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END GAME: LAST CALL

WELCOME TO

PRISON SHIP

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE SERENA ETERNA

with the combined power of the Captain and Sparkles under her control, Malin has made a few adjustments to the running of the realm. namely, it is no longer a cruise ship. it looks more like a frigate, with one long hall running the center of it and the bridge now enclosed in the forward superstructure.

(which is that thing that looks like a dalek btw.)

along the hall are the former cabins, now converted into barred cells. communication between cells is limited, at this time, to shouting at the cell across and catty-corner from you.

all powers have been negated. all regains have vanished, including all material possessions and gifts from the Erda. in fact, all items have vanished; mobility aids included. all passengers are dressed in only prison togs. you know the ones. the black and white stripes.

every half hour, Friday walks down the hall, completely silent and acknowledging no one.

there is no food. there is no water. hopefully you figure out that you never needed it at all.

all combined, this offers you a chilling challenge: to find a way out.

of note:

there are no doors to the cells: they are simply barred, spaced too close together for even Fio to slip through. they cannot be budged with normal human strength.

everything that has been previously stated to be stored within the artifact storage room is still there, though it is also behind bars.

other than her supernatural thralls and her connection to the Fog, Malin is a normal human, though one with a gun and a dinosaur. she can be killed by any normal means.

if the Fog makes contact with a character, an insanity event will trigger, and they will have to roll for survival.

deaths are now semi-permanent, in the sense that dying will remove a character from play during endgame. revival post-game is highly likely, but not certain.

you have made friends along the way. keep an eye out for them.

there will be a catch-all post coming soon.

NEW COLLAB PLAYLIST

FLIP DISC 2: a playlist for the middle, and the beginning of the end

Hi guys!! I decided to make a new playlist for the midpoint we're at right now and the very beginning of endgame because SO much has happened so far, and I don't want to squish that all onto the final playlist. So here's one for the point we're at right now! It's a collaborative playlist, so everyone come pile in and throw in whatever you think fits! Recently swept/dropped players can add too!

It's right here!

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!mod post

FINAL BOARDING CALL

friends, as applications permanently close and we get our asses into gear for end game, we will have one final activity check! no activity needed; just comment to this post to let me know you're still alive and ready to fuck some shit up. anyone who doesn't reply to this post by monday, the 5th, will be removed from the game.

also, a note: my cleanup of the idlers will likely result in cabin assignments being jostled around. this is For Reasons.

ENDGAME PLOTTING

With Ari's drop from the game we have to rehash the original plan.

My Discord Takeways:

1. We know that Ari has told Clarke where the string is and Clarke will be looking to use it.
2. Per a previous/ongoing Player Plot, Tiamat is on the verge of taking over again and this plot will be merged into the endgame plot as Tiamat will ally with Clarke to go after the captain. EDIT: WE think it will be simpler if there is not a big huge fight, so that is out.
3. Eridian is going to come back and help Clarke get the string on the Captain.

The moment the string goes into effect we assume characters will have little to no time to react.

We want to maximize involvement as much as possible so please post additions, corrections, and ideas below.

As of this moment: Clarke will have the string re: Ari. Crichton will tell Valdis about the string, paving the way for Tiamat to look for it. Once Tiamat and Clarke team up things will start going down.

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN -

Also back from the village

Mulcahy's here! The very opposite of a problem. Probably the yin to Vickie's yang.

One Thug, Back From The Village

Vickie lived! And this will now be everyone else's problem.

Operation: Rescue Peter Starr

Hello friends!

So before this event, I'd gotten the idea that I wanted to do some ridiculous caper type stuff in the village that would generally result in death and not much else. Then Number 6 got kidnapped and, well, the caper has kind of morphed into a tentative rescue attempt.

We had a small handful of people involved originally but I think the scope needs to be larger now so I wanted to extend and offer to anyone interested!

The basic idea is that there will be multiple teams hitting various buildings in the village. Each team will have member/s to cause some sort of distraction while other member/s of the team attempt to sneak deeper into a specified building. As an extra step, Cassandra is going to tattle to Number 2 in hopes of gaining his trust in case each team goes sideways.

