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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2021-01-24 10:36 am
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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!
sharddrive: (Default)

[personal profile] sharddrive 2021-01-26 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
It means our host has some pretty long reach, but mostly I didn't think there were Overlanders on other planets.
onlyyoucan: Standing with Emily perched on her arm. (look impressive but i can't move)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-26 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Overlander? I don't know what that is. Though I haven't seen... someone like you, either.

[Since he seems. Sensitive about the obvious robot thing.]
sharddrive: (wait what)

[personal profile] sharddrive 2021-01-26 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
No? An Overlander's- what's the word they use in Station Square- a human is the other word for it, I think?
onlyyoucan: Top-down view, sigh. (there you go again)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-26 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone where I'm from is a human. At least... that's what I thought.

[She doesn't seem to want to elaborate, though, shaking her head.]

Though if Zero's theory is right, that doesn't matter. It's something about alternate realities, which is hard to believe, but...
sharddrive: (urge to kill rising)

[personal profile] sharddrive 2021-01-26 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, man, other zones- yeah, that'd explain a LOT.

[And is also pretty worrying, if their captors can just pluck people from across the Cosmic Interstate like that.]
onlyyoucan: Passed out in her seat. (exhausted)

[personal profile] onlyyoucan 2021-01-26 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
It brings up as many questions as it does answers.