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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


parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
She's a pretty young mom.

[ Though he kind of imagines Roxy Lalonde will still use chatspeak even when she's old and grey... ]

I'm Dave, bee tee dubs.
parodeity: starrypier @ tumblr (TIME 🎧 shenanigans)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A'ight, sister dearest, but if this ends in us needing a revive I'm gonna make a mix tape titled I Fucking Told You So just for you.

[ AND A RAP. Also he will say I Fucking Told You, Rose for the next month or two at the least. Still, now that they've determined they are in fact doing this shit (they are making this shit happen), Dave will just go to suit up with the dumb diving gear and wetsuits and shit. ]

No peeking. [ he says, like his sister has any interest in doing so whatsoever ]
Edited 2016-04-19 17:54 (UTC)
parodeity: (LORD 🎧 what a day)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been involved in way worse ideas, no sweat.

[ Dave says, like that is any consolation whatsoever. ]

...Anyway, if you aren't a fighter, just be sure to stay back for support?
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, don't even sweat it. It's not an inconvenience to stick around with a teammate? Like, I'm not going to up and abandon you, here. No matter what we pick, we're going to do it together, that's the entire point of havin' a teammate.

[ He's not too worried about the whole "safety" thing in relation to himself, tbh. Just in relation to the girl who is presumably not conditionally immortal, given her hella coughing fits. ]

Like, okay, I said it's boring and cold, but seriously don't worry about it. I have a deck of cards? We can play card games until someone realizes we're still out here and probably got wrecked.
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, okay. Dave immediately reacts without even questioning why the hell this is a thing they're doing, since he figures there might be some sort of reason behind it. And if not, she asked and he generally tries to work with the people he's stuck on underwater mission whatever with.

It's a little hard to flashstep underwater, but Dave has more or less figured out how to manage by this point in time.

He only has two arms, though, so he's only getting two before the rest bolt after he appears in their midst. ]


Two enough?
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone has to do it, right? And I'm not about this "go swim into total darkness" option, so let's do the fucking explodey one, why the hell not.

[ Being conditionally immortal might come in handy there, anyway. ]

As long as we work to a gameplan, I'd say we can def do it without getting hurt. Probably.
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[this is good. listen closely, mai...]

I can give the bow to you, and you can wear it! [nailed it.] I bet that would be a lot cuter!
parodeity: (TEASE 🎧 bullshit)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ .........This sure is sugar-free frozen yogurt. What is even the point of junk food if it isn't going to slowly kill you? THERE ISN'T ONE. ]

I think Rose likes fro-yo, I should give this to her. [ The frozen yogurt is dutifully thrown into his sylladex. Will it melt in there? He's...not actually sure, he never really had much in the way of frozen goods to keep stored.

Whatever, he'll find out later. ]


Wiz, what do you got against sugary junk food to kill me slowly, bro. [ He's pretty clearly teasing. ]
parodeity: (TEASE 🎧 bullshit)

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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should ask for a bowcross?

[ MAYBE ASKING FOR WHAT YOU WANT SLIGHTLY OFF KILTER IS THE KEY HERE. Dave really isn't sure, but he does give Tytree a half-grin, not entirely laughing yet but clearly pretty amused by his predicament. ]

My bro's workin' on the wire-crossed shit, but I think we're stuck in misunderstandings hell until that finishes being a thing. So maybe we should work with what we're stuck with.
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-19 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[SUDDENLY, WIZ IS HORRIFIED?] Kill you with my dispensations? Dave-chan, I could never!

[Yes. The robot just did that. Dirk had forgotten he programmed it to do that. He gets bored, okay.

Eh. He'll just roll with it. And so, with a straight face:]
You heard Wiz, dude. You're too sugoi to die of from dietary choices.
ditties: (o23)

[personal profile] ditties 2016-04-19 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ They need panther-dad ... ]

I hope the only thing you're implying with that is that it's because I'm cute!

[ He's fine with the cute part of all this, but don't you dare say he's little again! ]
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[nobody informed tytree that the wires were crossed, obviously—but hey, at least someone is amused by it.

