ataraxion | rocks fall everyone dies

[ The communicator comes on deep in the darkness of the ship, having been jarred by the movements of its owner. There is only one person on the ship whose footsteps are this heavy, the glinting of crystals and white runes revealing Shale's identity to anyone who may recognize them. It soon becomes apparent, however, that the golem is not walking, not running, but fighting -- her large, stone arms are swinging, her targets making loud, inhuman noises of pain. Still, they keep coming, claws scratching along the floor of the ship.

Shale bellows and some of the creatures hiss in pain. There's just enough light from the magic in her crystals and the screen of the communicator that the next time Shale takes a swing, a creature is reflected, caught on camera. Despite the golem's heavy assault, she's being pushed back by the pack of manticores, close quarters making it more and more difficult to fight the way she's used to.

Then, quite suddenly, the camera angle tips. For a moment, it catches the ceiling, then the manticore that's attempting to leap onto Shale. Something bright is knocked off and away by the claws reaching toward Shale's shoulder -- a crystal, perhaps, and it falls clattering away into the darkness. Then, all three -- golem, communicator, and manticore -- fall.

And fall.

And fall.

And fall.

And, eventually, land. The camera stays on for a few moments longer, but nothing is moving save for a blinking red light, illuminating the now-crushed bodies of the manticore and the golem. Shale is hardly in as bad of shape as the creature, but both look like they've fallen into a singularity and couldn't get up. There's no movement, and the runes etched on Shale's stone dim, then flicker out completely. After a few moments more, the communicator times out as well -- and the red light, presumably, shines on. ]

((ooc: Quick explanation: deep within the ship, Shale accidentally found herself some manticores that some of you may remember from the stasis sickness event! While fighting them, she managed to fall down one of the creepy holes and, ahaha, remember those black holes from the maze and how they'd crush you? Well, that happened to her (and the unlucky manticore that fell with her). Congratulations, TQ, you've found one of the few things that can quickly kill a golem! Also, you know, everyone's probably going to die horribly. Yeah. That too. Much love to the mods for giving me a way to kill Shale in a horrifying manner, and I'll still be around with my other characters! ALSO: Quinlan has dibs on the crystal that fell off her.))

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Cool it. These monsters just killed a fucking walking statue.

sucks hard to be the statue then, that's got jack to do with me.

you gotta round up a posse and go check this shit out anyway, i'm just asking to head in early.

I don't give a shit how invulnerable you think you are. They just killed a bunch of rocks. You aren't rocks. You're meat + bone just like the rest of us. So cool it + let me think.

and let it go cold? i'm no csi but come on.
you wait and things scamper off to kill shit another day i'm making sense here and you know it.
i'll take backup just let me go hunting.

The last lot died out on their own.

we got that on tape. means they're close.
they're close, we need to clear them out.
boss you know i'm right here. you know it just let me go look.

[FFS Faith.]

I promised you monsters, and you'll get monsters when it's necessary. I need five fucking minutes to hear back from comms and work this out, and you tugging on my skirt like a kid is not gonna make anything happen faster except pissing me off. Cool it.

You suck.

[ but faith works her jaw back and forth for a minute before crossing her arms and frowning petulantly and then nodding. ]

But you're the boss, boss. So whatever.

...I get first call.

[Taylor just nods, and the feed clicks off for a minute or two. Then she comes back, sending through a location initially (a point in the passenger quarters, near to the dark part of the ship).]

Rendezvous with Reaper and the rest of the team. Reaper will be leading. [A pause, and her tone comes harder again.] You follow his command. Recon and retrieval only, Faith.

Yeah, yeah. I get it.

[ but she's not mutinous. ]

G's a good guy, I got no issues following his lead.

Respect the orders of your commanding officer.

suck my dick

[If he were using voice, he'd stammer. Instead he recovers:]

I do not believe you have one, madam. Follow your commanding officer's orders.

Your cooperation is appreciated.

i already told tyke i was in line all right? jesus. get off my back.

she wasn't just a bunch of rocks

i can't believe you people

Did I say 'just'? No.

fine

she's not a bunch of rocks

stop talking about her like she's a bunch of rocks

Might I have a word, Mr. Wheatley?

a word

singular

[...ugh.]

I know you're upset having witnessed this. Might I presume you were close with her?

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She was a living bunch of rocks. Which made her far more likely to survive an attack than anyone on my team. That was the only meaning behind my comment.

okay well you could stand to be a little more cognizant of your word choice

it's insensitive

Never been a particularly sensitive person.

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