fishesoutofwater | TEST DIVE #3

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TEST DIVE #3

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A: There’s a Storm on the Horizon
A brainstorm. On advice about the ingenuity of multi person parties, and from admitted lack of understanding of many needs of organics, URSULA has selected you and a partner (or partners) to go to one of the observatories with food, beds, and recording devices to have a jam session for ideas about missions.

You are not to leave the room until you have some good ones. So get cracking! Start suggesting to one another what the base needs to do.

Or get horribly, horribly sidetracked and possibly a little crazy at being locked up together with the ocean staring at you. Judging.

B: The Abysmal Sea
You’re stranded.

One of the planet’s troublesome signal-interfering pulses has just made your communication devices 100% nonfunctional. No matter how you try to call URSULA for help, she isn’t able to respond. The database strapped to your wrist is just a useless chunk of metal now, leaving you without a useful library of knowledge to survive off. If you were driving any underwater vehicle prior to this point, it’s broken down. And unless you’re a mechanic, it’ll be pretty hard to get it jumpstarted again.

Don’t fret! The communication systems always come online eventually, so if you stay put, it’ll boot back up and give you directions straight back to base so you can finally get home. But can you really afford to stay put? The sunlight’s slowly streaming out of the sky, leaving the waters darker and darker with each passing second. Soon, you won’t be able to see five feet in front of you, and the only warning you’ll get of any approaching threat is through sound, if they even make any.

You have a few choices: take a daring risk and try swimming back to base, but on the off-chance you don’t remember the directions correctly from before you were cut off, you’re going to get even more lost, in the darkness of the night no less. Or, you could huddle in, with any friends if they were unfortunate enough to be with you, and start focusing on getting warm. Because spending the night out here in the vast oceans with the entire world against you is becoming a very, very real possibility.

C: Test Drive Test Dives
The Robotics section of the laboratory needs your help! Whether you were a poor sap who got dragged into it or love working on robots, this is your time to shine!

A few suits need testing to get the kinks out of them. And you know, figure out how they work in general. So be a dear and get in one so the others can watch you flail around and discover how it works.

If you're not into being a crash test dummy, you can help do repair work, analyze blueprints of various underwater vehicles, bring in scrap metal to work with or maybe just try painting the Seamoth neon pink.

D: Camping Trip
Floater Island is the only real land around so even if it's a longer trip, it's nice to volunteer for an overnight mission there sometimes. Who doesn't want to camp out under the stars when you've been living under the sea this whole time? Attempt to make s'mores out of plants and that chocolate bar you have left! Play with Birdogs! Go for a swim in the lake! Try very hard to get some sort of emotional response from a Light Frog!

Well, sure, you're here on a mission but it's okay to goof off and enjoy yourselves with some campfire stories and freshly cooked Chomper kebobs sometimes. Just grab a few samples from the abandoned farm at least so it looks like you actually worked.

E: THE AURORA
Quiet except for the creaks and rumbles as the ship settles and shifts, the sound of Reapers screaming in the distance every so often, the Aurora is a creepy place to visit for a mission. The remains of those crew members not buried, and the belongings of many others, still litter the ship's halls. It might be nice to remove any skeletons you find.

Of course, their misfortune is your opportunity to catch up on some reading, browse whatever video games they left, get medical supplies and enjoy the comforts they no longer need.

But is it possible the Aurora is haunted? Surely not. Except sometimes you might hear voices from far away. It might just be the people you came on board with, unless they're with you. Or it might be a Cave Crawler knocking over some recording device. You're not too scared to check, right?

F: Farmville
Time to tend to the crops! That's right, the underwater farm needs your help. Some trees and plants rest on the seabed under protective covers that allow them to grow their leaves and fruits while the roots firmly keep them in the sand. Harvest some apples, more apples, oranges, strawberries and other delicious produce that sounds much, much better than a regular diet of fish.

And once you've helped get a basket full of crops for the base, it's time to cook them! But what are you going to make? Apple stuffed fish? Orange stuffed fish? Nah, get creative with what you have! Everyone is counting on you for dinner!

BASED ON CODE BY TESSISAMESS AND SUPERSUITS

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A: brainstorming

[Setsuna's not sure how she's going to fit in here. She's not sure how she's ever going to fit in anywhere, really, but a place like this in particular with so few places to achieve any kind of privacy... it's simultaneously disconcerting and appealing. It's clear life as a well-kept secret is long behind her. Time to set forth into the strange new world of forced socialization.

That doesn't mean she's going to be especially good at it, though. For now she's seated, long legs crossed under her on one of the observatory's beds, and her pen is resting lightly against a still unmarked sheet of paper.]

What about drafting some kind of star chart? I know there aren't many tools but something rudimentary could prove useful.

C: SUIT UP

[While she's not the natural in the water Michiru is, Setsuna's more than willing to try swimming, especially if it means getting out of the cramped space inside for a little bit while also contributing to research here. She never expected to get to try a suit that turned her into some kind of technological mermaid but she's doing her best. Unfortunately, for all that they look flashy, the fins aren't the best for generating speed, or so she's finding.]

Am I doing something wrong? If there's no other way to propel yourself in this then I think maybe some more materials research might be in order.

[Her voice sounds tinny to her own ears as she uses the suit's communicator to speak to the team in the laboratory. If it's feedback they want, she'll offer it as best as she can. Otherwise, she's happy to have some time to really stretch her legs... in a manner of speaking.]

