WEEK 1 - Retirement

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (1)

sunday EXECUTION (40) survivors As voting comes to an end, a song filters in played so loud that it becomes distored and fragmented. If a participant checks their datapad, they will see the the victim and suspect chosen by majority's pictures displayed. If they attempt to scroll, they will see a list of characters and their votes in alphabetical order.

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[al2955]

[ After the song ends, an announcement plays.

Luke Castellan: 1
Jessie: 1
Alita Tiala: 27
Abstained: 11 ]

Your votes have been tallied. Congratulations! You discovered the true culprit, Alita Tiala. Time will be allotted for the culprit to be spoken to. As an added note, we will pardon those that abstained from voting for this trial only. In the future, abstaining will be met with elimination. Please make sure to place your votes in a timely manner.

[cherubize]

No! No!

[ As the song filters in, Alita is screaming so loudly her voice can be heard over it. She knew immediately, based on the lyrics, that she had been found out. She reaches up to her head, shaking it violently, feathers flying off of the centerpiece of her dress. After the song finishes, it seems like she's drained from screaming, and instead is breathing heavily and looking at everyone warily, as if she's expecting them all to come and stab her right there. ]

[muties]

[ STARES..... DAMN GIRL

roxy wanted to ask her yo why u do the thing but instead she's just staring because holy shit that was a scream that was a goddamn movie caught culprit scream wow ]

[missmaladroite]

[just. kind of staring]

RETIREMENT

[al2955]

[ After Alita is doing saying her 'goodbyes', she collapses sporadically. Her body hits the floor, expressionless and deanimated like a rag doll.

Seconds later, a holographic screen is cast over the table. Alita is seen suspended in the air, sky as blue as some might remember from their life before ending up on The Pygmalion. She isn't exactly flying, but rather standing in the sky, confused and disoriented. She peers up at something, and the 'camera' pans towards it: the sun, green like money. She runs towards it, slowly rising up as if climbing a staircase. Once she reaches it, though, she outstretches a hand towards it, then drops it immediately, grasping her head in anguish. From her back comes something.. feathery. A black wing. It slowly peeks out, writhing until it extends to around seven feet, blood dripping from the wound it came from. Then another comes on the other side. Then another under it. It keeps happening until there are six wings, and Alita is gasping for air out of pain.

The sky darkens to a light red, and a troupe of specks come from behind a cloud. As they come closer, the onlookers will notice they are angels of androgynous form wearing armor and wielding weapons such as bows and swords. Alita, in her pain, attempts to fly away, but she isn't quick enough. The angels fly towards her at lightning speed, stabbing and piercing her in the wings and legs until her body is steeped in blood like a pulpy tea bag. Alita is no longer able to scream, only cry soundlessly.

Finally, from behind the cloud comes a final creature, covered completely in eyes. It approaches slowly, as if to make Alita suffer for her sins. All the sound in the video feed is silenced. When it reaches Alita, it stares down at her for a minute or so. Alita is unable to look at it in any eye. She mouths the words "please". Is she begging for salvation or for a mercy killing?

Either way, the angel only answers with a beam shot from one of its eyes, piercing in between Alita's eyes. Her head falls back, dead. Almost instantly, she begins to fall. She seems to fall for several minutes. Eventually, she reaches the ground — or rather, the floor. She lands on a cold looking surface, similar to the flooring of the ship. Her body disintegrating into twisted limbs, her legs curling in like an al dente noodle. a graceless fallen angel.

The hologram disappears. ]

[tevinteriscoming]

...

[Okay, then.]

Well. That was certainly a display.

[bloodbiter]

A rather tasteless one, if I might add.

[toprotecttheworld]

[There's only one response to seeing a giant creature like that.]

Who's that Pokémon?!

[qundercover]

[The fuck.]

So that was fucked up.

Re: RETIREMENT

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Th-Th-That was...

[Shelley's eyes are really wide, because this was not at all what she expected. What the hell?!]

[chiseler]

[...] Definitely do not want that kind of retirement.

[thanatosincarnate]

....

{ Watching all the way until the end. He has nothing to say, honestly -- he's just grateful the trial is over and they caught the culprit. }

[douchemag]

So she was a magical crow girl!

[brooches]

Oh my God.

[ Her hands immediately go up to shield her vision, looking away as tears begin to form in her eyes and bead down her cheeks. This was unlike anything she had ever seen before and she's definitely going to try and walk towards the walls to ignore what just happened, sobbing to herself. ]

[blondophile]

A fine example to make of a murderess.

[puzzlesss]

[ ...



gross ]

... I suppose this is one of those moments where being blind is a blessing.

[ visualizing tho from those sounds ]

[probings]

That's one way of getting back what you give in spades, isn't it?

[it's not a pretty sight, but yet not a surprising one. anything "angelic" or "heavenly" always spells trouble in her books.]

[missmaladroite]

[STARING IN HORROR and also confusion]

What.....?

[jackhole]

[ okay but what if he's asleep in his chair through this whole thing ]

[thatbites]

[That's so fucked up. Emily flops back down in her chair, as far away from the collapsed body as possible and turns away after the display is over. She's more mumbling to herself than anyone else.]

No surprise, it's completely fucked.

[muties]

[ uh ]

... Welp, that sure did just happen. Whatever that was.

[todorable]

[he looks very much as if he wishes he hadn't seen any of that]

A-are you kidding me!?

[isodope]

...I gotta stop hitting the booze so hard.

[he says like he won't drink whiskey tonight after watching that.]

[mnasthai]

...

[ That was certainly something. Like many others here, he's just silent.]

[antagonize]

[Well.

That was something.

Is it possible to approach Alita's body to find out if she still has a pulse? Or is that a big no-no?]