katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Cosmic horror boating simulator where you play a grizzled old ferry captain going back and forth between the mainland and an isolated island hamlet.

You have until the end of the route to convince the intrepid writer/detective/doctor/etc not to set foot on that cursed soil

Blue: "Hey what up I finished that thing to turn everyone into robots. You wanna See me try it out?"

Green: "Whoa whoa whoa! Try it out how? What is this thing, anyway? How does it work?"

Blue: *Sighs dramatically* "It's quite simple. It's a machine that scans a body and replaces it with a carefully engineered artificial duplicate, without rendering the body nonfunctional at any time. It even preserves continuity of consciousness and proper syncing and conversion of a persons aetheric identity, I.E. their soul."

Red, staring at blue through narrowed eyes: "I don't trust it."

Blue, rolling their eyes: "Of course you don't. C'mon white, black, back me up here."

Black, sounding especially sinister: "I think it sounds very interesting. So much potential. I'd be happy to help you test it out..."

White: "DON'T let black get their hands on it. *I* will help you test it, with proper ethics review to ensure it functions for the betterment of society.

Red: "Better for your control, you mean."

White: "My control *IS* the betterment of society, yes."

Green: "I'm still not convinced this is a great idea at all. Even if it works as described, have you considered how this will affect others? What will happen to those who can't get it's benefits? How will this disrupt existing systems?"

Blue: "Ugh. 'How will this disrupt existing systems?' You always say that. I could just put that on a poster on my wall and skip talking to you all together."

Green: "Well, maybe if you'd listen for once..."

Black: "Enough of that. Lemme have a copy and I'll go gather that data for you. Be real quick about it, and VERY thorough."

Green: "They're gonna use it to make horrid necromantic abominations. Don't let them have it."

Black, scoffing: "Well not to start with. First I find some poor people and pay them to be test subjects, maybe skip a few safety checks for the latter ones just to see what happens, and /then/ I make the horrid techno-zombies. Duh."

White, slightly exasperated: "Right, of course. How silly of us. Blue, let me test it, would you? *I* promise not to skip any safety protocols. I'll follow your instructions to a T, I swear."

Blue: "Eh, alright. Lemme write this down..."

Black: "Aww c'mon, I was joking about skipping safety procedures! Blue, w-" *Gets choked out by vines*

Green: "Thats enough out of you."

i like how the wording of these notes is meant to politely address a person who is looking up emergency phone numbers on Wikipedia while physically located in Antarctica during an emergency