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.



MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
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! ]

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investigation!

[thisaroma]

[ As is pretty much routine at this point, Decus returns to room 7 somewhere around 7 in the morning and flops onto the bottom bunk to finally get a few hours of sleep. Before his eyes close, though, he catches a metallic glint as the morning sun hits a small stack of coins beside his bed, and he sits back up to squint at them. ]

Where did these... [ glancing up to the top bunk where Shard may or may not actually be ] Are you a coin collector or something?

[ In any case, he does eventually get some sleep, and it's just shy of lunchtime when he finally hits the buffet for breakfast, looking noticeably more tired than he did at the beginning of the week. He's rushing to get toast and... questionable solid-yellow eggs and stuff on his plate before anyone can steal away the breakfast food to replace it with the lunch selection, but... come to think of it, he's never actually seen that change firsthand. Is the food going to change from breakfast to lunch while he's watching if he just hangs out here for a while, or is that process to remain shrouded in mystery?

Once he's done with his shitty brunch, it occurs to him that maybe he should actually test out if these weird surprise coins will actually get him anything, and goes to give the vending machine a shot, with somewhat mixed results. ]

Whoa-!

[ ...Well, he sure as fuck wasn't prepared for two 6-foot long spears to inexplicably come flying out of that thing, but as he picks them up from the floor and looks them over, he nods approvingly. He had been wishing he had something to protect Alice with, and while he doesn't have much experience with spears in particular (exspearience, if you will), he can probably work with this. Not like he's never handled dual weapons before!!!

Later on, he's back in the library for a while, this time nowhere near his usual romance section, but instead looking for any nonfiction books that may deal with magic charms or curses, aaand not having much luck. If he should happen to encounter anyone he knows to have any familiarity with these sorts of things, he'll wave them down, a thoughtful frown on his face. ]

Hey. Mind if I run something by you?

library

[dokkalfheimr]

[Freyja doesn't come in here often - for all that she specializes in, she isn't terribly invested in the struggles of fictional people - but sometimes she'll come in just because it tends to be quiet, especially since people are in the strange habit of taking their books into the buffet to stare at them. But here she is, and... Well, this is. Fortunate?]

...Oh, Decus, good afternoon. Ask what you will; I was just looking for you.

[thisaroma]

Oh! You were?

[ Why would she— IS THERE A LOVE BLESSING UPDATE? ]

Then please go ahead with whatever you wanted me for, Lady Freyja! I was just overthinking some stuff anyway, it probably isn't actually that important.

[dokkalfheimr]

It's nothing of great importance. I was simply getting things from one of the machines, and I received this.

[Does her dress have pockets? ...Her dress has pockets because I say it does. Anyway, somewhere in all the frills there are pockets, and from one of those pockets she retrieves a purple vial.]

Is this yours...?

[thisaroma]

[ Well, he would certainly recognize that vial design anywhere! ]

Hey, that's Eau de Seduction, isn't it? They carry it in that vending machine?!

[ Dang, what does he have to do to get it to give him that instead of creepy dolls next time? ]

And you recognized that it's the same fragrance I use, huh?

[ He grins and nods with understanding. ]

Well, it is pretty memorable. You meet a guy wearing that and his image and aroma are seared into both your memory and your heart forever, right? I gave this fan of mine a bottle of it as a parting gift when I had to turn him down, and he carried it with him forever after...

—Anyway, I'm honored that you remembered and came to me with this, Lady Freyja! It's usually considered more of a masculine fragrance, but I bet you could pull off anything! Not to be presumptuous, since of course you out of everyone would hardly need any help attracting people, but would you like me to show you the pulse points to put it on to get the strongest effect?

vending machine

[queceracera]

[With much more excitement that is probably warranted for this:]

The vending machine is the shop?! [Blessed day! There is a shop on board!] What did you get? Besides the spears. Which, by the way, totally cool. I always wanted to take spear as a proficiency.

[thisaroma]

The shop...?

[ Item shops and weapon shops are usually two different places?? Not to even mention armor shops! ]

Uh, let's see... a lot of... dolls, for some reason?

[ Holds them up?? He's cool with the action figure and... okay with the marionette, but he ain't really feeling this clown dude... ]

[queceracera]

[Oh, that clown is evil. Scott doesn't know how he knows that, but it has a very evil aura.]

Weird. Maybe someone has puppeteering as a weapon? [Please say that's it.] I feel like that MILF lady would use puppets at a weapon.

