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

[ahelpingpaw]

[Oh that definitely sounds like someone watched too much TV, thinks Filbo, but of course he doesn't say that aloud]

I mean...I don't think it's going to be like a TV show. Life isn't like that.

[queceracera]

I mean, it happened to me a while ago when I defeated Roxy and she turned into bunnies and told me that I'd never defeat the twins. [A beat.] Which I totally did, but things were dicey there for a while.

[ahelpingpaw]

Uuuuuh...

[If Scott wasn't in the circle of 'people who sound like lunatics' now he is. Filbo narrows his eyes, confused. How's he even supposed to approach this]

That's...great. Neat.

[.......]

...you kinda lost me there in the part about the bunnies.

[As if things were on rails before that point, hah]

[queceracera]

Sometimes when you defeat people in mortal combat, they turn into coins. Sometimes they turn into bunnies. [He shrugs.] It might have been because she was part ninja. Knives' dad seemed to like the bunnies.

[ahelpingpaw]

Right! Of course. I should have guessed.

[That clarification didn't help at all]

[queceracera]

[Suddenly, like he's just noticed this even though they've been talking for several minutes:]

....... Oh, wow. You're blue.

[ahelpingpaw]

.........

[For once, Filbo isn't know how to respond to that, until he finally found a few words:]

Grrrrrreat observation, buddy.

[He didn't mean that in a snide way, but still...oh well. This guy, he's...an odd one. Maybe not the sharpest tool of the shed, but hey, he didn't seem like a bad guy. Just quirky. Probably.]

Uh, also my name is Filbo Fiddlepie. Nice to meet you!

[queceracera]

Oh! I'm Scott Pilgrim! Nice to meet you.

[He totally forgot to introduce himself to, like, anyone. It's fine. Everyone will have looked at the profiles.]

[ahelpingpaw]

I know this is gonna sound kinda rude, but can I ask what are you?

[Clearly there's nobody better than Scott freaking Pilgrim to talk about humanity. This can only go great]