Panel 1, [Long panel, show sailors gathering up rope and harpoons]
Panel 2 [Flashback image ripping through page, showing whalers in tumultuous water, their rowboat up alongside a whale. A harpoon is fast to the whale, and the whalers are struggling with it, their boat nearly overturned and up against the whale’s open jaws]
NARRATION:
We hunted them til we could not stand, leave her johnny leave her.
And the harpoon lines cut into our hands and it’s time for us to leave her.
Panel 3 [whalers rolling barrels of oil off ship]
Panel 4 [Pulled back shot o the streets of New Bedford, full of barrels.]
Going to Weather is a 3 Act nautical ghost story set on a New England whaleship. Updates in batches monthly.
1843. New Bedford is the city lighting the world, with its wealth drawn bleeding from the ocean depths. Whale oil lamplight glazes domestic life and spermaceti candles burn long at the tables of the rich. Their warm glow belies the brutal work that set them there.
From the chaotic harbor bristling with ship masts, a cobbled-together crew boards the whaleship Valor bound for the Pacific. Among them is Lawrence Manner, a landsman hoping to shed his onshore life, and Ezra Carter, a second mate striving for a captaincy in a nation that has few other options for him.
The ship’s master—Barzillai Waite—has built a reputation of great success, returning time and time again with thousands of barrels of oil in the Valor’s hold. But the Captain’s lucky image is dogged by a tale that he was once the sole survivor of a wreck at sea. The Valor, now on her fourth voyage, somehow feels older than she should. And out on the isolated stretch of ocean, as the tryworks smoke and bubble, an unseen and unwelcome passenger begins to make itself felt.
Content Warnings:
• Animal cruelty / animal death (whaling)
• Blood and gore (human & animal)
• Violence (shipboard, creature, and supernatural)
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