-Saber and Vandal convinced him to attend the dance party. The good part is that he had fun at the beginning and danced/talked with really nice people. The bad part is that Wheeljack dumped him, he had the most awkward conversation with Bulkhead ever and then got stupidly drunk with Sideswipe. It’s been a hard month for him P:


Character Name: Knock Out
1st Example: High School Shenanigans
2nd Example: Bloddy Valentine
Activity Summary:


-Talked with Dead End about his special diet and it’s trying to synthesize some sort of energon that could fix DE ‘s problem. Dead End doesn’t seem to want to be fixed, though.
-Upgraded Fracas’s weaponry and took care of some patients during the centipedes attack.
-Fooled SG Megatron into thinking that the Autobots in Knock Out’s universe were the bad guys too.
-Fixed Dead End, Ravage, Wing, Thundercracker and Rung during the Insect invasion. He also changed Power Joe’s engine so he could process energon.
-He told DE to go ask out Rung once he figured they liked each other. KO’s also tried his best to make sure they didn’t get caught by any other Decepticon because DE is made of fail when it comes to subtlety. At least in KO’s opinion.
-He allowed Rung to return to his office with the condition that DE had to be his bodyguard.
-He also pestered Gunmax, MaccCrane and Jetfire and Starscream about their relationships. This month’s were gossip months, oh boy.
-He’s designing the race track Drift suggested they should build and Fixing Leviathan’s Hoover bike.
-He got drunk on his aft during Valeentine’s and digged a grave for Breakdown with his own hands.
-He agreed to work with Megatron as a teacher on that future new school, teaching medicine/tech stuff.

[re_alignedmods]

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[whirlybird_of_prey]

Character Name: Whirl
1st Example: DIY wit
2nd Example also not witty
Activity Summary: Whirl has been his usual asshole self but absolutely nothing remarkable, beyond his amazing terrorpede fighting training film that nearly cost him is clocklace, which honestly he'd rather forget. He drove Fort Max to Rancho Rage-ero again, offered Sissel a ride to look for his hand, offended everyone at the dance with his magically obscene hat that somehow no one kicked him out for, and has been setting Shockwave's drones to fight each other via remote control. He's also convinced that Jetfire has a weird unrequited crush on him. Thankfully he's somehow miraculously come through this uninjured, because I don't think any self-respecting medic would go near him. Also he is trying to be Dead End's life coach and failing miserably.

[re_alignedmods]

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[neverputincharge]

Character Name: Bulkhead
1st Example: Wrecker feels are the best feels
2nd Example: Dance the night away
Activity Summary:

- Got annoyed at Solus over the earthquake thing. But he later saw she was right and agreed with her, also apologized. He even asked about how the Temple was holding up, since he worked in construction.
- After Perceptor was kidnapped by Driller, he teamed up with Wheeljack to search the tunnel for any sign of the scientist. Much to Arcee and Ratchet's annoyance.
- Talked about being robo!dads with Kageru, and broke the poor guys brain with how old he is.
- Learned about Valentines day from Gunmax
- After getting the 'good to go' from Ratchet, he helped in fighting the centipedes along side Skids(who initially escorted him), Blurr, and Wheeljack. This included taking up a bet with Wheeljack over who could kill more centipedes. He also helped save Rung from the Centipedes, and freaked out over Rafel riding the Driller during all this mess.
- After the whole centipedes thing was over, he went to meet up with Wheeljack to figure out who won the bet. At the same time he finally got up the nerve to confront Wheeljack about his feelings, and the two are now a thing.
- He tried to talk Blurr out of his decision to quit leading the police force, without much success.
-He talked to a down Smokescreen and tries to cheer him up, with some success.
- After that he went to the formal dance, where he danced, and drank and had fun. He talked with Smokescreen and Sideswipe, danced with Wheeljack, and had an unfortunately awkward convo with Blurr
- He offered to help SGMegatron to build a school for students and the young people on Cybertron, and also talked about Miko needing to go back to school.
- He's also finally starting to help Wheeljack build his ship along with others. He also helped map out the area for the build, and probably did the ship's blue prints. Plus helping gather material.

[re_alignedmods]

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[treacherous_widow]

Character Name: Blackarachnia
1st Example: Comparing notes with a large bot
2nd Example: Dancing the night away.
Activity Summary:

For the most part, Blackarachnia has been keeping to herself with a few select interactions here and there. However, she did go on the expedition to find and kill the Centipedes. While out there, she got to have an interesting conversation with Blitzwing about the Blackarachnia from his worlds and after the fighting cleared, she did her own exploration.

Blackarachnia poked around the battlegrounds to get a better idea of the composition of the dead bugs. She even cut out the acid lobbing mechanism to take back in study for future reference. And to see if she could replicate the acid in a laboratory setting for weapons use. Whether it will be for her own personal use or mass produced for local defenses has yet to be decided by her.

