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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!
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]