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Senior Crew ([personal profile] dropoffs) wrote2024-04-10 12:09 pm
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GRAVEYARD... 4!


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.
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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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-12 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[While she's having a Big Braid, she's sipping hot chocolate. It's all pretty relaxed, all things considered]

To think somehow we really are on the verge of making a breakthrough...

[Being revived is a real possibility now. That there's a plan and all is very surprising, really]
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-12 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
It was only a matter of time! [Said with BLINDING OPTIMISM.] I'm so glad everyone is working hard together; we'll be out of here before you know it!
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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-12 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[That blinding optimism is really something. Dahut might have gotten lucky with the effect of the CYOA, in her opinion]

Oh, I'll truly believe it after it's done, but for now, perhaps it's not so bad to think it'll really happen.

[Okay, no, she has been seeing things in a more optimistic manner for a while. Not Dahut-with-blinding-optimism levels, for more than normal, at least]
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-12 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly! See? It's not terrible at all.

[But he is speaking possessed by the spirit so WHO KNOWS, REALLY.]

It's too bad we don't have any flowers...
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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-12 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
You could cough up some, if you try hard enough.

[We're literally spewing flowers these days, hah]
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-12 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
No, not the lung flowers!

[HE'S NOT PUTTING LUNG FLOWERS IN SORA'S HAAAIR.]
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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-12 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Sora laughs. Oh, if only she could make flowers appear without it being potentially dangerous]

Would making some with fabric be good enough? I think I know just enough about sewing to try that.

[Rosamund did bring the sewing stuff that arrived earlier. Sora hasn't looked in there, but maybe there's fabric]
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-12 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Like a rosette? That should work just fine!

[Much better than lung flowers...]
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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-12 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Somehow I rolled a 16. For once the dice were kind. Sora, after scavenging from Rosamund's stuff, she begins trying to make a rosette with golden fabric, and turns out she does know what she's doing, because soon Sora has a small rosette that looks pretty nicely, for something crafted at a time like this]

Will this do?
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-12 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[FINALLY SOME GOOD ROLLS IN HERE.]

Oh! Yes, that's lovely! Thank you very much.

[He'll reach out to take it and by now, he's probably pretty much finished with his intricate braid design that's some combination of a fishtail and a crown braid. He'll secure the rosette at the side like a little decorative flair piece.]

Wonderful! Braids suit you well.
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[personal profile] barriermaddened 2024-04-13 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It's hard not to feel like she looks great right now. Sora smiles at Dahut]

Perhaps I'll keep this look whenever I use this human form.

[Chances are she won't have many reasons to be among humans, once she returns to her..."home", but hey, someday another human will reach to her to make a pact. May as well be like this when it happens, have it as a form humans will be more comfortable with than, you know, her real form]

Thank you, Dahut.
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[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-04-13 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles back! She will look great whenever she reemerges from the void with a fancy updo.]

Of course! I'm glad you like it, Madame Sora.