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

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[dokkalfheimr]

[Freyja has never really had much interest in places like this; libraries were a thing they were familiar with, back in her younger days in Ljósálfheimr, but she had never spent much time there.

But this one seems so interested in everything that's here... The question surprises her a little, but she doesn't seem annoyed by it at all.]

I have not... I know many of the stories of the old ones, those that came before me, but tales the mortals tell one another are beyond me somewhat.

[bonesorter]

I see.

[Hmm... well then--]

I apologize if this is presumptuous of me to ask, but... I would not mind hearing the stories you do know, if you do not mind telling them to me.

[dokkalfheimr]

Would you...?

[That does seem to surprise her, at least a little; she'll come over and sit nearby, at least, smoothing out her dress as she does so.]

What sort of stories do you like?

[bonesorter]

[Lorna sits down at an appropriate distance, humming in thought at the question.]

Well... I do like mysteries, but I also enjoy fairy tales and stories with happy endings, when I'm able to find them.

[However, Lorna isn't that picky. She's just happy that someone is willing to converse with her here.]

[dokkalfheimr]

Oh... Happy endings do tend to be preferred, don't they? Even if the story itself is dark, mortals do enjoy their hope. If they can hold onto that desire for hope here, perhaps that will serve them well.

[Hmmmmm...]

Have you heard of the Shining Prince, and the Queen of the Dead?

[bonesorter]

I have not. Would you be so kind as to tell it to me?