WEEK 3: MINGLE

[dropoffs]

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

NAVIGATE
LOCATIONS CHANGES STATUSES PROFILES AUDIENCES REPORTING PRIVATE CONVOS MURDER SUPPLY SHOP COMMS DOSSIER

Comments

tuesday post-hangman sometime

[verminous]

[hi. this is the closest icon i have so we're living with it ignore the face scruff.

anyway, this kid suddenly hanging around the ship can't be older than his early teens (he's still short for his age, which doesn't help); however, he's pretty identifiable by the fact he's got a very familiar bug arm. he's quiet, seemingly keeping to himself, and you're most likely to run into him on the tram, where he's just kind of... sitting there. looking out the windows, zoning out a little, if he's not looking uncertainly at anyone nearby. he quickly looks away if he's caught staring.]

[frotag]

[ important question: did bug get babyfied too ]

[verminous]

[i didn't think about that PROBABLY NOT??? THE BUG'S NOT HIM]

[frotag]

[ IDK MAN CURSES WORK IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...

ichiban just pats this child's head. ]

[murdergate]

[ also loots the child--no, never. but, don't be mad, it takes him seeing the bug arm to be sure which dark-haired human man has been turned into a teenager. yaaay, it's greg! bug arm! whoever did this to him is an enemy of gregor's but a friend of nodd's for life. ]

Hey, kid. Having a day?

[verminous]

...I think so, yeah.

[still watching him slightly warily, but a little more like. what do you want with me.]

[inequals]

[ I wish this happened literally any other week because she takes one look at this and walks the other way. ]

[verminous]

[abandoned your boy....]

[discomfort]

Oh! Hello there!

[ another baby ]

[verminous]

Hi-?

[another baby...

he's watching owner kind of uncertainly.]

[sexyasmieu]

[ walks on the tram. ]

Whoa!

[ sometimes you just see a little guy and go whoa. ]

[verminous]

[-oh. after that he's quickly shifting to try to hide the arm, because that's clearly what she's surprised about?]

[applebough]

[ Yuri wanted to take the tram for a not-quite Warp Train experience, but here she is and she finds... ]

... Gregor?

[ She actually recognizes him because of the bug arm. ]

[verminous]

Huh-?

[glancing up at his name; he's not sure exactly who she is, though. staff he hasn't met yet...?]

... do we have to go back.

[perfectpower]

[After last week he knows exactly what's going on, but.]

Oh hey! A new kid!

[verminous]

New to what?

[that's probably the most important thing, here.]

[solesuccess]

[ can he just come sit by him on this tram? he is gonna wordlessly do that. ]

[verminous]

[yeah, absolutely he can do that.

...this other kid looks pretty normal, though, so he's shifting to try to hide his arm.]

[riverbeans]

[well.

huh.]

... Want a river bean, kid?

[verminous]

[thinking about it...]

... okay.

[sure, bean him.]

[messy]

[leans over to slide back into his line of sight after he looks away, waving. hiiiii.]

[verminous]

[glancing up to her a little nervously... he doesn't wave back, just yet.]

[expiries]

[ah.... he notices him and glances his way in turn.]

...Hello.

[verminous]

-hi?

[still kind of uncertain, but. it's not a paranoid kind of wary, more just trying to figure out what's up.]

[mansplains]

[ guy will keep his distance! approaching slowly, and smiling gently ]

Hey there. Are you lost?