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

[applebough]

[ Yuri looks over at Nodd. ]

Are you worried for me?

[murdergate]

You're on my shortlist, sure.

[ not at the top. throné near the top given what that girl be doing, stabbing barriers, but they aren't close so feels better to give her space. ]

[applebough]

... I said all I wanted to say to them, so I'm fine. I'm more worried about the others. Thank you for checking on me, Nodd.

[murdergate]

[ he nodds (hehe) and will grow quiet. he watches temenos and harley and knows, sooner or later, some version of rosie will join them. ]

[applebough]

[ She looks at the body stuck in the briars. ]

... It's Jonathan.

[murdergate]

[ he's sweating a little. it's a strain to stand in place. to do nothing. to not punch and kick and bite and resist his way to beating impossible odds.

but that's not how this game plays out.

his hands are tightly balled at his sides ]

It's always whatever feels cruelest.

[applebough]

[ Yuri is about to say something, but holds herself back.

... ]

... I hope Rosamund has chosen what she wanted to do.

[murdergate]

[ she doesn't have to say it. nodd will assume. ]

I didn't... mean to knock her out yesterday.

[ perfect storm of nodd, whose body is a weapon, and rosie, who has low con ]

[applebough]

I know you wouldn't have if you knew that it led to this.

[ She speaks without hesitation. ]

Things happen. It is what it is, and it's up to us to deal with the results. And we'll be strong enough to handle it.

[murdergate]

You're so much stronger than me, Yuri.

[ after what he saw of her past and what he's seen of her present, nodd is sure of it. ]

But I'll do it. She'd do it for me.

[applebough]

... Yes.

[ Yuri briefly closes her eye. ]

Rosamund has always supported us. We should do the same.

[murdergate]

[ he's been quiet. watching. then temenos' slips and he takes a half-step forward like he could do anything. ]

C'mon. You got it.

[ ...temtem.... ]

[applebough]

[ if temenos dies, throne isn't going to be only one losing her shit ]

[naeddre]

[shakes your hand from across the way like guy with his 42 limbs]

[applebough]

[ shakes your hand from across the way like biblical guy while desperately hoping for easter symbolism ]

[murdergate]

No, no no no no no--

[ temenos is a PRIEST, not a MONK, he doesn't have slowfall!!!! he's just falling! ]

[applebough]

[ After that happened, Yuri is quick to nudge Nodd to go support Throne. Please. She'll definitely need it after this. }

[murdergate]

[ nodd hovers nearer to throné but ichiban and arthur are much closer, both physically and emotionally.

and then they all see inside the room.

the dead princess. the mangled leftovers, anyway.

the energy drains right out of nodd. he falls to his knees, folds his hands over his lap. shuts his eyes and takes a moment. ]