> 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

[heroantagonist]

Oh ha-ha, they're real, jackass! I've stood in a couple of em myself.

They're all over the galaxy, and one just to happened to be here, on this puny planet. Problem is, you have to find out just how to open one.

Now, you wanna guess how you open this vault?

[onlyyoucan]

Not just death, a specific kind of death. With a template you inherited. Right?

[heroantagonist]

With a template that I, myself, and me alone, with nobody's help totally came up with.

[...]

Okay, Chuckie helped. A little.

[onlyyoucan]

We'll deal with him later. He must've done it before if he gave it to you, unless he's just seen it.

[heroantagonist]

Eh, you know pirates. Always talking about legends and stories of more treasure than they'd ever need.

Probably just wasn't good enough to get it so he needed a better pirate.

[onlyyoucan]

You just said he didn't have a body at first. That he got more solid later before eventually stealing yours when you died. How could he open a treasure without a body?

[Wait --]

Have you seen this vault?

[heroantagonist]

Uhhhh, no? Usually they're, uh, hidden?

[...]

Come to think of it, he was feeling a lot stronger after a while.

this time it's not a gagtag

[sharddrive]

[Oh goddammit-]

Magic beans, man.

[johnny got fucking played, to the surprise of exactly one person]

[onlyyoucan]

So what he really wanted was power for himself, and you were just dragged into it thinking you were masterminding it.

[conceivesfrenzy]

Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Even if this guy is an absolute loser.

[ MAN...... she got so hooked into the vault stuff that she was willing to overlook everything else.... ]

[conceivesfrenzy]

[ However pissed off she happened to be up until now (offscreen), that seems to evaporate when he talks about vaults and what they supposedly entail. ]

By sacrificing a bunch of people's lives, I'm guessing?

[ She sounds very intrigued. ]

[leaveittomother]

Isn't that normal for this sort of thing?

[heroantagonist]

[Finger-snaps at her.]

This one's got it. From what I know, the ritual involves, sacrificing a bunch of people to bring the vault out. You do that, you go in, you get the treasure and everything's all sunshine and roses.

That's why I wanted to kill all of you losers as fast as possible. And don't even get me started on the whole going back in time thing!

[conceivesfrenzy]

Hm. Interesting.

[ Just gonna... file that away... ]

How'd you do that whole loop thing, anyway? I've never seen anything like that.

[heroantagonist]

Yeah, LeChuck told me that's part of the whole ritual thing.

"Turn back time to reveale the something something."

[conceivesfrenzy]

... you don't even remember what the last part of it is? That seems pretty important.

[ ... oh boy. ]

[scouserer]

...I'm guessing the vault was somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, then.

[He can put two and two together, sometimes!]

By the way, I nipped a glance at that blueprint on your desk a few weeks before. I figure that's how you got us all here, huh? Where'd you get your hands on something like that?

[heroantagonist]

Sure is. Just wish it didn't take us like, a couple frickin months to get into the triangle. Stupid ritual BS.

[Sometimes!]

...Uhhhh, you know? Can't really recall. I've collected a lot of things, you know.

[scouserer]

[Huh! Constantine lets out a snort.]

Oh, of course, since you're too sexy to remember every little piece of loot you happen to pick up.

[He's being sardonic, but there's a chance that'll fly over Jack's head.]

[sharddrive]

Well clearly not by being a gullible clown, or you'd have it nailed.