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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.
...
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!
...
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!
pool
Please. Nightmares are workable.
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You know. Not the weirdest thing that she could be the first to bear witness to.]
That depends on the kind of nightmare you find yourself in. But I suppose that is a fair point; this entire situation is something clearly beyond that.
Do you know anything about it, then?
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[ And it did not go well! Not gonna mention that!! ]
This, though... this is different. Some kind of pocket realm, or a separate dimension entirely. [ Her eyes narrow upwards, scrutinizing the new face that's been presented to her. ] Pretty far off, by the looks of it.
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[Still, something about that puts her on edge. The only ones who have been able to do that in her world are summoners of some kind, and that's...]
...I guess I wouldn't be surprised if a summoner managed to call upon us, or something daft like that.
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[ they've been here for what, two minutes? one minute? ]
Summoned or banished, either way. And whatever we're all here for.
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If it's like any summoner I've seen before...we're likely going to be under some kind of contract with them. To serve whatever purpose they have in mind for us.
I can't say I like our odds, if that is the case.
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[ and she just trails off into some low ranting for a bit... okay she's coming back out of it: ]
That explains the suppression of our powers. Just, you know, assuming on your part.
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Just assuming, yes. Though I imagine such things work differently for where you come from than they do for where I come from, perhaps...?
[fuck it. explain some bullshit to her, tell her about the homestuck. duckstuck? whatever.]
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[ oh thank God, she's stopping ]
But it can be stolen. Which is the operative word here, really.
i know i said i was dropping intro tags but i actually legit lost this one SORRY ABOUT THAT
Then it sounds pretty similar to my own world, then, outside of the ability to be stolen. Sealed, yes, but stolen outright...that's certainly new.
[Hmm.]
I take it you've experience with that much.
[...She's not saying one way or another if Magica stole powers herself or had them stolen from her, but either way.]
NEVER APOLOGIZE i say two days later anyway
[ The first adverb is as close as she'll go to confirming either way!... until this topic comes up again and she just yells her entire backstory, probably. ]
It's also possible wherever we are has built-in defenses that seal away our powers, as you said, at someone else's discretion.