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TEST DIVE #2








≡U.R.S.U.L.A. NAVIGATION
TEST DIVE MEME


For information about the animals and locations, be sure to check out the BIOME and BASE pages!

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: 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: Almost, but not quite, Entirely Unlike Tea
The droids, URSULA promises, will do their best to make anything you want. Go on! Ask them anything! She’s excited. This seems like a great way to test out their capacities.

Of course, you need to be very careful what you wish for. Maybe you ask for Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and they do their best but only know so much, giving you a book with some… creative changes. Maybe you ask for a puzzle box, but you weren’t specific enough and things went awry.

Maybe you made the mistake of asking for tea..

No matter what, you were given something that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what you asked for. Now what do you do with it?

E: CREATURE FEATURES (possible body horror)
As more data is collected on the creatures of the deep, DNA can also be gathered to allow URSULA to research how to integrate it into her crew members in useful and hopefully unintrusive ways, unless of course permission is given first for more obvious or exhausting additions.

Well, that's the idea, anyway.

Unfortunately, something malfunctioned while URSULA was researching. Her incomplete serum was injected into you through your devices while you slept (or maybe you were knocked unconscious by the sudden change to your body). Now maybe you have the temperament of a Stalker or the thirst of a Bleeder or Gasopod pods on your back that trigger when you're startled. How this genetic malfunction works and what it is can be up to you but while URSULA assures you it's only temporary, you're stuck like this for now.

Have fun?

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?


BASED ON CODE BY TESSISAMESS AND SUPERSUITS


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[personal profile] bajkaiskierki 2016-04-18 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
[she sounds contemplative more than anything; she's not actually going for the fox, just watching it, content to use his shoulder as a chinrest while he lets her.]

I am not really hungry, merely tired of fish and having to swim to catch food. Why could there not be sea cows here?
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[personal profile] superseding 2016-04-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hotaru's head jerks up, surprise but also hope written all over her face. To think of other worlds where magic like that is common and known is a dream, a far off fantasy in her mind. She leans forward, wanting so much for Merrill's words to be true. ]

You really think so? You don't think healing magic is creepy either? Do you... Do you have healing magic, too?

[ Hotaru can magically heal superficial wounds, but that's the extend of it—at least to her knowledge. If magic is more normal for Merrill, could it be more accepted for herself? ]
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[personal profile] dirtharama 2016-04-18 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Merrill looks a little bashful. Enthusiastic responses to magic is rather new to her, too, but it feels good. Confusing but good.]

I wish I knew some. It'd make my own magic easier. I'm more... offensive sorts of spells. [She still has yet to tell anyone she's a blood mage. Even those interested in magic at home still look at blood mages with disgust.] My friend, Anders, he's an amazing healer though. I'm sure he'd think of something faster than me! But I like to think I'm... inventive when it comes to magic. I could try to work out a way of healing. I'd have to study it a bit though.

[Still she smiles at Hotaru.] But healing magic is a wonderful gift, da'len. Any magic is.
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-18 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Uh.

Uh.]


Yeah.

It's important to keep trying.

[....

He eats more jelly.]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ The pun just gets a half-smile, anyway, so... ]

If you say you're up to it, I'll believe you, but are you 100% on it? If we change our minds halfway through, it'll be a little bit hard.

[ Since if they try to swim back they're basically committing to going all the way, once they traverse a certain distance...considering how the light is fading and all the monsters are presumably thinking chow time. ]

If we stay put, someone'll probably come get us eventually. Though I admit sitting on my hands isn't really my fave thing ever, it may be the safer option, even if it's hella boring and probably cold.
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[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not. Not everyone can be blessed with good looks like me. Too many beautiful women's hearts would be broken...

[ yeah that's probably not what kaden meant but that's the answer he's getting... ]
Edited 2016-04-18 05:19 (UTC)
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ffff

[personal profile] grimdeity 2016-04-18 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Rose is in the similar boat as "wanting to swim" but has yet to complete that plunge into the dark depths. She is about that horrorterror life, and is weighing the pros and cons of such a venture. ]

Oh, but I'm sure we could fix that. Do you want one of my headbands?

