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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


alienates: art @ nymphicus (dave ♋️ wrestlemania)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man, am I? I had no idea! Here, let me apologize to her right away. Hey, Hotaru, I'm sorry and all but stop eavesdropping and get a hobby you tiny human child.

[ one of karkat's hands finally lands on dave's face and he just. yanks on his fucking left cheek. LET GO, YOU FUCK. ]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ha ha! That's a funny joke, since we are both well aware that the person who is going to lose this isn't me. You may be acting all confident, but I believe that you're intelligent enough to understand that you're really no match against me? I'm starting to think that you're going this far, even resorting to embarrassing yourself like this, just because you want to hang out with me so badly? You didn't have to do this to yourself to make that happen, man. I would have been your bro regardless but it is too late to back out now.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (dog........)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-06-21 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Remember that thing about tonal variation, and not having it? Well. That didn't stop being a thing.]

Damn. You caught me.

Guess I'll just have to face the consequences of my elaborate machinations.
parodeity: (KARKAT 🎧 stop)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-21 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ nah ]

Can it even be called eavesdropping? Like. I don't know if you knew this, dude, but it takes actual effort not to hear you when you talk. It's not like you're using an inside voice. Ever. Even when we happen to be inside.

[ casually begins to mess up karkat's already messed up hair. ]
astromechanical: (betelgeuse.)

[personal profile] astromechanical 2016-06-21 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
( beoo. ) [ following behind her, ever faithful, bb-8 gives one more little nudge but this one being much more gentler and more encouraging as he gives a series of reassuring beeps and trills. the slump of her shoulders hadn't gone unnoticed by them and the last thing they wanted to do was upset her! bb-8 wanted to make sure this was going to go just right is all.

so they're doing their best to be of help to elize in finding more grain too, following behind her while their head whizzes back and forth in search of their goal.

oh! what's that they spot? ]

( beop beep? ) [ is that a container with grain in it that they spy? they stop and give elize a little beep! to get her attention. bb-8 isn't too sure thanks to their height disadvantage here and would be happy to hear her input on this possible discovery. ]
potentite: (Default)

[personal profile] potentite 2016-06-21 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
As a gentleman, you have my solemn oath that I won't pull any punches. [Well. He'll use rubber bullets. Dear god he hopes not everyone he wants to train with insists on live ammo.

Still his face lights up. a moment later as he realises something.]


Wait a New York minute! Holy smokes, you said gee willikers! That's... [Does he have a word strong enough for this?] That's positively aces. That's... smashing? Goddamn it, my vocabulary fails me for how ecstatic I am! Everyone thinks I talk funny. Speaking frankly, I think their accents are a little queer.
potentite: (Default)

[personal profile] potentite 2016-06-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh god he's turning so red that he's sure he's going to explode.]

I-I think that... won't be entirely a problem... [Or maybe that's saying too much? He's just going to quietly die inside.] A-Anyhoo! Ahem, I, uh, shit. I have no topic change handy. Oh, look at this ocean. It sure is deep. Fuck.

[Just let him put his head on the control panel and die.]
potentite: (072)

[personal profile] potentite 2016-06-21 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's pretty sure people wonder more why he thinks so many are good but that's fine. He won't correct it since his tastes sometimes take people by surprise. Also it's harmless? He's pretty sure.]

I can't wait. We should have a movie night. We can share movies with each other! I would invite the others but I don't know if they could appreciate it. It may be best left to the two of us and save sharing the goods at a later point, when they might be able to accept it.

[Truly he feels a bond to this angry man.]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Since when were you the expert on inside voices? I want to see your degree on the subject, considering you are apparently so fucking knowledgeable on what does or does not qualify as an inside voice.

[ karkat just starts to flail wildly in the hope that? something will work?? and get dave to let go??? ]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I am about seventy five percent sure that you're being insincere right now and I don't appreciate it.

[ at this rate he doesn't seem to appreciate dirk at all?? ]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (your PRAYING WRONG)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-06-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
So there's a twenty five percent probability that you do appreciate what I'm doing.

[Yeah Dirk's not worth appreciating let's be real.]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea. Everyone else is just obviously not at a place where they are able to comprehend good art. I have attempted to introduce Dave to things I like so many time and he either always falls asleep or makes dumb jokes about it? I'm at a point where I just need to deal with other people who understand me.

