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

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[applebough]

[ Yuri toddles out with Rosamund's help and Nodd's guidance, but just barely. Her gaze seems very unfocused. It seems that she's doing relatively okay, wearing this with lots of places torn and there's a faint smell of pine. There's blood staining all over the outfit with shallow cuts on her face--she's even wrapped with a towel around her waist, but once she starts walking into the dock, red starts seeping into it again. Her steps become unsteady, so she trips and falls face forward.

Luckily, Rosamund and Nodd catch her in tandem before she hits the floor. This is what besties are for. (yay) ]

[inequals]

Oh, come on!

[ NOT HER MASCOT AND HER ROOMIE (OTHER MASCOT)??? She's coming over to help support Yuri and take her weight off of the other two. ]

Can you walk or do I carry you to the med pod also?

[verminous]

[yeah hi he's here to help after being NOTIFIED THEIR WATER BOTTLE IS A LITTLE BURST... he can walk it's fine it's fine. he's still in bloodied clothes. it's FINE.]

Might be better to do that anyway.

[murdergate]

Carry her. She lost a lot of blood at the party.

[ oh right it's rodya ]

Please.

[applebough]

Nodd and Rosamund...

[ She can't finish the sentence. Pain. ]

[rosebleed]

Also?

[Notices Gregor.]

...?!

[riverbeans]

[AAAAAAAAAAAAA frantically sending a message on his i.r.i.s as he runs over]

You guys okay?

[rosebleed]

We're fine, it's all right— [Pats his shoulder and stamps her blood on it.] It's Yuri, she needs to go to the med bay, right away!

[inquired]

[ WAUGH IM NOT MISSING IT THIS TIME

the ship coming into the bay is what grabs temenos' attention, because he knows that sound! and he is rushing down, because of Course - ]

Yuri - your highness, Nodd, all of you - is she the worst off!?

[ almost immediately rushing over to try and help with poor yuri?! ]

[rosebleed]

Yes, yes she is, we've only got scrapes and bruises, Yuri was impaled.

[applebough]

[ cough wheeze

energy is so hard to keep up when she's trying not to fall asleep ]

[roseoftexas]

[ why.

he just. zips over to them as fast as he reasonably can -- they don't all look like they're losing limbs and about to drop dead, but still. ]

Why the hell are you bleeding so much?

[ he's giving everyone a look over because they all look like they've had a time, but yuri?? your blood? ]

Can you walk to the medbay?

[applebough]

[ Her blood!

But oogh, it looks like she's about to collapse again. ]

[rosebleed]

A lot of it is other people's blood!

[Creaky smile.]

[mansplains]

[ kicks the door down. and by that i mean he's here to help, coming to support nodd and the girls. he is touching the girls without being afeared ]

[drymonster]

[ character development... ]

[inequals]

[ Your misogyny... ]

[teenrebellion]

Yuri-san?!

[ fuck! he's glad they caught her but aaaaaa all of you!!!! ]

Do you need help getting her to the med bay? Are you guys okay?

[drymonster]

[ aaaaah actually running over for once ]

Rosamund-san! Are you— are you okay? I mean... obviously not, but...

[ RELATIVELY SPEAKING... ]

[naeddre]

[ooooooogh bad

bad!!! she's here, probably right behind temenos, looking at all four of them. yes including amalthea]

What can I do? [point her in the right direction please don't be die]

[solesuccess]

[ WAAAAAH. ]

Is it going to be like this every week? [ okay he is just. here? roboji is also here now to lift if needed. ] Can you guys make it on your own?

[discomfort]

[ everyone else is taking care of them already so owner won't get in the way but

woaw.... everything bleeds so much at all times ]

[messy]

Jesus, right on fucking schedule!

[AT LEAST THERE'S NO MAID DRESS THIS TIME...? she is looking over them and making sure everyone has someone to haul their ass to a pod, at least.]

[dropoffs]

[ the moment that the cargo bay floor begins to open, there's adrastea. once amalthea has ushered the other three to the group at large to be taken care of, they come over, fingers curling at the other officer's elbow to catch their attention. ]

Do we need to get you to Io, too..?

[baebladie]

[ Can't believe I passed the hell out and woke up TO THIS

Anyway, he is like late, that's fine, probably gets to see them carried off to medbay or something, but his eyes are on Yuri foremost, before he takes his leave. ]