BOAT: THISTLE

[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. ]

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FINAL VERSE

[crittersheep]

Treasure: 110
Light: 60
Nervous Impairment: 50
Nethersea Brand: 2
Little Handy Charges: 2

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]

!!CURSE!! YOU ARE CURSED. A cry of lament sounds out from the ships of your pursuers, cursing you for your crimes. You feel cold and pained, and eventually you develop HYPOTHERMIA and a sense of impending doom.

EVENT 2

[crittersheep]

Your nerves fray significantly, and you start to suffer nightmares of the deep and waking hallucinations of mishappen kelp and barnacle covered creatures stalking the halls of your ship. In addition, the sea seemingly calls to you - it is hard to resist the urge to submerge yourself in the depths. Paranoia begins to seep in, making you suspect every sound you hear as a harbinger of something terrible.

Your wounds grow worse, and eventually you grow feverish as they become INFECTED.

EVENT 3

[crittersheep]

You just kind of find some treasure floating out in the middle of the sea.

This definitely seems like a trap.

MESSAGE

[crittersheep]

"Thistle my dear, there's a problem, I fear.
To your dismay, that swear tax is there to stay,
As you did name your ship something vulgar this day."

TURN-IN

[crittersheep]

Re: TURN-IN

[reportinastorm]

Using a Little Handy charge on Nethersea Brand cleanup

Event 1: They're treating everyone's hypothermia by sitting in a pile with blankets and drinking warm water.

Event 2: Using a second Little Handy charge to treat wounds/paranoia

Event 3: Not going after the treasure, who do you think we are

And -10 Treasure for maintenance!

RESULT

[crittersheep]

EVENT 1: It doesn't really fix the HYPOTHERMIA, but it does make things feel better. (-10 Nervous Impairment)

EVENT 2: You use Little Handy to patch wounds, but it doesn't really do a good job of that - stops infection from setting in, though.

Doesn't do anything for the paranoia, unfortunately! (-1 Little Handy Charge)

EVENT 3: You pass up the treasure. It sinks into the sea, never to be seen again.

You use Little Handy to clean the Nethersea Brand (-1 Little Handy Charge)
You spend Treasure to maintain your ship. (-10 Treasure)
The Light dwindles (-10 Light)

DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

[survivaltricks]

[while actively bleeding]





Did someone bring ice cream??

[reportinastorm]

[Flora is not going to say "I told you so" but only because there are now much more important things to worry about than whether she told them so]

W-We need to treat your wounds...!

[she's shivering.]

[survivaltricks]

[BUT THE ICE CREAM!!]

N-- no, I'm fine.

[he says, while BLEEDING]

Yata needs some ice cream-- d-did anyone bring any??

Re: DISCUSSION

[pictureimperfect]

[shot and stabbed and hypothermia and nightmare and paranoia and infection and man it's a good thing i'm starting to melt and slump a lil because i really want to go in the sea]

[survivaltricks]

[GATHERS MELTY BLOB YATA UP INTO HIS ARMS]

[body warmth]

[but also, he's bleeding]

[pictureimperfect]

Senpai stop fussing over me when you're bleeding sit down!!

cw: the paranoia is real yo

[shortforever]

[Don't mind him he's having a breakdown over here because he thinks the voices he's hearing are the unknown god inside of him.]

I-I should go. Yeah, it'll be safer that way. We'll all be fine after this ritual is over anyway, right?

[He is saying all of this while eyeing that railing.]

[survivaltricks]

[BAPS HIM GENTLY WITH THE BROOM]

[shortforever]

[he is bapped.

But he is still panicking.]

Lupin, I can hear him-

Re: cw: the paranoia is real yo

[leonheartedly]

[just. Physically dragging him further from the railing]

[shortforever]

[He is not using gravity manipulation, so he's easily dragged back.]

Tyr stop, I won't jump in! I just gotta be far enough away!

Re: DISCUSSION

[reportinastorm]

[Flora is at least not injured or in a conversation with a god inside her but she is shivering violently and starting to panic.]

W-What is that message?? What—we need to do something about everyone's wounds! We're... we're going to die...

Re: DISCUSSION

[leonheartedly]

[when all the kids are in a pile to keep warm, he's going to kneel down next to her and nod to said pile]

Lupin said to - to do what you want to do, what's our plan?

[shortforever]

[Staring at his hands like something horrifying is there. There is actually nothing there because he's hallucinating it all, but yeah.]

Yeah, no kidding. Holy shit how fast does this stuff move?

Re: DISCUSSION

[leonheartedly]

[oh, well, this is fine.

Pulling off his jacket and holding it out to whoever wants it, while shivering]

W-We need to use the robots.

[survivaltricks]

[BLEEDING AND FEVERISH and yet he is still focused on the others]

Y-- yeah. Get everyone warm, find Yata some ice cream.