The Beach [DT]

Carina · 2020-09-28T21:25:56Z

https://i.imgur.com/BSe5Ec8.png {{ A LSS ROLEPLAY }} — (( ROLEPLAY THREAD )) — [[ PAD ]] It’s 2021, the winter holiday season and the SS Anastasia is set to depart on a ten day long cruise throughout the Caribbean from Miami, Florida... The ship belongs to a small cruise company called Argonaut Cruise Lines, based in Greece. It's no Royal Caribbean or Princess, but they're known for high quality service and have a small fleet around the world. The cruise ships are smaller to give what Argonaut calls "adventures" a homier, more personal feel. You're one of 700 people aboard the Anastasia. You booked the cruise because you thought it would be a respite from the struggles of your daily life, and because Argonaut has a glowing reputation. It might be a bit pricier than most cruises, but from the food, the entertainment, and the sights to see, you decided it was worth it. And you decided on the Caribbean because it's cold where you're from, and you wanted to be warm. It will be a chance to get away, and for the eight days, everything goes perfectly. The food is the best food you've ever tasted. You may not have your phone or access to the internet, but there are nightly plays and concerts, even movie screenings, so you don't even miss it. Your texts and emails can wait, and you take a respite in not knowing what's going on in the world for a week. And the excursions are beautiful. White sand beaches. Turquoise water. There's swimming, hiking, kayaking, sunbathing, and the charm of the local towns. It's a Saturday. A day at sea. Tomorrow you'll have an excursion day in the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan. And then it's back to Miami. Back to your daily life. It went way too fast. But the day at sea is one final chance to enjoy the pleasures of the boat. It's a normal afternoon. Maybe a little overcast and gray. You heard it might rain, but you aren't too worried about it as you treat yourself to a day in the spa. Your guests decided not to come with you, and you're looking forward to reconvening with them for a formal dinner in the ship's dining room. But something terrible happens when you're in the spa. It quickly begins storming, and it's clear that this is no ordinary storm. Thinking fast, you do your best to remain in place. After a few minutes of the force of the storm throwing you back and forth, The Captain quickly comes over the PA to declare an abandon ship. There's a problem. The storm has thrown debris in front of the entrance and, by all intents and purposes, locked you and the two spa workers in. There are life vests in the spa in case of such an emergency, and you throw them on. You try to get out, but it's no good. The spa is already beginning to pool with water. Once you're submerged, you're not sure how much time passes. It could have been a lifetime, but somehow, you haven't drowned. But you accept your death. The next thing you feel is the warmth of the sun on your skin. You're laying in the sand. You're still wet, but the sun feels good. You open your eyes and see the three other passengers who were with you at the spa, but not the spa workers. The last thing you remembered was being certain you were going to drown... You look around, and see you're in paradise. But something is terribly wrong. The island you washed up on is uninhabited. You know everyone will assume you were lost at sea. And you only have each other. ╔═════════════════════ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ══════════════════════╗ T H E . C A S T ╚═════════════════════ ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ══════════════════════╝ @Elinor — Moira Holtzman Name : Moira Kimberly Holtzman Age : 27 From : Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Currently living in New York City. Occupation : Receptionist at a Manhattan luxury gym by day. She spends her nights and weekends writing poetry and short stories, whenever she can motivate herself to do so. Appearance : Moira is petite, at 5'2. She has shoulder length black hair, bangs, wide blue eyes and freckles. Obviously, surviving the shipwreck changes her. Before // After Personality : Moira can be abrasive when you first meet her, but that's really a wall that she puts up so that other people don't hurt her. She's been through a lot tin her life, and knows that the world can be a tough place. Because no one stuck out for her growing up, she doesn' feel like the world owes anyone anything. This can be interpreted as coldness but to her it's practical. Past all of that, she's a warm, caring and empathic person. If she allows herself to trust you, she will be ride or die, all the way. She tries to look at the big picture of life and not get too caught up in things that don't matter. Likes : Her favorite writers are Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas and Aldous Huxley, and ignores people who try to tell her they were just moody white men. To her, there's a deep