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. ]

Comments

[survivaltricks]

"Again?"

[leonheartedly]

Not the ritual, but the runner. They ran one a few days ago.

[survivaltricks]

Ah.

[a sharp exhale]

I do feel like I should be worried.

[leonheartedly]

Yeah, maybe a little.

The last one had a puzzle, Odin and Yata figured it out.

[survivaltricks]

Oh. Odin was bragging about that one.

Was it a "solve this puzzle or die" situation?

[leonheartedly]

Kind of. You had to pick a tribute with each guess, couple of people seemed like they had a rough time.

[survivaltricks]

[mmmmakes a face]

Can we be searching for a cozy nap instead of treasure?

[I mean normally he LIKES treasure but he doesn't want this!1]

[leonheartedly]

I would rather not sleep with the fishes.

[survivaltricks]

. . . touche.

[DEEP SIGH]

Any ideas on how to answer our initial questions?

[leonheartedly]

We could be looking for adventure . . . or accomplishment.

[survivaltricks]

[hmmm. . .]

How about "freedom?"

[leonheartedly]

[he considers it, then nods]

Freedom.

[survivaltricks]

[a wide grin]

We'll welcome it when we find it, of course. But not become one with it because that sounds like a creepy cult thing and I don't want that.

[leonheartedly]

Please no creepy cults, I'm at my quota for the year.

[survivaltricks]

I think we all are.

[said a bit wryly]

[shortforever]

[He was right and he will always brag about it.]

[survivaltricks]

[VALID TBQH]