The original ADVENTURE is actually a holodeck program. So 10.
(Phew… Had to save the flagship somehow…)
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Bali B&B has a single very minor and skippable scene involving some fishing boats as scenery, so I score a 2, yay! (I would be terribly ashamed to miss out on the nautical theme altogether, so I therefore approve this rubric).
(Now that I’ve mentioned this, I feel I should offer readers a prize for reaching that scene. Ah, I know! I shall send you a very pretty ocean postcard to ANY LOCATION ON EARTH if you find the scene with the fishing boats, and PM me your postal address!)
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Does a whale count as a boat? I think it should.
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Death on the Stormrider is a 10, as long as you consider an airship to be a boat. It’s meant to be much more boat-like than airplane-like, at any rate. (In the air for a long time with a crew working in shifts.)
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Oh shoot! I totally forgot about the 100% unskippable scene in Bali B&B involving a makeshift raft. Which technically brings me up to a 4!
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I remember your thread about this:
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The Ship takes place on two different ships; a pirate ship and a space ship. I’m assuming that’s a BIG ten.
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And since I live in the Midwestern US, a BIG ten counts as fourteen or, in a few years, eighteen!
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I have a river and a ferry to cross it,
so I guess that means my entry “One King to Loot them All” gets a 4 
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The ferryman's unseen gaze fixes upon you. His hand, gnarled and weathered,
emerges from the folds of his robe, fingers outstretched. His demand is unspoken,
but his gesture is clear: payment for passage across the boundary.
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If it’s the one I think it is–well, as rivers go, that’s a pretty major one. So yeah, that gets a 4. Maybe a 5, since it’s a big journey.
Wonder what score is for Andromeda Apocalypse. You get out of the ship at the end, but not exactly unwillingly. 9.5?
(Also, there are earthbound flashbacks, although on a somewhat floating continent…)
This is important and necessary work, Andrew, but I feel like you’re missing a higher plane:
11: The player is the boat.
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Hmm, I think Sting is a 6.5 (boat racing sequence in a harbor). Will have to do better next time!
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Depending on where the player steers the conversation, Galatea has some serious shipping going on between the PC and the statue…
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This is incredible.
That is all I have to say on the topic.
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Like the Golden Banana of Discord, there needs to be a BOAT GOAT prize.
Maybe like a Lego boat where it is passed from previous winner to current winner, except one piece is replaced every year.
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Detective Osiris includes a boat as scenery in one area, and in addition to that, during one conversation, a character uses a nautical metaphor. I guess that makes it a 2 or a 3?
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Assembly lets you build many things, but a boat is sadly not one of them. Similarly, Honk! has plenty of clown car goodness but nothing to take to the high seas.
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Oh now that you mention it… I also have the GOAT:
With the goat secured in your powerful grasp,
you step onto the ferryman's boat.
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I have a vision of a fairytale about a baby goat playing with a toy boat in a clawfoot bathtub…
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