WEEK 7: FAREWELL!

[dropoffs]

GOLDEN END     47 CREW ACTIVE

The remnants of stellar alchemy, stirring into life.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Welcome to the CSS Eudora… your tour is over, and the rest of your journey is set to begin. As you awaken, you will notice that there is a lulling sense of peace aboard the ship, and the world around you is silent save for the soft humming of the generators and propulsion system, the air circulating in gentle puffs from the ventilation (cool, a refreshing change from the past seven weeks). As you rise, you will notice that the Eudora has changed around you.

And it has changed for the better.

The halls are well-lit and clean, the lights no longer flickering or are on the verge of dim. The Eudora has taken on a warm, welcoming glow like a candle’s flame illuminating the dark. Nothing will force you anywhere today - and the Eudora's warm voice will greet you by name today, ask you how are you are feeling today, with every cup of coffee or tea, with every need gently perceived. She's returned to her old self, her voice is brighter, warmer, and she revels in once more having a full crew.

A notification coming from your I.R.I.S. indicates that, in having cleaned up the ship, freeing her from infection, some locations have been replaced with a new ones, as if the Eudora herself had a feeling that you might be needing this. The tour is all completed, now, and this has become your central hub for the worlds available to you. The Eudora knows just as well as you do that it’s time to go home, after all, which is why there's an encouraging warmly-lit path on the ground, and a directional indicator on your I.R.I.S. to show you the way towards this new location.

 

The endgame world-hopping mechanism! At the very end, upon achieving Golden End, players will be called to one room on board the revived Eudora (after her baptism by fire via explosion), replacing the eerie Meat Locker and Machine on the concourse. This room is enormous with screens around the entirety in 360 degrees. Various views of worlds flicker in and out, some very familiar, and others not so much. The console in the center controls several teleportation pads that are inter-dimensional and reach far and wide thanks to the Eudora's rebirth. All one needs to do is program the desired location into the console and step into the corresponding transportation pad.

All character return times are currently paused at the moment of your characters' canon points, and can be rewound by 10 minutes max. They will remain paused at this time, even if you go worldhopping elsewhere first - you need only return to the Eudora to access it! If you would rather go to another world, you're permitted to do so. If you would rather go with a castmate to a different time point (since theirs will show as different from yours!), you can do this instead. (Whether you replace that version of yourself or there are now two of you is up to you and your PSL gods.)

As members of the Junior Crew of the Eudora, while your nanites have largely worn off, the Eudora will always remember you. You will find that your I.R.I.S. still functions, with but a flick of the wrist. No matter where you are, you can now cross-dimension, cross-galactic communicate with one another. And play your various games.

There's also an app labeled Lyft Off, which will allow you to be beamed up to the Eudora at any time from wherever you are in whichever galaxy you're activating it from at the time. Feel free to make the Eudora a central hub for constant travel, and utilize her resources as desired - the food, the clothes, the equipment and library for research... it's all available for you, for as long as you need it!

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Hello, Junior Crew, and welcome to your hard-earned Golden End. Here are a few things to close you out:

🪐 Characters will be compensated greatly by Nut & Bolt Co. with the original stipend dictated on your "contracts." You will find that the exorbitent sum of the pay, including emotional damages and reparations has been transferred to an easy-to-carry card that will transform into your world's currency once you are home. You can utilize your I.R.I.S. to treat it as a bank of sorts and easily remove or just carry your cash on that card (so you can utilize it in other worlds!)

🪐 You may also find an app on your I.R.I.S. entitled Thank You. You get the distinct feeling that this is from your ghostly friends who'd been trapped in the Helly Belly all this time, the old crew of the Eudora bidding you farewell, and the spirits of those you freed in destroying the planet. Characters will know intrinsically that this will allow them to be granted one wish of their choosing, however they cannot trade this wish away and can only utilize it for themselves. This wish also cannot affect anyone else on board the Eudora, nor can it be catastrophically destructive. It must be used for personal means.

🪐 Characters are free to return to their original worlds, or they may go to another world of their choosing, or you can choose to stay aboard the Eudora, we won't stop you, and she's fully equipped to sustain herself for a long, long... long, long time.
🪐 You are free to keep your I.R.I.S. and all the apps that come with that in order to remain in contact with one another.
🪐 World-hopping is always an option here thanks to the new teleportation room, so if you're ever missing a friend, why not hop on over to say hello?
🪐 Audiences are open for one more day if you have anything else you'd like from your Senior Crew.
🪐 Your PC directory is located over here.
🪐 Your final CR chart is here.
🪐 We have a feedback post here, TL;CR post here and a friending/love meme here.

