BOAT: ROSE

[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

[finalbows]

we're seeking trustworthy comrades, and we want to name the boat "Prima Vista!"

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

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 comrades. 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?

MESSAGE FROM PURSUERS

[crittersheep]

"Hey Rose, try not to just sit there and do nothing, okay?"

EVENT 3

[crittersheep]

A messenger from your pursuers arrived. They have offered to give you weapons with which to attack the other refugees. If you agree, you will receive the JOB Pirate and gain a new job ability.

Do you accept?

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: 100
Light: 90
Nervous Impairment: 10
Nethersea Brand: 2
Little Handy Charges: 2

CURRENT JOB: Pirates
ABILITY: RAID: Choose another ship and attack them. They will lose 10 Treasure, you will gain 10 Treasure. Members of both ships may be injured in the raid.

EVENT 1

[crittersheep]

There is a fight somewhere in the mists between two unknown entities - what you do know is that a shot that was fired pierces your ship's hull, and you're taking on water fast.

What do you do?

EVENT 2

[crittersheep]

You see a wreckage that might have some useful supplies - but it's in turbulent waters. Do you try to grab it?

MESSAGE FROM PURSUERS

[crittersheep]

"Sailors whisper of a ship with blood red sails, a fearsome fleet whose ravenous appetite is never sated.

They hunger.

They seek.

They feast."

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

FOURTH VERSE

[crittersheep]

Treasure: 90
Light: 80
Nervous Impairment: 30
Nethersea Brand: 4
Little Handy Charges: 2

CURRENT JOB: Pirates
ABILITY: RAID: Choose another ship and attack them. They will lose 10 Treasure, you will gain 10 Treasure. Members of both ships may be injured in the raid.

EVENT 1

[crittersheep]

Your DISEASE OF THE LAND worsens. You feel like you might explode if you're shaken too violently...

EVENT 2

[crittersheep]

Due to the mental stress you're under, you start to hallucinate. Terrors of the deep, being caught and executed by your survivors - sleeping becomes more difficult, due to the night terrors.

EVENT 3

[crittersheep]

You hear a ship called the SS CUTE ASSHOLE is on YOUR turf, pillaging YOUR merchants. Even worse, they're only taking exactly what they need instead of as much as they can carry!

Do you do anything about this?

MESSAGES

[crittersheep]

"They are punished.

Their once proud sails now a mark of shame, who will suffer their ire? After all, they’re the only ones on the sea that can RAID."

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

CODA. (cw plant horror)

[crittersheep]

FINAL STATS

Treasure: 110
Light: 60
Nervous Impairment: 30
Nethersea Brand: 0
Little Handy Charges: 1

CURRENT JOB: Pirates
ABILITY: RAID: Choose another ship and attack them. They will lose 10 Treasure, you will gain 10 Treasure. Members of both ships may be injured in the raid.

You did not find what you were looking for, but you did come out richer than you left, despite the odds. Also, a bunch of Nethersea Brand was dropped off from a passing ship called Astral Wake...your flock is now afflicted with NETHERSEA BRAND and begins to hear the chittering of thousands of voices in their heads at all times. It's nonsensical, but as the mycelium digs into their skin and seems to begin growing into their veins, calling them toward the sea nonetheless.

And...others curse your name, knowing you worked with their pursuers.


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

Return to the surface.