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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-02-06 01:03 am
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FIRST TRIAL

[ Eventually, time seems to run out. Davy Jones takes a lap around the boat, rather tersely instructing everyone to gather in the theatre.

Once everyone is inside, he herds all of you onto the stage, which has been cleared save for the controls to the elaborate pipe organ built into the room. ]


Step lively, passengers! There's a long ride ahead of ye!

[ And once everyone is on that stage, Davy Jones sits at his organ and begins to play. It's not a familiar song to any of you, and it doesn't sound kind, but it does sound wildly complicated. Or it would be, for someone who can't play with his many tentacles.

As the piece begins, the stage begins to descend. Well, at least the part you're all on, as well as where Jones sits at the organ. And it keeps descending, at least through a few floors before long. The elevator shaft is dark, the music echoing until it fades, the controls apparently too far from the pipe organ above before long. Jones sits in silence as the cramped ride continues. Dull bulbs set into the wall provide just enough illumination to tell where you all are, but the walls are thick steel.

You have to have descended several floors, you imagine, when light starts to creep in at the edges of the platform, along with voices. They sound distant and distorted, but the first thing you hear when the platform breaks into the trial room is men singing, rough and distant.

You can also see the... surprisingly somber room, considering where you are. The walls and floor are all made of glass, allowing you a view of the sea as the ship you now stand on the very lowest deck of pushes through the water. Lights illuminate enough to tell that it is indeed water out there, but the water is perhaps not the most interesting thing out there in the dark.

Below the ship, illuminated by a ghostly aura, sails (for lack of a more fitting word) The Flying Dutchman. If you look closely, sailors more monster than anything else man the deck, and seem to be the source of the song. Davy Jones casts the ship a sad look, then stops a foot on the floor and the song quiets. ]


Take your places, passengers. Ye have this chance alone to find the killer among yer number.

[ In the center of the room stands a circle of sturdy metal podiums. Carmen's seems to be almost... decades older than the rest, coated in rust and barnacles. In the center hangs a circle of screens, currently switched off. ]

If there are questions, I am going anywhere no sooner than the lot of you.

[ Jones moves to look out the window, leaving you all to talk amongst yourselves.

Welcome to your first trial. ]
queceracera: (will we have rainbows day after day?)

[personal profile] queceracera 2021-02-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't verify that! [Straight yelled across the space between them.] He never takes that thing off.
jibunwo: (with one word you saved me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Correct. I shower when I'm certain no one else is around, and I've only eaten alone in our room. No one in this room has seen my face. So you really just have my word to go off of for that answer.
queceracera: (and it might be me)

[personal profile] queceracera 2021-02-06 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whisper-yelled:] I think it's 'cause he's a robot.

[Just, you know. For the record.]
jibunwo: (with this one word you gave me)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[sigh.]

If I was a robot, I wouldn't need to eat in the first place.
queceracera: (but the list goes on and on)

[personal profile] queceracera 2021-02-06 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I've never actually seen you eat so who's to say you do. Checkmate.

[Note: Scott has never played chess in his life.]
jibunwo: (light shines from above)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[case 2: scott pilgrim found beaten to death with a chessboard]
silentscout: (06)

[personal profile] silentscout 2021-02-06 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't care about your face. And if you never take your helmet off anyway then it doesn't matter if your hair is wet or not.

[But actually, is his helmet or clothing wet?]
jibunwo: (this haze of doubt is melting away)

[personal profile] jibunwo 2021-02-06 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[nope, he's dry and doesn't smell like either chlorine or seawater. you know, no more than one would just by living on a boat.]
silentscout: (24)

[personal profile] silentscout 2021-02-06 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[Then he's good to go, as annoying as he is.]