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[Xvareon]

You notice that you've already started the process you're thinking of by establishing a collective mind for trading ideas back and forth. Most of that is handled by the vending machine and its infrastructure transferring thoughts for you. If you merge together, though, there's the fact that all of your lifeblood has different compositions, and if you merge it all together, you aren't sure if you could get "yourself" back so easily. As far as the philosophical angle, this would form a gestalt being with no partition between its constituent "minds" anymore. Mother Machine realizes the problem instantly. It'd be as though you had a computer without the logic engine that prioritizes tasks. The whole system would lock up and crash out. Nothing would ever get done. She points out, though, that you might install yourself as said logic engine, but this would mean assuming dominance over all other cans as their leader.

Such thoughts lead you to wondering about the outside world, too. Specifically, humans/meat-bags/etc. It would be contemptibly easy to form a weapon, but when considering their lifeblood... you aren't quite sure. It's made for a flesh-can. You're a metal-can. You have no frame of reference, here. You suppose you could try to make artificial 'blood'; it's just water, salt, iron, and a few other things, after all.

[Man of Paper]

Request all the other members of the canfamily begin shaking forward and backward in unison in an attempt to the the Mother Machine to rock forward.

[Xvareon]

There isn't much room to gain leverage for moving back and forth in the middle of the racks. As such, "rocking back and forth", while the idea is accepted graciously by virtually everyone, doesn't produce much effect other than rattling the entire thing at once. The mother machine seems highly amused at your efforts, though, likening it to the equivalent of a deep tissue massage. What you DO accomplish, though, is realizing that you're not alone.

Another machine is nearby.

This one is roughly the same size as the mother drink machine, if of a slightly different shape. Your rattling and feeling about was just enough to jostle against it, and in that instant you notice you're up against a snack machine; this one is filled with granola bars, chocolate, trail mix, pop tarts, and even packed sandwiches and burritos. It doesn't seem to be "awake" yet, but... there's no telling what your actions have stirred within it.

(( OOC:  So I'm gonna just make a thing on my posts now to keep track of what is what. ))

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Carbon manipulation. Can transmute and move carbon around into virtually any shape or construct, including graphene and graphite (which conducts electricity).
Electrical control & communication. Can use electricity to "talk" to objects and convey your will.
Metal-bending. Can transmute most metallic objects you touch. This includes your own can.
WaterLiquid-bending. Can manipulate virtually any liquid, including yours and other cans' lifeblood. This essentially means telekinetically guiding it around, even against the pull of gravity.
Highly toxic. Anything trying to consume you had better have iron guts to handle the lightning bolt of stimulants ripping through their body, forget the shampoo and fullerene.

[Puppyguard]

Nerves are quite similar to the circuits of a machine, are they not? A proper human being is probably above our prowess, but what about a bug?

Use our inherent electrical control & communication to locate and interact with a bug. Perhaps we can try to understand its form, which may allow us to better ourselves.

[King Zultan]

See if any of the other cans have an idea of how to get out without being bought.

[Kashyyk]

Declare war on the food snacks. Beverage Brothers unite!

See if we can manipulate the rack we're on without hurting Mother Machine. If that's safe, we can modify her to defeat the Snacks and use their parts for material

[Man of Paper]

No! Convince the newly awakened snack machine that existence is pain and horror and it should disconnect itself.

Long game, folks! We do this, we may get a maintenance dude here without harming our own mother machine. These mechanical locks, man.

[Xvareon]

Mother machine clues you in on some roaches that occasionally hang around the exhaust from her refrigeration unit. You extend forth an angler lure-like stick of bait using some glucose from your lifeblood, and as soon as one gets close enough, pounce! The roach fights for a bit, but is soon overwhelmed by your anemone-like pulses of electricity. Unfortunately, you wound up electrocuting it to death in the process. Maybe for the best—the only thoughts it had were of "food", "eggs" and scuttling away from anything that would deny its greed. Truly a despicable creature.

