GRAVEYARD.

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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".

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Comments

[egodist]

[scien is just taking his chopstick and stabbing shit which means that he can eat anything that isn't the noodles. if he ever wants noodles, he will learn chopsticks. if you tag me i'm rnging what we're both eating so we can have variety

but also the debates are easy:]

[first fight:] Little Meow Meow.

[second:] Does a finger or toe stop being considered as such because it's removed from the main body? Define the terms of the discussion.

[third:] People eat to live.

[i'm not touching the math problem because scien would be able to answer it but i can't so we're MOVING ON]

[pathematic]

[rng our hotpot even though I want scien to eat noodles so I can get lore

Meanwhile,]

They still count even if they’re unattached.

[egodist]

[scien eats meat, which means he shares a fact about himself:] I like puzzles.

[eunhyuk gets seafood so he has to share a fear. help.]

Do they still count as appendages even after they reach a state of decomposition where they can no longer be counted as such?

[pathematic]

I’m scared of holes.

[trypophobia…… wait why did he say that. Anyway.]

Yes.

[why not.]

The dust beneath our feet could be toes.

[egodist]

[ . . . what.]

Holes?

[but he shakes his head]

Then the question is just asking if toes or fingers are more likely to be physical deformity someone has.

[pathematic]

They make me feel nauseous when they’re all clustered together. Like in a honeycomb.

[PAUSES]

Is that what it’s asking…?

[egodist]

[okay not that interesting. scien shrugs. sorry about your trypophobia]

Condolences about your fear of honey. [THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID

anyway,] Based on the terms that you set, yes.

Because if something is still considered a finger or toe after it has been severed from the original body, and it is still considered as such after it has decayed, then the average individual will always have ten finger or ten toes unless they were born with otherwise.

Thus, that is the only way to determine the answer to the question.

[scien you particular bastard]

[pathematic]

It’s called trypophobia.

[at least get it right]

Okay. [he's agreeable to these terms because he hasn’t chosen a hill to die on yet,]

There are more fingers than toes. [until now]

[egodist]

I don't want to give you condolences on a real thing.

[scien said suffer and die

like how he's about to die on this hill:]

You're wrong.

[pathematic]

[enemies forged over feet and fingies]

Do the people in your country have more hand deformities?

[in the land of ze French?]

[artificialsweetener]

[ALL OF US SCREAMING AND RUNNING AWAY FROM THE MATH LIKE BEETLES UNDER A LIFTED ROCK.

Anyway he agrees with little meow meow and he thinks Scien's opinions on food and leisurely activities in general should always be ignored, and also he doesn't want to consider severed toes?? So instead:]

Bears aren't real...

[egodist]

[dahut has noodles so he can give his opinion on the living, scien will eat seafood:]

I fear Courrune and his lover will die before I can save them.

[he pauses.

and moves on.]

No bear? Not in all the world?

[artificialsweetener]

[THAT'S ALSO ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM PAUSE he just looks over toward Scien with a little furrow at his brow, noodle speared on a chopstick. It's clear he wants to say something, but he will not...

Instead, with all of the confidence in the world as he lies his entire ass off:]

Not a single one! I found a book about the history of bears on the shore once - they're a legend that's over a thousand years old, did you know? There was a problem with livestock theft in a far-off nation and the thieves invented a whooole new animal to blame it on, since the wolves in that area were too small to actually steal so many sheep.

[And then, after eating his noodle:] I think the ones left alive are silly and charming, and at least one person is going to die in a tragic but comedic accident that has nothing to do with any of the mysterious goings-on here.

[THE SWEET, SWEET LIVING.]

[egodist]

[if dahut isn't saying anything, then scien will proceed as if he mentioned nothing about courrune at all... good night sweet prince....]

You didn't because if you found a book on the shore you wouldn't be able to read it. Though I suppose there are points to be given for imagination.

[THAT SHIT WASN'T AUTOTRANSLATED!!!!!]

You have a terrible measure of 'charming' but I would agree with the second point as an inevitability. It will most likely be the 46-year-old.

[NOT ICHIBAN]

[artificialsweetener]

[THIS IS A LATER DAHUT PROBLEM NOT A DAHUT IN FRONT OF 5 OTHER PEOPLE PROBLEM.]

I asked Monsieur Claude to translate it! It was a favor exchange. [BINCH HIS BEAR HILL THAT HE'LL DIE ON.

HE'S ALSO JUST COVERING HIS MOUTH NOT ICHIBAN. He can't.........disagree.]

Mmm... Maybe he's the kind of person blessed by unusually good luck?

[egodist]

Monsieur Claude 2 was a shut-in who would sooner expire than admit that the bears from his childhood fairytales or whatever aren't real.

[THE WAY SCIEN HAS NEVER SEEN A BEAR SO HE CAN'T DEFINITELY AGREE THEY EXIST BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THIS ARGUMENT HE WILL ADMIT THEY ARE PROBABLY OUT THERE IN THE WORLD]

If you would call that fool blessed by good luck, it's only because he would've stolen it all from the gloomy New Hire.

[NOT YURI]

[artificialsweetener]

[Dahut just like ? visibly at the 2 added there...]

Eh? Monsieur Claude is so sweet and kind! Be nice to him! I spent a lot of time with him when he was locked down in his manor!

[THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID HE'S BUILDING HIS OWN BACKSTORY. ALSO NOT YURI. HE'S RIGHT THOUGH!! He wilts a bit...]

Yuri really does have terrible luck, doesn't she... It reminds me of another gloomy someone.

[egodist]

You didn't have time for that. Or if you did, then I should be retroactively deducting your pay.

[NOOOOO DAHUT YOUR WORK SCHEDULE]

Are you trying to bring up the Maiden of Death again.

[rav3n]

[WE ALL REALLY RAN FROM THE MATH PROBLEM]

Are we only counting human fingers and toes?

[egodist]

Name your non-human examples.

[luke is eating noodles and scien is eating greens

i also rolled for which dead he can give an opinion on and it said luke]

You're prideful and make a lot of assumptions, which doesn't seem productive, but you aren't the worst person I've ever met.

[th. thanks.]

[rav3n]

Raccoons, aye-ayes, monkeys... technically you could say pandas and squirrels and stuff, too? It depends on whether they have to look like fingers and toes, or if they just have to fulfill the same functions. [Are octopus tentacles technically fingers. Much to consider.

Also he blinks at this unprompted assessment, but as he opens his mouth to respond, a noise comes from the TV--Pickerwheel landed on Sidon so that's who Luke sees as he glances at the screen.]

Sidon's really nice, and he loves his best friend a lot. [They're gay actually] But I don't think he's prepared to handle it if things get worse.

[


????]

What the--again?

[egodist]

It depends on how you set your terms. If you're including all mammals, does that mean that dogs and cats only have toes and no fingers?

[help. also scien just snorts faintly at the assessment of sidon.]

Let's hope that he's stronger than both you and I imagine, since it will likely be a blow to morale if such a boisterous individual is broken apart.

[rav3n]

Toe beans...

[...

...

ADHD effect kicked in, he's gotten distracted]

[egodist]

... Yes.

I suppose so.

[rav3n]

If your toes are long enough that you can grab things with them, do they count as fingers?

[Why]