spacecoast | WEEK 3: MINGLE

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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

NAVIGATE

LOCATIONS

CHANGES

MURDER

COMMS

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WORK ORDER !

WK 3 MINI-EVENT

Come Wednesday afternoon, a chorus of pings from I.R.I.S. will sweep through the Eudora - a message window pops up, unprompted, forcing users to read it before it can be dismissed and you can go about your business.

Let's get that bread, guys. If you get hungry or thirsty, there's some refreshments packed in the back of the pallet for you guys to eat while you're working. And if you run into any trouble, well, we've packed a few things for that as well. Keep an eye out for the dune beasts! THEBE

Today's drop off is for an emergency service for the Hyros traders and locals in general. The Eudora crew will find that upon making their way towards the indicated trading route to bring large hover palettes of packages, there is an enormous, gelatinous mess covering the canal that leads them towards the Ocean of Silk–having grown massive seemingly overnight? It goes without saying this waterway must be unclogged in order to get the palettes through. The blockage itself is viscous and gets on absolutely everything, staining it with an iridescent, translucent oily sheen.

A. ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE
🪐 Cleaning up this mess is going to take everyone's effort. There's a great danger of falling over into more piles of this disgusting goop, so do take care to watch your step. Passages that were clear for you to traverse are completely blocked up. There are dangerous sinkholes that you might get trapped in, and even worse, there are some small, burrowing creatures that will attempt to incorporate you into their slippery, sticky nest, attempting to tie you down with threads made from eating the strangely toxic material. If you stay in these sinkholes too long, you may find your feet cementing to the ground, making it impossible to get out without someone else's help.

🪐 There are some native creatures that are covered in this goop. Thankfully you’re all equipped with the necessary cleaning gear to tackle this job (kits loaded on your palettes full of small, collapsible tubs, sponges cleaning solution, and fluffy towels.) Take some time to bathe the creatures in Twilight brand dish soap along the shore and set them free. (If you try to smuggle any of them on board the Eudora they will be returned immediately back outside, and in their place will be a stuffed animal version.)

B. CAN OF WORMS
🪐 Occasionally, there is a rumbling noise beneath your feet that undoes some of your work, sending a wave of goop heading straight for you and whoever else happens to be nearby. Some native dune worms begin to surface and with every breach and dive, send sand and goop aplenty toward the opening of the tunnel you just cleaned up, threatening to undo your hard work. They're very sensitive to sound, so perhaps you can use that to your advantage to draw them away or create a diversion?

🪐 However, as you're trying to handle the worms, there are some less-friendly denizens of the planet, those who live topside and make a living off of those who dare venture outside to cause a ruckus. Aiming to quite literally steal your stuff (off your bodies, off the palettes), it's time to fight off some dune pirates. They have grappling hook-like spears that they use to ride the dune worms around without consequence, making them rather deadly opponents. In among your supplies, however, as though packed in by guardian angels, you will fight high-power super-soaker-like devices that can be filled with Twilight soap and fired at high speed. Believe it or not... the worms really hate this. The pirates probably don't appreciate being made slippery either. It's Super Mario Sunshine time! (I guess you can have your own worm hooks to grab onto them for a ride and some plasma javelins as well for the weaponless. These, again, will be collected upon re-entry to the Eudora once the task is complete.)

Hey everybody! Welcome to Part 1 of your fourth mini-event. Like past games, this is a free-for-all style mini event, so please feel free to hop in and engage with whichever prompts you want.

To receive rewards for this mini event, your mods would like to see a contribution of 5-10 comments beyond a top level with your fellow players. Participation with NPCs, where applicable, will not count as proper contribution. Teamwork makes the dream work, after all! So threadjack, shitpost, etc.

Feel free to use the mini-event channels for coordination, organization, and sharing your toplevels. Please turn in your mini event participation here by Friday at 3pm EST/ 12pm PST. Have fun!

Edited 2024-03-20 19:13 (UTC)

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[picks a nice prompt for once. he's carefully lifting one of the mouselike creatures out of the tub after cleaning it, glancing towards whoever happens to be closest.]

Can you hand me a towel?

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[i'm done being nice now. he just barely ducks in time to avoid some goop being tossed at his face, but it hits his shoulder as he tries to move out of the way. gross.]

...I suppose that is to be expected.

[she is wildly distracted by the mouse

why is it so fuckin cute. she's gonna die.]

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