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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


petnadjanka: (45)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[except her confusion is now confusing him.]

Huh? No... What? My Force is Wood! [or timber. whatever. this is definitely not clearing anything up at all.]
petnadjanka: (Default)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[well, maybe that'll teach mao a lesson about being a little punk.

(no it won't, and they both know it.)]


All right, all right! [he'll relent, pulling back and laughing hard enough to have to clutch his sides. some things never change, regardless of where they are.]
discardia: Getting kidnapped by phantom thieves and all (This is kind of a first for me)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
... What?

[ WHAT NEW LIFE LESSON IS THIS?? ]
petnadjanka: (42)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[what is she even questioning?]
princessia: (13)

[personal profile] princessia 2016-04-19 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ THAT'S A LOT OF FISH. IT'S GREAT. They're both on the right track. She doesn't need to feel embarrassed about certain people calling her out on being a glutton. ]

Good idea! We should start gathering the ingredients.

[ Some... how. ]
discardia: (Hatblocked)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ EVERYTHING. ]

Force is... strength through a physical action, isn't it?

[ She's asking somewhat quietly, though, shoulders slumping slightly. Is she wrong? ]
petnadjanka: (12)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... yeah, but...

[oh.

ohhh...]


I don't mean that kind of force! I mean Force! [that still explains nothing.] Ahaha... Aw, geez, how do I explain it...
upcard: (✿ existential crisis: why maids though?)

[personal profile] upcard 2016-04-19 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
O-oh...

[Smooth moves, Tytree....... Granted, they'd be smoother if Mai wasn't completely Over people flirting with her, but still.

MORE IMPORTANTLY:]


But aren't crossbows really dangerous?
discardia: (I sure hope your gloves don't burn)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
... It has a different meaning?
petnadjanka: (9)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[he's got her back her, he'll support all of these endeavors of discussing food, especially if it means he'll get to make some of it. sharing delicious food with other people is the best, after all.]

Yeah! That's the best idea... I bet we could find everything we need and then some—all the fixings for a good meal!
petnadjanka: (53)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[it's a good thing he's used to be rejected. it's fine, this is fine.]

Well, sure... if you don't know how to use them! Or you're not careful...
petnadjanka: (54)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm-hmm! Where I'm from, at least... it's a kind of power some people can use!

[talk about simplifying things..]
discardia: (Le gasp)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
A power? Like vampires being incredibly strong?

[ But Wood? ]
princessia: (skit - 02)

[personal profile] princessia 2016-04-19 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Eating with other people and making new friends is the best! She doesn't have to be all alone. ]

How are we going to get the fish?
cephalocide: (get it)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-19 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I understand, and I'm ready. Please lead the way.

[He's going to trust her mostly on gut. Although…]

I read that mermaids based off of Homerian mythology are almost always portrayed as beautiful sirens who lure unsuspecting sailors to their doom. Heh, so, I hope I'm not making a mistake here.

[Nerd. The fact that Nagisa is willing to joke here sort of betrays the number of weird life-or-death situations he's been through over the past several months.]
cephalocide: (wristband)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-19 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not that strange to think that we might each have come up with that idea on our own. I don't need the credit for it or anything.

[Now that he's understanding more of what she's about, Nagisa casually shifts his sitting position so that he has one knee up and one knee out. The knee up is where he rests his wrist, holding the notebook.]

What would be even better is if we somehow started a mobile database that we could all add to when we learn and discover things.
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Imma take it as a compliment. I'm sure as fuck not a trend follower. Hell, I did the whole Dave Furry thing way before any of the rest of y'all got sprites prototyped with animals and yourselves. See? Trendsetting.

[ let's not discuss how cool or uncool his trends are. He'll just take this new frozen yo and start eating it, tbh. CLEARLY HE ACCIDENTALLY NERFED SUGAR BEING A THING. ]

Wiz, my man, I suppose just for you I will eat healthy just this once. Since I'm goin' to assume you're avoiding sugar because I implied it might kill me? FYI, I was joking. Your work is the bomb. Although heads up, red is the best color. Blue is a nerdy color. Think sick fires, not eau de Egbert.
parodeity: feastings @ tumblr (LAUGH 🎧 lmao lmao)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-19 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. Maybe we'll get somethin' worthwhile from the mistakes, too. All right...we gonna aim for a crossbow? How many different ways can we say that.

[ PROBABLY A LOT this is going to get really fucking stupid really quick. ]
cephalocide: (little boy blue)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Fortunately, Nagisa is plenty competent in a variety of dangerous situations, and he's also used to foraging off the land… although, of course, this was a completely new type of ecosystem.

His weakness is going to be navigation. That's where a veteran should come in handy, right?]


I've been training underwater, practicing my combat. It was hard at first, but I've gotten a lot better even just in a day or two. Get us to the Kelp Forrest, and I'll be the lookout and your guard on the way.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (I can't wait to be)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-19 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wiz makes a noise that may or may not mean he's happy? It probably does. And obligingly, he dispenses a new icy dessert: a red froyo.

Specifically, a light red froyo.]


Matches my outfit. I'm callin' dibs. [Dirk snatches that pink froyo up like a champ. He takes a spoon.] ...I respect the concept of healthy dieting, but given our immortality, I'm going to have to put myself down on the side of sugar, fat, and salt.

It's sweet that Wiz is in the anti-Dead Daves camp. [He pats their droid pal.] I'll take a subscription. Just don't worry so much about Dead Dirks. I can absolutely handle my sugar.
cephalocide: (get it)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-19 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Frigging unkillable people, where do they get off.]

Then let's work to one.

[Consulting his notes!] So, the Crashes shoot the infected corpses of the fish they catch at other fish – or at us, in this case – to injure and infect their targets in order to spread. The dangerous part is getting the parasites in your body, so we should really try to avoid getting any open wounds around them.

The way they're designed… sounds just like a cannon, doesn't it? Considering it has powder. Except with no way to quickly reload, its vulnerable after it shoots out whatever it has in its mouth.
roundoff: (☉ four)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[DEFINITELY EXUBERANCE. Kaden's just going to follow after easily, curious himself to see what kind of kitchen set up that they've got going on here. Sure, he did his fair share of cooking sometimes back with the army, but that was with supervision.... and he wasn't one of the best either so he normally did the hunting instead.]

Heh, you're a real pal, Ellana! Thanks for this. I'll pay you back for it, for sure.

[Returning favors is just part of the kitsune way, after all.]

I'm from Hoshido, though! Nice country full of nice people, even if it's a little turbulent right now. Invaders and all.

[ . . . . it's said so breezily though.]
ditties: (oo3)

[personal profile] ditties 2016-04-19 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That lesson is impossible to teach him, sorry, Tytree.

And so he'll pout a little as he rubs his cheeks. Uuuuu ... ]


Geez ... You really are a brute. [ Hum hum. ] I get that you're jealous of my cute appeal, but you didn't have to go and try to sabotage me like that. [ You know, by ruining his adorable cheeks.

Can he turn this back around on him? ]
roundoff: (☉ six)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I take care of all that myself though - it'd be bad for my coat if I didn't!

[His tail wags behind him, a little confused as he's trying to puzzle this out himself.]

I dunno if I want you to brush any harder though... it's okay to be gentle with me!
roundoff: (☉ four)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Confidence! I like it!

[Even if he thinks that he's prettier.... it's ok, Korosensei, he won't say that out loud. No need to compete (over something obvious).

Haha, what?]


Not what I was getting at, but I mean... I'll take what I can get.

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