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sailmods ([personal profile] sailmods) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-05-18 12:35 am

pleased to meet you

CW: murder

[it is the morning of the 17th when the usual morning announcement is replaced with the sort of tentative, nervous tone that Friday takes on immediately before something insane happens.]

Good morning, passengers! It's, um... Well, I sure hope everyone had an interesting time on their shore excursion! The Captain sure did! In fact, he had such a good time, he's asked me to inform you all that, tonight, he's going to be hosting his usual captain's formal in the main dining room, but with a twist! This time, it's going to be a, um... victory party! For Natsuno! Because he won! [small laugh] And also to celebrate the opening of a new shop on the Promenade! Gosh, and that really is something to celebrate; I haven't seen that happen since he--

[LOUD STATIC NOISES]

-- Yes, well! The dress code will be cruise formal; everyone can find a new set of clothes in their cabin to celebrate the occasion! I-- Oh, right, we'll see you all tonight! 8PM sharp!

[the connection cuts off. today, for the first time that anyone can remember, Friday can't be found in the atrium. or any other room. smoke 'em if you got 'em.

at 8PM sharp, the door to the dining room swings open. it is mostly empty: the only tables left are a dozen or so under the main chandelier. there are name cards at each table setting, written in Friday's neat script; the seatings seem mostly random, except for everyone who was on the island, who will find themselves at a table with their killer and/or victim(s). except Natsuno, of course, whose name is displayed proudly at the head table, next to an unnamed place. once they are inside, all of them find themselves under the same sort of compulsion that they felt during the muster drill, and their legs will stop working until they have gone to their assigned seats.

Friday enters the room first, dressed up nicely, but with hunched shoulders and her hands clasped firmly in front of her. the door shuts behind her. she says nothing, and acknowledges no one, not even Natsuno, as she takes her spot behind the chair.

a few fashionable minutes pass. it starts as smoke pouring out from under the door, moving towards the table as it slowly solidifies into the form of... a rather normal-looking man. he sits, cross-legged, in the chair that Friday pulls out for him. he looks over the assembled crowd, visibly considering something... there is a flash of silver in the light, and the knife he'd had in his sleeve is across Friday's throat quicker than she can react, and she falls bonelessly to the ground, a spray of arterial blood across the table setting.]


There, perfect.

[he looks out at them again. and he smiles. the knife is placed back in his sleeve, and he holds his hands out, palms up.]

Well. Here's your chance. [he waves a hand lazily, and the compulsion keeping them seated fades like pins and needles.] Try not to embarrass yourselves.
sictransitgloriamundi: (I'd wake up come water)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[eyes gleam]

Depends. What is it?
sabigoe: (⚙ 05)

[personal profile] sabigoe 2022-05-19 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ At some point later during the party, Fio has calmed down enough. Only a few tears shed, this time around. Other than that, she's mostly just quiet and listless. And nicely dressed too! Her hair's loose though, when it should be in a braid. She doesn't really know how to braid it well enough on her own.

She totters over to join Skulduggery's side and just reaches over to lightly grip the edge of his sleeve. Hello, skeleton dad. She doesn't actually need anything at the moment... she just wants to wait here with him until the doors open. Like an exhausted youngest child, who just wants to go home now and fall asleep in the backseat of a car. ]
skaikru: (pic#11655180)

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
I've got some ideas. But at the same time, you're the one we're all meant to entertain.

What's something you've never done before? Or seen? Or felt? You must have some sort of list.
makesomedeals: (You're making me late)

[personal profile] makesomedeals 2022-05-19 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't it be easier to have one primary ship and just make duplicates of it as needed?
neverleave: (lovely graveyard view)

[ not looking, just cracked his lobster VERY loudly ]

[personal profile] neverleave 2022-05-19 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
opheliac: (⊙o⊙) (who the baddest?)

[personal profile] opheliac 2022-05-19 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
(she is quiet for a moment until then she comes up with probably the most dangerous and possibly stupidest question known to man. but for her, it's something still worth asking.)

... Can you... feed on it enough 'till it's gone?

(maybe he can get rid of this stupid omen she carries once and for all. and maybe then she can finally experience happiness.)
sictransitgloriamundi: (and get on with living)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[completely flat expression]

My ship isn't some cheap servitor. She's an astral chamber. You can't "duplicate" that.
skaikru: (pic#8799022)

[ shut up natsuno she's in here ELEMENT and not at all in over her head ]

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
sictransitgloriamundi: (well all I want)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. I've done everything but die. Unless that was your suggestion, but I am hoping you're a bit more creative than that.
sictransitgloriamundi: (more than you can think)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

You'll be gone as well, of course. Everything worth calling "you," anyway.
light_mischief: (14. noir voiceover)

[personal profile] light_mischief 2022-05-19 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, he definitely notices the sand in Max's joints from using SecUnit Rin's name. Of course, being a skeleton and not a robotic/cybernetic being, he has no idea what the problem is.

"Is that so?" He honestly hadn't thought about it too much. It could eat ice cream, so it did. But maybe he hadn't been listening close enough, maybe he hadn't been paying enough attention. After all, he'd been treating the whole thing like some big joke since he got here.

