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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?
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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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Which means that, despite it all occurring following her death, she knows this isn't Masa for the same reason she knows how successful Hideyoshi had been once he'd succeeded her.]
Hm? Oh, that's really your name? I thought "heavenly dragon" sounded made up, but if you insist...[The same way she thinks "demon king" sounds super cool. Maybe they're kindred chuuni spirits.] But that being said, I'm well aware you're not him. I simply thought it seemed fitting, all things considered.
No matter. Perhaps I'll simply call you by your name, instead.
[She says, as if that's unusual...]
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[DOES IT SOUND WEIRD. DOES IT SOUND WEIRD TO THE DEMON KING??? Maybe there's some deathly symbolic meaning behind it. Despite the fact that they're both chuuni spirits, the confirmation that this cute girl (who Tenryuu still does not know is ruthless) is actually Nobunaga means that Tenryuu has to appear cool to her.
So, uh. She clears her throat. How about they go... back on topic?] ...Uh... wait, the fish. What do we do with it now?
[URSULA made them go through all that trouble, so how are they going to actually study it?]
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Hm? There's nothing wrong with it at all, silly girl.
[Despite the fact, a moment ago, it sounded like there was...don't question her methods, she's an idiot. With the topic of the fish brought back to the conversation, she crosses both of her arms and laughs.]
Well, it's simple! We'll feed it...and perhaps I will engage it every so often, as I did attempting to capture it...and we'll see what happens.
Perhaps with enough care, it will evolve into something truly terrifying. At that point...I say throw it back!
[Sound plan, right.]
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Silly?! [HUFFS. Anyway, she turns to the fish, nodding every so often... until she almost chokes and holds a hand up in the air.] Wait, wait, wait, please don't wrestle it in the base! [URSULA helpfully chimes in to remind the two that in case of any injury, her nanobots will fix any wound.
Which is useful, but FUCK OFF URSULA. NOW'S NOT THE TIME.]
And why would we throw it back if it becomes something even worse? [We don't need to speed up the evolution rate of this planet!!] Let's do the first part of the plan. Just... feed it. Peeperfish and everything. Then maybe we can actually tame it, for real! And we'll have an awesome pet shark!
[1. it's not a shark 2. it's gnashing its teeth at the both of them rn. definitely not domesticated.]
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No, the only thing she really considers is the plan itself, silent, thoughtful...
Before piping up again-]
Ah, I see now...that kind of "safe" mentality you have...despite appearances, you're actually quite boring, aren't you?