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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.
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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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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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[ Look, it's better than whatever nickname Alice is going to give you, count your blessings. ]
Anyway, glad to hear it. [ ... ] I'm guessing maybe you don't just mean to the movement of the boat, but...
[ He lets that thought trail off there and shrugs. He wouldn't consider Sudden Boat Riding to be something you'd really need to adjust to, unless you just get really bad motion sickness, but there's also probably not much point in prying right now if she doesn't want to get into it. If they get out of here soon it won't matter, and if they don't, he can come back to it later. ]
Want me to leave you to it, then?
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It's a free boat, dude. Don't get your panties in a twist. [ There's nothing really malicious about how she says that, though, it's just kind of how she talks. She can't help but...
She drops her hands and looks over at him. ] What were you doing? Before all this?
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Before the boat, you mean? [ He runs a hand through his hair. ] I was fighting this group that's been against us.
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Time...? [ He's pretty sure Lloyd didn't have the Eternal Sword, so... ] Not that I'm aware of.
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Well. There goes one lead.
[ She can still figure this out. But what's she going to do without her partner in time? ]
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[ Hm. Is she NOT dealing with a dimension for those fate's decided are Problems to the state of the universe? Well. That's sure something. ]
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Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
[ Yes?? No??? Maybe?????? ]
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...Oh.
[ Well, fuck, maybe that had been his original thought, but since they'd gotten onto this whole time thing instead he'd been HOPING to rule it out!! At least his concerns about this will be assuaged some once he finds out Alice is from earlier than he is, since she wasn't at any risk of dying at her own canon point and was still very much alive at his, but he's not loving it at the moment! ]
You want to just forget I asked that for now?
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[ YEP. Yep, Chloe's just going to back away a bit, with a strained smile that drops off her face the moment it's up. ]
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[ He looks away, rubbing the back of his neck. ]
...Anyway, there's someone I've got to find, so... maybe she'll remember something I don't.
[ she will not ]
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[ Oof. Well, purgatory's looking more likely by the second. ]
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[ Dipping his head in a slight bow ]
Take care, uh... not-kid.
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Yeah. You too.
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They've... maybe sort of got this, it's fine. Probably. ]