fishesoutofwater | TEST DIVE #3

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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!

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[ Come to think of it, she's a mechanical genius? So surely, she can at least try to help? That's right! Courage, Alphys. Talk to the stranger who looks like someone out of your human animes. ]

O-oh! Y... You're a mechanic? I, uhm.

[ She taps her little claws together. ]

I-I should. Should p-probably help, yeah! Just... as long as I don't get in your way, I mean!

[It would be easier to do it himself. But Dave says he should stop acting like the last man alive on Earth, so... Time to let the dinosaur help?

Still feels like being the last man alive but he guesses that instead there are dinosaurs which is actually awesome. Okay. He's down with this theoretical postapocalypse.]

Sure. What do you know about these things?

[Best to start by establishing this baseline.]

[ Alphys pauses. Sweats. Looks at the floor. ]

W-well.

[ Gigapause while she summons the nerve, he's just such an aloof guy. She has a difficult time reading people in general, but this guy takes the cake. He's got her completely on edge. ]

A l-little?

[ have u met metaton, the lovable menace ]

Edited 2016-07-17 06:49 (UTC)

[Alphys just tell him? As it is Dirk can't tell so he just. Defaults to 'nothing.' Because whatever.

He takes his VERY COOL NEW NORSE-GOD FORGED KATANA out of his strife deck.]

This pulses electricity on contact. We should be able to jump-start the engine and get going again with it.

[It's like he gets more anime by the second honestly.]

[ Ohhhh no not a badass Japanese sword?! Just like in her animes... oh God. She doesn't know how to deal with a real-life anime that's not Undyne. Hell, she barely knows how to deal with Undyne!

She glances around nervously, but then it hits her. Wait a sec... ]

The technology of the base, and even some of our t-tools, are powered by either solar power, power f-from, uhm. Organic decomposition, thermal power, or n-nuclear fission, b-but the Seamoth runs on regular power cells, which are just like a car battery if you w-were to take them apart? It's just a big battery f-full of a b-bunch of smaller batteries. I-if that sword is uh, if it p-pulses pure electricity, then all we need to do is take the power cell out from the back of the vehicle, bring it in here, and uhm... u-use that baby to charge it! Just l-like jump-starting a car... o-or, more precisely, an electronic device like a cell phone.

[ She pulls out a wiring kit from her lab coat pocket, because she carries tools and wiring around like a nerd, and then just kind of. Looks flustered. ]

Th-theoretically, of--of course! I-I just don't have any wiring handy, s-so uhm. Yeah. We can make our own? Unless you have a better idea, I mean then by all means please do that instead.

Edited 2016-07-17 08:18 (UTC)

[....]

I was going to get into the water and stab it.

[...]

Your idea is probably safer?

[He. Thinks. HE IS SO BAD AT SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ALPHYS what's a little electrical shock between friends.]

[ That actually gets her to smile! Yay! ]

Y... yeah! Probably, huh? Do you mind being the one to, uhm, r-retrieve the power cell?

[ Even though she's smiling, now her anxiety is back full-force. Thinking about trying to swim this deep under water? Being surrounded by all of this ocean is terrifying enough on its own!

Basically you couldn't pay her to go out there. Not even if you were to pay her in animes. ]

[Her animes will protect her.] No problem.

[Yup he just ducks straight out to get the powercell on the outside HE REALLY HAS NO PROBLEM WITH IT. He comes back five minutes later and drops it from his sylladex.]

You doing okay?

[It comes almost out of nowhere. The anime shades are looking at her.]

Don't worry. I can defend us if we end up stuck here.

[He will protect the dinosaur.]

[ Wow. That's. That's a lot of confidence in a single anime dude. Humans really are amazing, she thinks. If only monsters could unlock their secrets. ]

O-of course! I'm fine! [ Said a little too quickly, before producing the wiring she rigged up, rolled up neatly, and put into her lab coat pocket in the five minutes he was gone. ] H... here! Let's hook it up so it can start charging...

[ So they can get back to the base, or land. Land is also a valid option, right? ]

Okay. There are probably less convincing statements out there.

[Alphys, seriously.

He takes the wire and immediately crouches down to hook it up. Wires on one end, and then he—yeah he just straight up has to stab the other end? IT'S HOW THE SWORD WORKS.]

[ Alphys just awkwardly ignores that because how does she even begin to unload her fears onto a stranger? She couldn't possibly.

She crouches and helps him hook it up. ]

How... how are you able to p-pull stuff like that out of thin air? A-are you magic?

[ It did not startle her initially, since she's used to being around weirdos who make stuff appear out of thin air all the time. Like Undyne with her spears.

God. So many spears. So cool. ]

Edited 2016-07-17 09:09 (UTC)

No. [a pause. is magic real or fake? the eternal homestuck question] It's more like a mechanic of how my world works. We store things in our sylladices.

It's basically a video game inventory system when it comes down to it.

[He's even pretty sure that Jake modelled his off of Resident Evil.]

[ Alphys perks up. She didn't know humans had similar technology! How wonderful. She feels... really good about that, for some reason? ]

Oh! Just like my cell phone! [ She pulls out her cell phone, which is not only outfitted with a very animu case, but also has a couple of magical girl phone straps dangling from it.

noooo alphys you were supposed to SUPPRESS your power level... ]

How does your phone work?

[He sees those. He won't comment on those.

Are they Pretty Cure or something??]

[ Alphys realizes her mistake far too late. She doesn't know whether to feel relieved or alarmed by his lack of commentary on the completely weebed state of her phone, so she looks a little something in between. ]

O-o-oh, w-well uhm! I-it's actually very simple, you see. [ Gulp. ] It only works sometimes o-on this planet? Technologies of different universes, advanced ones in p-particular, appear to not always m-mesh well with this planet's abandoned technology. E-especially technologies that are, uhm. M-magitech?

[ or mebbe she canz infuses her majyyks intos their puters? is that a thing monsters can do? surely that's a thing. ]

Does it just store shit in hammerspace?

[They can take it apart later but SO MANY PEOPLE LACK HAMMER SPACE??? so this is the most important thing to establish first.]

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