truth in their writing. She also loves Bob Dylan and is fascinated with the Greenwich Village art scene of the 1960s. Beyond her art, she likes baking (any dessert food, really), wine, jogging and travelling. She's not huge into fashion or makeup but loves getting dolled up when she has the opportunity. Dislikes : Fake people. Materialism. People who are in love with the sound of their own voice. People who talk during movies. Music of the last twenty years. So yeah, people pretty much suck? Also, she's getting really tired of New York City as a whole and is thinking she wants to move sooner rather than later. Cruise Background : Moira is on the cruise with her best friends Anya and Jill. Anya is recently engaged and the girls planned the trip as a last hurrah before Anya goes off and gets married. Secretly, Moira would have rathered they went to Hawaii, but Anya and Jill didn't want to spend multiple days at sea and she was outvoted. Still, after months of enduring her terrible job, the cold and a bad roommate situation, the only thing getting her and her friends through was the trip on the horizon. As much as she loves her friends and is happy that Anya is engaged, she wants the same thing for herself. She hoped to find a cute guy to to have a hookup, but other than a flirtation with an Irishman at a bar, nothing of the sort happened. @Carina — Jack Hodgson Name : Jack Hodgson Age : 33 From : Westminster, London, UK Occupation : Part-time HVAC-electrical-plumbing technician, part-time stay-at-home dad Appearance : Standing at 6'3" [190.5 cm], Jack towers tiny-Olivia and has exercised enough to be able to easily swoop her up and pick up heavy objects, but not enough to ever have abs. He works outside a lot, so he's got a bit of a farmer's tan going on, fully completing the dad bod experience. He has dark hair always cut short and a pretty healthy beard that he maintains. He has a soft smile and chocolate-colored eyes hiding behind round black-rimmed glasses, but his hands are the complete opposite: rough and calloused. When not wearing his work uniform, he's usually lounging around the house with shorts and tees, only wearing button-ups and slacks when Olivia makes him go to a fancy event. Before // After // IRL Personality : introverted; thoughtful; forgiving; independent; tends to take care of things for other people before they even have to ask; doesn't like to be the center of attention; ADHD "always have to be busy" kind of person; gives unsolicited opinions; inadvertently tries to "fix" everything; hates confronting uncomfortable situations head-on; not very emotional; pretty oblivious to social cues Likes : playing with his kids, home improvement, woodworking, browsing the internet, video games Dislikes : drama, social media, deadlines, math, staying still, not knowing what to do next Family : Jack is married to his wife, best friend, and high school sweetheart, Olivia. They're both like yin and yang and opposite sides of the coin, but it's because of it that they make a great team. While Jack takes care of the kids and brings in some quick money, Olivia is a theoretical physicist at a university, performing research and teaches every once in a while. Meanwhile, Jack is an engineering drop-out since he can't handle the deadline or math, but he is very good at working with his hands and often helps Olivia with her experiments' set-up since she barely even knows how to use an Allen wrench. Their marriage is as strong as ever, even when they're sometimes stressed rearing up two daughters, Maxine and Sophie, ages 8 and 5. They're a bundle of joy, and Jack loves playing with them. He hasn't always taken the best care of his health, but now with two kids, he has become more of a health nut, vowing to live as long as possible so that he will be there for them as long as possible. Cruise Background : Jack came to the cruise with his wife so they can have a nice relaxing week without screaming children running around the house. It also happens to be their ten-year wedding anniversary, so he's going to try to be more romantic than usual. (Which is not at all, in case you were wondering.) Other : Unless he is working with machines, Jack is always wearing his wedding ring, a simple gold band. @Valkyria — Elizabeth Hamilton Name : Elizabeth Hamilton (Eliza) Age : 22 From : Born in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. She currently lives on MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, USA, and she hopes to move to NYC Occupation : College senior; receptionist on campus Major/Minor : Neuroscience/Science, Technology, and Society Appearance : Eliza is 5'11, one of the tallest girls in her class. She has black, waist-length hair, which she cuts after she gets shipwrecked. She usually puts a bow on it. She has green eyes. She is the second child, and her father wants her and her older brother to help him a lot. So she's developed some muscles, although they are not very noticeable. Before // After