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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] splinten 2016-04-21 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, considering he was the only other living being... (Let's not talk about brobot.)

Just visible above the edge of his sunglasses, his eyebrows raise up.]


Okay. Do you wanna throw me a topic?
maserannas: (determined | she'll go alone)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-21 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ With zero hesitation: ]

Land.

[ Anything not underwater. Is it a good topic? No, no, it isn't. But it is heartfelt. ]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (its sports)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-21 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[A pause.

He reaches down into the innards of the droid he has been modifying. With a couple of adjustments, he gets a nice rap beat going to underline it.

And then he drops those rhymes.]


You ever looked out to sea?
Miles to see, miles of me,
Blue turned blacker eventually
Never known the feel of a growing tree.
Wonder what it's like beyond,
Does the earth sing a song? A song that keeps going on?
Wonder if I'll ever learn to sing along?
Or if I tried I'd sing it wrong.
Spring blooms; fall loss;
Flower buds and spreading moss,
Kelp forests underneath the soaring albatross
The grass is always greener when you can't get across.
I'm saying I will; I'm saying I'd kill,
I'm saying I'd lose my head just to have the thrill,
Of walking bare feet in the grassy earth.
But when I make land, I'm feelin' dead dirt.
dirtharama: (Default)

[personal profile] dirtharama 2016-04-21 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, would you? That would be perfect! [Wherever her friends are, having something cute and irritating would cheer them up, she's sure. It would remind them all of being together.

It might sound strange to someone else but the idea warms her heart, imagining their faces and reactions. Fenris wouldn't see the purpose of it but Isabela might love it. Varric would probably take to it, though Anders might be disappointed it's not a cat since birds and cats don't get along. Aveline would secretly think it's very cute, she's sure. And Hawke would understand. Hawke always understood, somehow.]


...Oh, I'm sorry. I started to think about how happy they would be with them and here you are, promising me a fantastic gift, and I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Merrill. Uhm, Dalish, obviously, but I lived in Kirkwall for the past few years through it's ups and downs! [A beat.] ...And... more downs... A lot of downs lately, really.
yatagarasu: (HEE ☄ your love life's DOA)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-21 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope.

[A shake of the head. Then Kay reaches out to poke one of Korosensei's tentacles. Gently.]

I'm not allergic to you, either. [She grins.]
yatagarasu: (INTERESTED ☄ where are your valuables)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-21 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope some of the plants out there taste good, too.

[Maybe they could even be better than land vegetables!]
yatagarasu: (SHOCK ☄ can't believe it's not butter)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-21 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, what?!

[She sits straight up and leans in Cardia's general direction.]

There's tons of games out there that aren't gambling! Board games, Hide and Seek, I Spy, Tag, Twenty Questions...
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[personal profile] transited 2016-04-21 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he just gives dave a look; 'sylladexes' sound fake but okay. sure.

but as much as neil does not want to do this, he also is annoyingly stubborn so he probably won't decide to quit until dave wants to. ]


I just hope we're both strong swimmers. I kind of doubt they'll be sending any help if shit hits the fan.

[ dave kind of implied he can right, so... hopefully they'll be fine. neil really hates having to rely on some guy he barely knows though. ]
upcard: (✿ please don't touch my hair)

[personal profile] upcard 2016-04-21 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[WHY DO WE HAVE TO FIGHT AT ALL.]

Mm... I suppose so... [Maybe???] But I hope that you don't end up in any dangerous situations where you'd need one...
maserannas: (smile | leaders would be borne of you)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-21 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's different, but... it's an interesting kind of different. So once Dirk is done, Ellana finds herself quirking her lips up at the corner and clapping her good hand against her thigh for a version of applause. That sense of rhythm and the beat has a cadence she appreciates. Not really like the poetry or singing she's heard in Orlais, or heard out of Tevinter. Not like the songs she learned growing up with her clan, though the rhyming, that's similar. Almost nostalgic. She thinks she might like hearing more of this "rap." ]

Interesting note to end on. [ More to a point: ] Impressive! All that was off the top of your head?
parodeity: feastings @ tumblr (UGH 🎧 nooooooooooo)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think so, but sometimes paradox space is like "yo, what is the most inconvenient thing I could make a thing? Imma get on doing that right now, there's how physics works from now on, you're welcome".

[ and by sometimes he means literally all the time. ]
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Neil does anything here not sound fake. They're literally swimming on an ocean planet speaking with telepathy on a fucking sidequest. ]

Is complainin' about all this making you feel any better about it, bro?

[ he sounds amused rather than annoyed, though. ]

Because you could stand to spice it up. Your complaints, I mean. Where are all the metaphors, or the insults?
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
K, I'm definitely pairing up with you on anything involving research from now on.

