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

[breakshot]

[ we're here, we're live, and we're going over the deets as they're dropped until-- ]

... I see it's not one to mince any details.

[ you know the level of detail they seem to have on them is just a tad unsettling. also: yelling. and singing too?! the rest is kind of foreboding and some people's profiles leave a less-than-positive impression but what's with all these extraneous deets?! ]

[toprotecttheworld]

They should have just put "nerd" on yours. I'm sure everyone would've understood.

[breakshot]

Can we not?

[ NOT EVEN FIVE MINUTES in and he's cranky. ]

[toprotecttheworld]

It's not like I'm wrong. Machias Regnitz. Even your name sounds like you'd be someone who wear glasses and studies way too hard.

[breakshot]

And just what exactly is wrong with that?!

[ it's not like she's wrong but still: leave him alone ]

Besides, I'm not the one with "breaking and entering" listed on theirs!

[toprotecttheworld]

It was a long time ago. My mother, she didn't come home that night. Like usual, it was snowing in the city. Without a friend to my name, my young self sat outside the door and waited for her mama, but the night only grew colder and colder. I had no choice. I...I had to break in.

[Is she lying or is she not?]

Wouldn't you have done the same thing?

[parodeity]

Man, you're completely an honors student.

[ CALLED IT ]

[breakshot]

That's what you're focusing on?!

[ well like. HE'S NOT WRONG but priorities. where are they. ]

[parodeity]

Well, I'm also getting the feeling you aren't from MY middle ages...but yeah no the honors student thing is the most important fact here.

[ do u disagree ]

[breakshot]

[ stoppppppp leave him alone ]

You know, I'm beginning to question where your priorities lie. Have you seen some of these other skills listed?

[ emphasis on "seen" there is one guy with mass murder and another with stalking. if they're jokes (please be jokes), they're not funny at all! ]

[parodeity]

Yeah. Lots of murder, not all that encouraging.

[ he shrugs. ]

Also kinda par for the course.

[thanatosincarnate]

No.

{ 'Military', eh, Machias?

Naturally this means he'll be making note of it to involve you in some extreme training sometime just because. }

[breakshot]

And I see you're not one to mince words either.

[ sigh. don't bang down his door at five a.m. for training exercises now. ]

All of this only raises more questions. So far, there's been a primary focus on combat-related skills.

[thanatosincarnate]

{ No, he isn't -- and wow. Like he would... does he look like he'd do that!! Ok. Maybe, he just might. Even more than maybe. Hope you enjoyed your precious shut eye while it lasted, Machias. }

It could be a hint that they want to pull us into a violent conflict.

[breakshot]

[ noooooo he doesn't need another instructor neithardt in his life. ]

... Please don't say that. [ he's already concerned that's the case, don't jinx it! ] Though whatever it is, it certainly doesn't sound any better with each passing minute.

[probings]

That is how data collection usually works, you know.

[what kind of dumb statement is that even, machias. she gets not liking what it has to say, but isn't it to be expected?]

[breakshot]

And you're not concerned by any of this? At all?

[ come on assuming it's just harmless doxxing (wait how is that harmless?!), what even is the point of having this much data ]

[probings]

I never said I wasn't concerned, but that doesn't change the fact that it's only natural that someone trying to collect data on a person would go for at least this much. These are just the basics!

[it doesn't mean she likes it.]

[breakshot]

For what, though, and why? [ girl you are too chill about this. ] There's only so many reasons I can think why they'd go to this extent, and none of them sound all that promising.

[laptopper]

Good. The more details, the better.

[ Fumi honestly doesn't care about what her card says. ]

[breakshot]

... I suppose we know who to contact in the event we need a computer hacked.

[ he sighs. ... wait, why is he going along with this! ]

T-That doesn't change the fact some of this is a little excessive! And concerning.

[laptopper]

But is that really going to change anything? I doubt they're going to remove it, and even if they did, everyone already knows this information by now.

[tayu]

[Yelling is a totally valid skill.

Tsukuyo doesn't seem to be reading anyone's profile for what it's worth, but she's finding it hard to ignore the reactions.]

It's effective, admittedly, as far as introductions go. [Just think, they didn't even need a big character arc to get everyone's traits out there!]

[breakshot]

... Well. That's one way to look at it.

[ it's not a valid skill! a lot of these skills on other peoples' profiles aren't valid skills! ]

I'm not going to disagree it's effectiveness in giving us a rundown of who's who, but don't you think some of the details here seem more than a little excessive? Why would they need this much?

[tayu]

To make us seem less threatening maybe.

[MAKING FUN OF THEM???]

Laughing at your enemies is effective as anything else for something like that.