This initially started as a VERY silly idea, I warn you, and you can definitely tell but! I'm going to post some things in the comments to open up discussion.

Canon Update Information!

Hey everyone!

I will try to keep this brief. I moved César's canon update from November 8th to November 28th since November was a bad month for everyone, but I still need the update to happen in November for essay length character reasons. This way, it'll be easy to have most people miss César's canon update until the excursion in December.

( Changes below the cut )

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!meme

Daily Routines & Handwaved CR Meme, VOLUME 5: the road ahead

Handwaved CR Meme:
time to formally delcare your character's high score on time crisis

Well, here we are again. The Serena Eterna is sailing forward toward the unforeseeable future -- but the passengers don't know what waits for them down the road toward eternity. What they do know is what their daily life on the ship is like! Standing dinner dates with friends, favorite hangouts, and extremely rational blood feuds are common occurrences for people who have been living at sea (some for two years now)! Even new passengers may find themselves with their own habits, if they haven't been absorbed into those of their fellow passengers.

This meme is here to help flesh out the background moments that help fuel character relationships. Post your characters and their routines, then see who else might be stalking the buffet at 2 AM or who you might run into on laundry day. After all, the ship is home to a whole host of strange people; you're rarely the only one around.

Post a comment with your character's name & cabin number in the header, and give us an idea of what sort of things they get up to around the ship! Be as detailed or as vague as you'd like.
Talk about what kind of handwaved CR you might inspire! Is your character the type to stop and chat with friends on the promenade? Are they consistently the highest score on multiple arcade cabinets? IDK, you tell us!
When you look at other characters' routines, you might notice some moments that line up! Even if your characters are total strangers, they might see each other at the buffet every day, or maybe they're unwittingly competing for the high score on DDR. And close CR might mean weekly dinners, book clubs, sparring sessions every morning... like I said, this is where you shine!!
This is also a good chance to handwave characters exchanging contact information, generating some more inbox threads!

BONUS ROUND: December marks the final excursion (as far as we know........), and unbeknownst to the passengers, it's also going to be an entire month! That means that for some unlucky passengers, they'll be noticing a serious deficit in people around. If your character is leaving for the excursion, it might be good to highlight things that will be obvious indicators of their absence. Things that might go uncleaned, patrols that might be missed, etc etc. does that make sense i sure hope it does

TLDR: write about your character's life on the ship and then compare notes with other people, find CR and plot hooks, ???, profit

(Last meme, for those who might need it!)

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December Excursion: The Village

Hi all! This is Meghan. I will be driving the December excursion plot while Trek is on a much-needed vacation. (Be gentle, please.) Okay, Let's get right to it!

Starting in Mid-November, a sign-up sheet will appear at Friday's desk. It reads as follows: Want to get away? Book your vacation now! Hope to be seeing you! No other information is given. Not even a danger rating. Who knows, it could be another nice resort, just like that last one... oh wait. Never mind, don't worry about that!

If your characters sign up, they will be automatically transported to The Village overnight on November 30th. The event will be running From Dec 1st - Dec 23 Incly (and oocly. I'd like to have time for family stuff over Christmas and New Year's, but as always people are welcome to backdate and continue to play.) Anyone who signs up will be trapped in this realm for the entirety of the plot. Your Excursion host for this realm will be Number 2, the leader of The Village. This is his account, which I will be using to publish all event-relevant posts and tags.

( So, what's it all about? Here, have a bulleted list! )
I'll be around to answer any and all other questions you may have. Looking forward to torturing you all! Mwahaha. Now we just have to see if your characters can work together to find a way to defeat Number 2 and his henchmen to win their escape, or will they just barely manage to hold on until the Serena Eterna can return to rescue them?

