00110000 || text + action?

[biiowiired]

[Full, unadulterated consciousness -- something he hasn't had for many solar sweeps -- was a rude awakening. When the navigation code's electronic lullabys were replaced by the pain of severed biowires, he screamed.

[He tried to. But his ill-used voice was only a grating sound and hacking coughs. Computer systems aren't supposed to scream, but this is a resurfacing of simple, protein-based primal instincts. Speaking of protein, there goes his liquid lunch. It's tinted with the dull gold color of his blood. He chokes on the taste of his panic.

[Unable to lift his atrophied limbs, he tries moving his body with his psionics. But the pain of biowires trailing exposed nerves makes him scream in silence again. He writhes on the table, throwing red and blue light every which way. Instruments fly, appliances are destroyed, and windows shatter.

[As he wrecks the room, the mirror activates and begins playing its welcome message. He's not calm enough to listen, but he knows a communications device when he sees it. He quickly hijacks the easy-to-use interface. He can't move his hands, but psionically typing on the touchscreen is second-nature. So is hacking.

[He activates all mirrors and any other technological communications devices within the city. Without leave, his text dashes across the screens.]

Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
Helmsman System to Battleship Condescension
HELMSMAN SYSTEM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED
Connection status: No direct connection available
Coordinates: UNKNOWN
Planet: UNKNOWN
Star system: UNKNOWN
No hostiles detected as of this message.

Requesting assistance from any and all intelligent life-forms.
Property of Her Imperious Condescension must be returned immediately, or face severe consequences.
Error: Cannot establish connection with Battleship Condescension
Will retry ii
Error: 01010111 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00101110
Error: Ψ 01101001 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011
Oh 2hiit
Oh 2hiit 2hiit iit hurt2 FUCK
Where am ii
Plea2e help me
Wiire2 2tiickiing out everywhere
IIt hurt2!!
Where the fuck am ii??
Where2 the 2hiip??
Where ii2 2HE?!?!
Oh 2hiit 2he2 goiing two cull u2 all!!
IIt2 all my fault!! Get out whiile you stiill can!!
01010010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 00100000 01001110 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100001
Help me 2iignle22
01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011
01000001 01001110 01001111 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010011 01001001 01000111 01001110 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010111 01001111 01010101 01001100 01000100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01000101 00101100 00100000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01001001 01001101 01000101 01010011 00101110
WARNING: Bad code
Unable to handle paging request at
fan-proverbial(21117): 2hiit
local_optic_count[2] optics_running[0]
STATE: corrupt data

Error: Cannot restart system
Manual reboot required

WARNING: Please connect to a proper energy probe, or insert helmsman liquid nutrition formula.

[He's the kind of helmsman that isn't supposed to be removed. His mind and body shut down from the pain, and he falls into the first true sleep he's had in a long time.]

Comments

text --> voice

[annihilistic]

[There are very few things the Handmaid feels any kind of sympathy for.

The only other troll she's heard of whose life was extended as much as hers and as much against his will is, to be honest, one of them. But sympathy isn't something she does well, if at all, so the best she can do is try and make him calm down.

The biowires will be the first thing to go, once she has the opportunity.]

They wont let anyone stay good and dead here will they

[She doesn't know what to say, and that certainly isn't going to help, but...]

Calm down. There is no battleship here to connect to.

Re: text --> voice

[biiowiired]

[If he had a choice, the Helmsman would prefer they be cauterized rather than removed. There's nerves in there, the integration is most thorough. Not like a human fetus's cord, which is built to be severed.

[But right now all he can do is lie unconscious. Perhaps the voices of whoever finds him will penetrate his thinkpan, if they yell loud enough.]

text

[annihilistic]

[Useless.

Of course.

There aren't many who could handle being suddenly disconnected from a ship, much less handle it well.

He's probably just lucky he hasn't died again.]

If you dont die
Try keeping the psionics to a minimum for a while
Otherwise youll burn out

1/2

[whomheloved]

[What. What on Alternia...

Her heart seems to stop, she's barely read the text, only seen the mess of Psii's quirk and the mentions of Helmsman, Battleship Condescion, words that terrify her.]

