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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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...actually.]
Does it not? I mean...you're here now, aren't you?
[That has a lot of possible implications.]
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...what even is there to go back to, really? Regardless of who is carrying it out, I am certain that all that awaits me is execution.
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[He feels ridiculous for even saying that aloud. If anything, there is someone far more deserving of this opportunity than Jasper, and this Jasper has yet to even have that interaction with Hendrik that might have changed everything.
But still...]
Ugh, it really isn't me who should be having this conversation with you. But I know Hendrik would be thinking the same thing.
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...
And you say that as though he thinks of me at all.
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[A-Awkwardly letting that subject lie for now...]
He does think of you, though. And that's not just me making assumptions. He told you as much himself.
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What... do you mean.
[He sounds very suspicious. Hendrik is too dumb, honest, and sincere to lie, but that doesn't mean the clown isn't lying.]
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He was so torn up about what had become of you, because you spoke of surpassing him when he felt it was you who made him into everything that he is today. He called you his guiding light, Jasper.
[It doesn't get much more blatant than that, does it?]
I don't think he ever really realized just how much you were suffering until it was too late. [He lets out a frustrated huff.] You boys needed to be so much more open with your feelings.
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...he... tries to shake it off. He doesn’t know what to believe here. Mordegon... well, of course Mordegon would lie. He also told Jasper what he wanted to... well, no. He reinforced what Jasper believed even if he didn’t really want it to be true...
...]
I do not have any reason to believe you... but I do know that Hendrik is too much of an honest idiot to lie in order to protect someone else’s feelings, so if I were to ask him I would likely get a trustworthy answer.
[...he shakes his head.]
Ugh. I cannot believe that man. I doubt he would notice if you stole the nose from his face.
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Darling, I wouldn't lie about this. I'm not that spiteful, you know.
[He can be spiteful about other things, sure, but this is about feelings involving a dear friend.]
Oh, he absolutely wouldn't. I wasn't surprised in the slightest that he hadn't changed a bit since our days in Puerto Valor... Still sweet and honest, but utterly oblivious when it really matters.
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...
It wasn't just that he thought Hendrik had abandoned him. But... how much had he been wrong about? He had thought that everyone preferred Hendrik to him, but...
...
Wait.]
...you were there when he was training under Don Rodrigo?
[you know. that thing Hendrik got to do where he got to spend all that time on the beach and make friends, instead of freezing his ass off in relative isolation because all the humans around him were significantly older and he nearly died trying to hang out with monster friends he made.]
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I was. It was quite the experience, watching him improve under Papi's guidance. He had the honor of being the only one in the class to defeat me in a spar!
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[...
Wait.
Hold on a second.
What.]
...”Papi.”
...
Were you the little hellion who he spent all that postcard space trying to convince me was not terrorizing him on the daily?
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...that said, he innocently bats his eyelashes.]
I have no idea what you're talking about.
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...
He was likely being a bit oversensitive, all things considered.