sail_ooc | TEST DRIVE MEME #7

1. before she hung up, she said she was a skeleton

[there is no note in your cabin. no forces stall your legs if you decide to walk anywhere but the atrium. in fact, for the first time in hundreds of years, newly arrived passengers on the Serena Eterna are waking up with absolutely no guidance. nothing but your fellow passengers in the halls - or maybe in your bed.

perhaps you end up in the atrium eventually anyway. it is where guest services is, and where Gal Friday… actually hasn’t been in a few days. until today. and she is visibly frazzled, her hair uncoiffed, her suit rumpled, something a bit like a bruise blossoming down from her hairline and over her smooth features. more papers than ever cover her desk, and when she turns to face you, her voice is as cheerful as ever, but audibly strained.]

Welcome aboard the Serene Eterna! [a pause] You know how to work a life vest, right? Everyone knows that! You don’t need me to teach you that!

[a light bulb burns out behind her head.]

… I’ll get right on that!

[freedom includes the freedom to not know what the fuck is happening. maybe you should reflect on that.]

2. grandma went and can't stop screaming

[it’s something about the lighting fixtures, this month. has the Bellona always had a massive chandelier? maybe. who knows. don’t ask questions. either way, in the stillness of the night, or day, or late afternoon, there is a noise like a cord being cut, and the chandelier plunges into the audience below.

it hits nothing, of course. no one is ever in the theater. and that, perhaps, is what the trouble is.

so, the chandelier starts to… travel, one could say. it starts to hang in various rooms: the dining halls, the bars, the clubs… sometimes, if you’re out on the pool deck and suddenly realized you’re under a shadow, you can glance up and see it suspended 20 feet above your head, securely fastened to nothing in particular and yet remaining perfectly in place.

until it isn’t. until it falls, crystal shattering on whatever surface it lands on: floor, table, person… and, wherever the chandelier goes, a lilting childish voice follows it, singing without any obvious source.]

Ring-a-ring of roses, a pocket full of posies… ashes, ashes, we all…

3. jeff bezos murdered the infinite tommy bahama

[the lights of the Infinite Tommy Bahama go out three days into October.

barely an hour after its closure, the lights go on again, and a new banner is unfurled.

physically, it is the same store. you can even see the old signs hidden behind the new ones. however, long gone are the tropical prints and khaki dress shorts. now, one can purchase any number of officially licensed or legally distinct Halloween costumes, decorations, and various other haunted accoutrements, leading back as far as the eye can see, and then farther still. is that a Gal Friday mask? spooky! well, at least you’ll be good and ready for the Halloween party at the end of the month, which is absolutely just a normal party and in no way whatsoever anything even remotely resembling a trick. there are only treats at The Infinite Spirit Halloween!

note: bahamanuel is still here! somewhere! it kinda looks like dan bongino.]

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1. Wandering Completely Unlike a Lost Puppy to...
[There'd been a moment where he woke and wondered how much of the past few nights had been a dream. If he was going to wake imprisoned in Asgard after his defeat on Midgard. But he woke to a torn and dirty white shirt, the sleeves rolled up his arms and a feeling in his chest that all of it had been very, very real. He looked around the room while pretending not to, despite the fact that there was no one but himself to fool. But whatever he was looking for; be it the door or her... it wasn't there.

[A part of him wanted to scream. Then, he remembered He Who Remains and the promise of a Multiversal war. He Who By Now No Longer Remained. He wondered what would happen to that castle at the end of the everything now, and he wondered if Sylvie was okay. But he couldn't breathe while thinking of her, and there was a voice in his head telling him that he should warn the TVA. That they should know. It moved him to his feet. It moved him through the halls of the ship.]

3. A Store of Lies
[Loki finally stops walking outside of the costume shop. He's been wandering the ship, more out of aimlessness than curiosity since he woke with the sort of urgency that comes with not remembering having fallen asleep. In all honestly his heart was still racing, as well as his mind, and he knew which one had the lead.

[He presses his lips together as if trying to hold onto something, and then he closes his eyes. He smiles. He strides with more purpose into the shop and the rows of lies. This wasn't the TVA and he had no way to contact them. No idea where he was, other than some ship. When, where? Did it matter? The world didn't seem to have ended yet.]

You would think they'd have a better sign, with a place this big.

[Loki says to no one. Or maybe he says it to the 'Lightning Viking' costume his eye catches, all red-wig and oversized incredibly plastic hammer. He scoffs, and crosses his arms]

I mean, really? I guess size isn't everything.

[The small ~~claymation~~ Scottish Blackface sheep wandering by pauses to look between Loki and the costume in question. Nah, a sheep in a wig is just ridiculous. The cape, though...Shaun does admit to liking a good cape.]

Baa?

TEST DRIVE MEME #7

Loki | Marvel's Loki (Post all but the last few seconds of the show)

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