Thank you so much, everyone, for playing in our little game! We hope you all had fun, and we look forward to hanging out in the server with you until next time! See ya later, space cowboys.

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CSS Eudora's Story Key to Unlocking Ancient Mystery
Many planets that had orbited near Lotophagos witnessed and partook in slaying the beast beyond the rift recap what they saw. None were the wiser until the Eudora drew the monster out from its invisible veil.

(This article includes past planets visited on this tour showing gratitude for the junior crew and their service to the galaxy, even though some of you caused a rock lobster rebellion and a blood market crash. If they were closer enough to Lotophagos, they would have also sent ships during the final battle.)

Nut & Bolt Claims Ignorance
The popular postal courier service claims that it was unaware that the Eudora had tried contacting them for emergency weeks earlier. There's a possibility there was communication manipulation since the beginning. There is no Jeff in their HR department, likewise none that have authorization to handle communication with postal courier ships. Nut & Bolt claims that it had been receiving missives from Chief of Staff Abigail Bradley throughout spring tour, only to find that she's been dead for months.

CEM Waves: Spores from Another Dimension
Recently discovered by research facilities after the battle yesterday, CEM waves were likely spores from an invasive eldritch being. Many planets have reported feeling an unexplainable weight disappear. Scientists are looking into studying and curing any lingering longterm side effects.

Intergalactic Communication Technology Has Become Affordable
After a breakthrough, private intergalactic communication is no costly, increasing its accessibility to the public. Everyday people are able to buy technology needed to message another person across the stars!

Intergalactic Organizations Seek to Instate Laws on Interdimensional Research
In light of the battle in Lotophagos, governments are looking to refine procedures and add limitations to research on different dimensions in hopes of not bringing another invasive and destructive entity to our plane.

[upholden]

[ standing outside of the transporter room are shiro and jill, looking at a datapad together. they don't seem in any hurry to teleport out of here for whatever reasons they might have - instead, shiro is grimacing with a #yikes expression on his face, muttering something down to jill as they scroll through a... report?

if you manage to peek at what they're looking at, you'll see an awful lot of zeroes. ]

Alright, well. We're deleting this, right? This would negate the reparation payments of pretty much everyone.

Obviously. How would they even collect on it? Bye.

[ jill taps at a few things as she puts an unlit cigarette in her mouth with the other hand, and then - boop. whatever the report was, it's gone forever. she slaps him on the back afterwards. ]

We can fudge this one. They owe us, anyways.

[ he slides the datapad into a pouch on his belt and nods while she lights up. ] They owe us so much.

[sexyasmieu]

[ watching them doing this like ]

[kabari]

[ blatantly snooping. ]

[drymonster]

[ he appreciates you ]

[artificialsweetener]

[They are both so valid he gives them a thumbs up.]

[bladeward]

[ they're both so funny and valid for this. ]

Don't think they're allowed to say no to you guys, after all this.

[messy]

[double thumbs up when they're done]

[baebladie]

The Beginning of the End

[ Well, there's still certainly time for one last conversation or two...or something like that.

If anyone wants to meet up with Blade, he will, perhaps a bit predictably, be hanging around in the simulation room. ]

Finality

[ ...Otherwise, he can be staring out at the stars, over at the observation deck area.

One last wish, huh? ]

[cashouts]

[ in before blade wonders if he can wish for perma(redacted), that's technically not within the rules.

but, one last one for the road - yelan comes to join him at the observation deck window, steps silent as she brushes a hand across one shoulder, then around his back as she comes around to the other side, drumming her fingers on the opposite shoulder. tap tap. ]

Brooding on your next plan?

[applebough]

[ hi ]

What will you wish for, Blade?

[ She looks at him expectantly. You know why she's doing this. ]

I

[inequals]

[ Oh good, she did manage to catch him before they all left after all. ]

-- Hey.

[roseoftexas]

[ well there's only one prompt.

shu is over by the teleporters, smoking because when has he ever cared about the designated smoking areas on this ship? he seems to be waiting for someone, but whatever peace he had is broken by the wild pattering of paws

and a pug rounds the doorway into the teleporter room and throws itself at him with excited yapping noises. it is SO excited that they saved the eudora and destroyed a planet and a cosmic eldritch entity AND it got to be bipedal!! shu!! did he see it!! did he see the pug on two legs!!??


shu just blinks, arms awkwardly full of yapping puppy as he tries to keep his cigarette away from wiggling puppy limbs. ]

Hi.

