WEEK 9 - INVESTIGATION

[al2955]

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

friday (?) survivors Friday comes, and with it, another alarm. At 2:30am, a rather mellow song starts up. You might be able to avoid it, up until the mid-way point, where the noise suddenly sets in, as the performer promises at the beginning. Tentatively, you leave your safe haven. taken list profiles setting rulebook ENTER COMMAND_

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[socloverit]

[it's even worse than a murder plan it's one teary-eyed deeply distressed Clover, laser scythe and all, who is also now SCREAMING

and then she decides that the lightning isn't an actual threat apparently because after she's done yelling she waves her hands around for a moment trying to decide what she's gonna do here since his hair is down and she can't just drag him around by his shitty braid so instead she just grabs his sleeve and hauls him out of the fucking room, we're going on a field trip judar let's go

in the process she manages to blurt:] Sorry! [and then, after a moment,] Gravity!

[IT'S 2AM SHE'S EMOTIONALLY COMPROMISED FULL SENTENCES AREN'T REAL]

[antagonize]

[ASSUMING CLOVER DRAGGED JUDAR DOWN HERE SUCCESSFULLY, Jason is still floating around when Clover returns to the Zero Gravity room. It seems three bottles have joined the fray since she left, one of them being an empty bottle of beer. If she looks close enough, she might even spot something that seems suspiciously like a cloud of beer floating around Machias's head.

Weird, huh.

His arms are crossed when he looks down at them, looking appropriately pissed.]

Hi. Hey, there. How's the view from down there? 'Cause, I've gotta say, the human body is way less cool from this close up.

[... And then some of the entrails are getting tangled up around his leg. Goodbye, socks. It was nice knowing you.]

[douchemag]

[Judar will bitch and moan the whole way down, but he actually likes Clover enough to grudgingly let himself get dragged to the zero-G room. Then he looks up and witnesses this...incredible artistry of blood and guts and booze.]

Holy shit. [BECAUSE WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY...oh wait he knows] So was that a flight beer?

[LISTEN IT HAD TO BE DONE SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT. He looks about two seconds away from following Luke's example and just laughing hysterically - and then it finally hits him just exactly what he's been dragged down here for and he immediately starts backpedaling.]

Oh fuck no, no no no no, you are not making me go in there, that's so fucking gross! Get down by yourself, it can't be that hard!

[he's a weakass nerd though so just fucking shove him in there Clover]

[refactor]

[ Jack is probably still wheezing with laughter, but oh, man. When Judar shows up and promptly bitches about this situation, Jack sees his chance to strike. Jack may also kind of like Judar at this point, but unlike Clover, that makes him more inclined to casually be a dick. He snickers like he's just gotten an idea, and his grin matches it. ]

Oh, come on, princess! Little blood and guts ain't gonna hurt ya!

[ At which point, Jack will absolutely just. Shove him in the room. Bye Judar... ]

[socloverit]

You can't just—I-I don't know, float him down from here?! [that's not how it works?? that's not even kind of how it works. how can she be expected to know anything, it's 2am and she's emotionally compromised and sniffling throughout this entire interaction and just staring up at the beer and what the fuck Jason she looks so, so tired

but she likes Judar too much to just shove him in there?? so when Jack shows up to ruin everything she just sort of yelps and jumps but like what is...she gonna do about it...... see ya space magi]

[douchemag]

That's not how my magic--hey! [AND THEN HE'S YELPING AS JACK SHOVES HIM IN NOOOOOO

To his credit, it only takes a few seconds of him tumbling around cursing heavily before he adjusts to the lack of gravity and flies down to the console. What a relief that he managed to avoid all the blood and gore! This situation will in no way be reversed thirty seconds from now because he forgot to consider what would happen once gravity goes back to normal!

And then he just. Stares at the console blankly for a few seconds before smacking it randomly with his hand until the zero-g turns off. It's too fucking early to comprehend bullshit technology okay.]

[al2955]

[It takes a few false starts, but the gravity finally goes back to normal and all the body parts and blood rain down from the air to land on the floor.

As does Jason. Enjoy that 40-foot drop.]

[antagonize]

[Throughout all of this, Jason can't do much but watch. He's rolling his eyes when Judar tumbles into the room, wiggling his leg in an attempt to untangle the entrails, and then— wait. Shit. Fuck.]

Hold up! Don't mess around with the console unless you know what you're doi—!

[Too late. He doesn't get to finish that sentence before he's plummeting down, surrounded by blood, body parts, and several miscellaneous items that should not be in a zero gravity room. He's also headed straight towards Judar.

Rest in fucking pieces, space magi.]

[chiseler]

[...welp.

That happened. He's going to idly stare at the pile of limbs known as Jasdar before tentatively stepping into the room.]

O...kay. Who's up for the world's hardest jigsaw puzzle? [There are parts everywhere and it is not a good time to do this. But where's Machias's head? Luke's...going to go look for that, bye.]

[refactor]

Nice.

[ Jack is absolutely still laughing when he wanders in, because there's nothing about this evening that he doesn't like, honestly. This is like prime entertainment in his neck of the galaxy, and also, Hyperion is full of terrible people. So. ]

But please, hardest? This won't be that bad! I mean, sure, the guy's all over the friggin' place but. Body part's a body part. No big deal.

[ He'll go look for the torso, or at least the biggest piece of it to start. Those are pretty easy to identify because of the ribs, right... ]

[al2955]

[Machias' head is somewhere in a corner of the room. It's been completely detached from the rest of the body, with the remainder of the neck heavily scorched and embedded with shrapnel.

There surprisingly aren't that many body parts - while the limbs and lower half of the torso have been more or less blown off, the explosion didn't disintegrate them or anything so they're pretty large chunks. Jack will find the upper half of the torso and neck in the middle of the room. Like the head, it's been scorched by the explosion and embedded with shrapnel, but there's also a large bleeding wound on the shoulder.

That's about all the time they'll have though before the robots come in.]

[chiseler]

[Yeah he has about handful of minutes to find the head and he has So Many Regrets about looking for this, considering his foot probably finds it first without meaning to and he glances down. Please have your eyes closed, Machias, this is weird. But the nice ring of shrapnel is enough of a clue and he shakes his head even as the robots come in.]

So much for being straight-forward. [He'll properly flip out later because this is gruesome but you know. Not much else they can do. Thanks, Pygmalion.]

[al2955]

[As they leave, they may notice a smear of blood on the door handle inside the room.]

[douchemag]

You get down here if you're gonna be so--!

[And then he actually looks up to see 200+ pounds of teenage boy hurtling down towards him. Judar has just enough time to regret every single one of his life choices that has led him up to this point, starting from getting out of bed at all and moving on from there, before--

Bam. Flat on the ground. Rest in fucking pieces, asshole.]

[socloverit]

[everything happens so much

but okay Clover has to run over and make sure her like LAST LIVING FRIEND is still ALIVE??? and Jason too she guesses but okay hands being offered to help these idiots up because she isn't dealing with Machias pieces]

Are you guys okay?!