Have you ever wanted to explore, to go beyond the known and to places no one has stepped before? Dreamed of vast lands and wilds, filled with creatures and plants and formations that none could have dared even conceive?
Now's your chance.
The Ship
This is The Hippocampus, a ship that appears like every other: a three-masted carrack, not unlike that of great explorers such as Christopher Columbus. It is sixty feet long from stern to bow, equipped with canons and a crow's nest high above the rest of the boat. She is majestic, glorious, a creature of beauty.
But she is far more than simply a boat, a sea-faring vessel to carry people across the oceans. The Hippocampus travels not only the water but the stars as well. Constellations that dance far above this world, out of the reach of the explorers of olden times are what she calls home.
Where did she come from? When was she built? Who was the first to sail her?
No one knows when or why or how The Hippocampus came to be, not even her Captain. All they know is that this ship breaks the rules of space and time, crashing through the walls that bind the rest of the universe and shoving through rifts to worlds of dragons and fantastical monsters, as well as the more mundane places such as Earth.
And that is not all - she is not only restricted to floating on the top of the seas. When the crew seeks shelter beneath the massive deck, the masts may disappear and what was once a ship becomes a submarine vessel.
Her captain is Captain Aryessa Hanzel, a woman who's age is impossible to pin down with honey-blonde hair and dark golden eyes. She rules with a firm yet gentle hand, known well for her good care of the crew and ship.
The Story
For as long as anyone can remember, The Hippocampus has both been pursued and pursuing The Kraken, another star-faring vessel. How the feud began was mostly forgotten, but one thing was recalled: the ruthless, pirating nature of The Kraken. She is the boogeyman of the cosmos' seas and there are many tales of the black ship of the dark oceans and her nefarious captain known as Captain Golden-eye for his acute ability to find ships like his own or The Hippocampus.
The story begins as the ship lands in a world of wonder, where no humanoid has touched it. Huge islands cover the majority of the oceans, and bird-like creatures scream in the canopy as large, fish-like beasts leap from the water and swim aside the ship.
They are exploring this extraordinary land when the vessel begins to sink. The Hippocampus is forced to go towards shallow water as they fight to save her - they succeed, but discover that it was no accident. They were betrayed by one of their very own who was working for Golden-eye.
This is only the beginning, for they weren't the only traitor. When the crew was fighting to keep her afloat, the hippocampus bowsprit was damaged, and that is the key to her world-jumping.
Now, they're stranded on an alien world with traitors in their midst - and Golden-eye is sure to find them. It's a race against time, one that they are unlikely to win.
The Characters
They can be from any time, any world, any place. All the equipment on the ship is 19th-century - they can't bring any technology from their home with them unless it is 1800s or before. So no guns other than muskets and canons, really.
Other than that, do as you wish! They may have come from a magical world, so they might have fantastical abilities, or perhaps they are even aliens. They don't have to be humanoid, either - so long as they have a way of communicating with the others on the ship and have a job, they're in!
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The Rules
- Keep romance and violence PG
- Mild cussing allowed
- One character only, please (with the exception of a character and their familiar or something like that)
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