Councils - Predacon Meeting Hall

[Akitsu]

Galvatron blinked a few times, a blank look on his face. "So this is the new pain in the ass people have been talking about? Seems pretty normal... all things considered."

[smokedtoast]

Spinout rubs the back of his head lightly before looking down at Ballad sheepishly. "Er, yeah..." He responds before dropping down to a knee next to her. "It's been an...enlightening experience giving her the tour so far. Your home life was pretty crazy galvy, any idea what to do next?..." Spinout adds, remembering the torn up wall from Ballad's spasm earlier. He doesn't neccessarily want to get his eyes clawed out at this point. XD

[Akitsu]

"I'm the last person who should be giving out advice, even if I wasn't borderline unconscious at the moment." He yawned, "She do this often? Or only when you bore her to death? Did you at least show her the hall of weapons before you showed her the boring parts?"

[festum]

Ballad's optic sensors flashed in annoyance and she reached up to cover her audio-sensors with her hands. On top of that, she increased the volume of her humming to try and drown out the voices around her. They were unpleasant.

[smokedtoast]

Spinout winced for a moment before looking over to Galvy. "Uh... I'd think weapons would be the last thing she'd want to see Galvy. The great war is what made her this way... used to be a decepticon poet before it broke out, surprisingly. I'm still not even sure why slingshot thinks this is the right thing to do." He responded before looking at Ballad and attempting to put his hands on her shoulders comfortingly.

[Akitsu]

"One would think a Decepticon poet would welcome weaponry into her life, after all... it's not the weapon that has the intent to kill... but the weilder." He scratched his chin, "Well, except for the Murderbot 7003 rifle... bad AI scripts... tended to kill anything that passed in front of it, including the owners. Amazing that it was in use 370 solar cycles before they figured out the design flaw..." Shrugging he added, "... guess those old 'cons just kept them pointed at the ground most of the time, eh?"

[hare]

While everybody was talking, a lone technorganic black and purple raven quietly flew in through the window and lands on the head of a chair. The raven looks at everybody and blinks in slight indifference. The raven lets out a fluid and mechanical caw from his beak.

[Akitsu]

"Quoth the raven, nevermore..." Galvatron sighed, things were just getting weirder. "Maybe I should have just taken the tranquilizer this morning and left it at that... or maybe I did and this is all a major hallucination." He poked Spinout experimentally, as if the illusion would be shattered by doing so.

[smokedtoast]

Spinout blinks for a moment before patting Galvatron on the back. "It isn't a hallucination Galvy... Though I still don't believe you about those guns. Who's on record for wielding them? And hello uncle Deadend." He responded before trying to help Ballad up, chuckling. "Had to come and see the other black-winged poet aye?"

[Akitsu]

"Who's on record? A lot of dead people..." He grinned, "... the people who survived didn't want to admit to using them, after all then they'd bring into question just whether their fallen comerades were taken out by the enemy or by conveniently pointed death sticks with a mind of their own."

He shrugged, "Just go into a vet bar and mention the things and you'll see a lot of people react though. Even when you go through several shells, those things tended to leave an impression on your very spark."

[hare]

Deadend lets out a final fluid but electronic caw from his beak and jumps to his seat. "Deadend, Maximize," Deadend spoke. After speaking his words, the technorganic Raven transformed into a winged Cybertronian. He sees his nephew and gives him an anknowledging nod. He sees Galvatron and another Raven bot in the room. "So which one of you have summoned me, even though I might have more important things to do right now?"

[festum]

Ballad shoved Spinout's hand away and glared through her visor at the general room, her eyes settling on Deadend for a moment. She then scooted off into one of the corners and wrapped her wings around herself until leaving her appearance similar to a feathered egg.

"White twisted/folds of light/distorted sight," she mumbled bitterly to herself.

[Akitsu]

Galvy gave him a weary stare that pretty much said it all. As if to drive the point home though he pantomimed sprinkling magic dust over his palm and doing a brief rain dance in place. "Yeah... I ordered a leprechaun. Gotta check over that summoning chant again..."

He seemed pained to be the sanest one in the building. "I think you're spooking our guest... who may or may not be the droid you're looking for. I didn't call for anything but a little sanity, but it would seem the delivery man bringing that is lost." He looked at his wrist as if a chronometer was there, "More than thirty minutes... guess that means my therapy is free."

[smokedtoast]

Spinout paused for a moment before moving off to the side and motioning towards his uncle as he takes a stance near Galvy. He whispers lightly to Galvy. "Sorry dude. Believe me, I'm trying to figure out what's what. Slingshot did have her transferred to our custody, but I've got no idea why at the moment. I checked when they dropped her off, though primus knows why." He remains quiet afterwards, trying to keep from upsetting Ballad further.

[Akitsu]

Galvatron waved at the air nonchalantly, "I don't mind... it's just been a long and strange day... and it's not even that late yet. Maybe she just needs something she can relate to..." He walked over to where Ballad was doing her best egg impression and sat down a few feet away from her.

He grumbled to himself, "I can't believe I'm gonna try something this stupid..." Turning his head to Ballad he said in a measured tone, doing his best not to sound mocking, "There's nothing to fear, but to be clear, what's the problem my dear?"