You wake up in an unfamiliar town, surrounded by unfamiliar people. There's some kind of journal clutched in your hand, and as you stare blankly around you, the sky slowly starts to turn a deep, murky green.
Confused?
You should be.
If you're in the town square, you'll also see thick, greenish mist starting to pour out of the fountain. It overflows almost instantly and spreads through the streets, curling around the legs of various townsfolk who don't seem to notice. It's hard to imagine they can't feel that sharp drop in temperature, though.
Don't bother trying to get up to escape these oddities, because suddenly you'll find you can't move.
It's almost as if everything just freezes in place: people abruptly stop walking, the breeze disappears, and there's nothing but silence hanging heavily in the air.
Until a gravelly voice begins to echo inside your head.
...Dribbling cack-handed deck apes — this be the trash I ended up with?A ghostly figure appears then, large and looming over the town. He's almost skeletal, is wearing a large pirate hat, and looks none too pleased as he makes a disgusted sound.
Aye, these maggots will have to do... There's treasure here for the taking. Ye'd be best off heading for the seas to find it.
Because if ye don't...The figure grows larger suddenly, and the green mist now surrounding him seems to pulse with a kind of charged energy, like the thump of some far away heartbeat.
Ye'll be regretting it.He hangs there for a moment longer, gradually looking over the town and slowing turning in midair until...he stops.
And stares straight at you.
Those dark, empty eyes bore into yours for several long seconds—
And then the figure just disappears.
The sky clears, the streets come alive again, and you're left where you were before that whole episode started: on the ground, lost in a new world, with some kind of weird journal in your hands.
The next move is yours~