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

saturday (10) survivors Something is different. You can feel it in the air: an ominous presence that weighs down the ship like it's underwater. Try as you might, you can't escape the feeling that you're being watched, the sensation of someone just out of view tailing you. Tensions are high, and paranoia grows with it. You feel it more than see it, and that's what warps your perception of the ship. Is it darker? Are the lights dimming? Who is it that calls out to you? Why is it so cold? Who can you trust? The distinct sensation of not knowing who your back is to wraps around you. There is one thing you can trust in, however; though you feel exposed, you are not alone. Mother is here for you. taken list profiles private conversations setting rulebook ENTER COMMAND_

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[bloodbiter]

[a h. she gives a gasp of pain and surprise as that feeling takes her over, breathing deeply once the paralysis fades and her heart rate slows to normal.

once she can move, she's immediately distracted by the machine. she doesn't know anything about technology, though, so she focuses on the ankle bindings.]

Yuno - the fire.

[bloodteller]

[ electrocution should bother her more, she realizes. frighten her beyond what she is, but yuno screams and screams and screams until she has control over her limbs again. it hurts, but she half expected it. still, you can't prepare for an electrical shock, so her body aches, and she smells burned skin but doesn't care to inspect herself at the moment. she'll tend to wounds later.

this time, it's a growl that she lets out as she looks up with wide eyes that betray her anger and frustration. the panel sparks, holding her attention, and her hand burns especially bad, but at adelina's voice, she nods in agreement. the pain will be pushed aside - they don't know what'll happen if that fire is left to fester. ] On it, Adelina.

[ she's running on legs that feel like jelly, but she makes her and stumbles into the panel. her body shakes but slaps a hand over the beginnings of the fire before removing her sweater and smacking it into the panel to tamp it out. if she's successful, she'll immediately hit the large button. ]

[baptizer]

[ Poor Yuno's gone through the wringer, hasn't she? The burns were most noticeable on the bare forearms for both girls, but it subsides since they're running on adrenaline at this point. There's no doubt pain for them, but the fire begins to crackle and every so often, a spark of electricity further the flames.

Adelina's successful in getting Elizabeth's legs free - her legs lazily moving, buckling at the knees as she sits up. The main power cord was injected harshly between her shoulders, her body pained as Elizabeth catches her breath.

Yuno does a fair job of putting the fire out - it burns at her sweater, leaving the distinct smell of burnt flesh and fabric. Yuck. The large button causes the machine to halt momentarily before surge of electricity begins to fill the second cylinder at its center. There's no electricity to contend with, the expel of steam heating the area - wonder what foreshadowing that was?

The machine is still connected to Elizabeth, the sparks visible dancing around the wound on her back. The girls must decide:

>Pull the cord from Elizabeth's back
>Try and destroy the machine

One will cause an unimaginable amount of pain, but it is the quickest way, the other will leave Elizabeth vulnerable and tethered as the heat in the room continues to grow as they attack the power source with four distinctive metal pipes latching to the control panel. ]

[bloodbiter]

[pulling the cord from elizabeth's back seems much too dangerous to adelina - she doesn't know what it might do. instead, she unsheathes her sword and begins to cut through the cord. she tries to make the cut gently, so as not to tug on the wound on her back.]

Don't worry. We're getting you out of this.

[she doesn't know much about machines, but she's learned enough about them that she moves to try to pull the plug out.]

