Panel 1 [View of both men on either side of the agent’s desk. Hanshaw is opening his manifest book and reaching for a pen. Lawrence is looking on with a bit of anxiety.]
HANSHAW: Understand you the details of the flyer?
LAWRENCE: I believe so.
HANSHAW: Your name?
LAWRENCE: Lawrence Manner.
HANSHAW: Age?
LAWRENCE: Twenty-six.
Panel 2 [Close shot of Hanshaw starting to write in his book.]
HANSHAW: Right, Mr. Manner, you get your $75 just before putting to sea. We’ll mark you down for the 1/180th lay on whatever the Valor brings back, to be paid out ‘pon her return.
Panel 3 [Hanshaw looking bored as he starts to write down Lawrence’s information]
HANSHAW: Come back on here 10th of November to procure your outfit and sign the articles. The Valor departs that same morn, half past five. Don’t miss it. Pleasure doing business.
Panel 4 [Lawrence stepping back slightly, looking a bit suspicious/surprised]
LAWRENCE: That’s it then?
Panel 5 [Hanshaw smiles wryly.]
HANSHAW: Remarkable, ain't it? All the wealth and glories of whaling right here to be took, for those men brave ‘nough to take it.
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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