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

Oops, awkward phrasing. Some trolls with super numbers or firepower drop by. Bel would be like 'oh hi what's up' probably and then notice a distinct void where erskin had been sitting.

 

He left the car open to air out!

 

Yeah, he could be mad erskin 'abandoned' him but he'd have guns drawn and aimed the whole time.

 

yeah! i like that idea. i was thinking an awkward standoff would be a nice interlude from them sucking face and going 'i love you more' 'no i love YOU more'. maybe the bunch of trolls shows up with hoses to get them off each other!

oh also erskin's going to be deeply rattled and upset that trolls 'found' them after he took pains to find somewhere isolate. he's been traveling for a few nights now to find bel and has been slipping back into his regular antisocial habits— or, like, just finally unclenching after like a perigee of close contact with other trolls. poor kid wants weeks of alone time at a stretch, but that's boring for roleplay fun times, so he's not likely to get it! oh well.

maybe bel can goad erskin out of a jittery paranoid fit? and shift their romance back to more regular blackrom.

 

Yeah, definitely, they're getting along really well, let's try and keep that streak going. Bel being like 'is your solution to feelings and problems ever NOT running away' would probably sting! but in the right direction.

 

Do you want to write bel waking up and toodling around, or something?

 

What I figure with Erskin's brainwrong is that Cloris sort of hooked up that sleep-inhibition to store dreams as longterm memory— or even much shortterm memory— to a lot of concepts, but mostly to the concept of forgetting. So he sort of ends up with cascading failures. He wonders if he's forgetting, then he forgets that he's forgetting, then he forgets that etc, with whatever associated thoughts he was having at the time also getting wiped out. The whole conceptual chunk is treated like a dream and summarily dismissed.

Spoiler: cut for squicky brain horror and cloris (gruesome death mention)

I'm just gonna go ahead and say that Cloris was deliberately setting this up— it was to be his creative little end, an erosion from within of memory and then identity, his brain chewing itself up. A counterpoint to the digestion of a pitcher plant: rather than bones, she'd end up with a perfectly preserved outer shell. It might even live on for a bit, while empty, though it'd inevitably rot down once she stopped playing with it and left it in the garden somewhere. Jethro was definitely seeing that process the morning he walked in and Erskin couldn't recognize him with a hat on. Brrrrrr.

Since I don't want this to turn into a horrorshow and frankly I'm getting the creeps, Erskin's at least not getting worse, and I think has actually gone a pretty significant way in recovering his independence and being again the kind of person he wants to be. Sigmah can straighten out the mess and then Erskin will be able to remember he was forgetting shit, but idk if he'd remember what he forgot. We can go with w

 

Yeah, me either. We could write it when we're in the mood for some gruesome horror— I can't imagine being somewhere your partner is controlling/creating everything and then doing amateur brain surgery on him is a great idea. It might be worthwhile just to have them try and fail spectacularly— Sigmah could take Bel to task for it later. I honestly like that Bel doesn't like him. He gets along with so many people it's nice to see more characters than just Erskin jarr.

 

What if Erskin dropped Jethro and Paw and Reggie off back at the prowler? And when they get back to pick him up he's having some (much needed) matesprit time with Sigmah, and Erskin and Bel get to do the 'ew ew ew' dance.

 

whoops! i mean, that is where Jethro has been all this time, he WAS dropped off to recover the prowler and drive it along while Erskin tore after Bel. The plan was to meet back up, but it's been a few days, and Sigmah could have dropped by Jethro's location in his ship for some canoodling.