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Hello friends! It's Artemis back with the fluffy-haired nerdy metalhead looking very much forward to seeing what endgame is going to entail. For the unfamiliar (since there are a few new faces from the last time he was kickin' around), Eddie comes from season 4 of Stranger Things. He spent a majority of the season on the run after the unfortunate ordeal of witnessing Henry Creel's first kill, which took place in his trailer aka very incriminating. He spent the rest of the season coming to terms with what it means to be a hero before sacrificing himself to buy more time...

before waking up on the cruise ship from hell 🥹. And now after a long stretch of time in the Nothing, ya boi is back again and he is Not Happy™️. The plan is to toss up a catch-all later today but if anyone wants anything tailored to their characters, please feel free to comment here, pm or reach me at plurk

metalheads

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE KNOW BY NOW THAT TIME KNOWS HOW TO FLY

previously on Smallville, Sparkles just so happened to find a space probe that Ari and her merry crew will use to send a message outside of the Captain’s realm. they will accomplish this in November through that month’s event, which is still under the works and will come when Ari’s mun is finished designing it! I just wanted to get that out of the way so I could make my own announcement.

November will be the last month to submit both AC and bonus AC. this is because I will be absent for the large part of December, where you will have an event run in the safe hands of Meghan, and because, starting on my return in January, Come Sail Away will be entering its endgame plot.

when I started this game, there was one thing I knew for sure: I wanted it to actually have an end, like a good game, not just peter off into meaninglessness, like other games. also, after a decade, I’m headed back to college to actually finish my undergrad! in either the spring or fall, so. I decided to work on it. I waited for the idea to come to me, and, at last, during a shower maybe a month and a half ago, it did. I think you guys are gonna like it, personally!

what does that mean right now? not too much; the most dramatic changes will be coming in January and February. (AND THE CHANGES WILL BE VERY DRAMATIC!) there’s a few things, in addition to the AC news above.

1. on November 1st, apps will be closing for new characters. previously apped characters from players of good standing are more than welcome to return for endgame. these apps will be accepted through January, and do not require you to actually reapp! you’ll just post like “hey pal” and you’ll be in.

2. endgame will kick off sometime in January and continue until it, y’know. ends. what does that mean? I don’t know. we’ll have to see what y’all do with what you’re given.

3. ???

4. I don’t know it just felt weird to have a list with only 2 things.

+1 Speedster

Hello Hello! My name is Ashley but considering the fact that there's at least a dozen Ashleys I'm fine with going by Bishiekeeper. I have brought along my lovely speed based hero- Tenya Iida from My Hero Academia! It's been a while since I have been in a proper game, so please have patience with me while I shake off the dust. You can find me on plurk

timetoreap and my discord is: bishiekeeper . Please don't be afraid to add me or dm me!

ANDTHANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND THE WARM GREETINGS.

October Excursion: Step into Hell

Hello fellow players, Kalineh here with the Player Realm for this month. This realm is based on the merging of Heaven and Hell if Fenrir, the host, had fulfilled his goal in Swallowing the Sun. Much of this is player driven with scenarios and mechanics offered for you to play with and a few surprises along the way.

OOCly this event will run from October 22nd to October 28th, due to my schedule, with different posts under the master post to depict the IC days.

ICly the excursion will take place over three days, the first two will be a cycle of Heaven and Hell taking over the landscape. The third will be a trek through Cadair Idris, the lair of the Hellhounds. Those who die on days one and two will revive in cells within Cadair Idris on day three and will remain there until they are either rescued, or they manage to rescue themselves. Those who managed to survive will be able to do some rescuing. Once everyone has been reunited, they will get to meet their host.

Those who sign up are trapped in Eden until the excursion ends, there is no going back to the Eterna. Healing powers are nerfed. Characters have their other powers and any weapons they may own.

The Hounds are similar to Valdis and Daisy, they have the same abilities and are nearly indestructible, but unlike the passengers, they revive immediately upon death. You will have a chance to interact with them. They will not use death magic on player characters unless you really want them to.

+1 Perfectly Normal Lady Who Will Not Harm You :)

Hello! I've never played a game that used these so pardon me if I'm doing this wrong. My name is Rose and I was invited here by some friends!

Helen is a manifestation of the Spiral, one of a debatable number of god-like entities representing the primal fears of all sentient life. The one in question represents the fear of madness, delusion, being deceived, feeling as though your mind is lying to you or that what you're perceiving isn't real. She's very friendly! Until she isn't. Also she's got a very cool pocket dimension that is definitely safe to enter.