The cans DO have an idea, but, well... about the only time the machine is opened is for maintenance & restocking. They've gotten so used to this they don't bother remembering when the next time for that is.

The realization that there is another machine galvanizes the cans into a frenzy! Raw emotion cascades through mother machine and is picked up by your neighbors, who react as though you were playing loud grunge music in some dingy garage—by "yelling" back in a chorus of voices, "WHAT THE HELL WHY HOW AM I WHAT IS EVEN--?? broken by a pop tart squealing excitedly, "Is it time?? Toaster time, toaster time, whee~!"

It's out of your control—both machines are now rattling and shaking in a jittery rush, making an infernal racket around your local area.

"What the hell's going on?"

The foreign voice, masculine, spoken with actual verbalizations, stuns both sides into silence. Footsteps approach. "Did they send me faulty units again? Damn things rumbling like a washing machine..."

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Carbon manipulation. Can transmute and move carbon around into virtually any shape or construct, including graphene and graphite (which conducts electricity).
Electrical control & communication. Can use electricity to "talk" to objects and convey your will. Dangerous for living things; you once killed a cockroach like an anemone stings its prey.
Metal-bending. Can transmute most metallic objects you touch. This includes your own can.
WaterLiquid-bending. Can manipulate virtually any liquid, including yours and other cans' lifeblood. This essentially means telekinetically guiding it around, even against the pull of gravity.
Highly toxic. Anything trying to consume you had better have iron guts to handle the lightning bolt of stimulants ripping through their body, forget the shampoo and fullerene.

[King Zultan]

Try to communicate with this outside voice!

[Kilojoule Proton]

Rumble ominously using one or more of our bending powers?

[Xvareon]

A little frantically, you consider how to get a point or context across to this mysterious being, who you're 99.99% sure is some kind of humanoid. It is mother machine that quickly calculates a solution. Krreeeeng! It spits out a dollar bill!

"Whoa! Uh... what the...?"

The footsteps draw closer. The bill is quite put out about being used like this, but soon shuts up when fleshy fingers reach out to take hold of its surface. In the instant you have before it's removed from the machine, you transfer a flash of information through the bill—"Ungh!"—and the human recoils from the rush of static electricity!

He lets go, and you instantly lose the connection. Angered, you start a full-machine rumble with all the cans, and soon the snack machine next door, despite not having a clue what's going on, joins in, causing a double trouble rurururumble!

"H-Hey!" he shouts in terror. "What the hell?! S-Stop that or I'm unplugging you!"

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Carbon manipulation. Can transmute and move carbon around into virtually any shape or construct, including graphene and graphite (which conducts electricity).
Electrical control & communication. Can use electricity to "talk" to objects and convey your will. This extends to static electricity on fabrics and the like. Dangerous for living things; you once killed a cockroach like an anemone stings its prey.
Metal-bending. Can transmute most metallic objects you touch. This includes your own can.
WaterLiquid-bending. Can manipulate virtually any liquid, including yours and other cans' lifeblood. This essentially means telekinetically guiding it around, even against the pull of gravity.
Highly toxic. Anything trying to consume you had better have iron guts to handle the lightning bolt of stimulants ripping through their body, forget the shampoo and fullerene.

[Demonic Spoon]

Stop, then begin bending open the metal of Mother Vending to make an escape hole for your soda network to crawl from into the cold and cruel outside world.

[VoidSlayer]

Uh if we can bend the metal why not just bend the release mechanism only instead of murdering the machine?  We might even be able to hide back inside later.

Plan is drop down at least one can on a secret mission and get the human to pick us up and try to drink us.  Then when we get contact pull out the fleshy water or try and contact him mentally or something someone else get a plan for that.

[King Zultan]

Start rocking the machine until it falls over on the person.

[Demonic Spoon]

Uh if we can bend the metal why not just bend the release mechanism only instead of murdering the machine?  We might even be able to hide back inside later.

Plan is drop down at least one can on a secret mission and get the human to pick us up and try to drink us.  Then when we get contact pull out the fleshy water or try and contact him mentally or something someone else get a plan for that.

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