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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!
guffawsungraciously: a look that strikes me as kind of narrow-eyed disdain. (i absolutely must kill him if they do.)

[personal profile] guffawsungraciously 2021-01-24 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I really would not know, given that I am not even sure what you are talking about. Are you speaking of different worlds, then...?
onlyyoucan: Top-down view, sigh. (there you go again)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-24 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Something like that. I don't have any idea where we are, or... for that matter, where all of you come from.
guffawsungraciously: from the back, looking to the left (a sale on cake...........)

[personal profile] guffawsungraciously 2021-01-24 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that is two of us, at the very least. None of the stars look familiar, so this certainly is not Erdrea.

[...]

That is the land I hail from, by the by. I presume you have never heard of it.
onlyyoucan: Laughing to herself and holding a sandwich. (many many things have happened)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-25 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
No. I'm from... I'm from Glabella, in the Cranial System. Whoever did all this, how could they reach so far out to grab people from places that haven't even heard of each other?
guffawsungraciously: a disgusted kind of look. (stupid sexy hendrik.)

[personal profile] guffawsungraciously 2021-01-25 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[...okay sure he'll just accept that, he has no fucking idea what she's talking about but.

well.

he'll figure it out at some point.]


I do not have an explanation for it, of course, but I am certain we can find one if we make an effort. I doubt we will get a complete explanation from our kidnappers, so we will need to investigate for ourselves.
onlyyoucan: Looking forward, unsure. (i didn't ask for this)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-25 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. Even if we ask...

["Forget about me."]

But nothing's coming together.
guffawsungraciously: a grandiose gesture. (a villain has arrived)

[personal profile] guffawsungraciously 2021-01-26 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Are you giving up already? We have not even scratched the surface of any of this yet, and it certainly seems like the sort of thing that will take more than an hour to resolve.
onlyyoucan: Turning and frowning, hostile. (friend request denied)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-26 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not giving up. I'm finding out. This place has to have something, if this Captain is here waiting.
guffawsungraciously: again, the aggressive side-eye (the aggressive side-eye)

[personal profile] guffawsungraciously 2021-01-27 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent, then. I am glad we are on the same page, at least.

...

We should, at the very least, be on our guard for this meeting with the aforementioned Captain, though.