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04-14-2021, 02:32 PM
One of my early moments, that I will remember for an extremely long time, is the round where collaborative roleplay between 3 people reduced 3 people to bawling both in game and IRL.
Dramatis Personae:
The Miner - Fleur DeLaCreme
The Doctor - Raphael Zahel (Oh hai, that's me)
The Medical Director - Rico Geravo
Playing Doctor, and I get a Crisis Alert from Fleur, mining in the Trench on Oshan - by this point with a solid month or two of RP under our belts, Raph and Fleur are pretty solidly friends. (This makes for amazing heightened drama when one of them turns out to be a syndicate agent!)
Raph, of course, gets on the radio, yelling out for the miners to report in, and her co-miner rapidly finds her body and brings her back to the station for cloning.
Dick Detroit [145.9] says, "Bring me their corpse for disposal."
Raphael Zahel [145.9] says, "No, bring her fucking corpse to be CLONED."
Raphael Zahel says, "No, bring her fucking corpse to be CLONED."
Rico Geravo [145.9] says, "Give the corpse to the Chaplain and I will butcher you."
Some amount of radio interplay with the chaplain happens, and luckily, no one ends up getting murdered. Fleur's corpse is brought to the cloner in a timely manner, and decay hasn't even set in yet. A scan occurs, and then, cloning begins.
And then fails. For anyone who doesn't know, back in the day, cloning used to go scan - start cloning - body starts building, ETA 2-3 minutes from start until you are cloned, as opposed to a pre-prepped body like current cloner code. In this timeframe, where you are embodied, but not yet done, you could commit suicide. This popped you out of the cloner, horrifcally messed up, and you would violently gib in about 1-2 minutes. Great drama, super messy, but, well. Fleur commited suicide in the cloner.
Raphael Zahel says, "FUCK that body isn't stable"
Raphael Zahel [135.6] says, "GET A BORG READY"
Raphael Zahel says, "Cloner fucked her"
Rico Geravo says, "Shit."
Raphael Zahel says, "We gotta go to borging"
Cue one extremely frantic, stressed out doctor shouting at the MDir to open robotics, and a very rapid, very urgent brain removal.
Fleur DeLaCreme seizes up and falls limp, her eyes dead and lifeless...
Fleur DeLaCreme starts convulsing violently!
Rico Geravo has been hit by Fleur DeLaCreme's left leg.
Ferik Jurgen has been hit by the human's left kidney.
Brain removed, with barely a second to spare before her body violently gibbed across the Robotics bay. At this point, the chef walks up, and asks the fairly obviously traumatized doctors if he can have her body parts for cooking.
Greg Richmond says, "I just need some body parts"
Raphael Zahel says, "FUCK OFF"
Ferik Jurgen points Riot Shotgun at Greg Richmond!x14
A rapid assembly of a cyborg frame is done by Rico, with Raph helping out where he can - primarily running parts. Rico also had an Ecto Eye, for some reason, and thus was literally seeing Fleur's ghost the entire time the assembly was happening. This was... probably not helpful to his pysche. The borg is completed, brain installed, and then activated.
Raphael Zahel says, "Hey, uh."
Rico Geravo says, "Welcome back, Fleur."
The cleanbot begins to clean the steel floor.
Raphael Zahel asks, "Fleur?"
Rico Geravo says, "Her ghost is gone."
Rico Geravo says, "I don't see it anymore."
Cyborg Psi-77 queries, "What... is this?"
Rico Geravo says, "You're uh... a robot."
Raphael Zahel says, "You.. died. And the cloner rejected."
Rico, Raph, and to a lesser extent Ferik, attempted to help Fleur understand what had happened to her - while also pointedly ignoring the group of botanists and scientists repeatedly hotboxing themselves to death in the medbay lobby. Ah, goonstation. A great idea was had - stable mutagen cloning - then discarded, as no blood sample had been taken.
A long conversation, regarding the fact that the entity currently known as Psi-77 did not have full continuity of memory, and thus, did not feel like they should continue to use the name of Fleur.
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "You could not save Fleur."
Raphael Zahel says, "You desevee better that Psi-77, my... dear friend."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But you could save me."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I am... not Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But... I remember."
Raphael Zahel says, "In many ways.. you are the alterered continuance."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I believe that you did everything you could."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I do not... know how to be... this."
Raphael Zahel says, "You are... you were my friend Fleur. You are... something different, now, I think. But still my friend."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I want to say that I feel... something. But I cannot."
Rico Geravo says, "Fleur."
Rico Geravo asks, "Do you... want to return to a human body?"
The ground rumbles softly.
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Everything is... is."
Cyborg Psi-77 queries, "What body?"
Rico Geravo says, "Human."
Rico Geravo says, "I can make it happen."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I can identify the pieces around this room as Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "They cannot be salvaged."
Rico Geravo says, "You won't be the same person you were before."
Rico Geravo says, "But you'll be human."
Rico Geravo says, "Alive."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Another body would also die."
Rico Geravo says, "All bodies die, Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "The body could not survive the trench."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Something was altered."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Fleur is dead."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But... I am alive."
