when there's water all around you, and you're lost beneath the surface
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escordviWho: Characters involved
Status: Semi-open; please see this post
Where: The Desert Wind, docked at a small nondescript island
What: Turo Rescue Party!
Warnings: Violence, past trauma/torture/etc
( ask and you shall receive )
Status: Semi-open; please see this post
Where: The Desert Wind, docked at a small nondescript island
What: Turo Rescue Party!
Warnings: Violence, past trauma/torture/etc
( ask and you shall receive )[ open ] I hope someday you'll join us
Aug. 2nd, 2025 12:10 pmdeepstar posting in escordviWho: Claude/Khalid + You
Status: Open
Where: Varies
What: MANTA questing
Warnings: TBD
( and the world will be as one )
Status: Open
Where: Varies
What: MANTA questing
Warnings: TBD
( and the world will be as one )« manta board: august 2025 »
Aug. 1st, 2025 03:28 pmseawarden posting in escordvioocThe MANTA Board is posted every month, but the quests are on a "2 month cycle." This means quests can last for two months with possible updates or new additions in the second month before it completely refreshes for the next cycle.
For this month's board update, some quests have been updated to reflect progress from last month, with some carrying over as is.
Quests are separated into five categories and all have flat point values: General (4pts), Corsair (4pts), Paladin (4pts), Bounties (6pts), and Specials (12pts). Crew quests are listed under "Specials" and are worth the same amount of points (12pts). Although these quests are intended for established crews, non-members are allowed to assist if the crew invites them. However, non-members would only receive 6pts. Similarly, characters helping opposing armada quests will only be rewarded 2pts for participation unless specified otherwise. Special quests won't always be available so it may appear blank at times. These can range from group quests such as for special ship upgrades or island related quests, or they could be special event quests. All quest points can be used for the Rewards Shop.
If you wish to submit a quest, comment in the appropriate field during Activity Check with the quest written and we'll add it to the next month! Crews are also still allowed to make their own quests without our approval, but if uncertain players can comment here about them.
If you have any questions regarding any current quest, comment to this entry.
For this month's board update, some quests have been updated to reflect progress from last month, with some carrying over as is.
Quests are separated into five categories and all have flat point values: General (4pts), Corsair (4pts), Paladin (4pts), Bounties (6pts), and Specials (12pts). Crew quests are listed under "Specials" and are worth the same amount of points (12pts). Although these quests are intended for established crews, non-members are allowed to assist if the crew invites them. However, non-members would only receive 6pts. Similarly, characters helping opposing armada quests will only be rewarded 2pts for participation unless specified otherwise. Special quests won't always be available so it may appear blank at times. These can range from group quests such as for special ship upgrades or island related quests, or they could be special event quests. All quest points can be used for the Rewards Shop.
If you wish to submit a quest, comment in the appropriate field during Activity Check with the quest written and we'll add it to the next month! Crews are also still allowed to make their own quests without our approval, but if uncertain players can comment here about them.
If you have any questions regarding any current quest, comment to this entry.
( MANTA BOARD )« sail with me: august 2025 »
Aug. 1st, 2025 03:25 pmseaboards posting in escordvioocAn abbreviated version of our CR Workship! Same concept, just a lot smaller. If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.
We also include a designated toplevel for Crew Recruitment where players can make OOC ad posts for others to either join or request to join or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
PLAYER INFO
CHARACTER INFO
PLANS
We also include a designated toplevel for Crew Recruitment where players can make OOC ad posts for others to either join or request to join or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.
PLAYER INFO
Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact
Contact: Preferred means of contact
CHARACTER INFO
Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair
About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair
About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.
PLANS
General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?
Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?
Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.
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Jul. 28th, 2025 11:48 pmdetectiveforhierophant posting in shellphonesWho: Ryotaro Dojima
Status: Open
Where: Cosmo Conservatory
What: Dojima is hoping he's just being paranoid, but as it's been several days now-- he decides to ask if anyone has seen Turo since he left.
Warnings: Nothing here, but the plot it relates to has some heavy stuff!
( Despite his continued stoicism, he was a real worrywart at heart )
Status: Open
Where: Cosmo Conservatory
What: Dojima is hoping he's just being paranoid, but as it's been several days now-- he decides to ask if anyone has seen Turo since he left.
Warnings: Nothing here, but the plot it relates to has some heavy stuff!
( Despite his continued stoicism, he was a real worrywart at heart )player plot; Turo/Sidestep/Ganondorf Schenanigins/signup/organization
Jul. 28th, 2025 07:34 pmmenaceunleashed posting in escordvioocThis is a bit overdue and I apologize!
