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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 (I HAVE the car)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[beat

'puppets, horses, robots, porn.'

No, that's not a thing to say.]


I don't know if my hobbies would be to your tastes. [Solve this with a flashstep, quick.] I generally like to take on individual projects. That's one of the reasons I'm working on improving the droids. That, and I am trying to get a drink of actual orange soda instead of a trip through the uncanny valley of similar beverages.

Then there's the continuous hobby rather than the discrete focus. Taking up a sport would be like that. Any kind of exercise or skill you wanted to improve would work.
restorer: (is on the way)

[personal profile] restorer 2016-04-25 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[not everyone has hiro's ability to... grasp things that should be beyond him. and not in a sort of hyper-intelligent way, just in a sort of "well, okay, this is a thing, now what" kind of way. so it's okay, tytree.

he'll explain stuff sooner or later. right now, the most pressing explanation is this ice cream.]


It gave me... raw meat-flavored ice cream? Or raw meat in an ice cream maker. It was...

[hiro makes a face reminscient of the poison control stickers they had back in the 90s, which is a reference that wouldn't be made normally.]
parodeity: (MAYOR 🎧 honestly would marry)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-25 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ dirk please for the love of god sell the comic if it comes to a choice between that or cutting off your head ]

At least you don't have to worry about prices and values if all you have to your name are a few comics and robots, dude. The Mayor will provide us with can shelters and truly awesome leadership. Also? Hugs and high fives. Like holy fuck he gives the best of both. I love the Mayor. I'm gonna run away with him and live in a real life Cantown, just him and me, and we're gonna spend all day restructuring the squirrel zone maybe, that shit needs an overhaul and I can only imagine how much work it's gonna be irl. If we can even get squirrels? Whatever, point is you don't need money for happiness, you only need the Mayor.

[ dave chill the fuck out on your mayor boner...he just completely derailed into a little mayor ramble there and it's not even mostly joking he'd run away with the mayor in a heartbeat ]
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (AUUUUUGH!)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[....Dave.... Dave............

Dirk doesn't even know what to do with this. His ecto-sonbro has clearly chosen the life as a runaway comrade (friend? lover? fuck if he knows and he doesn't care beyond the fact that it makes Dave happy) of a political figure.

Dirk must support him. He will be the good brother.]


Your mom might force you to let her move in with you. She's not going to let you abscond after all these years waiting for this opportunity.

[Support him by making ironic comments.]

You'll need a zone for cats.
parodeity: maladroitapathy @ tumblr (YO 🎧 moby dick)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-25 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ If only the Mayor weren't into chess ladies Dave might have a shot! But no his love is...pl...atonic? Dude does spend way too much time talking about the Mayor and dramatically hugging him over lava to be entirely sane about it, but ok Dave.

He shrugs. ]


'Kay, you and mom can come and live in Cantown, too. We'll deputize Mom as cat zone chairwoman, and you can have, like. The horse zone? May as well have one of those, too. We can give Rose a zone for eldritch horror terrors or somethin' as long as she promises to keep any and all tentacle monsters far away from the sweet innocent chessman.

[ and also potentially dave ]

Kinda wanna put Karkat in charge of crabs to see if he'd flip his shit. Who am I kidding, he flips his shit about anything. And I'll be in charge of digging up dead shit, or like, ironic photography. Painting cans? Whatevs. These jobs already sound better than permanent sleepover gods.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (and THEN the big man comes)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Dave really is enthusiastic about all of this. Dirk has noticed that Dave tends to ramble, but he is really gunning for this. It's impressive.]

I'd rather not be responsible for horses. Just give me a can with a nice view and a safe distance from what is liable to become dangerous Lalonde breeding projects.

[He doesn't know if Rose is like Roxy with this. But he does remember Roxy's many, many cats.]
restorer: (Default)

Re: A

[personal profile] restorer 2016-04-25 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
... a bad experience with video games?

[listen dude, you cannot just sorta casually drop "i had a bad experience with video games" - an experience so bad, apparently, that it put you off video games forever - and not expect to be questioned.

did a video game kill his father?]
parodeity: (WHOA 🎧 hold up)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-04-25 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ He can talk about literally any dumbass topic forever if no one stops him. The dumber the better. Serious topics are more dicey, but dumbass topics like "real life cantown"? Dave will never run out of random things to say.

He veers away from the topic, though, in the interest of curiosity. ]


Mom said she cloned cats? Which tbh sounds pretty rad. I wonder if she'd like dead things in jars? Got loads of those. Had loads of those? Guess Jade has them now since she's still the planet maestro.

[ that's science-y, right

maybe they can bond over that someday. if his collection is ever retrieved from his planet???? ]
lamortespoir: (03)

slides in... D

[personal profile] lamortespoir 2016-04-25 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sanson looks up from his cup of 'earl grey tea', which is... grey.

It tastes like tea, though. ]


Do you like grilled cheese sandwiches?
inject: (pic#9009040)

[personal profile] inject 2016-04-25 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ She didn't look terribly impressed with his attitude, even if it mirrored her own. She pointed to the bench and pulled on a new pair of latex gloves. A bulge in the palm gave away her own mutation. ]

Get up. I need to make sure you don't have anything other than the obvious.

[ It shouldn't take too long. She was already lifting up one of the sensors. ]
lamortespoir: (03)

charles-henri 'i only have a slasher smile' sanson | fate/go

[personal profile] lamortespoir 2016-04-25 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
A;
[ For the most part, Sanson walks into the room compliantly before taking the seat furthest away from the door. There's a notebook in his hand (he'd been advised this was a meeting, after all), along with an old-fashioned fountain ink pen.

