You all awaken in a lounge on a ship. A bunch of strangers without recognition in your eyes. A clock chimes and you somehow know, you only have 13 hours to escape…
Welcome to the Ship.
It is Round 1- Planning Phase. Currently the Ship is locked down, so you can only explore Locations 1-4. When everyone has chosen somewhere to go we’ll start the Exploration Phase. Any player who hasn’t chosen somewhere by 9pm Wed (GMT) will remain here in the Lounge. No Keys start in the Lounge.
Current Status:
Everyone has 8 Stamina.
Corridor is Locked.
The Lounge has 8 Items.
Nobody is registered as a Human.
The Starboard Promenade, where the lifeboats are, is one of Locations 5-8. Initially however, you can only access Locations 1-4 (and the Lounge) because the door in the corridor is locked with 2 locks. There are 3 keys which can unlock them in locations 1-4.
So we need to go to locations 1 to 4 to see if we can find keys. It would make sense to split up to get it done quickly?
Question - is there also a card deck for the lounge, or is it just the central space?
Is it more efficient to stack up at one location to burn through a stack of items quickly to find a key there, or to spread the effort across locations?
One important thing I forgot to mention! Each location apart from the Lounge, Corridor and Starboard Promenade has a maximum capacity you only find out when visiting. If more players visit than the capacity then some of them need to go elsewhere.
I think making a search of the lounge to begin with is a good idea too. I am happy to take a hit for the team and search twice for -1 Stamina - the only item I currently have is a piece of useless ‘Junk’! (it’s not specified on the card, but I’m imagining it’s a dusty old snow globe with a slow leak).
As far as future explorations go, I like @Captbnut’s idea of splitting 3-2 for exploring two locations, so that we can hopefully deal with any monsters we might find. @RossM could be part of the group of two to allay their fears of two possessed people being alone together .
I’m absolutely fine with us all splitting up too, if that’s the consensus.