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

[dokkalfheimr]

Perhaps so. It isn't something common for us, where I come from; worlds such as this one are...strange, as a result.

[calx]

I have to agree, at least partially. This vessel is unlike any I have ever come across before, and the technology here surpasses the kind I am familiar with in many ways. However, steel is fairly common where I'm from, at least if you know how to seek out a blacksmith.

[dokkalfheimr]

Steel weaponry isn't unheard of; it's the worlds where steel comprises everything that are something of a novelty. The carriages that require neither horses nor reins, the buildings reaching into the sky. Humans of other worlds use steel to do as they will; it's interesting to me.

[calx]

I wonder if it's because of surplus or easier malleability. [ Both, perhaps. ]

Our worlds seem to come from a similar technological point in that case, then. Do you have alchemy in yours?

[dokkalfheimr]

[Good question.]

We have various types of magecraft, if it's similar, but nothing referred to as alchemy.

[calx]

I see... [ He sounds almost sad to hear this. ] And your magecraft? What is it capable of?

[dokkalfheimr]

In my realm, it does whatever I need it to do. That's about all that matters.

For the mortals...I believe it to be more combat-based.

[calx]

Whatever you need it to do... [ He sounds disbelieving, but luckily for everyone in this thread his attention is directed to another topic.

Immortal, huh. ]

And by that you mean you are immortal?