[ Take off your shades, put on makeup and perhaps you too can be Rose Lalonde. ]
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i live to serve

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-18 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is the part where he'd wrinkle his nose. IF HE HAD ONE!! Instead, he just recoils from that piece of cheesy goodness, yellow skin turning a pale shade of purple as his tentacles curl inwards. ]

Nyuagh! That's awful!! Put it away! Put it away!! Why did you ask a robot to make cheese?! Actually, where did it even come from?!

[ there are no goats or cows here, which means the milk came from... ?!?!?!? ]
parodeity: (ROSE 🎧 stop analyzing me)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Why this, why him. Since she's about the horror terror life, Dave basically just...commits to the idea they're going to go swim out in search of probably trouble. Because like fuck he's going to let Rose swim off into the ocean alone. Even if she can 5000% handle herself, he's not sure the rest of the planet can handle Rose.

Dave makes a frustrated face Rose is doubtless familiar with, before reaching up and flipping his shades back down over his eyes. ]


What, no. We're not that look-alike. I mean. Mostly. Fuck, how didn't we figure out we were related before John literally mixed slime together to pop us into existence? [ hashtag regret maybe he wouldn't have said a lot of the things thirteen year old dave said to rose pre-related revelation if he had known...but knowing him, he probably would have anyway ]

And why am I not surprised that you wanna swim out into the void and find tentacled nightmares...Rose, c'mon, let's play like, go fish or something instead. Orrrrr do literally anything else.
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hiro kageyama • devil survivor 2

[personal profile] restorer 2016-04-18 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
a;

[being locked in a room with a stranger and told to brainstorm is... well, that doesn't even sound like a punishment to hiro. that sounds like a combination of an icebreaker and a good time. come up with ideas for missions, huh? things that ursula can do to help them out? this sounds like all sorts of a good time.]

So what do you think's missing from here? It could be worse. I wouldn't mind some video games or something like that, though.

[there's a smile on his face. hiro is perfectly aware that the person he's talking to might not know anything about video games, and it's difficult to tell from his expression whether he's 100% serious about the video games or just trying to get a reaction. regardless, it's a good way to start things rolling, rather than the awkward staring and introductions and all that.]

d;

[some people, when approached with the task of telling these droids to bring them anything, would find creative things to ask. hiro isn't unique in this ability, but he'd come up with something for the droids to bring him - and received something that was almost completely not what he'd asked for. what makes this proposition interesting for hiro isn't the fact that it didn't give him what it wanted, but the fact that it gave him something that was close to (but not quite) the exact opposite of the thing he wanted.

some people would have gotten frustrated at the droids' inability to deliver what they'd asked for. hiro, on the other hand, had seen an experiment in the making, and as a result, anyone who is coming across him will see a teenager who has approximately eight or nine random geegaws and doohickeys around him. one of them appears to be some sort of double-ended plunger; another is a plastic pizza whose toppings appear to be other, smaller pizzas. presumably they're objects that the droids have brought him.

right now, he's addressing the droids again.]


Can I get some pureed sneakers?

[the droid rushes off, burbling and chirping and generally making droidlike noises that might not be either burbling or chirping.

oh, hello, person. hiro waves his arms at the pile of assorted gadgets.]
Don't worry, I'll get this cleaned up. But if you want one of them, you're welcome to it.

[a wise person wouldn't ask what he's doing because that's a very dangerous thing to ask, given that he has just asked the robots to provide him with pureed sneakers. a curious person, however, might want to know what anyone would want with pureed sneakers. maybe he's on an extremely unhealthy diet.]
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[personal profile] dirtharama 2016-04-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Time travel? 9:44? Merrill rubs her temple, squeezing her eyes shut for a moment.] ...That's starting to sound a bit nice right now.

But time travel? I... [She's really thinking about this now. Not because she wants to use it, oh no, she's trying not to mess around too much these days, thank you, but mostly to figure out how possible it is.] ...I suppose... well, it would take an incredibly powerful mage, or a group of them, and the spot would have to be one where the Veil is rather thin. Though even then I'm not sure how possible it would be, if at all. But... I usually think with enough power and the right conditions, anything might be doable. Including that. Though I'm not sure that would be... wise. There's too many unknowns and I've never even read anything about it being attempted, let alone done.

[Oh. She's rambling a bit.]

