WEEK THREE - Investigation

[al2955]

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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Holding Cells

[toprotecttheworld]

[The paranoia this week has been terrible. If she’s not picking fights with Hancock, she’s roaming the corridors with Arbok, never once letting him leave her side. That’s changed today—she’d been in her room for twelve hours, and the robots forcefully dragged her out before she could bring her snake with her.

Well, it’s been a week. Or three days since Niles and Maria, that, too. The last thing she wants to do is find a body or be a body, so she’s going to the safest place on the ship. The holding cells. Surely, no one will be hanging around there.]

Gardens - 10 AM

[allout]

[ without much to do (and for some reason, hoping that she'll be alone), minako will head here. unlike her usual bubbly self, she's been keeping to herself more and more as the week goes by. she doesn't like it - she's been trying to fight the feeling, but it's something that she hasn't been able to shake.

maybe the scent of the flowers will help to calm her nerves. ]

Medbay - 11 AM

[laptopper]

[ Guess who's headed here, it's Fumi! Who doesn't trust it not to be raided on a good day (the poor congealing serum) so of course when she's paranoid? She expects it to be completely empty. ]

Re: Holding Cells

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Assuming nothing has gone strange in the Holding Cell area, there's still a cell with a wall of cardboard behind the bars. There are noises coming from inside, so you can at least take solace in knowing there isn't a dead body inside...hopefully.

The gate of the cell is locked, but maybe you'll get a reply]

[toprotecttheworld]

[Nani the fuck is this.

Can Jessie just like stick her hands through the bars and knock the cardboard down. She's going to do that.]

dry storage - 12pm

[muties]

[ time to uncasually poke around places because haha someone is clearly going to die if they haven't already. it just better not be her or her kid, holla. may as well go poke somewhere less obvious for a body to appear (a mannequin was already murdered here after all). ]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[The cardboard had been taped to the bars but it wasn't resistant at all. It's flimsy and disturbs whoever is inside.

Shelley has practically launched herself against the back of the cell, as if she expected someone to try to kill her from behind the cardboard]

Y-You! Stop that! Stay away!

Cafeteria - 10am

[monsieurchatastrophe]

[Adrien is heading to the cafeteria, because paranoia and tiredness or not, he has a goddamn whiny cat to feed after spending most of the night patrolling as a magical girl. He is looking around himself a bit more than usual but HOPEFULLY there isn't another dead body here ffs]

Morningish? Like 9AM or smth

[toprotecttheworld]

You're not the twerpette I was expecting to find here.

[She'll just knock some more of it down for fun.]

What are you doing? Aside from being terrified of me, of course.

Parlor - 5pm

[isodope]

[Hancock is going to...not get drunk. He promised Elizabeth not to drink without her - horrible decision, really. So he's gonna get some orange juice and chill out with a tablet.]

gym - 7am

[antagonize]

[Well. Trying rest up has certainly become mission impossible after the past few days, with how paranoid he's felt lately. Today, especially, has been pretty bad. So after giving up on sleeping? He's making his way down to the bottom deck, heading to the gym before anything.

Maybe someone stole all the equipment to bash another person's skull in. Or maybe not. It's a mystery.]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Ah. It's Jessie. It'd usually be nice to see her, but not when there's paranoia in the air and she is tearing down the wall Shelley had made to defend herself]

Getting myself a safe place! I can stay here for as long as I want, and no one can get in.

[...indeed, she looks like she has been here for a while]

Stop ruining my shelter!

chapel, 9am.

[erythristic]

[it's brightly lit, and there's space to move around in. those are the two advantages to this place, Grell thinks, once she returns to it. that, and aside from the gardens this is the only place in the ship she feels any real sort of peace. sitting in a pew, though it's not the most comfortable place,

though she's aware of the sounds around her, she knows she has to get control of herself again. something, or she'll panic, no matter how dangerous all of this is. on reflex, she finds herself folding her hands in front of her, bowing her head.

murmuring under her breath, but she's saying something. praying in a very soft voice. for now, she looks as exhausted as she feels, and while her words can't be discerned from a distance, the tone is enough. please.]

[thanatosincarnate]

{ Guess who was on his way to the gym and heard the commotion? Him, that's who. It's drawing his presence into here. }

... What is going on in here?

[bloodbiter]

[another young woman had the same idea, and enters with her sword attached to her belt. as she enters, she sees minako and gives pause.]

Hello.

[antietam]

[ Adam just wants to make sure the flowers and trees are alright. Someone might have poisoned them or something. He steps in quietly, hardly making his presence known. ]

[booklore]

[ The tone is more than enough for someone familiar with this kind of scene. Lavi doesn't have to know exactly what Grell is saying to comprehend the meaning; he's been around the Black Order long enough to be overly familiar with the sound of prayer. He approaches slowly, cautiously.

He doesn't want to interrupt someone when they're taking a private moment for themselves.

Despite not wanting to bother the other occupant of the chapel though, he does quietly sit down on a pew to watch Grell and wait for her to finish. When he's sure she's finished, he asks: ] Did it help?

[allout]

[ while adelina has a blade at her side, minako has her evoker in its holster at her hip. her hand is reflexively on it, and she almost takes it out when she hears a voice that makes her jump. thankfully, she doesn't - it's not a shadow, nor is it someone that she should be wary of.

...or is it? ]

I- Uh... hey, Adelina-san.

[ she doesn't notice adam just yet, still trying to get over the initial startle. ]

[al2955]

[As she walks through the garden, she may notice that a a patch of the garden nearby one of the trees seems to be disturbed and darkened in color.]

[bloodbiter]

[she definitely does notice and heads towards the area to inspect it, glancing back at minako - and noticing adam as well. she ignores the wave of surprise upon seeing him when she hadn't heard him enter.]

...Come look at this.

[al2955]

[ Fumi's paranoia has foundation to stand upon, it seems, because the medbay is covered in blood and guts

Just jokin'!

The medbay definitely looks like it's had a wild night, though. It seems like someone came in and rifled through all the cabinets, leaving quite the mess in their wake. ]

[todorable]

[Todomatsu just wants a(nother) coffee; at this point flipping out at being around people has been trumped by caffeine cravings so he creeps into the caf as if a body (live or dead) could fall on him at any time. luckily Adrien is the first person he sees, since he's not the scary kind of furry...or is he???]

...A little late for breakfast, isn't it?

[antietam]

[ Despite their weapons, it seems they now have a common interest. So he moves from the entrance finally, going over to what Adelina sees. ]

It's been moved. Someone must have buried... [ Something. ]

[laptopper]

[ She would have taken blood and guts over this, honestly. ]

Oh, for--!

[ GODDAMMIT. She'll work on tidying it up in a bit, but first-- time to check the cabinets and see if anything's missing. ]

[al2955]

[It doesn't look like anything's out of place at first sight. With how cluttered it is though, it'll be really hard telling if anything's missing.]