GRAVEYARD...3!

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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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Comments

vash body

[egodist]

Dahut and I performed a few tests on First Callisto this week. When we examined his memory, what he remembers is conditional on what we bring to him. There's blank spots where he can't remember anything or we haven't brought him up to speed on documents.

However, when we tried to create a memory backup of the First Callisto, we succeeded. That means he is corporeal and has his physical body here. He sent a letter to the Nonagon to indicate as much.

Though it's worthwhile to note he heals at the same rate as us—we gave him a papercut and it healed in minutes. So I want to examine something else here, either the flesh wall or the rat, to see if the regeneration is separate from our entities being made of memory.

[hence the almost rat dissection yesterday but it's fine there's more rats]

[satisficing]

...I may be able to explain the healing. I spoke to his brother again. They can regenerate. They're... Plants. They're what's called Independent Plants.

[...]

Also, I may be able to explain the tears. He said the officers had the tesseract and it was active. They were testing it. The tesseract... I got him to show me how it works, in theory, the one he was familiar with.

...It's very dangerous. Like the Hex Core. Powerful and dangerous.

[egodist]

And a psycho has it. That's good. That bodes well.

[stop that]

They might be Plants, but we should still perform a test. After all, if First Callisto still has his nanites active, they should suppress his powers and not allow for the regenerative abilities to manifest.

[satisficing]

[No, Scien is right.]

True. I don't... particularly like the idea of testing on others, of course, but I'm not against it if he wants to try. I can talk to him later about what I learned with his brother to see if it triggers anything with him.

He talked about the video. The one of the person who is in the hallway and suddenly vanishes with a flower left behind. He said the person was Vash, and that the area did look like the garbage disposal.

[egodist]

The test of regeneration needs to be done on the space and non-memory creatures [like rats, supposedly], not any individual. I want to look into the Heart, but it seems like it's very against us doing so.

To disappear and leave a flower behind... Fine, but why? Flowers have been left behind after people's deaths. Does that have to do with their composition as Weeds or whatever? [plants, scien]

[satisficing]

[Gently:]

Plants.

[This is why Knives tries to kill you.]

They were... the only two males, I think. That's the impression I got. He showed me their... "sisters" being used for survival by humans. It was horrible. He said Plants had the ability to do different things. Energy, water, food, depending on their individual makeup.

[egodist]

[succeeded in killing him actually]

Humanity is rather wretched, yes.

[but he seems thoughtful]

... it is not impossible we are inside the First Callisto, if it possible for him to also be inside himself. But some of these locations don't make sense to be inside someone's anatomy, and I can't imagine why he would absorb our memory.

Hmm.

[polliwog]

I doubt Callisto will have our interests at heart, but! It's promising that these rifts seem close to us, somehow. Vash did say last Sunday that he was in one as well—and the one in "Applebee's" let us observe the living from an unclear distance.

[ also idk where else to put this so ]

A question for you also, Viktor. [ designated smart friend ] What do you make of this line?

[ he will pull up the review doc for acquada: WHILE LOW POPULATION, THEIR INTELLIGENCE MAY BECOME A THREAT TO THE NETWORK. PRIORITY SET HIGH TO QUICKLY INTEGRATE THEM INTO THE NETWORK. ] What is a "network?"

[satisficing]

His concern is mostly Vash, but, like I said before, he isn't entirely unreasonable if you speak to him respectfully.

I think he would begrudgingly assist us only if it meant he could get to Vash.

[KNIVES IS STILL INSANE, BUT HE HAS DEALT WITH A LOT OF INSANITY HERE.]

Um... It's... like... our IRIS, I think, if what I understand from Luke's work is correct. It's a digital communication route. Like... [Thinks about Sidon.] Ocean currents. A collection of ocean currents going to and fro, but it's digital. It works with technology.

[polliwog]

People like that aren't easy to speak to respectfully. But we could at least find some... common goals, yes.

[ insanity is okay but unfortunately he draws the line at fantasy racism. knives is a good shot at freedom, though. ]

And—oh, I see! That makes sense. [ his water metaphors ] What sort of network can you integrate an entire planet into?

[satisficing]

[He pulls Sidon's arm back to himself again so he can look at the report he has already looked at a bunch of times.

He stands there thoughtfully. His brows furrow. He lifts his purple hand slowly off Sidon and looks it over...]

There is an "integration rate"... What if the network isn't digital, but... [He looks up.] Is it a... hivemind?

[bossbabygirl]

Lucien said something that made me think he thinks the body is in more than one place - does that seem at all plausible?

[egodist]

Hmm... We'd need more information on why he thinks so. Is it because the boundaries between our locations are merging? Because both Callisto's still register as Callisto?

Aside from his memories and arm, which I believe is unrelated to his death, our First Callisto seems intact.

He last remembers examining the garbage chute before awakening in the Helly Belly, but doesn't believe there is a direct path between the two. A connection, perhaps, but not a literal, physical space.

[bossbabygirl]

I don't know why he thinks so, it's just the impression I got.

[egodist]

[he nods...]

It can be a discussion point for the next, or something to go into letter or HER-MES correspondence.

I have no further theorizing on why First Callisto might be in more than one place at once when his body is not in one of the pods, and the only video evidence of his remains is a flower.

[vash what's going on with you]

[satisficing]

I don't know if this is the case... I don't know how without the tesseract before, but... when he showed me how the tesseract worked...

[Frowning.]

Vash was trapped in a space almost like... what happens to us when we go to another place. He was turning into... a plant? Roots? Bark? Like what's in the new room here. And he was being opened up.

The tesseract... opens a way into another dimension. So I'm wondering... if... we're inside that dimension perhaps? But that dimension is... inside Vash.

[bossbabygirl]

[huh. that seems. possible, i guess.]

So the flesh and bones we're seeing...

[satisficing]

[He grimaces at the idea.]

Gavin did... say... he often had a tummy ache.

[bossbabygirl]

[she makes a really gross face at this. we're the cause of his ibs????]

[polliwog]

[ imagine endgame is that vash has to birth us free ]

[bossbabygirl]

[it was oviposition all along]

[barriermaddened]

[goddamnit the fistula was accidental foreshadowing done by anna oh no]

[satisficing]

[SHUT UP NOOOOO]

[ravenry]

[ stop ]

[rav3n]

[I hate this so bad]