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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


nooses: (lemon ice)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-02 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Being locked in a room with Terezi is a potential nightmare for a lot of people. She doesn't like being bored. And people who bore her tend to get the blunter and trickier side of her personality. But Dave is someone who can roll with the punches, and her fishy not-grub is as cute as an ogling button!

... and neither of them are really taking this assignment seriously. Not yet, anyway. Genius needs time to stew in order to be perfect!]


Not a bad interpretation. Judging by what I have seen so far... [Terezi adds two big angry eyebrows on the dragon. ">8("] ... any spiky wildlife is not very friendly. I think a draconic fish would fall under the "spiky, do not piss off" category!
gardians: (♫ I AIN'T EASY I AIN'T SLEAZY)

[personal profile] gardians 2016-06-02 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry. I've been scolded by women more times than you. I'm used to it. Besides!

[Aaaaand he goes back to feeling up the droid.]

I'll put it back the way I found it.
exist: (pic#7990842)

[personal profile] exist 2016-06-02 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[He feels like he shouldn't be looking. How lewd.]

Yeah, yeah, but if you break it, I'm not bailing you out. You don't even know how it works, right? How can you put it back together again?
nooses: (tropical)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-02 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you are.

[No hesitation at all.]

Especially since you swam out here on your own.
parodeity: ikimaru @ tumblr (LOOK 🎧 hopcrotch)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-02 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ honestly after being trapped on a meteor with trolls for three years, the idea of being trapped in a room with terezi overnight or...however long ursula plans to make this thing last...well, it's not really bothering him at all? it's terezi. she's at least good company and he's perfectly content to just kind of dick around with her until they get let out. odds are decent they will conclude this jam session in some sort of fort but honestly if anyone expected dave and terezi to get anything done without a significant amount of joking around happening they were just sad, naive little souls. ]

Ok, so if we ever meet any of those Dirk's gonna go up and punch one in the nose. Or want to. [ because dirk has like, some bullshit boss fight radar that locates the most dangerous battle in any given vicinity and draws dirk to it like a magnet. ] I like that system of identification, though. Spiky, do not piss off, means exactly what you'd think - so actually it might be a thing because we're talking about the AI overlady who named Magister's entire species "Cute Fish".

[ ursula is cute? ]

Here, check it out.

[ he folds up his drawing into a paper airplane and...flies it at terezi...since to check out his drawing she'll probably have to lick it. dave has Super Productively been working on what appears to be an imagining of platypus unicorn people????? wtf dave. ]
gardians: (✿ larkspur)

[personal profile] gardians 2016-06-02 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'll learn. Hey, I have an idea. Why don't you work on it with me?
fictile: (pic#8936766)

[personal profile] fictile 2016-06-02 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Aren't you out here, too? Am I talking to a ghost? How horrible to be trapped between life and death. But that may be where immortality lies. Ah! I'm talking to a God, I see!

[Okay the Gods would get pissed at him for that but tbh they're already pissed so whatever. It's funny.]
exist: (pic#10280390)

[personal profile] exist 2016-06-02 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
What? Me? [Luke blinks before rubbing the back of his neck.] I don't know anything about machines. I might break it.
nooses: (xtreme kiwi xplosion)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-02 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh boy, this is right up her alley!]

Precisely! A God who is quite beautiful and sick of tasting blueberries, thank you.

[If she could ">:P" in real life, she would. She may be trying to with how she's sticking out her tongue.]

I'll share my secrets if you share with me the way back.
fictile: (Default)

[personal profile] fictile 2016-06-02 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Oh ho, dealing with a God as beautiful as you may be quite dangerous! What if you curse me the moment we get back? I hear the beautiful ones have fickle hearts.
nooses: (passion berry punch)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-02 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Striders are reckless boys who enjoy throwing themselves into situations they don't need to. This, Terezi has picked up on. It must have something to do with their title. Or maybe they just have this really weird human streak to be as selfless as they can. Probably a mixture of both.

Dave is correct with his hypothesis that Terezi has to get a good lick first. She snatches it just as it begins its descent, unfolds it, and rasps her tongue over the paper. Tastes like... whimsy?????]


Is this the "Cute Fish" you were referring to, Dave? Because it tastes an awful lot like triangles.

[Another lick. She corrects herself.]

A triangle.
nooses: (pic#10173872)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-02 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[What a flatterer.]

