WEEK 0: ALERT

[dropoffs]

WEEK 0 ALERT

emergency detected

 

ALERT: EMERGENCY IN BRIG. LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE FAILED. SYSTEM REBOOT LOCKED, MANUAL REPAIRS NECESSARY TO RESUME FURTHER SHIPWIDE FUNCTION.

LIFE SUPPORT STABLE. CLIMATE CONTROL STABLE.
FUNCTIONALITY WILL RESUME AFTER EMERGENCY ADDRESSED.
WARNING: PROCEED WITH CAUTION

REQUESTING CALLSIGNS:
MIDDLEPART AND TRUSTFALL TO THE BRIG.

It's quiet, this morning, barring the request sent out by the Eudora. Hard to not be, considering the proceedings of yesterday - the loss of two crew members that you had come to know over the past week. The truth, revealed. They're answers, but many surely think that they are unsatisfactory answers. For this reason, Scien has been sequestered off to the brig, both for his safety and the safety of the remaining passengers, but questions can be asked.

Until the morning comes.

It's quiet, this morning. The walls of the Eudora feel looming in the silence, but duty calls. Eunhyuk Lee and Sheba have been requested to investigate the brig. There's nothing to guide them to the stasis bay and brig area except their own feet; no compulsion, no guiding light, just a request from the synthetic AI voice of the ship herself. If others attempt to investigate in their stead, they'll find that they're given no access beyond the area that houses the crew's lockers, but these two individuals can make it through without trouble.

The emergency lights aren't on, but there's a different glow to the area.

It's quiet.

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Comments

[uncoincidental]

[oh. actually, she sort of regrets sharing this video with eunhyuk. he shouldn't have to watch this. none of the others gathered outside the stasis bay should have to hear this.

but she really had no way of knowing that dana was out there attempting to traumatize everyone else in the game.

sheba trembles, her gaze fixed onb the video, but her grip tightens on scien because she is not going to make this worse by dropping him out of shock. she may not be entirely steady, but... she can at least help get him to the pod. they can lay him to rest until his remains can be burned.

(this video is going to stick with her, though.)]

[pathematic]

[it's fine, truly.

because that's how eunhyuk feels, fine in a way that he will always strive to be, no matter what, fine in a way that someone stronger than him would probably feel -- like scien, whose last thought lances through eunhyuk -- brief and piercing,

but he keeps his grip on the body too, carrying his half and the bundled up flannel shirt dangling from his fingers, all the way until they're in the stasis bay proper, where he can see the crowd milling about in the distance.

and where they all can probably see sheba and him too, carrying scien's body between them, straight into a pod]

[dropoffs]

[ the pod awaits them with a quiet, tranquil welcome, despite the video that they've viewed. scien is deposited carefully into the pod, for now. while his last wishes are not yet respected, he will at least be kept secure - along with dahut and luke - until such a time can take place.

a buzz comes over the area, were adrastea's voice can be heard, serious and level: ] Ship ignored my override passcodes, but backdoor access worked. Barrier permissions have been changed. Lee, Sheba, you can exit when you're ready. Io and Amalthea will be going in to assess what happened.

The barrier will be lowered to allow everyone in once they're done.

[ you can have another moment with scien, but you're free to go. but everyone's I.R.I.S. will ding with another notification while this happens. ]

[uncoincidental]

...

[sheba just sort of stares at the pod for a few long moments, tilting her head a bit in the direction that adrastea's voice is coming from. she doesn't immediately react to it other than that.

eventually, her gaze shifts to dahut's pod, and then to luke's.

she bites her lip, then turns to leave.

there is probably some blood on their clothes from carrying scien now that i'm thinking about it. so that'll be fun! maybe she will go get cleaned up. yeah. that sounds like a good idea.

her thoughts and feelings are a jumbled mess right now. peace out, she's going to go sort them out.]

[pathematic]

[sheba you're so valid. eunhyuk shows how good(?) of an adult he is by not chasing her out immediately. instead, he looks at scien in the pod, throat open and exposed, for a couple seconds more,

then he leaves too, blue flannel shirt still in his hands, stained in blood. if anyone from the gallery asks, he will tell them that scien's dead, but otherwise he will not linger either.]