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_

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[hatslinger]

You know, I do change my nail color.. occasionally.

[ and that's all she's going to say about her card. hopefully yall don't have problems with con ladies. fiona leans back, her face steely, and props her feet up on the large table. a tiny sign of disrespect for whoever was forcing them to be here. ]

[parodeity]

So you're basically Lara Croft or like, no, wait, Han Solo but a chick, right?

[ that's so cool

fiona is so cool ]

[hatslinger]

Uh.. sure. Hopefully that's a compliment.

[ despite borderlands's propensity to reference things like tomb raider and star wars, she totally had no idea what those were. like at all. either way, she'll rub the back of her head, a little bashful. ]

I just make do, try to get by, you know?

[parodeity]

Definitely one hundred percent a compliment although fuck I hate that most of y'all don't get a single one of my references.

[ wHEN WILL POP CULTURE COME BACK FROM THE WAR or something ]

They're both super cool in different ways. Han's more the smuggler reluctant hero type, Lara's a tomb raider.

[hatslinger]

Sorry, I'll try to catch up while I'm here. We'll probably have time.

[ she will learn your references, dave, just for you ]

I guess vault hunting's sort of like tomb raiding. Except with more corpses. Kind of ironic.

[jackhole]

[ and here's rhys to be super helpful ]

She's also laaaaaaame. So lame. Soooo lame. You're the lamest.

[ rhys, you're fiona's personal damsel in distress so like, don't. ]

[refactor]

Seriously? You're pretty much like- like the last person that can say that to anyone. Like she's Pandoran and I'll even half-assedly defend her here because you're way lamer.

[ And before Rhys gets too butthurt: ] I will name examples, just sayin'.

[jackhole]

[ JACK COME ON ]

Can't I just have this one? Just this one. Fuuuuck.

[refactor]

[ Yeah, Rhys's anguish here just gets Jack to laugh in that charmingly (???) obnoxious way of his. ]

Most of the time, yeah, sure, cupcake. Buuuuuut remember, I've seen both of you in action, and the Pandoran con artist? She's at least got a gun. Like, a stupid, gimmicky one, but still a gun.

[hatslinger]

[ wow are you mad that the teen thinks she's super cool rhys? are you?? fiona scowls right at rhys after accepting dave's compliment (that she didn't understand) and kicks him right in the leg ]

Funny, I don't see 'crying' listed as one of my unique and integral skills.

[jackhole]

[ HE KIND OF IS NGL ugh..... fiona why

also ow ]

Stop kicking me, oh my god.

[ weh weh weh he's gonna kick her back now ]

And crying is just another way to release emotion, I'm not going to be shamed for it.

[hatslinger]

[ rhys then receives a barrage of kicks because it definitely is time for a kick fight ]

Well don't get any of your emotion on me anymore. Think I had enough of it when we were tied up.

[ yeah she still remembers the drool thing, she's sick of your bodily fluids on her rhys ]

[allout]

They're really pretty, though!

[ now that minako's gotten over the initial shock of her card, she can try and be a little ray of sunshine for everyone else (while hoping to god that her secret can stay at least a little under wraps). ]

If it's okay to ask, what's "vault hunting"?

[hatslinger]

Thanks. It's a nice color, right?

[ she's sweating over that question, though, because she hardly even knows how to answer it beyond just saying "what the fuck is a vault" ]

It's like.. uh, treasure hunting? Sort of? Vaults are like.. giant alien treasure boxes that might make you go insane?

[ that isn't even the tip of the iceberg, like, what the hell is eridium even

fiona's definitely subconsciously looking at rhys even if they're sort of not talking at the moment ]

[allout]

Yeah! I could never really paint my nails, [ because tartarus climbing absolutely murders a manicure ] but that makes me wanna try again...

[ blue is def your colour, fiona. but she's paying attention to her explanation as well, nodding along. weird. ]

Sounds dangerous, but pretty cool! I mean, if you haven't gone insane...

[hatslinger]

Might be able to find some polish amongst the rest of the nonsensical items on board the ship. A manicure could help your nerves.

[ she is totally talking about the ballpit. ]


Uh, yeah, I'm plenty sane thankfully. For now. You can typically tell when someone's a psycho. The whole maniacal, homicidal screaming is a dead giveaway.

[refactor]

[ Okay Jack had to insult Rhys first, but after that!! He does have something to say about Fiona's profile, even if it's totally rude and dismissive. ]

What the hell, seriously? Is everyone just picking up "vault hunting" as a career path lately?

[hatslinger]

Sometimes you just.. fall into it.

[ you know sometimes literally?? she's going to just not mention athena here. ]

[refactor]

[ Jack raises an eyebrow at that, since he may not exactly know just how much Fiona is going to take to it, but he can definitely take a guess at why she would say that. And at least as such, he's not going to comment on that directly, since he doesn't want to open up the can of worms that is the fact that he actually knows Athena fairly well. ]

Yeah, you Pandorans seem to be real good at that. Just falling into stuff that isn't your business.

[douchemag]

You should paint them black!

[judar not everyone is a fucking hot topic piece of shit like you]

What's vault hunting?

[hatslinger]

And what, weep about my dark poetry? Please.

[ look you don't just have a goth phase on pandora (except sometimes you do) ]

God, I really don't feel like explaining this. It's treasure hunting! [ a pause ] With some twists!

[douchemag]

No, because it looks cool! Black's the color you wear when you want people to know you're a badass.

[who the fuck taught this kid fashion and how can we kill them immediately]

What kind of twists? Like you gotta fight a whole bunch of monsters to get to the treasure first? [Basically he wants to know if it's anything like dungeon diving where he comes from...]

[monsieurchatastrophe]

Maybe there's no nail polish available here? It won't help much if it chips off, though.

[his dad is a fashion mogul he knows nail polish shit ok]

[missmaladroite]

[The con woman thing gets a raised eyebrow from her, but Marinette's too salty about the existence of these cards to let them influence her opinion just yet]

They're really making note of something like that?

[brainsqueeze]

You might have to change it here.

( To nothing, unless she managed to find something here )