[verminous]

You two're going home with a friend, huh?

[hehe. he's assigning this dog adopted, you HAVE to take that baby with you. have to.]

Don't make me and Rodya come over there for anything but a vacation.

[uncoincidental]

last chance;

[sheba's expression is contemplative as she's looking at something on the i.r.i.s. - get close enough, and you'll see it's the "thank you" app. but also, get close enough and she'll look up to greet you with a small smile.]

This is really it, huh? Anything you want to do on the ship before we go?

see you later;

[hello, teleporter room! soon to be goodbye, eudora. sheba is standing at the device, looking at one of the screens which displays the top of a lighthouse with a shining red beacon, a variety of people, and three adults who look like they're just about dead on the top. it's fine.

her brows are furrowed a little, and she's looking at the option to rewind and muttering to herself...]

...no... that won't work. It took longer than ten minutes.

[DAMN.

upon realizing that someone has entered the room, though, she looks up from it and hopes that the display on the screen will change to something else - and then steps away.]

Sorry! Were you about to go?

last chance

[messy]

[a glance to her iris like she might have an idea what sheba is contemplating, but. she bounces up, enthusiastic as always.]

Looks like it! Wanna go get one last boba for the road?

[murdergate]

don't forget me

[ the pods that once housed the dead aren't being used anymore, so maybe it's silly to be visiting them. nodd isn't here for any special reason. he's been walking around the eudora at random as he reads something on his i.r.i.s.

and suddenly he stops. done. he closes the device's screen. ]

Can't believe she ended up with him.

[ dusklight was a wild ride. guess it's time to go back home. ]

so long, farewell

[ icons won't reflect this bc i'm lazy but nodd has cut his hair to be even on both sides. shorter. more ear on display, more dark raccoon eyes. he stands in the teleportation room, in a final pinterest fit. some will recognize nodd is rewinding and preparing to return to his death. to those who don't, they may be perplexed by the opera house stage and the enormous scarlet dragon and the audience full of mannequin-corpse abominations. ]

don't forget me

[uncoincidental]

...that bad, huh?

[lmao]

[applebough]

[ She is going around to give everyone a hug separately at separate times. Didn't have much CR with her? You get one anyway. "Affection week is ove--" i do what i want ]

[uncoincidental]

[sheba loves hugs even when it isn't affection week so yuri gets a hug back!!]

...we're really getting out of here!

[naeddre]

[come say goodbye to her and also tell me what you're wishing for but also:]

Oh... this is so much money.

[SHE IS DELIGHTED.]

[applebough]

[ right?? Yuri is SO HAPPY about this amount of money. ]

You should definitely celebrate when you return.

[solesuccess]

[ you ever end up getting so much more than you expected after two months of absolute hell that it overwhelms you to the point you're just sitting on the ground going "WHAT"


that's shoma. he is sitting outside of the transporter room on the floor and seems to be...writing a list on his iris? there is probably a better place for this, and yet for anyone who approaches the transporter/teleporter/whatever room to leave he'll at least look up with a slight grin. ]

So. Guess this is it for us for now. Where do you want to go first?

[naeddre]

[GRABS YOU BY THE SKULL no she's nice.

she comes over to crouch in front of him, grinning a little.]

I thought I'd come tell you I told you so. [OKAY NOT THAT NICE]

[verminous]

[well, since they've got personal wishes...

gregor is here, but something's missing? it's immediately very obvious that a key feature of gregor's is just. not there anymore.

he's experimentally flexing the fingers of his totally normal right hand, turning his arm this way and that, making sure everything looks right with it.]

That's gonna take some getting used to, at least outside of home...

[but he still sounds happy, anyway.]

[applebough]

[ GASP... ]

Gregor, your hand...!!

[frotag]

a. anywhere on the ship

[ wherever you may be on the eudora, you may be getting accosted by a grinning ichiban! with one hand, he throws up his thumb and pinky in greeting; with the other, he waves his smartphone. ]

Hey! Whaddaya say to one last Eudora selfie?

