TEST DRIVE MEME

[mourningstarmods]

LOOK AT MY UGLY, GRAPHICS-FREE MEME.

While Reserves are Open, there's no one in the game yet, so feel free to test out your muses in the setting here! Should you choose to app, you may pick threads you've done here to count toward activity (if all characters involved are in the game).

Some prompts:

1. Fetching or Vetting. Your character is either introducing an Inmate to the ship or is going to pick them up. Or they have recently returned from this endeavor.

2. Yeah, that rumble earlier? Not a big deal. Just a flood. (You pick how it affects your character.) Let somebody know if you start feeling a little funny.

Comments

[bastardofipswich]

"How much time?" He shakes his head. "You don't understand, my magic is a part of me. I need it." What it is, of course, is a drug. He can't fathom a life without it, even if it's only temporary.

[gimmethemap]

"Then you will want to earn some of it back quickly." Morgan didn't have magical Inmates, so this was never a challenge she had to face, herself. "That will be up to whomever is assigned to you. However...sometimes the ship knows you're trying."

[bastardofipswich]

Chase crosses his arms, thinking over this for a moment. "So my options: work on this ship, be a 'better person,' and earn back my magic, get a second chance... or take a gamble and face death and see what happens." Well, this sounds like a no brainer. He's not about to go for oblivion. No, Chase is a survivor, even if survival isn't looking particularly pretty right now.

[gimmethemap]

"That's the short version, yes. You can ask whatever questions you wish." Because there were way too many twists and turns this voyage could take for her to lay them all down without waiting to hear what it was he needed to know, first.

[bastardofipswich]

"You mentioned someone being assigned to me," he brings up. "What's that, like a case worker?"

[gimmethemap]

"We call them Wardens. When you go off-ship, they're meant to act as a guide, but it's also their job to keep you safe. Here, they advise you and are your first line of communication if someone does something wrong to you. They also have first and final word on how you are disciplined if you make trouble. If you have a problem that involves your Warden, you report it to the 1st Mate and Quartermaster. If you die again, they're the only one that can bring you back."

[bastardofipswich]

"What do you mean die again? How often do people die again?" That, at least, is concerning. Perhaps more concerning than the fact that he's going to have a warden assigned to him, in charge of his every action or whatever. Dying once was bad enough. Chase isn't up for trying it more than once.

[gimmethemap]

"A lot of people don't -- I've had a few nasty ones myself -- but being alive again comes with that risk, you know. The point is that it's not permanent so long as you're here." She might have exaggerated on how few people experienced death again, or even for the first time, on these ships.

[bastardofipswich]

"So I'm effectively immortal here?" Now he may be taking the wrong message from this.

[gimmethemap]

"Unless you're really good at making your Warden hate you, or a jury overrules them and condemns you? Almost. It doesn't make them less unpleasant, however, or a sacrifice less meaningful."

[bastardofipswich]

"Okay." He nods. "Say I take you up on your deal here. What's next?"

[gimmethemap]

She doubted he wouldn't. She'd never sent a soul back yet. "You'd start working on the main deck. A Warden is temporarily assigned to you to look after your interest until you get a permanent one. You work where you're placed to start, but if you find a job you think is more suited to your interests, you'll be given a chance to try it out. Do that quickly."