THE RUINED HULL
Your First SpacecraftThe encounter with the Trilobite Queen has left behind more than just meat and chaos. Where the gargantuan creature originally rose out of the sand, an equally massive sinkhole has formed--and exposed something gleaming in the bottom of it. Something old, something metal, something
huge...
Welcome to
THE RUINED HULL.The Ruined Hull is an enormous derelict ship, long-entombed beneath the surface of the sand. The Trilobite Queen's egress has disturbed the ground significantly enough to open a way down to it, and while there are no doors that lead inside, a large gash along one side permits entry. Unlike those seen before, this particular gash doesn't look like it was made by anything organic.
What is this thing? Well, you'll have to
discover what's going on with it. But characters must be careful while exploring... While inside the Hull, the
suit's power drains at an alarming rate: anyone at 100% has about one hour before dropping completely down to zero.
The derelict craft is a seemingly-infinite maze of rooms that's all too easy to lose one's way in. The deeper one goes, the faster the power drains. Characters will need to watch their power levels to make sure they return to the surface in time for a recharge, or risk freezing up somewhere in the bowels of this abandoned spaceship. One thing is common to most of the rooms, though: the unique nature of the metal in this ship has condensed moisture in the area, making much of the surfaces slick and moist. Water drips from the ceiling in many places, especially those rooms closest to the surface.
There is bounty to be found inside the Ruined Hull! It's much too large for the interlopers to completely explore (especially given their suit restrictions), but there's plenty to be found for those brave enough to search.
How does all of this relate to world-building?
We'd like you to help flesh it out!
How do you do that? It's a simple as commenting to this entry. We've provided some sample locations below here to help get you inspired, but what we're looking for is for players to submit their own ideas for locations, items, or things of note to be found inside the hull. Are there maze-like corridors? A room with giant hole in the middle of it, falling for floor after floor until it goes too deep to see any further? Maybe your character is looking for some kind of central command-looking area, or a terminal to interface with in the hopes of gleaning more information.
Whatever it may be we'd like you to come and help flesh out the ship's layout! And that's where
Exploring come in!
To explore the Hull, comment to our
Exploration thread below. This can be mid-IC thread or ahead of time if you have plans, whichever works best! The comments themselves should be along the lines of asking about interacting with objects in the rooms or what you might find from exploring a given room. Feel free to ask about anything that is there or that one might find. As details are worked out, the descriptions of the rooms will grow and there will be even more for everyone to play around with! The descriptions and the responses given are your building blocks to create posts as characters explore.
To start the start the event off we have provided
(4) rooms for characters to explore & uncover. As things progress and players move throughout the Ruined Hull, more items, supplies, and areas will be unlocked!
Final Notes
As there will no doubt be a lot going on in terms of exploration and suggestions, feel free to throw up threads here to work out ideas or plans, set up groups to go exploring together, or even potentially get your character in a fix from staying down deep too long and needing to get dragged out. There is a lot of potential for what you can find, so don't be afraid to ask if you have an idea!
While this post is to keep planning in one place, it is largely up to everyone to make their own logs detailing their explorations! There will not be a mingle or mass post to reply to, so don't hesitate to make up a post of your own to get things started. Have an idea for something a bit bigger in scope or plan? Hit up our
plotting post! More general
discoveries are still open so don't feel as though you can only attempt discoveries from the new setting. Everything is still fair game!
The
Ruined Hull will be available for exploration until November 11th.
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theatlas_ooc2016-10-30 06:18 pm
EVERYTHING IS AWFUL (featuring Cayde-6)
He'll be wanting two people to go in with and look about, and he'll find some stuff. (Assuming Jess has shared her discovery about the pearls they can get a couple of hours in too.) That's great, he has some stuff to find and so do others.
Oh but a TRAVESTY. He's gonna take a bit of a tumble, down about 6 levels (boy this is a big ship.) A couple of people have already expressed interest in coming to his aid but, uh. It's pretty far. But ALSO there might be a stranger down there, who knows?
TEAM-UP, YO. COME SAVE YOUR ROBOT.
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if cayde & ahsoka go in together do u want jess to come give ahsoka a hand for the rescue?
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gina torresa hot space wizard and a huge blue guyUp to you guys! I don't mind who comes at all honestly
I AM BUT THE FACILITATOR OF WHAT MAY YET BE A LARGER PLOT
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RESCUE SUBTHREAD
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SO RIGHT NOW I can tell you he's falling down about 6 levels, into the sub-levels of the ship, where gravity is a bit wonky. It's a drop about the length of a football field, direct down below the engine room.
I can't say much more than that right now, but I am imminently going to PM the mods and put up a log so we can get this ball rolling
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