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Test Dive #1
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TEST DIVE MEME
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A1: Go Fish
You! Yes, you! Your friendly neighbourhood AI has a task she would like to encourage YOU to do! After all, you can’t forget the most important fact: you’re here to make the planet habitable. Which means cataloguing, capturing and studying potential threats to anyone’s life. That includes a swarm of Stalkers that have been hanging around the waters awfully near the base, which presents a perfect research opportunity! At least, URSULA seems to think so.
Don’t go in willy-nilly waving your knife around, though. URSULA doesn’t want you to bring in tonight’s Sashimi Surprise™, she wants you to bring in a Stalker that’s still kicking. Which means you have to capture a live one. So hold back your crazy power or trigger-happy instincts!
How will you take one in alive without ending up dead yourself? You could go in the brute-force way, slamming its jaws shut and bagging it, though it’s pretty strong itself… or you could be a bit more cunning, taming it with bait or giving it shiny metal salvage to play with before luring it into a tank to bring it into the base. You might want to get a helping hand with this task, since it’s not exactly an easy one-man job.
A2: Go With Fish
So, now you’ve got a live and very disgruntled Stalker on your hands! Hopefully, said hands don’t have to be amputated (it’s okay if they have to though, URSULA will fix it. Try not to watch the nanites go). What do you do with it? You could keep it as a pet and observe its growth! You could dissect it and study its anatomy! Or you could… eat it. (After going through all the effort to bring it in alive?!)
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: It’s dangerous to go alone. Take them!
URSULA’s technology is breathtaking. With enough materials, she could make practically anything: weapons, vehicles, all those human comforts and entertainments she forgot to build... or perhaps she could expand the base to give everyone even more leg room. But there’s a catch: you need to get those materials to her in the first place, and scavenging can be a monumental task.
The planet Iniidae has a plethora of materials to provide, but you’ve got to go find them first. Some are easy enough to get, by plucking off the ground or breaking a rock. But some are a bit more challenging, such as Crash Powder, seeing that the Crash defending it will literally explode in your face if you get too close. And then there’s materials such as Blood Oil, only harvestable within the Blood Kelp Caves several hundred meters underwater in the pitch-black darkness… remember, you have to gather resources with your two bare hands. No such thing as driving around and conveniently collecting them within the somewhat-relative safety of an armored vehicle.
Since it’s so dangerous to go alone, URSULA will encourage you all to leave the base in pairs or groups if you’re going to try collecting some of the more precarious materials to harvest. She has heard that most lifeforms find being reconstituted from nanites traumatic, so try not to die in front of each other!
D: Hide and Seek Help
URSULA knows that everyone needs downtime, and no one can go salvaging or gathering specimens all the time. So what do you do for fun on an alien ocean planet when the AI who made your base forgot to make any kind of entertainment room?
Why, play hide-and-seek, of course! There’s a lot of places to hide away from others, and it’s challenging to find anyone. (Sometimes, too challenging to find them… ever… but that’s not the point.) The area around the base and submarine is relatively safe, so anyone can hide away in a coral structure or a cave, and telepathy makes it easy to taunt your seekers without revealing where you are.
Of course, you may encounter a Bone Shark or even a stray Stalker, and you won’t have time to get away or even scream as it attacks you, but hey. What other way to make hide-and-seek more thrilling than to turn it into hide-and-hope-you-get-found-as-you-shout-for-help-to-anyone-who-can-hear-your-telepathy?
E: Toilet Humor
Really, it was bound to happen eventually. Someone's in the bathroom observatory, doing their 'business', and someone is trying very hard to catch a fish for dinner outside. Your eyes meet. Someone has literally been caught with their pants down.
And in that moment your telepathy goes a little wonky, because it's good to have open communication about this incident.
F: The Caverns of Dream
The ocean calls you. Of course, it's much easier to dismiss it as nightmares. You'll probably think that's all it is after you have them. Flashes of screaming sea creatures writhing in agony, pleading for help, but these creatures can't ask for help, can they? Something huge, beyond the scope of imagination, moves in the ocean of your dreams and calls out to you to go deeper into the darkness. It pleads and begs but not with a voice you can hear or words you can understand.
You wake up in a sweat with the unrelenting desire to take a swim, even though it's late and everyone is asleep. Or maybe someone else just had the same nightmare as you? Are you willing to take a swim and try to understand the dream?
For information about the animals and locations, be sure to check out the BIOME and BASE pages!
