bathymetric: (R2 Mods)
Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
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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!
ahelpingpaw: (so I tried eating this purple flower.)

[personal profile] ahelpingpaw 2021-01-24 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I was busy trying not to drown, so I'm sure I must have missed you. It happens.

[Filbo nods]

I was at home. I think it was daytime, too, so I guess it's been a while since then?
oceangirlfriend: (considerations)

[personal profile] oceangirlfriend 2021-01-24 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was evening for me. I suppose that must be a matter of timezones. [Adeline looks up at the sky, before pursing her lips a bit thoughtfully.]
ahelpingpaw: (I got really hungry.)

[personal profile] ahelpingpaw 2021-01-25 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Either that or I was unconscious for hours...and in the pool, for some reason. Then there's also the problem of this message in the device saying it's New Year's Eve.
oceangirlfriend: (considerations)

[personal profile] oceangirlfriend 2021-01-25 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
...that's true. It would mean they were using a completely different calendar. We weren't near the time of any holidays last I remember.