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Community Center Class: Tactics Pancake!!! | Monday

Nina was feeling a bit vexed today and she hadn't, as of yet, figured out exactly why. On the bright side, given that her class had been in the ghost ship last week, today was…

Well, it'd be a good day for her romance-ridden, trashy book little heart.

Perched upon her desk, Nina was wrapped in a blue, hooded cloak (which was the precise colour of her eyes, should anyone be paying attention) as she waited for what parts of her class would arrive today. The unpredictability of it all made planning exactly what she wanted them to do a bit of a challenge but on the other hand it also meant she was free to unleash the full force of her imagination upon all of them.

The poor fools.

"Compatriots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she greeted them, upon their arrival. "Kindly follow the chalk path and stand in the middle of the circle that inhabits the center of the room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And should any try to leave the path, they would find that an invisible wall would prevent them from doing so. Look, all these drawings took a lot of effort. Once they'd done that, Nina hopped off the desk and, careful where she was stepping, and unimpeded by any invisible walls, she ran her hands over the path they'd used to walk, erasing it.

From where she was left standing, by the door, Nina surveyed her class.

"Fools ye be," she said gravely, "for last week Pirate Queen Marmalady's trap has caught you fast; the brilliantly shining light from the sapphire enclosing Prince Streuselas' ring proving to be too much of a lure to resist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps one of you wished to reclaim it, to hold it in safe-keeping until you locate the prince????????????????? Or perhaps one of you wished to take it as your own to sell for a pretty amount of potch…………….."

Nina spread her hands. "Either way, it was a foolish choice as the ring proves to be naught but an illusion, the true thing a trigger for the sinkening," yes, she was going with that as a word, "of the ruination of the once proud Queen Jama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Trapped upon the Queen Jama as she sinks, you are borne to the bottom of the sea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is undoubtedly foul magics of the Pirate Queen Marmalady that keep you alive and breathing even as honey-contaminated waters flow in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Was she leaving it up to her class to decide what honey-contaminated meant? Yes, yes she was.

"The sapphire continues to glow and now, no matter your attempts, will not be left behind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should you enter a new room, there it shall be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Toss it away, it will only come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is yet another complication as you attempt to figure out how to escape without drowning…………….. and the water level within the ship keeps rising………………."

Nina snapped her fingers and her chalk drawings shimmered and then the whole room shifted into what she'd been describing, leaving her class standing about the Captain's quarters with the sapphire glowing vilely upon the heavy, wooden desk. Water leaked in from the ceiling and walls and from under the door.

"What lies beyond the ship????????????????????" she asked. "What has happened to the prince????????????? How will you find your way out of this predicament???????????????"

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up, up and away!]

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Underwater!

Sir Eggolas

Frentoasten

Lox Bagel

Dread Sausafesge

Graaaaaaaaaaand Muffman

She might not always make sense but she does always give it her all!

Yeah, Duke had a sinking feeling ~~sorry~~ all through that introduction. Look, he was an actual sailor, okay? Being trapped in a sinking ship had been a very real possibility for him for pretty much his entire adult life. He's watched his father drown at age eight.

He was already deeply uncomfortable today. He was just going to stand here with his arms crossed much too tight over his chest and hope that Nina's illusions would be ridiculous to the point of unreliability.

They probably would, right? This was Nina, after all. . . .

Should there be any, this place is for you: who are you???*

[*If anyone wants to join in, ping here first so that Nina can get an idea of who your character is! If you don't have a name in mind, Nina will absolutely most definitely saddle you with a terrible breakfast name and attempt to shoehorn your character into a backstory. You are totally free to ignore her terrible backstories for y'all.]

How will you survive this week?!

The once richly appointed room is now in rotten tatters and all of you are standing about Captain Marmalady's desk, the sapphire containing the prince's ring continues to glow.

And, yeah, you're sinking fast and are under the ocean. Water is spilling in.

"And now I am really regretting not trying to rope Sidon into coming to this class," Prompto noted.

A choice that seemed good at the time, because, good gods, Nina and Sidon together in this nonsense? They wouldn't survive! But now all he could think of was how much better they might survive if they all had a stupid sexy shark prince to save them all.

Mmmm, and even if he didn't survive, he would have died happy, just to have seen that muscly mass of red move effortlessly through these honeyed waters....

...wait, what???

"How real is this?" Sabine asked, because she had a water thing she was trying not to think about, and also, "Wearing armor might not have been a great idea."

