WEEK THREE

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (3)

monday - thursday (35) 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. Along with this, it appears there are new areas opened on the ship. 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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[thanatosincarnate]

{ Okay, but. Really, there was a loud-ass piercing scream that echoed throughout the room and the subsequent hallways -- if someone is coming into them, how are they not going to hear that?

Arumat pretty much shows up in the viewpoint room, making an expression of disgust at the putrid smell of ... organic mess that is everything here right now. Also, with the lovely addition of new puke! Fucking fantastic. }

... What the hell?

{ His eyes narrowed, he gazes over the current occupants of the room -- as well as its contents once again. Niles... Maria, he recognized them easily enough.

His eyes drift back to Kazuma and Jesse -- guess bringing his scythe was meaningless after all. }

[qundercover]

[ Jessie's alarm raising skills sure are great. By the time these two show up, Bull is in the middle of picking Rhys up to at least move him out of the way of actually looking to see what's around. He's a little hesitant to mess with a giggling mage having a meltdown, but what can you do. ]

Looks like "stasis" means some nasty shit is what the hell.

[ur welcome. Okay well, these two children are coming with Bull. Sorry Rhys and Kazuma, you've been voted off Bloodbath Island.]

Uh, going to put these somewhere. I'll be back. Take a look around.

[hatslinger]

Rhys—

[ she reaches out a hand for him when bull ushers him out of the room, but lowers it when she sees where he's going. she figures he'll take care of him just fine. she sighs, walking over to jessie to gingerly help her to her feet. she figured it must have been her who screamed, considering she was the only other woman here. ]

Were they just.. in here like this?

[ she says this with a level of shock. how did no one notice..? wasn't someone patrolling? she'll walk over to maria's body (or what's left of it) to get a good look at.. all of it. she crouches down to get a better look. ]

[toprotecttheworld]

Thank you, Fiona.

[Look at her—now she's covered in blood, some of it even splashed onto her legs and arms from the fall. It comes with wearing such little clothing while exploring. She definitely wishes she'd opted in for more clothes today, but she wears the Rocket "R" with pride.

Her footsteps are shaky, but she's going to walk over to Niles' head once she's picked up the pod hatch she's been carrying with her since the pod room. She wants to throw up, honestly, but Niles...he was fun. She liked him a lot, she wanted to get to know him better.]

They didn't deserve this. Why? Alice told me they'd be alright.

[thanatosincarnate]

Fine.

{ He'll make a clipped, terse comment towards the other much bigger man to assent his agreement. The light-haired male then falls silent as the women begin talking, electing not to say anything as of yet, as he moves further from there. He'll be looking over the room in its entirety where the women aren't looking -- the walls, even the rest of the gorey mess (that are not the heads) if he can find anything that may stick out in particular. }

[al2955]

[Maria's torso is on the left side of the room.

And by that, I mean just her torso. Everything that can be hacked off - arms, legs, neck, and so forth - has been hacked off. They're not exactly missing though; there's plenty of body parts strewn all over this side of the room that could explain where they went. A finger here, a forearm under a chair there, a foot by the window, toes scattered around the floor...it almost looks like someone set out to make the world's toughest and grossest jigsaw puzzle out of a human body.

Niles' head is absolutely covered with blood, more so than Maria's. Also it looks like his intestines have been draped around his head and the chair like a gruesome scarf.]

[qundercover]

[Bull is back, what's happening Party People. He lets out a small whistle at walking into it again. Guess, what just as horrible the second time.]

You know, this seems excessive. Could have just lopped the heads off and been done. This is a show.

[He doesn't have a problem touching body parts, so trying to determine what might be Maria's and what might be Nile's . . . bits.]

[al2955]

[From the color of the skin underneath all the blood, it looks like most of Maria's bits are on the left side of the room and most of Niles' bits are on the right side of the room, where Arumat is searching. It's also really hard to tell what might stick out in particular since...lots of body parts and organs everywhere, etc etc, they all start to look pretty similar after a while. They'll have to get more specific than that.

also I forgot to mention that Maria's torso has been bisected straight down the middle.]

