WEEK FOUR

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (4)

monday - thursday (33) 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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EVENT 2 - MONDAY NIGHT

[al2955]

[ In every room with a statue, Alice appears. If she had a face, she'd look pissed. Wherever you are, a robot is as well. They seem to loom around you, as if they are guard dogs ready to be ordered to pounce. ]

As you are well aware, another incident has occurred. This cannot be allowed to happen again. As such, I am taking a precautionary measure. [ The robot comes closer to you, closer and closer, and it looks as if it is brandishing something at you. If you try to resist, the robot won't hesitate to send out two metal taser darts at you to subdue you. After you have submitted, the robot will gingerly clamp one hand of a handcuff on our wrist. ] The motive this week has henceforth been nullified. You will not be plagued with nightmares. Instead, you will spend some quality time with one of your fellow participants. The assignments are as follows.

[ Alice reads off a list of partners. ]

Hopefully this will teach you to behave — if you are to murder without my presence, then you will have three witnesses to the transgression. One of these witnesses will surely report the crime to me. You may be free of your companion if you are dissatisfied with your partnership under one condition. Please direct your attention to your datapad. [ If you look at your datapad, you'll see a bar displayed. The bar is completely red. Above the bar is the name of the participant you are paired with. Under the bar, it says "0%". It also has several facts about the participant listed — favorite color, favorite food, astrology sign, pet peeves, personality traits, etc. ] This is your partner's approval bar. If you manage to increase your partner's approval of you to 75%, then you will be free of your partner for the week. After you are freed, you may pick one other participant to trade partners with. Once you have traded, you will remain with that partner until the end of the week. Even if you are unable to make it to 75% approval, you will be allotted one trade after three days with your partner. Every day, you will be allotted one hour separated from your partner. This hour does not need to be spent all at once. I ask that you use it sparingly, for matters such as bathing and bathroom breaks. If you do not return within your allotted hour, a unit will be sent to retrieve you.

If you have any questions or concerns, keep them to yourself. I would rather not deal with any comments as of now. And please remember that I am always available to speak with.

Have a wonderful day.

[thatbites]

[So... Will Emily get in trouble for trying to kick the robot that's approaching her with handcuffs over? Because, uh, she's trying to kick it.]

[al2955]

[ She won't receive a full tasing for that, no, but Emily will be getting a light shock with a stungun arm. ]

[thatbites]

[Don't fucking tase her?! Emily yelps and gets cuffed. Her week is fucked. Thanks, shitty robots.]

[tevinteriscoming]

[Guess who is getting tasered. Guess who is automatically tasering the tasers right back.]

Alice, I think it's safe to save we've learned our lesson! Is this absolutely necessary?

[breakshot]

No!

[ SOMEONE IS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER please get away from him. ]

Haven't you had enough?! I'm not doing this - no!

[thanatosincarnate]

Looks like we have no choice, lad.

{ He doesn't know how to feel about The Bull being Machias' partner, but the guy is... responsible? Right....? }

[todorable]

[honestly doesn't mind being cuffed to a cute girl but it's hard to be okay with being cuffed in the first place, no pooping and now this]

Why is this happening? I--I thought I was valued!

[yes, there's probably not going to be a murder, whatever, screw that, he was gonna be special.]

[laptopper]

Calm down, I'm not going to kill you.

[ There are bigger idiots on this ship. ]

[todorable]

[sadly, that is true]

Oh--uh--no, I wasn't worried about that. It's just...

[he raises their cuffed hands]

It's kind of awkward, don't you think? Being left one-handed and all.

[laptopper]

I won't deny that it's problematic, but the odds of getting out of this via protesting are about... 000.36 percent.

[ So not very likely. ]

Re: EVENT 2 - MONDAY NIGHT

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[On one hand, yay, no motive! That is good! Unless this somehow leads to someone murdering because of something like this. After these three weeks Shelley can absolutely see that happening.

On the other hand...who the hell is Carta Issue? Shelley doesn't know. She doesn't mind, though, that means there's someone she should finally meet]

...I'm not sure if I'm glad or if I'm worried about all this.

[Not said towards you, Alice! She's just talking with herself right now]

[blondophile]

[Surprisingly, Carta doesn't seem as bothered by the predicament as she normally would have been; the lack of motive being a weight off her shoulder even if she's not one to show it.]

Am I to be a babysitter, now?

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Hey, I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself!

[Pause]

...most of the time. But there will be no trouble at all, right? You don't seem like the type to randomly get in trouble.

[blondophile]

The only predicament I see myself getting into in the near future is procuring a decent cup of tea. Goodness knows I'll be in need of one after this. [rattling the cuff chain for emphasis, but there really isn't any dignified way to throw a tantrum over it.]

[missmaladroite]

WHAT?!

[to Marinette's credit, she doesn't struggle against the robot. She, does, however, shove Judar the second he's in range]

There's no way I'm going along with this!

[HAVEN'T THEY SUFFERED ENOUGH]

[douchemag]

[Yeah, he definitely got tased for struggling...not that this stops him at all from trying to fly away while tethered to Marinette like the world's shittiest balloon.]

Get this damn thing off of me! Stop shoving and help get this off!

[missmaladroite]

[KICKS HIM IN THE LEG while he's trying to do that]

Stop trying to fly away and think! If we calm down, we'll figure out how to get it off!

[or yell some more, but hey]

[refactor]

What? No. No—

[ Just like everyone else, Jack is pretty quick to bristle, and he shakes his head. ]

Co- C'monnnn Al, be reasonable. You really want to go stopping murder for some goddamn reason all of the sudden, probably would have been nice to grow your little AI conscience or whatever earlier. Y'know, before a few people ended up, oh, how do they say it on Pandora? Flesh smoothies, Alice. Flesh. Smoothies.

[ Even though she didn't actually want commentary, it seems like Jack still wants to give them, unsurprisingly. He'll give a yank of his handcuff at this point, so, uh, sorry Clover?? ]

Besides, what the hell do you expect us to do about this? I can't sleep when I've got a friggin' kid chained to me.

[socloverit]

Wait, wh—

[meanwhile Clover is just kind of letting all this happen, including the handcuff-yanking and the stumbling to catch her balance that follows, but mostly because she's too distressed to actually articulate an objection? she looks like a lost puppy?? what is this. why is this. she is entirely too full of dependency issues for this to be happening why is this happening what's going on

while her apparent new bff continues ranting she just sort of. waves her handcuffed hand uselessly around and really softly goes,] Nooooooo.

[WHY THIS???]

[jackhole]

[ THROWING THE DATAPAD AT ALICE... AGAIN... ]

Alice! Where's Fiona? And Jack! I don't need this right now! This is -- this is bullshit, is what it is! What kind of shoddy programming are you running? Your OS is crap, you bitch!

[allout]

[ just. this face.

what is her life. ]

[jackhole]

[ time to ignore the 5'3 piece of dead weight attached to his robo wrist as he just... starts stalking off in search of fiona and jack. yeah. sorry, minako. ]

[bloodbiter]

Surely you are jesting—

[interrupted... by being cuffed. ah. to light:]

...Hello.

[followed by a long suffering sigh. it's the situation, not him.]

[thanatosincarnate]

{ WELL, IT'S NOT LIKE HE HAS ANY ISSUES WITH HIS PARTNER... }

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