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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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[It's clear he's just revved up at this point, but it doesn't stop him from talking.]
Getting us to pick each other off one-by-one is the entire point for him.
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[For once, she seems more than a little interested.]
It's a little strange that he picked a group of strangers then, isn't it?
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[He shrugs.]
I'll bet he figures having a bunch of people who don't know each other are more likely to give into pressure.
That was one of the reasons the Abbey where I'm from decided to try and sap the wills of everyone in the world, in a way. They were just after preventing folks from feeling anything at all, instead of coercing them into killin' each other.
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[She shrugs too. Best to leave up on that train of thinking.]
Everyone in the world? [A slight tilt of her head.] I thought will and feeling were two separate things.
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They're not. Sap away a person's will, and you rid them of their very being. You're left with a placid puppet unable to think for him or herself.
A man named Aifread saved me, brought me to my senses when most of my kind were still enslaved, wills sealed by the Shepherd.
The Abbey would have argued they did it for good— that without a will, a person can longer generate malevolence. Prevent all evil actions by making people unable to be who they are? It needed to end.
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[There's an edge to Reika's voice now. Her eyes narrow.]
A lack of feeling leads to the worst acts.
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I was forced to kill people, to hunt them down. I tracked down the guy who kept me as his attack dog, but he got away. I'm not sure what happened to him.
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It makes me glad most humans can't normally see my kind.
[......]
No offense meant.
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None taken. I'm rather glad to be just a human considering the alternative in my own world.
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...The alternative?
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I'm sorry; I was thinking about it quite a bit before I came here. [She pauses.] Well, they're still human but I'm taking about magi. Those that are capable of using magic. I didn't know they existed until not long before the Captain brought me here.
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How does it work in your world?
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[There's... something different about how she's talking now.]
I don't know if I should be jealous or pity them.