fishesoutofwater | TEST DIVE #3

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TEST DIVE #3

PREMISE & NAVIGATION ✦ RULES ✦ MOD CONTACT
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FAQ ✦ BASE ✦ BIOMES ✦ URSULA ✦ URSULA CONTACT

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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.

[ karkat... firmly stays where he is, partly because fuck you dave and also because this makes him feel tall.

but mostly fuck you dave. ]

Who! The fuck! Is Betty! There is no one named Betty here and there aren't any streets, Dave. Don't you dare compare me to an imaginary boyfriend, because I will imaginary kick your ass so hard that you will never be able to make another s'more again. Is that what you want? Also I am only rude to people who deserve it so if I'm being rude to you then guess fucking what? It's your just desserts, fucknuts, I hope you're ready for seconds.

Dude, you have yet to really win a wrestle match with me, do you wanna fuckin' go. Don't answer that I know you actually always want to go at anything and I would like to pretend for at least like half a day longer that we are more mature than we pretend to be for the sake of...

[ uh ]

Well ok tbh Dirk thinks I'm uncool anyway so I guess carry on? [ he kind of wants to Talk about dirk and the whole dating karkat thing but like he also doesn't actually want to have that conversation around a bunch of other people while karkat is. sitting on him.

wtf dude move???

dave doesn't actually attempt to dump him off though so whatever i guess this is happening now ]

But you are completely ruining your own cred which you maybe had an iota of beforehand.

[ yeah, perhaps they should wait til a moment where people are giving them weird looks because of... everything that just happened.

instead of moving, karkat just makes himself more comfortably. if his s'more didn't hit the ground, he'd be eating it right now. ]

See, that's your first mistake, Strider. My cred always stays intact. No matter what anyone else thinks of me I am always cool just by virtue of being me. I know that is a difficult concept for you to grasp, as you unfortunately do not share this same benefit, but I assure you that I am very confident that I can do whatever the fuck I want.

Okay, but consider: saying "no homo" does not make you just sitting on me all casually as you shout at me any less homo. And romo. You do realize that while I may have handed you the shovel you are like, basically digging the hole here entirely on your own?

[ like

as per usual

but ]

Bros sit on each other all the time! This is a perfectly normal thing to do and anyone who thinks that romance has to be needed in order for this to happen, they are sadly mistaken. In fact, I always sat on Sollux.

[ because they were wrestling and it was on accident??? but still. ]

And as we all know, I definitely was not in a relationship with him because frankly he was not my type in any shape or form.

[ that one awkward as fuck conversation he had with sollux will go with him to the grave. ]

Did you have a crush on him too at some point?

[ karkat gets crushes pretty easily so dave would not even. be surprised. it's useful that he isn't the jealous type at all, here.

mostly he tends to laugh about it tbh... ]

Also I'm p sure it's not a normal thing but ok suit yourself, bro.

What the fuck why do you always immediately assume I had a crush on someone? It's not always about crushes, Dave! I am able to have strictly platonic feelings for people that also do not veer into moirail territory!

[ lbr karkat definitely had a crush on sollux. ]

Are you telling me you have never sat on John before? I mean, ignoring the fact that you only met in person fairly recently. But I am pretty sure you would have sat on him if you had the chance in a very bro way. Like how I am sitting on you right now, in a bro way. As bros. Since that is what we are.

Ok, but I didn't even mention having a crush on the dude paleways, you're the one who brought up the moirail feelings.

[ so

good job hiding that?????????? ]

And sure. We're whatever you want us to be. Which apparently includes "stared at by everyone" atm, but who am I to stop you doin' your thing.

I never admitted it was pale though, fuckass. You just jumped to that conclusion just because I mentioned moirails!

[ which. implies that there is in fact feelings of some sort involved?? karkat will never stop digging his own grave, he is permanently attached to this shovel.

when dave mentions everyone else though, karkat turns his head to look at the others. ]

Fuck off, we are having a private discussion over here and I do not appreciate you all blatantly eavesdropping?

[ dave. rolls his eyes and then uses karkat's distraction to get the leverage to flip them, initiating one of their usual wrestling matches.

sup karkat been a while since he's gone for a headlock. ]

Dude, play nice.

You can't tell me to play nice then put me in a headlock you insufferable prick! Get off, you smell fucking awful and I hate you.

[ karkat slaps at dave's arms, attempting to loosen the hold. get the fuck off!!!

maybe he can try to roll them over?? ]

If I didn't put you in a headlock you'd be arguing about what a "fucking delight" you are.

[ like he can roll them over if he wants but dave isn't letting him out of this headlock. this is their life now. you brought this upon yourself, karkat. ]

And you're bein' rude to like, Hotaru, how could you man. She's sweet as fuck.

[ she's also twelve so

dave means this in an entirely platonic way ]

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. ]

[ 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. ]

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??? ]

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. ]

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!

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?

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.

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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