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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.
allatonce: (that i can only write my name)

[personal profile] allatonce 2022-06-16 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Could be. The theory might be a little different...

[People whole-ass falling through a rift implies that it differs from the theory that every world has a version of you and you can fling yourself to a different version. Feels even more sci-fi that what she's even used to, which is why she thinks it's probably better to start from the beginning.]

So philosophically, we were working from the assumption that the same thousand souls or whatever were getting reincarnated constantly. That would mean that in every world or almost every world, there's a version of each of us. We figured out how to... temporarily fling someone into a different version of themselves to access different skills. If that makes sense.
timegazer: (💎 Thirteen.)

[personal profile] timegazer 2022-06-17 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[The same thousand souls? That's...okay, Adaman is doing what he can to follow this, and he brings a finger up to his chin as he tries to make sense of this.]

...I believe I understand. So in that sense, there is always a "you" to go back to, even across worlds--and you are able to possess them? Like a ghost-type Pokémon? Utilizing those rifts of yours, you are able to house different bodies...

[...Okay no, his head is kind of hurting at that.]

Does that sound right? It sounds like a headache.
allatonce: (all the years i was embarrassed)

[personal profile] allatonce 2022-06-17 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh! Pokémon. She knows that one, even if it's been a hot minute. Still, that's a useful baseline.]

It's not quite possession, it's more... you know how some Pokémon can copy moves? Sorta works like that, where I can "copy" skills another version of me has. [Kind of, anyway.] But yeah, it can be a headache if you try to keep too many skills at once.