fishesoutofwater | TEST DIVE #3

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TEST DIVE #3

PREMISE & NAVIGATION ✦ RULES ✦ MOD CONTACT
TAKEN ✦ RESERVES ✦ APPLICATIONS ✦ HIATUS & DROPS
FAQ ✦ BASE ✦ BIOMES ✦ URSULA ✦ URSULA CONTACT

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Reserves open on the 17th
Applications open on the 24th
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NOTE REGARDING THIS APPLICATION CYCLE

For information about the animals and locations, be sure to check out the BIOME and BASE pages! Note that TDM threads can be used for game canon and several prompts are based on crew contributions to the base that are being worked on this month!

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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[ the s'more is promptly handed back, and dave continues to kind of semi-smile. ]

See, was that so hard? You didn't melt or anything. And now I'll make them for you whenever you want assumin' we have the supplies on hand when you want.

[ karkat immediately munches on it, pouting slightly because once again, fuck you dave. and your delicious snacks. ]

Ok but you could have also just given it to me when I told you to? We could have skipped over the last five minutes [ he knows it wasn't actually five minutes and dave better not give the correct time ] and have gone straight to here. And stop looking so smug, I see that smile, it's right there taunting me.

Eight minutes and thirty-four seconds.

[ obviously he's giving the correct time ]

And I'm smiling with you, not at you.

[ that doesn't make any sense, dave ]

I'm not smiling?

[ he smacks dave on the arm for actually giving the time though. stop being such a smart ass, god. ]

You know how sometimes you get so overwhelmed with a feeling or realization that you can only stare in awe for a good solid three minutes? I cannot believe how much of a loser you are.

Not outside, but on the inside you're totally smiling.

[ i mean that's probably false but dave's just being dumb, putting one hand over his heart. ]

I can tell. Your prickly exterior hides soft mushy goodness. And/or more of a prickly exterior. The excavation teams have yet to report back.

[ karkat tosses a piece of the cracker at dave's head. shush, you loser. ]

That's because they all realized this was a lost cause and left for home. Looks like you will never find out the answer, Strider. Although I can definitely give you a hint. It's definitely not soft or mushy.

[ he throws another piece, aiming for dave's nose. ]

[ dave opens his mouth and catches the cracker piece. ]

Eh, I'm pretty persistent. Guess I'll just have to have my own excavation mission to the innermost reaches of Karkat Vantas?

[ wait

wait shit that sounded wrong quick say something that sounds better ]

Where you know your guts are not anything weird. But soft mushy guts.

[ what

what the fuck was that? ]

I don't know what I'm saying right now.

[ he's resigned... ]

[ oh

my god, dave.

karkat covers his face with one hand and just thinks of all the different ways something could pop up and kill the both of them right now? or at least knock them out and give them amnesia? ]

Holy fuck please don't come inside me.

[ wait shit that's even worse. ]

Dave we need to change the topic right now immediately and never mention this ever again.

Yeah, I'm. Let's continue to give thanks to paradox space that most of our conversations do not happen within earshot of other people.

[ ... ]

At least not the worst ones?

[ rose never needs to hear of this conversation they definitely did not have. ]

So. What do you wanna talk about?

[ karkat is pretty sure those mining into him comments would hit the psychoanalyze jackpot so yeah it's best if they just keep this mishap to themselves.

as well as every other mishap.

they have a lot. ]

I don't know. Why is it up to me to think of a new topic? You're putting me on the metaphorical spot here.

Uh. Okay, what do you think of Dirk?

[ this topic is probably safe

like

they'll probably find any pitfall that exists in this topic with extreme prejudice but that's true of all topics ]

[ technically this topic is also putting karkat on the spot because he is fully aware of how much dirk means to dave?? so

wow what does he think of dirk ]

I can't tell when he's fucking with me or not and I do not appreciate that. Like it's kind of like when you troll me except he's better at it since I have a way of making you stop.