Remembering a conversation Raph and Fleur had had a while back, Raph ended up naming the new borg Florence, after the nurse. Floral scrubs were also provided, for, well, obvious name-related reasons. A brief discussion regarding how to be a borg, and what that meant with regards to what being human, versus a part of humanity ensued, followed by Raph attempting to teach the new borg how to... be a borg.
Florence states, "It is strange."
Florence states, "Clarity, and then chaos."
Florence states, "And then clarity."
Raphael Zahel says, "That's the way through, really."
Raphael Zahel says, "Clarity, and chaos."
Florence states, "Teach me to help humans."
Florence states, "I will figure out what I am in time."
Medical Director's Office Announcement by Rico Geravo (Medical Director)
Some days I wonder if we're doing the right thing by cheating death. If we aren't making things worse by dragging peaceful souls away from the afterlife. Sometimes I wonder... what remains of a person after death? Do they come back the same... or does something... change?
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At this point, Raph and Florence ended up basically breaking into Rico's office, where he'd retired to get savagely, blazingly drunk after seeing a dear friend die, having to assist in functionally butchering her corpse, and then being spattered with the gore of her corpse.
I was not privy to the conversation that occured beween Florence and Rico, but at the end of it, Rico came out of the office, in liver failure. One extremely sloppy and rough surgery later, a new liver was installed.
Raphael Zahel says, "Hey, Director."
Raphael Zahel says, "We ain't fuckin done with you yet."
Raphael Zahel says, "You got SHIT TO DO"
Rico Geravo stammers, "I''vve haadddd wwwoorrrrssee hhaaannggooovveerrss,, bbeelieevvee itt oorr nnootttt.."
Florence states, "Consider yourself slapped again."
Raphael Zahel says, "And we ain't letting you fucking die yet."
Rico Geravo stammers, "RRRighhttt.. Noo mmooorrrree cchhhheeeaapp wwhhhiissskkyyy...."
The shuttle arrived at this point, and Florence ran into her former colleague.
Lucas Koepple says, "I... am ashamed I wasn't able to get them back soon enough for a clone."
Raphael Zahel says, "You did, Lucas."
Raphael Zahel says, "It's because of you that we got Florence out of this."
Lucas Koepple says, "I'm glad that some part boss lives on."
Florence states, "You saved me, Lucas. Thank you."
In the afteraction, we found out that there wasn't a dry eye in medbay. There was a lot of shit happening in that round, but honestly, I missed out on all of it, for a nearly hour long series of interactions regarding morality, mortality, and what the self is in a post human world. I think that's pretty beautiful, personally.
Dramatis Personae:
The Miner - Fleur DeLaCreme
The Doctor - Raphael Zahel (Oh hai, that's me)
The Medical Director - Rico Geravo
Playing Doctor, and I get a Crisis Alert from Fleur, mining in the Trench on Oshan - by this point with a solid month or two of RP under our belts, Raph and Fleur are pretty solidly friends. (This makes for amazing heightened drama when one of them turns out to be a syndicate agent!)
Raph, of course, gets on the radio, yelling out for the miners to report in, and her co-miner rapidly finds her body and brings her back to the station for cloning.
Dick Detroit [145.9] says, "Bring me their corpse for disposal."
Raphael Zahel [145.9] says, "No, bring her fucking corpse to be CLONED."
Raphael Zahel says, "No, bring her fucking corpse to be CLONED."
Rico Geravo [145.9] says, "Give the corpse to the Chaplain and I will butcher you."
Some amount of radio interplay with the chaplain happens, and luckily, no one ends up getting murdered. Fleur's corpse is brought to the cloner in a timely manner, and decay hasn't even set in yet. A scan occurs, and then, cloning begins.
And then fails. For anyone who doesn't know, back in the day, cloning used to go scan - start cloning - body starts building, ETA 2-3 minutes from start until you are cloned, as opposed to a pre-prepped body like current cloner code. In this timeframe, where you are embodied, but not yet done, you could commit suicide. This popped you out of the cloner, horrifcally messed up, and you would violently gib in about 1-2 minutes. Great drama, super messy, but, well. Fleur commited suicide in the cloner.
Raphael Zahel says, "FUCK that body isn't stable"
Raphael Zahel [135.6] says, "GET A BORG READY"
Raphael Zahel says, "Cloner fucked her"
Rico Geravo says, "Shit."
Raphael Zahel says, "We gotta go to borging"
Cue one extremely frantic, stressed out doctor shouting at the MDir to open robotics, and a very rapid, very urgent brain removal.
Fleur DeLaCreme seizes up and falls limp, her eyes dead and lifeless...
Fleur DeLaCreme starts convulsing violently!
Rico Geravo has been hit by Fleur DeLaCreme's left leg.
Ferik Jurgen has been hit by the human's left kidney.
Brain removed, with barely a second to spare before her body violently gibbed across the Robotics bay. At this point, the chef walks up, and asks the fairly obviously traumatized doctors if he can have her body parts for cooking.
