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

[discomfort]

a. bath time...

[ owner is giving one of the lil guys a bath, humming cheerfully to himself. you all can also hear what he is humming along to, because the song is just blasting from him. ]

b. diversion

[ anyway the music is still playing and the worms are just fuckin going after him for it while he runs ]

Noooo...

b

[perfectdistance]

Why are you always being chased?

[ IT FEELS WEEKLY ]

[discomfort]

I suppose they are all attracted to my charm!

[perfectdistance]

Is it charm?

[Or are you extremely edible to these animals??]

[discomfort]

Am I not?

b

[applebough]

[ She is trying so hard to ignore the song while aiming to douse one of the worms in soap water. ]

Owner! Please lead them over to me!

[ Yuri, who is in serious mode, is trying very hard to be serious right now. ]

[discomfort]

[ i love yuri so much

but owner spots her calling him over, and will change direction towards her.

the song gets louder. ]

[applebough]

[ ievan polkka intensifies

She aims, avoiding Owner as she shoots the high pressure soap water at the worms. She'll make them ingest it so that it's even worse than being sprayed with it all over wormy bodies. Yuri isn't a certified sniper, but she's pretty good at knocking them out as Owner gets closer... and closer... with the music too.

Why is it so catchy--NO, focus!! ]

a

[riverbeans]

... Ah, I see it's your turn, Vice-Captain...

[he understands the bg music]

[discomfort]

Modern music is such a mystery to me.

[riverbeans]

It is kind of catchy, at least.

a!

[messy]

[after a while, she also starts to hum along while bathing one of the little rat creatures and then. she pauses.]

... Aw, shit. It's catchy.

[discomfort]

It is, isn't it! I think they like it.

[ it is hard to tell if they like it ]

[messy]

It's a real earworm.

[nodding, she watches the animals... gazes into their cute eyes...]

Maybe they follow like... plant rules or somethin'. Plants grow all big and strong when you play good music for them, right?

a

[frotag]

[ takes out his phone and also starts playing the song ]

[discomfort]

Whoa...

Is this clubbing?

[frotag]

[ seriously considering this ]

Man... I would go clubbing way more if the DJ had Miku on their playlist.

a

[solesuccess]

[ from where he is covered in goop wrestling with one of these animals into the tub: ]

Having fun? [ sir your bgm. ]

[discomfort]

It's not bothering you, is it?

[ miku in the bg ]

[solesuccess]

No, but I'm pretty sure I've heard this one before. [ funny. ] I'm surprised it's not bothering you.

b

[agamid]

[ he can't save you this time... ]

[discomfort]

[ dion nooo ]

b i changed my mind

[mansplains]

Owner--- again?!

[ chasing after the worms chasing after owner. are they gaining on owner. does guy need to princess carry him. ]

[discomfort]

[ owner is at least at a decent distance from them, but since they are attracted to sound, more are showing up ]

I'm not sure how this keeps happening!

[mansplains]

[ guy is terminator running after the worms who are after owner. how fast is owner. guy might catch up in time ]

In this case it's a bit obvious! But it's a curse again, isn't it?

[ imagine owner was hatsune mikuing just for fun ]