[bloodteller]

[ when it becomes clear that power has shifted in the machine, she turns back to adelina, and with still recovering legs, makes a break for it. the steam is at her back and she turned only as it kicked up, so she certainly feels the heat. but... yuno doesn't have a weapon on her, else she'd stab the machine. they can come back for it, she decides - elizabeth is their priority and she's relieved to see that adelina has severed the cord.

as addie is pulling the plug, hopefully removing the thing from elizabeth's back, yuno regroups with the two of them. she isn't chained down now, within cradles she is capable of using her abilities. adelina has a sword and is capable, but yuno's unarmed at the moment, so the person they'll have to rely on is clear. her voice cracks, but yuno is persistent. ]

I'll carry her! We need to come back for this, it's steaming a lot. Elizabeth has to be left somewhere - where's safest, can you tell? [ her eyes are still watering from the surge of heat. ]

[baptizer]

[ The cord is severed with a resounding slice of metal meeting, the electricity sparking as it falls to the ground, slithering like a snake. The plug was deeply rooted and Adelina touching it brings an excruciating pain to Elizabeth. She writhes around, the sound of flesh squishing against the singular sharp metal piece. Adelina doesn't quite pull it out all the way just yet.

The heat begins to billow mainly through the top of the room, giving Yuno some reprieve from her pain.

While Jason and Grell battle the inevitable two motorized patriots, they'd hear something else rumbling. No, despite Songbird cracking at the glass with it's powerful, grasping clutch - it's ...above them?

The heat in the room was nothing for what crashes through the ceiling, a metal man standing over 7 ft tall crashes next to the girls. The machine in the background that once powered Elizabeth hisses to a stop and instead, the grunts of the Handyman looms towards the two girls.

Adelina finally pulls the plug out with Elizabeth sobbing, the wound tender but she tries - Elizabeth tries so hard to stumble out of her chair to her feet to assist the girls. ]

Don't - you have to find your own safety... they want me. They're trying to stop -

[ She's caught off guard, the dramatic thump of the Handyman's heart was heard - as if amplified. The two can guess that the weakest spot in the man was the exposed heart hidden only by glass. They can see it pump blood to the once normal man, instead fueling his part robotic body. He leaps forward, quick enough with a grasp of Adelina's hair. It's large hand having no problem with roughness, almost enough to pull it from the root. It dangles her easily four feet off the ground with Elizabeth screaming in surprise and pure shock. ]

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[bloodbiter]

[she's getting ready to tear a piece of fabric off her dress to stop the bleeding from elizabeth's wound when the robotic figure falls next to her and yuno. she starts to stand in front of elizabeth, turning to yuno with a sense of urgency as she grips her sword.]

Get her out of—

[but then it moves, faster than she'd expected, and she's caught. her legs, still feeling weak and strange from the electricity earlier, kick around uselessly searching for the ground. thrown off guard by the enemy's sudden action and the pain, she tries nonetheless to focus. the heart - too far for her to reach for certain. his arm... can a machine feel pain? would it release her?]

[bloodbiter]

[another moment, and the pain only grows. she's only been held for several seconds, but the pulling, tugging, ripping sensation is intense all the same. she doesn't scream; she stops herself from crying out. silently, she does the first thing she can think of, the only sure way to release herself.

drawing her sword again, she slices just underneath the thing's hand, cutting off roughly a foot of her hair and falling several feet to the ground. she only takes a moment to recover before trying to stand up again, resisting the urge to bring a hand to her head. to yuno:]

Take her and - get her out of the viewport!

[bloodteller]

[ it's terrifying, the way adelina is picked up like a ragdoll. yuno doesn't move, at first, waiting to see what she can do, if anything. she's selfish, and she'd sacrifice anyone for elizabeth, but adelina freed elizabeth. her eyes are wide and the fury's gone, replaced with calm thought. as it strikes her that the smartest thing in this situation is to cut addie's hair, she does just that.

and then she yells to get liz somewhere safe.

so, to elizabeth, yuno shouts something that means far, far more to her now than it did when her own life had been saved. ] Moving is for people who aren't injured! Let's go!

[ she's grabbed and balanced in such a way that she's forced to cling to yuno's back - she won't allow anything else. in this space, she feels it; she can alter things just enough that carrying elizabeth is an easy feat. this is how yuno elects to use her powers, apparently.

her legs are weak but if she focuses, then it's fine.

