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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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[ said a little fretfully. it would be really nice if not everyone was dead. ]
But thank you, Vash! [ they can update oscar's fate ] That really just leaves Blake.
[ courtney too but at least they have a lead there. a pause. please brace for how wrong this is i am just trying to spitball. ]
...This is all speculation on my part, based on what we've all spoken on. But it sounds like the Eudora may have been overtaken by something sinister when you visited an "infected" planet. Lotophagos, which was enrobed in... pollen? CEM waves have existed forever, yet have been spreading within the last few years in influence and power... perhaps because they are the consequence of a living thing, infecting and integrating new minds into its fold. It grows more powerful in influence across the stars—Nut & Bolt would be an excellent tool or even front for that, with how far you travel. This blight struggles to assimilate minds that are sharper—like those of the denizens of Acquada—and can be blocked out by certain items. Those that cannot resist... it can trick entire civilizations into believing it is granting them prosperity before bringing about ruin. Like the hallucinations that Viktor and Eunhyuk saw.
The last storm was strange. Abigail said the environment around the ship itself might have changed... The stronger CEM waves might have had a role to play. And then there is the planet that disappeared entirely. [ digested???? ] But then the ship repaired itself, perhaps more like a wound that heals rather than a machine.
It may have used you all to continue running the ship—affecting your minds and having you spread its blight.
And I wonder—were we not all under the effects of the waves too? The ship has attempted to indoctrinate us from the beginning, with its strange effects. [ mini-event effects ] Perhaps it is that the ship has always been overrun by haze and meat and the living simply do not see it unless they use an item to temporarily ward themselves. What if what we are experiencing here is... closer to the truth? The Heart, the Brain—the lotuses. The rifts we saw last week, where the locations of the living were covered in pink mists. Even in videos we have seen for weeks—the haze has been there all along.
...In any case, learning the truth seems to dispel some of the lies! Apologies for my rambling! I think we ought to work on finding out what happened to Blake, it's likely to help.
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He listens to Sidon speak in paragraphs like he's attending school for the very first time in his life. ]
It's true that with more waves present, they can affect biological matter and technology, the very fabric of existence whatever the scientists say, which is why they're so dangerous... I've told Dion and Eunhyuk more recently, but I've always felt the waves were alive.
[ So he's more inclined to believe that it's all related and together. ]
It's kind of hard to argue with all of that! [ As a victim. ] I wouldn't be surprised if that's true... Seeing that all of their videos had the haze present without any editing. We may be seeing more of the truth now and this is a very big problem with how fast it's spreading.
[ Hands on his hips. ]
I think Blake's journal mentions stuff about how the waves could be from another dimension...
[ but i have to post the mini-event ]
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[ they're getting there! ]
I hope we can meet Blake—that should be a big help.
[ and then they do so we can move to the new post ]