GRAVEYARD...3!

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GR͏∀VE̴Y͞A̵ЯD     18 DECOMMISSIONED

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Crushing pressure is the initial sensation you can recall upon awakening. The stench of fetid, hot steam fills your nose, motes of dust and dirt floating upwards to cling to your skin. Down you are pulled to the cold ground, and all at once you realize you have forgotten to breathe. As you gasp back to life, you are flung onto a pile of scraps and trash, as the enormous machine that spat you out grumbles a little, and then goes silent. You are whole somehow, alive... but at what cost?

Popping out of the grinder, you look yourself over and find that any injuries you may have incurred during your death will be healed. While the scars that remain from the process will serve as a stark reminder, you will be able to get up on your own two feet without issue.

Thin, tapering metal (?) claws unhook from overhead and lower themselves, proceeding to guide you around. Your clothing starts sticking uncomfortably to your skin in the humidity of this strange, new place. Overhead you can hear the tinny humming of flickering lights overhead, arranged in a singular, thin strip and snaking around the serpentine halls. Along exposed pipes, wires, and the walls, a rust-colored substance creeps in web-like patterns, climbing towards the ceiling lights.

The deep grinding and groaning of the ship begin to meld into one low, deep moan from all around. It dips and rises in pitch, and becomes sickening to listen to if you focus on it for too long. Maybe, it's the ship's way of saying Welcome, to the underbelly of the CSS Eudora, home of the decommissioned.

Some things to keep in mind, while amongst the dead:

💀 Mini-events will be posted on WEDNESDAY at 3 PM EST / 12 PM PST, and are due at the same time they are for the living. Any changes to the schedule will be announced in the graveyard channels.

💀 Weekly effects will still hit you here, in the belly of the ship. Mods will make sure to announce any special changes based on being the graveyard; otherwise, please assume everything is 1:1!

💀 While not perfect, there is a healing factor in place. It is extremely sluggish, uncomfortable, and does not negate the fact that you're injured and likely in pain. If the injury is too severe, you might wind up dying from it if left untreated. Again. If you have a pre-existing condition like an illness that has been exacerbated by factors beyond your control, you will find that for the time being these symptoms are at their most minor.

💀 That said, while double death is possible, you'll find yourself reviving after 4 hours fully healed, but feeling like complete garbage for the rest of the day. Message your mods if you find yourself getting killed while dead, though! There might be a special surprise involved.

💀 Your possessions, minus clothing besides what you're wearing now, can be found in the bunk pods and their storage. Yes, while it might not include clothes, it does include any Omegamart Promotional Items, Scrap purchases, home items, etc that you were in possession of. if you had a lot of things, the cubby might jam or have difficulty closing. Better organize. If you arrive on Saturday during trial, belongings will return at the end of trial.

💀 Communications, while you cannot text via I.R.I.S., you can still send messages through HER-MES. All other functions for I.R.I.S. are available along with direct data transfers. Dead can send private letters to the living! An inbox can be accessed from the family computer at the canteen. If you find it locked, it is because we are updating it.

💀 Living livestream is broadcasted on the TV screen in the canteen!
✔️ Upgraded Quality ✔️ Audio ✔️ Translit Captions that sometimes fuck up ✔️ Dramatic panning ✔️ Color

💀 Planet locations are free to use! Upon the Eudora landing planetside, you will find that as you meander through the various parts of the Belly you may run into one of locations of the current planet instead of where you were meaning to go. These locations are indeed still populated, but the people are more like wisps and will not react much to any conversation. Though you can interact with stuff there you cannot take anything with you out of the location "rooms".

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CHANGES GRAVEYARD LOCATIONS LIVING SIDE STATUSES PROFILES AUDIENCES REPORTING PRIVATE CONVOS COMMS DOSSIER

Comments

[polliwog]

a. violence void
[ either dealing with the monsters or one of the eerie pink haze voids, he is... slightly hungover from applebee's. he's armed with a broom with its head off its shaft, left with a pointy stick. he may be stabbing one of these lil bastards with it. ]

The rift yesterday was better. Maybe I should bite Vash again.

b. desires and regrets
[ tell me serious or goofy and i will generate something for you ]

*. wildcard
[ please just wildcard a rift i'm really fine with anything and my brain is completely empty. we can be warriorcat ponies. ]

B!

[rosebleed]

[Since I was cruelly denied memshare with you i will take serious

but at the end we should have them watch link failing all his builds anyway]

[polliwog]

[ oh god not me having to bring out the mipha lore in public. i can't remember who i've shown this to already so you can just see it again maybe, the rift looks like this, it's pretty.

there's a zora girl who will set upon healing rosamund's briar wounds. it won't work, but it's a nice illusion—refreshing, probably? she's small, smaller than rosamund because zora genetics are insane, and her voice is soft and delicate, gentle but with the sort of urging that makes you want to listen.

"You ought to be more careful..." ]

[rosebleed]

[Hello? This place is stunning?

She is entranced at once by the Zora girl, mystified at her size (a child?) and relishing the cooling sensation of healing magic. Rosamund smiles even if it doesn't take. The gesture is very kind.]

Thank you, I'll try?

[To be more careful. She looks around again and leans in, whispering.]

Where are we?

