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

[allout]

I don't mind that, but I'd rather get to know everybody without having all of our info just... listed. That's no way to make friends.

[ it's a good way to break the ice, maybe. but nothing about it is natural social link-making material. ]

[probings]

Maybe they don't want us to make friends. With the way some people are already bickering, I wouldn't be surprised if they don't want us to get along.

[even though she's bickered with people, she has no personal grudges or gripes, so she's trying to just look at things as objectively as she can/]

[allout]

...Maybe.

[ that's a scary thought, but not one that she intends to follow along with. nope, only rank-ups now. ]

That doesn't mean we have to go with their plan, though. We should work together to find answers.

[probings]

I won't argue with that. I think it's pretty stupid to just along with someone else's ideas if they don't benefit anyone but the person who comes up with 'em.

[says the mad scientist, but generally even her most crazy ideas are for trying to refine important research to save lives.]

[allout]

Especially when those ideas involve murder.

[ time never waits, it delivers all to the same end, blah blah blah, but the process shouldn't be hastened by some dumb motive. ]

Let's hope everyone else agrees...

[probings]

They probably won't, because some of these guys are pretty dumb. The best you can do is try to stay on everyone's good side if you're worried.

[says harold, who is definitely still instigating left and right with her flippant manner of handling things.]

People get desperate pretty fast, and a lot of people will kill if they're being promised something they want in that case.