You were just going about your day, doing whatever it is you're character is doing, with one specific detail. Your character was near a body of water...anything from a kiddie pool to an actual ocean works.
Out of nowhere a whirpool, looking just about big enough for your character to fit into opens up on the banks of said body of water and a very cold, very ghostly hand pulls you by the legs right into the water and you're engulfed in dark cold void. There's a feeling of falling endlessly for a few minutes before you then proceed to land with a thump on the deck of what looks to be a carrack that's straight out of the 1700's, if you're from Earth that is. If your character comes from different world, its just a massive four masted sailboat.
The ship looks old. Very old. Its clearly in a state of disrepair with the most of the deck rotten and overgrown with all kinds of sea life. The sails are torn in so many places that there are more holes than there is sail. Then you notice a pirate flag flying from its main mast, looking like it had only been put there hours ago. There's also no visible crew to be seen and yet the ship is definitely moving forward, in fact its going unnaturally fast for a sail boat especially because of another detail you notice. There is no wind.
Then on top of all of these questionable detail, four beings land in front of you...
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Welcome aboard the HDFS Skipping Stone, one of the world's first sailboats.
Now the people of Vantaxia leave it alone, calling it a sentient ghost ship, the ghost of a literal ship arisen from its watery grave to pillage this unsuspecting world. It is in at this point that the four of your characters arrive on the dock of said ship, pulled in by the ghosts aboard the ship for some unknown reason.
At the same time, a team arrives to fix this massive anachronism in time, trying to get to the bottom of it. It features the original captain of the ship, one Harrison H. Hardy, and his friends, Stean Stakes, Vankous Frostification and James Bonlark. They arrive seconds after the four characters.
Your characters have to work together to help them solve this mystery, try very hard to not get murdered or worse by the ghosts on board and the ship itself, and then help the four agents return the boat to its rightful place in time....after which you will be allowed to return home. Until then, you have officially been bound to the HDFS Skipping Stone, the universe's first ghost ship.
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Feel free to chose pretty much any characters, with of course two important caveats. They can't be capable of warping reality or travelling through time. Being able to see or control ghosts is totally fine and any other powers are also totally fine. If there's a power that doesn't fall under the two categories above but is a little to plot breaking, I'll let you know, but considering how OP Harry happens to be, I don't think there should be any issues.
More on that in the OOC thread. This one is well...as you can probably tell, going to require a ton of planning so that will come in handy. You can announce your intentions to join over there and please don't post until I give you the go ahead.
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1. HarryHardy
2. Magebird
3. GrandWild
4. ChesTacos
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