She also managed to incapacitate and drag back one of the smaller, living centipedes for observation and study. Currently? She's hiding it in her room where she can keep it under close watch and has turned her room into a mini lab for the moment. Why is she studying it? Blackarachnia's curious about the creature's habits and to see if there is an easier way of dealing with them outside of messy and annoying brutal slaughter. Which means eventual experimentation.

After making some leeway with her research, she's going to want to clue in her firstforge a little. She won't tell him everything right away, but give him a good idea of what she's up to any see if he has any suggestions. However, she's... not about to mention the bug in her room just yet.

Otherwise, she's been socializing. Going to dances and comparing notes on other worlds with other residents.

[re_alignedmods]

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[originaldragoon]

Character Name: Rose
1st Example: Kicking some giant centipede aft
2nd Example: Talking with the good doctor at the dance~
Activity Summary:
- Rose applied to join the law committee, since it would give her something to do, and it's a role that is similar to ones she had taken on in the past. (not sure if I have to wait to here if she is officially in or if I can just jump in on the Law committee stuff.)
- She ended up making good use of her dragoon armor in fighting the terrorpedes that were invading Haven. She later volunteered to join other refugees with Megatronus to go out into the badlands and fight the source.
- Later, once the whole bug invasion was over with, Rose went to the dance that was being hosted by Saber and Vandal, where she wore a suit and talked with a few doctors.
- She also volunteered to teach swordmanship to those who are interested at SG!Megatron's school that he is planning on setting up.

Character Name: Ravage
1st Example: Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!
2nd Example: About 3 nanoclicks away from making KO snap
Activity Summary:
- When the invasion started, Ravage got injured pretty badly because he waved at the terroripede rather than run and hide. Thankfully, Glit, Wing, and Thundercracker came to the rescue while Cliffjumper stayed on the line to make sure the derpy kitty was alright.
- Of course, that meant Ravage had to spend some time in the med bay, which resulted in him annoying the hell out of Knock Out.
- While he was in the med bay, Ravage decided to try and cheer people up by making a version of his favorite web meme video and playing it over the Link. This probably broke more brains than cheering people up, it's the thought that counts. He also made a minor virus version of the video and sent it Frenzy's way because the other bot was being a big meanie to him.
- He went to Blurr's place to watch a movie, while sitting on top of Megatron's head.
- Ravage then went to the dance Saber and Vandal were hosting, looking quite dapper in the top hat he was wearing. He got to dance with his friends and later go over energized by some abandoned high grade energon that turned out to belong Knock Out. Poor little guy got hung over because of it.

[re_alignedmods]

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[thermosomatic]

Character Name: Blitzwing
1st Example: Blitzwing's Arrival
2nd Example: Trollin' the Spider Lady
Activity Summary:
Blitzwing arrived, more curious about the place than anything else, and had a lukewarm reunion with Swindle and met Dirge. Soon after, Blitzwing jumped at Megatronus' offer to go and take care of the Terrorpedes, and met with the Firstforged in-person. When it came to the actual expedition and fight, he didn't really get into the action. However, he did manage to have a conversation with a Blackarachnia from another world. On Valentine's Day, he had some strange, over-network bonding time with an overcharged Knock Out over certain spidery femmes that have ruined/changed their lives in one way or another, and Blitzwing was incredibly nonchalant over his inability to remember life before becoming a Triple Changer. He's been fairly quiet, otherwise, aside from playing with a drone and then laughing at Dirge getting impaled by a rock.

[re_alignedmods]

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Wow, that time already?

[happyduckbutt]

Character Name: Ventus
1st Example: Two teens beating up on monster centipedes
2nd Example: Two people who know nothing about dances trying to prepare for one
Activity Summary:
     Since things had calmed down a little, Ventus decided to use his time honing his skills so that he could be stronger and able to be of use to help others should something come up again. He'd found new sparring partners in Melan and Saber, working more on his magic skills with the latter. It wasn't long before he'd be tested as to how well he could hold out in a fight. New arrivals had appeared, as well as strange creatures from beyond the Haven's borders. Together with Rex Salazar, the two did pretty well in taking down one such monster. And then the Ven-mun went missing for two weeks. After things had once again quieted around the Haven, talk of a dance and preparations for it had the boy a little eager to see what these things were all about. Wheeljack was also starting up his ship-building project, that of which Ven had volunteered to help with if he could, and so was happy to be told he could still be of use. Between all this and taking care of newly hatched chicks, it's needless to say that the kid's been busy.

Could be worse; could be Goofy Time

[re_alignedmods]

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[notyourblueangel]

Character Name: Thundercracker
1st Example: Oooh, that's gonna leave a mark
2nd Example: One abuse victim Decepticon to another
Activity Summary:
Life's kind of back to normal for TC (after the "Megatron scare" of a few months ago, since the mech's not shown up again since then, that he's aware of). He's still on the police force, still bouncing at the bar, still serving SG Megatron as needed. He continues to get out and about more and more, still idly toying with the idea of removing his insignia and declaring himself a Neutral (doubtful he'll do that now that Warp's here, though).