[ and his love for romantic comedies. ]
potentite: (Default)

[personal profile] potentite 2016-06-21 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, tell me about it. Dirk and I have some overlap in tastes but most of the time he'd prefer to tell me why my movies didn't meet his hipster standards. I wonder if lack of proper movie enjoyment is just a Strider thing...

[Not that he really minds the complaining when it's funny most of the time. But sometimes you just want to enjoy Adam Sandler.]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It fucking has to be. Sometimes I think they probably don't even dislike it as much as they claim to, and are only saying it just to mess with us? As if agreeing might discredit their cool kid credentials or something.

[ the obvious answer would to just be stop watching movies with striders but

karkat cannot do that. ]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-21 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. I would not go that far. You are putting words into my squawk gaper now.

[ even though karkat did in fact more or less say that but.

look, dirk, karkat does not pay attention to at least half of what comes out of his mouth. ]
logdate: (9)

[personal profile] logdate 2016-06-22 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
For all I know, they could be!

[ Peridot snaps her retort right back at Karkat. This conversation is making her irritable (trick question she's irritable all the time). She glares at him for a long moment and then takes a deep breath to try and center herself. Calm down, Peridot. Don't chew his head off. ]

Alright, that... wasn't... fair of me.

[ Is she... trying to be... nice? Sort of? ]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (where MAKING THIS HAPEN)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-06-22 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
They'd have a good time of it. [Since the Light Frogs are the easiest prey Dirk has met in his life.

The more important thing: orange-flavoured stuff. Dirk straightens up, his inexpressive face turning immediately back towards the dinner plate.]


So fucking ready. [He has waited his whole LIFE.]
potentite: (Default)

[personal profile] potentite 2016-06-22 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Why would they stop forcing Striders to watch movies with them when it's fun.]

Exactly! I can understand some lapses between our differing preferences but it's a little much. They must actually be crazy for them. They're so sensitive... I wouldn't laugh at him for admitting it.

[He would just mercilessly tease him. Very different.]
parodeity: art credit unknown, please contact (THUMBS UP 🎧 sarcasm)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-22 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
As the only person in this relationship who possesses an inside voice I am in fact our fuckin' expert on inside voices.

[ dave waits for the exact second that karkat's flails are likely to smack karkat in the face if he lets go and.

lets go.

he's so nice. ]
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-22 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
I am perfectly aware that it wasn't fair of you but thanks for actually admitting your horrible error.

[ his inner jade voice tells him to "be polite, fuckass!" though so maybe he should

attempt to be

not..... hostile..... since peridot made an attempt.... ugh. ]


Why don't we both agree that the two of us do not represent either of our species?
alienates: art @ nymphicus (dave ♋️  <__<)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-22 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
English, we should attempt to catch them in this web of lies that they have annoyingly weaved. There has to be some moment of weakness where they unintentionally reveal their true feelings on these films. A slight upward turn of their smooth lips. The hint of a chuckle. They are not infallible.

[ there are. probably better ways to spend their time than this but nah this is very important now? ]
Edited 2016-06-22 04:11 (UTC)
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-22 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Fuck you I overrule this terr--

[ and that is when karkat is going to punch himself in the fucking face and topple over

leave him here to die ]


Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
parodeity: mrharrisonford @ tumblr (CHUCKLE 🎧 you knucklehead)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-22 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Nice one, dude.

[ dave says like he. didn't entirely allow that to happen on purpose. ]

Are we done with the ridiculous flailing fighting portion of the day now or do you wanna go for round two?
alienates: art @ nymphicus (Default)

[personal profile] alienates 2016-06-22 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
You lucked out and you know it. If that hit connected with you, not only would you be sporting a bruise the side of Derse, but your obnoxious shades would have been shattered immediately. I hope you comprehend how close you were from facing what would have been a Just death.

[ he rubs his face, pouting. ]

Shit Dave am I bleeding? Here, look at me and tell me if I'm bleeding.
parodeity: electricgale @ tumblr (EYEBROW 🎧 raised)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-22 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Don't even joke about breaking the shades, you know this.

[ but ok, dave will lean over karkat to look at his self-inflicted injury. ]

You're not bleeding. I doubt you're even really gonna bruise?

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