E-001_0031_jointlog

This is a fairly informal TF2 RP blog featuring an engineer who used to be human and a medibot who's started to ask questions. Based on this in-progress fanfic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8925233/1/E-001-log Feel free to send me questions, RP starters, magic anons, or whatever through the questions thing! I don't bite, honest. :) M!As: Pocket-sized (both)

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0031_log_entry_25 IS UP!

<entry_25> 0213 hours, Wednesday, February 14, 1973. Those idiot mercenaries won’t leave well enough alone.  They would do better to just negotiate with Herr Gray for Scout instead of sending people into the tank.  The last time was different as there was no alternative to attacking the headquarters to get Herr Engineer back, not to mention they had the advantage of surprise on their side.  This time Herr Gray expects them, and they have a chance of avoiding the inevitable disaster this next reckless plan of theirs is bound to be if they simply choose to talk instead of fight.  But I am getting sidetracked. When I looked out into the hallway after 0396 and 0395 left with Scout, I saw only a movement to one side of the door before something shaped distinctly like a gun barrel pressed itself to the back of my head.  I stood very still.

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Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (44,302 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (43,634 words and counting)

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Dell’s Letter

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0031_log_entry_24 IS UP

<entry_24> 0125 hours, Wednesday, February 14, 1973. This is absurd.  0396 has informed me that Herr Gray does not care what I do at the moment, and that if I’m lucky he might only have me looked over before setting me back to work.  Apparently it was 0395 and he who decided to install the inhibitor because (and I quote): 0396: I dunno, we thought it’d be funny.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (42,222 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (41,542 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

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0031_log_entry_23 IS OUT GUYS

<entry_23> 0101 hours, Wednesday, February 14, 1973. I am confused. Ten minutes ago, I could feel pressure on my side.  The Scout was shaking me. Scout unit: Come on Steve, I know you ain’t… agh, hang on.  What did they do again? I couldn’t bring myself to care much about what he did, but I was surprised to feel him fumbling with the plates near my neck.  Something jiggled, something that felt foreign, and suddenly it gave way.  It must have been the inhibitor because I was able to move again.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (41,876 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (41,239 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

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E-001_log

0031_log

[e001-and-0031]

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0031_log_entry_22

<entry_22> 0039 hours, February 14, 1973. I cannot move or see anything of my surroundings.  It seems that unit 0395 was less willing to forget that I beheaded him last month than he appeared; he struck me with his bat after shoving the Scout ahead of me into what I can only assume is a holding cell.  It broke through my stupor, but it also caused my working eye to come out of its socket.  It is for the moment useless.  My inability to move is doubtless due to an inhibitor similar to the one Herr Gray had used on E-001 in the past.  All the better; there isn’t much reason for me to do anything anyways.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (40,490 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (39,861 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

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E-001_log

0031_log

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ERROR REPORT 154 (next installment of 0031_log)

<ERROR_REPORT_154> AT 0007 02-14-1973 UNIT 08-M-0031 ENCOUNTERED THE FOLLOWING ERROR: Unknown processing error. POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE ERROR INCLUDE: Unknown. EVENTS PRECEDING THE ERROR AS PERCEIVED BY THIS UNIT ARE RECORDED HERE FOR FUTURE ANALYSIS:

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (40,021 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (39,392 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

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0031_log_entry_21 IS UP GUYS!

<entry_21> 2358 hours, February 13, 1973. If anything happens to the Scout, he brought it upon himself. I did not ask to be followed into the woods.  I did not want for him to chase me or to meet up with my old colleagues, but of course that is exactly what happened.  I cannot trouble myself about it.  It is not my fault, and he cannot be my friend anymore because Herr Gray probably would not like that for obvious reasons.  Not that he wants to be my friend, but that is beside the point.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (39,206 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (38,570 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

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0031_log_entry_20 IS UP EVERYONE!

