Transformers: The Lost Light

[General Havoc]

Here's an alternate character idea. Let me know how you like it.

Name: Cuddlebot
Allegiance: Friendship
Function: hugging
Alt form: Convertable with a robot face in the front.

Cuddlebot is a cheerful, happy little robot. He like everyone!

Special Skills: Cuddlebot is an excellent hug-tackler.

Alternate Energy source: Cuddlebot is not powered by energon but instead uses a Laser ignitiOn Variable Emission (LOVE) fusion engine.

Weapons: Cuddlebot is equipped with a high energy laser weapon on each arm. They are RAdIaNt Beam Overcharge Weapons (RAINBOW).

So I think someone just volunteered to babysit Hornet all the time...

Spoiler: show

... Molari.

[Dark Silver]

Deathstrike is denied - Cuddlebot is approved.
Wait...that's probably not right. Flip that around.

Breakout is Approved

Novawing is approved

Outrunner is approved

Pathfinder is approved.

Hornet is approved (may the Guiding Hand have mercy on your Spark). Slight changes to the history - the Quest isn't to find Optimus. Optimus left after leaving behind the title of Prime - he insist he is referred to as his old name, Orion Pax. Of course, some Autobots have a habit after 4 million years of War of a) falling into line behind Orion, and b) still referring to him as Optimus.


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Major NPC's are listed below, with a brief blurb about them. If you want to know more, I suggest the TFWik and look up their "IDW Universe" sections.


Rodimus
Commander of the Lost Light Autobots
One Time Matrix holder. Brave, Charismatic, reckless, easily bored. Believes his own hype.

Ultra Magnus
Second in Command / Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord
Takes his job (and everything else) extreme seriously. Smiled once, and regretted it ever sense.

Drift
Nominal Third in Command
Ex-Decepticon. Longs to be defined in some other way. Recent brush with death has reawakened his Spiritual Side.

Rachet
Chief Medical Officer (of the Autobots) / prolific life saver
A world-weary super-medic with unreliable hands. Kind, but not as he once was. Hopes to find his successor on this quest.

Red Alert
Director of Security
Professional Eavesdropper, part-time conspiracist, full-time paranoiac. Has the best ears in the business.

Rung
Ship's psychiatrist
Weak of body, sharp of mind. Seems to always be around, but is seldom noticed by the people there. Very good at his job.

Chromedome
Memnosurgeon
Cynical, Prone to moping, resents his own talents. Relies on Rewind to keep him honest.

Rewind
Archivist/Historian
A walking datase of Cybertronian history. One of the few Minicons left - transforms into a Data-stick. Excitable and trusting, uses head-mounted camera to record history as it happens.

Brainstorm
Weapons Engineer / Prolific Murderer
Amoral, single-minded, workaholic and possible genius. Carries a briefcase containing the Unmentionable. Is willing to build anything if it will challenge him.

Perceptor
Head Scientist / Really Scary Sniper
Absolutely brilliant Scientific mind, who can get lost int he beauty of a Positron. Shoots with the same precision he dissects with.

Blaster
Director of Communications / Chief Morale Officer
Smooth talking, a voice like butter. Once one of the most famous DJ's on Cybertron, using his voice to keep Autobot Morale up on the airwaves.

Swerve
Metallurgist
Good friend to all, best friend to none. Nickname is "Shut the hell up". Dreams of opening his own bar, and loves a good Quest.

Cyclonus
Ex-lieutenant of Galvatron
Dour and unrepentant, a fierce patriot still reeling from the loss of "his" Cybertron, and looking for his place in this Universe.

Whirl
Warrior / Practicing Troublemaker
Ex-Wrecker, Twice voted "Autobot most likely to defect". Consistently referred to as a "Flying Weapon of Mass Destruction. Amoral Prick. Best Avoided.

[Cynical Cat]

Your punishment is both harsh and fair.

[General Havoc]

As far as Hornet's concerned, Orion Pax is some weird name that Optimus Prime just made up. And Hornet doesn't even really know what the Quest is about save "adventure stuff!"

[LadyTevar]

Pathfinder's gonna think it really unfair that all the other 'Cons got to keep their shit and DeathStrike got shafted.

[Agent Fisher]

Did I see that right? Hornet isn't gonna be a hornet? he's gonna be a f-16?


I wish I still had time for RPGs, but working 12 hour shifts on a 4/3/3/4 rotation just doesn't leave time to keep up with the game. And I approve of cuddlebot.

[Dark Silver]

I don't intend for the game to be fast paced - but hopefully it will progress well enough.

I'll be putting up the IC thread this weekend - It'll be introductionary type thing, starting off with Rodimus' "Big Speech".



A note on the Lost Light itself: The ship is not a Autobot ship, but it is Cybertronian in design. It's a ship purchased by Rodimus from a group of NAILS who had no intention of leaving Cybertron again, and was offered a good deal and pretty words and were only too glad for it to be out of their hands.

So the ship isn't one any of you will probably be familiar with before hand, and it may or may not have surprises in the future.

[rhoenix]

Shit. Novawing is definitely going to check the ship thoroughly out at the first opportunity. He has this issue about not wanting to ride on an old rickety, rusty piece of junk kept long past its recommended lifespan. Call it a quirk.

