TEST DIVE #6

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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: Birdnip
The crew has become very friendly with the local population of birdogs, even going as far as moving a bunch of them to the base. Birdogs are pretty friendly creatures for the most part, and are some of the more tamable ones of the planet. That's why there is surely nothing that might go wrong with these arrangements!

Well. Except for the fact a new fauna that was found in a biome seems to have... well, really excite the birdogs. They're completely running amok, everyone from the kitchen to the swimming pool. URSULA would really appreciate it if you could help calm the poor creatures down before they end up hurting themselves or another crew member.

You probably shouldn't use that plant though.

D: Hunting Trip
The crew has been given a special mission on Mountain Island. While visiting, you were approached by Aurora survivor and fast-food worker Jenn, owner of the adorable tabby cat Glitter. She asks you to hunt a horrorsloth down for her. This particular horrorsloth has a scar across its face in the form of several cat marks which explains why Jenn wants it dead. It has a personal vendetta against Glitter and has already tried to kill her several times. Jenn has been able to heal the injuries so far but she’s worried that next time she won’t be so lucky.

So Jenn gives you anything you want from fellow survivor and Lead Programmer Naoko’s gun supplies and points you into the dangerous jungle forests where the Catkiller spends its time. Do you have what it takes to avoid poisonous tree pods and deadly Shrubbacks? Can you find your way through the dark and twisted woods? Or will you find yourselves hunted by the very creature you are trying to take out?

Do it for Glitter.

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: RAINY SEASON
When it rains, it pours. Rainy days tend to be the worst. Although you can go swimming in them, the intense storms of Iniidae stir up shallower waters making them murky and difficult to see through. And what if lightning hit? No one wants the first death to be lightning. Are you going to risk that? Probably. If you do, take care of yourself and bring a buddy!

But if you're the type to hole up in a storm, either by choice or because you were unlucky enough to be out in it, now is a good chance to get creative with your use of time! Maybe a game of charades will brighten up the rainy day? If you're on the base it might be extra crowded today so get to know your neighbors! If you're on an island, you could build a mud castle! Just don't go stircrazy.

BASED ON CODE BY TESSISAMESS AND SUPERSUITS

Comments

[alienates]

[ he actually stops to consider this option. terezi is right, because someone else backing him up does in fact have its appeal, because karkat sure does love being proven right. ]

Fine. But as soon as we're out of here we are finding her and she is going to settle this matter in my favor. Got it?

[iustitia]

Come on, Karkat. Since when have I been known to go back on my word?

[alienates]

Is this a trick question?

[ he pretends to pull out an imaginary list. ]

Should I read out your crimes?

[iustitia]

What?!

[It comes out as an undignified squawk, but it's not like Terezi has never done anything in a dignified manner in her entire life.]

I am not a liar! Sometimes I will tell very technical truths, but they aren't anywhere near the same thing.

[alienates]

I don't know, it sounds like the same thing to me. You say "weird human vegetable" and I say "weird human vegetable but with a slight pronunciation difference."

[ there'a a pause. ]

Or is it a fruit...

[iustitia]

There's a major difference! Lies are what tell when you can't come up with anything better. They are the cheap, inelegant hammer option in the toolbox of manipulation tactics. It is morally wrong, and if you tell enough, no one will trust you, and then what's the point? Telling the exact truth is way better. Still a deception, but factually correct and much more believable.

[alienates]

Pyrope, that entire explanation you just gave me makes you less trustworthy than any lie you could have told. Only someone who manipulates people would put so much thought into that.

[ he already forgot that they were talking about crocs ]

[iustitia]

Well, yeah. Manipulation was sort of -- [finger quotes] -- "my thing" for a while! I used to be really competitive back in Team Scourge, and then I had my whole smarmy know-it-all Seer of Mind thing going when we were all in the game. Of course I'd give it some thought and consideration!

[alienates]

[ he knows all this already, he's just being difficult for the sake of being difficult. ]

So how can I trust that you have not gone back to your ways, and that you're going to double cross me here? I need you to put this agreement to writing.

[iustitia]

Fine! But I'm still waiting on hearing what crimes I've supposedly committed. Tell me when I've given you a real, concrete reason to doubt my word and I'll draft up your contract.

[alienates]

Are we counting the fashion crimes in this?

[ says the guy who could not given less of a fuck about fashion, but right now it is definitely super important if it'll help him win this argument that does not matter at all. ]

[iustitia]

Objection! We are not opening up that can of wrigglebeasts again! Find something else.

[alienates]

I thought you wanted to get some work done? I'll be listing them all day long.

[iustitia]

[Terezi crosses her arms in front of her chest. He brings up a good point that they're still no closer to GETTING BACK TO WORK than they were when they started, but she must protect her good name.]

Is it really that difficult for you to pick out one? I think you're just to stalling for time because you can't think of anything!

[alienates]

It's just that there's so much to choose from I'm having difficulty picking the most suitable example.

[ he is stalling ]

[iustitia]

[Terezi lays a gentle hand on Karkat's shoulder.]

Shh. Shhhhhh. It's okay, Karkat. It takes more courage to admit that you're wrong than to cling even harder to your mistakes. I promise I won't judge.

[much]

[alienates]

Bullshit. We both know that if I said I was wrong, which I am not, you would hold it over my head while cackling in that shrill little voice of yours. Do not lie to me, Pyrope, I know you.

[iustitia]

[Her other hand goes up to her lips as she makes more deliberately obnoxious shushing noises.]

Shooooooosh. I know how rough it can be, Karkat, knowing someone as magnanimous and trustworthy as me. But it'll be okay! You don't have to pretend anymore. We both know how great I am.

[alienates]

You are lying to me, right now, to my face. How do you sleep at night?