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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: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[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: (we thinky)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-13 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (✧ there's nothing real)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-13 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . 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: (eunhyuk and his gray shirt)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-13 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
They make me feel nauseous when they’re all clustered together. Like in a honeycomb.

[PAUSES]

Is that what it’s asking…?

egodist: (✧ take my hand)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-13 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[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: (when he wore blue)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-13 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (✧ that you've fattened up deliciously)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-13 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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: (noona :))

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-13 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[enemies forged over feet and fingies]

Do the people in your country have more hand deformities?

[in the land of ze French?]
egodist: (✧ take my hand)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-13 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know, I'm not a doctor.

[even though he keeps playing one in emergencies]

However it's more likely for hands to be damaged in accidents than legs and feet.
pathematic: (we thinky)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-14 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Fingers are still fingers even if they're severed.

[he puts a noodle on scien's spoon. yeah.]

Or are they not fingers anymore if they're crushed too?
egodist: (✧ so get ready i'm here)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-14 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
If they are melted together, I count them as one finger.

[but he'll eat the noodle]

I don't care about most of the individuals left alive, but I don't care about most of the dead either. Some have barely earned my interest, but it's up to them to survive. If their futures are cut short, it'll be disappointing but nothing surprising.
pathematic: (we thinky)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-15 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[most.......]

Yuri said she was planning on going to your world.
egodist: (✧ take my hand)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
That's right. I hired her.

[just another fact thrown out into the world]
pathematic: (i have a permit)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-15 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[and without eating any meat...]

You must believe in her then.
egodist: (✧ there's nothing real)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-15 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Well, she was fairly traumatized that first Thursday lockdown. If she keeps acting like that, I doubt she'll make it. She needs to get it together.

[the way yaywon is clearly digging for deets but scien is so scien]
pathematic: (neat! except when he's not)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-15 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[thank you scien]

We talked about that a little. She said she blamed herself, that she thought her emotions were partly responsible for what happened to you and Dahut.

But I think she understands that she feels that way out of guilt.
egodist: (✧ that you've fattened up deliciously)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-15 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
She's trying to take responsibility for something that has nothing to do with her.

[he's deliberating on if it's worth scolding her through hermes.... hm...]

Well, I don't expect her or anyone else to be perfect.
pathematic: (HE IS SUCH A NERD)

[personal profile] pathematic 2024-03-15 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[eunhyuk like what's scien's idea of perfection.... is it scary]

She's also planning to continue your research with the nanites.
egodist: (✧ killing spree)

[personal profile] egodist 2024-03-16 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[that gets him to raise a brow, slightly interested]

Oh? Perhaps I've made a valuable hire after all.