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sailmods ([personal profile] sailmods) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-08-12 01:46 am

AUGUST EVENT: DRAGSTRIP RIOT

[it begins with a PA announcement on the morning of the 12th, Friday’s voice coming through clear and cheerful.]

Any passengers that wish to debark to our latest port of call can exit the ship through the metal detectors on deck zero! Please be advised that all alcohol will be confiscated prior to your exit!

[and whoever heads down to the lowest deck will find that what she said was true: there is a metal detector set up there, with Friday manning it. after placing all metal objects (including weapons, and all your weapons) onto the tray, she gestures for the passenger to step through the metal detector.

they exit in an entirely different location. suffering from a splitting headache, and wearing an entirely different outfit than they had put on this morning, but unscathed. they even got their weapons back!

the interior of the diner is essentially your average jonathan rockets establishment. the narrow lane between booths and counter is manned by an entirely mute Friday clone, who cheerily takes orders and serves up food (cooked??? somewhere???) with an almost unnatural talent for roller blading. there is a jukebox in the corner that can be fed with quarters passengers will inexplicably find on their person. the available songs range from the 50s to the 80s, with a particularly wide selection of songs from the platters.

outside, the diner is a great chrome boxcar, circled by a small parking lot. a large neon sign proclaims it to be GIL’S; it buzzes and flickers on and off often. passengers who have regained vehicles will find these vehicles parked outside. there are also a handful of midcentury American cars; none of them seem to require keys, and the gas tank seems set at full.

past the parking lot is a seemingly endless expanse of desert sand and scrubland, bisecting by the empty highway that the diner abuts. a few miles down this highway, the road forks into a smaller one, which winds its way up a steep, ragged mountain until plateauing into another parking lot, with only a small, old wooden fence between the cars and the edge of the cliff.

should they wish to return to the ship, passengers can leave at any time the same way they entered: walking through a doorway that now claims to be a mop closet. passing through will leave them on deck zero, again with a splitting headache. it’s probably fine.]
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[personal profile] makesomedeals 2022-08-24 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sixty pints..

[Oh that is so stereotypically Irish of him. ]

Well let's reason this out shall we? I think if you drink sixty pints you'll likely die of alcohol poisoning which yes, would cure the curse but is probably not the ideal solution to your problem.

[He folds his arms and drums his fingers against his suit. The picture of being lost in thought and contemplating Venti's tragic fate. What should he suggest that Venti do that seems believable for curing turning into a car. Hmm. ]

How fast can you run? Perhaps if you beat the car in a race it will be so ashamed that it will undo the curse. You'd only be even faster if you turned into one, so it wouldn't want that at all.
wimdy: (it's not important to the world)

[personal profile] wimdy 2022-08-26 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
I, actually... I should be able to do sixty pints if not more. I'm not exactly fully human. [ or well, he's not exactly human at all, but whatever. ] Drinking to reckless excess is a regular exercise for me! [ as in, he probably passes out on the floor of a bar far more often than he'd actually crawl into bed in his cabin. ]

I'm not great at running but I can fly, as I've told you. If I have to race on foot, I'll surely lose! But if on wing, I should be able to win!

So should I really challenge that cursed car...?!

[ he seems oddly intimidated at the very idea of going back to face it, let alone declare a contest against it. as if it could double-curse him for having the gall to do so. ]
makesomedeals: (Make a deal)

[personal profile] makesomedeals 2022-08-27 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
I think flying should be acceptable. After all the car has the advantage, being the one that imposed the curse in the first place. It has nothing to lose, leverage that confidence against it.

[Max cannot believe he is talking about the Bentley like it did any of these things. He's going to have to apologize to the car later.]

Perhaps you should do both? Just in case.

[Or he just wants to see Venti fly drunkenly. Probably that.]

What do you mean you're not human? You're, [He gestures with both hands indicating the silhouette of a person.] shaped like one, fleshy, annoying and overly concerned with death.

[Humans 101 with Maximilien.]
wimdy: (freeze when I put her down)

[personal profile] wimdy 2022-09-02 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he's not exactly that secretive when it comes to godhood, but there's a difference between drunkenly slurring to his countrymen 'that's right, I'm your god!' and getting brushed off as a stupid drunkard when nobody believes him, and telling people from entirely different worlds that he was once a deity. that'd create expectations of him. so, let's pass. ] Ah, well, if I'm human enough for this curse to affect me perhaps that's what matters?

[ he wishes he knew curative spells or anything else to lift this. ]

So, in any case, your suggestion is to race it... mm, I'll try just that. [ well he won't, because not too much time later shit will truly go down, but he appreciates the help. ] Too much is on the line for me to fail. Thank you, Mr Maximilien!
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[personal profile] makesomedeals 2022-09-04 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Human enough? Is being 'human' a spectrum? Can you be sorta human? Well, this is an existential conundrum that he's not going to consider right now because he really wants to go confront Skulduggery about what the hell he told Venti.]

Do let me know how it goes. I think you have a solid chance of beating this curse. [Or a 100% chance of beating it since it doesn't exist.] Good luck.