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come_sailaway2023-04-01 09:21 am
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Fooled You
Who: Number 6 (?) & YOU
What: The stupidest April fools prank... but I had to
When: April 1st
Where: Various places around the ship
warnings: Just some silly and harmless April Fools trolling. SOME cardboard might be harmed in the making of this post.
Starting first-thing in the morning, up in the gym where Number 6 can usually be found going through his exercise routine, something about him will seem slightly... off. Is he just resting between sets of punches at the bag? Why is he so still? Is this a new form of training in stealth?
No. Upon closer inspection, your character will find that the thing they mistook for Peter Smith is, in fact, an eerily lifelike and life-sized cardboard cutout. It's so uncanny how the eyes still seem to follow you no matter where you move.
Later in the day, that cutout will move all over the ship, seemingly following Number 6's routine. It will be up on the sports deck with a foil somehow secured to its cardboard hand. It will show up in the buffet around lunchtime with a fork wedged in its paper fingers now. Then, later, it will be inexplicably sitting down in a chair appearing to read a book in the library. And, naturally, it's going to show up at exactly 3:30 for tea at Sand Dollars.
No matter where you encounter it (feel free to assume other locations), it's always unnervingly lifelike for something that clearly isn't alive. Alas, no matter how hard you try to engage it in conversation, it won't answer back. (But, was that some giggling you heard somewhere behind you?) This also means, of course, that it won't be able to argue or fight back should the more mischievous among the passengers here decide to get any creative ideas about what to do with it. You could, for example, draw a mustache on it with a sharpie (or eyebrows. Give it eyebrows.) The sky is the limit because, thankfully, the minute you turn your back on it, it's repaired and set back to the way it started the same way all the cabins and halls here are.
What: The stupidest April fools prank... but I had to
When: April 1st
Where: Various places around the ship
warnings: Just some silly and harmless April Fools trolling. SOME cardboard might be harmed in the making of this post.
Starting first-thing in the morning, up in the gym where Number 6 can usually be found going through his exercise routine, something about him will seem slightly... off. Is he just resting between sets of punches at the bag? Why is he so still? Is this a new form of training in stealth?
No. Upon closer inspection, your character will find that the thing they mistook for Peter Smith is, in fact, an eerily lifelike and life-sized cardboard cutout. It's so uncanny how the eyes still seem to follow you no matter where you move.
Later in the day, that cutout will move all over the ship, seemingly following Number 6's routine. It will be up on the sports deck with a foil somehow secured to its cardboard hand. It will show up in the buffet around lunchtime with a fork wedged in its paper fingers now. Then, later, it will be inexplicably sitting down in a chair appearing to read a book in the library. And, naturally, it's going to show up at exactly 3:30 for tea at Sand Dollars.
No matter where you encounter it (feel free to assume other locations), it's always unnervingly lifelike for something that clearly isn't alive. Alas, no matter how hard you try to engage it in conversation, it won't answer back. (But, was that some giggling you heard somewhere behind you?) This also means, of course, that it won't be able to argue or fight back should the more mischievous among the passengers here decide to get any creative ideas about what to do with it. You could, for example, draw a mustache on it with a sharpie (or eyebrows. Give it eyebrows.) The sky is the limit because, thankfully, the minute you turn your back on it, it's repaired and set back to the way it started the same way all the cabins and halls here are.
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Watson, coming into the library, pauses to say hello, and then blinks in some confusion. He shakes his head. "Smith?"
And he goes over to see if 6 is all right. When faced with an obvious cardboard cutout, though, he gently touches it with the handle of his cane, just in case it's some sort of trick.
"What the devil?"
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He gestures to the cutout, part indignant, part laughing. "Gave me half a turn, I don't mind saying."
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He shakes his head, and chuckles. "Though I suppose I can hardly say that I haven't received stranger. Gave me quite the start, though. I suppose I'm the April Fool today."
too bad it won't be realistic for long, no wings~
"Really, now, I'd like to know what gift you received that was stranger than this." Come on, spill.