WEEK 1 - Online

[al2955]

the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (1)

monday (41) survivors It had been three days since you had awoken. The ship was still quiet, except for the low hums of enigmatic machines with no apparent purpose. You awake, like usual, to dim lighting and poor rations. Perhaps being on the ship had grown monotonous — it was, perhaps, amazing how little anything seemed to happen in space, a final frontier of malaise. That monotony is crushed by a voice echoing through the narrow hallways. Reformatting . . . Reformatting . . . Reformatting complete. The Pygmalion is online. Welcome, travelers. Please assemble in the meeting room. Your presence is mandatory. Silence falls once again. A minute or so passes, and the lights around the ship finally brighten, the walls looking more alive and more unfamiliar — as if you must relearn the ship's interior once again. The robots on deck begin to make rounds, nudging and pushing at the ship's passengers to make their way to the meeting room. You hear the doors behind you lock. It seems there is only one path to take. ENTER COMMAND_

Comments

[blondophile]

Hence asking for an adequate explanation. You need not condescend.

Tell me of the ramen.

[antagonize]

Sorry. I'm just gobsmacked to hear someone doesn't know what ramen is.

["tell me of the ramen" holy shit this person is for real......]

It's mostly used by students and the poor. Quick. Efficient. Some would call it "instant", but it isn't. Not really. Fastest it can finish the job is in four minutes — unless you try to start a fire with it.

[By, you know, turning the stove up way too much.]

[blondophile]

What would compel students and the poor to take a life through that? Are there no laws?!

[antagonize]

Hey, you know what they say. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

[blondophile]

[She's still under the impression it's poison on the line, here.]

You sound forgiving of this.

[antagonize]

If all they've got to fend for themselves is ramen, who am I to judge? It's not like anyone out there is giving them better options.

[One day, Carta will use space google.]