Personality : Eliza is extroverted, optimistic, deeply loyal. She stands up for herself. Her chemistry professor shamed her roommate's boyfriend for hanging out with his girlfriend instead of focusing on his classes, but Eliza stood up for him. They both got in trouble. She tries to live a healthy lifestyle, but she's taking so many classes because of her major that she gets stressed out really quickly. She tries to make a good impression, and she tries to make a situation funny if she finds something scary. She's kind, and she doesn't get mad too often, but she has a limit. And she will blow up. Likes : Animals, Spring, reading, animated tv shows, comfy clothes and pjs. Dislikes : Ignorant people, her chemistry professor, really hot or cold weather, blankets falling off Cruise Background : Before they go off to senior year of college, Eliza, her roommate Martha, and Martha's boyfriend, John want to spend one week of peace before classes dehumanizes them. Other : She used to be a Girl Scout. She's the President of the Debate team and leads many activism groups at MIT. Whenever she gets any spare time, she writes fiction, and she even publishes them in the school paper. She is a chocoholic, and she always carries around a cup of tea. @HarryHardy — Susan Reyana Danvers Susan Reyana Danvers(HarryHardy) Name : Susan Reyana Danvers Age : 19 From : Boston, Massachusetts, USA Occupation : Nothing...fresh out of school. Appearance : She's exactly 5 feet tall (not a millimeter/ 0.039 inches) more than that. Shoulder length bright red hair (outrageously red to the point that someone would be skeptical if its real). Blue eyes. She's about average size for her age, not muscular but not exactly a walking skeleton either. She's also very pale. Before // After Personality : Susan is quite shy and has to seriously pluck up her courage to actually start a conversation. She's not the greatest at making friends and hasn't really found anyone that wanted to be genuine friends with her. Most people are only friends with her to get help with their work. And after discovering recently that she's lesbian its made her even more awkward around people. She's very loyal to those she cares about and likes nothing more than to see them happy going out of her way to make them feel special when she can and so she absolutely pampers her little sisters and is very close to her parents. Susan tends to have a very positive outlook on everything always finding happiness even in something as simple as a cloud in the shape she likes. This along with her parents pampering her quite a bit has given her a very innocent outlook on life and she hasn't really experienced too much hardship besides being lonely due to her lack of proper friends. Likes : Mathematics, Reading, Writing, Spending time doing all sorts of silly things with her little sisters Dislikes : Subjects that require you to memorize a bunch of things (Biology, Chemistry), Large groups of people, People that try to use her as an answer guide, Very loud people, Bright Sunlight (oh wait a minute...they're going to be in permanent bright sunlight aren't they?...did someone bring a hat?) Cruise Background : She's on this cruise as a last bit of relaxation before attending college. Her mother stayed behind with her two younger sisters but her father (Rest in Peace) is with her on this cruise. She's missing her two sisters terribly but is enjoying the peace and break from studies. Other : Susan is very good at math and most sciences in general and her parents want her to go onto become an engineer but personally she wants to be a writer and plans to do it at least part time while in college for an engineering degree. Despite being really shy and sometimes closed off to most people simply because she's too scared to strike up a proper conversation, she's hoping to meet someone that can be her friend or maybe even something more. She craves closeness although she's too scared to really express it. @veeren — Captain Morgan Goes by Cap, Sir, or Mr. Morgan (just saying his name is considered disrespectful) Died over 300 years ago and has been haunting ever since As a pirate does, his main goals in life were to plunder, rob, and steal all that he could in the name of wealth and fame. He spent his entire life on the sea, following in the footsteps of his parents. They, as he eventually would, died together when the seas claimed their ship as its own. He has a sort of sentience that allows him to communicate with the living. He doesn't, however, have any interest in befriending them, but rather uses them as vessels for his own enjoyment as he's stuck in the afterlife for all of eternity. He speaks solely in rhyme and lyrics, often trying to confuse those listening to him. He is a jokester by heart, and is neither friend nor foe to anyone that happens to be a passerby. Being that he is so old, he often gets confused by some modern day technology and slang. Please do not hate him he is trying his best. Appearance