[whomheloved]

Psii. Oh dear light, Psii, please, where are you? I'll come to you, it's okay, you're going to be okay...

[biiowiired]

[Kind of passed out now, but the presence of his friends may help. See you soon!]

[temperedadmin]

You're goiing two need 2omewhere two put hiim when he'2 better. These 2hared apartment2 may not be good enough. 2tay wiith hiim untiil he'2 fully healed, II can fiind another place two move iin the meantiime. II'm pretty 2ure II have enough wiith me for that iif you wii2h.

[ action ]

[ironbound]

-=he's not going to even bother responding with the mirror, he's just going to run his ass all the way back to the building he and meulin had arrived in, heart clenched in fear. signless had been having nightmares about what might have happened to his psiionic and it all seems to be coming to a head while he's awake.

he pushes past people and throw open doors, calling out until he finds him, then rushes to his friends side, not sure how to help, or even if he should touch him=-

Psii? Psii it's us... we're here. You're going to be okay now..

Re: [ action ]

[biiowiired]

[He lies motionless where he arrived on the table. His breath is faint but even. He would have slumbered for days, but he is more hardwired than the best helmsman programming to respond to that voice. His eyes stir behind paper-thin eyelids.]

[ action ]

[whomheloved]

[Disciple catches at the door to stop herself stumbling into the room as she finally catches up with Signless, short of breath which goes to show just how fast her beloved had been running.]

What have they done to him?! [Her voice rises to a wail; she'd thought what had been done to Signless was the worst thing possible, but now, seeing Psii this way, all those wires...

She barely knows how she closed the remaining distance between them, hovering above their psionic friend yet afraid to touch him.]

Psii, Psii, can you hear us? Oh, Signless, what are we going to do?

Video;

[croco_boy]

Well, now. Who writes such a weird S.O.S., I wonder?

Re: Video;

[biiowiired]

[The mirror having activated video, it shows a grey-skinned horned alien not at his best. He's got vomit on him and many wires sticking out of his body. There are others in the room, but it is hard to tell how many. The troll twitches at the sound of voices, but he is not very awake. An attractive sound issues from his lips:]

Thhhhuuddubbhhhh.

[croco_boy]

[Sometimes the cover of being a 'benevolent' hero to the people was easily broken a little bit when confronted with a situation that would be perceived as funny in their eyes.

Crocodile, seasoned and used to seeing corpses both bloodied and completely dried up, didn't feel even a smidgen of pity. With someone clearly and unfortunately rigged up in such a way, Crocodile only really saw opportunity.

The mustard colored blood all over the Helmsman, well--he didn't understand the hemospectrum, so he chuckled unwittingly when he saw it.]

Well, I can see why you'd choose to communicate otherwise.

Not here

[temperedadmin]

[Watching Di and Sign run out of his apartment like their lives depended on it had been alarming enough, and he'd almost thought of going after them just on habit of something being very wrong... But then he sees this, and he's really not sure how to feel.

Fuck.]

[Video]

[likeabos]

[Damn if that was the most disturbing thing he had heard in quite some time. Sure he heard quite a few things come close, but this was the worst yet. His teeth clenching and wincing back as he watched the poor guy writhe. A yellowblood huh? And by the looks of it one that was being used. What were the chances that he even had anything living left in him?

And that name... did he just hear him say Battleship Condescension?]

Yo man! Where's your location?! Coordinates?! Can ya even talk! Ah-- shit-- um-- Visual description?

[He had no idea what to do. But hell if he wasn't going to at least attempt to help.]

text

[biiowiired]

[just before he slips into unconscious!]

Primitive medical block
WARNING: Please connect to a proper energy probe00101100 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101101 01110011 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101100 01101001 01110001 01110101 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101110 01110101 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01110101 01101100 01100001 00101110

[FREEZES]

Visual --> Action!

[likeabos]

[And that-- barely helped him at all. Darn all these numbers everywhere! He had no idea what to do with 'em!]

...Primitive medical block huh? You mean that place where they keep all th' sick in this city? Um, I'm... just going to assume that's what you mean and head out over there! Hang in there man! I'm heading right over!

