WEEK 0 - Awakening

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (0)

friday - sunday (41) survivors You awaken with stiff arms and legs — a pervading out-of-body feeling. You may briefly find it difficult to move your limbs, only able to stare lifelessly out of the blue tinted glass in front of your eyes. It's very cold. It's so cold that your heart seems to beat only every so often. Are your eyes even open yet? It would be so easy to slip back into a deep sleep, to let your frigid body rest a while longer. That probably isn't what you want to do, though. You want out of the claustrophobic pod you've found yourself in. If you wiggle your head enough, you can turn to see other pods much like yours — other people, all in identical utilitarian outfits, made complete with an emblem on the sleeve. No matter how much you whoop, or how much they holler, none of you can hear a single thing. Until a song begins to jangle loudly. As it reaches its chorus, the pods unlock, their latches lazily swinging up above you. You can't worm yourself out of the blankets you're wrapped in fast enough. As the song reaches its inevitable end, you're met with a deafening silence and an enveloping darkness — the dim lights above only serve to showcase the room's sleek and chrome walls and floors. If you get tired of the suffocating tension in this room, you may decide to venture outside — there's an entire building waiting to be explored. A building? For some reason that doesn't seem right. There's no exit, only a nonfunctional elevator. Everything is of polished design, yet it does not feel quite right — it's much too dead. Strangely, most rooms seem to contain an identical statue, one of two twins knelt and holding a jar, as if to pour its contents to the floor. It remains one of the few rustic design elements of the area. To make matters more eerie, there are doors — rooms, it seems like — with names on plaques. Your names. Trying to twist the valves open yield nothing, however — they're locked. It's all confusing, strange, nonsensical, and everyone is so loud. Perhaps if everyone would shut up — if only you could shut them up — you could— Silence. ENTER COMMAND_

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[muties]

friday, wake up

[ haha ok what. roxy at least is used to really random shenanigans, but this is still haha what the fuck.

she's tempted to fall back asleep but instead opts to beat against the glass until the pod opens (what is this music, is it about cats?? she's down for that but) and then sort of throws herself out of the stupid thing.

looking around, she doesn't immediately spot anyone she should be spotting (jake? that blue troll?? shit, john rose crockertier jane??) and instead a fuckton of strangers. literally, she has never seen this many people before, much less in one room? ok. ok cool. ]

... What up, folks?

[ also where are we, what is happening, who r u, WHAT ARE WE WEARING GODDAMN she'd just gotten used to her rogue void jammies?? rude ]

friday, parlor

[ time to get distracted playing with a tablet!! at least she's not distracted by booze?? she first tries to find pesterchum (because she really needs to pester her chums) and then tries the internet to get pesterchum, with disappointing results.

fine, fuck u tablet, she'll just play games for the rest of forever, just you watch her. but seriously, she seems to be very into whatever trash game she's playing. gotta match three gotta match three over and over. ]

saturday, cafeteria

[ it's like some cliche high school cafeteria!! except not at all!! how exciting. ]

So we can eat... any of this shit? Just pick a thing?

[ is looking at the cubes, not really talking to anyone in particular. look at all these choices!! there's like, more than one. and she doesn't have to gank it with an appearifier or beg her friends to cook (or whatever the alpha kids did in the medium for food). ]

wildcard

[ or feel free to catch her at any other point in time, poking and prodding as one does. ]

Cafeteria

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Yes, eat anything! But don't eat the cubes, I think you have to put it in those machines over there.

[...yeah, Shelley tried eating one of those cubes and it was a horrible mistake. She just wants to save you from doing her same mistake]

[muties]

Yeah, I figured that. Cubes by themselves would be kinda nasty? Like, eatin' a zip file on a computer or some shit.

[ shelley why. why would you just try to eat the cube. ]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[how was she supposed to know god damn it]

It is nasty. Zero of ten, wouldn't recommend. And don't try to mix that miso stuff with tea, that wasn't a smart decision either.

...yes, I was kind of bored when I did that.

[You would understand, right? Being bored brings one to do weird stuff]

[muties]

[ context clues shelley context clues!! ]

Hey, just consider it an experiment! Like science. Someone's gotta do it, right? Like, how would anyone know miso doesn't go with tea. What the heck is miso, anyway?

[ she absolutely understands. being bored and doing weird stuff is 90% of roxy's life. ]

wake up

[unasking]

[ . . . . . well. That's a remarkably chipper response. It's enough to get Frankenstein to laugh a little bit under his breath.]

At least some of us have awoken in good spirits.

[muties]

[ well hello there super pretty handsome man. look, no one is dying or seems to be in immediate peril so roxy's chill. ]

Well, no use yellin' bout things? Yet, anyway? I'm sure someone else'll have that job covered.

[ there are 41 weirdos here there is probably someone in here screaming. ]

[unasking]

[don't trust a ho, roxy.

