BOAT: DAFFODIL

[crittersheep]

[ You’re in a sleek, gilded reception room aboard a large and - aside from your team - empty ship. It’s full of fabulous kitchens (splattered with blood but still usable!) and ballrooms (full of instruments, all playable!) and glittering spires and stagnant-smelling but comfortable sleeping quarters. When nobody is using the intercoms to speak, a tune hums through.

Other than that, there’s thick mist surrounding everything, a path lit only by the ship’s signal light as it travels toward whatever it is you’re in search of and away from the home you can never return to. Waves crash gently against the hull, growing louder and fiercer as time goes on, and there’s faint wailing and howling in the distance…what is going on in this sea? Well, it’s not very important to you. What’s important is surviving.

You have a life to live. ]

Comments

FIRST VERSE

[crittersheep]

Name your ship and answer the following questions as a team: you are seeking something familiar to you, yet unknown.

What is it?

When you find it, will you welcome it?

When you find it, will you become one with it?

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

Re: TURN-IN

[secondbornsun]

Name?
The Hakuna Matatas

What is it?
Fortune

When you find it, will you welcome it?
Yes

When you find it, will you become one with it?
No

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

Re: DISCUSSION

[rugpull]

Can we find money.

Re: DISCUSSION

[secondbornsun]

[ why am i, a lion, on a boat ]

. . . "Become one with it"?

SECOND VERSE

[crittersheep]

Treasure: 100
Light: 100
Nervous Impairment: 0
Nethersea Brand: 1
Little Handy Charges: 3

CURRENT JOB: Sailor
ABILITY: SPEED UP!: Increase your ship’s speed to escape your pursuers chasing you, bringing peace of mind. Reduces Nervous Impairment by 10 points but will create a wake that might damage anything else floating in the waves nearby.

EVENT 1

[crittersheep]

With no choice but to flee from the catastrophe afflicting your home, you set sail in search of fortune. However, you’re stopped by a ship under the ruling flag of your home, demanding a port fee of 10 Treasures. Despite the pursuit that’s underway, these people at least aren’t hostile to you. Yet, anyway…

Do you pay?

EVENT 2

[crittersheep]

Your ship’s galley has a serious pest problem. The food you left with was whatever you could gather, and it seems it was tainted - Rodents (Large) and Insects (Innumerable) ravage your food stores, leaving your flock with little to eat. What do you do?

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

Remember to also state whether you're paying Ship Maintenance (-10 Treasure or +10 Nervous Impairment) or not!

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

THIRD VERSE

[crittersheep]

Treasure: 90
Light: 90
Nervous Impairment: 0
Nethersea Brand: 0
Little Handy Charges: 1

CURRENT JOB: Sailor
ABILITY: SPEED UP!: Increase your ship’s speed to escape your pursuers chasing you, bringing peace of mind. Reduces Nervous Impairment by 10 points but will create a wake that might damage anything else floating in the waves nearby.

EVENT 1

[crittersheep]

As you travel, something constantly knocks against the outer hull of your ship. Something large, that seems to be following you? It hasn't done any damage yet, but it might if it keeps this up...what do you do about it?

EVENT 2

[crittersheep]

The wake from your increased speed has caused some Treasure to drift up to the surface. Do you try to get it?

MESSAGE FROM PURSUERS

[crittersheep]

"To invoke the name of the Dread Phantom Pirates is to draw their eye. Beware the siren glint of gold that draws you beneath the waves to join their crew."

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

FINAL VERSE

[crittersheep]

Treasure: 90
Light: 70
Nervous Impairment: 20
Nethersea Brand: 4
Little Handy Charges: 1

CURRENT JOB: Sailor
ABILITY: SPEED UP!: Increase your ship’s speed to escape your pursuers chasing you, bringing peace of mind. Reduces Nervous Impairment by 10 points but will create a wake that might damage anything else floating in the waves nearby.

EVENT 1

[crittersheep]

A turbulent wake produced by another nearby ship rocks your ship, damaging your signal light. (-10 Light)

You do not need to respond to this event.

EVENT 2 (cw: plant horror)

[crittersheep]

MUFFIN's Nethersea Brand WORSENS, and he begins to hear the chittering of thousands of voices in his head at all times. It's nonsensical, but as the mycelium digs into his skin and seems to begin growing into his veins, it draws him toward the sea nonetheless.

TART becomes feverish as his wound becomes INFECTED.

EVENT 3

[crittersheep]

You couldn't outpace the thing chasing you for long - a song that sounds out through the mists, seemingly from one of the other ships out here with you, has driven it into a frenzy - in an attempt to reach that ship it smashes straight through the bow of yours.

There is a large hole in your ship, and you are swiftly sinking. What do you do?

MESSAGE

[crittersheep]

"The curse shines closer. They have you in their sights now, and the Hakuna Matatas will make a marvelous addition to the fleet."

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

CODA.

[crittersheep]

FINAL STATS

Treasure: 0
Light: 0
Nervous Impairment: 10
Nethersea Brand: 0
Little Handy Charges: 0

CURRENT JOB: Sailor
ABILITY: SPEED UP!: Increase your ship’s speed to escape your pursuers chasing you, bringing peace of mind. Reduces Nervous Impairment by 10 points but will create a wake that might damage anything else floating in the waves nearby.

You gave up everything you had, and you're now adrift in the middle of the sunless sea. Alone with nobody but yourselves and an admittedly pretty cool lifeboat. Also, all the Nethersea Brand that showed up after your final cleaning, dropped off from a passing ship called Astral Wake. Your entire flock suffers from the SAME LEVEL OF NETHERSEA BRAND as MUFFIN.

You've given up your pursuit of what you sought...

...but it kept you safe, so that's really all that matters. You survived.

Return to the surface.