OPEN PSL ❖ fragment space

[moes]

"Welcome to the S.S Phoenix! We hope you enjoy your stay!"

You open your eyes feeling a little stiff. The last thing you recall is seeing your planet get destroyed before a hand reached out to you--Captain's hand. You were then greeted with the same introductory phrase before receiving the keys to their brand new dorm, a device--you're told it's called the Babelfish, something that allows you to interact with others through the interdimensional network--and perhaps an extra thing or two.

You are then ushered into the onboarding area, where you can see your fellow passengers. Some foreign faces, perhaps even some familiar ones. Before you are given any time to think, however, Captain, at the head of the room, speaks up.

"Once again, welcome new guests, to the S.S. Phoenix! You may call me Captain. Today is your first day of onboarding, where you can get to learn more about us and your fellow passengers.

We are part of the Interdimensional Galactic Coalition, a system that was created to keep order and peace amongst the multiverse. This ship that you're currently in is now your new home. Consider the card that you have obtained your citizenship. However, staying here comes with a price.

As you already know, your worlds were destroyed. And we are here to help restore those worlds into proper order. But in order to do that, you must obtain Fragments. These mysterious Fragments will then power our ship's Revival Program. Those can be found in various worlds.

Now, if you have any further questions, now is the time to ask."

And she opens up the floor for questions--any questions.

[ OOC: Welcome, everyone, to a long form PSL in the form of Fragment Space! The premise of this is that your character's universes have been destroyed -- player's choice on the how -- and they have been rescued by the Captain to adventure to various worlds.

This PSL will very much be an exploration/mystery setup, with various types of settings that I will work with players on.

Locations for the S.S. Phoenix can be found here, and current NPC information can be found here.

In terms of moving things along, I will try to make sure that things move smoothly at least once a month. If you need to contact me for any questions/comments/concerns, please ping me either on plurk (tsundereban) or Discord (tsunderebans)! As this is an open PSL for my timeline, characters who participate may also interact with each other if they'd like, or keep things separate. I'm willing to run with things either way. ]

Comments

[starwill]

Oh, that's probably because of me.

[Stelle.........]

That's quite the board you have there.

[s1986u4]

It's only natural! Happy birthday, it would seem.

[She scrawls "raccoon = Stelle? = birthday?" on another sticky note and attaches it to the first.]

Sometimes you're just taken with a mood and you've got to write everything down. I'm sure you've felt the same?

[starwill]

Thanks. Well, not right now... honestly, I don't think I've written anything down in a while. Phones are convenient.

[s1986u4]

They're convenient, but doing all this on a little file on a phone isn't nearly as impressive.

[starwill]

That's true.

[She doesn't seem to be too bothered as she shrugs her shoulders.]

So you're making a conspiracy about the Captain...?

[s1986u4]

When you put it that way, it sounds a little gauche. I'm trying to make sense of our entire predicament as a whole! After all, even if this is a lighthearted game, the contrast is a little too much. Like those Flash games on Newgrounds.

[Rosalind has spent the entire time on board speaking as if she's a character in a video game. This seems to just be how she is.]

[starwill]

[Stelle, master of rolling with it--]

It's more detailed than a Flash game, though.

[s1986u4]

That's certainly true. It would probably look like it was thrown together by a hobbyist teenager, and have entirely too many references to murders and/or conspiracy theories from the day. And since I haven't seen a single cat in a bottle or dead body, that is currently out.

[starwill]

Cat in a bottle...?

You'd think it'd be a box.

[Because, you know the saying.]

[s1986u4]

That's less edgy teenage pastime and more visual novel making pretentious metaphors for route splits, isn't it?

[starwill]

Por que no los dos?

[stelle,]

[s1986u4]

Well, what do you think about this whole thing? Memes aside. At least I assume that's some sort of meme.

[starwill]

Honestly, I haven't found out enough to really make any sense of it yet... I'm just enjoying the cake.

[s1986u4]

I do wonder how he managed to make it so good. There can't be much in the way of supplies out here.

[starwill]

Why do you think that?

[s1986u4]

Mostly because we're in space. Granted, we've got a surprising number of resources as we are now.

[starwill]

I've been on spaceships that were just like this...

[Girl's got a lot of experience.]

But then again, maybe I'm just used to it?

[s1986u4]

Presumably they must make a lot of planetside supply stops, that and/or cultivate their own supplies somehow.

[starwill]

Might be a bit of both, honestly. This place might be the same...?

[s1986u4]

That only makes it more suspicious that they had an entire generation ship just lying around and happened to pick up a bunch of teenage girls and young women from destroyed worlds. ...And that one guy. But then, that sort of thing does seem to happen. I doubt it's Shakespeare's ghost this time, though.

[starwill]

I don't know if you could say that it was lying around... but if you're that suspicious, maybe we should search for clues?

[s1986u4]

[GLASSES SHINE]

My thoughts exactly. Clues have got to be everywhere in this place. Take the kitchen! How could she make a cake so filling and yet addictively good? Or the dormitories -- why do we need to earn single rooms? I presume there's no social rank mechanic, or the player would be incentivized to keep us at zero stars to increase our ranks with our roommates more easily.

[starwill]

Hmm... the kitchen might be the best thing to check out right now out of the two.

[s1986u4]

Indubitably.

[And she grabs Stelle's wrist, leaving her conspiracy board behind, and starts off to the kitchen. Yes, she's going to be trying to stealth this to get around the cafeteria staff until she can find anything left over from the cake-baking process.]

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[starwill]

H-Hey, you don't have to grab me--!

[Stelle shouts loudly in surprise as she's practically dragged off.]