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[6] Ship of Dreams? Try Ship of Nightmares.

Apr 01, 2012 22:06

[Cissie is up on deck; the sun is setting behind her, and she is in one extremely uncomfortable, fancy, heavy dress. Yay first class, but all these skirts aren't going to be helpful when the ship goes down.]Okay. Look. We all know what's going to happen. Or--most of us do, and by now those of us who don't should have been told. Freaking out ( Read more... )

cissie king-jones

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Private balancedlight April 2 2012, 02:42:52 UTC

Cissie, this is not a good idea.

Private notarrowette April 2 2012, 02:49:38 UTC

Why not? I'm not ready to just... let us all die tonight. Not if we can do something.

Private balancedlight April 2 2012, 02:51:52 UTC

I don't want anyone to die, but we don't know what's going to happen. It's all fine to prepare, but what happens if we take the places of those people who might otherwise have made it?

Private notarrowette April 2 2012, 03:19:25 UTC

...What if we could.. make a raft, or something? Find a way to get us all through this without taking up spaces in the lifeboats? Besides, there's no guarantee we would be taking anyone's place. You know those lifeboats won't get even half filled.

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[SURPRISE SPAM] mrsarcastic003 April 2 2012, 03:38:50 UTC

[It's sunset, and that means it's close to dinner time. A young man full formal dinner dress (TAILS) approaches Cissie as she leans against the railing, and taps her shoulder.]

May I escort you to dinner, miss?

[SURPRISE SPAM] notarrowette April 2 2012, 03:48:25 UTC

[TAILS. Cissie almost doesn't recognize him, but the instant she does, she lets out a sigh of relief and throws her arms around his neck. Screw decorum. She doesn't care what anyone watching might think. She'd rather not think about how it won't matter when the ship goes down anyway.]

Tim! Thank god. What are we going to do?

[SURPRISE SPAM] mrsarcastic003 April 2 2012, 04:13:56 UTC

[He blinks a little in surprise--hugging?--but hugs her back. Tightly.]

Hey, Ciss. I am going to drink to keep my blood from freezing when we hit the water, and as John put it "to be pissed enough that I just won't care."

[SURPRISE SPAM] notarrowette April 2 2012, 05:34:38 UTC

[That hug lasts about as long as it takes him to say that. She was so happy to see him, not only because it meant he was okay, but because she thought for sure he'd have a plan, or at least that he would see what she did, that there had to be a way to survive this. But now she pulls back and stares at him, then punches his shoulder roughly.]

What are you talking about? "When we hit the water?" Seriously?

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drdaytimetelly April 2 2012, 03:58:28 UTC

You're right, freaking out and panicking isn't going to help any of us survive.

I'm just not sure if we've actually got a fighting chance.

notarrowette April 2 2012, 04:03:33 UTC

Even if we don't... At least if we're trying, we're not just... sitting around and waiting. [Because ohgod she'll lose her mind]

Where are you?

drdaytimetelly April 2 2012, 04:17:27 UTC

I plan on sitting around and getting drunk. There's a difference.

I was in steerage, but I ran into Kent and managed to sneak into the first class cabins.

notarrowette April 3 2012, 06:20:59 UTC

Not a very helpful difference.

...Just--try to get both of you to the deck, later. Okay?

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abdicatedgod April 2 2012, 14:56:51 UTC

You do realise, by all codes of seafaring I know, at least three or four of us are morally obliged to go down with the ship if this is actually true.

notarrowette April 5 2012, 05:01:11 UTC

There are a lot of people like that. It's not exactly how it pans out.

abdicatedgod April 5 2012, 10:29:28 UTC

But it's what I'll be doing. That's rather the point.

...sorry, maxim and sveta are now the tag team of fatalism. a_sighted_man April 2 2012, 14:59:27 UTC

The ship is destined to sink whether we panic or freak out or not.

It's less rational to freak out, but to think we can, or should, do anything is a little foolhardy. And may only spread panic to those who do not know what is going to happen.

...neither of you are Cissie's favorite people right now. notarrowette April 5 2012, 05:02:43 UTC

So what are you going to do? Just sit back and drown?

they've got the Night Watch (TM) fatalistic depressing approach to shit. a_sighted_man April 5 2012, 10:32:40 UTC

If that's how it pans out, then yes - I will act like any other passenger on this ship would. Which means, yes, I will try to save myself, but I will not use prior knowledge or predictions to do so. Trying to interfere could only end in worse, or different, casualties. It is not our place to stick our oars in the water, so to speak.