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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2022-06-12 10:14 am
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And with the sweat of your brow...

Fun Fact: Did you know that if the multiverse is real, there could be an almost infinite square mileage of completely unexplored ocean out there?

No reason.

...

You wake in one of 25 rooms with a sense of unease that doesn't quite track with how nice the accommodations are. Maybe it has something to do with the giant window leading out to the sea. The temperature is low, which might make you wish you had woken up under the luxurious covers instead of atop them. The lights, too, are low. But next to your bed is a small personal radio, and it's playing a song for you. There's also a small note printed on folded cardstock next to it.

Dear Prospective Citizen,

Welcome to the Helios Suites at New Rapture. The time should currently be 12:00 PM. Please take a moment to get your bearings and become acquainted with your new environment, then meet in the hotel lobby at 1:30 PM sharp for an orientation with Mayor Fontaine.


With only that for guidance, there's only the one thing to do: get out there and start exploring... well, it's hardly a full city, but it's something! And in the halls (or on the wall of your suite or the lobby), you very well may find up to 24 other captives.

What you do until your meeting with Mayor Fontaine, well... that's up to you. Every room certainly gives you something to talk about.
kninja: (?!(ΦωΦ)My lady did WHAT.)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-14 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
You know that's worse, right? You can hear how you're making it worse? There were two different reasons to kidnap you already?
sixthnonsense: (☄ why does this keep happening)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-14 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Wh- No! I just happened to be at school at the wrong time the first time around!!
kninja: (AHOY(ΦωΦ)My ship! It sails!)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-14 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
School?

[He doesn't follow.]
sixthnonsense: (☄ the fates aren't looking good for you)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah.]

The...place you go to get educated?
kninja: (EHH?(ΦωΦ)How many brows am I holding up?)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-14 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, I know what school is. What does that have to do with kidnapping?
sixthnonsense: (☄ maaaan)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-14 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, I got accepted into Hope's Peak Academy. It's like, a super prestigious school that only those who are "ultimate" in their field get into. Graduates basically carry the world's hopes and dreams for the future on their shoulders.

The mastermind was a student there too. They used our class for a killing game to make an example outta us, basically. That even the world's best and brightest could be reduced to killing each other for survival.

[As insane as it sounds, Hagakure is being completely serious.]
kninja: (GRAVE(ΦωΦ)No nonsense here.)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-15 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yyyyyikes. He picks up on that, at least, and turns serious in kind.]

…As crazy as that sounds, it really seems like you mean it. Man… I can’t even imagine. You survived, obviously.
sixthnonsense: (☄ whoa hold up)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-15 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it friggin' sucked, but I made it!

[...]

Man, this better not be something like that again. I just escaped all that.
kninja: (SIDE-EYE(ΦωΦ)That ain't kosher.)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-16 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes. [Obi grimaces sympathetically.] ...Could this incident and that be related?
sixthnonsense: (☄ i'm not saying it was aliens...)

[personal profile] sixthnonsense 2022-06-16 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There's always a chance...but I'd rather it be literally anything else.
kninja: (MOVE(ΦωΦ)If you had...)

[personal profile] kninja 2022-06-16 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
But at least then you'd know how to beat it, right?