"It's not," Duke said, with the sort of aggressive firmness that came from needing to remind himself of that fact. "If we had to deal with any sort of real physics, the water pressure'd be. . . . Anyway, you're probably fine in the armor. Or not any worse off than the rest of us." He ran his hand over his face, thinking, then snapped his fingers. "Look around for anything we can theoretically trap air in. That's just the kind of stupid plan that usually works in books like these."

"She said magic would keep us breathing, right?" Sabine said, looking around anyway.

She'd missed last week, so she felt at fault for none of this.

"She did?" Duke didn't have the best focus during Nina's introduction today, no. "I thought that was more 'it's probably magic so far kind of deal. Like why there's air in here when we're supposed to be at the bottom of the ocean."

Air that in the real world would not be getting any fresher. . . .

"And I can actually make us float if this gets a little too realistic," Anakin muttered under his breath. "And what does honey-contaminated mean? If we're secretly in a giant tea cup..."

"Was there a great honey spill in the warring between lands?" Sabine couldn't remember.

"I don't know, maybe?" Duke shrugged. "We should . . . maybe be focused on not being in the room slowly filling with water, though."

Not that he had high hopes for any other rooms. Or what would happen when they tried to open an outside door.

"Are any of our other options going to be better?" Anakin muttered.

“We could drown quick instead of slow,” Duke muttered back.

"Better or worse than the volcano?"

“This is an illusion,” Duke said, almost more to himself. “So — I’m going with better. If it weren’t. . . .” He shrugged. “I suppose there’s at least a small chance of being able to swim to the surface without drowning or dying of the bends?”

"I'm pretty sure that Nina's not going to kill us this early," Anakin said.

“Wait. How likely do you think she’s going to kill us at all?”

Her killing their characters off honestly hadn’t occurred to Duke. Well, maybe one of them, late in the game, for dramatic effect.....

Anakin thought about it. "Probably 30 percent?"

Duke nodded. "Having us all drown en masse wouldn't be terribly romantic either way." After all, who would despair over the dying if they all went at the same time? "So there clearly has to be some way out. Maybe this is just . . . a really shallow ocean?"

"Maybe," Anakin agreed, still unreasonably attached to his giant teacup idea. "Or there's a smaller boat or equipment in the other rooms?"

"It's worth checking. Assuming we don't get swamped the moment we open the door."

His brain was really pretty sure they would get swamped if they opened that door. No matter how much he tried to point out that this wasn't a real sinking ship.

"Well, let's think like Nina and not like logic," Anakin said. "I'm sure drowning isn't on the agenda today."

"Me too," Duke lied. "After you, then, Dean."

"They call me Grand Muffmon around here," Anakin said dryly. "Apparently."

Well. That at least distracted Duke from his low-level panic. He let out a small, choked laugh, mindful of the teenagers all around, and cleared his throat.

"Then after you, Grand Muff-Man."

It turns out that the Captain's quarters were the most insulated against water leakage as, upon opening the door, it is discovered that already water is rising to about mid-calf and climbing higher. The rats and spiders have disappeared.

There may be a few things to salvage* but, truly, the priority must be getting out!

[*Feel free to salvage anything you want! I am willing to work with whatever nonsense you guys come up with! :D ]

Despite the threat of drowning within the ship, as soon as you step above deck, it is the strangest thing: You can still breathe! For some reason. Well, okay, Nina knows the reason but she's not telling!

Your scow is unscathed, but tangled in a multitude of ropes and tethered to the mast.

Duke couldn't help but shut his eyes and hold his breath as they moved above decks, hard-won instincts beating out any and all rationalizing that this was an illusion made by a very silly teenage girl.

He opened his eyes after a few moments, but likely wasn't going to try to breathe out here until he absolutely had to. Which could be awhile. He was a free-diver, he could hold his breath a long time.

Safe upon your trusty scow, which somehow survived, you're still at the bottom of the ocean. Which way do you go? The ocean depths stretch out around you, schools of brightly coloured fish flashing by in all shapes and sizes. Coral reefs and an underwater mountain range sprawl beneath the remnants of the Queen Jama. Inky darkness lurks far, far below but here, the ocean is illuminated by softly sparkling bits of amber that hang, suspended, in the waters against all reason.

Watching safely from a distance are impossibly gorgeous and delectable looking mermaids and mermen. They won't come near you, scattering the moment the ship turns to approach them.

The sapphire, and the prince's ring, pulse with a brighter light whenever it faces to the East.

Will you obey it? Or will you not?

Will you attempt to breach the surface, which cannot be seen?

Who is maaaybe paying more attention to the absolutely exquisite mermaids and mermen today than what shenanigans her class is up to but, like, should anyone need her, then she is completely on board!!!

… Honest!

Why are weekends so short? WHY?

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