Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

In the latest bit Aud and I did, Lu begged/told Galley not to tell anyone about her, so I think at the point he and Bel are talking to each other he isn't bound to secrecy, but later he definitely will be. I thought it was a good idea for scenes to not have to rely on all of us being up for playing at the same time, I don't know, and also for Lu to have at least a day or two of just getting her shit slightly together... Anyway Bel and Lu running into each other would be pretty cute, at some near-future point. Would we do that in the google doc?

 

yeah, leave it off for now and in a couple days, like, for us and them, we can have everything in place to run poor scruffy little renegade lu into the commander of the ship she's stowed away on. that'll be a fun heart attack!

 

also now i am imagining like eight-sweeps sack-of-bones lu standing there in front of thirteen-or-so bel who is comfortably past his first few blueblood growth spurts and brushed and polished and groomed and in some sort of handsome commander's uniform and this bel looking down like 'i don't know what that is but i am going to feed it a sandwich'.

it is making me go 'd'aww' inside my heart

 

so the thing is i'm on team Why Yes I'd Like To Be A Spaceship, so to me this line of thought— about what would constitute more freedom— seems almost kind of silly. galley has no compelling reason to move his meat body around his ship body. he can already see the parks and the rooms, and in a bunch of extra spectrums, too. bringing the thing that holds a large percentage of his brain out of its special fortified climate-controlled pocket would be a pointless danger— it could get sick, it could get hurt, people could try to grab it! yikes, no thank you. it's perfectly fine and safe and cozy where it is.

so like i think freedom for him would just be getting to make more of his own decisions. have more of a say in his own life. he might have wanted to crash the whole ship and be rid of everything, once, in a grand murder-suicide, but i think now his idea of 'you're free!' is 'go romp around the galaxy doing whatever the hell you want like a badass empowered spaceship that don't need no officer!' rather than 'so now you are a troll.' i think it's the 'absolute subjugation to the will of total assholes' that sucks about being a helmsman, not the helmsman bit? at least, that's what would suck to me.

bel slowly realizing that in this universe galley's the sunslammer and the sunslammer is galley is a pretty interesting process, though! that the cute troll-shaped body he likes so much is sort of the core of his being, but not the totality. and that prodding galley's troll-shaped bit act troll-like isn't the solution to everything that's wrong, even if it makes bel feel better.

 

i wonder if so many helmsmen do so badly when they're rescued is because it's like... they get to escape helljail by peeling off 80-95% of their body, probably traumatically. and the body was why they were being so horribly abused, it was technically their prison, but it was them. if i had to cut off basically everything to escape an abusive situation and skitter out of there like the thing it'd be a hell of an adjustment.

then again i guess it's all fanon that helmsmen are anything but batteries, and do anything but hang there in a little closet full of tentacles, screaming in anguish. but i'm definitely on Team Spaceship Please, so that's gonna influence most of my decisions.

 

That's an interesting question of scale, too, isn't it?

'do you want to sit on the grass'
'okay i will go take myself and sit on the grass in this particular part of myself'.

Makes me a little dizzy to think about! Also, at least Bel has Erskin to dash around with and roll in the grass with, even if Galley's marked down 'maybe or never' on his RSVP park party.

 

galley: WELLLLL I GUESSSS I COULD HAVE SEX WITH YOU. CAREFULLY. ONCE.
bel: :D
galley: OR ALL DAY, THAT'S COOL TOO.

 

Playing with Erskin and Jethro does sound fun! Wherever we leave Bel and Galley off we can assume they had a lot of sex, ordered in food, then had even more sex. Bel isn't exactly a teen anymore but he's still a healthy dude, and Galley's rig filters fatigue toxins >:D

 

Uhhh lol idk, just dreaming about messing with them while galley gets off? Sex dreams tend not to have much plot.

 

Erskin and galley dueling for his attention and he plays with the winner?

 

"It was so weird, like, I was swimming in a sea of your horns but they didn't poke or puncture me at all, and I couldn't stop mouthing them, they tasted JUST LIKE GRUBHONEY."

actually no that's something Lu would say, whether she actually dreamed it or not XD hm, hm...

maybe he climbs a giant galley statue and the horns are as big as he is and he can't help but lavish attention on them? X)