...but as she's making her way from the machine, she gives one hard surge of energy toward the thing that had attacked adelina. she doesn't know if she has enough power to push it away more than a few feet, but even that can hopefully buy the other time. ]

[baptizer]

[ The fear in Elizabeth's eyes are obvious - those blues trembling like two dewdrops. She's terrified she'll lose Adelina again, that her death will signify another reminder that she can't help them. Yuno tends to Elizabeth, helping her and even if Yuno tries, she still tries to struggle. ]

I can't leave them - [ Adelina, Jason and Grell. Songbird, too? The beast seems distressed, scared and confused that they were taking someone as precious as Elizabeth away. It was her protector, it was growing angry as the cracks on the glass increase. ]

Songbird's going to open... open the window... Yuno, can you get us there...? I have an idea...

[ Elizabeth says with stammered breath, feeling faint against the girl who was altering time and reality as much as she was.

Adelina, however, contends with the tightening grip of the mechanical man. There seems to be a soft mutter under its breath - his words human "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." It's caught off guard and Adelina can escape by cutting off the beautiful brown strands of hair. They fall limp in his fingers right when Yuno's energy sends him stumbling back, tripping over the now split body of George Washington. All while Jason and Grell began to worry about Honest Abe starting to torment them with a hail of bullets.

Yuno and Adelina can both see Handyman getting to his feet... ]

[bloodbiter]

[luckily, as soon as she sees yuno tending to elizabeth, adelina turns her attention back to the handyman. she's not at her best - the electricity, the soreness of falling to the ground (there will be bruises later, she's sure) and the strangeness of her revival combined weigh heavy. still, when she sees him start to rise, she's moving towards him.

when she reaches it and swings her sword into its leg, she doesn't expect it to do much damage - it's made of metal, after all. all the same, she doesn't think she can hurt the heart on her own. if she can buy everyone a few extra moments without being interrupted by the handyman, that will be enough. all she has to do is distract it for a few moments.]

[bloodteller]

[ elizabeth can fight it all she wants, but the serial killer-slash-teenager has no issue exerting more strength than she should logically have. like adelina, she's injured. this is the third time she's been burned on this damned ship, though, and while her skin feels like it's boiling from the steam still, there's no time to waste. elizabeth can fight and complain, but her grip is iron tight.

and when she's on yuno's back - she hesitates. yuno thinks adelina will be okay, hopes it, too. vaguely, there's a hope that adelina will be fine and will be rushing to join her and elizabeth at the window, but.

she doesn't look behind her. she rushes. ]

You want to go to that thing? Are you sure it's safe? [ elizabeth seems to have a level of familiarity with the things going on here. likely, everyone has realized this by now. she trusts her, but if songbird breaks the window, they're -

well everyone else is toast. yuno would be fine. still, that's not an outcome she likes. she closes the distance between the two of them and songbird, but there's a moment where she stops, halfway there. it's a battle, and she shouldn't, but yuno's been safe in the middle of chaos before. she feels okay stopping. ]

[baptizer]

[ The bird seems more frantic when Yuno brings Elizabeth away. She's struggling but Yuno is tight, she clings tighter. ]

He's ... he's taught to find me. No matter what, Songbird will always find me. [ As Elizabeth is brought closer to Songbird through the window, the loud bangs and attacks on the window stop. It tilts its head curiously to both Yuno and Elizabeth. The fight ongoing between both Grell/Jason and the Patriot was coming to an end, but Elizabeth says softly.] It's only ...only his nature.

Please, Yuno, I promise... it'll be alright.

[ Adelina has a moment to collect herself, this is good. The Handyman was lumbering to his feet, and soon, Adelina finds her sword slicing through some of the metal coils and joints of the machine. It doesn't exactly hinder him, leaning his weight more preferably on his other foot. Oh. Oh no. It rears it's giant hand back, and - with one harsh smack, Adelina is sent flying - right towards Jason. ]

Adelina!

[ That certainly was a thing that happened. ]

[baptizer]

The adventure continues...