WEEK 8

[bathymetric]

Good morning, passengers. Happy Sunday. Happy New Year.

Your numbers have officially dropped to single digits. One of you managed to kill the first of the major living obstacles to your collective freedom. A ghost or demon or something nearly killed you. It was a weird week.

The cruise continues on, roller coaster back up and running as ever, arcade free and clear of coins. The last free floor of the ship is open, as well as part of the top deck with... well, something you might expect to see way more on a cruise ship than anything else here. One way or another, you get a feeling you can't shake - things are going to end soon.

No rain yet, but the clouds are closing in fast above you. A cold wind blows during the night, sending the ship gently rocking. Around midnight or so, if you head to the deck, you can hear thunder in the distance.



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[ ooc: Welcome to week 8, everyone! Remember to turn in AC here and coins for regains over here! If you wish to get in contact with the npcs, Davy Jones is over here, and "The Captain" is over here! And as requested, profiles are accessible here. ]

Comments

[guffawsungraciously]

[yeah actually, unironically dump all that information on him]

I see... how fascinating. I wonder if we have the same sort of trajectory in store in my own world? We do, of course, have more common works of art than simply the ornate portraiture reserved for the wealthy, such as periodicals of various kinds, though I imagine readily available technology such as this would save time and improve the quality of art forms with less stable financial backing.

[ltcommandroid]

[Data nods.]

Invention often makes things that were previously considered luxuries more accessible to the lower classes. Until, of course, it becomes possible to do away with class inequity altogether.

[do I understand the utopian worldbuilding of star trek? not really, but I'm not gonna be all j.j. abrams about it]

[guffawsungraciously]

Hmm... I do understand how that would happen, truly. At the same time, though, I find it difficult to believe that there will not always be people angling to climb to the top on the backs of others.

[ltcommandroid]

That is a fact of life. In Earth's current society, it simply takes different forms - political power, for example. People will no longer accept their fellow humans dying due to resources being withheld, but there are still structures of leadership and positions of importance.

[guffawsungraciously]

I suppose that is for the better, then, though I will admit that I am surprised human nature managed to get even that far.

[ltcommandroid]

There were several catastrophic wars beforehand. But I do not believe that human nature is inherently bad.

[guffawsungraciously]

I never thought it as a question of good and evil, really. It is more or less the lure of power weighed against everything else.