A1: Go Fish
You! Yes, you! Your friendly neighbourhood AI has a task she would like to encourage YOU to do! After all, you can’t forget the most important fact: you’re here to make the planet habitable. Which means cataloguing, capturing and studying potential threats to anyone’s life. That includes a swarm of Stalkers that have been hanging around the waters awfully near the base, which presents a perfect research opportunity! At least, URSULA seems to think so.
Don’t go in willy-nilly waving your knife around, though. URSULA doesn’t want you to bring in tonight’s Sashimi Surprise™, she wants you to bring in a Stalker that’s still kicking. Which means you have to capture a live one. So hold back your crazy power or trigger-happy instincts!
How will you take one in alive without ending up dead yourself? You could go in the brute-force way, slamming its jaws shut and bagging it, though it’s pretty strong itself… or you could be a bit more cunning, taming it with bait or giving it shiny metal salvage to play with before luring it into a tank to bring it into the base. You might want to get a helping hand with this task, since it’s not exactly an easy one-man job.
A2: Go With Fish
So, now you’ve got a live and very disgruntled Stalker on your hands! Hopefully, said hands don’t have to be amputated (it’s okay if they have to though, URSULA will fix it. Try not to watch the nanites go). What do you do with it? You could keep it as a pet and observe its growth! You could dissect it and study its anatomy! Or you could… eat it. (After going through all the effort to bring it in alive?!)
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: It’s dangerous to go alone. Take them!
URSULA’s technology is breathtaking. With enough materials, she could make practically anything: weapons, vehicles, all those human comforts and entertainments she forgot to build... or perhaps she could expand the base to give everyone even more leg room. But there’s a catch: you need to get those materials to her in the first place, and scavenging can be a monumental task.
The planet Iniidae has a plethora of materials to provide, but you’ve got to go find them first. Some are easy enough to get, by plucking off the ground or breaking a rock. But some are a bit more challenging, such as Crash Powder, seeing that the Crash defending it will literally explode in your face if you get too close. And then there’s materials such as Blood Oil, only harvestable within the Blood Kelp Caves several hundred meters underwater in the pitch-black darkness… remember, you have to gather resources with your two bare hands. No such thing as driving around and conveniently collecting them within the somewhat-relative safety of an armored vehicle.
Since it’s so dangerous to go alone, URSULA will encourage you all to leave the base in pairs or groups if you’re going to try collecting some of the more precarious materials to harvest. She has heard that most lifeforms find being reconstituted from nanites traumatic, so try not to die in front of each other!
D: Hide and Seek Help
URSULA knows that everyone needs downtime, and no one can go salvaging or gathering specimens all the time. So what do you do for fun on an alien ocean planet when the AI who made your base forgot to make any kind of entertainment room?
Why, play hide-and-seek, of course! There’s a lot of places to hide away from others, and it’s challenging to find anyone. (Sometimes, too challenging to find them… ever… but that’s not the point.) The area around the base and submarine is relatively safe, so anyone can hide away in a coral structure or a cave, and telepathy makes it easy to taunt your seekers without revealing where you are.
Of course, you may encounter a Bone Shark or even a stray Stalker, and you won’t have time to get away or even scream as it attacks you, but hey. What other way to make hide-and-seek more thrilling than to turn it into hide-and-hope-you-get-found-as-you-shout-for-help-to-anyone-who-can-hear-your-telepathy?
E: Toilet Humor
Really, it was bound to happen eventually. Someone's in the bathroom observatory, doing their 'business', and someone is trying very hard to catch a fish for dinner outside. Your eyes meet. Someone has literally been caught with their pants down.
And in that moment your telepathy goes a little wonky, because it's good to have open communication about this incident.
F: The Caverns of Dream
The ocean calls you. Of course, it's much easier to dismiss it as nightmares. You'll probably think that's all it is after you have them. Flashes of screaming sea creatures writhing in agony, pleading for help, but these creatures can't ask for help, can they? Something huge, beyond the scope of imagination, moves in the ocean of your dreams and calls out to you to go deeper into the darkness. It pleads and begs but not with a voice you can hear or words you can understand.
You wake up in a sweat with the unrelenting desire to take a swim, even though it's late and everyone is asleep. Or maybe someone else just had the same nightmare as you? Are you willing to take a swim and try to understand the dream?
Oliver Queen | DC comics (preboot)
Who sends people to catch something called a "stalker" anyway?
[Anyone tagging along or just unfortunate enough to be within range will get a loud telepathic rant from the man nearby that looks like he isn't used to anything aquatic. With only a knife to catch the fish, Ollie did the rational thing (for once) and used peepers are bribery to lure in the stalker. But now that he has its attention he doesn't know what to do with it.]
