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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


splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (and there he goes.)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-24 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, but you yourself sounded pretty excited about the violent part.

[Like. HE'S JUST SAYING? He didn't miss that.



He just didn't think it was particularly strange, except juxtaposing it against this.]
cephalocide: (do i have a cold)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-24 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Jesus, his pupils. Ow. Nagisa blinked away the spots. He'd ended up a little too close behind her, so even if she was careless with the flashlight again, he wasn't going to let himself get blinded a second time making the same mistake.]

I don't, either.

[That was a joke, and it was told lightly, like a joke. He'll just float here, tellin' jokes, waiting for his eyes to stop giving him the kaleidoscope treatment.]

Can you turn off the light for a second? My eyes…

[Nagisa trailed off sort of pathetically. His eyes will be totally fine, but if she turned off her flashlight, then he figured the blue light ought to appear to her – and this time he wouldn't come off like a smart-ass at all.]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (BRO HAVE)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-24 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[A baby takes a step forward and trips into a pile of puppets.]

Just to clarify, this is small-talk. We're engaging in free-form conversation to idle away the travel time with no other purpose, correct?

Because given those parameters, I strongly suggest that you discuss your hobbies over mine. We'll get way more traction from that.

[no one wants to listen to Dirk talk about puppets for hours

no one

the baby is going to drown in those puppets]
Edited 2016-04-24 02:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] occultations 2016-04-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph.

[ The joke sailed over her head, but at least his pathetic comment made her feel a little more solid. Contemptuously turning off the flashlight, because it was possible for people like Chikane to turn off flashlights in contemptuous ways, she hovered in the dark waters, waiting for him to recover.

Wait, was that?...
]

Over there.

[ Decisive, and said more to herself than to him. She saw the faint glow filtering through the water and cast upon the tunnel wall.

Swimming past Nagisa, and with her light staying off, she made her way to the turn-off. It wasn't much of an opening, off to the side; a hole so small that if they were too much bigger, they couldn't squeeze through it. She tucked a protective hand over her breathing apparatus as she stuck her head through the hole.

On the other side was a short tunnel, at the end of which a vast, open cavern was visible. The light source was immediately apparent: the pale bodies of columnar sponges, the scale of which she didn't understand until she saw the flecks of fat fish swimming among them. They were huge, 3 or 4 meters tall, and glowing softly. Around their bases wide shelves and concentric rings of the white "mushrooms" grew. Long silver bodies snaked out of the tops of these sponges, reached into the water, and then retracted smoothly. Chikane couldn't tell what they were doing. The terraces of stone against the walls (and even up into the entry tunnel) were salted with some kind of short, squirming grass, or was it a kind of anemone? Neither altogether, nor all separate, but in colonies uncoordinated, flights of grass would pulse with a blue light, flatten their tall stalks against the rock, and dim.

Fascinated, saying nothing to Nagisa, she slipped through the tunnel and into the cavern.
]
cephalocide: (get it)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-24 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[So serious. Nagisa can't help but grin, actually; if there's one thing he is truly not afraid of, it's being bored to death. And the weird, evasive way Dirk is talking makes Nagisa roughly five to ten times more curious about it than he would be otherwise.

In other words: baby has some scuba gear, bro. Baby might still drown, but he will drown completely without fear – though perhaps not without regret.]


My hobbies – you think? Even if my favorite hobby is something really boring, like researching things?

[He's not lying.]

I like researching everything, including other people's hobbies.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (you got to FLIP it TURN-WAYS)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-24 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[WELL-COUNTERED, MOTHERFUCKER. Dirk must concede: it was a masterful parry, and an even more elegant answering strike.]

Touche.

[However, he is not so easily defeated. Gear yourself up, human wriggler. This is going to be a long dive (probably not).]

Would that be research for pure research's sake, or do you prefer to include an analytic component?

[That's right, Nagisa. It's combat now. Hobby-description deflecting combat.]
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[personal profile] transited 2016-04-24 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ he opens his mouth, then closes it, thinking over his answer before saying something dumb. ]

It's not that I want to go out there just to hurt them. I just... really enjoy the competitiveness of it? If someone comes at me, five times bigger than me with the intent to rip my head off, I want to beat them? I want to outplay them, and outsmart them, and send them falling to the ground.

It makes you feel alive.
cephalocide: (i'm not the moe one here)

[personal profile] cephalocide 2016-04-24 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, "over there." Thanks. Still, Nagisa's vision was quickly sorting itself out, and he had a decent idea of what Chikane was going to do even if he couldn't see. Sure enough, she was gone by the time Nagisa became completely reoriented. Only one way she could have gone.

It was a small opening, definitely. If Chikane got stuck, she would let him know at least that much, right? Maybe? Nagisa decided simply that he wouldn't let himself get stuck. Mimicking her for perhaps the first time (and obviously without realizing it) Nagisa used his hand to protect his breathing gear while his face probed the unknown.

He swam along the tunnel, immediately drawn to the wondrous cavern and its calm, beckoning light. He forgot where he was for moment, eyes hopping from one strange feature to the next. Certainly, Chikane was the last thing on his mind as approached one of the sponges, swimming only as close as he dared to get a better look.]
roundoff: (☉ six)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-24 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Whew.... that's a long time to be in a place like this.

[Considering the fact that he's already dealt with some bad dreams - it weirds him out to think that someone can be so complacent about it.]

But I guess that's just another thing to endure, huh? Well - I guess if humans can do it, then I definitely should be able to, too!
roundoff: (☉ right?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-24 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[A glance... around....]

It's a little cramped... but if you reeeeeaaaally want me to....

[He fiddles with the Beaststone in his pocket, already taking a few steps back from Korosensei.]
roundoff: (☉ four)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-24 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[It's the best way for things to be!]

