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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-05 02:03 am
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COMMENCE EXPERIMENT

Fun fact: Did you know that the Pacific Ocean has a surface area of 62.46 million miles? That's not even accounting for depth.

You awaken to a sharp jolt, like you've just hit the drop on a roller coaster. Then it passes, and you're in a bed, suddenly very clearly awake. Is that right? Were you asleep? Your memory is a little fuzzy as you come down off the adrenaline, but it puts itself into place soon enough. This is not, as one might say, your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she sure isn't here.

The positioning of the bed inside your new room gives you a very clear indication of where you are - or at least, where the building is. Above you is a decent-sized window looking out on... well, the ocean. But not in a fun beachside resort way, to say the least. Fish swim by pretty frequently, here to keep you company - but they cannot hear your screams, and do not seem particularly bothered if you tap on the glass unless they're right by it. It's thick, man.

On the bedside table, you'll find two things: a key card with a number between 1 and 25 on it (no points for guessing which one is on whose, unfortunately), and a small handheld device, a little like a smartphone but mostly like a blackberry? Remember those? Anyway, accessing it will reveal only a scarce few functions: a list of profiles, a map of the building, and a very ominous set of rules. You might try to ignore that last one! Unfortunately, you'll find them in a frame by your door. And in a frame somewhere in every room of the place, if you go out exploring at all. The tablet also has a message for you when you open it:

Greetings. Please take an hour to become accustomed to the facilities, then proceed to the meeting room north of your dormitories. Attendance is mandatory. - The Professor

But hey, it... it also lets you play Snake! Who doesn't love Snake, huh?

Anyway, head out into the halls! Make some new friends - or maybe enemies, wouldn't that be exciting? Look around a little! Just make sure to be back for whatever this meeting is - after all, you want a chance to face off with your captor, right?
bolderfell: Primrose, seriously, you have my fear and respect, but fuck off with that. (Promotional art) (EW 🗡️ Get that away from me.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
So you're actually a corpse. My eyes aren't playing tricks on me.
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Zombie, technically.
bolderfell: I accept all of that 100% completely. <user name="nappotuna" site="tumblr.com"> (STONE 🗡️ Uh-huh.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The difference being...

[He asks because he genuinely does not know what a zombie is. Those aren't in the Orsterran bestiary.]
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A corpse is just dead.

A zombie is undead.
bolderfell: Gimme that hot, juicy goss. <user name="nappotuna" site="tumblr.com"> (LISTEN 🗡️ Dropping some eaves.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Didn't know there was a term for that. Does it cover the walking skeletons, too?
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ actually thinks about this ]

Probably, yeah.
bolderfell: No judgment. I love stupid people. They're good for business. (Promotional art) (OHHH 🗡️ So it IS that you're stupid.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never met one who could speak before. Or that wasn't trying to kill me.
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you met many of us?
bolderfell: Gimme that hot, juicy goss. <user name="nappotuna" site="tumblr.com"> (LISTEN 🗡️ Dropping some eaves.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I've run into a few of the bonier persuasion.
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
--They have a bone to pick with you?
bolderfell: I accept all of that 100% completely. <user name="nappotuna" site="tumblr.com"> (STONE 🗡️ Uh-huh.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Therion's eyebrows rise, then fall again into his neutral-to-negative resting expression.]

Is this really the time.

[...

Sigh.]


...For light ribbing?
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh that gets him to let out a low chuckle ]

I'd be spineless if I didn't make that joke.
bolderfell: You domestic types and your apple rabbits. <user name="choconut" site="tumblr.com"> (OBSERVE 🗡️ So that's it.)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-05 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It does take some backbone to find humor in circumstances like these.

You seem awfully calm, compared to others.
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-05 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's pointless to get my hackles raised now. Better to wait and see.

No skin off my back to wait and see.
bolderfell: You wanna put money on it? <user name="hashagi" site="tumblr.com"> (OH? 🗡️ Think so?)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-06 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'd hope so. Who knows how much you have to spare.
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[personal profile] gangrene 2020-04-06 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ ........stops to think about that ]

I think I have more than 50% left.
bolderfell: Let's not talk about that. <user name="hashagi" site="tumblr.com"> (ASIDE 🗡️ Anyway...)

[personal profile] bolderfell 2020-04-06 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
...Glass half-full, right?