Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #87 - Ghost Ships

Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - Ghost Ships

Another Halloween-themed prompt for you ! Ghost ships are a staple part of tales from both sea and space. Sometimes they are just abandoned vessels found drifting at sea with no sign of the crew, like the Marie Celeste. At other times, they are terrifying visions with cursed captains raging at the wheel, like the Flying Dutchman. They can even appear out of nowhere to save other ships who are in an impossible situation, like the Dawson's Christian.

Tell me a tale from your setting about a ghost ship - it can be a wild scary ride, a creepy tale, or anything that takes your fancy, from sea, space, or maybe even ships on skis across an icecap or wheels across an endless desert !

Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

• Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
• Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
• Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
• Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
• Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

• Freewriters
• Scholar and Scribe
• Tabletop / DND
• The Ink Well

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.