GRAVEYARD...3!

[dropoffs]

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

[verminous]

-oh, right, this reminds me, Lucien asked me to pass a message for him while I was in the brig. Wanted to bypass messages getting messed with.

[he was busy dealing with some shit yesterday. is this a desperate tactic to not talk about virginity? Maybe So. also it's a convenient tl.]

I don't know what most of this means, but he says Adrastea thinks the woman he saw in the water is Courtney Ryser, she had some kind of affair with Callisto's boss and he wants to find out if that jogs anything. He also says we-- but I don't know who 'we' is-- "we think at least parts, if not the entire ship, is the body we've been looking for". Saw the flesh in room 20, the church, and engineering.

[so there you go here's his contribution]

[messy]

Oh, shit, that's right. I was talkin' to Kazuki and Adrastea the night I died and they said room 20 was, like, covered in flesh. And the mission Anise and Mizuki went on led them to a tower that was, uh, made of the stuff apparently. Don't know if that part's related, though.

[verminous]

Did you see the fixed version of the recording me and Shu found in the waste disposal? Adrastea got it fixed. Whatever Nera was eating in that video, it... looked fleshy and a little rotted, but Adrastea thinks it might have been a fleshlike fungus and not real flesh?

Still. Seems pretty... topical.

[messy]

Nope, didn't see it. But, uh... Think it's like some kind of brain infecting fungus?

[egodist]

It's possible, but I also want to say the 'body that they're looking for' is also here. First Callisto's body is corporeal in this space, but that isn't to say that it can't be simultaneously in other spaces at this point.

[space science is weird, he won't eliminate any theories]

But the ship is definitely also organic. There's a heart and brain here.

[verminous]

Oh- that Vash guy? He's stuck down here too...? Guess that makes sense, with what his profile said...

[huh.]

Seems like they're onto that part, then.

[egodist]

He's been here since before Dahut and Luke arrived.

[verminous]

His status said it was 'reactivated'. Didn't know what that meant, but.

[APPARENTLY THIS?]

[egodist]

[he nods]

Both he and the Second Callisto are registered in the system as 'Callisto'... though how the switch occurred is still uncertain.

There's some family drama in terms of Second Callisto trying to collect First Callisto.

[verminous]

Yeah, that's what I'd heard. I know he's getting some help on their side of things, so I guess we'll see how that goes...?

Figure that's more their business than ours.

[discomfort]

Oh. Right.

[ here you guys an have this. ]

[egodist]

Have this shown to the First Callisto.

In truth, we should just assign him all of the reading and viewing of documents.

[polliwog]

Yes, we've shown him documents related to him in the past and it does help jog his memory...

[ actually just looks around ]

Vash, are you here?

[discomfort]

Vash-sama.

[ pspspspsp ]

[egodist]

When we examined his memory in the machine, there's entire blank spots for things he hasn't been shown.

There is a gap between the last tour, and then preparing for the current one. And then another gap between preparing for the current tour, and then waking in the Helly Belly.

[polliwog]

Does that mean he survived all the incidents of the last tour...?

[ and just fucking died at the start of this one? ]

[verminous]

Do you guys have these? I think this is the most recent stuff I got passed, and then the version of what me and Shu found that Adrastea fixed up.

[digging through my docs like girl help

W4 Waste Disposal 100% Unencrypted
W5 Church (Encrypted)
W4 Research Journal]

And then there's these, but I just have 'em typed up.

[if my html breaks i give up]

Carnival of the Goat

UPDATE COMING TO FILES REGARDING "CARNIVAL OF THE GOAT."

• NEITHER A PLANET OR STATION.
• REFERRED AS "SWARM", A SMALL FLEET.
• HAILED AS THE "FLAGSHIP FOR HEDONISM."

(There was a picture of it with some pink clouds around it. -Gregor)

Wormwurld

"UPDATE COMING TO FILES REGARDING "WORMWURLD."

• PLANET WHOSE LIFE THRIVE BENEATH THE SURFACE.
• PEACEFUL, DANGER LEVEL: 0.
• HIGHLY REQUEST OF DELIVERIES OF MULCH.

POPULATION NUMBERS HAVE DECREASED SINCE THE LAST UPDATE, REFLECTING CHANGE.

850,000 3,000

[polliwog]

Oh, thank you both. Some of these are new...

[ for the engineering doc ]

This might be Jade?

[ for the church one: ]

I am not sure who "G" is meant to be. There is Ganymede, Gavin, and Gloriana.

[verminous]

It wouldn't be Gloriana. She was Io's senior in the medbay, so there'd be no reason to talk about it like a different department... and whoever's writing it talks more about the current senior crew anyway, so I'd probably just assume it's Ganymede.

[polliwog]

Makes sense! I don't know him very well, but it sounds like it could be his writing all the same.

[ takes notes on their silly family computer ]

[piteous]

This continues to be very weird to me, but I guess I don't know a lot to begin with.

[verminous]

Oh, hey. Guess this makes you that Vash guy?

[what's up! giving him a little wave. other people have used his name so he is assuming this is fine...]

[piteous]

Yeah! I'm the first Callisto—sorry I couldn't get to greet you yesterday, I got stuck in another rift, but it's nice to meet you, Gregor.

Not in the... You know... We're both dead here way. Well, I might not be dead? [ ??? ] You get what I mean.

[verminous]

Yeah, don't worry, I get you.

[this is already the superior callisto, the vibes are way better, damn.]

So you just hang around here with the rest of us?

[piteous]

[ Snaps with his prosthetic hand and points. ]

For the most part. I'm your senior even here since I was here a week before you guys arrived.