As slag started hitting the impellers with the centipedes from the Badlands, TC could be found out in the thick of things. At one point, he and Megatron teamed up to go hunting - that was a highlight for him, getting to fight back-to-back with Megatron. When Megatronus put out the call to meet at the arena, Thundercracker was among those who answered. He also participated in the raiding party on the extension of Badlands and the massive horror at the center. (I was in the middle of a two-week hiatus when those logs went up, but I kind of backtagged into them. Because he /would/ have been in on all that if I'd been active at the time.) Shortly after, he attended Blurr's movie-night party where he chatted with Blurr, hung out a bit with Megatron and Ravage, and met Fracas.

Then there was something called a dance coming up. He wondered why people kept asking about the date (for the last time, it's FRIDAY!), until Melan finally explained and set him right . . . and then agreed to /be/ his date when he asked if Melan was offering. He'd meant it sarcastically . . . but they wound up agreeing. And Barricade met with him to teach him to dance. He got a hat from Skids, and wound up spending most of the time as a wallflower.

And now? He's seriously considering posting a locked message to the police force . . . apologizing in advance. He's pretty sure it's going to wind up being necessary sooner or later. After all, his troublesome (and much missed) wingmate Skywarp has arrived in Haven. Not "his" Skywarp, but close enough. He'll do his best to keep the prankster from getting bored enough to get into TOO much trouble...

[re_alignedmods]

Thundercracker's first activity link is below the minimum requirement. Please provide a link to an additional 2 comments.

You have 72 hours to provide the requested links.

[showboater]

Character Name: Captain Marvelous
1st Example: SOMEONE FROM MY CREW?! oh it's just you
2nd Example: at least he cooks right
Activity Summary: Marvelous hasn't been doing much this time around, largely due to me in RL, but here's a short breakdown:

• killed centipedes as he came across them during their infestion period


• found out Don was on world, immediately went to find him


• went on Magatronus' mission out to the Badlands, crushed a bunch under his giant robotic foot


• since his return he's been adjusting to having an actual crew member on board


• and also shooting drones whenever they get on board/escape Don's clutches because oh hell no if you think he's letting them scan the place

[re_alignedmods]

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[doctordon]

Character Name: Don Dogoier
1st Example: I fell out of a hole in the sky and Marvelous has crapped up the whole ship!
2nd Example: Do I have to fix EVERYTHING around here!?
Activity Summary: After falling through the Lambda, Don was quickly picked up by Marvelous, and since then he's spent a greater or lesser degree of his time trying to keep the ship clean and fix it up. When Marvelous took the Galleon out to fight robots, he spent his time in Solus' temple, tending to the wounded with Doctor McCoy et al, though he was pretty nervous and quiet and stayed out from underfoot. (Literally, in the case of the robots)

The ship needed repairs after that, and he'd been working on them for a while, getting increasingly irritated by lack of resources, when Marvelous brought supplies from the Junk Pile. When scout drones started to appear, he stole and exploded a few of them before he managed to take them apart. He's been cooking a lot and trying to make some outside connections because Marvelous can be a little weirdly clingy. As in, Don will be elbows deep in a problem with the ship and realize that Marvelous has been finding excuses to come downstairs and see what he's doing, and/or has been silently watching for a while before he even notices he's there. He needs to find more people to live on the ship with them before Marvelous drives them both crazy.

[re_alignedmods]

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[rstlsslegsyndrm]

Character Name: Ambulon
1st Example: DRIFT YOU TURKEY
2nd Example: *u* WOW SO PRETTY

Activity Summary: Ambulon's just been kind of hanging around for the most part. He's spent some time talking with Elita-One about Life And Stuff, helping Prime with angsty drunk Fort Max, and spending some time socializing at the recent party. So, yeah, he's been pretty mellow lately. Quite different from the months before.


Character Name: Frenzy
1st Example: Frenzy is a real charmer + panty shot joint post maybe counts idk
2nd Example: PARTY + EXTRA PARTY

Hoooopefully those work. Lemme know.

Activity Summary: Frenzy helped out Megatronus in fighting the centipede hoard/infestation, hit on Elita-One and even Megatronus, was a DJ at the dance party, did his usual trolling, got his ass kicked by Shaoshao, and, oh, killed Four. The log for that is currently on hiatus (not sure if indefinitely) but is slowly coming to light via this thread. It was pre-planned, however, that Frenzy, indeed, tortured and killed Four. Oops.


Character Name: Leonard McCoy
1st Example: Research research research
2nd Example: SO ANGERMAD

Activity Summary: McCoy has been adjusting relatively well to his new surroundings. It's not TOO much of a shocker to be among aliens, you see. He's been busy trying to do his part at the local clinics; mostly Solus's clinic. He did some research and data collecting on the local non-human lifeforms for any possible use in the future. During the infestation, he was hard at work helping tend to patients and calling for anyone who could provide rides for the injured or onto the battlefield for emergency repairs. Recently, McCoy's been freaking out over the safety of mostly the children here as well as finding time to kick back at the dance party.

