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unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
bathymetric) wrote in unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
COMMENCE VOYAGE
Fun Fact: Did you know the Atlantic Ocean has a surface area of 41.1 million square miles? No reason.
...
There's something uneasy in the air as you come to.
Well, "come to" is an interesting word in this case. It implies waking up, which is not exactly what happens. None of you are in beds, nor are you really asleep in the traditional sense. One moment you're somewhere else, doing something else with your time, and the next? You're somewhere on board a massive cruise ship - maybe lounging on a deck chair by the pool, maybe getting some Gains in the exercise room, maybe enjoying the tasteful décor in the buffet - and you have no idea how you got here or how you might get back. This is not your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she isn't here.
What you do have, apart from 25 other unlucky souls, is a small smartphone-like device in your pocket with only a handful of things on it: a clock reading 11PM, a pdf of a ticket in your name on a special Atlantic Liners New Year's Eve Cruise, an app labeled Passenger Profiles with some basic information on your traveling companions, and a message:
Welcome aboard, passenger! Please feel free to partake of any of the facilities while you wait for the big event! Remember: when midnight comes, you better make your way to the theatre at the back of Level 1 for the main event! The Captain and the First Mate will be there to take care of you all personally, and to help you ring in the new year in style!
Well, that's a start. But what you do until then, it seems, is up to you!
...
There's something uneasy in the air as you come to.
Well, "come to" is an interesting word in this case. It implies waking up, which is not exactly what happens. None of you are in beds, nor are you really asleep in the traditional sense. One moment you're somewhere else, doing something else with your time, and the next? You're somewhere on board a massive cruise ship - maybe lounging on a deck chair by the pool, maybe getting some Gains in the exercise room, maybe enjoying the tasteful décor in the buffet - and you have no idea how you got here or how you might get back. This is not your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she isn't here.
What you do have, apart from 25 other unlucky souls, is a small smartphone-like device in your pocket with only a handful of things on it: a clock reading 11PM, a pdf of a ticket in your name on a special Atlantic Liners New Year's Eve Cruise, an app labeled Passenger Profiles with some basic information on your traveling companions, and a message:
Welcome aboard, passenger! Please feel free to partake of any of the facilities while you wait for the big event! Remember: when midnight comes, you better make your way to the theatre at the back of Level 1 for the main event! The Captain and the First Mate will be there to take care of you all personally, and to help you ring in the new year in style!
Well, that's a start. But what you do until then, it seems, is up to you!
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Urgh....
[Somebody gets seasick easily. He needs time to adjust before he's useful.]
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Hello? Are you alright...?
[I mean obviously he's not but like, pleasantries.]
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[Canoes? Sure, he can handle those. But anything big enough to have an 'inside' has always been the bane of his existence. Even when it's this large and well-maintained compared to what he's used to, it's still enough to make him feel ill.]
Is this your dream? I need out of it.
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[Also people don't just show up in someone else's dream being aware of that fact, that's weird.]
If you can make it out, try to focus on the horizon for a moment or two. That should help a little.
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[Lalli finally lifts his head and looks out at the water. It's dark, because 11 pm, but he can still tell that there's water everywhere and no sign of land.
Heck.]
I shouldn't be here.
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[Because shared circumstances are the #1 way to help deal with "oh God, what the fuck is happening".]
I am not sure how it works, but I was once told that looking out on the horizon while on a ship helps one's balance. When your body is balanced, it won't feel as ill.
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[Why does Lalli think it's a dream? Good question. But he's not going to explain that and instead is immediately leaving the deck and going down towards where the rooms are. Sorry he's rude like that Flayn. Follow him on his search to look in every door, maybe?]
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Then perhaps this is not a dream? It certainly does not feel like one to me...
[There is a bit of a waver to her voice, though - the idea of being asleep, of perhaps having fallen asleep outside a medical tent and no one being able to rouse her, is sending a chill down her spine.]
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If it's a dream, getting hit will wake you up.
[He looks at Flayn.
...he can't actually hit Flayn but he is considering it.]
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Deck
Or maybe the reason he's feeling nauseous is because of Lalli. Seasickness isn't contagious, is it?
Should he talk to this person? Maybe? Filbo feels like he should just slink away and try to find something that makes sense, but at the same time seeing someone suffering like this makes him want to say something. Filbo stays some distance behind Lalli]
Th-There, there? I guess you're not used to ships...take deep breaths.
[Filbo is kind of hoping the ship reaches its destination soon or else this guy is going to spend a looooong time draped on a railing]
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He does hear Filbo though, and he does take a few deep breaths. Okay, he can stabilize himself. Getting caught suddenly on a boat has thrown him for a loop, but he can make it. Just breathe, walk carefully, and-]
...
[-aaaaand when he turns to look at Filbo he sees. Well. Filbo. And suddenly being seasick is not the most important thought on his mind.]
...what?
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[Filbo seems kind of taken aback at the flabbergasted reaction, but what else is new in this place, really. It's not as if Filbo hasn't been reacting the same way.
Filbo finds the dock lounging chairs within sight]
...are right over there. If you can't reach them I guess I can bring one?
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I've never seen anyone like you before.
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Hey, this really is genuine fur, Lalli will find. Pretty clearly a living thing]
I mean...same? I don't even know what you are, but...I guess it doesn't really matter. Whatever you are, you clearly are a person. You just look...nothing like any other person I have seen before.
[Which is, well, a shock. Lalli is faaaaaar skinnier than even the skinniest grumpus Filbo knows. That's what happens when your species generally are stocky capsule-shaped beings, yeah]
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...oh, and someone is hanging over the side of the deck.]
Hello. Are you feeling unwell?
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[He can talk, it seems. But he's still hanging over the side.]
emeto ment
[ Alice looks fairly concerned when she sees Lalli hanging over the side, but it takes like zero seconds to realize it's not for him. ]
Watch where you're leaning! You better not get sick all over me!
[ She just... slowly edges away... from him... ]
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Don't come over here then.
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And you don't come any closer! I'd hate to see you accidentally fall over the edge. ♡
[ A fun pair, these two are. ]
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You know, it'll suck if someone like this gets sick when he's trying to look for monsters from a lower deck. He'll be helpful, he guesses.]
...That will not help you if we are here for any length of time. Come here so I can guide you to one of the chairs.
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[He doesn't want to try moving yet though, because his stomach is still flipping about.]
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[Well, not him specifically, but he's been naval-adjacent long enough to know remedies that sailors swear by.]
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[He's fine, he's disguised, he got a shirt and hat out of the vending machine.]
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[Lalli hasn't looked up yet, so he doesn't realize he's talking to a disguised robot.]
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Hey, sometimes people get desperate.