[Plumeria. He's talking about Plumeria.]

library

[magycks]

[ Well, there are definitely worse people to ask! And better, also. It just so happens that the duck is also looking for something without much success. She casts a glare over in Decus' direction, takes a solid three seconds to remember he exists, and then shrugs. ]

Very well. What do you want?

[thisaroma]

[ HONESTLY SHE IS KIND OF EXACTLY WHO HE WAS HOPING FOR BECAUSE HE HAS A LOT LESS BACKGROUND HE NEEDS TO PROVIDE... ]

Thanks... So, you remember how I was telling you about my iron maiden, right? And how the day I lost it and ended up here was the day it was supposed to finally grant my wish for happiness after two years of carrying it around?

[magycks]

I don't recall the phrasing being quite as depressing then, but yes.

buffet

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ Regardless of what happens to the food, Alice doesn’t particularly seem to notice or care as she picks at her own plate. She only bothers to look up when he comes in, eyeing Decus as he rushes to grab something before it swaps over. He’s not usually this much of a late sleeper, right? The same thing has been happening the entire time that they’ve been here, she’s realized, and it’s… kind of hard to pick up on why. She has a few ideas, but she hasn’t really bothered to test any of them out… ]

Another late night, I’m going to assume?

[ She pokes her fork at her own shitty eggs. She's actually kind of shocked that she's actually missing the food back at the Vanguard at this point. ]

[thisaroma]

[ oh god okay he is way too tired if he didn't even notice Alice was there time to snap the fuck out of it ]

Oh, good morning, dear Alice!

[ He almost immediately drops his own plate down on the buffet table, and with something akin to a pirouette picks up a pitcher of from-concentrate orange juice and rushes over to fill her glass!!! ]

It was rather late, yes, but I don't have any regrets about it!

[ ...That's a weird thing to say when she doesn't know what he's doing, isn't it. Oh well. ]

Anyway, is there anything I can get for you? I hope my lateness hasn't been too much of an inconvenience to you.

[ Which it very well may have been if she took notice of his absence... unless ]

...Unless you were simply wondering where I was? Have you been worried about me?!

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ decus. oh my god. im going to cry ]

Tch, don't be stupid. I could care less about you. [ She will gladly takes the refill of orange juice, though. She was just kind of too lazy to get up and do it herself, anyway. ] The only thing I'm worried about is something happening to me because you didn't bother to be around to do anything about it.

[ Can't make the most of that stagger resist in Rays if he's not around, after all. ]

What've you been doing, then, that you apparently have no regrets about?

[ ... Why does she get the sinking feeling it's going to be stupid. ]

vending machine

[guffawsungraciously]

[...

well we almost got our first death there holy hell]

...

...should we put some sort of notice to steer clear of the vending machine when inserting coins.

[thisaroma]

That's probably not a bad idea, actually.

[ Kind of looking at the machine more closely now that he is VERY MUCH NOT PUTTING COINS IN IT and ??? ]

How did these even...

[ Like. Squints??? ]

You definitely saw that happen too, right?

[guffawsungraciously]

I most certainly did.

[...]

Perhaps it is... some sort of group inventory...?

[THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM IN YOUR BAG.]

Vending Machine

[cethflayn]

[Oddly enough, Flayn found her own coins this morning, and recalled that there's one machine they haven't been able to get anything out of that seemed to need money, so she brought them with her to try it out, but-]

Goodness! Are those real spears?

[Why are real weapons coming out of the mysterious machine???]

[thisaroma]

[ ...Kind of scrapes the tip of one against the floor quick to make sure...

Yep. Thank god there's no property damage rule!! ]

Somehow, yeah.

[cethflayn]

[No property damage rule yet.]

That...is remarkably dangerous.

[Oh geez what if she gets impaled by whatever comes out of the machine for her]

Vending Machine

[ahelpingpaw]

...why is that vending machine giving so many spears?

[Well, no, he knows why: the Captain wants murder. But still, why spears? Was that the first weapon the Captain could think of?]

[thisaroma]

What, did it give you one too?

[ahelpingpaw]

It sure did. Now I have a spear, but what am I even supposed to do with it? It's kinda useless.

[......]

Except the obvious use, which I'd rather not.

[He'd like not to stab anyone, thanks]

investigation!

[bathymetric]

[ So... the answer to this seems to be that uh. The food doesn't change over while observed? Any food he's not looking at, however, seems to almost instantly change over at the appropriate time, with just a few clattering noises to show for it. ]

[thisaroma]

[ Oh. Well, that is... weirder than he expected, somehow!

Can't wait for that pitcher of orange juice to transform while his back is turned so he can accidentally refill Alice's juice glass with diet Pepsi. ]