/funeral dirge

[elegante_masks]

[Hooray! Did everyone enjoy their promptu swimming lesson?

... no?

Oh.

Well then.

At least there's land though, right? The weather's lovely too, a balmy ninety degrees with the sun shining brightly over the warm sand of the beach.

A sign is stuck at the edge of the beach. It reads "WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN SHORE! A new beginning!" There's a

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[tachikhromatic]

[LET'S FIND OUT!

Musashi is all about exploring and moves to the interior of the island in a calm, happy four-point stomp, humming all the while. New place!]

Hellloooo?

[elegante_masks]

[There's no answer. The rubble is pretty devastating. It looks like there was a big fight here recently.]

[tachikhromatic]

[Musashi peers at the damage with digital eyes, carefully recording and examining every detail in beautiful HD clarity before moving on through the ghost town.

There has to be something here worth looking into...]

[elegante_masks]

[There are several red feathers scattered around, more as the Tachikoma moves inland.

There's ... something up ahead. Some great lumpy thing on the ground.]

[tachikhromatic]

Hmmm...

[Musashi whirls its eye and raises its manipulators cautiously. However, it is a tank, isn't it? The Tachikoma advances once again. Let's see what's up ahead.]

Hello?

[elegante_masks]

[It's ... a person.

No wait, people.]

[tachikhromatic]

[A pile of people? Wow. Are they all dead? Let's poke them! Squishy.]

Huh.

[Wonder what Mister Batou and the Major would make of this... But that's enough to spur it on around the pile of...people.]

I wonder what happened? Did that red thing get here ahead of us?

[elegante_masks]

[Oh well look at that.

There's Batou's corpse.

You could ask him, Tachikoma.]

[tachikhromatic]

[It's like a visual record-scratch.

What.

But it's mister Batou's shell, at least- and since it is a shell, Musashi really can ask him. Gently, respectfully, it turns the corpse over, seeking to plug into the data-jack at the back of his neck.

Let's see what you were up to, Mister Batou.]

[elegante_masks]

[You probably don't want to do that.

There are red whorls over the back of his neck.]

[tachikhromatic]

[How prudent is a Tachikoma? Let us ponder this question a moment and hope something distracts Musashi before it actually does this.

Because it is a core tenet of Tachikomadom that prudence is for squares.]

[elegante_masks]

[Seriously.

There's no more blue stuff.

This is a really bad idea.]

[iffadogcandoit]

[And here comes Toaster to save the day!]

Mister Robot, wait!

[He might not be that bright, but he remembers all that shit that just went down a little more than two months ago.]