Couple warnings: a lot of the concepts surrounding Helen's narrative are deeply existential and can be disquieting to some folks. Additionally, as an aspect of a fear-god it is in her nature to use her abilities to cause fear and harm. She uses not only the paranormal flavor of unreality, but also more mundane methods that look very similar to real-life gaslighting and mental abuse. This can be narratively a lot of fun! But for some it can be upsetting or triggering, so please let me know if you want me to avoid having Helen behave a certain way toward your character or if you would prefer not to tag with her at all.

I would really love to RP Helen's antagonistic side, but also I would love for her to make genuine connections that conflict with her nature and make her Feel Stuff. I'm also super down for messy interpersonal drama and Helen Doing Horror Stuff at people!

Oh, also: I'm a mod and primary writer for Pumpkin Hollow, so if I occasionally vanish for a little bit, it is probably due to mod duties and I'll be back in short order <3 Thanks for understanding!

+1 Gargoyle

Hi all! It's Meghan bringing you character number 4 (I know, I'm crazy, shh.) This is Demona from the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

Demona comes with some general content warnings. She's extremely racist (speciesist?) towards humans and she is not at all shy about saying so. She is also openly genocidal about it. She's prone to anger and violence in general, which does make her an excellent place to farm all the negative CR your heart desires. But I will take no offense if you would rather opt out of that whole deal, or if you want to put some hard limits on how far I go with those topics in your threads. Her permissions post here has comments screened so you can feel free to drop a message there at any time to opt out of any or all of her. No questions asked.

I also have a favor to ask. For the time being, Demona is only able to be active at night because she turns to stone by daylight. At a future date, I plan to see about changing that but, for now, I ask that when tagging her you always set your threads after sunset, or else all you're going to get back is [Stone statue is stone].

That said, if you want to have your character mess around with the statue of her, you can poke me about it and we'll plot the fallout of that. Ask Darcy how it's going for them. ;P

I am down to keep all my TDM threads as canon, btw, so let me know if you don't want that or I will default to them being canon.

Okay, I think that's everything. Looking forward to giving her a proper introduction maybe at the top of October.

+1 Concept-Dude With An Attitude

Aaaaa I finally did it, I apped this Daedric disaster.

Sheogorath is a metaphor-god from the Elder Scrolls series. He can be your best friend or your worst enemy, or both at the same time. He's the personification of "madness and creativity," the nature and extent of that being sort of up to interpretation depending on who's writing him. For me, I see that as him serving as sort of a distorted reflection of whoever he's dealing with. No one's Sheogorath is quite the same. In his mind, he's always been on this ship, in the heads of the passengers, it's just having a name and a face that's new.

With the wide range and depth of topics he can get tangled up in, I will be making an opt-in for him. I am absolutely here for deep dives into other characters' inner demons, but I wanna make sure I know what to tag for and what lines I shouldn't cross first.

Also, while I'm eager to play him with some complexity and depth, I'm also absolutely here for silly, whimsical Sheogorath as well. Escapism is absolutely a part of his sphere and he will show up to your tea parties at your cheese fortress. You have been warned.

+1 adventurer

happy thursday guys, it's mira, player of helena (

decrypter) with a shiny new second character for you!

fever hails from the setting of baldur's gate 3 - she's a sorcerer who's had a series of misadventures and wound up with a severe case of memory loss and needing to make sure the sword coast doesn't get destroyed by squid people, a cult, or the squids in the cult. she's here to be friendly, but she hasn't quite accepted that she's not going back - she feels a moral sense of obligation to return and finish the job instead of trusting her companions to handle it all.

however, she also comes with a few caveats. her opt out page is something i ask people to please read, both in the sense that i don't want to accidentally spoil someone on the plot of the game since it's still new, and because fever, hailing from the dark urge origin, requires some disclaimers and warnings.

now i'm going to go post a log ❤

SEPTEMBER EVENT: YOU BELONG AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS

starting on September 5th, beginning around the bridge and then fanning outward, passengers will find something they’ve never seen on the ship before: plants. flowers. growing out of cracks in the floor, up walls like trellises, around banisters and ceilings, spreading out exponentially as the days go by.

( you belong somewhere you feel free )