E: AURORA

I'm not sure I believe in ghosts.

[After all, a ghost would be some kind of being displaced from time and space and if that were to happen, surely she'd know something about it. This may not be her solar system or even her universe but some things should remain constant. That means something else is making that noise on the other side of the door, though, and she's not sure if the remains of the Aurora would survive her attack if whatever it is turns out to be hostile.]

We could just check another room. Whatever is in there will probably not survive till the next mission out here anyway.

Aw man fuck yes I was kinda considerin' it anyway? A bunch of us made up some star constellations and myths when we found Floater Island.

[ dave is sprawled on his own claimed bed, legs crossed at the ankle and arms crossed behind his head. he's pretty casual about being locked in to brainstorm. this is not his first time, apparently, but then...he's been around for a little bit now. ]

But, uh, we never like. Actually actively charted anything. You into stars?

[His language is a little bit surprising but Setsuna does her best not to let it show. The information about the constellations is much more interesting anyway.]

It might be helpful if we did. You can navigate by them, and with the right instruments we might even be able to figure out our location.

[Of course that would all be relative to the universe they're in now. Is there even an Earth here?]

Mmm, yes, kind of. They're so distant but we still use them to understand better where our home is. That's fascinating, don't you think?

I guess until we see one we won't know for sure the stories people tell back at base are true or not.

[ He's not being entirely serious though, since he also doubts there are any specters here. Then again, who knows? ]

But yeah, I think we're done with this one for now. Got a few good souvenirs already. Can't wait to play these games when we get back.

[ He's prepared to make the move when she is. He's exaggerating on the amount of video games he's swiped -- only two and the rest were medical supplies. ]

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Don't some stories claim they're invisible, though? Then we'd only know by whatever damage they're doing.

[Or because it's a rickety kind of wreck with a constant faint sense of motion from the water around it. Things just fell, or at least that's Setsuna's take on it.

She regards the door for another moment before starting to turn away.]

We shouldn't take more than we can carry so I agree, this is plenty. What games did you get?

[For herself, she's mostly taken books and blank notebooks for sketching but she's curious about the video games. She's mostly used to arcades; the idea of playing them at home is new.]

Oooh, scary. That's right -- there were those too.

[ He holds up two games -- one of them has a picture of a space-ship on it and the other appears to have a fighting game logo on it. ]

I took one that looks like sci-fi and another that's probably a fighting game on it. The first one doesn't have a title, but the second says "SIDE FIGHTER" or something like that.

Want to play one when we get back?

[His comment that it's scary, whether it's sincere or not, draws a little smile from Setsuna. She peers at the covers when he holds them up; they're not familiar but she wasn't really expecting them to be.]

Sure, though you might have to show me how. Are the game systems here the same as the ones where you're from?

[Otherwise it'll be the blind leading the blind but that might be better in the end.]

[ Hotaru here is mainly here to scavenge whatever medical supplies may be left over. Healing can only go so far, and she can't be everywhere at once. The creepy sounds don't disturb her too much, predisposed to gloominess as she is, but the possibility of ghosts isn't zero for her. ]

I'm fine with checking another room, but... I don't think ghost don't exist. I have a... [ Friend is a word she's still shy about using because she can never be sure... the other party may not feel that way. ] I know someone here and I can talk to him, but I can't see him.

[Setsuna wouldn't rule out the possibility, but something like a ghost is impossible to prove. She's seen her share of impossible things, but ghosts?]

A friend you can't see? Did you only meet him here?

[She's not convinced this is a ghost; a place with native telepathy could mean the communication is just with someone who is literally always out of sight. As she speaks, she moves on to the next door, testing the handle. Not locked...]

Yes, I only met him here. He said he wasn't a ghost, but he's not human?

[ Something like an angel... a seraph? He's as nice and helpful as an angel in any case. ]

I'm not sure, but this planet has made more things seem possible everyday.

Does he have a body at all then? If not, I wonder why he stays here.

[After all, with no body there's no need for food or oxygen and gravity is no object. Someone like that could just leave if they wanted to. Of course, Setsuna's in no great hurry to leave, so maybe this friend has a purpose of his own as well.]

I think they were always possible, the planet just forced us to look at things differently and realize the possibilities. An invisible being still makes more sense than a ghost, though.

I've seen him move things.

[ But she doesn't know if that's with his body or if he has telekinesis. It's not something she's really thought to ask straight out. ]

Do you really think so? What do you think happens when we--pass on?

[ Pre-Saturn awakening means blissful (or not so blissful) ignorance. ]

[ Michiru is not testing any suits, besides, perhaps, her bathing suit, visible in flashes at the unzipped collar of her wetsuit. Her goggles, outfitted with a visor to assist the lab with their analysis, but her voice crosses the telepathic gap between them, soft and firm. ]

The rhythm of your knees isn't quite right.

[ She demonstrates, the movements hopefully more clear out of a suit than they would be otherwise. ]

[The telepathy is still not completely natural to her and even though it's Michiru and as such a familiar voice, the immediacy of it makes her blink. Setsuna watches the demonstration attentively then flexes her legs again, working to match Michiru's effortless rhythm. She does get a little more propulsion out of it this way; controlling the way the tail fin recoils after her kick seems to be critical.]

Like this? I thought it was more of a hip motion but this does seem to work better.

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TEST DIVE #3

setsuna meiou / sailor pluto // sailor moon (90's anime mostly)

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