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Test Dive #1
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TEST DIVE MEME
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?
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?
Archer (Nobunaga Oda) | Fate/etc
[Considering they seem to want these creatures back alive, trying to gun one down seemed like a bad idea. She didn't want to go through all this trouble for nothing, after all...so she really weighs her options, hoping to come to a decision based on a very simple question: what's the least likely advisable course of action to take?
So this results in the scene occurring before you right this moment: a woman in a military uniform holding onto the stalker's fin with both hands, feet firmly pressed onto (and maybe a little dug into) its back, as it swims about wildly trying to shake her off, to no avail. If it goes above water, you might even hear the second part of her brilliant plan: diplomacy.]
So, as we've been at this for quite a while, surely you've come to understand defeating me is out of the question! Actually, the entire time we've been at this, the advantage never once slipped out of my hands! You only live as a result of my magnanimity, so I would ask you settle down and listen! Do you understand? We'll move away from this unsightly idea of us as opposing forces and unify, thus ensuring your survival and m--!
[Yeah it just submerged again. Maybe it's smart enough to not want to listen to her.]
B
[If you're the type who takes confidence in other people managing well in stressful situations, be glad you're stuck with her. She has no idea how to actually get out of this situation, but that doesn't mean she's going to fret. Rather, she responds with the kind of sure can attitude you'd expect from someone who even has a plan.]
What a hassle...but it can't be helped! We'll simply regroup with the others; follow me!
[After a while.......it may become apparent you're not getting anywhere following this idiot.]
F
[And much like any other person taken in by the call of the ocean, she immediately gets out of bed with the intention of heading out for a swim...and if you want to stop her, or get in the way, all she offers as far as explanations go is:]
Fool! The ocean has made itself clear! And when one issues the likes of the great and mighty me a challenge, I never refuse.
[SHE'S GONNA FIGHT THE OCEAN, mostly because she misinterpreted the entire experience.]
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You can't just go fight a whole ocean by yourself! Even I'm not that reckless...
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[...yeah.]
F obviously
f for friends, f for fun, f for FUCK THE OCEAN, SON
[How cheerful.]
Re: f for friends, f for fun, f for FUCK THE OCEAN, SON
[beat]
What about sea-dwelling mammals?
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No, no, it simply wouldn't do. I won't play favourites! I'll include them as well.
[She is clearly a fair...mass murderer.]
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[She's totally forgotten about her no mercy run of subnautica.]
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It isn't. Lay the praise on him, Nobu.]
Of course, of course! I couldn't deny a request like that, could I? My name, gentle mass murderer, is Christopher Chareau de Red! Shall we be friends?
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A1
Dammit, it's going to swim away with you! Poke it in the eye or something!
[Tenryuu is not that kind of person.
Fortunately (or unfortunately), Tenryuu quickly swims over to where the stalker is thrashing about, trying to shake the Demon Archer off. Armed with only one piece of rope, Tenryuu... puts herself in front of the stalker, fully in range of its jaws, tugging the rope in both her hands.]
Pull it back, and I'll tie up its mouth!
[PLEASE, NOBUNOBU, IT'S GOING TO CHOMP ON TENRYUU'S HEAD AND SHE'LL REALLY TURN INTO METAL SALVAGE...]
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boatspeople in general, she ends up cooperating, using all of her strength to pull the creature back.And servant strength isn't to be underestimated, so surprisingly, she does a good job of wrestling it as instructed.]
Go then! Bind the great beast or lose your head!
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It's a good thing boats still have boat strength, or else they'd both be missing, like, two limbs each, maybe. Even as the knot is tied, the Stalker struggles, trying to fight back against the rope.]
Yeah, yeah! [Finally, she lets go, allowing the fish to try getting the rope off. Success, its mouth is tied shut!] Fufu, Tenryuu-sama is the king on both sea and under it! Let's get it into the ship.
['You should say thanks,' is the voice ringing at the back of her head. Right, okay...] Thanks for wrestling it, or something. What were you aiming to do, anyway?
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[Not that she was having a lot of luck...and in truth, she knew it. But giving up is clearly for people with...well, common sense.
Either way, with the Stalker now bound she hops off of the creature, drifting a bit, and then moves to grab it by the end of its tail.]
Come then. Between the pair of us, moving it won't be an issue.
