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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 @splicerparade on twitter/tumblr (:))

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2024-01-18 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
    I've heard the speech! It's my favorite podcast drop - though we can't use it more than once an episode or it'll lose the flavour! Anyway someone's gotta be a hero and it can't be me! I'm too flighty! But I'll totally help as much as I can 'cause it's suuuuper fucked and they shouldn't be in this position anymore!

    [Flan laughs a little and nods, and she brings her voice down just a little - just so it's not so obvious to the guys listening in.] Yeah, like, okay. You're chill right? Rex says you had a whole killing spree at one point, so like. You're chill. So my uncle and all his friends are basically bad guys. Like, I'm a monster, but they're the kind of guys at the end of movies where they're going to rule the whole world. Most of 'em have something like this place- [She gestures to the world around them - small, tightly controlled, constant surveillance, all the usual stops.] - and they mostly go after easy prey.

    BUT... at least every once in a while, they pick on somebody their size. Somebody who used to be like them but they've lost their grip on it. Maybe they caught feelings or maybe they got cursed with a conscious, but a lotta times they just get tired 'cause they lived too long. So I've seen apathetic guys like the Captain before, and they usually get eaten up 'cause they don't have the drive anymore.

    [She gives him a friendly nudge with her elbow.] But we've got three big advantages! Guys like my uncles aren't around, and the Captain's got you to needle him, and maybe most importantly, we've got Sparkles! And it's not apathetic, it's just got a loooooot of real big feelings it's still trying to figure out! So I'll keep working with it, and you can start pushing the Captain too!
    light_mischief: (14. noir voiceover)

    [personal profile] light_mischief 2024-01-26 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
    I tend to go over better in small doses, it's true. [let it never be said that Skulduggery Pleasant doesn't know he's a lot.

    it's not much of a surprise to hear that Flan has some personal motivation behind her interest in things. he very briefly weighs the pros and cons of trusting someone with that sort of background, but she's been nothing but truthful with him. there's no need to be suspicious of her, and every reason to encourage her to get through to Sparkles.]


    An apt reading of the situation. I'm glad to know Sparkles hasn't fallen prey to the same apathetic streak its older counterpart has. [...he doesn't usually have someone around with the insight to answer this question in particular, so he takes advantage of the opportunity now:] Has it said much about the Captain? Other than calling him stupid.
    yourexoduslaughing: (cliff edge)

    [personal profile] yourexoduslaughing 2024-01-27 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
    Nope! It basically never brings the Captain up! It's told me about it's past and Amma and how it feels about Fio and some of the others, but we never really talk about the Captain! [She raises her eyebrows at Skulduggery.] You think that means something?
    light_mischief: (03. curious reading)

    [personal profile] light_mischief 2024-02-09 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
    I think it means that neither part of the Captain wants to address the situation at hand. Understandably so. Sparkles is only a child, and the Captain... he forgets things to make it easier on himself. But so long as they share the same cuff, they share the same problem. Which means that we're going to have to bring them together at some point.