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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!
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[and here, Ruby drops her voice and stage whispers.]
Because I think they're listening to us.
[even though they were literally given recording devices when they got put in here. so.]
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she does play along though. ]
Quick, think of something clever so we can trick them into thinking we're being good!
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Uhhh... so we come up with... the thing, so we can do, uh, the other thing! [she quickly clears her throat, and then,] You know, the... deep aquatic rehabilitation proliferation effort that I totally mentioned earlier and did not just make up right now!
[she's basically just using all the big words she can think of in an effort to sound ~educated~.]
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[ she actually sounds genuine when she says that, since she... is. ruby seems very smart to her and nice. ]
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Me? Smart?
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[ again, since completely sincerely. ]
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I try to be hardworking, but smart's a new one.
[yeah she's gonna be stuck on that one for a while.]
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[ she doesn't expand on what this or that even means. ] I can see why they thought you'd be a good choice to come up with something.
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[she's doing the true shounen-esque protag thing of looking down at the floor and rubbing the back of her head. it doesn't even cross her mind to ask what the heck Hajime means by that, because she is so preoccupied by the praise.]
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[ hajime sits up so she can properly look at ruby now. ] I'm sure we'll definitely come up with something URSULA-chan will like.
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What's the -chan for?
[she asks the Important Questions.]
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[ that does not explain what it is at all. ]
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[at least give her some context!!]
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It's like when people say mister, except if they said mister all the time! And also cuter!
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[translation: sounds fake but ok]
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[ her tone changed slightly for that. it's still... cheerful sounding, but less extremely hyper. it bounces back immediately though. ]
So that's why you're Ruby-chan to me, but you can just call me Hajime.
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Ooh... that kinda makes more sense now! Like, I have this friend—his full name is Lie Ren, in that order, but we all just call him Ren because his last name comes first in his culture even though it doesn't in like anyone else's? [she pauses for a bit, then,] The world is weird.