(Oh, you're totally right, I am not writing the choose-your-own-adventure clearly enough. There is a plot thread that connects to previously-mentioned information hidden in that list that's supposed to be The Big Reveal(tm) but I think it needed another 20k words for it to be the payoff to the...
1. and then 4.
Perhaps it is best to check [security] first- learn what's going on behind the scenes, before learning what's going on behind the scenes, you know? While tapping doesn't work on the screen, jabbing the buttons on the console below it seems to do the trick. You jab your way to the...
(Oh, I thought it'd take longer to get more attention. Whoops! I am still here)
1. Try to boot up the systems.
Of course, that's only natural for a technician like yourself! Well, at least, if this stuff had been built in the last thousand years or so. It's kind of primitive...
You flick a few...
No response...
(I have returned! For real this time. I think I can just churn this out on my own, but I will still be open to suggestions. That's where my improv skills would be put to the test, after all!)
(PS, I have been meaning to write for this for a while, and you cannot stop me.)
You...
No response...
(Also, it's been a tough writer's-blocky month, sorry. I have more pre-planned, I promise.)
It's beautiful. You're simply awe-struck by the distant beauty of the landscape from even this modest altitude, watching the horizon, parsing out details of the landscape at such amazing...
TRANSFORM!!
Alright, fine! Maybe you'll try one more time. You can't exactly think of anything else to do, anyways. You close your eyes and concentrate really hard. You press your arms together, trying to pull your head into some imaginary cavity in your chest, and magically form into some...
TRANSFORM!
What!? But that's only something the warbots are taught and trained to do!! You could maybe try, based on watching the platoons transform and move out, but you've always been so holed up in the intelligence center for the higher-ups to consider your sector worth teaching how to do...
2. There's no time
Even if there was some ancient relic hidden in there, it's probably too old to be useful in any way. You'll have better luck stumbling upon a poorly-hidden space program than jerry-rigging an ancient space probe to get back into space. You brush cables back over the old door...
Search atop the surface.
Now there is an idea. Perhaps someone else has already had this thought, and is already prepared to leave Cybertron. Maybe you'll be able to hitch a ride, though your chances may be diminished if they are already crewing the starship, and even lessened if they're...
1. Leave your post.
Of course. There is no other way off this planet. You have to leave, now. You look back and forth, holding the communicator receiver to your audio receptors one last time, just in case. No sound comes. It's just static. With a tense sigh, you stand up, drop the communicator...
- CYBERTRON -
This is a cold rock, distantly orbiting a violent blue star, in a quiet corner of the galaxy. Just underneath its frigid surface is innumerable veins of a volatile, cobalt-blue material commonly known as Energon. Millions of years ago, a miracle occurred and life developed on...
Oooh, shiny. Background checks are very important, I see.
>[attempt to talk to him] "Hey, who are you?"
Always good to gather info. Don't wanna go in blind.
>GAMES, >IRONY
>D&D, >STORY WRITING
>VIOLIN
>PLAY VIDEO GAMES WITH YOUR FRIENDS, >SEND SNAPCHATS TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND (Couldn't decide)
>OVERWATCH, >SWORD ART ONLINE
>COMPETITION