[Dark Silver]

Do you honestly think Ultra Magnus would allow Rodimus to leave planet on a old rickitty hunk of junk?

The Mech counts rivets for fun, and makes sure they are in line.

[rhoenix]

Do you honestly think Ultra Magnus would allow Rodimus to leave planet on a old rickitty hunk of junk?

The Mech counts rivets for fun, and makes sure they are in line.

"Trust, but verify."

[General Havoc]

Did I see that right? Hornet isn't gonna be a hornet? he's gonna be a f-16?

Hornet was always a small, single-engine jet fighter, more like an F-16 than anything else. I took the Hornet's name because it seemed more fitting than the F-16s, given the character.

Per Wheeljack, Hornet's really part F-16, part F-18, part MiG-31, part MiG-23, part X-53 (which is basically an F-18). The overall effect though is a plane that looks reasonably similar to the F-16.

[Cynical Cat]

Okay, less reticent. The gigantic, overly inclusive comic back story with weak elements at first seemed to be a questionable bad choice, but having read some of the More Than Meets The Eye series I can see why you wanted to use it as the basis of game. It's a well written adventure story with wit, humour, and badassery. And that's just the Scavengers, let alone the main cast.

A few comments:

1) I want my own P-6 Worldsweeper. That's a sweet ride.

2) If I don't get a new body for Deathstrike, I want a cybernought. Just imagine the destruction if you put Hornet on the controls? How can you turn me down? The P-6 provides man.

3) Fuck me the DJD is badass. Is it just me or is Tarn designed to reduce Mary Sues to slag?

4) That's some cold blooded shit that they did to Shockwave.

[Dark Silver]

Pretty much - the comic is some of the best TF writing in a long time - the sister comic, "Robots in Disguise" is more political mayhem and isn't as much fun - due to the fact it also takes place over a much shorter time-frame than MtMtE (RiD takes place over a couple weeks time, MtMtE's timeframe is a couple months at least).

The last three issues of More than Meets the Eye are also some of the best, most sympathy and tear inducing bits to come out of the current Writing Team. And that's saying something. The Scavengers, I'm sure, will be seen more of - and I have little doubt the DJD will end up making a appearence in the comic again soon.

And yes, the DJD is pretty much writing to cause Mary Sue characters to wet themselves - the DJD are what EVERY Decepticon fears, except for Megatron because they obey Megatron to a fault. Tarn himself is perhaps the most fear inducing thing there is about the team - with his fine words and soft music his "weaponized conversation".

Tarn kills you with Class and Sophistication. and Violence.

A lot of Violence.


I chose carefully when it came to basing this game off the comic, I'm going to try to throw the issues up on the server when I get home next week so everyone can have a chance to read it.

[Dark Silver]

IC Thread is live

It's the say before the launch, Rodimus has done his big speech, enjoy playing on the techno-wild world that is Cybertron prior to the ship leaving.

Once we get a few posts in, I'll bump us to launching day.

[frigidmagi]

Should I assume Prowl is happy to see Breakout leave? Especially since Deathstrike and Hornet are going to?

[Dark Silver]

More than likely

I'm not sure what Prowl's attitude towards Breakout would have been.

On this, assume however you want.

[Cynical Cat]

Oh we'll definitely see the DJD and the Scavengers again. The Scavengers have one of the most beloved transformers of all time on their crew and the DJD are tough enough to challenge a ship full of Autobots with badasses like Cyclonus, Rodimus, and everyone's favorite jailer on board. Also, would kind of be a waste of all those comic issues dealing specifically with the Scavengers and the DJD if they didn't.

Also I promise to never ask for a double fusion cannon. I hope you appreciate my restraint.

[Dark Silver]

Oh man...it's gonna be a tear jerker when ever the Lost Light finally makes it back to Cybertron...

Poor poor Hornet....

[General Havoc]

... DS...

What are you doing?

[frigidmagi]

On issue six...

Pipes is the ship punching bag isn't he?

Also if anyone wants to join the plot to murder Whirl and get away with it, I am taking applications. Just PM me with the title "Committee For A Better Crew" please include any references. No experience necessary however.

[Dark Silver]

Pipes is a somehow ignorant, innocent Autobot who wants to desperately see the Universe...he's almost like Hornet.

So yes, he ends up being the ships Punching Bag for the story.

Until Issue 15.

[Dark Silver]

Dude, WTF? I have Modded the content of this post. Seriously. It is like taking notes on Hush Hush Conspiracy, and leaving your notebook out for anyone to find.

This post is a violation of the terms of service for this forum. So... consider this post a warning, I guess? Made for the good of us all.

With Love,
Comrade Tortoise.

[Hotfoot]

Sharing the love is all well and good, but this is a public forum, accessible by google, and this isn't an out of print series with questionable ownership, it's in active publication by people who *really* want people to buy the books.

You know what I mean?

[frigidmagi]

You know it occurs to me, that most of the Autobots never really stopped being civvies. You know, deep down inside. Despite fighting a war for millions of years, many of them never stopped thinking of themselves as civilians who just happened to take up arms...

[LadyTevar]

You may have a point there, Frig. Optimus was very happy to return to being Orion Pax, if he had the chance. Decepticons, however, were always fighters.