Video; UN: Newton | (takes place during the player plot log; read that first!)

[groupiedrifter]

... Ugh — could some of you do me a favor and not blow up my phone while I'm busy?

All these months aboard the Ximilia, you've all really been a pain in the ass. Nosy, clingy judgmental pains in my backend; ooooh, I've been waiting for the right time to try this kind of chaos on for size. Did you know how hard it was to pretend to give a damn about the messy bunch of you? These last few days have been especially egregious. Gotta admit, some of you, I almost felt a little bad for. Not you, Peter — can't fucking stand you. It's too bad my aim wasn't as good as it should've been back in Giva, but what can ya do? Pfft, and don't get me started on the Doctor. How many idiots does it take to murder a guy?

[They tug on Newton's slightly crooked tie, yanking it off and flinging it away.]

Oof, much better.

You know what would be even better? Getting rid of you guys at long last. What better way to get even for the ways you've all treated me like a joke all this time? Little disorganized, intolerable Newton Geiszler — the poor, loud, mentally unwell bastard. Mmmyeah, he can be a bastard in plenty of other ways.

Like this one!

[They hold up a switch, flicking it — there's a small quake through the train as the back cars are decoupled and left to slowly fade into the distant railroad. There goes a few orbers and civilians, left to scratch their heads in mortified confusion. Newton looks absolutely tickled by the fact.]

Oooo, love that! This is so fun; you all should try this bad guy schtick more often.

Anyway, have fun, sorry if you end up mauled to death. I'd say it's not personal, but it kind of is. Sooo... bye!

[OOC: A network post to go along with the player plot! Feel free to use this as a way to threadjack/hop around with each other regarding what's happening in the log! Newton will reply to people here as well, though the threads may be a bit brief. The explosion that occurs here aligns with the opt-out prompt in the player log, as it happens at the same time! Here's the main log for all your player plot log needs, as well as the mod's conclusion post! Read those first to know what the hell is going on!]

Comments

audio; un: Sabriel.Abhorsen

[bindsthedead]

Newton, what are you doing? People are going to get hurt!

audio;

[groupiedrifter]

Uh, yeah?

That's kind of the point, Sabriel.

I hate to spoil it for you, but I'd prefer you all be very dead right now.

audio;

[bindsthedead]

Why? What possible grudge could you have against everyone in the crew?

audio

[whitestonelives]

[over the sound of gunfire:] He's not going to listen, Sabriel! [A click.] Oh, bloody—are you all right?!

Re: audio

[bindsthedead]

I'm fine! I brought a gun, just in case there was a fight.

voice; un: finn

[hatejakku]

[ This guy was in the car where it happened, so he's WELL aware that Newton is the cause of all this. He just couldn't understand why, couldn't even process it.

The noises in the background include screaming passengers, the occasional roar of the kaiju, and Finn's voice a little out of breath. And very angry. ]

What the hell are you talking about!? No one even-! [ There's an oof and a crash and a- ]

Call this damn thing off!

voice;

[groupiedrifter]

Mmmhm, music to these ears.

Now why would I do a thing like that? Genuine question.

[hatejakku]

Why are you doing any of this in the first place!? Is this about what's been going on with you lately? We can just talk, Newton!

[ This isn't like him. Like, at all. Newton wouldn't hurt people, not like this, Orbs be damned. Something bigger is going on... Finn hopes. ]

audio | un: silent

[callada]

[Hard to know how much of this to believe, but Newton has definitely gotten more erratic over the last few months, hasn't he? Something about medication, Hermann had said, but he hasn't seen Hermann lately to ask more and now he really wishes he'd pushed harder rather than letting Hermann deflect.

There's a lot of noise in the background of the transmission, both from the rattle of the train and the chaos that has begun to unfold. Rosinante has tried to keep up with the network, but with all of the "why are you doing this" and "what happened to you," one question so far hasn't been asked:]

Why now?

audio

[groupiedrifter]

... Why not now? You're all depowered. You're all on something I can easily destroy. Seemed like as good a time as any, especially when the orb's in agreement with me on this one.

[callada]

[Unfortunately, that's actually a good reason. Damn. Aside from the fact that there's no good reason to do any of this, but if Newton found the orb and decided to offer it something, then that's explanation enough.

The plan then becomes to keep him talking. Keep him distracted, from doing more harm until they can get the situation sorted out better.]

You know what happens to people who just want destruction, though, right? They tend to get consumed by it. That orb isn't exactly on your side, it's on its own. What did you promise it?

audio — un: the.doctor ;

[lateness]

— what?

[ still processing this ]

audio

[groupiedrifter]

... Do I need to repeat myself?

You're supposed to be a little faster than that, Doctor.

[lateness]

You couldn't possibly — I would have known.

[ He'd like to think he has a good sense of these things!!! ]

Why?

video; un: fullmetal

[chrysology]

Wait, what?

[No really. What? Newton what is this nonsense??? Ed needs a bit to connect the dots and orient himself here. Especially with dealing with the explosion and not having his alchemy to help out as he usually would.]

video;

[groupiedrifter]

C'mon Edward, don't be a broken record.

As for the 'what', that's an easy one: I'm getting rid of you guys. Trying to, anyway. You guys are super tenacious when it comes to living, though.

video;

[chrysology]

I can't die. I made promises I have to keep. Sorry for not letting myself get killed so easily. But -- really. What's going on with you? What's wrong? This isn't.....

[Isn't Newt. Something is wrong. Off. Ed might not necessarily be the most perceptive at times when distracted but even so. This is not like Newt. At least from Ed's experiences with the other.]

What can I do?

[To help. Ed still feels the guilt of not shooting to try stop Father and the homunculi from what they did to Ling. As if helping Newt get back to himself might make up for what happened there. It won't. He knows that. But even so. He wants to try help. If he can. Being that much more vulnerable without his alchemy.]

audio | un; tracker

[tochnyy]

You sound like you deserve a few really good punches to the face to start.

audio

[groupiedrifter]

You sound like such a jock. Gross.

How's things in your neck of the woods? Totally grizzly I bet.

[tochnyy]

Not like a little shit at least. [ a brilliant insult, sadly lost on a man who has never heard this most accurate description of himself in his life. ]

Once we get rid of this fucking thing. You're next.

People seem to think there's a good guy in there somewhere but I'll take you at face value.

text ↪ un: 朱

[blackfire]

（ hm. ）

How's the leg, Dr. Geiszler?

（ as someone who played the long haul game and got everyone to believe he'd gone totally off his rocker nuts, he's pressing x to doubt for entirely different reasons than people who actually like newt.

mostly?

this is sloppy, and spectacularly déclassé. as much as it annoys him to admit, newt is smarter than this. ）

[groupiedrifter]

Feels like a million bucks.

😇

[blackfire]

Doubtless.

Supposing you are able to kill all of us, I trust you have a plan to deal with Commander Degar and Viveca. Otherwise I might suspect you of a lack of foresight.

Voice | UN: Star-Lord |

[spacedisaster]

NEWT, WHAT THE FUCK!?

[ Peter is unusually pale when he witnesses all this, hurt and confusion clear as crystal on his face. It's almost as if Newt is a whole different person altogether, the exterior and the words leaving his mouth not matching the person Peter used to know.

Damn it all, damn it all. He's not waiting for an answer and won't have time to give anymore, busy fighting an alien monster and trying to reach newt to demand explanations in person. ]

Voice

[groupiedrifter]

[Peter may not wait for an answer before he launches off to go find him, but-]

Language.

[He gets that much, anyway, before Newt promptly ignores the message further.]