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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[brooches]

I truly wish I could!

[ Elizabeth protests so quickly. She really does! ]

We have to stop this. They're keeping us like - ugh.. like animals.

[probings]

It would line up with being used as experiments. And from the looks of it, it seems like our abilities are part of it. I'll have to give it a test for myself...

But someone who wants results is going to do whatever they have to in order to keep their test subjects in line.

[brooches]

Don't say that, please. [ Elizabeth's firm. The 'experiment', 'observation' - those kind of words just make her think back at Columbia and the invasiveness she's dealt with her entire life. ] That can't be the case here.

[probings]

Well, I could not say it, but that won't make it any less true if that's how it is. I could be wrong, but experience tells me that's not it.

[brooches]

I don't want to even fancy that possibility, if I'm to be blunt.

[probings]

We can't always have what we want, but don't you think it's a little better to be ready for it?

[brooches]

I'm sorry, but can we talk about something else?

[ This is one of the first time she came off unwelcoming and distant. ]

[probings]

[and yet, harold remains unfazed. such is the life of not actually being too emotionally invested in the topic.]

Do you have something in mind?

[brooches]

No, just anything but this.

[ She looks idly at the endless rows of profiles. ]

Are you shocked by anything you read from yours?

[probings]

Not really. Nobody's gonna know me better than I know myself. If anything, they got a little lazy with mine.

[brooches]

Consider yourself lucky, then...

[probings]

I don't know if I'd call that lucky. If it's a simple statement of fact and they can't even get that much right, how can we trust them with anything else?