> 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

[guffawsungraciously]

How much did that have to do with the ghost that took over your body after your death, by the by.

[heroantagonist]

Oh... That. LeChuck.

[Rubs his neck sorely.]

Is that bastard really walking around in my body? I mean... Yeah, I get wanting to be Jack, who doesn't? But you'd think a partner would mention that at some point.

[guffawsungraciously]

I have to admit, I cannot relate to wanting to be you. But this is the sort of thing you really ought to expect when making a deal with that sort... I am almost surprised he did not take over your body at the start of things.

[leaveittomother]

He probably couldn't do that while Jack was alive. ...That bastard.

[She absolutely sounds like someone broke up with her. To Jack:]

I'd apologize but you did threaten my daughter that week. A good parent does what they need to do.

[heroantagonist]

Pft. Guy could barely form a pair of lips to speak to me when we first met, let alone a pair of hands to strangle me with. Which I'm pretty sure is just some kind of weird ghost thing?

[leaveittomother]

So he just decided to hire an assassin. Which, by the way, you should have seen coming after the scene Yeager made about my knife.

[heroantagonist]

Listen, I thought you assholes would've killed each other long before you tried to come after me.

It's like... you've never been to Pandora.

[leaveittomother]

I've made a living on killing people more powerful than myself.

[Okay, it was only like for a couple of months.]

That aside--why in the world would I ever come onto you without a reason?

[heroantagonist]

Uhhh, because I'm awesome?

[oceangirlfriend]

[Adeline looks over at Reika.] I must admit, I do admire your ability to put up with this manner of behavior long enough to send him here.