[toprotecttheworld]

[First things first. Jessie is going to attempt to close one eye and remove Niles' eyepatch as carefully as possible. If it's evidence, it's evidence. If it's not, she's going to wash it for him. It's the only thing she can do for him, isn't it.]

This is vulgar. ...Bull, before we lost Sleeping Not-Beautiful over there, did he tell you about what we found?

[She's going to search the chair and...try to look as little at the intestines as possible. She's going to need a shower soon. Very soon.]

[qundercover]

[He'll help Jessie poke around Niles' bits then. Eyepatch solidarity. He'll mess with the intestines if she won't - have they been cut apart cleanly or is it more of a mauling. Is there anything to note about the weird intestine scarf, apart from the fact that you guys are making me type "intestine scarf."]

Nope. Probably better than this if he made it through though.

[thanatosincarnate]

{ Okay well, if there are like, arms, legs, and/or hands from Niles being strewn around within his eyesight, he'll look at those closely? Since it seems the others are looking at his head and the intestine scarf... whatever the hell.

It doesn't help he's not sure what he's looking for (but are they all ever?).

He's good at steeling himself, because he's definitely seen Some Shit, but it's not like he's going to be like 'ok this is completely kosher'. If anything, the stench was still horrid and so now his face now was wearing an expression of possible permanent disgust. }

[al2955]

[There sure are a bunch of hands and legs from Niles strewn around! Like Maria's, it looks like whatever could be hacked off has been hacked off and thrown around the room at random places. The only major difference is that instead of being bisected, Niles' torso has been clawed open and violently ripped apart like someone trying to get into a bag of chips. Most of his organs, including his heart, are missing - you can probably find them around the room somewhere.

Coming back to Niles' head, it looks like the eye underneath the eyepatch has magically grown back! Except...were Niles' eyes always that shade of blue? And the eye sure does look loose and unattached to anything. It's almost like someone just shoved a random eye into the socket...careful not to move the head too much, or that eye might just fall onto one of you.

The intestines look like they were ripped out of his torso. There's definitely more of a mauled look to them - there's nothing clean about it at all.]

[toprotecttheworld]

[Surprising maybe no one in the room, Jessie straightens up and clutches that eyepatch so hard she'd burn a hole in it if her blood was any hotter. Her voice is as haughty as ever, like she's the one giving the orders.]

I'm leaving. I've had enough of...this. You can all check out the arrival room on your own.

[Don't let them see you cry! With her mission accomplished, she'll do a quick turn around and start walking for the doors of the view port. Are her shoulders shaking? ...No, she's probably just a little unsteady.]

[qundercover]

[Poor Jessie definitely will need that dinner later. She'll totally have an appetite after seeing this right? Letting her go without protest - it's not as if he's going to make anyone STAY in the room of horrors.]

Looks like they met the wrong end of a Gurgut. Hard to figure out where to look.

[Well, one more sweep around those torsos. Maybe a weapon got left behind or some sort of clue as to who or what ripped them apart. Or someone left that eye around.]

[al2955]

[No weapons or anything of the sort around the torsos, just lots of body parts. The final eye doesn't seem to be anywhere near the torsos either.]

[thanatosincarnate]

{ Arumat can't blame the woman for once, but she's caught his attention, and for a short time he watches her prepare to leave. He doesn't know why, but he decides to say something after all. }

We'll avenge them -- whatever or whoever did this to them will not be getting off lightly.

{ He'll leave it at that, but honestly, he's tired of looking at Niles' body parts. The man was a lewd fool, but he had done no wrong -- and Maria was just as innocent. They had been both innocent civilians, taken advantage of in their prone state.