Well, what I mean is even if it's possible I wouldn't suggest it to anyone.
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[personal profile] grimdeity 2016-04-18 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yes Dave, you must protect the ocean from Rose. It's the knightly thing to do here. You cannot leave this poor planet to the likes of your sister, who knows what horrors would be unleashed at her hand. ]

Truly, it was error on our part. Likely facilitated by our distance during our childhood. [ Because seriously, wow guys. Actual twins, Rose and Dave. ] And we did not exactly expect ectobiology to, in simple terms, be a thing.

Feel free to stay here and play go fish yourself, if you can resist the curiosity. [ She hadn't fully decided that it was wise to venture into the horrorterror depths, but the fact that Dave is suggesting they shouldn't seems to put the matter to rest in her mind. ]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh my god you contrary little piece of shit don't decide on a course of action just because he's against it!!!!

Dave makes a strangled noise that might include the words oh fuck it but basically which is just. The exasperation that Rose inspires on occasion. ]


Rose, I'm obv not letting you go out into the weird-ass ocean in the dead of night alone. You'll like, murder everything out there.

[ You're the only one who blew your planet quest to smithereens just 'cause, brosis. ]

And/or make some deathmagic pact with whatever horror terror things lurk in the depths, and if you're going to be makin' ill-advised deals with devils I have to be there to snark about it and/or to sign on as well. Like, I'm pretty sure we covered this at some point in our sibs career, right? You're not allowed to go on stupid missions alone.

[ Remember how you tried that all of once and then Dave followed you anyway and you both died. He's still going to follow you now even if the dying thing happens again.

At least they're immortal, he guesses. ]


If shenanigans occur I have to be around to commentate, this is like, rule fuckin' one of the Strilonde family charter that I'm officially gonna write right the fuck now.
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-18 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He carefully minces around the bottles of unidentified liquid to drop into a crouch within a companionable distance from Dave, rolling his shoulders in a shrug.]

I've just never heard somebody use internet slang verbally. "NGL" isn't that many fewer syllables than "not gonna lie", anyway.
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-18 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
[He makes a startlingly catlike face of startled curiosity, pursing his lips nearly into the shape of a sideways 3, and waves a hand dismissively.]

Sorry, I forget that a lot of stuff isn't standard between worlds. Fencing is a sport based around swordsmanship, and it means I can hopefully swim well enough for a materials run.

[He follows her line of sight to nothing and blinks, glancing from her to where she'd looked and back a few times.]

You can just talk to ...her? That way?
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-18 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He recoils the cheese and sets it neatly atop its creator droid's head, dusting off his fingers as though doing so alone would rid him of the smell.]

I have a friend who really likes cheese, and trust me, I regret the result.

[A moment to consider and he scrunches his face.]

I don't wanna know the answer to the last one, though.
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-18 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Adrien tries on at least a daily basis to convince himself of the same, even if in more recent days he's started to be concerned about his father's state of Creepy. And, you know, hoarding weird things about his mom in a safe behind a giant mosaic painting of her, coveting rings, the like. It's still difficult for him to settle on thinking his Father isn't at least passable, which really is the saddest part.]

[He settles finally, in a similar way to Dirk, tucking one hand behind his head and propping himself up just enough to still watch him not-speak.]


Oh, that makes sense. Sort of like Dreamwalking, except apparently it's enough to wake us up?
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[personal profile] grimdeity 2016-04-18 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ what did you expect from her, dave, really. have you met rose lalonde contrary little piece of shit is her aesthetic.

Rose grins, the same grin she always wears when she manages to inspire Dave's exasperation, or anyone else's. Not that it's... hard... ]


Your faith in me is astounding, Dave. Don't you trust me?

[ That. That is probably why he doesn't. ]

Yes, well, that was an unforeseen pact of sibling-hood I did try to avoid, you know. But I will accept your undying loyalty to it, since I suppose breaking it would be awfully tiresome.

[ Rose would prefer they don't die, but considering their normal circumstances she won't be surprised if they do? Like, what is this, a regular Tuesday for them. ]

Oh? Are you certain Roxy and our father [ see, it's normal to call Roxy Roxy but funny to call Dirk "father"/"dad"/etc... in front of dave, anyway ] will agree to your terms without complaint? We should hold a family council before we make such lofty decisions. They might have input that we never could have imagined.
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-18 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Wiz wants to contribute. So he will, with a small little verse:] Go team! Make all the other plays scream! Paint me colours of ice cream! Now you're talking the dream!