[re_alignedmods]

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[wherenobotsgone]

Character Name: Skyfire
1st Example: Skyfire's arrival
2nd Example: Party!
Activity Summary: Skyfire has arrived more or less recently, and is staying at Alpha Trion's temple. He's mostly been comparing notes with several people, particularly Blackarachnia and Jetfire, and was invited to work in Jetfire's lab. He attended the dance with the intention to mingle and get more used to this new situation. He's also been talking with SG!Megatron about the possibility of teaching a few classes if they open a school.

Oh, and he got trolled by Starscream. A lot.

[re_alignedmods]

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/sneaks in off hiatus to post real quick...

[deusrexmachina]

Character Name: Rex Salazar
1st Example: "...now thrill me!"
2nd Example: Following a scrap at the scrap heap Junk Pile...

Activity Summary: Rex's arrival was a noisy one, as he came into things in the middle of the terrorpede invasion and immediately jumped right into the fray by engaging some enemies in the access tunnels beneath Solus Prime's temple. After accidentally buttdialing the Link, he spoke with several of the locals, including Kay, Raf, Sari, (G1) Thundercracker, (IDW) Ironhide, Ventus and a number of others. He hit it off well with many of the other organic life forms, particularly those of the younger set. Other conversations, such as the one with (DW) Starscream, did not go so well, but if Rex can't impress and make friends, he'll typically reward attitude with more attitude. This situation was no exception. In the end, after getting into contact with his field partner and mentor Six, Rex met up with the man in green off-network.

Rex then paid a visit to the Junk Pile where he ended up meeting up with some of those he had spoken with on the network, as well as helping them to take down yet more of the invading monsters. Despite having known them only a short time, he found himself already liking both Kay and Ironhide quite a bit. It was also his first time meeting X-23. Following his initial Junk Pile adventure, Rex flew Kay back to her place to see if he could repair her microwave for her.

When Megatronus Prime called for volunteers to help take out the source of the terrorpede threat, Rex volunteered...and accidentally gave Megatronus the idea to capture and experiment on one of the creatures. (Rex is not aware of this and hopefully never will be because oh god.) This triggered some deep thinking and even a bit of angsting on Rex's part as the convoy headed out into the Badlands, as Rex was unsure about using his technopathy on the enemy, specifically to control or reprogram them. On the way out, he spoke with Thundercracker again (I swear I will backtag this later because aaahhh the CR). Rex survived the battle, but not without getting his share of bumps, bruises and cuts, then returned exhausted to Haven afterward (handwaved).

Currently (as I'm on hiatus), Rex is exploring Haven further and digging around in the Junk Pile. He's spending some of his time staying with Six and White Knight, but has also been making use of provided quarters in Solus Prime's temple when he feels like staying there.

[re_alignedmods]

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[knightinbluearmor]

Character Name: Melan Blue
1st Example: Melan found Things!
2nd Example: Melan at the Dance.
Activity Summary: Melan, not really bothered by the fact he just got dumped into ANOTHER WORLD, went around to do what he does best: protecting people. He went to ask Megatronus to give him his real power back so he could fight the centipedes, met Hinata during the gathering and agreed to carry her toward the battleground.

Once the centipedes dealt with, the Knight helped Saber and Vandal by looking around in the Junk Pile for anything of use: he found plenty of little things he offered to those who needed them: Skids, Kagerou, Ventus and Hinata. He found a date in Thundercracker, who had sarcastically asked if Melan was proposing: Poor TC didn't know that Melan had zero understanding of sarcasm.

In the dance itself, Melan met Albert, whom he had helped against giant centipedes, Kagerou who showed him how to dance, and Sissel: the monomakia had been wary of the ghost for some time, unable to identify him as a living being and had followed him around when he had the chance. But the strange creature seemed harmless enough, and they kinda made friend.

Now the Knight is back to his usual patrols around the temple while his mun is in slowhiatus.

Character Name: Shira
1st Example: Doesn't have to pass the check yet.
2nd Example: Doesn't have to pass the check yet.
Activity Summary: Shira got dumped on Cybertron as well, ran away from the acolyte, traumatized Blurr, wondered how Raf tasted, tried to eat Rocket, made friend with Mordin of all people, and talked with Cody.

People are going to LOVE her here.

