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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknown_oosea2020-11-21 09:56 pm

R2 TDM - boys in the band order boat memes

Hello and welcome to the...



UNKNOWN SEAS R2
TEST DRIVE MEME


Glad to have you aboard! Gone are the musty old dark tones and anxieties of that creepy underwater facility from the first round - welcome to the lap of luxury on your very own Atlantic Cruise. And we mean your very own, too - there's nobody else aboard! Well, except for the Captain, who broke the news to you when you got up about what you have to do here.

The facilities are all top of the line, even if for some reason you just can't seem to get to the other floors of the ship just yet - there's a gym, a pool, a buffet- wait, scratch that, looks like you're on one of our liners lucky enough to have a tie-in deal with Jimmy Buffett himself, which means you get access to all you can eat at the on-board Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville's Jimmy Buffet!

So make the most of your time! Maybe even get a spooky souvenir from somewhere in the B̴͖̈́e̷̟̊̀ṛ̴̩̑̉m̴̺̪̈̈́u̵̧͛̇d̶̗̱̀̔a̸̧̙͗͝ ̶͖̖͑̚T̴̤͝r̷̩͘i̶̟͎͗̈́a̴͍͗̐n̵̥̆͝g̵̮̳͘l̷͔͑ḛ̸̹͒͗ while you're here.

1. Arise from the depths (of sleep)

Hey, you! You're finally awake! Welcome to your modest accommodations aboard... some kind of cruise ship? Look, there aren't exactly a lot of great accommodations offered aboard cruise ships, you get what you get. There's a bed, there's a little desk, there's a vase of flowers... and a beautiful view of the ocean outside your window!

Hope this isn't, like, wildly different and strange compared to where you just were! Oh, also the whole boat is all decked out for New Year's.

2. Room for all kinds of activities!

If you head out to the decks, or just walk around the ship, there's all kinds of things to see here while you wait for the bodies to start dropping! Feel free to make up whatever facilities you like, gyms or shuffleboard courts or even libraries - the Margaritaville buffet is canon, though. That's your canon food option. Hope you like shrimp!

3. Son of a son of a motive

Another Tuesday, another sealed envelope full of fun! Is this finally something worth killing for to get off this boat? Or is it just something stupid and/or embarrassing? Better ask around!

4. A good friend returns

On one of the decks, next to some regular beverage and food vending machines, is... an unmarked one? It only takes these weird coins that sometimes show up in your rooms at night. Sometimes it gives you things from back home! Sometimes it gives you? Little creepy wooden puppets??

5. Wasting away again in... well, a murder

Oh no! Someone is dead! Did you kill them? Are you trying to get the word out? Did you find the body and really need to calm down? Live your dreams, kill who you wanna kill offscreen!

6. Anything else!

There's all kinds of things you might be doing on a boat like this! Don't feel constrained by the options here - live your murderboat dreams!
whitehairedprettyboy: (pout)

[personal profile] whitehairedprettyboy 2020-12-11 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mutter. ] I was being facetious. About your intent to murder, I mean - I should hope whoever carries out the deed would be a tad subtler than that. Not about... not being friends with my employees. Because I'm not.

[ He too seems to assume that someone doing a murder is a foregone conclusion. It's a pattern by now on this ship, and if there's one thing he knows about people who do have friends and loved ones, it's that they can be almost fanatically protective of them. You see these things a lot in action when your main nemeses are an uncle and niece duo. ]
notthathighwind: (o2)

[personal profile] notthathighwind 2020-12-11 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

[ His expression became less tight but not by much because this was still a shitty situation. Moreover, knowing what they'll need to face this coming weekened...but anyway, he wasn't so far in his own thoughts that he didn't hear what sounded like denial.

Which really wasn't a river in Egypt. ]


Well, I'm sure it'll still be inconvenient to have to replace employees at the least. Though if I had to speak more frankly, I'd much prefer if our incorrigible Captain had the air in front of him replaced with a fist so that when he stepped forward he would walk into it.

[ That was far less funnier and elegant than it was in his head, but...quite an image, no? ]
whitehairedprettyboy: (hmph)

[personal profile] whitehairedprettyboy 2020-12-24 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Inconvenient" is assuredly the word. These men have served me for years! Do you know how difficult that sort of blind loyalty is to come by?

[ Denial? Him? Never. Unrelatedly, the idea that his men might have stuck around for so long because they actually like him doesn't seem to have crossed his mind.

When Cid busts out the bit about putting a fist in the Captain's face, Valmont just... stares for a moment. A long moment. Then one side of his mouth slowly quirks upward in an unpleasant smirk.
]

Well, your delivery may need a bit of work, but I do like the way you think. It would be no more than our good Captain deserves, I should wager. Do refresh my memory; is that sort of thing possible in your world? Air-to-fist transmutation, things like that?