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Senior Crew ([personal profile] dropoffs) wrote in [community profile] spacecoast2023-04-05 07:29 am
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WEEK 3: MINGLE

WEEK 3     38 CREW ACTIVE
The sands bury everyone, with or without our help.

 
 

WELCOME TO HYROS

With the heavy mood of the previous week still hanging over the CSS Eudora, it might be difficult to move on with business as usual, and that's okay. Loss is a completely natural part of life, and grief is always close behind. However, a few hours into a routine morning aboard the Eudora, a gentle tone fills the air, reverberating off of the walls of the Eudora herself. A synthetic voice fills the halls not long after: Entering planet atmosphere, gravity tethers engaging. Stabilizing descension rate. Stabilizing... stabilization complete.

Your third dropoff is about to get a little sandy. On the horizon, Planet Hyros rises. The observation deck allows everyone to watch the curve of the planet coming into view. The planet is covered in sand as far as the eyes can see, golden and shifting about like a sea itself. Great dunes swell upwards in great tsunami-like waves as small, sprawled oasis stud the surface, their trees reaching upwards, their clawed fronds of green struggling to reach the brilliant twin suns.

A message from the address seniorcrew@eudora.net pings you in the middle of whatever it is you happen to be doing at 1200 hours. If you're still somehow sleeping, that ping is definitely loud enough to cut through your sweetest dreams and to rouse you from sleep. There is no way to reply to it, so suffer as it opens itself up and reads:
ATTENTION JUNIOR CREW!
Good morning, Junior Crew. We've received reports at 0200 hours of the appearance of void-like rifts appearing spontaneously throughout the Eudora. After significant exploration and through careful examination of these strange entities, we have come to the conclusion that these rifts pose no physical danger to the Eudora's Crew. Please proceed with caution, however, and do not hesitate to report to a Senior Crew member if any trouble arises. - Senior Crew
Following the ping is a notification coming from your I.R.I.S. indicating that there are a few new locations that have unlocked aboard the CSS Eudora and the enrichment concourse. If you have any questions or concerns, you'll find that your Senior Crew is available to take your meeting requests. Their callsigns are lit up at the bottom of your contacts list so text away.

With a new week, comes a new change of scenery. Characters will find a few supplies already in their locker to help in navigating the planet itself:

☀️ A "CHILLEST" branded bottle that carries 16 oz of water and keeps it cold for 48 hours
☀️ A long, UV-repelling scarf to wrap around your head and save you from the harsh rays in a variety of color options
☀️ "Slap 'Em" brand cold packs that can be adhered to any part of your body and are guaranteed to keep you cool in your travels.
☀️ An update to your I.R.I.S. that includes a way to measure the UV Index overhead. It includes alerts.
Hello, Junior Crew, and welcome to your week 3 mingle! Here are a few things to get you started:

⚠️ Upon waking this week, the crew of the Eudora will notice that the effects of the previous week have been replaced with new ones. Large slices of void have begun to appear spontaneously throughout the Eudora, drawing anyone within their vicinity inside with their gravitational pull. This void will only release you and whoever you are trapped inside with only once it has probed your minds, thus sharing some personal thoughts with whoever has been trapped with you. What is shared can range from a cryptic dream, a terrifying nightmare, or maybe even a memory.

Flavor aside, welcome to our unique take on an old favorite, which we simply are calling dreams and memories week. There are two ways that you may work with the effect this week:

Option A. Characters are pulled into a rift together and will be able to guide one another through a memory/dream/nightmare of theirs. Not unlikes a heartgame or a one-on-one CYOA, players may take turns guiding one another through their "scenarios" or they may mix their memories/dreams/nightmares as they see fit, offering a more participatory memshare experience.

Option B. Of course, you may also indulge in the classic memshare as well, where two or more people may get stuck in a rift together. This rift will pull directly from your deepest memories/dreams/nightmares, and will force-project them mentally into all parties' minds to bear witness with all senses.