And who the hell wants one of these things alive?! You gotta be crazy to want these guys around!
[And just to make things worse, the stalker isn't alone. And Ollie still has some peepers on him.]
C
[Oliver is on the scavenger hunt for materials to build a better base. He doesn't quite know what he's looking for, but since URSULA noted that materials can be used to make practically anything, he's out looking for it!
...Whatever "it" is. At the moment, Ollie's still learning how to swim properly. Give the man a break, he's not used to getting around in the ocean. Not to mention he doesn't have super strength to carry metal salvage or too many things at once.]
How are we supposed to find copper out here anyway? Hnh. And if we do find everything, we still need plans to build from them.
D
[They're playing hide and seek! Although Ollie is playing seeker more because someone stole his freshly made cooked boomerang. Not that he really loves the taste of fish, but he's hungry and options are limited in the alien ocean. So now he's outside around the base, looking for the culprit that took his lunch.]
All right, you kids. You better come out with all your fish! I'm not playin' around anymore!
[He's trying to be intimidating. Trying.]
C
[For right now Jamie's sort of hovering in place beside Ollie, getting the lay of the land. Or ocean. Whichever.]
//It's just in rock deposits in some of the caves, right?// He's adjusting pretty well to the whole telepathy thing, at least. //I guess we just...break some off and hope there's ore in there.//
//And there's a lot of different kinds of people down here, so maybe there's someone who knows something about engineering.// Jamie is hoping so, anyway.
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But he's doing his best?]
Breakin' rocks, huh? I guess I can do that.
[Luckily when it comes to telepathy, Ollie doesn't think hard enough to really be put off by it. He barely realizes he's doing it.]
All right, kid. Get your water gloves on. Let's start hitting these rocks and making them cough up metal.
[That's... close to what Jamie said, right?]
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...right. There's some caves, uhhh - southwest? Let's check there first.
[And now it's time for actual swimming. Jamie's technique is horrible, but it's succeeding in propelling him through the water, so...mission technically accomplished, on that front.]
This takes some getting used to, doesn't it? The whole...underwater thing.
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All right. Can't be hard to pick up rocks in a cave, right?
[Ollie can swim, at least. He's used to some of this, even though he's nowhere near at home in the ocean as he is in the city. He can still get around, and he has his knife, so he's ready to dive right in. The cave looks a lot like a tunnel when they get close. Weird alien plants and strange rock formations making it very clear they are nowhere familiar. He pauses at the entrance, frowning.]
Don't forget to keep track of your air supply.
[He says that because he's probably going to do it. And then he's leading the way, looking for ore deposits in rock chunks like Jamie told him they'd be.]
Heh. It's not so bad once you get the hang of it.
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[He releases a breath that escapes as a cloud of bubbles rippling to the surface and carefully kicks into the tunnel, guiding himself along with one hand at the wall. He pokes around for a little while in silence, examining hunks of rock, bits of detritus, and bioluminescent plantlife as he makes his way through.]
Find anything yet? I'm not having much luck so far.
c
( Damian happens to be a good swimmer. The fact that Oliver is not is more annoying than anything else. He's been watching the man intently for the last few minutes when he finally speaks out to address his skills - or lack there of - instead of answering his question. )
You're wasting energy. ( He swims closer, aligns himself beside Oliver. ) Watch. ( Swimming forward a few feet, he makes a point of moving slowly and pronouncing each movement so Oliver can properly see to mimic him. ) Like that.
( He fixes an expectant look on Oliver, but offers something in regards to Oliver's earlier inquiry, if unintentionally. )
Cooper is an ore. It needs to be mined or extracted from some sort of rocks. This URSULA should have some idea of what to do with materials we collect.
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Look, I got this.
[He's the master of wasting energy in everything that isn't archery related. It's kind of amazing he even made it this far without problems.]
Fine, so we get the ore and the machine makes it into something useful? It better be working on making us better food, because fish are going to get old fast!
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Damian scoffs when Oliver speaks. He folds his arms across his chest and spares the man a look that says he doesn't believe him. At all. ) Of course you do.
( He turns away from Oliver briefly in favor of letting his gaze sweep the immediate area, nodding to what the other is saying. ) Ideally. If it can't, there might be someone else who can. ( The technology here isn't what he's used to in the Batcave, but he might be able to give it a go himself.
His attention finds the blond again, and he rolls his eyes at the mention of being tired of fish. ) If you could swim better, I'd suggest finding something else to eat. I'm not sure it's worth the effort otherwise.
( Because your swimming sucks, Oliver. )