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[redshirtrobot]

Character Name: Barricade
1st Example: A short stint as the Mad Hatter...
2nd Example: Have you ever danced with the... oh you know the rest
Activity Summary: Barricade spent a long while in the medbay, recovering after he got his aft handed to him by a terrorpede that Dirge rescued him from. While he was, he had a chat with Mirage and agreed to keep quiet about the events of DotM towards Sideswipe. He's also gotten (slightly awkwardly) chummy with his FirstForged, Solus Prime. By the time he got out of the medbay, there was a mention of a party going on. He offered to make formal wear for the Cybertronians, which led to a lot of conversations explaining formal wear and discussing what people wanted... as well as a particularly awkward conversation with Skids about his cables and him defecting. He even offered to make a hat for Solus, which she accepted. Hooray! At the dance, he filled his dance card with Autobots, several of which (Blurr, Optimus Prime, and Drift, notably) he had to cajole into it. Then, he went on an exploring mission with Drift, Wing, Vandal, and First Aid, where they found ruins. By the time he got back, Bumblebee had arrived!... which made Barricade flip a table. Oops? But he also got to explain a bit about the Glyphs to Wheeljack, while still being ~mysterious~ about it. Currently, he's rushing off to fix Dirge after the jet impaled himself, and is also arguing with Sideswipe.

Character Name: Fracas
1st Example: Baby's first successful kill
2nd Example: Dance lessons with Knock Out
Activity Summary: Fracas has continued his training with Shockwave and the Driller - and even watched a couple of Shockwave's fights in Megatronus's arena. He's gotten good enough that he even managed to kill a terrorpede! After the excitement died down, he dragged the corpse to Knock Out, who upgraded one of his weapons to something a bit tougher. At Blurr's movie night on Valentine's day, he met Thundercracker and learned about the negative polarity Megatron and requested a meeting with him. He's also made tentative friends with Wheeljack, and at the dance they discussed how someone like Fracas could end up as a Decepticon. Fracas learned how to dance from Kay and refined it a bit with Knock Out (before stunning him by admitting he's dating Shockwave), and then tested it out by dancing with Cheetor. Also at the dance, he met Skids, who correctly guessed that he wears a mask everywhere. Good job Skids! Afterwards, he offered to help Wheeljack build a spaceship, and learned that Bulkhead isn't so scary after all. And he did help with building the spaceship (backdated log). He talked to Cody, who asked about how he ended up working for the Decepticons. Apparently he's way too nice to be a 'Con.

Character Name: Swoop
1st Example: Has been here less than one month
2nd Example: Has been here less than one month
Activity Summary: Swoop has arrived! He torched an Acolyte on his way into Megatronus's temple proper, where he immediately got lost and started shouting for his friends. He found Grimlock and discussed Dinobots and how he was made with Perceptor, while Elita came and rescued him from his own stupidity. He also heard from several people that there's no one back and the only other Dinobot is Grimlock, and decided this planet was terrible due to lack of trees. Lastly, he agreed to meeting with First Aid to learn more words and to maybe learn to talk better.

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[angleofscience]

Character Name: Jetfire
1st Example: Starscream and Jetfire taking a bath.
2nd Example: Talking to myself - Skyfire's arrival.
Activity Summary: Jetfire talked to Solus about the earthquake she redirected, and did a fly-by survey of her territory for any changes. When the mechanical centipedes started to pop up, Jetfire fought them, both alone and with Starscream and talked to Teddie during it to see if he was safe. He's talked to his alternate when Skyfire arrived and later at the dance, and helped during the fight against the head monster during the Badlands "invasion". Tried to talk (sense in)to Sari while she was swooshing around on her jetpack.

Character Name: Cliffjumper
1st Example: Adventures with Blurr!
2nd Example: Meeting with Bay!Mirage to fight Badlands centipedes.
Activity Summary: Cliffjumper has both watched others fight bugs (Whirl) and get attacked by them (SG!Ravage) as well as fought them (alongside Fortress Maximus and Bay!Mirage respectively). He also fought against the head monster, coordinating some attacks with Drift. After that he planned their delayed trip with Blurr and then got stuck in some long-gone paranoid hermit refugee's idea of a safe repository for their "treasure" and very briefly put in an appearance at the dance and got hit on Sideswipe.

Character Name: Elita One
1st Example: GRIM... lock. A Grimlock anyway. Sad Elita. Plus bonus Frenzy.
2nd Example: People dancing with Elita.
Activity Summary: Elita offered to check up on anything Solus might want checked after the earthquake the Prime redirected, went to the energon pools and bathed with Ambulon, was the first to encounter (and be injured by) the mechanical centipedes and was also present at the fight against the head critter. She also talked to Grimlock when she first arrived, and later had to deal with Frenzy attempting to "woo" her during Valentine's. She went to the celebratory dance and danced with a bunch of people (among those Optimus, Arcee and Ambulon), and helped Swoop when he first arrived.

And Skywarp ought to be exempt.

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[sixthdeadliest]

Character Name: Six
1st Example: Six arrives to giant killer centipedes.
2nd Example: "You're late."
Activity Summary: Six has largely been keeping an eye on things and setting up a base of operations for those people from his world. He's also been keeping an eye out for potential allies in this hostile environment. Of course, there have been a few times where he just had to question what was going on. An example was when Ravage's post about being hungover and Six wondered how it was possible for a robot to get a hangover. (Of course, he also proved he possessed dual fluency in both Hangover and Wiseass when Knight expressed how impressed he was that Six understood the original post.)

