JANUARY (MINI) PLAYER PLOT: I'LL SEND AN S.O.S. TO THE WORLD

[sailmods]

[After their return from the Village, many of the Serena Eterna's inhabitants have been taking time to nurse their psychological wounds. Arilanna Tayrey was no exception, until she was reminded that there was still work to do. Still hope of working towards the escape that she longs for.

The space probe. After months of preparation and testing, on the fifth of January, it's ready. The probe itself was found by Sparkles, and it carries a wealth of encoded information about the passengers (or 'prisoners' depending on whom you care to ask) aboard the ship. Ari and Cassandra collected the letters and videos contributed by the population, and through careful selection and editing, present a picture of a group in desperate need of rescue by anyone – or anything – that might find their message. Also affixed to the probe is a long-range emergency distress beacon, from Ari's home universe via Sundries.

The rocket which takes the probe to the heavens is a remarkable blend of science and magic. Ari and Crichton, Rita and Fever all used their expertise to put it together, but as Sparkles warned them, the success of the launch depends on their ability to distract the Captain and Friday.

This group know how to cause some appropriate chaos. To split Friday's attention, a grand distraction takes place. You may notice some of the following:

- signs around the ship declaring that there are no more rules, and daring you to do something forbidden – smoke wherever you like, 'steal' from a shop, start fires...
- mutiny banners, assorted fires across the ship (mostly courtesy of Natsuno), unknown sigils scrawled on walls
- also look out for a text message from a friend on the space probe team, either inviting you to join them in mutinous mayhem, or, if they don't want to show their hand or don't see you as the mutinous type, to participate in a mass rule-breaking experiment

And as Friday has all this to cope with, the Captain has an unexpected visitor on the bridge…]

Comments

[theotherright]

Clearly they are operating on different scales of harm.

Arthur doesn't outright argue (because he doesn't have a good argument), but also doesn't outright agree (because He Wants That Flour). Instead he says, quite honestly: "I hope nobody has tried anything in here."

[maximumcake]

"Nobody sentient. I fought a flying table that someone charmed. It almost went into the deep fryer, but I stopped it. Careful, there's some pieces of it in the far right corner." He taps his sword against the counter gently to make the steel ring. "I'm getting pretty good with this saber." Just in case Arthur feels like testing his patience today.

[theotherright]

:tailswtf:

"Max, are you saying someone charmed a table to attack you?"

He isn't surprised by the table part -- stupid shit like that is practically a Thursday around here -- or even by Max having a sword suddenly, but he sure is protectively indignant about the idea of Max getting attacked. That was NOT part of the plan.

"You're not hurt, are you?"

[maximumcake]

"If not me, then the kitchen which may as well be the same thing." He sounds grumpy about it.

Honestly, he didn't think he'd be in that much danger since everyone seems to agree he's off-limits. He saw that first-hand during the melee. And heard about what happened to Erik...

"No, I'm not. I'm fine. But it would be better if all of this wasn't happening at all. Do you have any idea what's going on?"

[theotherright]

"God damn it. I hope it didn't break anything." Yeah, knowing how Max feels about the kitchen... Arthur's under no illusions that you can start an effective riot and expect it to be contained and polite, but like, we still have to live here, guys.

"Well, there are signs saying the rules are off." Which isn't a lie. "I doubt it's true," also not a lie, "but there's a little part of me which says: you won't know for sure unless you try."

[maximumcake]

"It didn't. I stopped it before it could."

Max is not budging on this. Valdis has given him some good life lessons in standing up for himself.

"If all you want to do is test it, you can use a lighter on some paper in the hall. You don't need flour for that, do you?"