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

as a post suggestion, maybe bel could suggest/reassure about galley getting the inspection job?

 

i don't think i phrased that clearly, anyway. don't feel bad!

it's your turn to make a post. in case you are delaying because you stuck on what to write i was suggesting that bel could back erskin up, in assuring whitey that galley would be fine to trust with secret cargos, and would even be happy to help.

also like, if it goes under the heading of, 'galley's illicit anti-establishment sneaky time operation', he's going to actively work to protect whitey's interests. if it goes under the heading of 'no galley you can't interfere because you are a fragile brainslave' then galley is going to do his level best to sabotage each and every member of whitey's operation that forces their way aboard.

 

btw i am happy you want to keep playing around even when you are sick. this is my favorite game. but don't feel bad telling me to fuck off for awhile!

 

"Forgive me, Captain, but I must assume that if someone threatened your matesprit, for instance, you would give up my secrets with very little hesitation."

If someone threatened Erskin's matesprit he'd just go get popcorn, and pop it over the threatener's smouldering corpse. It's more likely that Lainey would fold if someone had Erskin. And of course they would both do whatever someone wanted if the dude had a knife to Arguus's neck, but no one needs to know that. At all. Ever.

 

this is true! but lainey has managed to hang on for a number of sweeps now, they'll probably muddle along.

 

I just spent like five hours straight embroidering some pears, start to finish. I feel extremely stoked about that. Also, really hungry. For pears.

 

Also possibly my favorite part of Bel and Erskin's big stupid romance is when Erskin makes his best guess as to what Bel wants to wrestle about, then leaves him hanging, just to be a shit.

 

oof, i'm gonna have to snooze in a few turns, like at four. sorry!

 

Speaking of things skittering in the vents, what do you think of the ex-infected patients having trouble 'putting away' their delusions? Like they're lucid and calm, and know intellectually that those were silly delusions, but they've been believing in them for a week or so. So they keep finding themselves casually assuming they're still 'true' before they catch themselves.

Like if Bel heard someone banging around in the next room, his first thought would be an irritated, matter-of-fact 'we've got to do something about those fucking owls'. And Murfey gets sort of defensively embarrassed about working in front of round lightbulbs, as if they were the eyeballs of someone about to say some really shitty, critical comment. And several of the other infected won't cross anyone's shadow— it just reads as a pool of oil to them, or a hole, if they're focused on something else. They hop it if they can't walk around it, or skip back if the person casting it moves unexpectedly. In the upcoming weeks Pancho might be treating a lot of eyestrain headaches, too, from everyone working too close to too-bright lights. They weren't even conciously thinking 'oh no the space snakes are coming to eat me', they're just lik 'this is the appropriate and safe lighting level'.

(If bel sees a butterfly or moth in any garden areas and swats it as automatically as he would a wasp that would be cute too.)

 

one of these days this pair of nerds will just go have a quickie instead of a whole sex olympics routine. one of these days.

 

so ok, what's like... next? i think it goes something like, pancho bullies erskin into an examination, calls for sigmah? they get to the next station at some point? murfey gets hugs and pats and to get out of sickbay? i'm definitely starting to lose track of all the plot threads we need to pull togther, haha.