GRAVEYARD... 4!

[dropoffs]

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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Comments

[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? ]

[piteous]

[ He is wearing his normal canon teal arm, yeah. ]

I'm here. [ Oh... ] This is right...

[ Thinks. ]

Right—I somehow got here through a rift.

[pathematic]

-- A rift? So you didn't die?

[piteous]

Yeah, I guess not? I'm probably considered dead over there since the connection is wonky.

[ Too far to read that he's alive. ]

[pathematic]

[VASH. THIS IS SO MUCH.]

How often do rifts appear around you?

[piteous]

... Not a lot?

[ looks at you all and your cyoas ]

Don't rifts show up for you and take you guys away all the time.

[pathematic]

It’s happened at least once per person, twice for some others. Not counting the ones the we dealt with last week. And the rifts always take us back.

[…]

I guess it took you back here that time when you and Sidon vanished.

[piteous]

The ones on Sundays took me back... Not sure why that one took me here, but it did.

[ Anomalies happen. ]

Right. That happened when he bit me with his sharp, sharp teeth.

[pathematic]

[watches sidon and rosamund bite vash]

How do you feel?

[LIKE HE'S SUDDENLY READY TO MAKE HORNY RIFTS OR SOMETHING]

[polliwog]

[ good job vash ]

A rift...? When?

[piteous]

When I was running a diagnostic of waste disposal, one opened up out of nowhere.

[ Granted Vash just gets rifted, so this isn't weird to him anymore. ]

[polliwog]

So you're alive? [ what the fuck ] We're doing all this work to figure out how to power rifts and you just have them happen to you...!

[piteous]

... Yeah?! Apparently. My body's here, too, Scien and Dahut said.

[ Huh... ]

It happens to you guys, too! [ YOUR CYOAS points at, then stops pointing. ] But I guess I can create them myself.

[polliwog]

You and your brother are such anomalies!

[ THEIR CYOAS.... those are not them doing it to themselves

anyway he's gonna bite him again. ]

[piteous]

[ BONKS SIDON WITH HIS GUN DON'T ]

[polliwog]

[ bonked but not deterred ]

Vash! We have to figure out how you can generate these rifts yourself!

[bossbabygirl]

[shows vash the lingerie photo.]

[ravenry]

[ good job vash

she is here to listen to his answers to eunhyuk and sidon ]

[rosebleed]

Was there anything particularly unusual about this rift? You get targeted by so many but only one has put you down here, kind of permanently it seems?

[Assuming he hasn't been popping back to the living side in a totally corporeal capacity]

[piteous]

... Not really. It's hard to tell them apart until you go in. It was short.

I was in, then I was here.

[rosebleed]

And you weren't feeling anything strange at the time? I know you said you were working on waste disposal at the time, I can't imagine that was particularly tense, but...with all the stuff about emotions and hiveminding, it can't hurt to think about.

[piteous]

Nope, aside from it slurping me up.

[ Crosses his arms. ]

I was focused on making sure maintenance was going as planned for junior crew to arrive... Don't think I would have noticed anything off in the first place.

[rosebleed]

Welp. [She shrugs, a little helplessly] Can't fault you for a convenient rift anomaly. Unless we should all try biting you?

[Eyes his neck and arms.]

[piteous]

I don't think that's how it works.

[ He is a maiden. ]

[messy]

[



joins rosamund in looking at his neck and arms]