He finally rose to his feet, beginning to make his own exit as well. He doesn't think he wishes to linger around here any longer, either.

That and whoever did this may have been lingering around -- it's not like he'd walk Jessie to her room, because he found her presence to be trying, but he wouldn't want to find her (another innocent) dead either. }

[hatslinger]

[ Fiona quietly sifts through Maria's remains. she sin't touching them, obviously, but she's inspecting all the bits of limbs individually, trying to account for.. all the body parts that make up a body, considering her body was completely torn apart. she inspects the state of the limbs, too — as if they were cleanly cut or she was beaten prior. ]

I wonder if they.. felt anything. Since they couldn't move.

[al2955]

[It'll take her a long time, considering how many pieces there are, but it does look like all the body parts are in this room aside from one more eye. Her limbs are in a very sorry state, looking quite beaten and bruised, though it's hard to tell whether that happened pre or post mortem.]

[toprotecttheworld]

Of course they didn't feel it.

[Guess who's saying that just to make herself feel better?]

There's no way they felt anything.

[hatslinger]

Yeah... you're probably right.

[ she's not so sure, but she'll say this for jessie's sake ]

[refactor]

[ With that scream, it's hard to miss if you're anywhere nearby, though even so, Jack is in no hurry beyond just really wanting to see who bit it. Unfortunately for him but luckily for everyone else, he'll come across Bull first. ]

Woah— Woah there, cupcake, what—

[ Jack starts speaking before he's really even taken in the scene in full, but he ends up looking at Rhys with a raised eyebrow. Clearly, he's okay, since he can see Rhys breathing (good enough), but he's still more than a little taken aback. ]

Wait, did he seriously puke himself unconscious?

[ that's a pretty big surprise, right ]

No, no, nevermind, not important. Damn, someone's greedy... Someone actually bit the dust already?

[qundercover]

[Sorry you're going to totally miss this most 10 out of 10 murder so far on this ship, Jack. I mean, unless you just want to dump Rhys here and go back to poking some bodies, that's cool too. He'll be fine passed out on his own in the hallway, right?]

Uh. Yeah. About sums it up. Looks like he couldn't handle the . . . eyeful in there. [two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff.] Two folks that didn't vote got it. Guessing they wanted an example. Or something.

Do you want him? Gotta do something with him.

[refactor]

[ god he'll be so mad wtf!!! rhys ruins everything fun and murderous in his life... ]

...Considering your pause there, I'm gonna guess that was a pun. In which case, nice.

[ The resident dad knows a bad joke when he hears one... There's a moment where he strongly considers just going by Bull to check it out, but with a heavy, disappointed sigh, he steps closer and beckons for Bull to hand him over. ]

Honestly, no, would waaay prefer checking out whatever's goin' on back there, but. Sure. It's my good deed of the day, or something.

[qundercover]

See, I knew someone here would actually enjoy great jokes. [About dead people, Bull.] Figure that one's going to take a while to clean up, though. Pretty messy business.

[Dumping Rhys onto Jack. Sorry, pal.]

Tell him he owes me new breeches.

[refactor]

[ Jack makes a noise of exertion, since even if he's pretty buff, he's also just your fairly average human in terms of strength. ]

God- Lay off the friggin' ice cream...

[ That part is mostly muttered to himself, but it's definitely funny enough for Jack to have said it solely for someone to overhear it. He's shifting Rhys's weight more onto his back to carry him reasonably when Bull makes his request, and it comes with a twist of Jack's expression. ]

Oh, oh man, now that you mention it? It's totally everywhere. Gonna say, might as well just burn those and be done with them.

[ It's what Jack will be doing with his own clothes. Blood and guts? That's fine. But he draws a line at vomit, apparently. He shifts Rhys onto his back and sighs pretty heavily, but that's more a sound of adjusting to the carrying deadweight with a metal limb. ]

Well, whatever, I'm off before Sleeping Beauty here breaks my back.