R2 TDM - boys in the band order boat memes

[bathymetric]

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!

Comments

[guffawsungraciously]

Even the best ingredients can be stored and prepared poorly, and seafood is particularly volatile in that area. I have heard tell of people having terrible experiences with shellfish even at beachside resorts.

[rest in peace, sir sardonyx’s intestines and dignity.]

It is somewhat difficult to get a grasp on the logistics, admittedly, given everything about our situation. There was likely a great deal of effort involved in getting us here in the first place, so I do have to wonder if they have a means of procuring more supplies if they run out.

[onlyyoucan]

[She frowns, staring into the crab dip.]

Probably however they got us. Instant teleportation isn't supposed to be possible. Even sub-lightspeed takes time, much more time on the outside than in.

[guffawsungraciously]

That is not exactly correct in my world, but it would indeed be difficult to carry large quantities of food through magical teleportation. Of course, as I said before, we are dealing with something nigh impossible to accomplish in the first place.

[onlyyoucan]

The technology they have here can't be possible, but it is. But wait. You have teleportation? No matter where you are?

[guffawsungraciously]

If you have the magical talent for it, you can warp to any number of locations you have already visited, yes. Granted, there are magical pathways determining the exact location you will be drawn to, so you may still need to finish the rest of your journey on foot, but it is still very convenient.

[onlyyoucan]

Wait, do you think this might be magic? We don't have anything like that back home, not really.

[guffawsungraciously]

...

I suppose there are people completely unable to use it back home, but the idea of the whole population being like that is frankly bizarre.

[onlyyoucan]

It's something people tell each other in stories. That's all.

[guffawsungraciously]

That is utterly bizarre. I suppose you do not even have to worry about monsters, then...?

[onlyyoucan]

Monsters? No. There's a war, but only with humans using machines.

[guffawsungraciously]

How strange. Then again, I suppose it is not that strange, all things considered. It is a bit difficult to imagine from my own point of reference, but I cannot say that I do not find it intriguing.