> Wake up, again

[bathymetric]

[Whether you've met an unfortunately end on the SS Swift, or deep in the depths, wrapped in the crushing tentacles of the kraken... You're not there anymore. You also don't seem to be dead. Maybe. It's difficult to tell, seeing as you no longer have any of the injuries you sustained on the ship... But you're also no longer on the ship.

Your eyes awaken to a cloudless sky, and a dry, dry, desert. A weak breeze struggles to blow even the dust from the cracked earth. There isn't a drop of water for miles around.

But what is around... is a ship. About a dozen yards away from where you've awoken is a tall, two-mast galleon, beached on the wastes, listing to the right.

How did it get here? Who knows. How did YOU get here?

Might be questions for a later time, seeing as you're waking up with your murderer.

Welcome to the Locker.]


[Map courtesy of Carmen Sandiego]

Comments

???

[bathymetric]

[A day since the arrival of the last, poor unfortunate souls that lost their lives aboard the SS Swift, something seems to have finally happened.

Its as thought there's been a strange shift in the winds, in that there is a wind at all now, blowing in gently from the south.

Peering out that way from the deck or crow's nest of the Queen Alice's Revenge will yield a sight that may feel almost too good be true, if it wasn't the first time you've seen it since you woke up here.

Far, maybe a mile or two out there, it almost looks like... water?]

[sharddrive]

[Well. That's a thing.]

[Does this look like rain or like an actual body or wave of water?]

Hey, guys? How confident are we in the seaworthiness of this boat?

[thisaroma]

What?

[ Seems like a weird question to be worrying about in the middle of a desert!! Looking out that way...

Oh. Huh. ]

That's actual water, right? Not some kind of desert mirage thing?

[sharddrive]

As the guy with the buoyancy of a cement block and non-functioning flight boosters I call "not it" on getting closer until we're sure.

[thisaroma]

Oh. Yeah, that's probably fair. [ Though it's not like he'd actually drown, probably!! ] I can go take a look then, I guess?

[ Anyone else want in on this field trip... ]

[sharddrive]

Hm, might be coming to us?

[It wasn't there before, anyway. We're waiting on a mod tag or something to get the actual nature of this maybe-mirage.]

[thisaroma]

Is it?

[ Squints... Does it seem like it's getting closer, or just staying where it is? ]

[bathymetric]

[It's staying where it is!]

[thisaroma]

Mmm... I don't think it is? So it's probably fine to go look, right?

[ what's it gonna do, kill him again?? ]

[sharddrive]

Mm- all right, let's go.

[He's gonna hang back, though, just because he can't drown doesn't mean he likes the idea of getting stuck at the bottom of whatever this turns out to be.]

drowning ment

[conceivesfrenzy]

It's probably fine. Not like any of us can die here, so we probably don't have to worry about drowning.

[ thanks for the help finding out Plumeria!!! ]

Re: drowning ment

[sharddrive]

...you know, are we actually sure about that? Cause that feels like a really obvious trap.

[thisaroma]

I mean, I guess if anything here was going to be an exception it'd probably be water, but nothing else has actually been dangerous so far?

[conceivesfrenzy]

Unless there's something special about that water, I know that for a fact. ♡

[ giggles ominiously! ]

[sharddrive]

[Softly, but with feeling:] what the fuck.

[thisaroma]

[ Alice is so smart... ]

[paucipan]

[Just. Shooting Alice the most disdainful look ever. You're not welcome for the help asshole.]

[amightypirate]

Hey, if you need someone to check, I can hold my breath for ten minutes.

[Hey, it's your captain(?)!]

[sharddrive]

Let's hold off on checking our mortality til it's an emergency.

[thisaroma]

...Do we need to breathe here?

[amightypirate]

.... Honestly, I've just been breathing reflexively.

[conceivesfrenzy]

You sure you don't want to go check? Might be good to get the sand out of your joints or whatever you have.

[ She's Joking. ]

[sharddrive]

...You actually raise a good point, but given the general tone of this place I'm gonna assume that this would result in less clean joints and more just turning the sand into mud.

[conceivesfrenzy]

Aw, you're no fun.

[ Just don't get mud in the joints, forehead!!!!! ]

[sharddrive]

I'm plenty of fun! I just make my own by annoying terrible people.