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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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But also: oh my god. That's both mildly terrifying and hilarious, Yeager sort of loves it.]
What sorts of horrible nightmares do you think they'll create?
[oh my god.]
cw: sealife/drowning is terrifying and this entire tag is a mistake
[yeager why did you ask about this. this was a mistake.]
It wouldn't be enough to drown them, or merely capsize their ship; she knows that better than anyone. They'd meet their end, over and over again by the creatures below, and just when they're on the brink of death? Well, they'd wake up back in their ship, only to watch it lead to their doom again and again.
[JESUS CHRIST PLUMERIA]
cw: sealife/drowning some more, I'm so sorry
Honestly, I think you may be underestimating how terrifying drowning itself is! Though it does depend on what creatures you have in mind. There are some pretty terrifying monsters in the sea, and given the darkness in the water, it would be easy to leave them as shadowy, unknown terrors... Ooh, I'm getting chills just thinking about it!
[...He does not seem bothered at all.]
Will you tell me about Triandra? Does she enjoy inflicting nightmares on people as well?
cw: sealife/drowning even more...it should hopefully be over after this??? hopefully???
Still, Plumeria does make a small 'hmph' sound at that--it's an acknowledgement, if anything, that Yeager might have a point. Is she going to explicitly say it??? Fuck no.]
Triandra would likely have a better idea of what sort of creatures to bring, but I'm definitely thinking something with teeth. Lots of razor sharp teeth to tear these filthy creatures apart.
[Still, Yeager asks about Triandra, and Plumeria's expression...well, to say it softens would be an overstatement, but she does seem pleased to talk about her partner in crime.]
Oh, yes. Triandra is probably the most proficient granter of nightmares outside of Lady Freyja herself. She deals with every terrifying thing that could be inflicted upon the human mind. Really, she can create beautiful horrors...
To say she enjoys it would imply that she enjoys anything, though. [That's a bit hyperbolic, but Plumeria does roll her eyes a bit. It's almost vaguely affectionate??] She doesn't really enjoy much, but she does take pride in her work. It's a different sort of nightmare crafting than the kind I take part in, at any rate.
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This certainly seems to be a better topic, though! Not that Yeager really minds discussing awful ways of dying or anything, but you know.]
Ah, I see! Someone who is very dedicated to their job... What sort of nightmares do you usually craft, then?
[Since you seem so excited to come up with this one, he figured it was the same thing...]
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Oh, I'm not nearly so involved with the nightmares I create. [Not that she sounds too bitter about it, at least.] I oversee and spark the secret, salacious dreams of mortals...the ones that nobody knows except for the humans themselves. And me, of course. I more or less just give them the spark; their filthy, depraved human minds do the rest.
[Plumeria shrugs when she says that, though.]
It's certainly filthy work, but I'd take on all of that and more, for Lady Freyja's sake.
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I can certainly say I don't envy your position!
[But anyway.]
This "Lady Freyja" of yours - she's the same as the one here, ja?
[He retrieves the phone from his pocket and taps through to the profiles to pull up Freyja's. It would be more weird if that isn't the correct one, but might as well clarify that now.]
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[Yeager's quick to move on before she can snap at him, her face contorting into something real fucking sour at that. But he moves on quickly and retrieves his device, stopping her in her tracks when he pulls up Lady Freyja's profile, and--
There's a tightness in Plumeria's expression when she sees her lady's profile. A sharp inhale, mild seizing up--she's at least seen her lady by this point, even if she doesn't want to believe it's real, so she sees no reason to lie.]
Yes, you would be correct. That is Lady Freyja. The fact that they've brought her into a place as foul as this...
[She doesn't finish that, but considering their talks earlier, uh. It's probably clear what's on her mind.]
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That shouldn't be possible either, ja? Do you have any ideas how that could have happened?
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[Nnn. That's not quite right.]
I don't know, this stupid hooded human had some sort of weapon that could summon people from all sorts of different worlds. Usually just for battle?
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[...unless the villains are summonable!!!! but surely they wouldn't do that.]
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Your guess is as good as mine. But it is a possibility. I can't imagine why we would be here instead of at the stupid castle that they live in, though...
[this ain't the aether resort after all!!]
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[besides, what's the worst that could happen???]
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[yakkity sax playing in the bg]