Mm, yeah! Is it obvious?

Though I guess I'd be a memorable, beautiful face too.
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[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-24 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like I have a reason to dislike you guys...

[Don't seem like hunters to him.]

Soooo, that's good enough, right?
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[personal profile] princessia 2016-04-24 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Big bro"? [ First confusion, then understanding. ] ...oh.

[ She always thought it would be nice to have a family. He's already loudly proclaiming that he's a "big bro" and that gets her to smile, along with her cheeks reddening.

What a nice big brother figure. Not trying to dump her to some random family somewhere without her consent like some people...! ]


Thank you.
maserannas: (listen | anyone else but you?)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-24 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Xenocultures, huh? A different word for studying cultural differences, she supposes. She's not sure of the story behind who he's referencing, but she takes it as something she doesn't need to know, either. ]

Well... I can tell you about how the Dalish elves live, which is different from the elves in the cities, living in the alienages of the Free Marches, Orlais, and Fereldan. The way we all relate to humans differs, and differs yet again from the Tevinter Imperium. Then there's those of us who've turned to the Qun and the Qunari for a purpose and way toward freedom from one kind of slavery into another, depending on who you ask.

[ She looks around the kitchen, pausing for a moment before opting to head to the fridge to see if any of the fish from earlier is still there. ]

The social structure of Thedas depends on the region. Most of the present day powers are human, dwarven, or Qunari, where-as the elves haven't been big powers since the second age. I believe we're the only people in Thedas who can say we've fallen from power or having any nation of our own twice.

[ Said with an uptick of slight amusement in her tone of voice; she has a complicated relationship with her people's history. Especially as one who was to preserve, remember, teach, and carry that history forward: learning how much of it was flawed, and to what degree, had been unsettling. ]

I can tell you about each region if you're interested in hearing such things, but Josephine is a much better instructor. It'd only be the Dalish that I have particular insight on, and each clan is more different than the next than we might like to admit.
maserannas: (consider | on a lonely night)

[personal profile] maserannas 2016-04-24 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ She breathes out in sharp amusement, lifting her finger off the mug. ]

I'm not sure if humans should be the golden standard, but you're on the right track, more or less.

[ Humans should never be the golden standard. In her opinion. ... Her biased opinion. ]

Though you say humans so easily that I suspect you're something different. What's the name of your race?
chataclysmic: (pic#10019353)

TAKES A WEEK TO GET TO TAGS... also 1/2

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a bit of pause, wherein Adrien's face is pretty much slack in what looks, at first, like disbelief.]
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[And then he clamps his jaw shut and shakes his head, grinning at Dirk.]

That is some kind of crazy wheelhouse!! What kind of game is this? Also Prince of Heart sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland, only probably cooler.
chataclysmic: (pic#9935485)

gently takes a week to get back to tags i'm sorry ghdfnjh

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He might honestly never get used to the telepathy thing. He jolts at her voice emanating in his head without her lips having moved, but recovers quickly enough with a startled chuckle, creasing his eyebrows to concentrate on speaking in thought as opposed to verbally.]

...Less, but not by much.
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i might actually be the slowest tdm tagger ever

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely. So, maybe a good course of action might be learning from... Natives? Books? Both? I don't even know if there are natives capable of human speech, I've never really tried talking to fish before.
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i'm actually the slowest tagger ever.

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
[If Roxy ever stops using chatspeak and making typos the world might just end. Oh wait, that already happened once, didn't it.]

--Oh! Adrien, sorry. Bee tee-- by the way. ...I am gonna have to get used to that.
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes, oh my god, please indulge him on the puns. He is so happy. A toothy grin.]

We'd be to die for!
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[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-24 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Weird tentacle man, indeed. A chuckle, and he waves his hand.]

I wouldn't say responsible, he's just very outspoken about what he does and doesn't like, and I don't think he'd go for fishy Camembert.

[A beat, and he shifts to stand up, nodding and hesitantly offering the hand he wasn't holding the cheese with out for Korosensei to shake.]

You could call me that. I'm Adrien.
tentaculled: (tentaclaim)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-24 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ nagisa.... that's so cute. disgusting!! ]

Rest assured that no fake teacher would be able to replace me. Even if someone tried, you students would surely be able to tell right away. [ of that, he's confident. One of his hands stretches down into a pocket hidden somewhere on his robe, pulling out a handkerchief; in a brief second or two, Korosensei's picked up the dropped knife, holding it out to Nagisa delicately. Brief, but... not quite as brief as one might expect from Korosensei. Not by a long shot.

He's not about to tell one of his assassins that he's missing most of his speed upfront, but it's probably going to be noticeable anyway. ]


In any case! There's one problem with what you said. Naturally, Sensei remembers your exciting research project with Karma-kun in space! But for me, that was a while ago... and, most importantly, you came back from it with completely different information. Rather than looking for a cure on an alien planet, you found out that the chances of my body detonating are actually very small.

[ it's a very curious difference. as much of genius as he is, he can't say he's ever experienced anything like this, nor even considered it as a realistic possibility. Parallel universes? ]
tentaculled: (tentacruise)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-24 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Certainly. There's plenty of dangerous wildlife out in the ocean, at least.

[ not to mention he thinks this entire operation is Extremely Suspicious at this point, but!! He's not sure how much help a crossbow will be when the inevitable army of angry robots comes to kill them. ]

But if you're careful, you should be okay. [ almost moving faster than can be seen, Korosensei snatches up the "crossbow" - and before he knows it, Tytree will have a new adorable hair dec. ] Rather than weaponize, perhaps you should accessorize!
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[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-24 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
I do!! If you don't do it, then I won't believe you're really a kitsune--!

[ just kidding he will but he eggs him on anyway... he just wants to see a big fluffy fox demon!! How cool is that?! ]

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