WEEK 13

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (13)

monday - thursday (10) 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 that the ship is still in disarray; there is no robot prepared breakfast, nor has any of the damage been repaired. The ship bears power in the rooms you have decided should have power, though the lights are dim. Without Alice, you are all on your own. The ominous pressure of the Queen Mother still looms, though you no longer feel Her presence. taken list profiles private conversations setting rulebook ENTER COMMAND_

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[erythristic]

Human arrogance.

[but that's said even softer than her new tone of voice. for all that there are those that died that she wants to see again, there are laws about how the world works. essentials. things that cannot be altered.]

There's no option that leaves us free, is there? No miracle that means we'll actually be happy. If we revive them, then we'll all die due to the lack of power, won't we?

[al2955]

It was human arrogance that allowed us to enter space at all. Without arrogance, the drive to see limits and break them, humanity would never progress at all.

So cynical, Lady Sutcliffe! [She blows out a cloud of smoke.] If it's happiness you want, then enter your cradle. That'll guarantee to grant all your dreams. As for power, you currently don't even have enough to physically revive the dead at all.

But you do have just enough to get to a ship that can. Provided you're willing to look death in the - hah - eye.

[erythristic]

[despite everything, it's enough to get her to smile a little bit. perhaps it's tinged with the bitterness that the weeks have piled on, but it's there all the same, because in the end Grell finds herself reminded of another person looking at her, and his steady voice.

"perhaps that's the very core of the beast - the unlimited number of outcomes that can come of what may have started as no more than an idea. if only they knew what they're capable of."

a dream box where something would always be wrong, not quite correct. a false happiness, a poppy dosage enough to sleep forever. or-]

You say it as if we haven't done that already, and cursed at it when it looked back. What would we need to do to get ourselves there? Aside from start the rendition of "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

[al2955]

What's that from, Scooby-Doo?

You're going to need to fly the ship straight through the eye of the Queen. You've removed her last connection to the ship, but she won't need it if she can physically grab you herself. And she knows exactly where the Pygmalion's going to try to head if they want any chance of surviving.

[erythristic]

What's going to keep her from going after you before we get there? The fact that we're wounded prey, easier to overpower than a functioning ship?

[if the Nuwa was going to be endangered by this....better to know now than later.]

And it's Henry V.

[Shakespeare won't kill you, Lin.]

[al2955]

You just killed her children. I think her focus will be on you regardless of what our status is. Not to mention that escaping from her will be easy enough for a ship at full power with their fuel reserve intact.

Doesn't sound like any scientist I've ever heard of.

[erythristic]

When all is said and done, if I don't lose the rest of my voice, die, or some combination of the two, I'll tell you his whole story.

[maybe somewhere in the Nuwa there's a copy of the play. maybe Grell's going to have to invent what parts she doesn't remember. but it's a nice supposing that doesn't deal with facing down that Queen again.]

I'm not naive enough to think she'll die if we drive the ship through her eye. But will it be enough to dissuade her from pursuing? Be the straw that makes her give up on trying to take over our ragtag group?

[al2955]

Or you could just give me the Cliffnotes version of it.

You act like I've ever actually been up against an eldritch abomination and eater of stars before. My hope is yes - or failing that, that you can get to us in time for us to siphon enough power to you and engage warp speed.

[erythristic]

[she has no clue what Cliffnotes are, but too late. Lin has doomed herself to the explanation to happen one day. in an alternate universe, if things get that bad.]

Warp speed? Sounds delightful. [sounds like something she knows nothing about.] Everyone else will doubtlessly have their piece to say, but thank you, Doctor. For aiding us.