He flips it open and waits for the rest to be seated, but he doesn't talk. Unless the silence stretches too long, then he will break it with a very deadpan: ]


Well? Are we about to begin?

D;
[ As a Servant, Sanson doesn't really need to eat much. The fact that he no longer has an active mana connection to his Master is a problem, but the environment around him seems to be supplying enough.

However, any gentleman does need tea once in a while, and it's what he requests from the droid. What he actually gets, however, is a cup of suspiciously grey liquid.

If you're next to him, you'll get a quip after a few seconds of silence. ]


I'd suppose they took 'grey' a little too literally, didn't they?

E;
[ Unlike most people, Sanson's reaction to having a Gasopod pod stuck to his arm is remarkably calm.

The Assassin is seated at a table in one of the common areas, perhaps, with a sheet of plastic in front of him. There's a thick rubber cord wrapped around the affected upper arm, and in his other hand is some sort of scalpel. For now, he looks at it with a sharp ice-blue gaze, tapping the skin around the edges of the pod with the blunt end of the scalpel and otherwise examining it with an objective eye.

He's literally going to cut it off and dump it - an amputation, like what any serious doctor would do. But maybe it's not that good an idea? ]
yatagarasu: (STEALTH ☄ smile for the security cam)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-25 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be interesting to try...not just underwater species, but also underwater spices.

[You think you're being real clever, don't you, Kay?]
yatagarasu: (READY ☄ begin investigation)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-25 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
[A shake of the head. Kay is good at dealing with wet blankets.]

Nah, I'm good. You?
yatagarasu: (SEARCHING ☄ the game is afoot)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-25 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[She chuckles.]

Oh, it can. It gives us a good place to start writing notes!
yatagarasu: (INTERESTED ☄ where are your valuables)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-25 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
We could start asking!

...Or start one and see how many people will join in.
yatagarasu: (FLIGHT ☄ catch me if you can!)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2016-04-25 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kay nods.]

Absolutely! The simple, yet perfect sandwich! Anyone can learn to make one!
discardia: (Successfully robbed a train)

[personal profile] discardia 2016-04-25 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
There's an airlock we can use, but you'll have to change into your suit first. Do you remember where that is?
lamortespoir: (03)

[personal profile] lamortespoir 2016-04-25 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ You're talking to the guy who has probably only eaten fancy French food from the 18th century. ]

Can you make one?
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (what IS it even with you and SOCKS MAN)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think she had about two hundred of them.

[Despite his own ironic reference to Roxy as Dave's 'mom,' it's still a little odd to hear her referred to as such. At the same time, it feels almost right. He can't help but feel really happy for her.]

I'm sure she'll love anything you show her. She'll probably put it all up on display on shelves and pinned to food storage areas and shit. You will not be able to escape her affectionate presentation of your work. Everywhere you turn in her can domicile, you will find yet another pink doily set underneath a jar of dead bird.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (Bro did)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He was confident he was fine. He had spent his entire life looking after himself. He didn't need to rely on someone else, particularly not someone who was clearly having her own problems. This was stupid, and he wanted to leave.

He didn't not. Without changing expression or saying a word, he took a seat on the bench as ordered.

He just also happened to impassively sit there silently resenting authority, like the mature teenager he is.]


Okay, sure.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (i cant BELIEVE what he made take place)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-04-25 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm good.

[At least Kay knows how to handle these kinds of guys. Unless she picks up the conversation, he'll be swimming back to base in true wet-blanket silence. He is Concerned about Poison, okay.]
inject: (pic#9009036)

[personal profile] inject 2016-04-25 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She definitely agreed with him on one thing: this was stupid. If URSULA had been the AI back home, Valentine would have scrapped her immediately for less idiotic system. Unfortunately, she was all they had, and she had to accept that.

Just like she had to accept that what she wanted right now, more than anything, was to let her 'suckers' burst out and drain this snooty teen with his anime shades dry of all of his blood.

Probably not the best thing for onsite medical personel to be feeling.
]

Been hypnotising anyone accidentally?

[ It was gruff and clipped, but gave no hint of her increasing irritation with her own changes. Just her current irritation with the situation. That was how she liked it.

As she spoke, she slathered the sensor with jelly so that it would read his pulse more easily once she attached it.
]
inject: (pic#9009036)

E

[personal profile] inject 2016-04-25 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't.

[ She didn't reach out to grab him. Having Bleeder suckers on the palms of her hands made that a stupid idea. Her voice was firm enough to make up for it.

Clenching her palms, she fought down the urge to stab through his sleeve and suck the blood out of him. It was annoyingly strong.
]

I assume you've seen what those do in the wild.
ruffledup: (pic#8939881)

i forgot i did not actually hit post comment I'M SORRY

[personal profile] ruffledup 2016-04-25 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh... And she was almost sure he wouldn't...

Still, Josephine can't help but a smile a little at that, even as she shakes her head.]


Well. I suppose if we can live underwater... As unbelievable as it may seem to me, perhaps I should not completely dismiss the possibility.

[She still doesn't think so though, though--

--Oh, why not?]
I cannot imagine what a sea-pig would look like.
upcard: (✿ for fuck's sake not again)

[personal profile] upcard 2016-04-25 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I--I'm sorry, I didn't mean...!

You have a very attractive face, I just... I've never heard anyone say anything like that before, so I was surprised!

[DON'T BE SAD, PUPPY]

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