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unknown_oosea2020-11-21 09:56 pm
bathymetric) wrote in unknown_oosea2020-11-21 09:56 pm
R2 TDM - boys in the band order boat memes
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!
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She glances down at the corpse, her hand still resting on them somewhere along their upper back.]
The álfar can and do suffer death, but there's a vast difference between what we know as death and the way mortals experience such things. The deaths mortals fear are often morbid, drawn-out affairs - instances where they have the chance to dwell, the opportunity to reflect on what is about to happen to them. A quick death is seen as a mercy, is it not? Something swift and merciful. Forgiving.
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Precisely. Deaths from illness are a common fear, as are deaths that involve bleeding out. A quick and painless death is what most would call a mercy, inasmuch as death can be considered a mercy.
[i mean sometimes it's totally a mercy for everyone else, but that's not the point—]
If you don't mind my asking, what is death like for the álfar?
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Death is... [She's quiet for a moment.] ...We can be killed by others, but most would not dare try to kill us, and we do not try to kill one another - our numbers are too few.
Death, for us, is a cessation. A state of no longer existing in the realm we inhabit. A...fading, I suppose, of one's life force. Once that is gone, even in dreams, it requires a great power to revive. Not quite an impossibility, but almost.
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I see. We don't have any being quite like the álfar where I come from. I was wondering if it was something like that.
[Ceasing to exist, in a sense. Probably more merciful than even a swift death, but it likely wouldn't be fair to compare them in the first place.]
It is interesting that there is a possibility - however slim - to revive someone.
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[So, it would require Literally A God, probably.]
There are other, more personal ways to bring back the deceased. At my full strength, I could bring back this fallen one, and any others that we may lose to the Captain's whims. Anyone that is desired, anyone that is missed, anyone that is gone, they can be with you always. But that involves forsaking this reality for another.
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[Living in a dream world where everything is exactly as you want it to be... definitely not for him, tbh.]
Is that something you have offered before?
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[...what you didn't wasn't precisely offering, Freyja.]
It isn't a decision that many mortals take lightly.
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[...or an idiot...]
What is your realm like?
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[...Wow, Freyja.]
I could describe the realms of Dökkálfheimr and Ljósálfheimr to you, but what you yourself would see is difficult to know. If I could know your dreams as I do the mortals' of my world, then I could tell you exactly what it would look like to you. I could recreate parts of it here, for you to spend time in at your leisure.
The realms of the álfar are what you believe they should be.