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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)
  • myagic: (079)

    [personal profile] myagic 2023-12-21 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
    Her tiny grin twitches in sad amusement. She can just picture Jade wearing that as easily as if he was here, and imagine him making plenty of snide comments...and lecturing them for doing something to get them taken to the hospital...

    She can picture it so easily it hurts.

    "Yeah," she answers, her own smile gone. "It's just...annoying that we're cut off from communicating when we're split up like this." But there's no helping it. They chose to come here, like Natsuno said, in the slim hope of keeping them all going just a little longer. "Wonder how long he plans to keep this one going..."
    neverleave: (meh)

    [personal profile] neverleave 2023-12-22 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
    "Until he gets bored of a quiet ship, I guess."

    Is the captain watching this one? Natsuno hopes not.

    "To be honest, I'm not too worried. If Skulduggery, Ava and the like disappear while we stay... that'd be the time to worry."
    myagic: (116)

    [personal profile] myagic 2023-12-22 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
    Rita also hopes not, even though the possibility is what kept Skulduggery from cursing them all with his gross sex life details. The captain watching would actually be preferable to that fate. Hm, maybe that's why Skulduggery isn't going for the obvious plan of just seducing Number 2 like he did with the captain--he doesn't want to get caught two-timing. Coward.

    Anyway, Natsuno's right, so she gives his hand a little squeeze as they approach her cottage. Once they're inside and she shuts the door--she can't help it anymore; even if there is surveillance in here and they're never really out of someone's sight, she turns to hug Natsuno.

    "I know why we came here, but still, I just--I'm glad you're okay."
    Edited 2023-12-22 18:25 (UTC)
    neverleave: (so nice and soft...)

    [personal profile] neverleave 2023-12-22 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
    Oblivious to Rita's thought about disgusting romance gambits, Natsuno hugs her back.

    "Same." He should be berating Rita for getting herself caught up in his mess, but that'd be pointless, not to mention hypocritical. "...it's a shame I passed out. I bet you gave them hell."
    myagic: (142)

    finally I can throw all subtlety to the wind

    [personal profile] myagic 2023-12-22 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    She's so glad. She's so glad. She's lost too many people she's never going to see again. If something were to happen to Natsuno too, she couldn't stand it.

    That's why they need to stay here. If they do, they don't have to worry about disappearing. She just...wishes they hadn't waited so long, so that Jade and Clarke couldn't be with them, too. And what to do about Fio and the others, back on the ship?

    She doesn't voice any of that, though; she just tightens her hug and breathes in the iron-tinged scent from his shirt before pulling back with a small grin. "Oh, yeah, I punched one in the nuts. Served him right for messing with you. It's just a shame I couldn't get the others." She's not even lying, either. She might want to stay in the Village with him, but that doesn't mean she'll put up with jerks messing with him, either.