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

Comments

[alienates]

[ what.

is that an insult? or a compliment? karkat isn't entirely sure what a grandma is? he is pretty sure it has something to do with human families but he isn't... sure... where? didn't jade have a grandpa? or something. wait, are grandmas really strong?

roxy has to be fucking with him. ]

Yes? I mean, fuck yeah, I do. Obviously. Since I just said so. [ very convincing. ] Which one is the grandma again?

[voidkatini]

You are, Grandma.

[ Roxy knows he was probably asking which one of the guardians was the grandma, but if she isn't completely obtuse with him then what is even the point of anything. Why have laws. Why have anything. Why anything? Just, why. ]

Okay Granny, got your Life Alert and walker? We're burnin' daylight here and I know you gotta be in bed makin' sweet, sweet lovin' to-- [ She pauses. Is she going to go there? Is she? She's grinning like a cat. ] --your sheets.

[ She didn't go there but wasn't the suspense rad? ]

Don't wanna miss that Early Bird Special waaaay before sane and reasonable people have even gotten it in their pans to get out of bed. What the fuck you gotta get up so early for anyway, Grandma?

[alienates]

[ he just stares blankly at her at first, because literally all of these references are going right over his head and this is why humans are so awful because they always. do this!!! at least trolls usually explain their obscure references whenever they do make them!!!

and then his expression changes from one of confusion to complete horror when it looks like roxy is about to mention his relationship with dave? like, you can actually see his brain slowly short circuiting from that close call but then she just keeps fucking going and what the fuck is. she. talking about. what the fuck is a grandma!!!!!! ]

No. I have decided that I am not the fucking grandma, this is no longer a thing. We are banning this particular word from any and all conversations, past present and future. If you even so think any of forming any of those letters into a word that even remotely sounds like grandma, you're done. I will dump all of those video games out into the ocean, Roxy. Do you want that? No I don't think so but this is an evil I am willing to do for the sake of the greater good. Are we agreed here? I am not, and never have been, a goddamn grandma? You haven't said anything yet but I am taking it as an agreement. We have both signed this metaphorical contract, have zipped our plump lips, and are moving onto a different, less aggravating topic.

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy just rolls with this, because whatever. This is actually the most fun she's had in a long time! What does that even say about her, she wonders. ]

Okay, okay, grandma, calm your tits. Oops, I mean not-grandma, since being kickass is apparently not your thing anymore.

You think my lips are plump?

[ Because she only focuses on the important things. ]

[alienates]

I refuse to believe grandmas are any form of kickass. Why hasn't anyone brought them up sooner then? No, I am pretty sure you are just fucking with me. I've got my eye on you and will not fall for any of your tricks.

[ wait. what did she say? when did karkat call her lips plump? he thinks back over what he had just said and

fuck. he immediately covers his face. ]

Nooooo. Nope. You are just imagining that, I made no mention of your soft looking lips or any other body part. Maybe we've been out here too long? Perhaps the air in here is contaminated? We should leave and report this to the others right away while also never mentioning what we just spoke about to anyone else!

[voidkatini]

I'm actually not? Jake's grandma was all sorts of badass from what I hear. I'm not makin' fun of you at all here, broski, you're probs the most kickass grandma I know now next to Jake's.

[ Okay so she was only messing with him a little, but it was a joke, son. Calm the fuck down. She only meant it half-heartedly. ]

Chill out. It was a joke, dude. All of it was just a joke? If you don't like it just say so and we can move the fuck on.

[ Why are the people from her world like this. ]

[alienates]

[ i'm sorry roxy but the word chill is not in karkat's vocabulary. he's either going 0 or 100 there is no in between here, and the gauge is usually stuck at 100. ]

Of course I knew it was a joke. I'm just testing you, to see if you knew that I knew it was a joke. Ha ha, you just failed, better luck next time.

[ yeah because that worked every other time karkat has tried it. ]

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy just shrugs. ]

Sucks to be me I guess!

[ She has no problem letting Karkat win this round, because whatever. She's just trying to have a good time here and honestly she has no desire to argue with trolls. She was just having a bit of fun in good ol' Roxy fashion, but if he's going to make a federal fucking issue out of everything, then. Well. PASS. ]

Let's just get outta here alive, okay? I know you can totes handle yourself, but I got your back.

