GRAVEYARD... 4!

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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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CHANGES GRAVEYARD LOCATIONS LIVING SIDE STATUSES PROFILES AUDIENCES REPORTING PRIVATE CONVOS COMMS DOSSIER

Comments

CLOSE IN THE DISTANCE

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GHOST TALK

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You may talk to Blake or any of the ghosts listed: (W1) Everan Gill ♂, Lancion ⚤, (W2) Gavin Cleves ♂, Hans Falcin ⚤, (W3) Althalos Truegust ♂, (W4) Dimia Montagu ♀, Abigail Bradley ♀, and (W5) Nera Cheswright ♀.

[discomfort]

Oh, it is nice to meet you, Blake-sama!

[ stares at her-mes ]

We seem to be in contact with Ellya-sama?

[dropoffs]

[ It takes him a moment before he responds. ]

It's nice to meet you. I'm guessing you're one of Vash's new friends.

[ As weird as it is. Every once in a while he looks at this fleshy canteen. ]

Ellya is here?

[pathematic]

[hi blake..... megane to megane communication]

How far did you get in your CEM wave research? For bringing the others back?

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[ megane to megane communication but i think eunhyuk is taller than him ]

... I didn't get that far after creating a formula. The storm hit the Eudora the next day—and it was collapsing.

[ just falls onto the floor and orz thinking about his failure ]

[polliwog]

[ talking at blake, but he'll give a wave to the other ghosts he's talked to so far! friends!!! ]

Blake, is it? It's nice to meet you finally! My name is Sidon, Prince of the Zora.

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[ They show up randomly and wave back. Hello, Sidon. ]

Vash didn't tell me he knew royalty. It's nice to meet you, your Highness.

[bossbabygirl]

Hi, Blake.

[she waves and gives a small little smile.]

We've been hoping to meet you for a while. Do you know where you are?

[egodist]

[sure let's start with blake]

Does the concept of a 'Tesseract' sound familiar to you in the slightest?

I've looked at your formula, but it suggests that the 'souls' may need to be guided to the pre-existing body vessels. And you can confirm that the Eudora has the capability to restore bodies to previous functionality?

[rav3n]

[Okay I did a quick scan and I THINK??? Blake is the only one here who can help him with this??? So after struggling a little he will come and interrogate him. But like, friendly because he doesn't need to be an asshole cop to a ghost]

Hey, Blake. [Damn you look like you haven't slept in 20 years. Are you related to Viktor] Do you think you could give me a hand with something, while you're here?

[messy]

[waves awkwardly at blake and the other ghosts in confusion. but she's addressing blake here, i guess.]

Oh, shit, they weren't kidding about the ghosts... How's it going?

[uncoincidental]

[waves at the ghosts!]

Hello, Blake... I think most of the others have been asking you questions already, but is there anything we haven't really touched on that you think we should be aware of?

EXPERIMENT PROPOSALS

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Submit and receive results (maybe).

[rav3n]

Okay stumbles back in here--for now he is first going to try and modify the interferometer either on his own or with player character help, utilizing the research and documents they currently have to see if he can pick up anything about CEM waves!! If he fails he will go consult ghosties

[egodist]

hello can we use a basically super-intricate equivalent of a multimeter to insert into the brain and a ) read it's electrical voltage output and b ) harness the actual electrical current

[polliwog]

this is less of an experiment and more of our game plan for your organization purposes sweet mods

-using the grinder as our beacon
-using the brain as our power source but also with bonus trash burning recycling secondary source
-using crystal rat vessels from the living but with lil customized outfits and friendship bracelets
-sorry important chat addition that vash is carrying our rats in a lo, she twerked shirt

here is our crystal ratsona doc

DISCUSSION

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put in here, divvy up as needed.

[rav3n]

[Brief interlude before we're lost to the fervor of rat regency AU--]

Hey--I'm gonna try using the interferometer to see if we can pick up on any CEM waves.

[bossbabygirl]

[looking at she/her/mes]

Oh no. I sent Ellya regency rat nonsense, and she responded and she sounds hot.

[verminous]

[throws gregor down as i wake the fuck up

though this is actually a different version who looks like he hasn't slept a day in his fucking life.]

There anywhere to grab coffee here, by the way?

[polliwog]

[ after they've all worked on the crew doc today ]

Vash! Could you come here please?

[ they will show him the roster to see what happens.

also is he wearing his original arm? ]

[bossbabygirl]

[do you ever send a girl a very spicy photo and she just goes "oh...may i save it the logo may help me remember... ZALGO TEXT R U N"

boy.]

[rosebleed]

[Looking distinctly put out.]

Well. Since our powers are back, I've spoken to as many rats as I can. Both the big and the small. I asked if they knew anything about the Brain or the Organs, whether they've seen anything strange in the flesh walls, and if they had any idea about Vash and his rifts.

[Long sigh.]

And to nobody's surprise, they don't have much to say. The little flesh ones are mostly just brainless and hungry, the regular ones just say that the flesh isn't good to eat. The large ones are actually kind of nice once you get to know them? They were mostly interested in talking about some kind of love triangle going with um, "Gooferella" and the Flower Rat, and someone else. [respectfully redacts.] But they say they just steer clear of the organs themselves, and that their friend Jerry once wandered into the wall and was never seen again?

They also think Vash is going into rifts on purpose, probably to date someone. They suspect Almathea.

[Truly just withering on the spot.]

Anyway, if you want to read some love letters for fun, they're in the piano in the Dripping Debussy. Otherwise, I don't think we can rely on them for much of anything.

REVIVAL SUMMARY

[egodist]

Let's wrap up at least part of this. There's still more to discuss regarding the CEM waves, a cult, and the infections, but we need to decide the concretes of our revival.

[and that sure is scien's bread and butter! be useful, bitch!]

Based on discussions with Walker, we appear to be in a separate dimension that replicates parts of the ship. We can get to the other side via two beacons—ours will most likely be the Grinder, theirs the trash chute. These beacons also need to be fueled by power sources. The Tesseract will be on the side of the living, we can determine ours. The best options are heart and brain, and possibly recycling.

What they need to do on their side is ensure the Eudora stasis restores our bodies to the state prior to our deaths so we don't immediately die again. Supposedly, it should be naturally capable of this.

However, in the interim, after the beacons create a bridge between dimensions, we must have ourselves—in this memory, CEM form—transported in vessels. The living may create these vessels to capture our souls, or we can do it on this side. First Callisto, as long as he is corporeal, can carry us from this side to the next as a transport.

So in sum, we have the following action items: determine the power source, and decide what to do with our vessels. I am of the opinion that we create our own.