WEEK FIVE

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (5)

monday - thursday (33) survivors It had been merely a week since the last trial, but you find yourself faced with a new week on The Pygmalion. When you awaken, you will find the handcuff around your wrist gone. 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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[toprotecttheworld]

Well, as long as only we know it's a mistake, the important thing is you showed up that unpleasant man.

[Unless it comes back to bite them.]

But I feel bad for him, too, just like I feel bad for everyone on this blasted ship.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Luke isn't so bad. He just loves being manipulative and hates when the tables are turned on him.

[In other words, he's like any other manipulative person]

It's not hard to see through him, but I think he's not a bad person.

[toprotecttheworld]

He isn't the worst, I'll give him that much.

[That honor goes to someone else. Probably Arumat smh.]

So, what do you think, Shelley? Who do you think are the bad people on this ship? Myself obviously included, of course.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

The bad people! Besides you, let's see...

[It takes a moment for her to think something]

It's weird, not many scream 'VILLAIN' to me. Rhys is pretty much the only one I can see being a bad guy, and that's only because he'd be the classic bumbling ineffectual bad guy.

It could be said you have the monopoly on villainy in this place.

[toprotecttheworld]

Rhys isn't pretty bad, he's just pretty pathetic.

[She shrugs!]

Kazuma is someone you should watch out for. He laughed when we discovered the bodies in the viewport. There's no way someone like that can be trusted.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Kazuma? He...laughed?

[Shelley looks pretty surprised about that. Kazuma is a sweetheart! He laughed?]

...Kazuma is a sweet kid, I didn't know...he would be the type to laugh at that...

[Yeah, she's in turmoil over it. She trusts Kazuma a lot, after all, but it seems it wasn't inconditional trust]

[toprotecttheworld]

Like a maniac! If I hadn't been...preoccupied...I'd have slapped him myself! He wouldn't stop laughing!

[It's still a little horrifying to her. How could she forget something like that? As she recalls the entire situation, she seems a bit more distressed.]

I really wish someone else would find a body for a change.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[What Shelley had thought would be a friendly conversation about antics around the ship had turned into unsettling news regarding someone she trusted a lot. It's understandable she's quite disheartened right now.

It takes her a moment to reply]

It must be traumatizing...maybe you should avoid leaving your room this Friday. It can't be a coincidence someone is found dead that day. That way you won't find a body...

[toprotecttheworld]

I wish it were that easy. No matter how you look at it, I'm indispensable in trials because no one else thinks like a criminal. If I don't help you all, I'm afraid of what will happen to all of y....I mean, all of me! Every single part of me.

[she wants to help because she likes these people, pass it on]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Who would have guessed you'd find appreciation for people in your villainous heart, Jessie]

We'd be doomed without you, I admit that! Maybe most of us are way too used to thinking like law-abiding citizens.

[Shelley manages to smirk]

Not that I have a clean record when it's about not breaking the law. It's just that I'm not used to do it very often.

[To be perfectly honest: Shelley would be a very good Team Rocket member]

[toprotecttheworld]

Of course you would be! You could all stand to thank me a little more often.

[But what's this? A fellow criminal?]

You're a criminal? I find that a little hard to believe. What laws have you broken? Kidnapping? Theft? Unlawful imprisonment? Poaching? Go on, go on! I can't take the suspense of not knowing!

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Of course you'd be interested, Jessie. Shelley grins]

Well, not full-time criminal, but sometimes there's no other choice. Breaking-and-entering and theft is what I have done the most. [She starts enumerating] There was a mall, a friend's laboratory, a government-based laboratory...and I once tried to steal a space shuttle.

Those were the most memorable ones. There are a lot of other events, but they weren't as important as those.

[She also destroyed Atlantis in a war, which was undoubtedly against the law, but that was more of an accident. There's a pause while she hesitates to add, but since she's telling it all...]

...I once mugged a fast food place with a toy gun, but that was a dare. In hindsight I make a lot of stupid decisions when it's about dares.

[toprotecttheworld]

You tried to steal a space shuttle?! How am I supposed to believe that?!

[She might be a little jealous, but she has so many criminal exploits I she can't remember them all, so there's bound to be something equally impressive.]

Well, I once stole food from a Pokémon hospital and robbed the police of all of their trained Growlithe officers. [not successfully but she'll pretend] It looks like we've got robbing the government in common!

[tacklefordwhimsy]

You just do! If it makes you a feel better...I got caught. It was a very embarrassing moment for me, but at least I didn't get arrested.

[But she didn't get away unpunished!



Space scientists have the same methods than preschool teachers, who'd have thought]

What do you do with all the Pokemon you steal, by the way?

[toprotecttheworld]

I see. So you dug out of the holding cell before they could arraign you. Clever!

[Jessie no that's only how you do it.

Their miscommunications are amazing, though, and her opinion of Shelley is clearly higher.]

We send them to my boss, of course. If we keep doing what we're doing, we'll be the head honchos of the organization in no time, and then we'll have all the luxuries we'd ever want.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

Won't it be a lot of work to rule over the organization despite all the luxuries? You sure you can deal with that pressure?

[Not to doubt your capabilities, Jessie, but it'd be good to not to forget that]

[toprotecttheworld]

Don't go ruining this for me! Once I'm filthy rich, everything else will just fall into place!