[alienates]

[ GOOD HE WON SOMETHING. even though it was a stupid thing to fight over and roxy wasn't even actually fighting but. a win is still a win, whatever.

karkat's just glad that she dropped the whole lips thing because most of the people he knows would have not actually let that go. it's for that reason only that he just nods his head instead of continuing to be difficult for no real reason. ]

Right. I mean, those things sounded pretty far off so they probably won't be a problem right? We didn't run into any coming here.

[ pls he does not want to fight any monsters underwater, that is not the level of bullshit he wants to deal with today. ]

[voidkatini]

You'll probs run into them a lot. They're kind of the next biggest most abundant staple here, next to fuckin' water.

[ And fuck, does she hate water. Fuck water, seriously. ]

I'm just sayin', those guys can do a lotta damage. I've seen it. And I ain't really interested in seeing yet another one of my friends bein' beat up by them, so.

[ Yes, she considers you a friend, whether you like it or not. ]

[alienates]

[ oh. are they friends now? that's... hm. karkat is already used to having friendship aggressively thrust upon him after he backwards trolled john, but this is very sudden?? but dave really likes roxy so karkat should probably accept this friendship even if roxy is oddly fixated on grandmas.

time to never actually tell her any of this. ]

Aren't you a god tier? You should have those obviously overpowered skills, right? Whatever... Void does, how the fuck does that work? I know you made the Matriorb but what else can you make with it? Have you tried doing anything else yet?

[ this is slightly off topic. ] Anyway I'm sure we'll be fine. Between your god tier abilities and my general awesomeness, we'll kick all the ass.

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy is actually more fixated on dicks, just like Dave, but whatever. If he wants to think of her as being fixated on grandmas then there's just nothing she can do about that. ]

Yeah, one-hundred percent god-tier here. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do bugwinged fuck-all while here? I mean I can still do some things, but if you're askin' me for another Matriob then whew, dude, you're gonna have to get in line.

I can't actually do much here. I either really suck at this or my powers are broken now or... I don't even know. All I can do is make pumpkins. It's whatever.

[ She shrugs. Sorry to disappoint you. ]

[alienates]

[ alright that's actually interesting, no one else mentioned nuked powers. roxy is hard to judge by though, since karkat is pretty sure she was still learning how to use hers? ]

What about the others? Can they still use their powers fully?

[ granted it's also probably difficult to gauge whether or not seer and heart powers are fully functional since they're more. abstract or whatever. karkat still isn't entirely sure of what heart powers even entail, considering nepeta never figured out hers? he knows dirk has, but he hasn't really spoken to the guy about that kind of thing yet. ]

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy just shrugs. ]

Dunno. Haven't actually asked anyone?

[ She just figured it was her own ineptitude, and not something beyond her control, because of course she did. ]

I've made nothin' but pumpkins since we got here. Thought for a while I totes fucked up and lost the troll egg too, but it turns out I'm just further back in the timeline and I totally did that at some point, and managed to deliver it to Kanaya and everything.

[alienates]

[ oh god is there weird timey bullshit involved here? karkat hates weird timey bullshit. why is that even still a thing when they're no longer playing the game? give them a break. ]

Yeah that's all taken care of and she's probably moming the damn thing to death right now, wherever she is. [ karkat misses his bro ): ] So you didn't fuck that up.

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy smiles. She's so glad she was able to help Kanaya, if not their entire race. She just wishes it had happened to her already so she could remember it. ]

Welp. I try my best not to fuck shit up, so yay for me I guess. [ That might come out a bit more self-deprecating than she intends it to sound, but oh well. It's been kind of a sore spot for her lately. She's getting over it though, ok. ]

N-E-waaaaay, you wanna just. Skip all this swimming back bullshit and let me zap us back to base? Because fuck the ocean, seriously.

[ She's gotten better at the whole proxy teleportation thing and is eager to try it out again. And fuck the ocean as well, of course. ]

[alienates]

[ it looks like he's going to say something because honestly, karkat is no stranger to self-deprecation so he should probably say something encouraging, maybe? he doesn't really know roxy that well though so. he just moves onto the next thing she said instead. ]

Jegus fuck, yes. I am so tired of all this water. Couldn't they send us to a less shitty planet that actually has more than ten feet of land every ten miles?

[ seriously this place is Awful.