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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: (Unamused)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-11 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
    He has no right to treat her like this, no right to be getting so angry over something she didn't even plan in advance.

    "And yet the first thing out of your mouth when I come to check on you is a jab regarding my death. I don't care that I died, it happens, but I do care that you're angry about it and taking it out on that poor broom. It did nothing to you."

    [personal profile] professionalriot 2023-12-11 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
    "Because I found out you died again from someone else. I found your house destroyed. I couldn't find you anywhere. I had to beat on the door of the green dome for an hour before they finally let me in and told me what happened."

    He almost laughs over the broom comment. Almost. Until he looks down and sees that it no longer broken.

    "I don't want you to clean this mess up. I'm not angry." He's hurt and he's not even really hurt by what happened here. It's just unfortunate that this situation exposed it. Picking up the broom he takes a deep breath.

    "I'm sorry I wasn't there when you woke up." He pauses and clears his throat. "I've never been the one with you when you wake up from something like that. Never was asked to be. It didn't even cross my mind that I should have been there this time. I'm sorry."

    Ash hates how that sounds but it is the truth. He doesn't want to come off as jealous or possessive. It's just what he has learned. She dies and he waits for someone to come tell him what happened. He waits for her to come tell him she is back.

    "You've been different here and I'm not sure what I've done to piss you off. Except this. This is my fault. And I'm...sorry." Now he's going to start to sweep the debris up.

    redlightgreenlight: (mysterious)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-12 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
    "What was I supposed to do, Ash? Appear to you in a vision to tell you I died? Of course you were going to hear it from someone else first. I was dead."

    She's not sure how he is unable to get that through his head. She wasn't keeping anything from him, she just didn't blow off her Tayrey when the girl knocked on her door.

    "And I'm not different, you're just seeing a side you haven't seen before in the what...five months we've known each other? The Eterna is an enclosed space, filled with people I care about, run by someone whom I also like for some stupid reason. I am free to direct my abilities in any direction I want here, including fighting back when someone vandalizes my house or tries to drag me off to some location I don't want to go to."
    Edited 2023-12-12 01:27 (UTC)

    [personal profile] professionalriot 2023-12-12 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
    "I'm sorry. You're right."

    He isn't upset with her. Ash knows she couldn't tell him she died. It is still upsetting. He still doesn't like feeling that he's the last to know. That she doesn't care if he knows. She'll tell him what she wants when she wants.

    Ash shakes his head as he continues to sweep.

    "I always knew there was something wild about you. Reckless. That isn't what is different. Doesn't matter. I'm just being too emotional about it."
    redlightgreenlight: (oh?)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-12 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
    No, perhaps it isn't what is different, but she's not going to discuss it with him or Max.

    "Well, I'm fine now. So try not to worry."

    [personal profile] professionalriot 2023-12-12 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
    He stops sweeping and stands there staring at her, eerily calm.

    "Sure, yeah. I'll try not to worry."

    Ash stands there still watching her thinking about snapping the broom in half again. Something isn't right and he knows it. Just a feeling, of course, still it's hard to ignore. Worse is finding himself feeling like he would rather be alone. He hates being alone. That feeling makes his heart drop like a stone into his stomach. If she picks up on any emotion from him right now it's that, feeling alone and empty.

    "You can go. I can clean this up on my own."

    Edited 2023-12-12 13:20 (UTC)
    redlightgreenlight: (Unamused)

    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-12 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
    Valdis will never tell him to not feel how he's feeling, even if she thinks the emotions are silly, he's allowed to feel them.

    "Fine."

    She spins on her heel and leaves, taking care to not slam the door on her way out.