Lost in the Dark Sea - An AO Short Story + ARG (With Prizes) (FINISHED)

I have no idea, I don’t have the shield mark on other topics

I honestly thought it was only forum moderators with the shield

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Similar to Cryo’s name although Cryo is using the Forum Moderator group colour hence the different blue in the name
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interesting… well, we’ll see soon I guess… or not.

It’s an indication that you have the seasoned writer role, since this is the Writing category.

(I have no idea if it actually gives perms in the category or not)

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Good to know a master of the craft partakes in my goofy story.

(I am going back to sleep now)

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You can reply when you wake up :slight_smile:

Do our “guesses” refresh when you wake up and say “Hay guys your chances are refreshed” or do we have to wait 24 hours after our first guess

I am generally fine with you guys refreshing when I wake up, I sleep inconsistently so Im not gonna be super strict on the rule. As long as people, like you, who wander in, have a chance to participate without the more active participants gobbling up all the rewards, that’s all I really care about.

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I think we have some passengers unaccounted for.

Looking at the manifest table, the one who’s drowned is on it, yet the other two are not. I also think I have 4 more guesses for today::

An unknown Passenger died by Serious head injuries

Another unknown Passenger died by Grapeshot from the ghost ship

“There’s been an accident below Deck. When that wave violently thrust the vessel back one of the passengers smashed against his cabin wall. He’s bleeding a lot, the doc needs to get down there…”

Consider this a little help, free of charge… proof of that statement

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Thanks

Quick question, does grapeshot ammo count as shrapnel
I saw it mentioned somewhere above and it overlaps one of my backup guesses

quite sure that this is kinda incorrect. In chapter 1 the surgeon is also called doc.
My point with this (just let Seba-chan get the point)
Zoe Schneider was the surgeon on the ship and also called doctor

yea i noticed a while ago… well a guess is a guess I guess
also shrapnel and grapeshot, I’m not familiar with the ammo terms plz help

Grapeshot:
In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name.

Its basically an anti personnel shotgun canon, hence how deadly it is to the people on the ship, I used the term “Grapeshot” to refer to the cluster of pellets as a whole, so it could probably be interchanged with “Shrapnel”

aww hell, one tanned man short of guesses, I’m pretty sure he’s the “second” man you mentioned

Another unknown Passenger died by Grapeshot from the ghost ship

Apparently those two weren’t the only two lost in the volley. That one tanned seamen with a funny accent was also struck.

Another guess off the board
Time to go to sleep, gonna continue tomorrow, when my man wakes up…

  1. Caedicia was a midshipman from Ravenna
  2. and 3. a midshipman from Ravenna who called Optier “brother”
  3. Optier was the master-at-arms from ravenna and was called “brother”.
  4. Servius ?? was a sailmaker from ravenna
      1. Teey was the Boatswain and from shell island (Lexter was bosun’s mate, and he used a whistle to call people to the deck, which was something unique for the boatswain to have)

I’m filling out from highest rank to lowest the best I can.

Has my man woken up yet… do I sound pestering?
A quick note, I may or may not have done more than 8 guesses since I thought filling out the name didn’t count.
So we fill out things that are not on the file eh…

Sorry, was at the bar. Let’s run through this top down since last night:

@Randomness

An Unknown Passenger died by Serious head injuries (correct)

Something about the second one is wrong. If I at least think you are reffering to the right person.

+2

RedNinja is right, Zoe Schenider is called something different by everyone. Some call her by her first name, her last, others simply prefer Doctor or Doc.

@RedNinja at it again with his on point origin finding:

Caedicia is indeed from Ravenna

(This guess was taken by Seba first) An Unknown Midshipman who called Optier his brother is from Ravenna, Seba got the role, you got the origin

Optier is indeed from Ravenna, alike his brother

Something about Guess 5 is incorrect

Guess 6, 7, and 8 are correct. Teey is a Boatswain/Bosun from Shell Island.

You knocked this round out of the park man, that’s 7 points in your pocket, bringing you up to enough to claim a prize. As well, that’s 1,750 galleons as a nice pocket payment.

+6

I updated the public excel document, gonna work on the fancy manifest now then disappear for a bit. Tell me if you want your prize set now, Ninja.

Almost forgot @Sebastian_Banks !

Okay, so

An Unknown Midshipman who called Optier his brother. Redninja got his role after.

Firstmate, there is indeed a firstmate on the ship

An Unknown Seamen was killed by Glass Shrapnel

That’s +4 to you, bringing you up to 6 points and 1,500 galleons.

Just a heads up, these are all ‘last nights’ guesses so you are all refreshed as of now.

Just finished reading all three of these, they were fairly interesting. Here’s what I gathered so far which hasn’t been on the excel sheet:
Chapter 3 mentions a male Carpenter who doesn’t reappear for the rest of the chapter.
It also tells Lucius’s surname (Aurelius), meaning he is from Ravenna.
Near the end of Ch 3. the barrel thrower (presumably Avery’s wife)'s name is revealed to be Nicholas.
Three of the passengers who volunteered are named Christopher, Jade, and Agrippa (a Ravennan name), based on the names being called out. Out of the five who volunteer, these must be the three other than the old lady and Nicholas.

Also, the foretopman who returned from the dark sea in the rowboat when white eyes attacks appears to be the leader mentioned in Ch.1 , though no clues in particular seem to have been added other than that she seems soulless.