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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)
  • thismaskismybadge: (atsv; upside down full body)

    [personal profile] thismaskismybadge 2023-12-14 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)

    You know you can come over for the music literally any other time, right?

    [ The comment comes from above, where Gwen—currently painted in blues and pinks and whites—has chosen to sit on the living room ceiling to keep space on the floor free for any other attendants. ]

    Besides, sometimes a stupid idea is the best idea. I have had multiple objectively stupid ideas work out better than my supposedly sensible ones. I once made Electro restore a power plant by tricking him into electrocuting a cardboard cutout in front of a generator.

    This can totally work. Maybe.

    saltwaterlungs: (Chinhand)

    [personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-12-15 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
    Maybe. But Mr Nailbat is running it so the plan might just be 'build a raft, sail off the edge of the world, and die on it'.

    [ Yeah Steve's never living it down. ]
    inhairently: (lorem ipsum (261))

    here but not here

    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-15 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
    ( Steve is just within earshot and pauses whatever he's doing to make a stink face in Darcy's general direction. Whatever. )
    saltwaterlungs: (Scheming)

    [personal profile] saltwaterlungs 2023-12-15 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
    [ Darcy mimes something going over a ledge while making a descending whistle. ]
    inhairently: (lorem ipsum (21))

    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-15 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
    ( Steve opens his mouth, thinks better of it, and shuts it again. He will not get got by the most annoying person here. )
    thismaskismybadge: (istv; thinking)

    [personal profile] thismaskismybadge 2023-12-15 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)

    Wait, what? Did that actually happen?

    [ Sorry Steve, you can't escape this one entirely, Gwen's looking at you now. ]

    inhairently: (lorem ipsum (210))

    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-17 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
    ( It's all he can do not to roll his eyes. )

    Yeah, it did. Okay? It's not like anyone looks at the open ocean and thinks it might drop off into— ( god what would you even call it. He gestures both hands wide, palms up, as if illustrating the enormous whatever-the-fuck they plummeted into. ) — into an empty goddamn void.

    ( But most importantly, )

    And it wasn't my idea, either. You know Peter Starr? Yeah, the same one we're trying to save from a kidnapping? It was him. So go ahead, laugh it up.
    Edited 2023-12-17 05:17 (UTC)
    thismaskismybadge: (atsv; deep breath)

    [personal profile] thismaskismybadge 2023-12-18 12:30 am (UTC)(link)

    [ Gwen covers her face with both hands and mutters something indistinct about... Looney Toon logic? Before uncovering her face again. ]

    Right, cool, okay, I'm not going to throw any more stones from my glass house of stupid superhero plans. Let's just make sure there's no falling-into-the-void level holes in this one.

    inhairently: (lorem ipsum (292))

    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-18 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
    There won't be.

    ( In truth he knows it's not that simple. The tides can turn before you even realize you're in the water. )

    But if there are, we deal with it.
    thismaskismybadge: (atsv; kinda awkward)

    [personal profile] thismaskismybadge 2023-12-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)

    We deal with it. Yeah.

    I'm still willing to do my thing if the cover plan works. Just, fair warning, the guy up top definitely knows exactly what I can do. I wouldn't be surprised if they were prepared for every trick any of us could throw at them.

    [ Is she kind of expecting motion sensors or electric shocks in the ceiling/walls? Yeah. ]

    inhairently: (lorem ipsum (122))

    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-18 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
    ( Steve nods. )

    Yeah, I'm willing to bet they are but that's the beauty of the plan. If the distractions work well enough someone should be able to make it in. We just need one.
    Edited (idk fiddling with html to clarify dialogue maybe ) 2023-12-18 20:58 (UTC)