WEEK 9

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (9)

monday - thursday (21) survivors Sunday's trial was only mere hours ago, but you find yourself faced with a new week on The Pygmalion. When you awaken, you will find the ship restored to its previous state, all areas interfered with during the murder looking mostly the same as they did before. Along with this, it appears there are new areas opened on the ship. It seems you have more exploring to do. The robot in the cafeteria has prepared another breakfast of various foods. (OOC: Please submit your murder proposals by 9 PM EST Tuesday.) taken list profiles private conversations setting rulebook murder proposals ENTER COMMAND_

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monday

[socloverit]

[The parlor is usually too people-filled for Clover's liking but Jack's fine, she likes Jack because her standards are plummeting to new lows every day around here. Curiosity manages to take precedence over how tired and sad she is.

And she is never too tired to refuse to deal with this nickname shit.] Try again.

[refactor]

[ Just because he would have actually used her name, I'm pretending he didn't actually look up in this case, so! Jack leans back to see who he's asking for help, and his expression is immediately apologetic. ]

Ahhhh, shit. My bad, Clover. So, yeah, first of all, not pumpkin, get it. Kinda weird anyways. Second, uh.

[ He assumes it was the name thing, but just in case, he adds, even though there's definitely a big question mark in his voice: ] ...Please?

[socloverit]

[FAIR!! and what a champ, correcting himself so quickly, and she even almost looks amused when he tries for a "please." It was definitely the name thing, but she'll take that, too.]

Bonus points for manners. What's up?

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[ Oh, sweet, bonus points. He actually looks pretty genuinely pleased to get them. Jack laughs, then sits back as he beckons for her to come closer. ]

Great. Okay, so, got a little project goin' on here, as you can see. Rhysie may have kicked the bucket, but luckily the asshole alien inside of him was not a big fan of cybernetics. But. Modifying this shit one handed? Total bitch.

[ He nods to the mostly finished hand laying on the table. ]

Been working on this piece of junk for two weeks now, but I'm about ready to actually, y'know, fit it and stuff. Think you could help me out with that?

[socloverit]

[She wastes no time inviting herself into a seat across from him, propping her face up in her hand and nodding at the hand with more interest than most things have gotten from her the past few weeks. There is the tiniest quirk of her eyebrow when he refers to that time he shot Rhys in the fucking head as "kicking the bucket" but that's...closer to amusement than anything, too, god. #teamjack]

Totally. Just tell me what to do.

[refactor]

[ #teamjack must be stopped

Not that Jack thinks so, of course. He's pretty clearly pleased that she's agreeing, and he reaches out to hold the arm in place while he positions the now nub of his arm inside. ]

Perfect. Basically, what you're going to be doing is just adjusting parts so that I get the fit right. Real easy, but nnnnnot something I can do while holding it there myself. Unless, y'know, I'm using my teeth or something, but-- [ He laughs, shaking his head ] Man, that is just stupid.

[ There's a screwdriver sitting on the table, which he nods towards for her to pick it up. ]

Soooo, just for curiosity's sake here, you do any engineering? Or, hell, I guess this is less engineering and more just, heh, handyman kinda stuff, but. Point remains.

[socloverit]

Gotcha. [She looks the hand over like she's trying to figure out how it fits together and what she's supposed to be doing, idly twirling the screwdriver in her hand.]

Nah. I've never been smart enough for that kinda nerd stuff. [well isn't that reassuring......... It's said very matter-of-factly, nothing especially self-depreciating in how she talks about her intelligence, and nothing especially insulting in calling the arm "nerd stuff." That she looks genuinely interested in it probably helps. Still, she probably realizes that that's not really a thing you say before picking at a guy's new fake hand, so she adds:] Obviously I can work a screwdriver, though. And I'm good at following directions.

[refactor]

[ He actually doesn't seem to be that bothered by her dismissive comment, but that's also largely because she can't actually hurt him doing this... The worst that could happen is she makes it too tight, and really, he thinks he'll live through that. ]

Then that's all you need. Just, y'know, checking so I'm using-- Well, okay, kinda easy for me to just slip into jargon. Not quite this, but this kinda thing, it's what I started out doing.

[ However Christy doesn't know how prosthetic hands work in detail, so. We'll just say he gives an instruction and motions for where she should tighten a screw. ]

Won't be hard, at least? Took care of all the hard stuff before I asked someone to help with the fitting.

[socloverit]

Yeah? Like, what, robot parts kinda stuff? That's really neat. [Even if she doesn't get it at all. But it's cool.

Not that there's much havoc she can cause with a screwdriver, but Clover's still much more careful than she is with most things making the instructed adjustment.] How's that?

[refactor]

Just a liiiittle tighter and— There we go.

[ Jack responds to that first, then motions to another screw that's not far from the first. There will be a couple, so we can safely assume that she's just being directed to each as they talk. ]

But, yeah, partly! Started out as a programmer, worked my way up to engineer, and- [ He laughs ] Well, kept going up, obviously. But I'm pretty good with AIs and robots! Actually-- Well, most of the robots in Hyperion, they're all the same model. Getting them to work, though, that was a big project I undertook, when, uh. I saved he moon, actually? Kinda needed a lot of robots.

[ He waves his hand dismissively. ]

Point being, getting those robots manufactured was mostly me. Found a prototype, found an AI that could handle the job of constructing, then bam, we've got as many robots as we could hope for at our fingertips. But to do that kinda stuff, you still have to know the basics like they're as easy as breathing.

[socloverit]

[She interrupts between screws to make sure they're good, ever conscientious, but otherwise listens intently, utterly fascinated.]

That's really cool. [Eloquent as always.] I...yeah, I guess you'd need a lot of robots to...save the moon. Huh. Wow. [That is some straight up sci-fi movie shit is what it is, and it's not that she disbelieves it (look at all of the everything happening around here, does she have any right) but she's kind of confused.]

I met a robot once. She was pretty cool. [Here's her trying to converse about something she is so totally clueless about.] But I guess you don't really think about the nitty-gritty building part of all of it. [She prods at the screw she's working on with the screwdriver.] 'specially not down to the real basic parts.

[Tired as she is, this is actually the chattiest she's been in a while—it's easier when there's a distraction, when she has something to do and a way to be helpful and no trying to step around what an emotional time bomb she is, and no reason to set her off, either.]

[refactor]

[ He grins at her her praise, since, well. Jack is a simple guy when it comes to some things, and in the face of praise, he'll absolutely drink it up. It may not be the most eloquent, but it seems to be something he takes to heart all the same. ]

So many robots, on account of, uh. Well, on account of the psychopathic general that'd kinda killed everyone in Helios, but. That is definitely getting into the "the time I saved Elpis from a giant death laser" story, and, y'know, long story.

[ But he definitely wants to tell it. Jack is definitely setting this up for Clover to ask him about it. After all, it's his favorite subject! Himself! Being a hero! But, he'll still let her decide, since he'll tackle the rest of the conversation here first. ]

Yeah, it's super crazy once you start to really get into it. I used to build robots when I was a kid-- Kinda how I got into engineering and programming at all. But all the details, how everything has to be perfect, and of course, how to make a robot have a personality... That's all hard stuff. I love it. But it's also a huge compliment to whoever made that robot for you to say that, y'know? If you think they're cool and you're not thinking about the building part, then it's damn good engineering.