Not to worry. I am nothing but just and impartial in my decisions, though I'm known to act out of boredom sometimes.
gardians: <user name=unite site=livejournal.com> (♫ I GOT REASONS WHY I TEASE EM)

[personal profile] gardians 2016-06-02 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
You won't know until you try.

[He's going to give Luke the biggest smile he can give.]

It'll be fun, I promise.
fictile: (pic#8936766)

[personal profile] fictile 2016-06-02 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[This is so fun. He hasn't enjoyed conversation like this in a while.]

Haha, I see. I'm in the hands of a beautiful Goddess once more. Well, then shall I have the honour of escorting you back? I look forward to the reward that awaits me.
exist: (pic#8044551)

[personal profile] exist 2016-06-02 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[How is he supposed to say no to that?]

All right! Fine, I'll hang out with you and help if I can I guess. Just don't expect a lot right away.

[Maybe he'll see what's so fun about it?? Maybe.]
parodeity: putoshop @ tumblr (SLY 🎧 little shit)

[personal profile] parodeity 2016-06-02 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, that's Magister Snoop Dogg. You can lick the tank and get a good shot, right?

[ ???? how the fuck does terezi's tongue work, even years after meeting the chick dave isn't sure. he just assumes that anything that sounds like bullshit re her abilities is probably true, mostly. ]

Also, wow, that's my rendition of what the creatures we created for our new universe we supposedly were gonna create should have been. Platypus unicorn men who changed color with their moods. Dirk and I had a whole discussion about this, he agreed that sounded better than like, whatever we probably will get stuck with.
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (ok yo'ure obvioubly doing this)

A

[personal profile] splinten 2016-06-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
That's a shame.

[Dirk glances down at her drawing and speaks in a neutral tone.]

With that bullet point down, I don't think we'll have room for one on ice cream samplers. That idea will just have to slip into the void.
nooses: (lemon ice)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-03 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Flattery will get you nowhere. Great flattery might get you places.

[With her escort secure, Terezi swims closer.]

Who am I talking to, anyway?
nooses: (lemon ice)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-03 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I'll give Magister Snoop Dogg a lick as an apology later.

[Part of it is bullshit. Terezi likes to mess around with people. That means pretending to do things she doesn't need to do. Though, really, she did need a closer lick for that, just to see all the nice details Dave added. If she licked the tank right now she was likely to get a lot of chilly, blurry blue. Maybe just a hint of cute.]

I don't think I'm ready to accept this just yet. I think they're missing something.
nooses: (pic#10208343)

[personal profile] nooses 2016-06-03 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Hold up! Terezi turns so she can squat in Dirk's direction.]

Would the orange creamsicle flavor be available?
splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (and play all these games)

[personal profile] splinten 2016-06-03 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Who can say when we're gonna have to trash the whole concept? Those orange creamsicles are plummeting down the rabbit hole of lost ideas. Down they go, crashing into red cherry. Maybe they burst into a colourful fruit explosion, maybe they don't. We'll never know. They're gone.

[A stirring narrative by Dirk Strider.]
fictile: (pic#8936767)

[personal profile] fictile 2016-06-03 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Enkidu, the clay doll. [He's enjoying swimming like a fish, sometimes backwards to see her better.] What are you? Are you really something from heaven? My senses are so outdated when it comes to the things here.

[personal profile] voidkatini 2016-06-03 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome to my world, bro. You thought you were on Floater Island, when you were actually on The Land of Dicks and Depravity all along! I'm Ro-lal and I'll be your tour guide.

[ Roxy shoots him a wink over her shoulder. Wonk. ]
windblows: (pic#10306432)

[personal profile] windblows 2016-06-03 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ John snorts. ]

Oh god, more confirmation. Right down to the obsession with dicks!

[ He laughs and shakes his head. ]

Alright, alright. I guess we should start getting this whole camping situation taken care of. Or whatever. I'm exhausted and starving.

[personal profile] voidkatini 2016-06-08 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, John. Don't worry, Roxy will take good care of you, dude. ]

Tell ya what. You finish gatherin' the wood, and I'll catch us some fish to eat.

[ She hands him the stack of sticks and driftwood, and begins taking her shirt off-- but don't worry! She has a tank top on underneath her pajamas. Her pants stay, but she does shed her boots and rolls up the legs of her pants. ]

Hope you like seafood? It's... Honestly not the best, but it'll do in a pinch.

[ Or if you come from an Earth that is primarily ocean 400 years in the further and fish is pretty much all there is. ]

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