[polliwog]

[ it is truly so beautiful. the girl is more like a young woman—right around rosamund's age, just short and petite. her hands land on her wound and are cool to touch, like sidon's, and somehow just as strong despite being a fraction of his size.

her demeanor is much less rambunctious though, almost demure. a very proper young lady, if a little shy.

"This is Zora's Domain. Our home."

she says it with a little smile, a tiny curve of her lips, then offers a hand to help her to her feet. it starts to rain a little. ]

A

[rav3n]

[The way I knew exactly what monster this was going to be even before I clicked on it

I guess he can have like. Broken a horn off of one of these things for his weapon. Why not. Either way, he can't help a tired laugh. GOD THEY'RE A MESS.]

I'll hold him still if you see him.

[polliwog]

[ thank you, you can also select to be attacked by an octorok if you so please. or one of those little wizard bastards. ]

Thank you, Luke. He's very evasive.

[ he stabs the lizalfos again tiredly!!! one of the rifts closes. ]

What are these rifts?

[rav3n]

[Well I rolled a 3 so I guess he can get pelted directly in the solar plexus with an Octorok... rock. Ow.

He stares into the void like he wants to lay down and let the earth consume him.

But he will try to drag his braincells back together, he GUESSES]

If the CEM storm theory is right, then they might be anomalous spots. Probably areas where the waves are weaker or something. If it's not that, then maybe glitches...

[Sidon is a fish jock Luke don't do this to him]

[polliwog]

[ he is a jock. he knocks away the next octorok... rock, at least. ]

Oh... strange that those would affect us even here, but I suppose it's been happening for a while now.

[ are they real or are they just a ghost in the machine ]

Vash vanished on Sunday too.

[uncoincidental]

[dice have decreed it's desires and regrets time!!! uhhh give me something goofy]

[polliwog]

[ goofy!! okay.

she is in a beautiful place, surrounded by a bunch of water, and then this little dickhead is spitting rocks at her. ]

wildcard

[agamid]

[ they're ponies now. this is dion.

i don't know what it means to announce a cutie mark ]

[polliwog]

[ there's a whole merpony generator on doll divine baby blue bell, but i am lazy so he looks something like this. it's basically the same. ]

Dion! You look... different!

[ can he also transform into ponies and not just scalies ]

[agamid]

[ stabs you

dion looks at him ]

I could say the same for you.

[polliwog]

[ stamps a hoof... ]

Oh, so I do! How fascinating. How does it stop?

[ is it body horror to suddenly be a sentient pony ]

b.

[bossbabygirl]

[i want a serious ratgret... ]

[polliwog]

[ living with ratgrets...

okay, then she is also a visitor to a zora's domain rift, wow. she can also be greeted by a young zora woman, who seems to be a bit afluster. you know who mipha is i won't be coy

she is little and softspoken, but doesn't hesitate to approach margaret.

"Excuse me—have you seen my brother?" ]

[bossbabygirl]

Your brother?

[comes in here late, i'm sorry, but yes. she recognizes fish lady.]

Sidon, you mean? I haven't seen him in this rift. Is everything okay?

b...

[artificialsweetener]

[GIVE ME.........GOOFY AND SERIOUS I WANT BOTH.]

[polliwog]

[ BOTH.....

they're back in zora's domain. except instead of beautiful silvery buildings and stunning architecture, they are kind of... on the outside of that? over by a waterfall just outside the domain.

sidon is here, but he's. little. hello. ]

[artificialsweetener]

[BOTH!!!!!!

I AKI DIE SO MUCH OVER HOW CUTE LITTLE SIDON IS!!!! AAAAGH!!! Dahut's also dying a little bit, how is this LITTLE FISH PRINCE SOOOOOOO CUTE. He holds his hands over his mouth so he doesn't just start cooing out loud, but he's truly sparing like 2% of his attention for the beautiful nature around them and everything else is going to Sidon. He will approach without any caution because he is a fool.]

Hello, little friend...!

[FINALLY SOMEONE SMALLER THAN HE IS.]

[polliwog]

[ DAHUT NO....... well, the domain is very, very lovely as is all the Water around it, there's so many cool mountains and stuff. one of the mountains is kind of infamous for a monster, but don't worry about it.

like some of the other rifts that turn people into cats or whatever, this one seems to have turned him..... small... he stumbles over to dahut and starts patting his leg, making babbling noises. TOO SMALL TO TALK. ]

[pyromance]

[ get broomed, bassards. diluc bats away another one like he's in the big leagues. the creature lands on its back, and he skewers it to the floor before it can get back up again. anyway! ]

It's worth a try. [ sorry vash. ] Where did you go yesterday...?

[ me missing deets in the 1.7k comments of partying ]

[polliwog]

[ lizalfos can die. goodbye forever, nuisances! they do turn invisible though, so that's kind of a pain. he looks around for them... ]

Oh—we were somewhere near the living, I think? I could see what they were doing, briefly. Um, blurrily!

[pyromance]

[ ANNOYINK. where are they even fighting? if they're in the canteen, diluc will start launching cans of (flat) ginger ale where he thinks he detects movement. ]

Ah. And what were our other friends up to?

[ oh, one of his cans actually hits a lizalfos. there's a spray of soda because it gets punctured by its (invisible) spiky hide. ]

—There's one.