Admittedly there.... is definitely someone probably yelling within the 0.5 seconds after Roxy speaks and Franken's already sighing, looking a little troubled.]

Perhaps you jinxed it. [Well.] I suppose it's startling enough to be understandable, at least.

[muties]

[ a ho is just a bro by any other name would smell as sweet ]

Yeah, maybe a bit. Like, whoa, what the fuck is happening? I'm a lil bit used to random shit suddenly occurring, tho. What about you? You seem pretty chillaxed.

awakening

[thanatosincarnate]

...

{ If Roxy addresses him, Arumat is just going to plain out raise a brow; he thought their situation was obvious. Also, he's a killjoy. }

[muties]

[ wow ok, so what's up with this guy is a case of being rude. ]

Whoa, slow down there dude, don't talk so fast. You're real chatty, aren't you.

[thanatosincarnate]

{ It's a mystery.png }

Only when necessary. I see no point in participating in the usual pleasantries.

[muties]

There's plenty of point? Esp right now, when you're talkin' to someone you don't know. That's when you like, say hi and introduce yourself.

[ does he know how social skills work ]

cafeteria

[douchemag]

[Judar, meanwhile, is being the spoiled brat that he is and poking at the cubes with an incredibly dubious expression on his face.]

Shit's a good way of putting it.

[But because he's hungry and also a moron, he'll tentatively give one of the cubes a nibble before immediately gagging.]

Blech! I take it back! Shit's giving it way too much credit!

[muties]

Haha, dude, no. You're supposed to put them in the machiney thing.

[ don't eat the raw cubes oh my god

demonstrates by putting a tuna cube in the machine thing. out pops edible tuna, presumably. ]

See? The machiney thing, like. Decompresses it. Unfolds it or whatever? I think?

[douchemag]

[...yeah, Judar's trying to look super cool and unaffected, but he's definitely going red here.]

Well, how the heck was I supposed to know to do that?! They should put up instructions explaining their weird magic food!

[clearly this is all the ship's fault and not because he's an idiot!!]

[muties]

Well, you coulda asked someone? Or watched someone makin' themselves food, if you weren't sure. Unless you usually eat cube food.

[ don't blame the poor ship it is innocent ]

cafeteria

[antagonize]

Sure.

[He's eating... something over here. Who the heck knows what it is? It looks like nasty and like it belongs in a can. That's all that needs to be said.]

Can't guarantee that it'll taste good, but it's edible. [A beat.] Probably.

[Thanks, Jason.]

[muties]

[ she has probably eaten raw pumpkin before, who knows what else (seriously, it's homestuck so w h o k n o w s), probably edible is good enough for her. ]

I'm sure it's a step up from a hearty plate of nothin' with a side of air.

[ unless she finds a pizza cube she'll just pick something that doesn't sound weird. like what is miso, what animal is that. popping it into the machine, ]

So... come here often?

[ this is the shittiest pick up line none of them come here often they got here yesterday my god ignore her ]

[antagonize]

Considering I woke up in pod yesterday... I'm gonna have to say no, I don't come here often. [By the way:] You're also not my type.

[Stop throwing shitty pick up lines at people, young lady. You are like 12?????????????? Says the guy who's only like three years older or whatever. Comic book ages make no sense.]

friday, parlor

[chiseler]

[He'd wandered in while making his rounds to try and get a sense of the ship, but it's Roxy's intense concentration on the game that catches his attention. Eventually she'll probably sense somebody hovering over her shoulder and staring incredulously down at the tablet. (Technology...isn't exactly foreign to him, but he sure does stay away from it most the time.)]

Don't you get bored after a while?

[muties]

[ roxy doesn't even notice him come in, which is unusual for her since she normally has a good looking guy radar that goes off whenever one appears. ]

Yeah, eventually. But I've only been playin' for like 20 minutes. [ pause. looks up. ] Or like 3 hours, not entirely sure now.

[chiseler]

That thing doesn't have the time on it does it? [He's examined the ship a bit by now but there's still no sign of an actual clock or anything that he's come across himself.] Surprised there's even battery power left in it.

parlor!

[allout]

[ yup, the lack of internet is definitely disappointing. that was the second thing that minako checked after the even more disappointing music library; these entertainment tablets aren't turning out to be very entertaining.

still she has found some solace in the games that the tablet offers. they're total time wasters, but the match-three game that roxy is playing has proved to be the most addicting. she catches her playing it out of the corner of her eye, and can't help but be a little nosy as she leans in a little to watch. ]

What level are you at?

cafeteria

[tevinteriscoming]

[For once, he actually knows the answer to someone's question! If only because of a lot of late night trial and error to find out how it works.]

You can eat any of it, but whether you want to is another matter entirely. Don't say you weren't warned.