[And he's off! Whirling out the balcony door and jumping from his third story apartment complex. Thank goodness he has those wings. Quickly charging off at full speed to keep a lookout for any spazzing yellowbloods.]

very, very filtered

[sagitterrifying]

[... something new everyday around here.]

[Darkleer sees the panic-stricken message, just like everyone else, and he knows who is making it. He knows exactly which troll that is, the one who became the Helmsman, and he knows exactly what a psionic of such immeasurable power is capable of.]

[He could split the entire world apart if he wanted to.]

[His knowledge of code commands is rusty, but he has to try. Now is also no time to hide his color and ranking in the hemospectrum.]

D ---> Helmsman system, come in
D ---> Archeradicator reporting in
D ---> Cease and desist unauthorized operations
D ---> Defrag

Helmsman encryption designation: EXQUISITE

[biiowiired]

[It is a few minutes before he is conscious enough to answer, and SHIT it's a BLUEBLOOD!! He's visibly quaking in fear, but that's happening anyway, so no one in the room is the wiser about this filtered channel.]

Analyzing fiile2.
Begiin defragmentation.
ERROR: Cannot defragment certaiin fiile2. 2y2tem will attempt to move encrypted fiile2.
ERROR: Gliitche2 detected 01001110 01001111 01010100 00100000 01011001 01000101 01010100

Come two cull me nook2ucker? IId liike two 2ee you try.
Who2 giiviing the order2? Nevermiind, iill fiind out 2oon enough.

[The Ψiioniic attempts to send a virus. It's somewhere between moderate and bad; mostly an info-gathering trojan, though it will send porn using his account every once in a while. OOC: Whether he succeeds, or the Helmsman interrupts this, is totally up to you~]

Helmsman encryption designation: EXQUISITE

[sagitterrifying]

[Ooooh, that's a pretty nice filter. Darkleer takes a second to admire it before attempting to block the virus. Helmsman, please... he is very, very good at avoiding trojans and phishing things by now, and although this one is a challenge, he's confident he can avoid it.]

[It's also interesting how the two discordant voices are yammering at him.]

D ---> Ignore encrypted files
D ---> Defrag function files
D ---> Stabilize system
D ---> Cease sending viruses

[voice]

[guiltapalooza]

Oh... oh no. [She knows what this is at least a little, has met the Psiioniic before, though much after he'd adjusted to life at the tower. She's never seen this part of it. That said, she does know binary, not well enough to have a conversation but enough to slog through it and put together the letters.

Willow bites her lip, at a loss for what to do. She has to do something.] The Condesce isn't here, [she can say at least.] Where are you? Can I come help you?

text

[biiowiired]

Her Imperious Condescension's arrival should be iimmiinent.
Helmsman System current location: primitive medical block, planet unknown.
Energy 2tatu2: Extremely low. Please connect to a proper energy probe, or iin2ert helm2man liiquiid nutriitiion formula.
Error: 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101001 01111010 01100101 00100000 00110010 01100101 01110111 00100000 01101001 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01110010 01100101 paiin wont 2top

[voice forever]

[guiltapalooza]

It's not imminent. Listen to me, you were brought here from a different dimension-- it has nothing to do with her. She's not here, she doesn't even know you're here.

[She bites her lip for a second, struck with empathy over his message, how much pain he's in.] Primitive medical block, like the place you woke up in? I can't leave you like that. I don't know what I can do, but-- is someone helping you? Do you want me to come? [She could at least put him into dreamless sleep while figuring it all out, so he wouldn't be stuck in pain.]

text; LATE!! sorry

[anaglyphiic]

Oh for fuck2 2ake.
Not you agaiin.

[SORRY PSII, he's confusing you for the AU "Psii".]

[text; it's nevar too late!] Helmsman encryption designation: CONDESCENDING

[biiowiired]

[OMGWTFBBQ it's the Condesce!! But, better make sure...]

All hail the Empress!
Please enter administrative pa22word.
Helmsman System inquiires as to why Her Condescension is using a different text quiirk.
Error: 01001111 01001000 00100000 00110010 01001000 01001001 01001001 01010100 00100000 01001111 01001000 00100000 00110010 01001000 01001001 01001001 01010100