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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Comments

[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.

[messy]

Huh... Yeah, I can see Io leavin' himself for last. Might be the one's who are still all fucked up need, uh, surgical intervention and shit too. I heard some of their augments are internal.

[so that's... something? maybe? she glances at vash.]

His brother doesn't have any augments as far as I know, though. Maybe there's something we gotta do for Vash to fix Callisto's info.

[discomfort]

Callisto didn't have any, no. It's why he was unaffected that one execution.

[messy]

Yeah, that's what I heard. So if it's related to the augments, it's... probably Vash who needs help here. Do we know if he got any work done besides that arm of his?

[discomfort]

[ just looks at vash ]

[piteous]

[ Looks back at Owner? ]

[piteous]

I just have my arm, but it's been this way since before the Eudora... I guess I did swap to an office augment just to join everyone, though.

[ Like matching sweaters. ]

I still have stuff for my old arm in my room.

[messy]

Gotcha... Think you could try swapping back to your old arm?

Even if it doesn't end up doing anything to fix your info, it's probably better to get rid of the company augment before somethin' else happens.

[verminous]

So why is his all messed up in the first place...?

Wait, if they're both Callisto, do we actually need to fix Vash?

[discomfort]

Since he is the original one, maybe. The picture on the profile looks more like him than his brother.

[verminous]

And he's the one who has a profile in the first place. Saw it before I kicked the bucket-- status, reactivated.

[pathematic]

Do you know why they got augments in the first place?

[discomfort]

Injuries, the same reason we get them. Allegedly, anyway. However, what they received is less advanced than what's being provided to us currently.

[pathematic]

[thinking of adrastea's robotic eyes damn

also reading over these logs again]

...I wonder when exactly they got them. Was it during their time with the previous crew? Or did they get them after they died and Vash disappeared, and that's why they started forgetting?

[discomfort]

Hmm, I am not sure... Maybe we can try to find out?

[messy]

I was kinda assuming it's the same reason as us. They got fucked up by somethin'...

Have we asked blondie over there?

[pathematic]

[LOOKS OVER AT VASH...]

Do you have an augment?

[wait vash has a prosthetic right but that's Canon....]

[verminous]

Well, I never asked all of 'em, but in some cases I think it was just... necessity. Io lost his leg on a mission, not at home.

[pathematic]

Do you know when that mission was? Or was it more recent?

[was it during a cyoa...]

[verminous]

It was with the old crew. Gloriana helped him with the new one, he said.

[pathematic]

[oh, hm]

...Do we think the augments are partly responsible with what's affecting their minds then? Since they all collapsed that one week... And Adrastea said that her augmented eyes started bleeding when Luke asked her questions in an earlier week.

[rav3n]

[He looks a tad troubled by this, but he doesn't say anything... Io you dumb fuck]

[verminous]

[he also looks pretty worried about this, yeah. god. stupid stubborn io.]

...he's a surgeon. Said he knows what he's doing, he's been taught about working with augments and all. He'll... be okay.

They all will.

[rav3n]

[...Actually--]

Is he the one in charge of our bodies?

[verminous]

I'd figure so. Why?