COMMENCE VOYAGE

[bathymetric]

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!

Comments

[scythegun]

[wow i cannot believe you actually made the joke]

It's less about a specific leviathan with claws and more about the general idea. We've got quite a few nasty sea creatures with claws, anyway!

[dokkalfheimr]

[it's been years and i had yet to icly do it]

I imagine they're different than the crabs. [Crabs have claws and live in the sea, but she would hardly consider them nasty creatures.] Your information is somewhat unflattering.

[scythegun]

Thanks.

[He says, completely serious.

...But then he shrugs it off.]

Honestly, I don't know what I did to upset the Captain. The wording there is very rude.

[dokkalfheimr]

It does make it seem as though he dislikes you. Or perhaps that he wants others to dislike you. It's difficult to say.

[She doesn't seem to be judging, though. Just sort of commenting. It's not like she's exactly a great person.

She scrolls up a bit. Thinks she sees something. ...Scrolls further because no.]

I assume you just realized you were here, along with the rest of us...?

[scythegun]

[Yeager nods at that; he's definitely noticed the momentary hesitation, but he doesn't mention it.]

Ja, that's right. I was somewhere else one minute and then suddenly I'm here! It really is a bit strange; I didn't think such a thing was possible.

[.......okay I guess we have teleportation bullshit in caer bocram but like. we ignore caer bocram.]

[dokkalfheimr]

It's something I'm capable of, should the conditions be right. But I didn't bring the lot of you here, and I wouldn't be wasting time here myself.

[She stops her scrolling on her own profile, looking it over.]

I was...doing something important.

[scythegun]

[Given what he remembers of her profile, that sounds about right. She is probably quite literally some kind of goddess, which is. certainly a thing we're dealing with today, isn't it.]

I was as well. I wonder if that's the case for most of us...?

[That could just be a coincidence, though. They still don't know why they're here, after all.]

What were you doing?

[dokkalfheimr]

[She's quiet for a moment. Keeping her eyes on her profile.]

Avenging someone.

[Until very recently, Freyja was a twin!]

[scythegun]

[...Yeah, he remembers that little bit of trivia.]

I hope you're able to get back soon and return to it.

[Maybe his response would be a little less serious and a little less fine with that if it were avenging anyone else, but that? That's understandable.]

[dokkalfheimr]

The people in question aren't going anywhere. Without me there, they can't leave the place that they ended up.

It matters very little whether I leave sooner or later. It's just inconvenient for me personally to be here, and I would quite prefer not to be. But that particular situation will be fine.

[scythegun]

Ah, I understand.

[So they'll likely be suffering the entire time you're gone or something, which works just as well, though is certainly annoying.]

Well, at least you don't have to worry about them escaping!

[dokkalfheimr]

I don't, thankfully.

[...]

It's good to know that your profile wasn't lying. About you being unpleasant.

[JUDGING FROM HER TONE, THAT IS A COMPLIMENT.]

[scythegun]

[Well, that just gets a bow from where he's sitting, and when he rises, he's smirking.]

I never did say it was a lie, after all! Though it truly is unflattering, I would have worded all of that differently.

[Which means he would have lied all the hell over.]

[dokkalfheimr]

I imagine most would have. At least you seem interesting, for a mortal.

[she imagines triandra would hate you.]

[scythegun]

I try to be! [gods just be rude like that, he guesses.] I haven't met anyone quite like you before.

[dokkalfheimr]

[freyr was never rude like that, but freyr was different.]

It's usually a bad sign, when mortals meet those like me. Usually it means someone is doing something they shouldn't.

[scythegun]

Given that we were all dragged here against our will, that does seem fitting, even if it was unintentional.

[this is gonna suck, isn't it!!!]

[dokkalfheimr]

Perhaps a summoner who doesn't know what they're doing... That seems the best-case scenario.

[Otherwise, like. What the fuck, Kiran.]

[scythegun]

Ja, that's true. It certainly could have been an accident! Though hopefully that isn't the case, it sounds like a hassle to deal with that.

[dokkalfheimr]

We're likely under some kind of contract now either way, if that truly is what happened. So we should hope the Captain is benevolent.

[is this embla? are we going to have to deal with pirate veronica]

[scythegun]

[you know pirate veronica explains a lot about this...........]

Is that how it usually works where you're from? Hmm... I wonder what the Captain's going to expect us to do.

[dokkalfheimr]

Fight, if he isn't benevolent. Serve him, if he is. At least, that's what I would expect.

[scythegun]

...The former sounds better than the latter, honestly...

[Fighting is fine, but actually doing someone else's bidding?? No thanks!!]

[dokkalfheimr]

I believe it to be as well. But there's not much to be done about it regardless of which way it goes.

[hey yeager do you want to know what happens canonically in feh when you die]

[scythegun]

[DO NOT TELL HIM ABOUT FEH'S DEATH MECHANICS!!!!!!]

Ja, very true. If that's what we're looking it, it's not like we'll have any say in it one way or another!

[Great!!! Wonderful!!!! Just what he wanted!!!!!]

Well, I suppose we'll find out soon enough. I'm sure our Captain will explain some of it when we hear from him.