WEEK 5: MINGLE

[dropoffs]

WEEK 5     32 CREW ACTIVE

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

 

 

WELCOME TO VOLK 92-B

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 fifth dropoff is really turning up the heat. On the horizon, Planet Volk 92-B rises. The observation deck allows everyone to watch as warm light and great gouts of steam pour fourth from the broken surface of the planet. Black shuttles zip to and fro along the surface like great, black beetles, crawling into each crevasse below. A monolith in the center opens wide, it's maw broad and glowing orange as it welcomes the Eudora forward and swallows it whole.

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. Reports of unusual metallic erythema spreading throughout random parts of the body have reached us as of 0400 hours. We've run the necessary tests to ensure that this is not a pathogenic outbreak. Please take care, as these metallic rashes while harmless on their own, can become painful if touched by another party. - 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:

⚙️ The A.R.G.O. (Agile Reconnaissance Gravimetric Overlay) to navigate beneath the crushing gravity on this planet
⚙️ Climbing gear including rope, carabiners, crampons, and climbing gloves
⚙️ A jar of pain cream for your joints with a faint, pleasant eucalyptus scent for the rigors of the planet's gravity on your body

Hello, Junior Crew, and welcome to your week 5 mingle! Here are a few things to get you started:

⚠️ Upon waking this week, the crew will find that some of their past injuries have come back to haunt them in a very unique way. Wherever any major or minor injuries once were, large swaths of greasy rust will appear in their place, no matter how old or scarred over they may be. These rusty spots cannot be greased away or healed via the pods, but the good thing is that they don't seem to hurt or really take a toll the crew at all aside from looking gross and leaving stains around and about. They seem fairly harmless until they are touched, resulting in both parties feeling the pain from the moment the wound was inflicted.

🪐 Pick up some supplies. Head on over to Scrap's Surplus Store or visit Omega Mart for a fun little freebie.
🪐 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 BURDENS AND CHASMS

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

Comments

[thematics]

I prefer being open about my opinions of people to begin with. Sledgehammer method.

[ what. ]

Your turn. Truth or dare?

[expiries]

Sledgehammer method...?

Truth.

[thematics]

You know. No tiptoeing around things. No wasting time trying to be delicate.

What's your favorite thing about your favorite person here? And none of that coy whispering that isn't doing a thing for secrecy to begin with.

[expiries]

[aaaaaaaaaa]

Their compassion.

[thematics]

Very cute.

[expiries]

Truth or dare, Miss Lovelace.

[thematics]

Truth. Since you'd just make it one anyway.

[expiries]

Is there anything you enjoy about being here?

[thematics]

... You're all good people. I like seeing everyone relax during our down time, when we aren't busy with—the obvious.

And hey, the ship itself and all the planets we've visited are horrible, but it is more interesting than where I've been stuck for the last several years. More than just the same metal walls. The same nothing.

[expiries]

...I'm glad for that, at least.

[thematics]

If it weren't for, again, the obvious I might not even totally hate this little detour from home.

[expiries]

Yes, I can agree to that easily enough.

[thematics]

Mm.

Truth or dare?

[expiries]

Truth.

[thematics]

Most embarrassing secret?

[expiries]

...I don't know that I have one in particular...?

[this isn't an outright refusal he just needs a second to think]

[thematics]

Just pick one, I guess.

[ she has chosen to interpret this to mean he has soooo many to pick from ]

[expiries]

I suppose that... When I left for boarding school when I was fourteen, I didn't have much experience being around people my own age, so I - said things that came off strange and awkward.

[thematics]

You're still like that.

[expiries]

Thank you, Miss Lovelace.

[thematics]

Smart people always end up being weirdos like that, anyway.

[inquired]

[ this is so right ]

[expiries]

Oh. Er. Thank you...?

[thematics]

[ shrugs....... ]

[expiries]

[also]

I think you are one of the most intelligent and competent people here.