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Senior Crew ([personal profile] dropoffs) wrote2024-03-31 05:25 pm
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GRAVEYARD...3!


GR͏∀VE̴Y͞A̵ЯD     18 DECOMMISSIONED
t̀h̡e u͝nḑerbe̸l͞l̵y ̸o͜f th̴è ̡şh̷i͠p.
 
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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[personal profile] polliwog 2024-04-04 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is not also not asking actively even if they look like they're dying ]
artificialsweetener: (even the slightest hope)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-04 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[YALL MAKE HIS JOB SO HARD. At some point when he's done spewing blood on various people, Dahut will make his way over and gently touch his arm. THERE'S SO MUCH BLOOD AND BURNY HE DOESN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO TO AVOID RUST it's fine they can both die.]
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[personal profile] polliwog 2024-04-04 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it takes him a couple minutes of stubborn healing to be like, cognizant enough to get what dahut is offering. he flinches briefly, but truly at this point they are SO CRISPY AND SO STABBED that the rust pain barely registers. dahut can feel his arm feeling crushed and burned in the meantime. ]

...Is Margaret gone?
artificialsweetener: (the ocean breathes salty)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-04 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[THANKS THIS IS TERRIBLE. Dahut immediately whips his arm back away again like he touched a burning stove, but he manages to keep his expression from flinching too hard. HE'S GOTTA GET SIDON OUTTA HERE.]

For now, yes.
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[personal profile] polliwog 2024-04-04 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ SWEET DAHUT WHO IS GOING TO GET RUN OVER BY A WATERY HAMSTER WHEEL SOON

anyway, he pauses, because he's stubborn and also his brain is a bit scrambled, but in a moment of clarity—he coughs up more blood with a grimace. ]


Let me go with her.
artificialsweetener: (til everything's cotton and dry)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-04 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[IT'S WHAT HE DESERVES!!!!!

But for now, he just looks at Sidon with a look that's a little complex but mostly sympathetic. This is terrible! If only they had medpods that weren't only for rats.]


Okay. [TIME TO SEND THIS OTHER OL YELLER OUT TO THE GREAT PASTURE IN THE SKY. He'll prep another dose of this magical all-healing panacea that will carry Sidon into the gentle sleep of forever snooze and get ready to inject it.]

Just a little pinch.

[Nightynight peanut.]
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[personal profile] polliwog 2024-04-04 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ IF ONLY THEY HAD MEDPODS FOR MORE THAN RATS

but he nods when he's ready, trying to straighten himself up a little so dahut has an easier time administering the shot. doing his best to sound casual, undercut by some obvious regret, ]


—Sorry to trouble you, Dahut. [ just a pinchy. before he drifts off into sleepytime: ] See you soon.

[ but if not for the pain, he'd have passed out already, wearied from whatever the hell just happened. so he closes his eyes, and—it's easy! dying is so easy, actually. sidon is dead. because we have newbies: his body decays with alarming speed, and growing in its place are so many flowers. yayyyyy ]
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[personal profile] pyromance 2024-04-04 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ 🧍‍♂️ ]