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badfic-mods.livejournal.comWell manorites, as many of you have PROBABLY figured out, the unsinkable ship is going to be, well, sinking.
A quarter before midnight this lovely vessel is going to have a little skirmish with an iceberg. The first sign of impact will be that the ship will come to a halt for a brief moment, and there will be ice on deck. However at this point the captain will assume all is well, and the ship will start moving again shortly... despite the GAPING HOLES in the side. And that will be when the bow will start to go under. Soon the ship will come to a stop again, and the funnels will start screeching as the boiler room lets out the steam to keep the ship from EXPLODING. Passengers will start being evacuated, but since there isn’t any sort of alarm, or bell system this will all be done by the three hundred of so stewards... door by door. Naturally first class will be evacuated first, and will arrive on deck without much issue, or panic since no one told them the ship is sinking. The second class will be having a lot more issues. It’ll be chaotic, the passengers will be in a panic, and every stairway you turn, someone will be telling you to take another stairway somewhere else as they lock the gates.
Once the halls are barren, the staff will go back down the halls and start locking the doors to prevent people from returning to their rooms, so be careful if you decide to dawdle. On deck at this point will be absolutely chaotic. There are twenty lifeboats in all, however only sixteen are going to actually make it off the ship. They can hold anywhere from 45-60 people... but many of them are not actualy filled when they depart. The ship would need over fifty lifeboats to accommodate all the crew and passengers. They will be ushering women and children onto the boats first, but everything will be such a mess it wouldn’t be hard to hop on a boat anyway. If you decide you would rather brave the water, be aware that most normal people would die after about twenty minutes from the coldbut then again who in the manor here is normal?.
Up until about twenty minutes before the ship sinks for good the strings quartet will be playing (the main reason they stop is because that’s when the ship snaps in two and the bottom half of the ship goes vertical). The movie actually does a very good job portraying how the ship sank so if you REALLY want to see how it went down, it’s a good reference. The ship will take exactly 2 hours and 22 minutes to sink.
Of course the author won’t let her beautiful playthings all starve on the lifeboats for a week, so come Wednesday everyone will find themselves back in the manor and the rest of the week will be some downtime from the chaos.
This weeks plot: it sinks
A quarter before midnight this lovely vessel is going to have a little skirmish with an iceberg. The first sign of impact will be that the ship will come to a halt for a brief moment, and there will be ice on deck. However at this point the captain will assume all is well, and the ship will start moving again shortly... despite the GAPING HOLES in the side. And that will be when the bow will start to go under. Soon the ship will come to a stop again, and the funnels will start screeching as the boiler room lets out the steam to keep the ship from EXPLODING. Passengers will start being evacuated, but since there isn’t any sort of alarm, or bell system this will all be done by the three hundred of so stewards... door by door. Naturally first class will be evacuated first, and will arrive on deck without much issue, or panic since no one told them the ship is sinking. The second class will be having a lot more issues. It’ll be chaotic, the passengers will be in a panic, and every stairway you turn, someone will be telling you to take another stairway somewhere else as they lock the gates.
Once the halls are barren, the staff will go back down the halls and start locking the doors to prevent people from returning to their rooms, so be careful if you decide to dawdle. On deck at this point will be absolutely chaotic. There are twenty lifeboats in all, however only sixteen are going to actually make it off the ship. They can hold anywhere from 45-60 people... but many of them are not actualy filled when they depart. The ship would need over fifty lifeboats to accommodate all the crew and passengers. They will be ushering women and children onto the boats first, but everything will be such a mess it wouldn’t be hard to hop on a boat anyway. If you decide you would rather brave the water, be aware that most normal people would die after about twenty minutes from the cold
Up until about twenty minutes before the ship sinks for good the strings quartet will be playing (the main reason they stop is because that’s when the ship snaps in two and the bottom half of the ship goes vertical). The movie actually does a very good job portraying how the ship sank so if you REALLY want to see how it went down, it’s a good reference. The ship will take exactly 2 hours and 22 minutes to sink.
Of course the author won’t let her beautiful playthings all starve on the lifeboats for a week, so come Wednesday everyone will find themselves back in the manor and the rest of the week will be some downtime from the chaos.
This weeks plot: it sinks
