RECORDING 2: THE FIRST MURDER

[foundationmods]

An entire week has passed, and nothing has happened. For a brief glimmer of time, it seemed like they wouldn't succumb. That they would be able to face down the Vessel, the Curse, and come out stronger on the other side.

....But when they wake up today, it's easy to feel the wrongness in the air. The sense of satisfaction from something lurking deep inside, pleased that it was fed...and pleased that finally, the killing had started.

As you all rise and look towards a new day, the faint traces of Miasma lap at your heels...

...And around whatever corpse now lingers in the hallways...

((OOC: 2 people max under a heading, please! Just to keep things easy on the mods.))

Comments

[foundationmods]

[There Isn't a Soul Core (since Saphir took her actual core), but he can definitely hop to the mangled remains.]

[ghostricked]

... damn it.

[It is what it is though. So he jumps into the machine parts. Let's see what Tricks work on it- first he tries some of the mangled limbs]

[foundationmods]

[Well...They kind of work. The limbs flex, anyway - Olympia was apparently build pretty sturdy.

...Though every time he moves the limbs, The lightbulb comes on.]

[ghostricked]

Well, that's weird.

[He travels up the limbs to the lightbulb to see if it does more than light up]

[foundationmods]

[...It is a lightbulb my dude.

It lights up when he's in it, but otherwise...]

[ghostricked]

[Time to see if any of the other parts have functions then. especially the parts not originally part of the corpse. What were you trying to do, Mr/s. killer?]

[foundationmods]

[Well, the claw holding the drill actually pushes on the trigger for the drill! So that's fun.

However, the wooden bits and garbage bits are just that - garbage. most of them aren't even hooked up.

However, touching one of the legs does cause it to give a loud THUNK....which, given how the body's been contorted and how shitty those legs are, destabilizes it.

...Which leads to the body falling over onto it's side with a loud WHOMP, splashing into the oil around it.

Good, uh, job....Sissel...]

[tsunderine]

[YES HI

RIN IS HERE IN RECORD TIME because magic thighs and is like already holding onto a gem dear god what happened here

also while I'm here, Sissel is in there but does Olympia's body have any magic pings?]

[foundationmods]

[It does not.]

[ghostricked]

[he yeowls and jumps out back to his body, tail fluffed up and back arched]

[tsunderine]

What did you do?!

[like what the fuck, don't mess with the evidence like that???]

[ghostricked]

I was seeing if I could revive her and trying to figure out what the killer was using her body for...

It was really shittily propped up, I think.

[tsunderine]

. . . So she fell.

And I assume you can't revive her because she's a robot?

[not that she understands or comprehends robots]

[ghostricked]

I'm not sure. If I had to guess it's that or the ghosts here... ate her.

[tsunderine]

. . .

[it's very brief, but the word 'ate her' makes her flinch for a second before her expression turns into something serious]

We don't want to make any assumptions just yet.

[she glances at the... 'body'?

what's left of it, anyway]

Another thing is that it might be because not all her body parts are there, too. I don't know how robots tick, you'd have to ask someone who's more familiar.

[reanimania]

[ SLIGHTLY LATER BECAUSE HE TRIPPED OVER SOME STUFF PROBABLY ]

What the hell were you doing?!

[ghostricked]

Her soul is gone.

[He didn't mean to knock her over and... well, the realization he can't save her is sinking in]

[reanimania]

What soul? Like her power source?

[ --okay this is probably exactly what dazai was talking about but you know what ]

[ghostricked]

Her soul-soul. I don't know if that would be a power source in a machine or not.

[reanimania]

I mean, if you want to look at it.

[ takes out core..... you can do your thing without making him let go of it, right? he doesn't want to hand this to someone who doesn't have thumbs and just knocked over a scorpion robot corpse. roboscorpse. ]

peanut gallery +1

[noneforall]

... Wow. Not what I was expecting when we were told there was a robot corpse.

[He’s wandered in at some point during the whole shebang and probably managed to not walk directly into the oil AOE of your newly resident pinchybot because he’s no fun like that. Now that it’s keeled over he’ll just crouch over the mess, one eyebrow raised curiously. Hmm...]

What’d you do, trick it out or something? You don’t look big enough to try piloting it.

[ghostricked]

Come on, she was a person.

I was investigating and knocked her over...

[noneforall]

Are people and robots mutually exclusive?

[That is apparently a real question?? Like, bemused-slash-amused, excessively philosophical bent, but if they’re getting into the robotic innards might as well go the whole nine yards and dig deeper, right? He examines the chassis a little more closely....... wow, someone really did a number on this damn thing.]

I guess they really messed her up, huh? What a pity, I’ve never seen anything quite like her. Ah, anyone. [still in that bemused voice] The balance of the whole frame is screwed up, too. What were you investigating, anyway?

[ghostricked]

I was trying to use my ability to bring her back. But... it didn't work.

[noneforall]

You mentioned it. The ability to undo death or time or some such, yes? It sounds unbelievable even to me.

[What does he even mean ‘even to him’—]

Would it work even with a body like this? Or with any kind of living creature? Or is there some other trick to it?