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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!
leaveittomother: (5)

[personal profile] leaveittomother 2021-01-24 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, ah, I did mean it. She's fairly strong physically. I don't think a human could ever match her. Admittidly, I'm her adoptive mother but I'm still very proud of her skills.

[She's both confident and proud of Jack.]

But you're right, this is far too gaudy for me.
paucipan: (🌹 i know the sickening thoughts)

[personal profile] paucipan 2021-01-25 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[...A human woman who would adopt an inhuman child. Just what kind of woman was this one?]

...Intriguing. You're certainly not like most of the human mothers I've seen in dreams, then. You really do seem to care for her.

[Or for real, but that's a tidbit of info Plumeria has no intention of letting out.]

Well said. Let's hope we can use it to our advantage against whoever we're up against, I suppose.
leaveittomother: (5)

[personal profile] leaveittomother 2021-01-25 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[There's more to the story, of course, but that's for another time.]

I hear the magic to summon a Heroic Spirit tends to pick compatible people. Jack and I get along very well... we were very lucky.

[Hey, monsters like monsters, who knew.]

They might want things to stay nice and tidy.
paucipan: (🌹 i know the gluttonous guilt)

[personal profile] paucipan 2021-01-25 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Heroic Spirit...?

[Plumeria seems a little lost here, for a second, but gears clearly start to turn in her head...Heroic Spirit, Heroes--maybe--]

...Are you a summoner of some kind, then?
leaveittomother: (11)

[personal profile] leaveittomother 2021-01-26 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Not me, I can't practice magic at all.

[There's a slight bitterness to it. Just a vague shift in her stance.]

Someone else did it. Jack happened to prefer me.