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[aerospacecommander]

Character Name: Catwoman/Selina Kyle
1st Example: Sari stop, you're going to break something.
2nd Example: Why does she even talk to whirl
3rd Example: Totally going to make some bots build her a swimming pool.
4th Example: Wheeljack needs some buffing
5th Example: Ew bugs.
6th Example: Good thing you're not the guy I hate otherwise I'd beat you up

I didn't make the count before the end date, but I should have enough now. Feel free to beat me if not.

Activity Summary: Selina has been attempting to warm up to the bots more in order to use them as free labor.

Except for McCrane and the police force. She has already broken into the jail once and stole some data pads. This will be a continuing thing, of course.

Character Name: Starscream
1st Example: Trolling Skyfire is his new past time
2nd Example: Starscream had a little too much
Activity Summary: Starscream helped with the creepy bug event and was dragged went along with the trip to the badlands to deliver the one ring fight centipedes of doom.

He's also been looking into doing something about Dead End -- not really for the safety of everyone, but because it'd look like that. Also, he doesn't like creeper, vampire, robots.

Character Name: Laharl
1st Example: Laharl arrives
2nd Example: Laharl challenges everyone
Activity Summary: Laharl basically showed up thinking that he was only there because Etna screwed up (it was obviously her fault) and almost went out of his way to offend just about everyone. He tried to claim Prima's temple as his new castle and challenged everyone to a fight for the title of supreme overlord.

Unfortunately no one will take him seriously.

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[robotfightclub]

Character Name: Teddie
1st Example: Teddie is obnoxious as always
2nd Example: And wants to go home
Activity Summary: You know this kid, he's the one who complains all the time and talks about scoring. Still. During the centipede attack, Teddie attempted to be brave but failed horribly. Although some of that had to do with Mirage insisting he stay somewhere safe. (Mirage has become some sort of not!dad) Other than that, he attended the dance after screaming over the link for a date and people keep calling him fat much to his dismay. He has still yet to find some sort of niche to fill and although it's been slow searching, he hasn't actually given up.

Character Name: Arcee
1st Example: Prettiest girl at the ball
2nd Example: Arcee tends to have short conversations
Activity Summary: Optimus's death still takes a huge toll on Arcee, and the team's condition doesn't make things any easier. She was especially worried over Smokescreen after he announced he was sticking around his aligned temple. (Seems like the one she should've been worried about is Ratchet, though) Due to her strong desire to somehow get the team to stick together, she's been trying (keyword here) to push her grudges aside and work with all her universe's Autobots for Optimus's sake. She tries not to let all these horrible things get to her, but it slips every now and then in the form of being a bit harsher than usual. (Let her tell you how Power Joe is just a toy)

During the centipede attack, Arcee fought on her own terms and on the sidelines, although she did help Mirage at one point. She did not help Megatronus due to personal reasons, but later admitted (well, mentally anyway) that those reasons were poor and felt pretty bad about it. Not sure how, but she does plan to somehow make up for that, if only for herself.

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[toguidethem]

Character Name: Quickstrike
1st Example: Find himself a new bossbot! and Friendly chat with Whirl
2nd Example: Quickstrike dances with the Sugarbot
Activity Summary: Quickstrike has been fairly directionless over the past while. With no bossbot to tell him what to do or who to kill, he doesn't really know what to do with his life. Thankfully he has Blackarachnia to occasionally distract himself with. Recently he had a chat with Wheeljack, and then officially made the wrecker his new boss. Yay!

Character Name: Cheetor
1st Example: Cheetor is honest with Blurr
2nd Example: Dancing with a Vehicon
Activity Summary: Cheetor hasn't been up to much lately, occasionally chatting people up on the network or trying to discover areas he hasn't found yet. Considering how fast he is, he's quickly starting to find the Haven a little boring. But he's still a part of the police force, so he'll stick to it as much as he can.

Character Name: Four
1st Example: Have I changed?
2nd Example: Dancing with a pretty lady
Activity Summary:

Four has been fairly busy this time around. And by busy I mean he died at one point. Having left to go play with Tarn, Four ends up being handed over to Frenzy, though he doesn't remember Frenzy's part in his own death. Assuming that Tarn killed him, he mentions this to Rung while they were talking, and Rung asked if Four wouldn't mind staying with him. Four eventually agreed and was definitely happy to play with Rung's ships. Four also notes that his glyph has completely changed, and spent some time worrying that Liege didn't like him anymore. He has it explained to him, and eventually stops worrying so much.

Being the awesome little stitchpunk he is, Four boldly asks Shockwave to the dance under the pretense that the two of them were going to gather information. Which they did, but Four was more interested in seeing if he could get the one-eyed scientist to spend time with him. Four went ahead and wore a dress to the dance and ended up dancing with Kay at one point.

Asking questions and learning things is Four's purpose, and he continues to occasionally ask the Haven little questions about life and death. He even offers to work as an organizer for Megatron's school idea. Organizing is his way of life. Though he isn't aware of Frenzy's roll in his death, he does feel very uneasy with the Decepticon, and even went as far as asking if someone wouldn't mind engineering a weapon for him, something that drastically goes against his own beliefs.

