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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: (✧ i made a deal with the demons)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm... Sounds familiar enough.

[a wave of his hand to summon the I.R.I.S. and he'll send the graveyard info doc over to eunhyuk]

There. That should answer the most immediate of your questions. Dahut is here to fret over you.

Find time to rest and seek me out again when you're ready to share more information.
pathematic: (are we doing okay guys....)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-10 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eunhyuk opens up the doc, scanning the contents. Scien really said go rest, but he'd rather not because this whole gy is filled with insane workaholic nerds, and he needs something concrete to concentrate on.]

I can talk now.

[he points to the "Inability to Recognize Foreign Emotions Within Oneself" section on the doc]

I told everyone that I chose to kill Viktor because I wanted to, and that my anger was mine. I said it was because I was transforming.
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[sure why not. scien just nods, because he did his bare minimum diligence of offering time! it wasn't taken so that's not his fault]

Transforming related to your possibly not fake disease? So your brain created a rationale even though it otherwise didn't feel accurate or like the conditions would've been met. I did the same.

And you can speak freely now, even though last night you could not. Does that resonate?
pathematic: (gray shirts and flannel)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-10 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[how is it the anger he felt before was so clearly manufactured and now he doesn't need to feel it, but he is feeling it now again anyway...]

I didn't want to confess during trial because I thought they didn't deserve an answer. They missed too many things.
egodist: (✧ take my hand)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
They still found you anyway.

[just.... plainly speaking,]

We are free to say what we please here, so I believe that whatever caused the violent urges in us are dormant for the time being. I haven't felt any unreasonable anger since I arrived, at the very least.

That said, if either of us become hostiles, I expect that Busybody will take us out before we cause harm. Understood?

[it's not really a question but. still.]
pathematic: (focused)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-10 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[but would they have voted for him? eunhyuk's not sure, (mod voice) we could have had a scapegoat

busybody could only be luke, but hm, eunhyuk scrolls to the biological regeneration/rapid healing section. small cuts. abdomen impalement. nothing after.]


Can we die here?
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We haven't reached that level of testing, and don't cut ahead of us to start. New locations are still being made available, so we'll see if we get something useful to see the limits of what their regeneration can do.

But until that point, I hate unnecessary sacrifice.

[but like. as soon as they get an operating area/a half decent medical location? it's so over]
pathematic: (neat! except when he's not)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-10 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't intend to cut ahead, but I want to contribute.

[and he can't actually time it if he runs off and offs himself, which would be the whole point of experimenting]
egodist: (✧ in your head)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Too many of you are mistaken about this: your lives will always provide more worthwhile developments than your deaths.

If you want to contribute, bring us the information that's developed over the week. What happened to the two groups on Thursday? What has the Senior Crew been doing? Do you know anything about unique, secret responsibilities given to certain members of Junior Crew?
pathematic: (so about what i did to you....)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-10 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[he takes in the first part of scien's words, quiet, then]

Owner's group was told that they had a mission from the company, and were sent to a planet to steal an object called a heartseed. Sidon's group had their memories temporarily altered into believing they were different people with different lives. They weren't given a mission -- they had no memory of why they were in the galley in the first place.

Some of us found datapads containing photographs and images of the previous crew -- the ones the current senior crew trained with and under. None of the crew members recognized who they were when they saw them -- instead, they all experienced headaches.

[as for the last part...] I don't have any information on that, except that Throné said she was sent a note, and whatever information on it made her believe that I gave it to her. She didn't want tell me what it was, but I think it had to do with how I killed Viktor.

[which honestly, fair]
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-10 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[he nods, accepting]

Add that to the notes. Was there nothing worthwhile gleaned from either of the two groups? Only a mission and an abduction?

Ah, do you still have the information from the datapads? We need to cross-reference it with information that we received from two supposed ghosts—most likely energy and consciousness still lingering—in order to verify what the truth is.

But I see... Then I wonder if we can infer that the Fake Priest has been given an assignment and bestowed upon his assistant a piece of information. [tilts his head] Though others may still find her trustworthy, so it is not yet certain. She may also have been lying and the note came from her.
pathematic: (when he wore blue)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-11 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[why are we playing nerds dana]

For the mission -- Temenos [FAKE PRIEST?] said he could use his healing and defense abilities on the planet they were on. Owner also claimed that he saw people from his world there, though he said he wasn't sure if it was really them after the fact. I believe that he was convinced in the moment though.

[the abduction he'll add stuff later bc im so slow with PCS!!!!]

And yes. I'll add the crew roster and information Yuri and the others found.

[puts it in the fcking doc]

...It was the first question she asked when she saw me in the brig. She was very emotional.

[so throne could be lying, though Eunhyuk thinks judging by her reaction it wasn't from her, but also yeah people lie.]
egodist: (✧ there's nothing real)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-12 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[i hate this so much there's so much plot and we still need to keep up with it]

Were they given reasoning for why they were chosen for the mission, or the overall goal of it?

Hmm, then maybe not. [though scien also believes anyone can lie, throné is slightly less likely] Regardless, we can guess that might be another separate identified task given to certain members of Junior Crew.

I wonder to what purpose...