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[YOU CAN'T MAKE A SHARK SUBMIT TO YOU?! Oh well, the people here are weird as shit. (Tenryuu included.) So she doesn't question much, just grabs the tooth part of its snout before leading it forward. It's struggling till its last breath, this one, and someone's still gonna get an eye poked out if they get too close.
it's a good thing Tenryuu's left eye is covered, then! Ha... ha... cool robot eyepatches actually make useless guards against Stalker tooth, though, which is why she swerves her head frantically whenever it swings it snout. Why did she end up with the difficult end full of pointy bits?!]
Aaand, in you go! [Hauling it to the base, URSULA very happily greets them as they dunk the Stalker into some kind of big on-wheels collection tank before finally getting up on dry land. Her feet hurt.] Phew! Great job, wrestling girl.
[Don't nickname the Demon King, Tenryuu.]
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Although it's not exactly a coincidence she ended up with the dangerous end of the fish; why should a great and mighty king risk her life when a capable soldier is right here?? Nobunaga's effort on the back end of things is energetic, at least.
And as they're back on dry land once the stalker has been stowed away, she offers Tennryuu a friendly slap on the shoulder.]
Wrestling girl! How quaint; but I'm afraid as far as aliases go, I'll have to reject it. The great Nobunaga Oda demands only the finest of nicknames, so put some more effort into it, would you?
That being said...you're quite formidable yourself- [She pauses here, because she doesn't know this girl's name either...] -one eyed dragon!
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[As someone who probably went to military school instead of normal school, she's probably heard of Oda Nobunaga. Knowing how the Japanese are a stickler for learning about history, especially when it comes to things like warfare, she definitely knows Oda Nobunaga is a ruthless, horrible Demon King...
...but she's such a cute girl... Tenryuu's immediate assumption is that Nobu's lying, but when she telepathically shoots a question off to URSULA, URSULA probably confirms it with a cheerful inflection.
Damn.
That being said, the thing which distracts her even more is what Nobu calls her. O-one-eyed dragon?! That's so (senbasa masamune voice) cool... the title dokuganryu is super-flashy for a
chuuniwarrior like her.]Heheh, is that what you think? You're preeetty close! Tenryuu's my name, but I'm no less formidable than the real one-eyed dragon. [Actually, Date Masamune probably came after Nobunaga's time. He only conquered Oshu when Hideyoshi was rampaging through everything else, aka after Nobu was dead. RIP.]
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is he going to let her keep this up, or project some bullshit fishing gear to help her? well, we'll find out... i guess... after he's done nagging in the brief spans of time when she appears above the surface. ]
Did taking extra equipment simply not occur to you?
[ he's staying out of the water for now, thanks. ]
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Hmph. Are you always so efficient, nameless Archer? You're far too cold; you should take note and follow my lead instead, so that you might learn something about passion!
i thought i hit post. oop.
he doesn't even stop to consider her direction before refusing. ]
No. Just hurry up and get the job done, will you? Demon King or not, this is taking too long.
[ do you need fishing gear. or like. rope? ]
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Very well then. If you have every intention of being so fussy, I'll concede if only to stop your nagging. [Extends her hand in his direction, expectantly.] Project something useful, would you?
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They're drawn to valuable looking things, right? [ did they try to bite your shiny boots off, nobu? well, here, he's projecting a very shiny and expensive looking dagger and tossing it into the water to her side. ] Restrain it while it's distracted.
[ and here is some nice projected rope to go with it, landing in the water with a dull smacking noise. ]
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Throw it to me next time, you buffoon...!!
[God, fine. She reaches down and snatches up the rope, then proceeds to stop being all floaty and dives back underwater.]
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Okay, that's enough. After some time Nobunaga emerges triumphantly, patting the great fish beside her as it flops a little in vain, bound and unable to escape.]
Hah! This is far too easy.
[she'll thank him later
much later.]
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he doesn't need your thanks, nobu, he'll toil in obscurity for the rest of eternity, it's fine. it's fine....
but, good job, you did the thing. they've got their stalker, but now they're however many feet above the base and have to get back down there with what is now a giant piece of bait. are stalkers related to sharks? will flipping it over onto its back do anything? it can't hurt to check, so here he is, crouching down in the little boat and grabbing the stalker by a fin to try and roll it over in the water next to nobunaga. maybe it'll work? hopefully. ]
It still needs to be taken to the outpost before the projection is dispelled, though.
[ WE'RE NOT DONE YET. ]
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