Autobot! Transform and....

[autocommander]

....hang out.

And that's what Prime is doing, sitting in a chair, practicing with his electric guitar. Please note, those who have not seen him before, that right now he appears to be about seven feet tall.

He's getting better with the guitar, too.

Bother at will.

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[oh_wowee]

A robot playing guitar? Of course this is bound to attract attention from the most brutal rhythm guitarist in the world.
Toki Wartooth, however, wasn't playing his guitar, oddly enough, and was sitting down at the bar, writing a little note to a certain someone for a lovely evening well spent, a brau to one side.

Or was, at least, before he caught ear of a guitar and looked up to see OMG ROBOT.

"Dats is totally metal!" He blurted out.

[autocommander]

Optimus looks up. And he pauses.

"Do you know someone named Skwisgar?" he asks curiously. "You have the same accent."

[oh_wowee]

He nodded, "Ja, I knows Skwisgaar, he and me are pals, we plays in de same band togethers. But he's Swedish, I's from Norway." He smiled, "My names is Toki. Sorries if I seems real excited, but I never sees a robot plays de guitar before."

[autocommander]

"I am Optimus Prime. Skwisgaar helped me with learning to play the guitar. And I'm afraid some accents sound very similar to me, so I apologize if I offended you."

[oh_wowee]

"Happens all de times." Toki brushed it off. "He's goods to help learns de guitar playings. He's de fastest guitars player in de world where we's from." He patted bar, who appeared for him his Flying V. "I's de second fastest."

[autocommander]

"I'm not that good yet," Prime says. "I practice when I can, but I have a number of duties to deal with. It gets in the way. Still, when I can..."

[oh_wowee]

"It takes a lots of times and practice to plays as good as me and him, but we dos it for a living, and we don't expects anyone who isn't in super metal bands to gets as good." He didn't say it in a way that even had the tone of patronizing. His smile spread, "So whats does you do dat you can'ts practice alla times?"

He figured robots didn't sleep, eat, or do anything particularly important except for look damn cool and blow things up.

[autocommander]

"We guard the Earth from others of our kind who are less well inclined towards humans. Which includes dealing with politicians, the military, and dealing with supplies. When you command a group... ah. I know. It is sort of like being a road manager for a band on tour."

That analogy should be pretty good, he thinks.

[oh_wowee]

"Wowee, dat sounds likes a lotta work for you. But I suppose dat's is nothings, since you's you know, a machine-guy."

Toki understood the analogy easily. But their manager was their everything. Their road manager, their recording manager, their lawyer, their part-time body guard, and the guy who knew exactly how to do everything.