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

w6 plot stuff

[polliwog]

[ i'll make a sub tl so other people can talk about other things if they want ]

👻 ghosties

[polliwog]

Good morning! [ he has worked off his hangover since he wakes up at dawn and is now just having some clear tea. ] We can discuss other matters too, but I wanted to talk about the fate of the old crew. We know that discovering their stations restored our powers, so it's likely important that we figure out what happened to them all as well.

[ the roster, for reference, is up on their computer. ]

First off, this document.

[ cw for suicide on this first one ]

Rhys Hayes. He was a dedicated relationship with Gavin Cleves. Given his injury... [ fin droop ] I believe he may have taken his own life...? He must've been devastated.

Then, there is Bryce Rowntree. He looks to have been poisoned. I wonder if it was foul play, or if it was the same as how Gavin died, where he consumed that strange flesh. If supplies were running low, as pointed out, it's possible.

Finally, this dark blonde haired man—I believe that is Kieran Chaffton. Vash, if you could take a look at confirm, since he worked with you. He appears to have been sent out the airlock—how awful?

-----

We have this new entry as well. It seems to be at the very end, with the storm. Amalthea must have written the first part.

In the first feed, there is Gloriana. The black-haired woman has appeared occasionally... but since Courtney had already died by this point, I believe this could be Ellya? She is in the same department as Gloriana. I believe the blonde-haired woman is Jade. The two women appeared together in a previous video.

Gloriana died certainly by being crushed. The other two were sent in this pod, as was, it seems, Ando Fisher in an earlier one.

The current senior staff appears to have been separated by debris from the rest of the crew—Jade seemed unaware of what happened to Callisto.

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Of the new documents, I believe the others are not so related to the fates of the crew? [ but please correct him and me if there's more ] I believe Viktor should remember everything that we've learned, but maybe we should also consider trying to show them our roster, if possible!

[discomfort]

Once we get confirmation that they were able to see the computer message or not, we can maybe try the same trick again with the roster?

[polliwog]

Yes, excellent idea! They didn't speak at all about it yesterday, insofar as I noticed... Maybe we should ask on HER-MES how much they can see?

We're likely to see another ghost this week. [ like at 3pm est today ] Maybe after we do, and we can confirm their fate and attempt to send them what we have.

[barriermaddened]

[Sora has made herself look human again and is looking downright fantastic because when your power is literal manipulation of reality you can make yourself look great no matter what. She looks as if nothing happened last night -- but that she takes tea from Rosamund betrays she probably has a killer headache]

Perhaps it was with the flesh. Every attack caused by those influenced by anger have been largely violent. Poison doesn't seem to fit so well.

[True, there's the possibility it wasn't anger-related, but still, that's her opinion -- which may be incorrect because I may be misremembering something at some point, yup]

[polliwog]

[ yay their tea. ]

Vash may have been poisoned... but that note has been there a while now.

[ since before he arrived at the graveyard. he's going to pull vash over actually, pspspsps ]

Vash, two questions for you! [ showing him the footage of rowntree. he also apologies for making him watch more dead people stuff, sorry vash. ] You were there when Chief Cleves died. Does Chief Rowntree seem to have suffered the same fate?

Secondly... can you confirm this is Kieran?

[bossbabygirl]

[she's wearing cashmere sweats because i just think thats very funny and drinking a smoothie.]

Maybe we're thinking about this backwards. How did Callisto and the rest of the senior crew survive?

[polliwog]

[ she is so comfy cozy and i love that for her.

anyway, looking specifically at this journal entry, for easy reference:

The ship is collapsing in on itself abruptly… And it would seem that we have been separated from the rest of the crew. Callisto, Io, Metis, Ganymede, Adrastea, and Europa are working on the debris barring our way. Thebe is trying to keep themselves calm. Fortunately, all is stable within our confined area, though the announcement called for evacuation.

But I worry. If I were to leave my place again, would you be able to find your way? I fear that I won’t be able to meet you when you finally arrive, Master… And for that I apologize.

Everyone may not agree with my choice, but until my soul is shattered and I cannot keep my form, I will wait here no matter how inoperable the Eudora becomes. HER-MES is supposed to carry my message across the stars, isn’t it?

I’m here. I’m waiting.

… There’s a strange darkness where we are. Or perhaps it had always been here in the ship and decided to surface. ]

Perhaps we should ask Amalthea, as this seems to be her journal. It may jog some memory of hers. But it does seem that they were at least temporarily confined somewhere safe while the ship fell apart...

