WEEK 11

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (11)

monday - thursday (14) 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. 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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THIS IS FINE

[tevinteriscoming]

[So, after biolab testing all goes to shit, people are dead, people are on fire, let's evacuate and meet out in the hallway.

Dorian will personally wait until at least a good amount of others have gone through; his mana hasn't replenished enough to cast barrier again yet, but there are always things he can try. But once they're out, and the sprinklers are going off in the biolab, pacing in the hallway.]

Well. She's dead, then?

[missmaladroite]

[That's what she's here for!!! After getting Adrien to safety, she's making sure everyone else comes out safely too]

What just happened?!

[monsieurchatastrophe]

[he didn't even have time to transform in the chaos before being RUDELY BROUGHT OUTSIDE what the fuck he has legs he could've WALKED]

Fiona's dead. That means--

[the nuwa's fucked.]

[missmaladroite]

[behave and be a good kitty or she'll spay you]

Alya, and your father.... No, there has to be something we can do!

[monsieurchatastrophe]

Not just them, everyone else on there-- how much time do we have? Is Alice going to report it immediately?

[do they have any time at all to figure out the sudden third option]

[tevinteriscoming]

[Taking a deep breath, leaning against his staff and massaging his temple. Fiona is almost certainly dead, and that means - they failed. After everything the graveyard had done to warn them, they'd failed.]

Not sure. I suppose we can hope Fiona was the last of them.

fionalien's body.

[erythristic]

[there's not much time before the robots will come and take it away from them. this Grell knows, so after everyone's out, being attended to for their injuries - thank you Jason for seeing to Judar, thank you Yuno for being sensible enough to take care of yourself - she moves in on Fiona's body. thanks to Yuno's destruction, the body's already been cut open and the organs are out, making them easier to analyze.

first things first, apart from her organs being removed, is there any sign of the thing that was in her? regardless of the answer Grell will then next look for essential organs - the lungs, the heart - and take them in hand to see if they've been affected in any way.]

[al2955]

[There's nothing visibly wrong with her organs. It looks like apart from the whole stabbed to death thing, her torso seems normal.]

[erythristic]

[after that then, Grell's going to feel her limbs, checking for any weird lumps - there had been something under her skin, and if it might still be there, she's prepared to use that kitchen knife that had been dropped in the biolab to cut away flesh for it.]

[al2955]

[Whatever was causing those lumps, they're gone now.

In the corner of her eye, she might see the head rock a little.]

[erythristic]

[dropping Fiona's arm on the ground, she practically springs towards the head, snatching it up by the hair and holding it at arm's length away from herself.

if this thing decides to sprout limbs, change shape, do anything other than act like a decapitated head is supposed to, she has her scythe in the other hand, and she is ready to act.]

[al2955]

[No Thing reenactment here. The only thing that happens is the head rocks side to side before Fiona's eyes suddenly slam open and lock directly onto Grell's --

...and something that resembles a foot-long cockroach made of half carapace and half flesh crawls out of her mouth.]

[erythristic]

[she screams, as any person would do in this situation. she screams loud, horrified to see the thing coming out of Fiona's mouth.

that happens, but at the same time she throws the head down to the floor, letting the scythe come to life as she stab down to impale the creature on her blade and letting the scythe go further into the floor to keep this pinned. there better not be any more of those in her head, because Grell will lose it at that point.]

[chiseler]

...she is. [This wasn't meant to happen and he's staring down at the body briefly.] That's it then, isn't it?

[bloodteller]

[ from his side comes yuno's voice. it's a touch deeper than usual. ]

We have tomorrow, too.

[ but it's easy to tell that she's shaken, too.

... even if she's covered in blood and guts and her arm is severely burned ??? ]

Think we can try to save them? Luke.

[chiseler]

[Is...this his fault? Was this his fault for trying to figure things out to save everyone? He's blank, staring straight at Fiona that he doesn't even register Yuno at first.]

I...don't know. [He blinks suddenly, staring at her then.] Yuno, your arm--you need to get that looked at.

[bloodteller]

You're looking at it right now, aren't you? [ okay, it's a sarcastic comment. shit burns and feels like it's getting worse as she stands there, but. she's not hiding it, her bad mood. no use being sweet princess when you've just eviscerated a body. ]

I'll wash it. ...But my mom's on that ship, and I'm worried.

[ the least she could do was try to ensure that thing was dead, but... well. ]

[chiseler]

Yeah but I don't know anything medical and you know that's not what I meant. [The response is also snappy but he's trying not to make it worse.]

We still have 'til tomorrow. We can still figure something out, we just have to wait. It's...we have a trial tomorrow don't we?

[bloodteller]

[ thanks to you, luke. yes. we have a trial tomorrow. yuno looks down to fiona's absolutely desecrated corpse, detached. ]

Judar can't die because of this.

[chiseler]

Then we'll have to do our best to figure something out. Maybe beg with the AI. Just give us time, okay? Don't freak out yet.

[tevinteriscoming]

For now, it is.

[This doesn't mean they have to give up on trying to somehow. Persuade Alice to help them. But he doesn't imagine it will yield results. He's taking it hard; it's not even necessarily about the deaths, which are too abstract right now. But he's tired of failing.]

What did you learn from the test? Or was it all a bluff? You certainly weren't told anything by the graveyard this week. If they could have contacted us, showing up here physically wouldn't have been necessary.

[His tone is stern, but not exactly accusing. This should have been prevented, but he knows for all his complaining about the plan, he never put his foot down or tried to stop this. He should have, but sometimes it gets tiring to have his good intentions immediately spat on. He's not going to do that back, at least, not now. The morning is another matter.]

[chiseler]

[He doesn't really have an answer so he sort of just stares at Dorian before he shrugs.]

All I can do is apologize for this. That's it. That's the only thing I can do now. [Or at least it's the only thing he wants to say to Dorian about this.]

[tevinteriscoming]

Well, no. For one thing, you can answer my question.

[He doesn't say it harshly, just sort of disbelieving. After all this, Luke won't do them the courtesy of telling them whether Fiona was the only one they'd gotten results for?]

I don't really need or want an apology. You tried something and it. Well, it worked, to some degree. All I should like to know is what you learned from the test, and if you haven't a mind to share it, I'd like to know why.

[chiseler]

[He clears his throat, nodding to himself shortly after.]

We definitely found something in Fiona's blood. That's what I got anyway, or something. Jason's the one who actually looked and I mean...you don't double-take at something like that. That's how we knew.

[tevinteriscoming]

But you didn't know whether you'd be able to find something that way?

[There's a lot that can be discussed later, once they figure out what to do about the Nuwa and Judar, but for now there's really only one question that mattered.]

Can there be others besides Fiona?