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Here are some answers to some questions that have come up so far. If you have any other questions don't hesitate to contact us, either on plurk or by leaving a comment here!

What color is the energon on this Cybertron? Is it pink or blue?
It's green.

How do canon updates work in this game?
The short answer is: however is most convenient! The long answer is that there are a couple of options for canon updating at Robot Hell. If it's a question of just catching a character up on memories/knowledge of events in their canon, you can have them do the good ol' falling into a coma until they wake up and remember (however long is your choice), or, for the more expedient solution, they can just experience it all in a dream one night. If the nature of your canon update requires some kind of physical change be effected to your character, they can mysteriously disappear into the Cybertronian wilderness for a bit (also in a coma, or otherwise they simply don't remember) and when they come to, suddenly, bam, canon updated body. If you want to have your character disappear into the Cybertronian wilderness for a plain old regular canon update that's cool too. We endorse any and all disappearances into the vast wilderness.

How far can characters travel from the city? Can they leave the planet?
There are no operable long-range transport vehicles available in the area, and any that remain are well beyond repair. Characters can venture outside the city into the surrounding wilderness, but it's pretty vast and the nearest former settlement is quite far. However, regardless of how far and fast your character is capable of traveling, they won't get more than a day or so's walk (or drive) from the city before the strange pull urging them to return to the city becomes too strong to withstand. Even characters who are capable of space travel on their own will not be able to get so far as leaving the planet's atmosphere before they are compelled to return to the city.

Can my character be exempt from the mysterious pull toward the city?
Nope! Everyone's affected.

The Cybertron that Robot Hell takes place on is clearly identifiable as Cybertron in some capacity to everyone who ends up there, but its landscape, while similar to many in various regards, isn’t identical to any canon iteration.

Characters will arrive in and around a fairly large city. The lights are on, but apart from that there’s no one home: it’s completely uninhabited, and also largely in ruins, scarred by thousands of years of war. There are pretty much no signs of life, sentient or otherwise – although in time the odd mechanimal might be spotted scavenging around the city’s outskirts.

Some structures are habitable, but for civilisation to return here on any kind of significant scale, the new inhabitants will need to start rebuilding. Characters will find plenty of bits and pieces that can be used to put together things they need or want, and sometimes they’ll find those things completely intact and just in need of some powering up. No data remains on anything that could have held it, though – some long-ago wartime EMP wiped out all your chances of listening to convenient audio recordings of people dropping hints about their imminent doom. The EMP also disabled any existing communications networks, but given what's left in the city, with a little ingenuity and hard work, it wouldn't be too hard to set up a new one...

The planet:

• is a bit smaller than Earth
• has just the one moon (FOR NOW)
• has a roughly earth-like day/night cycle, because that’s easier on everyone
• is scarred with bomb craters and other evidence of war pretty much all over. There’s a huge ass crater right on the edge of the city that seems to have taken out a chunk of a robot suburb, but on the bright side at its centre it’s broken through the surface to a significant energon deposit. Maybe that’s why this city is where your characters are ending up

It is orbiting a sun at a distance that keeps it just about warm enough that humans can survive there (at least, in the region where interdimensional abductees seem to mostly end up), and it also seems to have an atmosphere humans can breathe. Water is also present. Whether these are traits it has always possessed or whether this atmosphere has somehow been generated specifically to accommodate the characters brought here who wouldn’t be able to survive on versions of Cybertron without these factors is unclear. However, when any humans who do show up begin to get hungry, they’ll eventually find that in addition to its natural deposits of energon the planet has in places begun to grow metallic-looking, brittle vegetation, which bears extremely nutritious but very flavourless … uh … ‘fruits’? Hmm. Have fun with that.

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If you have a general question feel free to hit us up personally or leave a comment to this post, we will see what we can do

APPS ARE OPEN!
We don't want this to be a stressful ordeal so the app here is pretty simple:

C&P the above and paste it into the comments on this post and we will get back to you ASAP

Don't be a dick. We are here for robots being rude to each other not real life meat humans being rude to each other.

There is no activity check at Robot Hell because this is not that kind of game, but if you've been inactive with a character for a while and someone else wants to play them or their inactivity is getting hard for their CR to explain without assuming they've been catapulted out of this universe by Dimensional Instability™ or died or something then we'll prob hit you up to do something about it.

There is no limit on how many of a given character there can be, as long as there's sufficient differentiation between each of them – they have to be from different canon points, at least. We may impose limits if we end up with, like, fifteen Tailgates or something, but hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.

You can play more than one version of the same character, but only from different continuities – so if you want, say, two Bumblebees you could have IDW Bumblebee and TFA Bumblebee, but not IDW Bumblebees from two different canon points.

All kinds of characters are acceptable to app, including characters from any canon, OCs, player made AUs, etc. Characters who aren't Transformers will be assumed to have had a Cybertronian incarnation in this universe before all the Cybertronians died.

For the sake of spoilers, nobody is allowed to app characters/canon points from anything that's been out for less than two weeks.

original art by tytaero (source)
Cybertron has known nothing but strife for millions of years. An endless civil war devastated the planet, sent its population scattered to the stars, and left a war-torn planet deserted in its wake. Though the opposing factions grappled and struggled for the upper hand, eons of civil war wiped out every last Cybertronian.

The Cybertronians had thought their planet dead and abandoned it in favor of colonizing new worlds to make war on. But Cybertron never died -- it merely slept, waiting for the end of the war when it could bring new life to light again. And when its surface remained undisturbed for long enough, it woke again, and sent out a simple, primal call: come home.

But there were no Cybertronians left to bring home, and so the empty planet sent its call further and further, beyond the bounds of its own universe, gathering its people back to it wherever it could reach them... and whether or not this Cybertron – or any Cybertron – is the one they call home.

Welcome to ROBOT HELL, where your character has been interuniversally abducted (ain't it always the way) to a gradually-reviving but otherwise uninhabited Cybertron so desperate to repopulate itself that it's not discriminating between planes of reality, or even the species of the individuals it calls back – as long as there was a Cybertronian version of that character in the universe where the game takes place there's every chance they'll end up brought here.

This game is more or less a glorified Transformers musebox, Characters from other canons are welcome – you can AU them as a robot if you want, or just assume that they had a Cybertronian incarnation in this universe before they were all destroyed by the war (this also justifies human AUs of Cybertronian characters, of course) – but the main purpose of Robot Hell is just to have a low-pressure setting for people to throw their car robots at each other.

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