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Character Name: Drift
1st Example: Exploring
2nd Example: wandering in dangerous areas for once not his fault
Activity Summary:
It's been a quiet few months for Drift, really. Because he's died and because he's wandered so frequently into the Badlands, when Unicron started the latest attack, Drift was extra susceptible and found himself repeatedly blacking out and heading toward the Badlands. But, of course, that was like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, because when Wing tried to get help, others just presumed Drift was being his usual emo self.

He's tried to talk sense into Sideswipe about not going around wantonly murdering people here...but, well, with limited (as in probably zero) success. But he tried. His last talk with Ultra Magnus similarly went badly. He's trying to talk sense into Laharl, but that's not going well either. x-x He should eventually figure out he's not good at talking anyone into or out of anything. A for effort, D for execution.

When SG Megatron offered to open a school, he's sheepishly admitted his complete and utter ignorance, hoping he can change that. He's also tried to begin studying first aid from some basic datapads, and was able to stop SG Megatron's injuries from getting worse until proper help could come, based on his studies. Maybe he could find a course in How to Win Friends and Influence People?

He volunteered to help fight the terrorpedes, smiting mightily with the firepower (lol pun there) that Megatronus granted him--only after a stern lecture not to even try it on another of their kind. Sheesh. Someone won't let that killing of one of his guys go.

Afterwards, he sought medical attention and advice from First Aid, and then tried to be clever and dodge the horrors of fancy dress by volunteering to be a bouncer at the big fancy party, only to be thwarted in that. Fortunately, Barricade, his new buddy, came through with a non-humiliating, quite spiffy little sword cane thing. And Barricade got invited along for exploring: what a thank you gift!

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[wheeljackofalltrades]

Character Name: Wheeljack
1st Example: He was eaten by an ALASKAN BULL WORM
2nd Example: I wanna fly high

Activity Summary:
Since we left off, Wheeljack saw Perceptor unleash science-cthulhu and went to go 'save' him, only to have Driller show up and kidnap him despite Wheeljack's best attempts at fighting him. This left the Wrecker with a hole in the lab and a really bad mood. Since then, he was searching for Ultra Magnus...as per Perceptor's request.

He's also refused to regroup with the Team Prime base, mainly because he thinks he works better alone, and prefers to reside in the Solian Temple. A decision he'll be glad for later when the question of 'Where's Ratchet' pops up.

His quest for Perceptor continued...up until the giant robot Centipedes decided to attack, and he quickly regrouped with Bulkhead. They had a bit of a contest to see who could kill more, and to this day no one's really sure who won. ...But he found Perceptor via him landing in front of him...randomly. It was a good moment.

Once the Centipede problem was taken care of, he had...relationship stuff to attend to as well. YEAH. WHEELJACK HAS RELATIONSHIPS...SORTA. Bulkhead met him at the ship building site, they talked, and...yeah they're in a relationship. Or as much of one as they can get. This was pretty soon before the idea of the dance, and of course the two attended. Wheeljack talked with Blurr, danced with Bulkhead (clumsily), and chatted with Wrex and Perceptor. The Thing also happened. What is The Thing? Well he sure won't tell you. But it certainly was a Thing.

After the dance, Wheeljack got right back on track with making the ship, and hired volunteers for a night of ship-building. Thanks to Barricade and Solus Prime, he learned what his glyph was specifically for, and...was a bit shocked that he was getting rewarded for pretty much doing what he's always done. This leads to the actual BUILDING of the ship, where a bunch of Team Prime, Perceptor, Fracas, Dead End, Ventus and Don all helped make. It's still a WIP at the moment, but it's something.

Character Name: Kay Faraday
1st Example: Adopting a baby bird
2nd Example: When in doubt blame Skydave

Activity Summary:
Kay's basically kept herself off the network for a bit. It's not her fault--raising a baby crow is hard! It's prone to wandering off, and thus, she has to go chase it. Oh the joys of learning what it's like to be a parent. This doesn't mean she's been slacking, though. WIth chasing, comes training. And now Skydave--that's her crow's name-- can fetch things from the Junk Pile for her if she has something similar. For example, something gold and shiny. It was because of this that she ran into Rex, and learned that he can do all sorts of neat metal things.

And then the Centipedes attacked. It made Kay a bit apprehensive, especially after Kagerou had left the Nest for some time. This was when she decided to take action and grab every weapon she had, ready to take on whatever she could in order to find Kagerou. It wasn't very successful. A Centipede found her and was about to finish her off for good, but Megatronus came to her aid at the last second. ...Despite their...previous discussions. She was then returned to the BP, and they agreed to never speak of this again.

For the rest of the invasion, she remained in the nest, although made contact on the Network to people. Megatronus gathered people to go after the monsters, and while Kay couldn't go, Megatronus visited her, giving her something to protect herself with--minor pyrokinesis or something of the sort. She never used it, but she wanted it just in case...something happened.

