ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

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::MEGATRON IT STINKS AND WHAT IS WITH THAT CLOUD…

::Wait, thing? It’s… It’s been spreading, right? And with the smell… Is it some kind of monster?:: Maybe he did find the covenant for a reason, then…

::That is what we’ve been trying to detect. Whatever it is, we have found no reference to its name in any existing record. It may just be nonsense the cultist spewed before succumbing.::

::Really? I, uh- I found a, uh, history book that talked about it.:: Not technically a lie! ::I didn’t see its name, but I read about how it apparently hit Cybertron before, in the past, and how these bots were chanting something to make it come and eat cities in an un-Unicron way, that there’s this super-dangerous book that’s supposed to stop it somehow? If that cultist was chanting… Whatever it is- then it could be the same thing.::

On his end of the line, Megatron squints. It seems too convenient.

::Let me see this book. If it has the answers we seek, we need them as soon as possible, and if it too is a danger, then it too must be contained.::

:: Megatron, what’s going on? A quarantine notification just popped up on my HUD…wow, was it really three days ago? Anyway, is there anything I can do? ::

They’re all starting to notice. It’s only a matter of time before a curious neutral strays too close…

::A contagion is spreading from Tyger Pax, released by some sort of cult that took up residence there a month prior. A secretion of some kind that decays and rusts and… contorts what it touches.::

ask-smokescreen replied to your post:
::MEGATRON IT STINKS AND WHAT IS WITH THAT CLOUD…

::Wait, thing? It’s… It’s been spreading, right? And with the smell… Is it some kind of monster?:: Maybe he did find the covenant for a reason, then…

::That is what we’ve been trying to detect. Whatever it is, we have found no reference to its name in any existing record. It may just be nonsense the cultist spewed before succumbing.::

::MEGATRON IT STINKS AND WHAT IS WITH THAT CLOUD ARE YOU DEALING WITH UNICRON AGAIN OR SOMETHING? CAN I HELP::

Megatron winces first from the volume, then from the questions.

::Panic will not help the situation. As far as we’ve been able to tell, this… thing is different from Unicron. It has been spreading, but we’ve found no successful containment thus far. It deteriorates whatever it touches, including living metal.::

::Megatron, has anything been going on in Metroplex lately?::

ask-smokescreen:

mightymegatron:

::Metroplex? …No. There is an active quarantine in Tyger Pax, but I have heard nothing from Metroplex.::

::Why?::

::I learned from a, uh, friend, that there’s this book there? It’s part of something in Cybertronian history-  I don’t know if you were around for it, either, but I wanted to know more.::

::Wait, quarantine? Why? What happened?::

The decommissioned titan had been thoroughly ransacked, he highly doubts that anything of value remains.

::You’re free to search if you wish. The quarantine is necessary; most of the area is unstable and unsafe terrain.:: Again, not a lie. ::Something may have been released in the resulting collapses and until we can test for it, it’s unwise to attempt recon.:: He was careful with his wording. Perhaps a swarm of scraplets, perhaps a chemical. Perhaps an invisible horror of unknown and incomprehensible origin.

:: Spreading?! Spreading where?? How?? ::

the-scrappy-stinger:

mightymegatron:

::Towards Tyger Pax. We haven’t begun restoring the city there yet, but colonies are beginning to spring up in the area. It can’t be allowed to reach them, who knows what will happen.::

:: SLAG! I thought we took care of it already ‘cause we blew up the guy with the head! ::

:: Gimme a minute, I’ll get my stuff and we’ll head out- to- um- ::

:: What do we even do about something like this?! ::

His claws brush against the rust on his chestplates.

::I suspected there was more to it, but not that it would remain so active… before our sensor fried, it detected dead and dying wildlife in the new area. They were able to flee from it before, something prevented them from doing so now. It is getting worse.::

As for what to do, he offers no answers. He currently has none.

( A proximity alarm goes up for only a moment before it’s blinked out, but the planet seems to scream in agony. On a site outside of Tyger Pax, a sudden crater has appeared in the metal. Hosts of small organisms, scraplets and glitchmice, lie about the area in mangled states of near-death and agony. No energon is shed, but it smells like a gaping wound, and the ground is covered with fresh, yellowy ichor. )

This is like nothing Soundwave’s instruments have ever detected. The sensor overloaded with so much energy that even the receiver for the signal is blackened with electrical char. After what he is seen, Megatron forbids Laserbeak from being deployed to investigate further. There is still rust on his armor from where the slime dripped on him, reminding him altogether too much of the husk Unicron wore. 

Megatron himself issues a formal quarantine of the area, citing dangerous grounds as the tunnels from past excavations have begun to collapse. He isn’t technically lying, but leaves out that the collapse is from this mysterious contagion. After his message is broadcast, he sends another private one.

::Bumblebee. It… seems to be spreading.::

dr-algernop:

illogical-bullshit:

arielries:

startrekgifs:

preoccupiedpepper:

staff:

Here it is: Best stuff first

Extremely handy if you follow a lot of people and hate missing anything good. 

Best Stuff First moves the best stuff on your dashboard—mhm!—right up to the top. 

It’s rolling out this week on iOS and Android, and comes with this Help Center article.  

Thanks! ✌️

Head’s up folks! Tumblr decided to shit the bed and go non-chronological!

This bullshit is being rolled out this week and it’s going to be default!

This is dangerous and manipulative.

The main reasons for these “algorithms” that Instagram, Facebook and Twitter have rolled out are manipulating what people see. Content they want you to see gets pushed to the top, anything threatening to their interests gets quietly tossed to the bottom so you’ll be too tired or bored to see it.

I can see this seriously messing with the livelihood of artists, so please reblog if you can!

This adds a whole new level to being shadowbanned. Now you can just be shadow-shoved-to-the-bottom and no one will ever see your posts again. Ngl I see this as a way Staff will deal with users they find ~problematic~.

Remember that time Facebook did the exact same thing, then conducted illegal psychosocial experiments on it’s users by tampering with their activity feeds to make depressing posts, happy posts, etc. show up more often to manipulate the emotional states of their users?

It’s probably in your best interest to disable this.

Source: staff