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Dead In The Water
Who: Anyone who's invited to (or snuck aboard) the S.S. Aria
Where: Temporarily Vermilion and Olivine, then the Sevii Islands and the open ocean
When: October 4-15
Summary: It's a lovely little cruise... until it's not.
Rating: Mark your threads if necessary! But at a minimum: gambling, sinking ship peril, and hostile wild Pokemon
OOC Info: here!
The cruise starts out unremarkably - at least, as luxury cruises go! The weather on the ocean is lovely, making for calm and smooth sailing. The chefs are on point, the on-board spa is stocked up, the gambling tables rattle merrily with tokens, and there’s something for everyone with the nightly shows (though, admittedly, it particularly helps to be interested in Pokemon battles). The stops at each of the Sevii Islands are only a handful of hours each, unfortunately, before the ship has to sail onward… but you can’t have everything!
Rooms are small but cozy, with fold-down beds and tucked-away luggage racks. Rooms even each have their own showers, although those are rather cramped. Small Pokemon are allowed in rooms and practically anywhere on board; large Pokemon are only allowed up on deck and must be supervised, but the deck is open at all hours.
Trainers who signed up for a ride in exchange for battling will find their on-stage battling shifts spread out over several nights, giving them ample time to enjoy a normal relaxed dinner on other days. Administration expects them to accept any audience challenges, but otherwise simply battle amongst each other - fortunately, as long as the fights are entertaining, there’s absolutely no penalty to losing!
In deference to the spooky season, the ship is decked out in Pumpkaboo, Trevenant, and other haunted-looking decorations, and one of the dinners is designated as a costume night. In addition, pumpkins (that are not Pumpkaboos), carving kits, and little electric lights are available upon request. Many passengers seem to have carved and lit their pumpkins and left them right outside their doors in the hallways!
Behind the scenes, sailors, housekeeping, and kitchen staff bustle industriously, giving unimpressed looks to the jokers on the ship’s deck that are acting out scenes from the Cetitanic. But in retrospect… perhaps those wisecrackers were being unusually prescient…?
When the S.S. Aria finally turns around to head back from the Islands, it heads directly into a storm. While it makes the boat experience rather a lot of turbulence (hope you’re not easily made seasick!) all otherwise seems normal…
Until, in the dead of the night, there’s a loud, ship-shaking impact to the hull.
Just in case that wasn’t enough to wake everyone up into a panic, or on the off chance anyone is telling themself they were just imagining it… it’s followed by several more impacts in short succession, and the screech of mangled metal. The sound of the engine goes abruptly silent.
The ship is… well, it’s time for a title drop!
If anyone decided to stay in their room and try to sleep through it, or miraculously wasn’t woken in the first place, they’ll soon hear loud knocking as the crew goes door to door. They’re summoning passengers and staff alike up to the ballroom, the largest hall in the ship. It turns out the ship is not just stalled in the water, it’s actually starting to sink! But don’t panic, plans for an evacuation are in progress. Don’t mind the storm outside, something will get worked out… but any chance you happen to have a strong Water Pokemon with you? Why? Oh, no particular reason, just wondering…
Except, as if that weren’t bad enough, the sounds of the wind and rain are shortly joined by eerie wailing. Something is swarming outside…
Where: Temporarily Vermilion and Olivine, then the Sevii Islands and the open ocean
When: October 4-15
Summary: It's a lovely little cruise... until it's not.
Rating: Mark your threads if necessary! But at a minimum: gambling, sinking ship peril, and hostile wild Pokemon
OOC Info: here!
All Sea-ms Well…
The cruise starts out unremarkably - at least, as luxury cruises go! The weather on the ocean is lovely, making for calm and smooth sailing. The chefs are on point, the on-board spa is stocked up, the gambling tables rattle merrily with tokens, and there’s something for everyone with the nightly shows (though, admittedly, it particularly helps to be interested in Pokemon battles). The stops at each of the Sevii Islands are only a handful of hours each, unfortunately, before the ship has to sail onward… but you can’t have everything!
Rooms are small but cozy, with fold-down beds and tucked-away luggage racks. Rooms even each have their own showers, although those are rather cramped. Small Pokemon are allowed in rooms and practically anywhere on board; large Pokemon are only allowed up on deck and must be supervised, but the deck is open at all hours.
Trainers who signed up for a ride in exchange for battling will find their on-stage battling shifts spread out over several nights, giving them ample time to enjoy a normal relaxed dinner on other days. Administration expects them to accept any audience challenges, but otherwise simply battle amongst each other - fortunately, as long as the fights are entertaining, there’s absolutely no penalty to losing!
In deference to the spooky season, the ship is decked out in Pumpkaboo, Trevenant, and other haunted-looking decorations, and one of the dinners is designated as a costume night. In addition, pumpkins (that are not Pumpkaboos), carving kits, and little electric lights are available upon request. Many passengers seem to have carved and lit their pumpkins and left them right outside their doors in the hallways!
