No worries Mike.  Sorry you can't make it this time. Thanks for the suggestion about the lounge singer.

I'm disappointed Mike...  Who will sing us to sleep...or to our untimely death??  

What about having karaoke?

Gabe

itmightbeorange's introduction and background

Introduction: Dana Orange, a 23 year-old insomniac with a short stature and petite frame, sits slovenly on a weathered wooden bench near the edge of the pier. She turns to the boat to see the other guests have started to arrive. She pulls her worn olive jacket closer, picks up the black guitar case sitting near her foot, and approaches the ship. She leans the case on the side of the boat and with one foot on the boat and one hand on the railing, she pulls herself up, momentarily revealing the shiny object tucked purposefully inside her boot.

Background:  Failed writer and musician Dana Orange has had her streaks of bad luck. If it isn't her pets succumbing to horrible accidents involving blenders it's critics reviewing her music with harsh words. With one critic saying, "If it sounds like cats clawing at a radiator, It might be Orange™," Dana has vowed to not let the negativity of others stop her from living her dream. Unfortunately, tourists in floral shirts aren't exactly her prime audience. "Just one more time, "she constantly swears, "If I have to play 'Copa Cabana' one more time I don't know what I'm going to do..."


As yet unreceived introductions and backgrounds

Yohn Yohnson
GM
Sandra E
Alffy
Zombie Sean (who was kind to IM me with the reason)

And just as a note, if before the 20th you would like to fine tune your introductions or backgrounds send me the complete edited version and I will put it up when I post the threads on the 25th.  

I offer to sing.

Beside being a photographer i can be the terrible singer of the ship, so you guys will have one more reason to get rid of me. Hehe

This is shaping up to be a really cool idea Michael.

Last night I woke up and laid in bed thinking of different ways to kill people. I came up with some good ideas.  

Alffy's introduction and background.

Introduction: Alffy Hudson, a young looking 30 year old, hurries up the boarding ramp. He struggles with two large suit cases as he follows behind a well dressed business man. He looks on at the man with contempt through his dark shallow eyes. Once aboard he shuffles down a corridor and stops outside a cabin door. He drops the cases and extends his hand and waits for a tip, a fake smile plastered across his mush. The man ignores his gesture and enters his quarters. Alffy smiles and swaggers off down the corridor, removing a wallet from his pocket. He pulls out a handful of crispy notes, stuffs them in his uniform pocket and tosses the rest overboard.

Background: Forced to leave his previous job as a Postman after allergations of stealing mail. All charges were dropped after the accuser, manager of the office, abruptly left town for no apparent reason. He left behind only a note which stated he had family issues and needed some space, he has not been heard of since. Alffy thought it best to leave and start a fresh, nothing to taxing as he is financially sound for the time being, twelve years of stealing birthday cards can add up to a tidy some.

Just a quick note about the introduction.  I notice most of you provide introductions from the pier.  This is understandable because I didn't tell you where you would be introduced.  However, since I've started the first scene I now know where you will be introduced. The story will start in the middle of the voyage with everyone in the Dining Room.  In order to leave the Dining Room you will need to be introduced.

Also the introductions tend to have lots of specific actions in them.  It's ok because the author introducing you can edit your introduction, however, after trying to use some of the introductions myself I can tell that a number of them are going to need to be heavily edited.  I hate to ask anyone to change their introductions because they all do a good job of telling us about the character, but if you want to have more control over how your character is introduced then you may think of sending me a more generic introduction before the 20th.

Cheers,

Michael    

Michael, so we need to introduce our characters in the dining room? Should they not include any interaction with any other character then either? Sorry for getting it wrong but I'm a bit of a sheep and followed everyones lead of introducing my character before the cruise set sail.

Yeah, I just assumed since there was a trend of introducing before the cruise set sail that we were keeping all the introductions in line with one another. I am definitely going to edit my introduction  so i'm all for a starting point clarification.

It isn't wrong and there was a trend but there's no way we could start the script on the pier introducing everyone.  Because of the nature of the game we need to start right in on the action.  That's everyone in the dining room.  

When I tried to use the intros I noticed there was lots of actions and specific locations in them that would never match up with where the characters need to be introduced and therefore they had to be edited quite a bit.  

You don't have to change your intros to make them more generic (relying less on location and action) but I did want to warn you that some of them would need to be edited quite severely in order to be used.

Can you say who needs to change their intros? I won't mind If I have to, I'll move my food to the dining area.

Gabe

Yeah perhaps individual suggestions so we are all on the same boat? Hah, I made a funny...same boat...heh.

It's coming, been a busy couple of weeks but I will have something v soon.

I apologise for my absense, been bogged down with other things.

I'll try to have my character up later today.

Hey GM, Yohn,

No worries. You have until the 20th, though it would be nice to get an earlier look at your characters.  Cheers for keeping us updated.