[pathematic]

[good news everyone eunhyuk is back in flannel, only looking a little tired. he looks from the computer to the other documents as Sidon speaks. He does pause as he reads over the description describing Gloriana's(?) death, coughing a petal or two into his hand, and then he drops them on the canteen floor to get slurped up.]

...Thanks for putting all of this together, Sidon.

[it helps a lot? especially for their hungover brains?]

Maybe we can point one of the rat cameras at the roster? And then let them know on Her-mes that we changed the view?

[piteous]

[ Vash looks effectively hungover, but instantly sobers up though he sweats profusely about Gavin, but...

It takes him a moment as the memories of what happened shoots him. ]

All of this really escalated, but this is right. I remember the news about Rhys... After Gavin and Courtney went. Bryce we thought was food poisoning because rations were starting to rot, but—I think some of us saw something else in what he was eating. [ HIS HOMOPHOBIC HOMOSEXUAL COWORKER ] That was Kieran.

[ Solemn after a night's party drinking. ]

I don't know anything about the second part because I was stuck with the kidnapped solidarity crew. [ senior officers ] But that is Jade and Ellya.

It sounds like they escaped with Ando? I hope.

[verminous]

Black-haired woman's Ellya, Io confirmed it after seeing one of the logs. The guy in the simulation video where they showed up together-- I don't know if you guys confirmed who he is, but Io thought he was in Intelligence?

[rosebleed]

[I'm on the clock so for now Rosamund is bringing waters and teas to all of our drunk asses, refuse/accept/engage as you will

Also forgive me here is the hangover fit. She will not ever wear sweatpants]

[pathematic]

[he will accept a water!!]

Thank you, Rosamund.

[he doesn't look to be in any different shape than he usually is but still]

How's your head?

[rav3n]

[THANK YOU SWEET ROSAMUND... he looks tired, but he will accept water with a grateful nod.]

Thanks, Rosamund.

🌸 cult shit

[polliwog]

[ looking at this doc. ]

When I was speaking with Viktor last week, he suggested perhaps the "integration" for different planets may have been related to some sort of "hivemind"... Which seems to match this description, doesn't it?

We discussed this before, but I do think this confirms our suspicions that the ship is infected with something.

[barriermaddened]

If not integrate them into a hivemind, then at least disable any cognitive ability to counter them. The planet review seemed alarmed the inhabitants of that aquatic planet could come up with something, no?

[So yeah, turn them into puppets if they don't become part of...whatever's going on. She has seen it happen before, how somebody pretty much brainwashes others to disable them from doing anything the leader doesn't want them to]

[bossbabygirl]

HERM-ES responds to your thoughts. Maybe that's something to do with the hivemind?

[she's frowning. also, she'll share her own copies of yuri's meticulous notes from the town hall, which are lightly tear-stained but so, so organized.]

Lovelace kept bringing up that the ship is an AI and has her own sentience. I don't know how much she's looked into about that, but... if you have a sentient AI that's connected to a communications network and it gets infected by something, that could be one way whatever is infecting the ship is integrating other planets.

[pathematic]

...Maybe the something is the CEM waves themselves? Vash said that they've always felt organic -- alive to him.

power source

[bossbabygirl]

Last night at the town hall, the living mentioned a few times we might need to generate a significant power source.

Any ideas?

[discomfort]

The beacon talk, yes?

Do we have anything we could turn into that here...

[verminous]

I've pretty much got nothing here, but I do have a way to use my Identities, and at least one of those guys knows more about working with tech than I do, if I can grab him. Might be able to help a little more when it comes to actually doing that, whatever we end up doing.

[rav3n]

[His hangover fit is just an ugly shirt and gray sweats, probably]

Viktor mentioned we could use his automaton if we need it. I can probably put together a power boost, if we need something at a level between that and the gnosis.

[Just so they don't have to immediately leap to mega-AI]

[messy]

What are the rats using to power all their buildings?

[this is a shitpost question but imagine if we just brought upon the end of rat society]

profiles side note

[messy]

[she's wearing a pink tracksuit, hoodie up, with a pair of sunglasses. her hyenas are wearing matching heart shaped sunglasses on top of their heads, somehow.]

So, uh, not super relevant to all the other shit we're discussin' right now, buuuuut... Whoever said the senior crew profiles glitching out was a sign that they were regaining themselves was probably right. Half of 'em show their real data now, and the other half's still all messed up.

That's two of them per day now, right? Do we know if there's been, like, a trigger or something for fixing them? Is it just time...?

[verminous]

Io said they're replacing their augments. They thought that's part of what the problem is with them, so... could be that it's working-?

[frowning at io's still being fucking messed up though.]

...he didn't say he'd leave himself for last, but I know he's gonna.