Fascinators?  They're things women (generally, but not exclusively I'd imagine) wear in their hair.  Presumably to "fascinate" potential mates. Royal Ascot (a horse race [1]) is probably the place to see them.  They seem to range from the relatively sane to the utterly outrageous.  Just do a google image search for 'fascinators' to instantly know the kind of thing.  Looking at a Dandelion I can't help feeling that hats (and fascinators) really would be their kind of thing.  Being mostly head.  And I must admit that I have now have an image of Llinos being a particularly well coutured Dandelion.  (Do they wear clothes generally?)

Oooh, I quite like both of those ideas.  I might have with lights at an evening 'campfire' meal in one of the ports.  And perhaps as the voyage goes on, an increasing collection of fishing lures to pass to the Captain or ones the Captain has discarded (he's not having much success - much like his rolls with women).  Sorry, let me rephrase that, his dice rolls for success or otherwise with women.

 

I was kind of imagining that they'd either seal well enough to allow some of the contents to have survived, or to seal well enough - particularly if they do dual duty for sea shipping and space shipping - that the contents would be entirely dry.

But that's my question - do I make it a completely surreal/funny contents that is/are perfectly dry; or a really valuable one that's been completely ruined... choices, choices.

(I should say that I was inspired by a) stories of yachtsmen/women hitting semi-submerged containers and losing part of keel and b) a news report of a container full of rubber ducks (i.e. bath toys) being lost at sea but then proving to be really useful to scientists as they could then use them washing up on various beaches to track currents.

I'm quite tempted by the idea of the PC's container being full of rubber ducks.

 

Well, that's kind, thank you.  Although there's a bit of me that suspects I'm better by report than in person.  After all, who's doing the reporting?!  You're only getting one side of the story.  Of course, it's the *best* side... ;-)    [2]  You would of course be more than welcome to join us, we're a bit thin on the ground at present so it would be great if we could round up one or two more.  I'm imagining more locals would be better though.

tc