"I think I'm fine without the captain meddling with my physical form, thanks," he grunts, unhappy at the thought that the man could just... do that.

But Max has never once said he was right, let alone more than once in one conversation. The tone and the admission finally earn his full attention, and he's unguardedly concerned in return. "...Are you alright?"
skaikru: (pic#11920613)

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
( don't @ her like that, yes it was and now she's just spitballing tbh. )

Hm. I'm really not. That's all I'm good at in the end, but you knew that.

( wanheda callout and everything, right? )

I don't believe you've done everything. I wanna see how your magic works, so. When's the last time you took something broken and put it back together while they were still awake?
light_mischief: (14. noir voiceover)

[personal profile] light_mischief 2022-05-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Shouldn't be too long. An hour, maybe four. That's how long awkward dinners usually stretch, anyway."

He's trying to be glib, with middling results. The point is that he's trying! Just like he's trying not to bring up the Entire Island Incident when he asks, "Are you alright?"

It's a catch-all question, Watson. He could be just as easily referencing the captain's presence or the island. It's entirely up for Watson to decide.
sictransitgloriamundi: (and fire couldn't burn)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
The other day. And a few hours from now, probably.

[jerks thumb at Friday's bloodless corpse.]
skaikru: (pic#8799140)

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
( ouch, yikes, her heart hurts, jfc, sorry jenny but — )

I meant an actual person. Your over conditioned stress ball doesn't count.
Edited 2022-05-19 05:03 (UTC)
lightconductor: (Default)

[personal profile] lightconductor 2022-05-19 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, now he just feels bad.

Watch me. -JW

When he's got Murderbot's attention, Watson lifts his own lobster up to demonstrate the twist-and-crack method of dismantling a whole crustacean to remove the meat.
sictransitgloriamundi: (with my whiskey)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[considers...]

Can't recall. It doesn't sound very appealing, honestly. I don't like noise while I'm working.
skaikru: (pic#8799114)

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
( again — help.

but might as well go all in. )


I want my kidney back. And I promise to be quiet.
light_mischief: (20. waiting for friends)

[personal profile] light_mischief 2022-05-19 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Skulduggery grabs hold of her hand, giving it a tight, reassuring squeeze.]

Almost through, Fio. We'll get to go soon.

[He has no idea exactly when "soon" might be, but he's not expecting this to last all night. The captain won't want to sit around that long.]
opheliac: ✖ malagraphic (All up on your head)

[personal profile] opheliac 2022-05-19 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
(a staggering breath leaves her as she quickly looks over to him with wide eyed. he...he can get rid of it.

'because you're a jinx!'

he can get rid of it.

'every time she comes, something goes wrong. she jinx us in every job!'

he can get rid of it.

'it was a mistake to kiss you.'

he can get rid of it.

her eyes are already watering with tears but also with a pleading yet hopeful spark in them. she will lose herself if she does this but she doesn't have anything to begin with. so who cares...right? would anyone on this ship would care if she's gone? most of them find her nuisance anyway.)


I...
sictransitgloriamundi: (I don't want these excitements)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[INCREDIBLY LONG PAUSE]

Okay, you realize that means you die, right? Like. Forever.
sictransitgloriamundi: (and put up with hardships)

[personal profile] sictransitgloriamundi 2022-05-19 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
That's really weird.

[pause]

I'll consider it.
serialskiller: (wtf)

[personal profile] serialskiller 2022-05-19 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[A hand settles on her shoulder heavily.]

Jinx, if you do let him do that, we won't get to see if Captain Arthur and his crew find the Grail. Also, the cabin would be lonely. And you promised speakers on my drones.

[A small pause, then softer.]

I'd miss you.
makesomedeals: (How's your luck?)

[personal profile] makesomedeals 2022-05-19 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't answer because now he's annoyed at himself and Murderbot and the Captain and Ebalon. But honestly mostly at himself for letting anything slip like that. It's uncharacteristic and vulnerable and he scowls at the ground instead of looking at Skulduggery.

Pretending he was completely fine had worked for him his entire existence, it should continue to do so here. Sure he didn't have his vast resources here but... Well the problem was he didn't even have reality here. He didn't understand the rules of the game, or have any leverage over his own existence. Everything was insane and constantly changing and the more he found out the less he knew.

Perhaps he had been less than successful pacing around his room for the past two days since his death trying to come to grips with what was happening and calm down. Even that panic had been further fueled by his last conversation with Murderbot about files being tampered with. Things could be changed and he wouldn't even know.

He makes another soft mechanical sound before he replies, "Yes."

Everything in his tone indicating he's anything but.

And now he's looking for an out from this conversation. Too bad the doors are still locked and the rest of the room is everything but on fire.

In desperation he just stares at Darcy hoping she'll chop the Captain's head off and distract Skulduggery from everything so Max can escape.
skaikru: (pic#8799233)

[personal profile] skaikru 2022-05-19 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
( yanno.... she'll take it. weird isn't that much of an insult, all she wants is for him to consider something else while she painstakingly slowly reaches for a pair of lobster crackers on the table cloth to her left. a knife would have been better, but anything vaguely pointed will do. )

It's not that weird. You took something that belonged to me, and I'm curious as to how.
Edited 2022-05-19 05:20 (UTC)

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