Abandoned At Sea

The discussion thread for OOC talk and asking each other questions.

Are we posting in third or first person?

Whatever suits you, doesn't really matter. Definitely different, though.

The power is out, right?

The power appears to be out, yes.

Not sure if it makes sense, but the galley (kitchen for the land lubbers) is located on the lower deck. The stewards had to use two stair wells to bring up hot trays of food, lay it out at the buffet, and then it was time to eat. On a larger ship, there would be room to have the galley immediately adjacent to the dining area, which would simplify things.

What I'm alluding to, is that we'll get hungry eventually, and either find out that the kitchen and food storage area is locked up, or that despite the kitchen being accesible on the main deck as part of the wheelhouse, all the food is in freezers down on the lower deck - again, locked up.

Of course, as mere passengers, we probably wouldn't be too concerned, as long as the food tasted good and was served on time.

My pathetic ASCII art attempt utterly sucked. I want to provide a simple deck layout for you all, but despite my attempts to do so, once I hit [send] it converts it into gibberish.

edited 25th Oct '10 2:56:27 PM by pvtnum11

And now it seems that there are corpses. Sounds lovely.

Yes, so the mystery of where some of the passengers went has been solved. 24 passengers, seven (currently) alive, so 31 total to starts. two Five known to be dead, plus seven crew. That leaves 22 19 people unaccounted for.

edited 26th Oct '10 12:51:30 PM by pvtnum11

Concerning the possibility of one of the players being the killer - no. Hadn't planned on it. However, don't let that stop paranoid delusional thoughts from creeping into your head that someone might be the killer. I had wanted to leave that open and ambiguous, but someone asked so I might as well throw that out there.

But there was a killer, yes.

You probably PM'ed someone that they were the killer and are just saying this to throw us off and keep it realistic. I see through your charade.

I cannot confirm or deny.

Okay, lower deck will have the kitchen in it. turns out that there's another stairwell leading up to the aft part of the middle (and thus upper deck) so food has a kinda-straight shot to the buffet and dining area. We managed to crack open the forward stairwell. Getting the aft one open from below should be as simple as turning a knob.

Also - Egon isn't enjoying the attention of being looked up to for direction (in contrast to the island scenario, where it was easier to step into that role; this scenario would proably crack me a whole lot faster, as all of the stuff thus far has transpired in perhaps an hour, as opposed to developing over a period of days).

Kitchen is found. Lodas of stuff, as the ship was stocked for the entire cruise for 31 people, adn there's only eight on board, so what's in the freezers and refrigerators and pantry should last until some sort of resolution is reached, be it Total Party Kill, at-sea rescue or we manage to navigate this thing to a harbor.

Of course, if resolution takes too long, we'll have to worry about some items going bad, or if elctricity fails, we'll have no way to cook anything, short of carving up deck planking.

The reason the ship is rocking back and forth is that the props aren't turning, the sails are down,a dn the ship is now turned broadside into the swells, which makes them feel loads bigger than they really are. Usually, if you can help it, you put the ship headlong into waves, to mitigate the side-to-side effect - and if the waves are sufficiently big, to prevent capsizing. Since we have no way yet to control the ship, we're pretty much at the mercy of hte ocean right now. Hope that makes some sense.

So food won't ever be an issue? I could see some drama arising for the vegetarians if we eat everything that isn't meat... Yes im a veg-head

As you probably informed the cruise of your dietary needs prior to embarkation, there'll be plenty of veggies, fruits, tofu, and all that other stuff. Depending on how strict of a vegen diet you specified when the ticket was purchased, that means more stuff that you'll enjoy eating, rather than having to pick cheese off of your chef salad or whatever. Also, soy milk and all the other protein-type of items woudl be carried, as the cruise had it in their best interests to cater to the needs and whims of the paying passengers, so that you'll have a pleasant cruise and tell your family and friends how awesome it was. I've been on two cruises myself, and the ones that care about their reputation really bend over backwards for you. Norweigan Cruise Lines America was really nice, I'd go again next year if I could afford it.

Of course, this cruise was shaping up to be really nice, right up until most of the passengers were butchered and the crew disappered. Yeah, now it sucks.

Oh, and food will become an issue if we spend too much time out in the open ocean, either from running out of certain items, spoiling (even refrigerated stuf will go bad) and thievery, if it happens. Some factors will be otu of direct control of the players, but some will be up to them.

edited 27th Oct '10 4:35:39 PM by pvtnum11

So, at the moment, I'm planning on Piper having been poisoned somehow, but everyone just assuming it to be motion sickness. Could she feasibly survive such a thing? Like, would there be something to remedy a poisoning with? I'm thinking it was just a common household item that they used to poison her with, like a cleaning product, hair spray, bug spray, something like that.

Hmmm. It's feasible that one of the killers slipped you something during dinner the night before - or heck, just random food poisoning is bad enough as-is.

Yeah, just go with food-poisoning. Survivable, but you'll wish you were dead.

EDIT: If you were somehow poisoned (not likely, considering the horrific ways seven people have been butchered thus far) you would probably feel like it was food poisoning, puke and retch for a good long while, and after drinking a bunch of milk or water (you did milk so far) you might feel better after a bit.

So, either way, you're left miserable for about a day or two and then you feel better.

edited 28th Oct '10 5:01:26 PM by pvtnum11

It's way too late to join this, isn't it?

Not necessarily. We've only been in this situation for about two hours.

And there's the wheelhouse that still locked up. Lemme think of a way to have you ob board, I'll PM you something.

P Mail sent.

bump. also don't let this RP die!

Oh hey, there. Glad to see someone didn't forget.