fishesoutofwater | 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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ hajime's opinions on the base differs from freya's. it's not that she loves it, exactly, but she likes the people and every day brings something different (if sometimes a little ridiculous? everyone here is so ridiculous and it's great?).

she's walking by, holding a few snacks, when she spots freya. hajime hands the supplies over to some other crew member before heading on over to the other girl. ]

It is, isn't it?! Everyone seems to be having a good time!

[Freya looks up from where she's sitting, her head cranes back while her palms catch behind her keeping her torso raised. A warm grin touches her lips when her stormy gray eyes spot the girl moving towards her.]

A change in scenery is nice.

[Says the girl who chronically travels around the globe.]

Join me, fires are more fun with friends.

[Freya sits back up, waving to the empty space next to her. She might go ninja some marshmallows and really get this party started. 26 and the thrill of burnt sugar has yet to disappoint.]

[ hajime happily settles down next to her, crossing her legs as she gets comfortable. ]

We spend so much time underwater here that we keep missing out on how pretty everything is! [ hajime points up at the sky. there are definitely a lot more stars visible here than there are back on earth. and while hajime definitely enjoys city life, this is very nice. ]

[Freya's gaze turns up towards the stars, following the direction of the girls finger. Her smile widens and she inhales a breath of cool air.]

You aren't used to stars are you? [She can tell simply by hearing the awe in the girl's tone.] I've been to the top of mountains and the view isn't unlike this.

[Though that'd been on earth.]

It's nice that the planet is like this all over, right? I hope we don't intrude too much being here.

[ although everyone seems to be doing their best not to disrupt the ecosystem? they can't really speak about anyone who had been here before them though, unfortunately. ]

I think being here is technically an intrusion.

[Freya's thoughts about the circle of life and the nature are a little skew. She lightly paws at the ground with her fingers, drawing invisible shapes in the ground.]

I guess we'll see.

We can't really do much about that though. It's not like we can just leave.

[ they have no ship. so the best they can do is try to keep everything as undamaged as they can while they stay on this foreign planet. ]

[Freya shrugs, her lips forming a slight pout. She realizes that but she doesn't particularly have to like it. She hates feeling like a science experiment or a hamster in a ball.]

I know. There really is no point in thinking about it, huh.

[She rolls her head to the side to look at the girl, long blond hair spilling over her shoulder.]

Let's tell stories? Preferably ghosts stories but I'll settle for anything.

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