[ Even if it's not that detailed IT'S MORE THAN DAVE BOTHERED TO DO. He grins at the cannon, kind of nudging Nagisa in the side with his elbow and nodding at it, mouthing "nice". ]

So - basic plan is find one of the things, draw the fire and then take it out, then gather the goods and move on to the next one, yeah? We should be able to carry a liiiiiiittle more than other people. I'll empty my sylladex before we move out.
parodeity: starrypier @ tumblr (TIME 🎧 shenanigans)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, alcohol isn't my vice even if we had any on us. I'm all about the aj.

[ SERIOUSLY, IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS, WHEN WILL HE GET HIS GODDAMN APPLE JUICE.

dave are you even 16 for real ]
parodeity: (HEH 🎧 sure thing)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Please? I know I look good in red, but swimming through blood is just a pain in the ass.

[ He's not judging the fishicide, and is more relaxed now that he knows she doesn't expect him to kill cute fish for her within 2 seconds of meeting. Honestly, most of the girls he knows would be liable to kill cute fish, come to think of it. ]

If we take it back, I can try to cook it up for you unless you're a master chef yourself?
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Indeed, it is literally always how paradox space works.

So Dirk taps Wiz on his metal head.]


You heard the dude. You gotta keep Dave eating healthy.

We're going to have to find him leafy greens.
cephalocide: (nah shit's chill)

do it do it do it

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-21 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You too.

[He chuckles shyly.]

Heh… something like that. How about you?
parodeity: (WHOA 🎧 hold up)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-21 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Traitor.

[ Pointing at Dirk again with his spoon, dramatically, though his expression remains fairly deadpan. ]

However if those leafy greens include apples I'm down? [ look...look. it's been three years and apparently he is just not letting the apple thing go.

no one else understands and it's terrible. ]
cephalocide: (one more)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-21 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
So far, but… [They're not out in the water yet, where it's dangerous.]

Um, well, three should be enough. Do you have a way to carry them all?
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[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-21 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Embrace the sickwicked joys of ill rhymes, Ellana.

Dirk offers a brief nod of his head.]
You can't really call yourself a rapper if you're unable to drop some freestyle rhymes. That was particularly true in the 1980s, where rap battle culture was a prominent part of the style. Even with the increase of commercial recordings over the rest of the 20th century, the freestyle rap remains an important marker of a true MC from the big label-manufactured imitators.

[...And so he just glides from verse right into academic nerdiness about one of his hobbies. He has a problem. It's a nerd problem.]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (I TOLD YOU DOG)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-21 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dirk bears his label with stoicism. Sorry, bro. This is how it has to be. To prevent a Just death.]

Apples don't count as leafy greens.

[Sorry, bro.]

It'll have to be kelp.

[...And yet, behind those inexpressive shades, Dirk's trying to figure out if there is some way to get apples for Dave. Would a plant that kinda tastes like apples work? Could those weird jellies be flavoured with it? Or could he talk to URSULA about genetically synthesising it? That isn't his wheelhouse, but maybe they could dig up the genetic code?]
cephalocide: (one more)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-21 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Impressive? You think?

[Nagisa has the pleased-but-slightly-embarrassed look of a dude who just got a compliment from a pretty girl. It's simple conditioning, though. He's been training hard at school every day, so it would almost be weirder for him not to keep it up while he's here.]

Nagisa Shiota. I'll do my best to keep you safe.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (I can't wait to be a useless piece of sh)

C-1

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
['Thank you for looking after me,' Dirk hears. And the part of his head that still knows what the AR would mock him for makes a shitty joke about upperclassmen.

The kid is taking a fairly methodical-sounding approach to it. Dirk leans back against the locker wall, pretty much already geared up for swimming (with swimming trunks and his shades, it's legit swimwear).]


The prevalence of debris around the Aurora makes it as the best place to find processed materials, as opposed to materials we would need to refine ourselves in the laps. With the weight of the largest, least-damaged pieces, we should focus our search in the area closer to the Aurora.

I can fit some into my sylladex, but we should reserve that for the most difficult pieces to transport. We can put the rest in the Seamoth.

The radiation around the Aurora has dispersed, but that will mean more sea life will have moved in. We need to be careful about what we encounter around there. The priority should be your life, then the Seamoth, then the salvage. I don't see any point gathering scrap if we're going to need to use it all to patch up the ship we sent to get it.
maserannas: (listen | anyone else but you?)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nerds are good people, or can be. She knows a few herself, and in some respects, can be one, on different topics. Most of what Dirk says doesn't mean much of anything to Ellana, but the gist of it is enough that she can follow along with a general idea of what he means. She can tell it means something to him, which is more than enough, in its way. ]

Ah. And this freestyle rap is what I should expect from your modified metal golem?
cephalocide: (what's a four letter word that)

1/2

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-21 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. I bet we could get a whole study group started.

[What freaking dork. This is what you get for encouraging him, Dave. Anyway, Nagisa hastens on.]

One other thing, I guess, when it comes to killing them… I don't know the best way, but if you cut them up too much, then it'll probably be a lot harder to–

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