forum All Aboard! (PG-13, SFW only but explicit violence allowed)

Started March 06, 2023 by @Story_Siren group

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Eclipse winces but follows. She's still weary of Cole, but not as much. "What if someone unsavory is up here?"

"Good point." Cole takes a sharp left towards the kitchen. "Let's arm ourselves first."

Eclipse finally smiles. "I get first choice of the knives." She runs ahead, her hair flying.

Cole laughs; he certainly wasn't expecting that! "Dibs on the pans!"

"Deal!" Eclipse shouts back, throwing open the empty kitchen doors. She heads in the direction of the kitchen knives, grabbing a few and stuffing them in a nearby bag along with a knife sharpener.

Meanwhile, Cole steers towards the back of the kitchen and takes in the gleaming pots and pans of every size. "Holy mother of pearl." A grin overtakes his face. "Jackpot." And with that, he summons a bag with that new magic and stuffs several pans into it.

Eclipse's eyes snap back to Cole. "What just happened?" Her eyes fill with suspicion once again.

Cole looks up and then realizes how this may look. “I summoned a bag and used some spatial magic to enlarge it. No biggie.” He then continues to stuff pots into the seemingly bottomless bag.

Eclipse's eyes fill with sadness and she looks away, grabbing her own back and heading back to the door. "Alright."

Putting his bag on, Cole inwardly groans at himself. He probably just answered that in the most insensitive way possible. Cole walks behind Eclipse and tries to figure out how to apologize or worm himself into her good graces.

Eclipse walked to the top of the deck, gripping her bag. She hated those spacial bags.

And they're at the deck again. Cole looks around to see if someone was on deck by this point.

Eclipse looked around cautiously, hiding her feelings once again. "There's no one up here," she said. She took out one of her knives. "This is terrifying…"

"Yeah," Cole agrees. There's a sense of general unease lingering in the air, helped by the lack of other people. "We were trying to go up, right?"

"Yup," Eclipse says. She starts up the stairs, still tense.

Cole follows her while scanning the floors. "This is honestly a ghost ship. How is a cruise ship a ghost ship? When did this even happen?"

"There were hundreds of people here before," Eclipse says. "How? And why?" She reaches the top, gripping the railing.

"I don't know. Maybe something picked them up? But if there were hundreds of people…" Cole shivers as he imagines the other possibilities. He looks down into the waves and, oh hey! "I've got sea legs now!"

"Lucky," Eclipse mutters. "I'll never get those back." She looks around, still tense, and searched for any sign of danger.