( plot details: cw for kidnapping, character death, torture, violence )
( plot details: cw for kidnapping, character death, torture, violence )« activity check: july 2025 »
Jul. 28th, 2025 08:14 pmseawarden posting in escordvioocAhoy, mateys! Here be the monthly Activity Check!
In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting:
Please check our Activity Check guidelines on our Game Info page for complete details, but here is the quick list of what you need to know:
There will be no warnings. All submissions are due Thursday, July 31st 11:59PM US Eastern.
If you have any questions, ask them here.
In the Extra Notes section, please note the following, as well as anything else worth noting:
- Any gear, equipment, etc. made for the deep sea expedition
- Any deep folk creatures encountered that could be helpful or dangerous
- Any other interesting things that we could feature or try to incorporate for the deep ocean expedition
- Any tributes or progress for Elah's return
- Information or solutions found about the Phantom Thief situation
- Results of helping/not helping the dragon whelp
- If Captain Calico's graven trinkets were stolen or otherwise
- Any findings for The Wy's Have It
Please check our Activity Check guidelines on our Game Info page for complete details, but here is the quick list of what you need to know:
» Only threads dated from July 1st through July 31st count towards the month's activity. (With the exception of certain backdated threads, read the linked AC guidelines for more details.)
» Activity requires one thread of at least 5 comments. The comment count is from your character.
» Any thread counts, including those made within your own entries and subthreads within your own toplevels. Individual entry posts do not count, only the threads within the posts. TDM threads with non-game characters will count.
» Continuation threads are considered as part of the previous thread so they count as one thread not two. For the sake of ease, we would like the two threads linked together.
» You are exempt from any checks for hiatuses that last for over 21 days. Anything less and you'll still need to submit your AC unless there are other circumstances.
» Because we are a capped game, there is no strike system. If you do not make the AC requirements, you will be cut.
» Bonus AC points: All extra non-quest threads not used for AC will be worth 2 extra points that can be used for reward redemption. Please check our Rewards page for more details.
» Activity requires one thread of at least 5 comments. The comment count is from your character.
» Any thread counts, including those made within your own entries and subthreads within your own toplevels. Individual entry posts do not count, only the threads within the posts. TDM threads with non-game characters will count.
» Continuation threads are considered as part of the previous thread so they count as one thread not two. For the sake of ease, we would like the two threads linked together.
» You are exempt from any checks for hiatuses that last for over 21 days. Anything less and you'll still need to submit your AC unless there are other circumstances.
» Because we are a capped game, there is no strike system. If you do not make the AC requirements, you will be cut.
» Bonus AC points: All extra non-quest threads not used for AC will be worth 2 extra points that can be used for reward redemption. Please check our Rewards page for more details.
There will be no warnings. All submissions are due Thursday, July 31st 11:59PM US Eastern.
EXTRA FIELDS: This is not required and completely optional, but included in the submission form are two optional fields: Extra and MANTA Board Posting.
For the Extra field, this is just a space for players to note anything that occurred in their threads that they think might be fun for us to know. So if something particularly interesting happened (for example: discovering a new creature or location, an old artifact, or perhaps a character has stolen something), we highly encourage players to jot them down! Who knows, we may even find a use for it… In addition, we may ask players to submit certain activity related to an event.
You may also submit MANTA board requests to be included in the upcoming board. We will try to add them immediately, otherwise we'll save them for the next Board or a time we deem fitting. If you don't have one in mind at the time of AC, you can post it later to the upcoming Captain's Log announcement.
For the Extra field, this is just a space for players to note anything that occurred in their threads that they think might be fun for us to know. So if something particularly interesting happened (for example: discovering a new creature or location, an old artifact, or perhaps a character has stolen something), we highly encourage players to jot them down! Who knows, we may even find a use for it… In addition, we may ask players to submit certain activity related to an event.
You may also submit MANTA board requests to be included in the upcoming board. We will try to add them immediately, otherwise we'll save them for the next Board or a time we deem fitting. If you don't have one in mind at the time of AC, you can post it later to the upcoming Captain's Log announcement.
If you have any questions, ask them here.
FORM: Fill out the following form and comment directly to this post. If you have multiple characters, please put them in one comment.