(really, he will be once he gets over the pure aggravation and surprise at what he actually got from it.)]


A bowcross? You really think somethin' like that would work? [he's considering it.] I feel like this thing would spit out a bunch of crosses with bows on 'em or something like that.

[that's the impression he's getting here.] You think your bro will be able to fix it?
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[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It ain't like we've got a limited amount of asks here. We may as well experiment? There has to be some way to word something that'll get you a crossbow.

[ And if not it nets Dave free entertainment so ?????? everyone's a winner! Except Tytree. ]

And hell yes I do.
parodeity: (NO 🎧 that sounds dumb)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god dude don't I at least rate senpai? That's the cool older dude one right.

[ Or is it with an m he doesn't fucking know all his weeaboo phrases are yanked from Bro or the interwebs, Dave was never that into anime himself. ]

Or sensei. I'd be down with being a sensei. Why do I get the magical girl one - oh fuck was it the magical girl rap is that what doomed me here.
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, of course!

[...he says, naturally. you know, before leaning down and pinching mao's cheeks with force.]

Such a cute, cute little brother!
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[personal profile] princessia 2016-04-19 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Elize had been quiet, keeping her thoughts to herself, although she is feeling rather hungry. Teepo isn't with her to openly speak those thoughts. But the mention of seafood gratin gets this tiny girl's mind running wild about food. ]

A seafood gratin with lobster, fish, and crab... [ Or whatever sort of sea animal out there that looks closest to those kinds. SOME OF THESE THINGS LOOK WEIRD. ] And add a bit of salt, pepper, and garlic to it! That would be so delicious!
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[personal profile] upcard 2016-04-19 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[...........

okay she definitely wasn't expecting that.]


... W-what?

[???]

But...it's yours...!
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-19 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Wiz is programmed to choose whatever he thinks is most appropriate. [And also? To never explain why he chose things. For the sake of moments like these.

For Wiz's part, the protest is not particularly registered. Wiz has, however, tried to apologize for his prior error in yogurt by producing... low-fat sugar-free froyo. In blue.]
Better? Tried to follow what you said to the letter. If you don't like my work then you're acting a trendsetter.

[Dirk's lips press together a frown behind the inscrutable glasses.] I can't tell if he meant that last part as an insult or not.
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[tytree's always a loser, so it's not like this deviates from the norm too much.]

All right! Then let's see what this thing can do—maybe we'll figure out why it's so weird about things!

[he'll just get himself hyped... that'll make the disappointment so much better later, naturally.]
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[personal profile] heartpearl 2016-04-19 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It can't be helped. In a place like this, it's difficult to know what can be relied on.

[ but obviously the strange human-mermaid girl can, right? right. but she'll offer nagisa an understanding smile anyway, staying close to the seaglide as she waits for him. ]

We'll have to be quick, though. We don't have much daylight left.
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's almost immediate how much tytree like the way elize thinks—she's got this on lockdown.]

Yeah, you got it! Maybe some shrimp and scallops, and shallots too. Now we're cookin'!
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[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it'd look better on a cute girl than a guy like me!

[because you know, he's obviously so... manly?? sure, tytree.

though it's followed by a mildly exasperated sigh.]
Besides, I wanted a crossbow... It's not really the same, y'know?
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[personal profile] heartpearl 2016-04-19 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
While I'd normally hate to waste resources... I agree.

[ this definitely doesn't seem drinkable, and frankly? it's a little repulsing to be around. at least this other young woman seems to share the sentiment. ]
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[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Of course she knows what he's talking about, she reads a lot and she's received a broader education!

Clearly he means physical force, and that is exactly why she's incredibly confused. ]


Your force is... immovable, then? I didn't think trees were very violent.
ditties: (o12)

[personal profile] ditties 2016-04-19 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Akjhsdg ]

T-Tytree! Shtop it! Thish's too far!

[ You didn't have to assault his cheeks like that! He gets it, you know he's cute! It's hard to talk like this, ugh ... ]

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