When Saber and Vandal planned for the dance, she offered her services to decorate, using her crow to gather stuff and make it rather elegant. You'd be amazed how well it turned out! She attended of course, and it was a blast.
Also her residence has moved back into Alpha Trion's temple, and has adopted Kagerou's little Acolyte as the 'pet dog' named Stumpy. Don't ask.

Character Name: Mirage
1st Example: No human, it's just me
2nd Example: Goddammit Sideswipe

Activity Summary:
At the start, McCrane requested Mirage's assistance in keeping an eye on Overlord by using his cloaking. When the Centipedes attacked, Mirage made sure that Teddie found his way to safety, mainly because he had medical prowess and...well the Solian temple needed that. Jst like taking care of a sparkling...if he knew what one of those was like. (He's sort of become a not!dad with him). Needless to say, he had fun actually TAKING ACTION on these bugs. It brought back memories.

Everything changed when Sideswipe showed up, and even worse, was from a different point in time from him. Before everything in their world went to crap. He's been doing his best to both protect Sideswipe from the truth, by making deals with Shockwave and convincing Barricade to let him handle it, as well as try to deviate Sideswipe from going on a killing spree in a place their war hasn't seeped into. Overall, Mirage has been playing a brick wall to keep Sideswipe acting as he is. Even if he has to shoulder that burden on his own.

The party loosened him up a bit, though, and he danced with Blurr, Sideswipe, Barricade (surprisingly), and visited others, like Saber. However, he has a tendency to get drunk and...well...he was a laughing mess by the end of it.

THEN Bumblebee showed up, and was from even before Sideswipe's time. So not only does he have to watch out for Sideswipe, but he's got to keep his eye on Bumblebee too (thankfully Bumblebee is more manageable than Sideswipe). However, Barricade and Shockwave alike have issues with Bumblebee, so it makes his job twice as hard. He's going to try and seek council from Vector on what to do about this.

Character Name: Sissel
1st Example: Getting a blessing from Megatronus
2nd Example: Awkward dance lessons in 3...2...1

Activity Summary:
Sissel started to become a depressed little ghost, mainly because he's wondered what it's like to be alive, since he hasn't really remembered. It's caused him to be rather melancholy, and keep an eye on the network from afar. No sense getting others wrapped up in his problems. That is, until the centipede attack. If there's one thing Sissel doesn't like, it's people getting hurt.

However, it wasn't until Megatronus posted that he decided to really take action, offering his efforts to the cause even if he wasn't part of Megatronus's faction. This led to Megatronus and Sissel meeting in person, and recieving a boon for his metallic body. The hole in his chest was fixed, and his body temporarily regenerated for the duration of the invasion. He also received some advice, saying that mortal bodies don't matter, and as long as you have a presence in the world, you're alive. It struck a chord with Sissel, and he's stopped moping for the most part.

The dance popped up, and Sissel decided that if he was going to remember anything, he better start doing things that people would usually do. Thankfully, he was already well prepared for the dance, and attended. Thanks to Saber, he learned how to dance.

It's done wonders for his confidence, especially since he's going on five months with amnesia.

Character Name: Power Joe
1st Example: Enter Power Joe
2nd Example: WITTY EXAMPLE TEXT

Activity Summary:
Power Joe's only recently arrived to Cybetron, and boy has he made an entrance. Thankfully he regrouped with McCrane and Drill Boy upon arrival (and...begrudgingly Gunmax as well). However, he got in a little spat with both Blurr and Arcee, both for different reasons. Blurr didn't want him to help fight the Centipede invasion because of his fuel tank, but PJ's will was the victor there. He met up with McCrane and helped out any way he could.

He also attended the party Saber and Vandal threw. Danced with Arcee and got drinks with Ironhide, who he mistook for his bro Dumpson when they first met. Because...well, they look alike. Made friends with Rex and Cody Burns.

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[wrex_it_krogan]

Character Name: Albert Heinrich
1st Example: GUILT BEARS
2nd Example: Albert is bad at this social thing
Activity Summary: Albert's had a slow month at least as far as the police headquarters is concerned. He hasn't been out, save during the centipede invasion. There he lost his gun-firing cybernetic hand during a fight and met some people. While he was against the dance, Teddie convinced him to go. There he met Melan and Blurr at the dance. His hand has yet to be replaced.

Character Name: Urdnot Wrex
1st Example: Cody is the new runner-up Shepard
2nd Example: Krogan dancing: it's as funny as it sounds
Activity Summary: Wrex has had a busy and confusing as hell time. He tore apart a few centipedes and Rocket stopped by to help (Wrex still won). But then a salarian showed up telling him he cured the genophage followed by a Shepard telling him more outlandish stories. While he has a hard time believing everything, he trusts his commander. And hey, he met a couple humans who weren't so bad either Cody and Kay who convinced him to dance (It was the ryncol, Shep, he swears)

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