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Jul. 27th, 2025 09:34 pmpinksidekicking posting in shellphonesType: Text
Sender ID: pinksidekicking (Nimona)
To: Everyone
Subject: Two year anniversary
Warnings: Probably none, except some terrible puns
Whale, whale, whale, looks like it's almost been another whole year. And in three weeks some of us will have been here for two years! It's sun-believable! Feels like I just got here yesterday sometimes. Then I look back on all the stuff I did, the friends I made, the family I found and feels like it's gone by in a flash! Not to get em-ocean-al or anything like that.
Tell me about some of the fin-tastic stuff you've done in your time here. Or the things you wanna do in the future!
I don't have any o-fish-al questions or anything, so just say crab-solutely anything on your mind! Don't get tide down with details.
Let's sea, for me, a lot of good stuff happened - and some kinda bad too.
1. Got to ride a ferris wheel with my newly adopted dad.
2. Painted a mural.
3. I have a family who accepts all of me even after they've seen the worst of me.
4. Sword lessons, gun lessons!
Hm, things I wanna do in the next year.
1. Have a birthday party!
2. Paint more murals.
3. Adopt a dragon sibling.
4. Become different creatures from other worlds (I'm working on chocobo)!
5. ... not use text-to-speech or speech-to-text function so much.
Ok, your turn now. You'll be shrimp-ly amazing!
Sender ID: pinksidekicking (Nimona)
To: Everyone
Subject: Two year anniversary
Warnings: Probably none, except some terrible puns
Whale, whale, whale, looks like it's almost been another whole year. And in three weeks some of us will have been here for two years! It's sun-believable! Feels like I just got here yesterday sometimes. Then I look back on all the stuff I did, the friends I made, the family I found and feels like it's gone by in a flash! Not to get em-ocean-al or anything like that.
Tell me about some of the fin-tastic stuff you've done in your time here. Or the things you wanna do in the future!
I don't have any o-fish-al questions or anything, so just say crab-solutely anything on your mind! Don't get tide down with details.
Let's sea, for me, a lot of good stuff happened - and some kinda bad too.
1. Got to ride a ferris wheel with my newly adopted dad.
2. Painted a mural.
3. I have a family who accepts all of me even after they've seen the worst of me.
4. Sword lessons, gun lessons!
Hm, things I wanna do in the next year.
1. Have a birthday party!
2. Paint more murals.
3. Adopt a dragon sibling.
4. Become different creatures from other worlds (I'm working on chocobo)!
5. ... not use text-to-speech or speech-to-text function so much.
Ok, your turn now. You'll be shrimp-ly amazing!
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02 | video 💀 skate park help
Jul. 25th, 2025 01:59 pmstillarhino posting in shellphonesType: Video
Sender ID: soundsurfer (Beat) and seasaltkeys (Roxas)
To: Everyone
Subject: Help wanted for skate park
Warnings: None
Aight, so me and Checkers are trying to make a skate park over at Hero's Rest and we gonna need some help.
[Beat moves aside to show off the State of the Skate Park. It is obvious that it needs quite a bit of Help. He stands in what looks to be the middle of a repurposed amphitheater. The only things that have been set up is a ramp and a grind rail from the stairs that are already part of the original architecture.]
It ain't much right now, but we got a lotta plans.
[Setting aside the shellphone, he rummages through his sketchbook, eventually flipping to a page with said plans. He holds it up to reveal a very rough drawing of his and Roxas' dream skate park for all to see.]
We thinkin' 'bout puttin' up a half-pipe somewhere 'round here— [He starts moving around, pointing out to a space each time. Boy, does he look excited about it, grinning from ear to ear. Very much like a kid in a candy store.] —coupla pyramids somewhere in the middle, an' a buncha rails and ramps all 'round. Yo, Checkers! Am I missin' anythin'?
[Roxas can be seen in the background, cleaning up part of the amphitheater that they hadn't gotten to. He turns to Beat.]
Maybe a bowl somewhere?
Nah, you's right. Gotta add that to the plan. [Then Beat turns back to the shellphone.] That too. Anyways, it's gonna be a lotta work, so if can help us out, we gonna owe you big time, yo! Jus' name your price!
[ooc: Beat is red and Roxas is blue. Either one of them or both will be answering replies!]
Sender ID: soundsurfer (Beat) and seasaltkeys (Roxas)
To: Everyone
Subject: Help wanted for skate park
Warnings: None
Aight, so me and Checkers are trying to make a skate park over at Hero's Rest and we gonna need some help.
[Beat moves aside to show off the State of the Skate Park. It is obvious that it needs quite a bit of Help. He stands in what looks to be the middle of a repurposed amphitheater. The only things that have been set up is a ramp and a grind rail from the stairs that are already part of the original architecture.]
