shel311 wrote:Looks like I'm gonna have to bow out of the OOTP. Too much going on right now and I'm rarely ever home any more.
Quitter.
I heard Sevendust was playing EarthDay Birthday. I can tell you are busy when I dont get asked to go and you didnt even mention it.
Did Lacy tell you I went and saw her after a class I had at Winnie? I felt bad for her. She looked all sad couped up in that damn room.
Yea. Thanks. She needs all the visitors she can get LOL. She doesn't do anything even though she has the computer for Netflix or whatever, she hasn't used that or any DVDs or nothing yet. Just bored as hell.
Yea, not sure I woulda went to EDBD anyway as 7Dust is pretty much the only band worth seeing.
Seeitsaveit13 wrote:I'm guessing it will be roughly 2-3 days until we hear from Trendon again... Stay tuned
Is he in prison, deported, in a POW camp, on a honeymoon? Nothing would suprise me.
He was on his honeymoon in Costa Rica when he was arrested and thrown in prison for trying to break his wife's second brother out of a POW camp. He's awaiting deportation back to the states.
Via Facebook, I can see he's busy taking covert phone snapshots of some girl in a presentation for some job (ostensibly). He claims the girl is hot but can't generate a picture that validates it, and he's talked to her and she thinks he's beautiful.
Maybe he's sleeping on the streets until he gets a job. Probably hard to update OOTP while homeless.
It has been 11 days since we last heard from our captain. I still remember the day we lowered him into the lifeboat like it was yesterday. He said he had some work to do and would be back the next day. He has frequently gone on these solo missions, the difference is that he has always found a way to communicate with us, even when his trips have taken him on extended leaves. But this time, all we have is the silence of the sea.
At the time, no one thought of asking for a spare key to the engines. We have turned the ship over trying to find a spare key, but Trendon seems to have taken with him the only way to power the engines. For now we sit adrift at sea, covered by an unrelenting heavy fog that makes it difficult to tell the difference between day and night.
Perhaps it’s the fog or the silence, but the crew has started to show signs of stress. Shel has threatened to quit the mission. He wants to take the last lifeboat and head east, back from where we came from. I think the stress of being away from home has finally gotten to him. Although we have not seen Shel for a few days, the boat remains dock, so we believe he is still on board.
Baker is perhaps in the worse shape. He is convinced that Trendon is never coming back. A few days ago he tried to jump ship, into the foggy ocean, never to be seen again. Had it not been for Seeit talking him off the edge, he may have done it. Baker is calm for now but we are all keeping a close eye on him.
Speaking of Seeit, he is by far the most optimistic crew member. He is convinced that our captain will return in the next few days. Unfortunately, few share his optimism. The crew is divided into two popular theories. One theory is that he has been swallowed by the sea. Perhaps attacked by a giant squid or sharks.
The second theory comes from Corey. According to Corey, a few days ago while on his watch he heard the call of sirens from the horizon. He believes that Trendon has been lured by the fabled singing mermaids, whose voice is so empowering that no man can resist its call. The story goes that once in their grasp, no man can ever escape. Tball has tried to list our spirits by offering a new mission (it’s actually a continuation of an abandoned mission), but most aren’t interested as they see no way out of our current situation. To many it sounds like committing mutiny.
A few of the crew members have started to segregate from the rest of us. There is a particular faction that has started to form. It is led by Dave and they have taken refuge in the back of the ship, by the storage area in the H section. They are extremely secretive and have made the rest of us very nervous as we do not know their intentions. Cnasty, Seet, tball, Bernie, plasma, aj, and shel are all part of this group. There are rumors that Nick may have been in the club, but he won’t talk about it. They isolate themselves for hours inside section H. You can hear their laughter echoing through the nearly empty ship. A few of us have asked to join them, but they are being elitist pricks. Dave if forcing everyone new to some sort of initiation stage to prove you have what it takes to join their precious club. Then they “may” call you in a spot opens up. With no one leaving the ship, its pretty obvious that this is a power play to eventually take control. What a dick!
Two days ago Nick thought he heard a radio transmission coming in. He was able to record it but the signal was so weak it was barely audible. Nick thinks its Trendon, but most of us aren’t convinced. At a minimum it gives us hope even though it sounds more like wishful thinking.
I try to keep busy, but there are times when my thoughts turn to our mission. I often wonder what kind of success Vasques would have in the show after hitting .420 in AAA. Or if my staff will ever recover. These thoughts keep me going on these long days.
Update - The fog cleared up a little today, its is now possible to see a few miles. After a few minutes of being on watch Corey started acting crazy and scared a few of us with his story he told. He claims that the fog had lifted just long enough to observe a small patch of land through his telescope towards the west horizon. He claims he saw Trendon’s boat there against a very small island maybe 8 miles from our boat. What got us worried is his claims that he saw one of the mermaids he claims is keeping Trendon with her song. When we ask what this terrible beast looked like, Corey said she had a lower body that looked like a fish and a upper body that looked human. Have her a 5 or so, but thought he telescope may have been a bit blurry.
