crittersheep | BOAT: ROSE

BOAT: ROSE

[ 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. ]

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[Oh hello, guess who's late.]

Pirates does seem like a fun role.

Why are you behaving like Rubato now?!

[ Don't just startle him like that!! ]

My sincerest apologies. I must have been missed in the first grab.

You're not sorry at all.

[ He smirks though. ]

We're in a bit of a state, it looks like. We may have to get aggressive.

I think some aggressive tactics would be fun.

Can we speed away from paying our toll, perhaps?

I'd rather not risk that right now. It would be prudent to play without raising too much suspicion for now.

We could always change our ship's colors after. They'll be looking for the one that matches theirs.

[ That seems to satisfy him. ]

Leave that to me, then. I'm rather good with color coordination.

Thank you muchly, Belle Melusine~.

[ Preen! ]

But that's not being aggressive.

We may decide to switch roles, so why not use this ability while we have the chance?

I meant getting aggressive after accepting the weapons, but. Let's do this, then.

There's no reason we can't do both.

Much funner than starving to death due to a rash of blasted vermin.

What's the trade-off? I'm afraid I need to catch up still.

That we need to actually use the armaments on our fellow castaways.

Do you think they'll get bent out of shape over it if we do?

_hmmm...

We could always try to appear like we're on the retaliatory route.

If we don't have an audience...

[ sweeping gesture at the heavy mist. ]

We were raided. Our food stores were left a shambles. And in our hour of need, we were offered a choice, and a supply of weapons.

Reasonable.

[ Why are you both like this ]

[You love us.]

[ UNFORTUNATELY HE DOES. ]

[ became like this on account of the horrors ]

Re: DISCUSSION

poisonista - 2024-05-12 00:05 (UTC) - Expand

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