WEEK 1 - Online

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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

[probings]

Well, that makes two of us who aren't. I can't really speak for the rest of them, though I guess they can't help their simple minds!

[laptopper]

As long as one of these minds doesn't have wasted potential, it won't hurt me any.

[probings]

Well, I guess we can always investigate them ourselves and see if there's anything worth keeping! ♪

[laptopper]

You can't have a hypothesis and leave it at that. I'm all for data collection.

[probings]

It's a good thing there's one person around here with a lick of sense!

[laptopper]

I don't usually get this fortunate, but maybe this was intentional.

[ But then why bring a bunch of morons... ]

[probings]

It's probably more fun for them this way, don't you think? If they had nothing but idiots, they couldn't get much data, but too many geniuses would probably backfire on them too.

Maybe our kidnappers are a little smarter than they look after all.

[laptopper]

Then maybe this won't be as boring.

[ Fumi, you should probably be more concerned about this. ]

[probings]

[shouldn't they both?]

I hope so. If they're going to pull me away from my work, it better at least be fun. ♪