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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!
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[Of course he believes the Enterprise will go looking for him, but best to try to find his own way out in the meantime.]
But we will have to find whatever technology they used to bring us here, first.
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[...]
Well, I would hope that they might be stupid enough to do so, but I'd much rather be realistic, here. Let's get going.
[But of course, while they do--]
...What exactly are you, anyway? You don't look like any sort of mortal I've seen before.
[plum that's rude]
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I am an android. I suppose it could be said that I am mortal, as well. Though I will not die of old age, I can be killed.
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...I see, then. I've never heard of anything like that before.
[Hmm...]
Do your kind dream, at all?
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[He seems proud of himself!]
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Interesting. We Dökkálfar are able to oversee the dreams of humans and the like, so that is actually quite intriguing to hear. That someone could possibly learn to dream...
[She's no science person, but that's actually cool?]
What do you dream about, then? Is that something you have control over?
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I do not control it. When it first began, there was a series of pre-installed dreams my creator left behind, in order to explain the situation to me. They were...not as straightforward as that sounds, but I find that dreams rarely are.
Since then, they seem to be randomly generated from elements of my life or thoughts. [So like, basically like anyone's dreams, but Science.]