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number_2 ([personal profile] number_2) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2023-12-01 07:53 am

Welcome To The Village

Who: Everyone who was signed-up for the excursion
What: The Village December Excursion
When: Dec 1st - Dec 23rd
Where: The Village
Warnings: Involuntary capture and confinement including immobilization and restraints, violence, injury, maiming, possibility of death, torture, coercion, gaslighting, mind control, drugging, scientific experiments, and extremely inaccurate depictions of mental health facilities/hospitals, among other potentially triggering themes. Please mark all threads appropriately.




"Good morning, good morning, good morning!" A voice that sounds very similar to Friday's chirps over a loudspeaker outside your character's home. Yes, their home.

Overnight, all the passengers who signed up for this excursion have been transported to their very own personal cottages. They will awake in a bed that is familiar to them. While this home of theirs does not necessarily have to resemble the place they were born or raised, it will be a perfect replica of a place they truly thought of as their home, down to the most minute details.

The cottages are self-contained, the size of a large studio apartment so, in some cases, they may only resemble the bedroom and living room of a person's home with a shrunken-down kitchenette and bathroom adjoined. But the heirlooms of their past are here. A favorite doll? A treasured family portrait? Trinkets you have long forgotten about? All of them will be here, somehow. (All except for weapons, that is.) They are indistinguishable from the real item, down to the molecule.

After that wake-up call, the voice continues on to express that the weather will be warm and sunny, with no rain forecasted. A brass band concert is announced, to start at noon on the lawn next to the living chess set. And once that bit of news is wrapped up, lively marching band music will begin to play. And it will continue to play. All day. From every speaker...including the ones hidden in their home.

Welcome to Your Village

It only gets stranger from here. Characters may be dismayed to find that they are without any of their original clothes or belongings. They awake in conservative button-up pajamas. The closet in their home is full of the latest Village Fashion to choose from. Everything is The Village label brand, including the tin cans of food that stock the kitchen and any of the groceries you could get at the General Store.

Your ship phone rings. When you answer it, you will be greeted, once again, by the voice of Friday. "Your number, please? Of course, you have a number. Look at your badge." If they look down at their chest, they will discover a small round number badge has been pinned to their pajamas. Was that there before? It bears the symbol of a Penny-farthing Bicycle, with a number in the spokes. This is their number.

"No names here," the voice of Friday chides, "Only numbers. Number 2 would like a word with you at the Green Dome. He requests you come for breakfast. Thank you!" Before they can protest further, the line goes dead.


Some Notes:
  • No matter how many times your character tries to take off and disregard their number badge, they will always find it re-attached to their clothes again the moment they look away and look back.

  • Your characters still have their phones but now they can only make calls instead of sending texts. They also do not take or store photographs anymore.

  • If your character destroys or damages anything in their home, or in The Village it will instantly repair the way things used to on the Serena Eterna.

  • The noise from the speakers can be muffled by covering it with pillows or other creative items, but cannot be stopped entirely. (Sorry Phil)
  • redlightgreenlight: (green eyes)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-06 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
    Either Number 2 has given up on fighting her on the names, or he is biding his time to flex his power over this place.

    "A 'productive chat?'" She repeats with an arched brow. "I assume you plan to have more of those, or is it all going to passive mind games?"
    redlightgreenlight: (cocky)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-10 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
    He choses not to comment on things in much the same way she does, dismissal with the hope that the question will not be asked again.

    "And what advice could a man like you offer to a woman like me?"

    Please mansplain this place to her, Kevin.
    Edited 2023-12-10 17:36 (UTC)
    redlightgreenlight: (Over shoulder 2)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-11 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
    A paradise. Valdis wonders if that's what all the owners of each pocket realm is after, though this one believes that's what it is.

    "I have prettier dresses on the cruise ship, Kevin. And my current cottage leaves much to be desired. Neither of those things spell 'paradise' to me."
    redlightgreenlight: (sly)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-11 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
    "I'm a goddess, Kevin, my very existence is unique and you may be happy being generic, but I am not."

    She smiles and shifts ever so slightly forward.

    "This is paradise only to you, because you think you have all the power, but you are nothing without what the Captain has given you."
    redlightgreenlight: (Happy 2)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-12 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
    "Oh, I see." She says as if she's just had a huge epiphany. "So if the Captain hadn't agreed to your deal, you would also be spinning in the Void. Wonderful plan to save your own skin, Kevin, I applaud you for your ingenuity. Do you think the others are grateful for your plotting? You know, the ones you saved?"
    redlightgreenlight: (cocky)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-14 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
    "So, you've found some other kind of energy to run this place off of then? Or is it still suffering? Because trading my individuality for more of the same doesn't seem like a very good deal, Kevin. Not when I can have my pretty dresses, my weapons, and my lovers back on the ship."
    redlightgreenlight: (tiny smirk)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-15 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
    "Don't speak down to me little man, I have run these games before, just not in this lifetime."

    She taps her nails on the desk.

    "Since you have so clearly evolved past the Eterna, which energy source do you use? Remember, you're the one trying to convince us to stay, so act like it."
    redlightgreenlight: (cocky)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-17 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
    Clearly she has gotten to his pride because he's upset again.

    "Very well, you are dismissed to go do whatever it is you do. Say hello to Peter for me."