bathymetric: (R2 Mods)
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!
ltcommandroid: (my heart is human)

[personal profile] ltcommandroid 2021-01-31 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay well see how he is less certain]

It is unlikely that a cruise ship would have any armaments.
ignobel: (press A for dash)

[personal profile] ignobel 2021-02-01 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Aww, why not? What happens if they run into real pirates and all? Seems like you'd be a cruising sitting duck.

[She does seem genuinely rather disappointed in the cruise ship's defenses!! Where are the canons and death rays. Maybe her background helps explain some of this......

Maybe Earth is just that kind of a place in 60 F.C. It's a wide universe.]
ltcommandroid: (Default)

[personal profile] ltcommandroid 2021-02-01 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps they simply did not bring their pleasure vessels to dangerous areas.
ignobel: (this is the most 90's expression fam)

[personal profile] ignobel 2021-02-01 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Most people wouldn't, yeah? But here we are, and we've got pirates or thugs running the show, and all we've got is ourselves... I'd say it was exciting if I had a little more backstory.

And if the timing wasn't so bad.

And maybe if I could bring my Gundam around.

[You do not want to know what she'd do with her Gundam in tow. Be that as it may.]

Speakin' of which, you've got a name, yeah? Allenby Beardsley here. I'm a Gundam fighter, but you mostly knew that already.
ltcommandroid: (I've been hiding)

[personal profile] ltcommandroid 2021-02-01 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
My name is Data, Lieutenant Commander of the starship Enterprise. [Since we're putting our military titles or whatever in here.] It is good to meet you.
ignobel: (ship triangles tho no thx)

[personal profile] ignobel 2021-02-08 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, a Lieutenant Commander? That's just a little higher than my paygrade.

[She looks perfectly relaxed though, so it doesn't seem like she cares all that much about rank and whatnot.]

I'm just an Ensign here, but it's good to know that we've got some bigwigs here in case things really go south. Plus you've even got a whole starship; no wonder you ended up all the way out there in the middle of space.