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another blam video log, gonna be a doozy. but i figured out something important here, blam's thoughts were saved in these logs so i can add them as notes to help it all, i'll add them in quotation marks to make them clear
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ACR-8L4M: [[taking a few steps off his ship and onto the planet. the area looks like solid concrete structures, all eroded and breaking apart. he keeps walking through, trying to step on patches without much moss or vines and staying on concrete. after a while of walking he makes it outside to the top of this structure. looking around, he landed in some kind of apartment complex that seems to be long abandonned from the vegitation. in fact everything is abandonned.]]
ACR-8L4M: [[across the horizon, more of these buildings are around. in various degrees of crumbling and overgrowth. clearly some kind of city. one of them is even fallen, laying completely on it's side atop two smaller buildings... "i look upon this place. it's quiet. calm. no sounds at all... the leaves on these plants do not rustle. there are no insects or birds flying. no animals running around. just the decay of a long abandonned world... why?" they stare out for a minute longer, before jumping off the building and to the ground below. surviving the fall with no damage as he sets on walking again.]]
ACR-8L4M: [[his footsteps are loud and clunky, the crumbling streets crack with every step. he soon reaches the inner parts of the city. "the signal is closer now. i'm going the right way. this planet is..." he looks around, the buildings here seem much smaller, with signs advertising shops, all of them still readable, and some electronic signs still have power. "...old?" he keeps walking, now with his hand on his arm cannon. and looking to the sides much more often. even looking up and noticing the sickly green of the sky. impossible to tell where clouds end and sky begins. looking ahead, the only way forward is through a broken subway tunnel.]]
ACR-8L4M: [[he jumps in through a hole in the road. walking across the tracks as random lights in the stations flicker in and out. as he keeps going deeper, the plants become thicker. soon reaching a point where stone and metal is gone, leaving only this bizarre plant-matter. vines and moss intersecting and merging, covering every wall. the lights of the tunnels still break through all the vines, but it's not the only light down here. he keeps his head pointed away from it but in the corner of his eye, he can see small patches of a soft yellow glow, forming in and out of the plants... and blinking.]]
ACR-8L4M: [[he keeps on his path, getting closer and closer to the signal source. climbing over the random lumps and hills the plants make, keeping on his path until a sound comes from behind. a scuttling sound. he turns around as fast as possible, pointing his arm cannon behind him... but there's nothing. he slowly looks in every direction he can, poinging his arm canon everywhere before hearing another scuttle, and turning to catch the cause of the sound. it's a small ball of plant matter, with one of the glowing patches staring right at him. it had four legs on the bottom of it, each with a spike of some hard yellowed out rock at the end. it's about the size of a head.
ACR-8L4M: [[the two stare each other down for a moment. before more scuttling, and he turns to see about 10 of these plant scuttlers on his right. everything is still for a solid minute... before one of them leaps at blam. hissing in a high pitch as it jumps to his chest and claws at him with it's legs. scratching away at his armour. he grabs it in one hand and squeezes, popping it and splattering a dark green liquid from the plant everywhere. he wipes it off his helmet before the rest charge. and blam open's fire.]]
ACR-8L4M: [[his arm cannon is slow but powerful, one shot pops each of the things as they charge at it. "why. what. when. how. i need an answer." after a lot of firing, they're all gone. "am i a tresspasser? is being here a bad idea? should i not-" the thoughts are interuppted by something, a scream deep in the tunnels echoing through to his area, "HELLO?! I HEARD SHOOTING I THINK?! IS SOMEONE THERE PLEASE HELP PLEASE??? AAAAA-" it sounds like a child, 13 at the oldest. blam thinks to himself again, "introspection unimportant. person in danger. need to help now." and he moves into a full sprint down the tunnels. racing past more scuttlers, stomping on a few as he moves through the caves and tunnels. soon finding an upwards tunnel, it's his only path forward, so he climbs.
ACR-8L4M: it takes long to climb up, eventually he reaches the top and climbs out of the hole. ending up in a small underground building with lab equipment, all broken apart with plants everywhere. he looks around the room for a moment before noticing a glass screen, and seeing the source of the signal behind it. a 12 year old girl wearing a mechanic's uniform and slightly oversized blue overalls. her skin is a pale white but she doesn't seem to be suffering from it like a normal human would, probably a hybrid of some kind. her hair is dark brown and done into two ponytails, with a welder-mask folded up on her head. her gloves also look oversized and her boots seem to have some tech in them. she's carrying around a large wrench when she turns and spots blam on the other side of the glass.
ENG-CHERAL: OMYGOSH HI HI HI! MY NAME'S CHERAL TRICKTA I'M A SURVIVOR FLEET ENGINEER- well trying to be an engineer but i'm only 12 so i can't be a full one yet- BUT I WANNA BE AND I WAS REPAIRING AN ESCAPE POD BUT I MESSED UP AND LAUNCHED IT HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG BATTLE WHILE THE EMPIRE WAS HACKING OUR WARP DRIVE TO TELEPORT THE SHIP AWAY SO THEY LOST ME BUT I SENT A SIGNAL NOW AND YOU FOUND IT AND YOU'RE NOT A PLANT THING HI! WHAT'S YOU'RE NAME? [[she talks at a million miles an hour, in a high and cheery tone as she practically bounces around while talking]]
ACR-8L4M: NAME. IS. BLAM. [[he bows slightly as he introduces himself, "a person. a nice person. i knew they were real."]] HERE. TO. HELPING. YOU. [[he doesn't notice as the floor cracks slightly under himself]]
ENG-CHERAL: COOL COOL COOL YOU'RE A BIG COOL ROBOT GUY THIS IS AWESOME DO YOU HAVE A SHIP- OH WAIT WE SHOULD TRY TO STOP THIS PLANT STUFF IT LOOKS REAL BAD AND- WAIT WATCH OUT THE FLOOR!!!
ACR-8L4M: [[the floor breaks under him, dropping him down further than ever. the plants here are older, somewhat dried and decaying, or wilting, or something. even more of those yellowish spikes are here as well. the only light is the white flashlight on blam's chest and the soft glow of his green parts.]]
ENG-CHERAL: [[she shouts from the top]] OH MAN OH NO! I'LL KEEP MY SIGNAL GOING SO YOU CAN FIND ME AGAIN BUT I GOTTA KEEP MOVING THE BIG PLANTS ARE PROBABLY COMING SO UH PLEASE BE OKAY LATER MISTER BLAM!
ACR-8L4M: OKAY. MEET. SOON. [[he can hear her run off, as he looks down the cave he's now faced with. hand on the cannon again, he goes further in...
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