Whoa, hold the fuck up. I would be better if you didn't have a way to make me stop, though, right?

[ dave

is that what you should be focused on here ]

[ karkat snorts. ]

Nah I think you lost all of your points there. After three whole years I've basically grown an immunity to you and your stupid antics? I wouldn't even blink at any of your trolling attempts.

[ karkat you literally threw a fuss over the s'mores earlier?? ]

[ dave raises one eyebrow. ]

Do you really wanna go there, dude. Because I will take us there. I will get behind the wheel of this metaphorical submarine and we will go there, just the two of us. And you will regret it so hardcore.

The only thing I'll regret is how much time we will have wasted on this dumb experiment. I could be doing so many other things that would be better than watching you fail miserably? Actually, scratch that, watching you be bad at things is pretty entertaining. Do we have any popcorn because I suddenly need some for this shit show that you are about to unleash on me.

[ yeah no he's going to regret this hardcore ]

[ okay because dave has to prove that he can still cause a vantas temper tantrum in zero seconds flat. he reviews his options and settles for the simplest weapon possible to him:

he just kisses karkat's cheek in full view of anyone else in the surrounding area and then leans back and waits for the explosion.

dirk's better at pissing karkat off than dave his ass he has spent three years learning how to do that to perfection ]

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!

[ karkat drops what's left of his s'more and literally just. falls off his fucking seat and lands, on his back, onto the ground. he struggles for a few seconds to get up but eventually just gives up and he aggressively starts to push himself away from dave. while still on the floor.

he's not getting very far. ]

Dirk's better than me at trollin' you my ass.

[ he wins. where is his prize.

besides the freaking out troll on the ground he means

dave should probably do something about that but honestly stopping karkat tantruming takes more effort than starting him tantruming? ]

Dude, you look ridiculous.

[ nope karkat is still just slowly moving on the ground, inch by long inch. he's probably attracting more attention now than when dave did when he kissed him?

he is definitely attracting more attention now. ]

You're ridiculous, you shitty pajama fuckhead. I cannot believe you would sink low enough to try that on me. Do you have no shame? Motherfucking scandalous behavior, Strider.

Just don't cover what I did in your little tantrum if you don't want people to know it happened, dude.

[ dave will just. cross his arms and stand there as karkat flails and yells on the ground. he is way too used to this. ]

Told you you'd have mad regrets. Why is it you never believe me when I warn you about that shit?

[ ok you know what? fuck this. karkat is going to flip over so he's on his hands and knees instead of his back and... lovingly crawl towards dave to

fucking tackle his legs

timber.mp3 ]

[ like dave expected something like this but all the same he doesn't put up much of a fight so he goes down while

laughing

because ]

Oh my dick you are the fuckin' worst at not attracting attention. Dude, you're making people stare?

Noooo? This is literally all of your fault and I hate you, jegus fuck. What if someone saw what you did? What if people think we're dating?

[ even though they

are???? dating?????? ]

Oh no. Whatever would we do if they believed such vicious slander and lies.

[ dave says, completely monotone. he's not actually sure what karkat's plan was here beyond tackling? so he just kind of lays there on the ground, unbothered by the fact he just got slammed into the ground.

it's not like this is the first time this has ever happened and he sincerely doubts it will be the last time. either way, dave is not interested in a wrestle match right now. or yet. who knows. ]

I mean, I am pretty sure some people already think that. And you are not exactly helping our case with the whole still being on top of me thing, do you plan to fix that at any point in the near future? Also how fucking dare you waste my cooking. I slaved over a hot fire for like one full minute, and this is the thanks I get? See if I ever wear an ironic apron and make you easy junk food ever again, Karkat. I bet Betty from down the street's boyfriend never tackles her to the ground and throws her dessert on the floor? Like, we're inventing a new scale for rudeness entirely for you and then probably a new scale after that one when you inevitably break it by going off the charts.

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