<entry_20> 2333 hours, February 13, 1973. I forgot the Pyro.  I thought I could get out of the base undetected, but it came for me. It was just after I had placed the brain into the storage unit Herr Medic had prepared that it pushed the door open.  The head with its mask tilted to the side as Pyro took in the scene.  There was Herr Medic stirring feebly next to the wall.  There was Herr Engineer, motionless on the gurney with his head open.  And there I stood in front of Pyro with an organic processor in one hand and Herr Medic’s bone saw in the other.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (38,263 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (37,627 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

[e001-and-0031]

Several log entries have been neglected.  I will rectify this.

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0031_log_entry19 IS UP GUYS SO READ IT IF YOU LIKE TF2

entry_19 2041 hours, February 13, 1973. I did the right thing. The Mercenaries will be killed if I do not go back to talk with the Maker, and we do not know the current condition of the respawn system.  They will not understand at first; they may be angry at me, but that is only to be expected.  I belong with Herr Gray, and it is as Herr Engineer said, after the first meeting they had with Miss Pauling in the surgery.  Him simply placing his processor into a human body is not going to solve his problems.  This may not fix things still, but at the very least it will make things easier for his teammates.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (36,746 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (36,162 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

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0031_entry18 IS UP GUYS, WHOOOOOOO

entry_18

1946 hours, February 13, 1973.

I am very scared right now. I am recording this because there is nowhere to look for consolation or guidance. That must be why humans write journals sometimes, because it gives the illusion that you are telling a person your thoughts and they are listening.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (34,702 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (34,183 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

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1204 hours, Tuesday, February 13, 1973. I awoke this morning to find that the entire team sans Scout was gathered in the surgery.  All were facing me, and none of their faces looked happy.  Herr Engineer straightened from a crouch next to me as my eyes blinked on, and it occurred to me that he had pressed the on switch beneath my chest plate instead of waiting for me to awaken via my timer or sensory stimuli.  He offered me a “hand up”, as he calls it, and I allowed him to pull me into a standing position.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (28,420 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (31,615 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

[e001-and-0031]

tadaaaaa

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2323 hours, Monday, February 12, 1973.

It is strange to think that there was ever a time when I found making decisions to be an easy task. My latest excursion to the fence has complicated matters rather than simplifying them, and what’s worse I didn’t even manage to do what I had set out to accomplish.

The excursion started out smoothly enough. I had taken precautionary measures to help ensure against interruptions, namely from Spy; I was concerned that he might be patrolling the corridor outside of the surgery as he had been when Herr Engineer and I had fought. In the end, the only reliable course of action seemed to be artificially induced stupor. Herr Medic did not miss the syringe I extracted from his cabinet this afternoon when he was tending to his doves. Finding a way to introduce the drug into the Spy’s system without arousing suspicion was challenging, but eventually I was able to accompany the Scout to the break room and, while he was talking and generally being oblivious, inject the syringe’s contents into the rations he had set aside for himself in the refrigerator. Herr Medic had told me about his preferred sedatives; therefore, I knew that though this drug was most effective when injected into the bloodstream, the dosage would nevertheless be sufficient to keep an average sized man under for six hours when taken orally.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (30,556 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (30,038 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

[rya-sfm]

One of these conversations occurred yesterday evening. It was a particularly exciting time for both of us, as Herr Medic told me that we could begin to reattach the head several days ahead of schedule. I watched with rapt attention as he pulled it from the ice box. Though the jaw sagged and the goggles that I hardly ever saw Herr Engineer without when he was still human were missing, the familiar face made me stop and watch it with a certain amount of fascination for a moment. There wasn’t much sound besides the steady drip and splat of fluids from the base of the neck falling to the floor as Herr Medic turned the head over in his hands, inspecting it for defects with a very slight frown on his face.

Medic unit: Mmm. It looks to be in order. The eyes have a film we will have to take care of, und it seems a bit thin compared to what I would like, but. Well. That will have to do for now.

