MR77: Aftermath: Ghost Ship

[Archer he/him]

MR77: Aftermath: Ghost Ship

Axies the Collector burst from the jungle brush. “Give it to me,” he panted.

“Not on your life!” Captain Pladel growled back. “This beautiful beast’s staying with me.”
“I figured you'd crush things you find cute. Captain, I’m not here for the storming larkin.”

On the beach below, screams broke out from the invading Reshi. 

“Solved that problem for you,” Axis said. “Now where did you put it?”
He riffled through the merchants’ supply depot. “Ha!” His blue fingers pulled out a thick piece of chalk. 

Pladel looked at the beach below, where the men had been torn to shreds. Two-dimensional white creatures skittered along the sand. 
“What are those things?”

“Not what I thought they’d be!” Axis was drawing a chalk circle around himself. “Your worldhopper assured me the text called them ‘spren’.”

Macks sheepishly fiddled with his medallion. “I did say I might be wrong.”
“Let’s hope the rest of your translation was correct. They don’t like chalk lines or liquid, Captain.”

A wild chalkling crested the incline. The sailor known as 1 tried to stomp on it, but it slid onto his skin and enveloped him. 

“Axies! Can you make another portal?” shouted Macks. 

He was busy drawing straight lines around his circle, like the diagrams had shown. 

“Where’s the shardblade?” barked Pladel. 

Where the sword had been lay Star, dark smoke rising from their burned out eyes. More sailors fell as the chalking hoard grew in number. 

“Relu-na protect us,” whispered the king. 

“Relu-na will protect us,” said Talik. “Grab onto something that will float!” 

The greatshell’s trademaster ran off towards one of Relu-na’s ears. Pladel poured a jug of Lavis Beer on a chalking, which seemed to surprise the alien creature. 

Suddenly, the entire island lurched. The ground titled as the greatshell dove into the Reshi Sea. Sailors grabbed crates and trees as they sank, buffeted by crashing waves. In an instant, everyone on the island was dunked underwater. 

Essyn watched from the longboat she’d taken from the beach. It was hard to maneuver on her own, but it was better than trying to sail one of the larger vessels solo. 

The shardblade sat in front of her as she rowed, pulling out of Relu-na’s wake. She would have to get to another greatshell, and barter for passage home. That was inconvenient. 

The trip had been worth it though. She’d acquired a priceless artifact for Diamond, her Ghostblood master. For the first time in her life, she felt a feeling of accomplishment. Her family would be proud. 

Unbeknownst to Essyn, a spider-shaped chalking clung to the outer side of the longboat, waiting for her to find land. 

By virtue of being the last player standing, @coco.pudding has won the game for the Ghostbloods! Congratulations to their co-conspirators @The Unknown Character and @CoderDrag0n8

I'll edit this post with more information later. I'm busy this evening, so it might take a day to wrap everything up. Hopper was exed, Stardust got Rebuked. 

Docs

Dead doc

Elim doc

Thief doc

Edited 3 hours ago by Archer

[Mystic He/Him]

Nooo

Hopper didn’t win…

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

1 minute ago, Mystic said:

Nooo

Hopper didn’t win…

I tried

@Archer, thanks for the fun game!

@coco.pudding, that was pretty impressive!

[Wahrheitswächter He/Him]

Well, Its impressive how often Coco has been elim by now. Its her third time.

Honestly I am quite sad that you lot killed me C1 again, thats the third time that something like that has happened and I found the ruleset actually interesting, but once I am dead, I am quite bad at investibg time to spectate a Game so I cant really comment on if that was suprising or not.

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

@Illwei what did I do? Good or bad? I'm flattered either way...

You guys in the docs always impress me. You do better guessing about other people than I do in the game (@Mystic)

[coco.pudding she/they]

Holy that was a crazy game

I was stressing so much. ‘Twas very fun though.

@The Unknown Character @CoderDrag0n8 Thanks for being great fellow elims. Sorry for getting y’all killed I still feel really bad about that. Hopefully I’ve redeemed myself by winning.

@Mystic sorry you couldn’t trust me again this game. Hopefully next time. 

32 minutes ago, Through the Living Hopper said:

that was pretty impressive!

Thanks! I was actually so worried you were going to convince Star to vote for me. Then it would have come down do a tie which would have been pretty crazy.

@Archer are you glad I got the chalk? 
Also thanks for gming this was a fun game!

