WEEK 1

[bathymetric]

Happy New Year! ... You're still here. Looks like The Captain wasn't lying when he said the murdering is now up to you. That, or you can all live here on your own. Regardless, it's time to settle in. The days start passing much less eventfully after that first one, and, well... on it goes, huh?

There might not be a whole cruise ship to explore just yet, but there are a variety of amenities available to all of you! Who ever heard of a boring cruise ship, anyway? As the week goes on, you might even start to see some of those strange coins appear for you!

Better buckle down and get to know your fellow passengers, though, if you want to stand a chance of weathering this storm.



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FRIDAY | SATURDAY

[ ooc: Welcome to peace week! Feel free to mingle (and investigate, if you like) to your hearts' content! Please ensure all investigation toplevels are marked accordingly, and otherwise enjoy! If you wish to talk to The Captain or Davy Jones, look here for the former and here for the latter! ]

Comments

in..........vestigation?

[queceracera]

[Are you in the library this afternoon? Scott is too. He's not reading or anything, he's........ randomly pulling books off the shelf and putting them back.]

Oh come on! There has to be something here.

[Later on, toward evening, he can be found near the vending machines. He's just pressing buttons in seemingly random patterns and accumulating a small mountain of snacks. This is what qualifies as investigation for Scott. He thinks this is a Sierra Games point and click adventure.

Eventually, like deep at night, he's in the pool. He's not swimming, more just floating and staring up at the sky. For the record, his swim trunks look like this. You're welcome.]

Investigation

[bathymetric]

[ so like

hey buddy, whatcha looking for? ]

[queceracera]

[Clues!!! Obviously!!!!

Actually, what he's doing is punching the equivalent of the Konami code into the vending machines. In his defense, this would probably do something where he's from.]

[bathymetric]

[ Tragically, it does very little here, I'm afraid.

Getting a lot of snacks, though! Probably a fair mix of brands he does and doesn't recognize. ]

[queceracera]

[Do any of these snacks look ......... alien?

Also is there anything behind the vending machines. Because he's gonna check there too.]

[bathymetric]

[ Not really? Someone here would recognize each brand, probably.

Huh! Something is taped to the back of one of the vending machines! ]

[queceracera]

[Oooooo! A clue!

Scott immediately untapes it as a weird noise plays in the background. What is it? What is this secret tool for later?]

[bathymetric]

[ It's a typed piece of paper! It reads:

BADGE31 ]

[queceracera]

[Wow! A password!

.......... Can he input "BADGE31" in any of the vending machines.]

library

[jibunwo]

[what's up scott, it's your favorite roomie who proooobably isn't a robot.]

...Do I want to ask what it is you are doing?

[queceracera]

I'm looking for the book about the secret cabal of evil villains that are obviously behind this. [A beat.] Or a secret passageway.

[Either of these things would obviously be found in a library, a place where Scott has definitely spent time by himself when he wasn't being forced by Knives.]

[jibunwo]

I assume you don't need to be told you're only likely to find one of those things. Whether you will find it is...

[He looked to the foolproof method being applied here, then back at Scott himself.]

...questionable.

[queceracera]

Anybody who's showy enough to try and kill us all with flamethrowers is also the kind of person who puts a book about himself in the library because he thinks he's worth it. That's just science.

[It's possible Scott did not do well in science class. Or any class, for that matter.]

[jibunwo]

That's assuming he had flamethrowers to begin with.

[queceracera]

It doesn't matter whether or not he had the flamethrowers. The fact that he was going to implies that he's the kind of showy asshole who thinks he's the center of the universe.

[jibunwo]

It tells us more than that. Lying about intending to kill us all at the outset means to set up the implication that he could. He seeks to leave us in a constant state of fear of what may happen should we refuse to play along with his demands, even if in reality he holds no true power to simply wipe us all out at a thought.

The human mind is an astonishingly self-sabotaging thing. If we begin to second-guess how much power he holds over us, we're likely to work ourselves into some level of panic and desperation. Which is, I presume, precisely what he wants.

Vending Machines

[ahelpingpaw]

Aren't we lucky the vending machines are all free?

[Says Filbo, who also took a million and one things from the vending machines this week]

[queceracera]

Yeah. I don't really trust the seafood.

[Two hours ago, Scott was at the Jimmy Buffet eating sushi.]

[ahelpingpaw]

Aw, it's not so bad while it's fresh! I was wary of it too, but when you get there early in the day it's good eating.

[But seriously, don't eat seafood that has been lying around for hours]

The stuff that isn't seafood doesn't taste right, though. I dunno what they did to it but it's not okay.

[queceracera]

Oh, yeah. I tried to eat the pasta salad and it managed to be both overcooked and undercooked at the same time. [A real thing the person playing Scott experienced at a seafood buffet.] That's why I'm eating hot cheetos. They're a completely balanced nutritional wonder.

[Note: Kim told Scott that once, sarcastically, and nobody has bothered to tell him it's bullshit.]

[ahelpingpaw]

[Wow, my condolences for experiencing something that awful. Food that's both overcooked and undercooked is a complete abomination]

I doubt that's true, but it's got to be better than nothing! You--you mind sharing?

[He smiles sheepishly]

This buffet isn't very good, the food just doesn't seem to fill me. Maybe snacks will help more!

[queceracera]

Sure.

[Scott just hands over one of the six bags of hot cheetos he stuffed in the pockets of his parka. Should that many bags of cheetos fit in his pockets? Probably not! This is video game inventory logic, don't question it.]

Regular cheetos are good too, if you're not into spicy stuff.

[ahelpingpaw]

[Videogame inventory logic in Bugsnax is things appearing from thin air when it's not the main character, so he gets you, Scott, haha]

No, no! I used to eat a lot of spicy stuff. [If there was no better option, he always leaned more towards sweets] Besides, when you're hungry anything's good, right?

Vending Machines

[sharddrive]

Not a fan of seafood?

[Shard's just gonna reach past Scott at some point and hit a button for a can of machine oil. Why is this in the same machine as the snacks? Because Archie comics is a ride.]

[queceracera]

Oh, yeah. I mean. Eating seafood from a buffet feels one step above gas station sushi?

[Note: Scott is a person who would eat gas station sushi.]