He glanced over to the corner where Herr Engineer was slumped over in standby mode. He had said he was simply tired, but really I think he had not wanted to watch tonight.

I think this one was the hardest to make of far, but I still had fun making it :B

New chapter of 0031-log, go read the whole story.

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1034 hours, Sunday, February 11, 1973.

It has been three days since I argued with Herr Engineer. He is acting like nothing happened and changes the subject if I try to talk about it. Plus it might be my imagination but I think he is trying to avoid being alone with me longer than he has to. It makes me feel bad. It would be better if we could simply finish discussing the matter and be done with it, and maybe then we could be normal friends again instead of having all of this… pressure or perhaps tension between us. I do not know the human terminology for such things but it feels like one of those two. I still don’t know how I might confront him again though. I’m not sure if I really do want to talk with him about 0396 or if I am simply acknowledging what would work best while having no intention of doing it. That seems ridiculous and yet it is possible; I have felt very odd lately.

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (28,420 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (27,902 words and counting)

deviantART

Dell’s Letter

The Second Letter

E-001_log

0031_log

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OH YEAH 0031 AND E-001 ARE ON deviantART IF YOU PREFER THAT SITE

I realized recently that some people might prefer reading fanfic on deviantART, maybe, so I’ll go ahead and link y’all to the Of Metal Men series on there.

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Dell’s Letter: Blu Engineer tries to explain to his old team why he defected at the end of the Gravel Wars. ~4,115 words.

The Second Letter: Dell Conagher’s starting to get nervous about this alliance with Gray, and for good reason. But it’s a little too late to do anything now. ~677 words. 

E-001_log: Gray’s plan is worse than anything Engineer could have imagined.  Now only chance at escape, and more importantly redemption, lies with his old team and a vaguely malfunctioning Medibot. ~32,149 words.

0031_log (in progress): They managed to escape Gray, but it’s only a matter of time before Dell and the injured 0031 are discovered by the Administrator. And outside BLU’s base, the last Mann standing is still waiting for them to make a false move. ~25,859 words and counting.

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<entry_13> 0027 hours, Thursday, February 8, 1973. He did not take that well at all. I am shaking right now. It is difficult to comprehend how Herr Engineer can be simultaneously so intelligent and yet so infuriatingly obstinate when it comes to the different options available to him. It is not as though being a machine makes one incapable of happiness or indeed anger, if I am correct in assuming that is what I am experiencing right now. And he certainly seemed angry enough when we finished talking! What is so good about being human anyways? He doesn’t dispute that I think and feel, does he? Or has this entire progression of events, him taking me with him when he escaped and standing up to the mercenaries on my behalf included, been a strategy on his part and nothing more? Did he bring me here only because he needs me to maximize his chances of reverting to his original state once again?

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (25,859 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total)

0031_log (23,663 words and counting)

[e001-and-0031]

tadaaaaaaa

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0031_log_entry_12 IS UP GUYS WHOOOOO

They managed to escape Gray, but it’s only a matter of time before Dell and the injured 0031 are discovered by the Administrator. And outside BLU’s base, the last Mann standing is still waiting for them to make a false move.

OKAY so I just finished the next bit of 0031_log for all you crazy TF2 community goers who enjoy you a nice bit of fanfiction every now and again! In this installment, 0031 is up to his optical receptors in BORING MORAL CHOICES! And Miss Pauling HAS A PLAN THAT MIGHT WORK!

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FF.net

Dell’s Letter (4,115 words total)

The Second Letter (677 words total)

E-001_log (32,149 words total)

0031_log (23,988 words and counting)

Ao3

Dell’s Letters (it’s the first two combined and it’s 4,737 words total)

E-001_log (31,379 words total somehow?)

0031_log (23,657 words and counting; why is there a discrepancy between Ao3 and ff.net with the word counts anyways?)

[e001-and-0031]

LAZY REBLOG OF LAZINESS