WEEK THREE - Investigation

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

friday (?) survivors Friday, and the paranoia that comes with it, inches up your spine like a scorpion searching for prey. The circles around your eyes are as black as space itself, and it's difficult to remember how much sleep you have gotten in the last 72 hours. No alarm comes today. Perhaps you are unsure if that is a blessing or a curse. You feel too wary to leave your room, but you know you will have to eventually. You can only stay here for 12 hours. But you become conscious of your vulnerability, more aware of your blindspots. It becomes difficult to move, paralyzing, taxing on your mind to interact with the physical world — you would rather retreat into your thoughts. Tentatively, you leave your safe haven. taken list profiles setting rulebook ENTER COMMAND_

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medbay - 7pm

[breakshot]

[ Good news, everyone! It's close to seven in the evening and Machias is still fucked up. With the efforts of Frankenstein and those assisting in the medical wing, Machias is now up and conscious. And more importantly, not vomiting on people.

It hasn't been a great day, with him fading in and out of consciousness. Any attempts to talk with him before now would have only gotten a clouded, hazy look, perhaps even an attempt to form something resembling something coherent before fading out. He'd have also attempted to get up, but promptly sat back down by whoever's keeping an eye on him. Stubborn kid.

Machias is sitting up now, anyway; fuck anyone else who says he can't, he does what he wants!! For now, and he's holding a hand to his head and desperately trying to fight off a combination of nausea, ears ringing, on top of a killer headache as he groans. That's progress, even though it was a serious struggle with not only his limbs feeling heavy but those in the wing too. Presumably he has his glasses back at least, or else he'll have not being able to see shit on top of all his other problems.

>Approach? ]

[parodeity]

[ dave will volunteer for keeping an eye on machias duty since that seems pretty low-key? he's tense as fuck still but perfectly capable of pretending he isn't. it makes you wonder how often his whole chill demeanor is a facade, doesn't it!

he's...

ok he's just playing sudoku by the bedside.

dave, be useful. ]

Sooooo, do we need to have a talk about accepting food from strangers and or crazy people or something. Or drinks? What did you do, bro.

[breakshot]

[ He'll visibly wince a bit, groaning and holding a hand over one of his temples. Holy shit, his ears are still ringing. It's too bright in here and he's rubbing his eyes. Eyes that feel dry as hell, and his throat's not doing any better. ]

Ugh... What's-- [ He stops suddenly, coughing and hand over mouth like he's... you know. ] How in the hell...

[ Shaking his head. He still seems slightly disoriented but give him time. ]

[parodeity]

[ ...okay, he feels bad for the guy. ]

Dude. Shut your eyes. I'll grab you a cup of water, okay?

[ he'll actually put the tablet aside in order to get up and like. play nurse he supposes which is what he signed on for here.

or well actually he signed on for "hey watch this guy and make sure he doesn't keel over while i go do a thing" but. ]

Idefk what happened, buncha people found you passed out and also you puked?

[breakshot]

Thanks.

[ Machias isn't joking, he feels sore as fuck all over to a point he can't begin to pinpoint where. He's gonna accept that water right about now, thanks bro. Ugh, going to drink that slowly and. Try to think, even though his head's killing him. His everything's killing him. ]

I feel like I've been run over by a tram. Twice.

[parodeity]

Hey, look on the bright side, could be worse? I mean, I'm pretty sure we all thought you were like, dead.

[ CONGRATS ON BEATING THE HYPE (????) (????????????????????????) ]

Which would suck, because I think you're actually ok.

[breakshot]

As you can clearly see, I'm still in one piece. [ Still keeping his eyes shut, drinking this slowly. ] Splitting headache aside.

[ He's getting back to his routine deadpan remarks, this is good. Still, his eyes are shut and he's trying to think and piece it all together in spite of the overwhelming nausea. Machias glances over himself, noting the IV running through him. He almost reached for it, but with cold liquid still running through him that probably wasn't the best idea.

There's a very questioning glance at Dave, eyes opening. ]

I still don't understand, though. You're saying I just 'passed out'?

[ THIS DOESN'T FEEL LIKE PASSED OUT? ]

[parodeity]

Dude, no. No one knows? We think you were drugged, I guess. I take it you don't, like, remember anything useful here.

[ or maybe he does, who knows? ]

[unasking]

[Well his doctor's here and has probably been doing a brunt of settling Machias back down so that he's not getting up.

When he reaches over, it's to support Machias by placing a hand on his shoulder so that he doesn't have to exert as much energy holding himself up.]

Don't push yourself.

[And he's rather terribly serious.]

[breakshot]

[ With a hand to help him, sitting up becomes just slightly easier. Hey, all this nausea's over...! ]

Thank you. I think it's starting to-- ugh.

[ No, it's not. There's more. Almost instantly he reaches for his head in a vain attempt to stop the splitting pain and sudden sound of ringing reverberating all over. The other is held rather gingerly over his stomach. Contrary to his usual status as a megaphone with zero volume control, Machias sounds almost unnaturally quieter than normal as he speaks. With this much nausea and overall discomfort everywhere, can you really blame him for not being in top hollering condition? ]

... On second thought, I spoke too soon.

[unasking]

[Nope, he doesn't blame him at all. Though he's also going to be concerned as all get out. One hand remains on Machias's shoulder, the other immediately reaches for a plastic bag in case the other begins to feel sick again.]

It can't be expected for you to recover immediately, but I've refrained from giving you any additional drugs thus far - we can discuss nausea medicine in a bit more time if you're willing.