WEEK 4: DECOMMISSION

[dropoffs]

WEEK 4 ALERT

emergency detected

 

ALERT: EMERGENCY IN THE SIMULATION ROOMS.
LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE ENGAGING.
SYSTEM REBOOT LOCKED.

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

REQUESTING CALLSIGNS:
INQUISITOR AND HARLEY QUINN
REPORT TO THE MAIN SIMULATION ROOM.

A barrier barred me from leaving my location and the other senior officers are not responding to messages. Tread with caution.

CALLISTO

It's somber, this morning, barring the sudden, clipped 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 weeks. The sequestering of one in the brig, the other monitored in the medical bay. The truth of their actions, come to light. The night passes without fanfare, and the sleep is barely fitful, no matter where you have spent the night.

And then, the morning comes.

The walls of the Eudora feel looming in the silence, but duty calls. Temenos and Harley have been requested to investigate the simulation room. There's nothing to guide them through these hallways except their own feet and the familiarity of this alert from many weeks past; there is no compulsion, there is no guiding light, just a request from the synthetic AI voice of the ship herself chirruping over and over again. If others attempt to investigate in their stead, they'll find that they're given no access through the archway of the simulation room's entry, but these two individuals can make it through without trouble.

The simulation room is not off, like it has been the past couple of weeks.

Instead... it's rather different from before.

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Comments

[expiries]

[moving up to hold her arm. i have to run help but he'll be here next to her whatever happens.]

[naeddre]

[....... he can hold, but she is thisclose to yanking away. she doesn't! but she's tense.]

[expiries]

[when he notices, he'll let go, trying to give her space.]

[naeddre]

[if he lets go she's going to like, bonk her head really hard against the fckin barrier so maybe he should not do that]

[expiries]

[help

if she did that he would in fact have stopped her. but when temenos starts climbing the briars, he tenses.]

[naeddre]

[she is currently being therapy dogged by ichiban but i'm assigning her still holding on to arthur and also kazuki somewhere this is a mess]

I really need to teach him how to be a better thief. [i don't know how to make the joke i was gonna make but both royce melborn and flynn rider have climbing towers in common and i find that funny]

[expiries]

I don't know if—

[actually he's tightening his hold when it looks like temenos is about to fall]

[naeddre]

[sorry just shouting through the barrier the loudest she's ever been]

— TEMENOS!

[expiries]

[that's fair

there's nothing he can really say for this, but he keeps holding on. he's bringing his free hand up to place over his mouth as he continues to watch. stressed!!]

[naeddre]

[okay well i know sisi is faking me out but throné does not and the shriek she lets out is agonizing when he crunches to the ground.

and then. he's up again? he's up.

sorry whoever is holding her up or whatever is just going to have to catch her because her knees give out.]

[expiries]

[it's fine he has a good strength stat he can catch her]

[naeddre]

[thank you she hates it here.

they haven't even gotten to the worst part yet she's going to ascend]

[expiries]

[his hands are shaking a little bit as he holds her up but this isn't about him, so he just keeps watching, silent.]

[naeddre]

[...

oh.

she stares at... rosamund, or what's. left of her. she didn't even get to choose. is this choosing?

silence.]

[expiries]

[he's still for a long moment before he murmurs something to her.]

[naeddre]

I said I would.

[she knows, just.]

[expiries]

[he debates saying something else, but it feels like overstepping, so he just nods.]

[murdergate]

[ his ears are shaking from the aftershocks of that and he's not near throné. there has to be a way through. they haven't tried hard enough. fuck this. nodd is about to bullrush the entryway and maybe break his nose in the process when



.... fuck sisi.

beautiful temenos, he rises once more. it really is easter. ]

[naeddre]

[i'm gonna roll the rock across his cave]

[murdergate]

[ like, he knows there's an audience. but whatever!!! yes, king, give us nothing. keep climbing like you didn't traumatize throné and the other people who have grown attached to your ugly face. ]