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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!
...
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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[Much less of a problem for her, but you'd think at least one or two people would recognize her as well -- a poor excuse for a regular soldier she might be, but most people in the world could recognize a handful of Gundam Fighters at the very least. She hasn't exactly been keeping a low profile lately...
She makes a knocking motion like she'd like to knock on his helmet, actually, but it's at the air. She's polite! Sort of. Kind of.]
The profiles pretty much say you were born yesterday.
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[you ever just hear people say wildass shit in complete seriousness]
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[I guess. She's just taking this in stride?? This isn't even in the top 10 weirdest G Gundam moments and certainly doesn't make the top 5 weirdest Allenby Beardsley life moments, so she just gives him some side-eye for his fashion sense apparently.
Not that. She can talk at all. What is she wearing.jpg]
So? What, you're here to rebel against whatever injustice this stupid cruise is trying to do?
[Let it never be said that she's not immediately suspicious of Weirdly Nice And Inexplicable Things.]
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[it was not what he had in mind, no]
But given my presence here is already decided for me, it would seem I have no choice.
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[Gestures at his all of him.
Look, what was she supposed to think. This is like the 4th time this question has come up in the same conversation but it's still quite relevant!! At least she's only still judging a little. Ish. Somewhat.
Okay, but now she's actually going to give this some thought. A moment or two, anyway. Crunch, crunch, goes her calamari that she'd momentarily forgotten about in the eggcitement.]
Looks like there's a whole lot of us, so I'm not opposed to helping out, 'cause I've got places to be. But what kinda shady plan involves a cruise, anyway...