[ if you agree, he'll take a picture of the two of you, just like these ones. yaey!!! he'll gladly show you the result, throwing his arm around you in the process. ]

Hehe. Turned out pretty good, huh?

b. teleportation room

[ near the end of the day, ichiban will be at a more stationary location—similar to the big ballroom curfew, he's got a table set up outside the teleporter room. he's hauled a few mannequins over from the strip mall to display each of the infamous shirts he's made over the past few weeks. all of the shirts are available in different sizes, colors, and styles! ]

Didn't wanna just leave these here on the ship forever—take as many as you want! Oh, and check with Nancy before you go, too—she's got a special gift for everyone, too.

[ nancy is at the corner of the table, standing next to a stack of golden membership cards with a particular logo on them. when you approach her, she'll sift through the pile and hold her claw out to give you a specific card! the back of the card has your name on it, along with the following text:

"Special guest of resort proprietor, Ichiban Kasuga. Good for UNLIMITED visits to Dondoko Island, no expiration date.

Cardholder is allowed to bring any number of additional guests with them. Cardholder must be present for additional guests to be allowed onto the island. Cardholder assumes all legal and financial responsibility for any actions they or their guests take while on the island.

CARDHOLDER: Present card to Dolphine at Aloha Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Earth. If card is lost or stolen, please report loss to proprietor Ichiban Kasuga for replacement. This card is non-transferable. This card has no monetary value." ]

[sexyasmieu]

[ reading the card. ]

Are you serious!? This is like a dream come true!

[sexyasmieu]

[ once we've received our pay, anise is sitting with her IRIS open to a calculator app and a spreadsheet, apparently budgeting some things out and humming playfully as she does. just normal child behavior here. ]

[uncoincidental]

[sits down next to her and offers her a card]

...I hope you haven't gotten too far into your budgeting, Anise.

[satisficing]

[COME SAY BYEEEE.

Viktor is here. He looks very different! He is still slim with an angular face, but he does not look malnourished and sickly anymore! Yay! Color has returned to his skin, making him look healthy and alive. The dark circles aren't bad at all. He fits in clothes that don't hang off him because he's got fantasy TB. The fluffy hair has been styled neatly back. Waow...

He is standing and looking at his hands. The right one looks like the left actually, and he's turning it around, testing it. There isn't a crutch in sight; his posture is straight.

He smiles.]

[naeddre]

[OOOOOOGUUGUGHHGHGHGHH

HUGS HIM]

[drymonster]

Haha, I guess this is it, huh?

[ puts down his bags of all the clothes and junk he accumulated here for a moment to stretch. ]

Aah, it feels like it's been forever, but at the same time it's hard to believe it's over.

[ but time's always been a strange concept for him. ]

Well, if you ever encounter an anime called Osomatsu-san in anyone's world.............. please don't watch it. If you have even a shred of concern for me in your soul, I am begging you. [ ... ] But buy any merch of me that you can find, okay?

[artificialsweetener]

Aha, I'll be sure to keep both of those things in mind! Promise!

[TOTTY YOUR SOUL....... Anyway he goes in for a hug because of course.]

PROFIT-SHARING EUDORA VENTURE

[bossbabygirl]

[this is not a farewell comment because i'm terrible at them.

instead, margaret is drawing up an ironclad contract to purchase the eudora from nut & bolt. she is pinging everyone a couple days after we left, actually.]

Okay, here's the deal. If everyone who can afford it pools some of our funds, we can purchase the Eudora from Nut & Bolt, just to ensure we always have access to it and no one can interfere with her again. I'm attaching documents for anyone to sign or discuss with your counsel as needed, but the short of it is:

- Regardless of whether you contribute, you have access to the Eudora and all of its facilities in perpetuity, and before any major changes to Eudora by-laws, facilities, or operations can be made, we'll have a general vote.
- Anyone who contributes gets a stake in the future business venture of the Eudora. The stipend is nice, but we can all see that this company has been mismanaged. We turn things around, drive Nut & Bolt out of business by offering a far more streamlined and cost effective experience, and make money from our money. All stakeholders are entitled to profit-sharing and a vote in the corporate venture's activities
- Anyone who needs all of their stipend immediately but wants to buy in, I can front you some cash. I'm confident we'll grow enough that you can pay me back from the proceeds alone.

Please download the attached prospectus and documents and give them a read and your signature! Thank you so much! ♥️ Our first shareholder vote will be one week after the purchase terms are finalized and will concern the possibility of outer universe tourism and coworking arrangements.

I'm going to be out of pocket for a little while due to an impending space battle, so if you have any urgent questions, please ping me directly.

Warm Regards,

Margaret

[satisficing]

[Signs for this and gives a little stipend because Lucien is going to blow all his money, so he has to be the one to do it.....]