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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)
  • yourexoduslaughing: art by @TRexila on twitter (powers)

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2023-12-11 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
    "Oh yeah absolutely! Thankfully, they let me keep my powers! Though I did get in trouble the first day." Flan eyeballs the height and after doing some careful adjusting, she jumps into the air, and seems to 'float' there, just a half a foot under the ceiling. She gets the bucket rotating, and then starts scrubbing, crossing her legs underneath her so Cass can move around. "I went too far out, and they dropped me out of the sky and a rover got me! That wasn't much fun! But y'know, these places got rules and they'll make you follow 'em!"
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-11 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
    "A rover?" she asks, picking up books scattered across the floor and starting to put them in place on the emptied bookshelf.
    yourexoduslaughing: (falling)

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2023-12-11 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
    "Yeah, the big white ball things that chase you down if you go too far out!" Flan cheerily recounts, getting rid of the huge black S. "I got lucky - it only gave me a warning so I got knocked out but not killed!"
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-11 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
    "Ah. I don't think I've encountered one of those yet."

    Her voice is low and measured; her hands move carefully, precisely, shelving one book and then the next.
    yourexoduslaughing: art by @splicerparade on twitter/tumblr (:))

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2023-12-11 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
    "Makes sense! You're a lot more careful than I am! I keep forgetting that things aren't the way they used to be for me! Anyway, you'll be okay! Tayrey's been playing with them, y'know, figuring out their limits and stuff! But I've got enough stuff to do in the village!" Slowly but surely, she gets rid of the SEEING, until BE YOU is all that's left on the ceiling.

    "Hey, add a palm tree and it's inspirational!"
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-11 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
    Cassandra glances up, sees the words left on the ceiling, and starts to smile.

    "Do you know, I think it is? Perhaps we should leave it that way."
    yourexoduslaughing: art by @TRexila on twitter (wonderful time)

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2023-12-11 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
    "You got it! I should see if the store has crayons or markers or something! It's too bad there's no way they have decals, or we could probably get really goofy!" She drops down to the floor and catches the bucket, dunking her brush in it. "Any other special messages we can uplift?"
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-11 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
    "I haven't seen any -- do you think you could look around, in case I've missed one?"

    It wouldn't be that surprising, now she thinks of it, if there were other messages left where she wouldn't see them at once.
    yourexoduslaughing: (coy)

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2023-12-14 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
    "Oh yeah, totally! I'll check up, you look down!" And Flan gets herself to work, scanning the ceiling of Cass' home. "I like your place, it's super cozy! I hope you've got good memories of it, 'cause I know it's a real coinflip for folks!"
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-15 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
    "I do, yes," she says, and her smile looks quite untroubled. "I've missed these rooms. It's nice to have an approximation of them back."

    (If she also has bad memories of it, there's no need to mention that just now.)