Draft 4
Title: Lost at Sea
Description: Years after the end of the failed search for the missing sailboat Adventurer and its crew, the boat was finally found, locked in pack ice in the oceans around Northern Brancaland. As major news sources bring the incident back into the spotlight, concerned citizens are asking how to prevent this from happening again.
Option 1: “Obviously, we need to have all boats create and submit a travel plan to my office before they leave port.” says Minister of Maritime Matters @@RANDOMNAME@@ while setting a new globe on your desk. “We’ll track them with radar and send a rescue team if they stray off course or send a distress call. Private boaters would have to pay a small fee to cover expenses, but it will be worth it for everyone's safety.”
Effect: rescue teams are overwhelmed searching for boats a few meters off course
Option 2: “Everyone knows that you’ll reach the Great Ice Wall if you sail too far!” exclaims infamous flat-earther @@RANDOMNAME@@ while trying to flatten your globe with a rolling pin. “It would be too much of a hassle to use all that fancy radar to track boats, especially when the solution is obvious: Ban boating! If no one sails, no one will get trapped in the ice!
Effect: @@NAME@@ is pretty much landlocked
Option 3: "You're all overlooking the biggest problem, the ice!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, the one member of the "Climate Changers Society", while lighting your globe on fire. "If we increase our carbon dioxide output by removing our environmental protection laws, we'll raise the temperature of the globe and melt all the troublesome ice! Sure, it might take a few years and we might lose a few coastal cities to sea level rise, but out boats will never get stuck in ice again!"
Effect: citizens wonder why the government is stocking up on sandbags
Option 4: “Avast! Ye government knaves have no right to dictate where me and me hearties travel!” shouts suspected pirate @@RANDOMFIRSTNAME@@ Blackbeard, barging into your office and waving a cutlass and impaling the remains of your globe.“Ye government scallywags! The @@LEADER@@’s Revenge shall sail wherever we please with no interference, or you’ll walk the plank!”
Effect: ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter the @@DEMONYM@@ Pirate Crew
Small changes to the wording of option 2.
Draft 3
Replaced the cheapskate with a flat-earther and added Baggieland's pirate-speak suggestions.
Draft 2
Added a crazy 3rd option and changed some wording to extend this to all types of boats.
Draft 1