Behind the scenes, sailors, housekeeping, and kitchen staff bustle industriously, giving unimpressed looks to the jokers on the ship’s deck that are acting out scenes from the Cetitanic. But in retrospect… perhaps those wisecrackers were being unusually prescient…?
That’s Not An Avalugg
When the S.S. Aria finally turns around to head back from the Islands, it heads directly into a storm. While it makes the boat experience rather a lot of turbulence (hope you’re not easily made seasick!) all otherwise seems normal…
Until, in the dead of the night, there’s a loud, ship-shaking impact to the hull.
Just in case that wasn’t enough to wake everyone up into a panic, or on the off chance anyone is telling themself they were just imagining it… it’s followed by several more impacts in short succession, and the screech of mangled metal. The sound of the engine goes abruptly silent.
The ship is… well, it’s time for a title drop!
If anyone decided to stay in their room and try to sleep through it, or miraculously wasn’t woken in the first place, they’ll soon hear loud knocking as the crew goes door to door. They’re summoning passengers and staff alike up to the ballroom, the largest hall in the ship. It turns out the ship is not just stalled in the water, it’s actually starting to sink! But don’t panic, plans for an evacuation are in progress. Don’t mind the storm outside, something will get worked out… but any chance you happen to have a strong Water Pokemon with you? Why? Oh, no particular reason, just wondering…
Except, as if that weren’t bad enough, the sounds of the wind and rain are shortly joined by eerie wailing. Something is swarming outside…
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"Mmm... Thankfully, I have one of my own. I know some of their behaviours so we can try avoid them when possible."
"Let's make it quick then. Just careful of your Arcanine. There's a lot of water here." Despite his fancy pants, Jotaro has no issue with trudging through the water. He quickly hurries through the corridor, following the assorted fire exit plans to get to the engine room.
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“Arcanine,” Godric nods, “Arca-Nine, Nine.”
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Jotaro doesn't say much more after that since he's so focused on getting through the twisting hallways in the flickering lights and gloom of the ship. It takes them a couple of minutes but eventually they end up right at the engine room. It's a mess, a flurry of activity, but people are panicking and their efforts to keep the boat afloat are fruitless.
"Shit. That's a big tear in the ship. There's no saving this," Jotaro says, mouth wide at the mess the Dhelmise have caused. "We need to evacuate. Now!"
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“Okay, Olympe. I need you to get Godric out of the water as much as possible, he’ll greatly appreciate it,” he informs her to which she does by letting Godric to hop onto her shell before they follow Jotaro into the engine room to inspect the damage.
When he hears the older man’s remarks about the tear on the ship, he gets understandably alarmed by its appearance as his eyes widen in pure shock and horror, “Whoa! It’s very big and it looks pretty nasty too. We have to get everyone out of the ship now.”
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Some of the engineers look hesitant to leave their posts, believing they could fix it, but others don't need to be told twice. They start to push past Jotaro and Harry, heading to the exit. Jotaro can see the water rising and knows it'll be a tight fit, so he returns his Daschbun and throws two Pokeballs out. "Tidal. Star Platinum, let's get as many people as we can out of here."
Jotaro sends his own Lapras out, followed by his starter. His Palafin, now in Hero Mode, gives a cry and starts swimming to individuals to put on Tidal's back.
"Tidal, once you're full up on people, get out of here and onto the seas. We'll catch up," Jotaro says. Jotaro's Lapras gives a small frown but nods. "Harry, you got room on Olympe? It'll be faster to get everyone out this way."
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Olympe proceeds to swim as swiftly as she could, taking in anyone who is trying to get out of the sinking ship. Now he wishes that he has Ginny the Palafin with him to help people out but right now she is not available so he has to get someone else. Harry decides to quickly get Godric and Dobby back to their Pokéballas not to make the space on her shell less cramped before summoning Roger for additional help.
“Roger, try picking up as many people and Pokémon as you can and bring them onto the boats,” Harry tells the surfing Pikachu.
“Pika, Pika!” he salutes to his Trainer in return as he hops onto a random large plank of wood as a makeshift surfboard and proceeds to find some people and Pokémon struggling to swim and bringing them onto some of the empty boats.
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So much to do. So little time...
"...We should split up. Make sure everyone else is off the boat and not being attacked by ghost Pokemon. I'll head to the other side of the ship and make sure everyone else is out. Do you think you can watch the people here?"
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Roger the surfing Pikachu would scout in the water for any nearby boats or ships that could carry folks away from the Aria and back to dry shores and watch for any incoming danger in the open waters. Olympe on the other hand does her best to calm the more anxious and terrified of the crowd, quietly singing to keep the nerves down, as Harry checks on the people and see if anyone else needs any further help.