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AL-2955 ([personal profile] al2955) wrote2016-08-16 07:22 pm

trash bin PART TWO

the pygmalion. . .

???



OPENING PROGRAM . . .
. . .
. . .
_PROGRAM CRASHED
_PROGRAM REBOOT?
>N
>SCAN PROGRAM
. . .
_PROGRAM CRASHED
. . .
>EMERGENCY LEVEL
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>EMERGENCY LEVEL
. . .
_EMERGENCY LEVEL LOADING
LOADING. . .
LOADING. . .
LOADING TEXTURE-NIGHT-SKY, TEXTURE-FULL-MOON, TEXTURE-DIRT-PATH, TEXTURE-CAMPFIRE
LOADING SOUND-CRICKETS, SOUND-GRAVEL, SOUND-WIND, SOUND-FIRE-CRACKLING
UPLOADING USER
UPLOADING USER
UPLOADING USER
UPLOAD SUCCESSFUL
TRASH BIN


It feels more like an electrical zap than dying. Dying might feel a little bit more like falling asleep, but this is harder, more painful. If you've ever been electrocuted, the feeling might seem familiar; the discovery you make when you open your eyes, too, is likely very familiar. It's the night sky. Stars twinkle, a fire cracks warmly. You sit up and observe the surrounding area, and it's like you've woken up in some sort of canyon. The fire burns brightly, the moon shines beautifully, the crickets sing, and it is ... peaceful.

Mostly.

You know you're dead. This must be, then, the after life? Or something like it, at least. The horizon stretches on forever, the dirt and gravel seemingly endless. The moon is so big and bright, it's like you could reach out and touch her. There's a shed not too far from the fire, only but a stone's throw away, as if someone else might have made it, and then went inside it. Approaching it, you can see the light glowing inside it through the dusty windows that are littered with fingerprints. A computer screen, so large and wide that it's baffling, sits, waiting. Turning knob reveals that the shed is unlocked, and stepping inside... it doesn't feel any different from the outside.

A chair sits in the center of the room, a strange contraption strapped to the head of it. It looks like it would lower itself upon the head of whoever dares to sit on it, and wires from it's bottom curl up towards the machines attached to the screen. Several smaller desktop screens sit beneath the giant monitor. They, too, are hooked up to the machines scattered around the room, to the ominous one perched on top of the medical chair, and they blink, as if fighting to stay alive without use.

Pressing the giant monitor on, it lights up, and displays, strangely enough... a security camera feed. You push the button. It switches to another room. Again, another room. Again, another room. So on and forth.

You peeping tom! But no one can blame you, in the end. You might as well digitally haunt the rest of the ship until the game ends, and AL-2955 can clean out the trash bin.

...Right?


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taken characters
information cards
toprotecttheworld: (2)

[personal profile] toprotecttheworld 2016-08-28 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean it's unfair that I'm happy to see you. It's going to ruin all of my credibility as a villain if that gets out.
bloodbiter: (you can't tell by my face)

[personal profile] bloodbiter 2016-08-29 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[a small laugh, despite herself]

You aren't a villain. You know that.
toprotecttheworld: (18)

[personal profile] toprotecttheworld 2016-08-29 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Shh! Not so loud!

[...she sighs. Adelina hit the nail on the head with that.]

There's a part of me...a part of us, because I speak for James, my partner, as well...we always wondered what it would feel like to be heroes. It doesn't feel as revolting as I thought it would.
bloodbiter: (i don't know who ate their popcorn)

[personal profile] bloodbiter 2016-08-30 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I imagine it feels a bit better than you're letting on, even.

[a hint of a smile]