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Senior Crew ([personal profile] dropoffs) wrote2022-09-21 08:39 pm
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GRAVEYARD.


GR͏∀VE̴Y͞A̵ЯD     13 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 6 PM EST / 3 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".
egodist: (✧ take my hand)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Stay behind where you can, since you're not much use in a fight anyway.

[thanks scien]

Seems like First Callisto and Busybody are happy taking the hits when they can.
artificialsweetener: (with a sly smile)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to tell me!

[LISTEN SCIEN IS RIGHT. He's not about to get his ass blasted unless something happens and he just reflexively acts on instinct like an idiot, which is not outside of the realm of possibility considering it keeps happening and also keeps getting him killed.

He also just sighs at that, these fuckin guys.]


I wish they'd be a little less quick about it...
egodist: (✧ and you want them back)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
There is probably a reasonable place between self-sacrificial and self-serving that no one here is able to find.

[he'll admit he's part of the problem at the moment]
artificialsweetener: (down by the river)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah yall are a goddamn mess he hates it here so bad. HE HAD TO STOP VASH FROM TRYING TO SAVE A MIRAGE.]

That doesn't bode well for us.
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[DAHUT IS ALSO PART OF THE PROBLEM PLEASE]

Nothing for the past week has boded well for us.

We have no choice but to proceed forward regardless.
artificialsweetener: (they say she wandered very far)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[HE DID HIS BEST TO NOT GET INTO TROUBLE LISTEN.

He just makes a sort of MMMMHHHHR sound at that, though, displeased and frustrated, before moving to sit at the edge of Scien's bed and pulling his legs up so he can wrap his arms around them. What Scien said is just the story of their collective lives.]


What a headache. [WHERE'S HIS VACATION TIME.] ...Still feeling as fine as can be expected?
egodist: (✧ but bad boys bring heaven to you.)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Odd feeling to have my insides repairing themselves but still in pain since the process isn't concluded.

[but he's not reacting to the pain because he never does? he's probably just running a bit warm from the biological toll on his body]

But it's nothing I can't handle.
artificialsweetener: (some people lie and believe)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
[The way he's fully understanding of the fact that Scien has been through worse and can handle worse, but he still looks faintly unhappy as he glances at the injury again.]

How did you get that, anyway?
egodist: (✧ that you've fattened up deliciously)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Teeth.

Saw the old witch from the orphanage inside while I was there and got distracted. Might be her wrath reaching across space and time to obliterate me.

[help]
artificialsweetener: (unless it is wise and kind)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[MAKING A BIT OF A FACE just because he has such a terrible final memory of sweet Salome now.]

Please don't get chomped on by any more teeth... But it's the same for the both of us, then! I saw Mademoiselle Ceres for a moment, too.

[DON'T JUST LEAVE JEAN OUT.]
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[NOT JEAN]

The Maiden of Death? Odd. Was the fake image of her trying to communicate anything?
artificialsweetener: (oya)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
She seemed to be in a great deal of pain and wanted help.

[Dahut seeing that like I DON'T TRUST THIS AT ALL GOODBYE.]
egodist: (✧ i made a deal with the demons)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-06 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
That doesn't sound right. Normally she's so mopey she accepts all pain as her punishment.
artificialsweetener: (whispered sloth in curls of smoke)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-06 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't right at all! Not to mention the fact that they were just silhouettes... I had to stop Monsieur Vash from trying to approach.

[HE BECAME THE BABYSITTER.]
egodist: (✧ and you want them back)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-07 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[help]

Nothing between those ears, huh.
artificialsweetener: (wont you carry it in)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-07 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
It was a little sweet, really... He seemed genuinely concerned!

[SWEET SWEET VASH........]

But it could be a problem in the future if things like that keep happening. He's going to get tricked by something obvious and double-die right away.
egodist: (✧ i guess the rain)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-07 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Concern doesn't save anyone when you're a rock.
artificialsweetener: (in your head in your mouth)

[personal profile] artificialsweetener 2024-03-07 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Thinking about how that might have been his fault since the figures exploded after they did not help them, with was his idea.]

...Well! I can't argue against that.