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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)
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-21 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
    That's my thought. And I think he'll believe it of me. That I would sell out the rest of you for my own advantage.

    The tone of her mind is a little grim, as she puts down her waterglass and starts working on the hem again.

    I need you to tell me if you think it's a bad plan.

    It's what they promised, in another conversation they hoped wouldn't be overheard, just about a year ago.
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    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-21 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
    Steve's expression is unreadable. He unwinds the thread. Winds it up again.

    I don't think it's a bad plan, comes his eventual response. Just really goddamn risky.
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-21 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
    Yes.

    She bobs her head a little, in time to the music, as though absorbed in it.

    What do you see as the main risks?
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    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-21 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
    He's quiet at first. It turns out it's no easier to think-say some things than it is to actually say them out loud, even if the thoughts were already rattling around in your head.

    Cass...

    His hands still as he looks up at her.

    I don't want to see you get hurt. Guys like Number 2 don't have a limit. If he thinks you're double-crossing him he's going to do a hell of a lot worse than just kill you.
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-21 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    Cassandra doesn't look back at him, though she wants to.

    I don't want to get hurt either. But I don't think we have many options that don't carry that risk, aside from compliance.

    She carefully knots the thread, and reaches for the scissors to cut it off.
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    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
    Yeah. I know.

    He sounds defeated.

    I'm not gonna tell you not to do it. Just... be careful. Okay?
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-22 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
    I just --

    For the first time, her mental voice falters.

    If anything does go wrong. I don't want people to think I was trying to -- to make a deal for myself.
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    [personal profile] inhairently 2023-12-22 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
    Whatever happens, I don't think anyone would think that.

    He's pretty sure of it. He would reach out to her to place a comforting hand on her arm maybe, but that would seem odd were they being watched, so he doesn't.
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    [personal profile] not_the_last 2023-12-22 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
    I hope you're right. But I wanted somebody to know in advance. More than one somebody, if Valdis will help pass the word.

    She wants to clasp hands with him for strength and say we'll come through this, as though he were one of her guards; she wants to lean her head against his shoulder for comfort and whisper gods I'm so scared, as though he were one of her brothers.

    But because they're being watched right now she can't do either, and for that as much as for anything else, she wants to make Number 2 pay.
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    [personal profile] redlightgreenlight 2023-12-22 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
    She's been half-listening to the conversation, flopped out on her side with her eyes closed. She can feel Cassandra and Steve's anxiety. Despite the possible danger, she appreciates the girl's plan.

    I will do what I can, but I will have to coordinate and deliver any messages myself. My mind can only handle so many voices at once.