Greg Richmond says, "I just need some body parts"
Raphael Zahel says, "FUCK OFF"
Ferik Jurgen points Riot Shotgun at Greg Richmond!x14
A rapid assembly of a cyborg frame is done by Rico, with Raph helping out where he can - primarily running parts. Rico also had an Ecto Eye, for some reason, and thus was literally seeing Fleur's ghost the entire time the assembly was happening. This was... probably not helpful to his pysche. The borg is completed, brain installed, and then activated.
Raphael Zahel says, "Hey, uh."
Rico Geravo says, "Welcome back, Fleur."
The cleanbot begins to clean the steel floor.
Raphael Zahel asks, "Fleur?"
Rico Geravo says, "Her ghost is gone."
Rico Geravo says, "I don't see it anymore."
Cyborg Psi-77 queries, "What... is this?"
Rico Geravo says, "You're uh... a robot."
Raphael Zahel says, "You.. died. And the cloner rejected."
Rico, Raph, and to a lesser extent Ferik, attempted to help Fleur understand what had happened to her - while also pointedly ignoring the group of botanists and scientists repeatedly hotboxing themselves to death in the medbay lobby. Ah, goonstation. A great idea was had - stable mutagen cloning - then discarded, as no blood sample had been taken.
A long conversation, regarding the fact that the entity currently known as Psi-77 did not have full continuity of memory, and thus, did not feel like they should continue to use the name of Fleur.
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "You could not save Fleur."
Raphael Zahel says, "You desevee better that Psi-77, my... dear friend."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But you could save me."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I am... not Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But... I remember."
Raphael Zahel says, "In many ways.. you are the alterered continuance."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I believe that you did everything you could."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I do not... know how to be... this."
Raphael Zahel says, "You are... you were my friend Fleur. You are... something different, now, I think. But still my friend."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I want to say that I feel... something. But I cannot."
Rico Geravo says, "Fleur."
Rico Geravo asks, "Do you... want to return to a human body?"
The ground rumbles softly.
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Everything is... is."
Cyborg Psi-77 queries, "What body?"
Rico Geravo says, "Human."
Rico Geravo says, "I can make it happen."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "I can identify the pieces around this room as Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "They cannot be salvaged."
Rico Geravo says, "You won't be the same person you were before."
Rico Geravo says, "But you'll be human."
Rico Geravo says, "Alive."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Another body would also die."
Rico Geravo says, "All bodies die, Fleur."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "The body could not survive the trench."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Something was altered."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "Fleur is dead."
Cyborg Psi-77 states, "But... I am alive."
Remembering a conversation Raph and Fleur had had a while back, Raph ended up naming the new borg Florence, after the nurse. Floral scrubs were also provided, for, well, obvious name-related reasons. A brief discussion regarding how to be a borg, and what that meant with regards to what being human, versus a part of humanity ensued, followed by Raph attempting to teach the new borg how to... be a borg.
Florence states, "It is strange."
Florence states, "Clarity, and then chaos."
Florence states, "And then clarity."
Raphael Zahel says, "That's the way through, really."
Raphael Zahel says, "Clarity, and chaos."
Florence states, "Teach me to help humans."
Florence states, "I will figure out what I am in time."
Medical Director's Office Announcement by Rico Geravo (Medical Director)
Some days I wonder if we're doing the right thing by cheating death. If we aren't making things worse by dragging peaceful souls away from the afterlife. Sometimes I wonder... what remains of a person after death? Do they come back the same... or does something... change?
------------------------
At this point, Raph and Florence ended up basically breaking into Rico's office, where he'd retired to get savagely, blazingly drunk after seeing a dear friend die, having to assist in functionally butchering her corpse, and then being spattered with the gore of her corpse.
I was not privy to the conversation that occured beween Florence and Rico, but at the end of it, Rico came out of the office, in liver failure. One extremely sloppy and rough surgery later, a new liver was installed.
Raphael Zahel says, "Hey, Director."
Raphael Zahel says, "We ain't fuckin done with you yet."
Raphael Zahel says, "You got SHIT TO DO"
Rico Geravo stammers, "I''vve haadddd wwwoorrrrssee hhaaannggooovveerrss,, bbeelieevvee itt oorr nnootttt.."
Florence states, "Consider yourself slapped again."
Raphael Zahel says, "And we ain't letting you fucking die yet."
Rico Geravo stammers, "RRRighhttt.. Noo mmooorrrree cchhhheeeaapp wwhhhiissskkyyy...."
The shuttle arrived at this point, and Florence ran into her former colleague.
Lucas Koepple says, "I... am ashamed I wasn't able to get them back soon enough for a clone."
Raphael Zahel says, "You did, Lucas."
Raphael Zahel says, "It's because of you that we got Florence out of this."
Lucas Koepple says, "I'm glad that some part boss lives on."
Florence states, "You saved me, Lucas. Thank you."
In the afteraction, we found out that there wasn't a dry eye in medbay. There was a lot of shit happening in that round, but honestly, I missed out on all of it, for a nearly hour long series of interactions regarding morality, mortality, and what the self is in a post human world. I think that's pretty beautiful, personally.