It ain't much right now, but we got a lotta plans.
[Setting aside the shellphone, he rummages through his sketchbook, eventually flipping to a page with said plans. He holds it up to reveal a very rough drawing of his and Roxas' dream skate park for all to see.]
We thinkin' 'bout puttin' up a half-pipe somewhere 'round here— [He starts moving around, pointing out to a space each time. Boy, does he look excited about it, grinning from ear to ear. Very much like a kid in a candy store.] —coupla pyramids somewhere in the middle, an' a buncha rails and ramps all 'round. Yo, Checkers! Am I missin' anythin'?
[Roxas can be seen in the background, cleaning up part of the amphitheater that they hadn't gotten to. He turns to Beat.]
Maybe a bowl somewhere?
Nah, you's right. Gotta add that to the plan. [Then Beat turns back to the shellphone.] That too. Anyways, it's gonna be a lotta work, so if can help us out, we gonna owe you big time, yo! Jus' name your price!
[ooc: Beat is red and Roxas is blue. Either one of them or both will be answering replies!]
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Video
Jul. 24th, 2025 09:14 pmbeshackled posting in shellphonesType: Video
Sender ID: beshackled (Erichthonios)
To: Public
Subject: Lessons
Warnings: None yet
[The following message broadcasts from... an unusual angle, given how Erichthonios holds the shellphone low rather than straight-on, but he is at least in frame, dressed in his proper charcoal-black robes instead of the flimsy uniform they had been displaced by on his arrival. At his chest rests a white mask with silver scrollwork, the shape reminiscent of an owl's facial visage.]
Namine. Pray accept my apologies for this indirect method of communication.
[He thought it the most efficient way of reaching her, given that he did not know which sender ID she had been assigned.]
If you're ready to begin your studies, I am ready to offer what insight and lessons I may.
Sender ID: beshackled (Erichthonios)
To: Public
Subject: Lessons
Warnings: None yet
[The following message broadcasts from... an unusual angle, given how Erichthonios holds the shellphone low rather than straight-on, but he is at least in frame, dressed in his proper charcoal-black robes instead of the flimsy uniform they had been displaced by on his arrival. At his chest rests a white mask with silver scrollwork, the shape reminiscent of an owl's facial visage.]
Namine. Pray accept my apologies for this indirect method of communication.
[He thought it the most efficient way of reaching her, given that he did not know which sender ID she had been assigned.]
If you're ready to begin your studies, I am ready to offer what insight and lessons I may.
breaking this façade, sent to work beyond
Jul. 21st, 2025 06:41 pmmenaceunleashed posting in escordviWho: Ganondorf and Turo at first. This is a catch-all log for a player plot and will have multiple players involved, this spot will be updated as time progresses.
Status: Closed.
Where: Aboard The Desert Wind
What: When Ganondorf really wants something from someone, he goes through Effort.
Warnings: um. holy hell. Violence, torture, trauma, mindfuckery just to begin with. Individual threads will have more specific warnings as needed.
( no regard for the damage caused )
Status: Closed.
Where: Aboard The Desert Wind
What: When Ganondorf really wants something from someone, he goes through Effort.
Warnings: um. holy hell. Violence, torture, trauma, mindfuckery just to begin with. Individual threads will have more specific warnings as needed.
( no regard for the damage caused )3rd Page ☆ Magical Inquiry
Jul. 22nd, 2025 07:38 amnoctuagoetia posting in shellphonesType: Text
Sender ID: noctuagoetia (Stolas)
To: Public
Subject: Magical Inquiry
Warnings: Nothing here.
Hello again, Stolas here. I have a, hopefully, quick magical inquiry.
This goes out to any and all magical users, or those possibly without before coming here. It has been on my mind for a while about those... special tattoos? Let's say for example you had magical powers but they were stripped from you prior to arriving here. Would getting one of these unique markings help regain them or simply give you new ones?
I would be very curious to know how they have affected others with their own abilities. What has been everyone's personal experience with them?
Sender ID: noctuagoetia (Stolas)
To: Public
Subject: Magical Inquiry
Warnings: Nothing here.
Hello again, Stolas here. I have a, hopefully, quick magical inquiry.
This goes out to any and all magical users, or those possibly without before coming here. It has been on my mind for a while about those... special tattoos? Let's say for example you had magical powers but they were stripped from you prior to arriving here. Would getting one of these unique markings help regain them or simply give you new ones?
I would be very curious to know how they have affected others with their own abilities. What has been everyone's personal experience with them?
