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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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He does. [ it's true. ] But I believe from when people have spoken to him, we share enough common goals that we can still perhaps get him to help us for Vash's sake. Distasteful as it is.

Though once he's achieved what he wants, I suspect he may become a problem.

There aren't even humans on any of the planets we've been to. I think we must be a very long way from Terra.

Well, we will see what happens if it comes to that. We can just hope it goes smoothly.

We do have a surprisingly human-centric crew, for how few planets you all seem to inhabit!

[ how weird is that! it's like dwrp is made up of mostly humans. ]

It really is weird. Maybe Nut & Bolt has a pro-human bias? The galaxy I'm from does have a lot of humans in it, but we're nowhere near the majority.

Really? We've only got humans back home... and the Abnos, but they're sort of a separate case.

I've been getting the impression a lot of you are from places like that. It's very strange.

[slowly nodding in the background like no humans in space? fucking wild.]

Sometimes some of you say "human" to mean "people" and I'm like. Uhhhh! What the fuck!

[ nods!! ]

Right? Like think of all the metas, the aliens, the shark people, the giant swamp monster who had a one night stand with my girlfriend's secretary... They're people, too, bitch? It's so fuckin' rude.

[nodding!!!]

And clones, androids... And when you say aliens, what do you mean by that? I'm not from Terra, even if some ancestor of mine was born there thousands of years ago. I've barely ever been there, it's so touristy.

But a lot of you guys just don't realize how it comes across, I get it.

What? Where did ya go? Florida? You should never go to Florida.

Uh, just as a blanket term for not human and not born on Earth. I guess. Sorry? Could've said some names, like the Martians and the other Green Lantern Corps guys and the New Gods and all, but is our eternal slumber long enough for the whole list...?

[is SHE the space racist now? oh no.]

Oh, all of Americadia is definitely not a good idea to visit. But no, you're okay, I was just pointing out it's kind of an ambiguous term. I'm human but I'm not from there at all; by this point, most of us aren't.