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Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:15 am

kaitlyn says... · Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:15 am

So...Susan's actually a five year old...

~~I posted~~

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Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:38 am

Carina says... · Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:38 am

AWWW SUSAN IS SO PRECIOUS!!

also I see she's related to a Daph... 👀

and now that I've read about Eliza and her buddies, I can totally see Eliza and Moira hitting it off pretty well

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Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:04 pm

kaitlyn says... · Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:04 pm

Thanks!!

...she's going to have her world turned upside down...

This is totally not a parallel universe where Daph's parents never died...

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:57 am

Carina says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:57 am

so I was looking up activities for a cruise and thought that it's reasonable for Olivia to drag Jack to a dance lesson lol

but this would totally be a reasonable interaction post if someone else (:eyes: @ moira) were interested in that lesson! there's a million stuff to do on the ship otherwise though

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:01 am

kaitlyn says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:01 am

Awwww....that post was...ahh...*too much sweetness*...~~I have to buy a pack of tissues for next week's round of posts~~

Aaand I posted.

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:08 am

Carina says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:08 am

SWEETNESS OVERLOAD WITH SUSAN TOO

this is low key kind of torture for writers... spending five posts on people important to their characters wHO WILL NOT BE ALIVE NEXT WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:42 am

Elinor says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:42 am

Posted! Big sad for Moira and I hope you're cool with my direction @Carina! I know we talked about not wanting to force interactions, but this feels organic, like they have a moment but neither of them is super interested at the time because Jack is married and Moira is making eyes with the Irishman.

Also, @HarryHardy, Susan acts veeerrrrry young for being 19 -- If I didn't know that's how old she was supposed to be I'd guess maybe she's 11 or 12 years old if that. I can see that being intentional on your part, especially if she's studious and been sheltered from the rest of the world but I'm curious as to how you're writing her thusfar.

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:53 am

kaitlyn says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:53 am

Yaa that's actually what I was going for...giving her that 12 year oldish vibe of someone who hasn't really had anything more than the minimal interaction with people her age. She hangs mostly with her sisters who are around that age so she's kinda used to being that way. And her parents also treat her that way.

And this is mostly just her missing her family and babying up to her father. She's ~~a bit~~ more mature around strangers.

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:32 am

kaitlyn says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:32 am

Also idk how I forget but @Carina...YESSS....why did we think torturing ourselves like this was a good idea again?

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:41 am

Carina says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:41 am

Totally @Elinor! I can't imagine they'd interact that much so if you don't mind I might break the don't-control-others-characters rule for my next post and write up some short replies I think Moira may say. I'll run it over by you on discord beforehand though

I'm tryna post everyday so I can take a breather on Saturday and Sunday... let's see how far this goal will last every week lol

@HarryHardy well you def did a good job portraying her innocence and naivety! I totally envisioned Susan to be super sheltered (but with a happy healthy family) so she has this ideal rose-tinted vision of the world. BOY OH BOY WILL THIS SHIPWRECK SHATTER THAT

AND YEP... y we do dis. o das rite. CUZ OF ANGST

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:42 am

Elinor says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:42 am

@Carina I’m cool with you doing that! Just let me know. Oh and I’m going to do the same so I can take a break on the weekends hehe.

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:50 am

kaitlyn says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:50 am

Thanks @Carina!!

Susan will have to grow up faaaast...poor girl, she's the most innocent character I ever created and she's gonna get the second most tragic backstory (Daph's is the most tragic). Ahhh...she'll get there. (~~I feel evil now.~~)

Also lol me too with the one post a day.

"Lowers glasses to nose and takes on deep prophetic accent"

Me way all have the power to stick to our plan....

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:42 am

Omni says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:42 am

You're all doing great already!! Almost 2000 words

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:53 am

Valkyria says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:53 am

Okay, I posted it!

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:08 pm

Elinor says... · Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:08 pm

Hey guys, I created a StrawPoll for Gilligan's: https://strawpoll.com/u6fr35g5g

Feel free to vote! I created a discord server so we can hop in and watch. I think it'll be fun to get in especially as we're getting closer to the sinking. Let me know what you guys are thinking.

Also, the opening theme tells you everything you need to know-- GET HYPE

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