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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.
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".
💀 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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Shouxue and I talked about what could be making the plants grow. We thought it might have been something in Hydroponics, but maybe the source is the CEM.
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The brain, maybe...?
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[ he does not know SHIT about science but he'll collect a few notes that seem relevant:
W3: Eudora Log
"CEM waves can affect space travel and sometimes planets based on their frequency and wavelengths, this includes biological lifeforms and technology. While studies show the waves are mild and apply side effects that normally are not debilitating in everyday life, the CEM forecast relayed that the effects of waves have increased in severity. The predictions conclude that there will be dry spell seasons, but on-season waves will increase."
"The rest of the mural shows a crowd of denizens at the bottom, holding an object up, toward the circle. At first, many scholars saw this as a depiction of worship. The mysterious object is an offering to the sun, but further analysis could suggest that the object is a ward. There are rays, much like a sun’s, around the circle that stretch out to the seams, but it ends at the bottom before the object and people are painted."
"We have scoured many historical archives to narrow down what this mysterious object in the mural can be. The shape is indiscernible (it is some oblong shape), but there is one collection that is promising."
"Many researchers stated that a combination of CEM waves, if dense enough, can create a field that could alter the fabric of reality. At the moment, there is no research that proves this and it is currently a theory."
W4: Research Journal
"The theory is based on CEM waves being capable of affected emotions, senses, and psychology. There have been reports from other galaxies that certain frequencies can cause an effect where two individuals can exchange memories or change surroundings to a scenario created by the subconscious."
"This makes me wonder about CEM waves in general. Why do these waves have such an influence? How have they spread so far across the galaxy? After reading CEM forecast reports, they were not as prevalent years ago… Can I trust these accounts? They’re becoming intrusive, invasive… I worry about what this may mean in the future.
We should create a process of dispersing them, even if to relieve some of the effects."
W5: Interdimensional Rift Log
"I had a ware I purchased from our current planet that kept me alert and fended off CEM psychological effects.
This is all theory… But could CEM waves be more foreign than extraterrestrial life? Could they be an element from another dimension entirely?"
W5: GY Doc
Vore stuff, mentions of integration rate, potential for "influence" across the galaxy. Higher intelligence species are a threat to the network.
W5: Culture Log Bonus
CEM Wave connection to cults and shared consciousness. ]
So, there seem to be items of some sort that can block the CEM waves...? If I am understanding this correctly! Actually, one of the planets we visited also had wave murals along the walls of a cave, now that I think about it.
Also, many of the videos we watch of people affected by rage and madness also have details obscured by strange aberrations. [ chromatic aberrations. he does not know this word. ] The video that Vash disappeared in also had this happen... I wonder if it is related.
—Oh! Eunhyuk, does this look like a flower to you? [ thanks for being the springboard for all my crackpot shot in the dark theories yaywon ]
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[HE'S JUST HAPPY SOMEONE ELSE HAD THE SAME THOUGHT it always makes him feel like the thought is less insane]
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It does seem like the sort of conclusion that [ A BUNCH OF TRIPPY CULTISTS ] people might reach at a glance!
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[ like if the hallucinogenics they take for "prophetic visions" lets them see CEM waves that look like lotuses ]
Lotophagos itself, as Sora pointed out, has lotus in the name.
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[ actually wait he's going to wander off ]
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dahlia-lotus flower hybrid, with the the dahlia on the outside and a lotus in the center
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head tilt ]
Actually, it's rather close to this shape... [ a dahlia ]
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[ more so than just a regular lotus... ]
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[ CHARLES YOU ARE SO SMART ALL OF THE TIME I HOPE YOU AREN'T DEAD JAN ]
I'm sure they'll have it all figured out in no time, but let's do our best as well!
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Maybe the item has some relation to Scrap's items. Margaret's notes mentioned the living were talking about how they kept them alert when they used them.
[but he will also look at this drawing, hm]
It does look like a flower... Is this from the same mural that Sora saw in Hyros?
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Actually, on Anoria [ ice planet ] we saw waves down the walls of a giant pit, with reddish snow at the beginning and end of it. Have all the planets we've visited had some sort of connection to CEM waves...?
[ the guy who died w2 asked the guy who died w1, like they have done any mini cyoas since then ]
And if these items momentarily block the effects of CEM waves—um! [ he has a normal int stat. he gestures vaguely. ] Does that mean... we're all constantly affected by them? And it's only when we use these items that we're free of their influence? For example... how did we not see the haze in these videos before yesterday? It seems it was always there...
In that case, I wonder if we can find this strange oblong object and if it will help us disperse any more illusions and help us approach things like the Brain.
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There was a Nut & Bolt employee badge. It wasn't for anyone on this crew, but still. A strange presence.
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Maybe it has something to do with our -- powers? [he stumbles here because eunhyuk is a normie and has no powers besides redacted] The nanites were supposedly suppressing them... But we've learned that the CEM waves can influence emotions and thoughts too.
[all those nanite weekly effects could also be CEM related?]
But now that we can use our powers, it could also mean we can see more clearly now.