As you may have gathered from the above, you are not limited to memories alone. Instead, you may choose to share a memory or a dream (either a pleasant one, or a nightmare). All sensations within the dream are felt by the parties bearing witness to it, but these will fade after an hour of exposure. You may share one-on-one or in a group, there is no limit to the amount of people who can be drawn inside of a single rift. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask the mods on Discord!

🪐 Pick up some supplies. Head on over to Scrap's Surplus Store this week and make a purchase.
🪐 Audiences are open. Please submit all audience requests for the week under the proper header here.
🪐 The HER-MES System is online. Send a message out into deep space here.
🪐 Murder proposals are open. Please submit all proposals (and counter proposals) here by Tuesday, per the times on the post.
🪐 Don't forget your CYOAs. Please head over to Missions to sign up for a variety of CYOAs or to run one of your own.
🪐 Please turn in your PCs for the week. Submit your links under the proper header here.

PLANET OF SAND AND SILK
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ RAISING ITS LITTLE SCYTHE-WINGS that are very dull rn in self-defense as he approaches. ]

Skieegh!

[ Text appears on its skin reading: 'AWAY WITH YOU!' ]
mansplains: (There's everyone)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ rolling an animal handling check.... he rolled 11 ]

[ he keeps his distance while internally being like what the fu,,, ]


Hey, hey, I'm not going to hurt you. Do you want something to eat?
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Your roll is high enough that Bongy does not immediately flee nor attack. However like a spider, it is hissing, very DO NOT GET CLOSER.

Except... the promise of food...

'Eat. Spices?'
]
mansplains: (Hod only knows why)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he will keep his distance ]

You like to eat spices?

[ this seems backwards ]
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Why did Haki give Bongy such power of communication (sort of).

'Spices. I will become the best fried chicken.'
]

Skiie.
mansplains: (don't you think that I'd do it)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ why indeed. neither i nor guy understand what the fuck is going on ]

I can get you spices. That's not a problem.
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Scree!

[


It's going to jump for Guy's head. Absolutely feel free to NOT let it headchicken you but it's just that its default move is to latch onto the head. It's not yet domesticated...
]
mansplains: (i know the road)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ i rolled a 15 so no such luck, bongy!! he is catching it with his gloved hands and holding it at arms length ]

Hey, no jumping! You need to be good if you want spices.
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WIGGLING AND FLAILING AT MACH FUCK AT BEING INTERRUPTED. ]

Skiiegh! Skee, kiegh!

[ It is misbehaving!! ]
mansplains: (There's everyone)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ holding it firmly for now ]

Bongy, do you want food? You want spices?

[ firmly ]
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It wishes to become fried chicken what about this do you not understand Guy!! ]

Skrr...

[ It is calming down... a little. Wary. ]
mansplains: (but you can't say my life is easy)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ you can do that without possessing people ]

[ also i rolled a 20 now ]


Good Bongy. You need to be good and listen if you want spices, alright? I'll take you to the kitchen, but no more jumping on people's heads.
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's nebulous how much Bongy understands words, however. It can definitely understand SOME, since the word 'kitchen' seems to awaken some kind of Energy in it because it is now, like. It's still wriggling, but more similar to a way a puppy wriggles because its tail is wagging too hard.

KIMCHEN
]
mansplains: (The churches never made me)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-18 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sure, he'll take it ]

[ off we go to the galley ]


Good Bongy. We're going to the kitchen now.
bongy: (Default)

[personal profile] bongy 2024-03-18 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Please treat the Bongy with care, and let it take a spice bath like a chinchilla does with dust. ]
mansplains: (i know the road)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-19 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ he will do this and then call rodya over ]

Any spices in particular?

[ pulling out thyme, rosemary, and other such poultry spices ]
inequals: (024)

[personal profile] inequals 2024-03-19 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ She arrive. ]

Heeey Guy, sorry about that trouble!

[ Hand over the chicken, which btw will pretty much consume any spice you hold out to it. ]
mansplains: (The blacks want)

[personal profile] mansplains 2024-03-20 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ he has been feeding bongy many spices ]

Not a problem. I think it's calmed down a little...

[ take this chimken ]