[Ice cream.

Yeah sure why not.]


It beats a lot of other places we could be.

[As much as he misses his friends... this relatively benign environment, with his brother, is nice. And getting to totally Strider remodel the whole place is pretty great too.]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ honestly this is...exactly what he expected...but he didn't think far enough ahead to try to reverse psychology her and if he had she probably would have gone all right away we go to the ocean, dave! since rose lalonde does what she wants. ]

Ugh, don't pull that bullshit, you know I trust you. I just also know you, Rose. Ripping apart the fabric of the universe is something you would totally do for fun. And while that'd be hilarious, I do sorta like inhabiting the universe. ...Not that we know what universe this is, but as we're currently in it I find myself kinda fond of the place.

[ Dave crosses his arms, but once again takes his shades off - this time captchaloguing them. The exaggerated wince when she calls Dirk "father" is...probably ridiculous since Dave cannot stop himself calling Roxy "Mom", even though he calls Dirk by name or occasionally by "bro". They are both hypocrites to the extreme. ]

And wow, Dirk'll totally back me up on this one. [ maybe??? ] Mom, too, since it'd mean she'd get to hang out with us more. Like she wouldn't want to go for a Strilonde field trip through the deep - as long as we were both goin' I doubt she'd care what was going on with the whole destination thing.

[ Roxy is honestly super carefree and Dave admires that in a person. ]

Also I feel like their input will mostly be laughing at us [ OR HIM SPECIFICALLY ] so let's just skip to the good part. We gonna do this shit or not?

[ Time to gear up for an underwater exploration, y/n? The resolution to go for a swim eases the annoying need to go, at least. Fighting it off wasn't really working. ]
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, my mom does it, too.

[ Since Adrien has no idea Dave's mom is exactly Dave's age, Dave does not bother to correct himself from what his mouth wants to say. Roxy never cared, anyway. ]

Anyway, it's how I think so it's how I talk. You know?
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-18 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
...Is ice cream a thing you know how to get, Wiz.

[ Suddenly, Dave's priorities have changed again.

Because. He could totally go for an ice cream sundae right now? ]


Please make all my dreams come true, little man. Creamsicles? Fudgesicles? I will take those little ice cream cups with the wooden spoons.
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[personal profile] grimdeity 2016-04-18 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ and then where would you be dave? in the same situation as you are now, except brain tired from trying to fight your impossible sister. ]

If it makes you feel better I will make you a promise not to tear any holes in the cloth from which this universe is made, at least while we inhabit it's watery folds. [ ... ] At least not right now. Perhaps in due time that will become necessary, but I doubt that day is today.

[ Master hypocrites, these two. Their hypocrite levels are simply off the charts. Where did it even come from, Dirk and Roxy are so much nicer than this. ]

Fair point. I don't doubt that either would follow us-- I'm not sure if that says more about them or us, however. It bears far more consideration than we currently have time for.

[ Meeting Roxy certainly did put her own original mother in perspective for Rose, though not in the way she expected. She still isn't sure what to do with that information, nor with the phrase "omg haha youre dirk" as the other Lalonde so eloquently put it. She still needs to hound him for "the dirt on his proclivities". ]

That is... likely accurate. [ NO THEY'D LAUGH AT BOTH OF THEM ok mostly dave ] Yes, let us do this shit.

[ Y, time to gear up. This is a great idea that in no way can go wrong. ]
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d

[personal profile] grimdeity 2016-04-18 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ A lab full of mechanical bits and bots is not Rose's cup of tea, personally, but nevertheless Dirk's other blonde biological child manages to wander in. She eyes the "orange soda" for a moment. ]

... If that is it's attempt at apple juice, remind me not to order any drinks from it.

[ Just automatically assumes that any Strider, Dave or otherwise, would subsist on apple juice if possible. She will be truly shocked to learn otherwise. Never mind that Dave hasn't even had apple juice since The Incident, anyway. ]
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-18 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
[And so their mutual illusions about Gabriel continue to float on through. Someone please correct them one day.]

That's my theory, anyway.

[He doesn't have more to go on. It is, admittedly, very strange not to more fully understand what is happening in his dreaming life.]

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