Panel 1 [The camera pans further down the dock to show LAWRENCE MANNER also looking up at the ship, only more wistfully/hopefully. Lawrence is a slender white man in his mid 20s, dressed in a style that is similar to others on the docks, but looks a little too crisp, not worn in.]
Panel 2 [Shot over Lawrence’s shoulder as he looks at a flyer nailed to a post]
Panel 3 [Close up of the flyer, and Lawrence’s hand lifting it closer to see]
FLYER TEXT:
SEEKING! Ambitious and able-bodied men of good moral character for a whaling voyage bound for the warm Pacific! No previous experience necessary—-Landsmen welcome and encouraged to apply! A once in a lifetime chance to see the world AND earn a handsome profit in the noble pursuit of the whale. Advance $75. Inquire with the undersigned at 110 Front Street.
—Terrence Hanshaw
Panel 4 [Lawrence looking up from flyer with a searching expression, mumbling to himself]
LAWRENCE:
110 Front Street…
Panel 5 [Shot from behind Lawrence, showing the view across the street of a small building with a few men milling around outside. The sign above the door reads ‘T. Hanshaw - Outfitter’
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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