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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


roundoff: (☉ i mean it makes sense)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
They were asking for ideas, right? So we came up with some pretty good ones!

["""Good."""]

C'mon, let's just keep brainstorming. That way they'll have a lot of options to choose from! Maybe we'll get a reward if we come up with a bunch of good ones?
roundoff: (☉ who do we appreciate?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Puns. Except Kaden blinks because-]

What? I wasn't-

[Going for that. But also... he's just laughing.]

Okay, okay, how about - if looks could kill, we'd be quite a danger!

[goddamn now he's doing it too]
roundoff: (☉ right?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, whoa!! Kaden's ears perk up at that, but at least the show of respect is familiar to him. So out of habit, he returns it?!

He's a polite fox....]


I didn't mean to be startled either so I guess I'll apologize too and hope that'll even things out a little bit...?

[wait that's not how it works]
roundoff: (☉ six)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ . . . ]

You really got a way for making things sound even creepier, you know? Has anyone told you that before?

[Stop this, Kaden. Still though he's just going to frown.]

Yeah, yeah... I heard the same thing too. It really messed with my beauty sleep - do you think someone's in trouble?
discardia: Don't question it (Dramatic windblown... post-train jump)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-19 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Just... shaking her head, nope, she's never heard that. ]

... It's possible. I was thinking about maybe trying to search.

[ She's been practicing her swimming!! ]
roundoff: (☉ right?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A little true, though.

But Kaden's just going to tilt his head at that.]


What? Not all by yourself...!

[She's a human girl! There's strength in numbers or something, right? But it's still not a good idea to just head out alone!]
petnadjanka: (37)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-19 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
V... Vampires? I'm not some blood-sucker or something!

[?? what kind of comparison is this, cardia!?]
petnadjanka: (pic#10198292)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-20 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
[it's fine, elize. tytree's got not problem taking on the mantle of big bro—no need to be alone.]

Well... I guess we'll have to go out there and catch 'em, right?
discardia: (What the Finis-- I mean devil--)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-20 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not calling you one! [ Oops. ] It's just, I don't know too many people with powers...

But then there are more than a few here.
petnadjanka: (34)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-20 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
We might as well, right? Unless you can think of something better. I dunno how many ways you can even say crossbow.

[this is already so stupid, not that tytree realizes it.]
discardia: (All proper ladies must shank)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-20 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I think I should be all right.

[ LEGIT NOTHING WILL BITE HER AND SURVIVE. ]
petnadjanka: (20)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-20 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
That's not sabotage!

[go ahead, turn your back on him, mao...

if you dare.]


Sabotage would be pulling your underwear up over your head! [will tytree actually go for the atomic wedgie though? it's hard to tell with the way he's laughing.]
princessia: (37)

[personal profile] princessia 2016-04-20 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jude's fired now!! ]

...We'll have to swim out there?

[ She didn't think that far ahead. Her enthusiasm fades as she stares out the window where the ocean is. That's kind of scary... ]
ditties: (oo4)

[personal profile] ditties 2016-04-20 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
[ TYTREE. WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.

He is definitely not turning his back on him now, good lord. ]


Wha — you better not even think about doing that to me, Tytree!

[ There's no way he would stoop so low ... is there? He can't tell!! ]
yatagarasu: (WINK ☄ score one for the girls back home)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-20 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Kay gives him a thumbs up. It's a little hard to tell behind the breathing apparatus and the goggles but she's beaming.]

Yeah, thanks! I heard they taste good.

[Besides, who could say no to food? Starving underwater must be a terrible way to go.]
yatagarasu: (OH ☄ is that a metal detector?)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-20 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Kay watches him for a moment...and amazingly, decides not to copy him. For now.]

We'll need people who are good at setting one up. The ocean's a really big place. Who knows what else is out there?

[Where's Ritsu when you need her?]
yatagarasu: (STARE ☄ into the gathering storm)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-20 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Unless you think we could find another use for it?

[But judging from her tone, she's not optimistic and would rather get rid of the stuff. Could it be fuel, maybe?]
yatagarasu: (LOGIC ☄ eureka! totally stole that line)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-20 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Kay strokes her chin, looking like she's very deep in thought.]

Hmmm...and it's also a gratin, too...

It's worth a try.

[She's not a picky eater.]
parodeity: (WHOA 🎧 hold up)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-20 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yo, I'm down to be the president of camp anti-Dead Daves. Dead Daves are the enemy. [ The last part is said in a way that suggests he's said it a lot, to someone else. His team motto, basically. ]

But yeah, no worries, Wiz. We can only die [ Gesturing between himself and Dirk with his spoon ] if we deserve it or if it's heroic. Pretty sure overdosing on sugar and shit isn't that.

[ ........Although. He pauses. Squints, though you can't see that behind his shades. ]

You don't DESERVE death if you basically eat nothing but like ice cream and doritos do you. Is that Just???
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-20 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow dave is only sort of unkillable!!! he dies a lot anyway. ]

Oh, hey, you actually did your research. [ dave did not, so this is GREAT. ] So, we make it go off at one of us, then flash in close and kill it, right?

[ he kind of leans in to try to get a look at these notes. ]

I'm a close-combat fighter, so I'm down to do that part.
parodeity: feastings @ tumblr (WAIT 🎧 hold up)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-20 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Uhhhh. Am I going to have to kill them for you.

[ Because, like. He WILL, but holy shit how could you do this to him on their first meeting, Kay. ]
cephalocide: (i'm not the moe one here)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, good, he doesn't have to go into any yoga poses or anything. For now.]

Heh. A database would help us with that, too. It would be pretty convenient to know who has what kind of skills and expertise.

[He looks thoughtful.] Not that there are that many people here. If we get to know everyone, I guess that wouldn't be an issue.
maserannas: (quiet | and never speak of this again)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-20 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Ah.

[ She gives a small nod of her head, stepping through this section of hall into the kitchen area. The whole pod-like appearance of everything is still novel. Novel and bizarre, though by now she knows where to find the equivalent of something to use as a kettle, and mugs to use for the tea.

This is kelp tea.

It is going to taste salty.

She would apologise, but they're in an ocean, there is not much to do for it right now.

... But that's also a wee bit off. Right now, she's managed to pour out fresh water into a container and is getting it to boil. Technology magic as far as she's concerned. The lines between both can blur, but technology here doesn't run on something that can be sealed off in another realm. Probably.
]

It's one of those unfortunate side effects of having neighbors. Sometimes they can't help but invite themselves over to conquer your lands for the sake of this or that.

[ She makes a small, dismissive motion with her hand. ]

Sorry that's what you're having to deal with in Hoshido at the moment.
petnadjanka: (pic#10198292)

[personal profile] petnadjanka 2016-04-20 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Compare it to someone who's not a vampire, then... That makes me sound so bad...

[tytree, what.]

My power's not anything like that kinda stuff. It's the Force of Wood, it means I can do a lot of cool, strong attacks against my enemies! [it's totally cool and heroic, okay. he still doesn't really know how to explain it though, it doesn't seem like many people have heard of anything from callegea.

which makes it tougher for him.]
cephalocide: (perceptions of manliness)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-20 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

[The notes are not all that detailed. The written stuff doesn't go beyond what he already told Dave, though there is a simple sketch Nagisa clearly copied exactly from somewhere. There's also the doodle of a firing cannon that takes up a portion of the page and serves no purpose.]

I don't mind drawing their fire. It shouldn't be bad if we take them down one by one. This is where the valuable stuff is.

[He gives Dave a better look at the notes, pointing to the most well-labeled part of the sketch that indicates the cavity in the plant where the powder is stored.]

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