[Illwei]

14 minutes ago, Through the Living Hopper said:

@Illwei what did I do? Good or bad? I'm flattered either way...

You guys in the docs always impress me. You do better guessing about other people than I do in the game (@Mystic)

It was the asking if there were 2 elims left lollllllll

[Mystic He/Him]

39 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

@Mystic sorry you couldn’t trust me again this game. Hopefully next time

I could’ve trusted you. I was neutral, under no obligation to help the merchants. 

Hopefully next time. However, you’ve been Elim like 3 times in a row now, like… that’s a lot 

40 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

Thanks! I was actually so worried you were going to convince Star to vote for me. Then it would have come down do a tie which would have been pretty crazy

Star had vote manip(that she didn’t use) so it could’ve been worse 

[coco.pudding she/they]

2 minutes ago, Mystic said:

However, you’ve been Elim like 3 times in a row now, like… that’s a lot 

Only twice

2 minutes ago, Mystic said:

Star had vote manip(that she didn’t use) so it could’ve been worse 

So did I but I did a silly and went for the not as good version

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

Evinir Cragborn leaned over the side of the small boat and carefully lifted the sodden journal out of the water.

Piles of wreckage and - occasionally - bodies ebbed in the waves, slowly drifting apart. Relu-na was gone. That was… annoying. It seemed the Ghostbloods had beat him to it.

It also meant he was alone in the middle of the ocean with a week’s travel to the nearest land.

Evinir carefully opened the book. The ink was slightly stained, but surprisingly readable. A small letter was scratched into the leather of the inside cover. Y.

Evinir cast the book aside. It would need to dry. But then… well, he did have quite the trip ahead. Perhaps the adventures of this “Y” could keep him entertained in the solitude.

Congratulations elims!

And thank you @Archer for running this game. Shoutout as well to @Illwei for keeping us all entertained in the dead doc. 11,000 words… It was nice playing with you, and I hope to interact more with you in the future when I have more time to truly get into the game.

I must say, I am astonished by how on the spot my instincts this game were. First Coder, then Coco… I swear, this never happens

I’m entering a period where I’ll have a lot more time for the next few weeks (well, really there’s things I should be doing, but nothing will force me away and that’s good enough) so I’ll definitely be sticking around for the next couple of games

I would like to close my time here with a reminder that the last time I was elim was like six months ago, so, uhh, if anyone reading this ends up GMing soon, you know what to do *wink wink*

20 minutes ago, Mystic said:

Hopefully next time. However, you’ve been Elim like 3 times in a row now, like… that’s a lot 

If that’s true that is actually insane

(needless to say, I am jealous)

Edited 1 hour ago by Hoid Slayer

[Mystic He/Him]

3 minutes ago, Hoid Slayer said:

I would like to close my time here with a reminder that the last time I was elim was like six months ago, so, uhh, if anyone reading this ends up GMing soon, you know what to do *wink wink*

22 minutes ago, Mystic said:

Hopefully next time. However, you’ve been Elim like 3 times in a row now, like… that’s a lot 

If that’s true that is actually insane

(needless to say, I am jealous)

I know, same here. 

Whoever’s GMing next should put Hoid and I on a team 

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

13 minutes ago, Mystic said:

I know, same here. 

Whoever’s GMing next should put Hoid and I on a team 

Yes please we would cook so hard

[Mystic He/Him]

4 minutes ago, Hoid Slayer said:

Yes please we would cook so hard

I’m deciding whether we should ping Jo or not

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

Just now, Mystic said:

I’m deciding whether we should ping Jo or not

Nahh it ain't ever gonna happen if we tell him to do it

Then they'll know

"I’m sorry, but X and Y must make it to the end"

Yeah uhh sorry that didn't work out pal

"Just so we’re clear, the NK is currently on elim!Coder. "

I can just imagine Archer with his glasses halfway down his nose looking down skeptically

[Illwei]

Thanks Archer for running this!!

It was a fun game to return to SE to! Thanks yall dead people for tolerating my never ending musings and ramblings in the dead doc!

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

@coco.pudding I have to say I loved your elim doc RP

[coco.pudding she/they]

5 minutes ago, Hoid Slayer said:

@coco.pudding I have to say I loved your elim doc RP

Oh good

I was literally writing that on my five minute water/shade breaks so I was worried it was terrible lol