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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: (☉ is there anyone prettier?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-15 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . . okay but like-]

Whoa.... Thanks for the explanation but... what're you, though?!

[SUDDENLY MORE INTERESTED IN THIS GUY THAN THE BRUSH THING. He's so tall?! Kaden's just going to wander up to him, his tail swaying behind him as he super obviously looks Korosensei up and down. Where are his manners....]

And how do you know so much about hair care? I'm the best groomer of all the kitsune but even I've never seen something like this before.
tentaculled: (tentaconversation)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-16 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ a kitsune, huh... He knows what those are. Previously, he would have said "a myth," but considering the other weird folks hanging around this base, and the evidence sitting on this man's head and rear, he's going to have to revise that belief. ]

Why? Because I'm a teacher, of course. Knowing about things is my job.

[ hair care isn't something you teach in class, though... regardless, that seems to be his answer for both questions. ]

It's more surprising to see a fox so far underwater.
roundoff: (☉ six)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-16 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . . . okay but-]

Mmm, I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree there. You can find foxes anywhere probably but I've never seen anything like you before. And you teach for a living? Do all teachers look like you?

[asking the real important questions here obviously]
tentaculled: (tentacool)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-18 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Of course not. Not everyone can be blessed with good looks like me. Too many beautiful women's hearts would be broken...

[ yeah that's probably not what kaden meant but that's the answer he's getting... ]
Edited 2016-04-18 05:19 (UTC)
roundoff: (☉ four)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-19 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Confidence! I like it!

[Even if he thinks that he's prettier.... it's ok, Korosensei, he won't say that out loud. No need to compete (over something obvious).

Haha, what?]


Not what I was getting at, but I mean... I'll take what I can get.
tentaculled: (tentaconfidence)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-20 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Fufufu. You're a good sport for a kitsune. [ he links his tentacles behind his back, grinning ear to metaphorical ear, as usual. ] It's safe to say that there aren't any other teachers out there that look anything like me. I'm one-of-a-kind!

[ he's getting used to this question now. before he'd come here, his existence had been a government secret... it's kind of strange being out in the open, but there's nothing he can do about it. ]

Unlike you, it seems! You're really a fox spirit?
roundoff: (☉ who do we appreciate?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-22 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[One-of-a-kind.... Kaden wonders if that ever gets a little lonely? Kitsune are rare, sure, but they still have their own little hamlet...

Except.

He's absurdly easily distracted so he's bouncing a bit at the question.]


Sure am! And - and I can turn into a giant fox whenever I wanna! It's craaaazy cool!

[Tooting his own horn juuuust a little.]
tentaculled: (tentacheer)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-23 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ pls he can't be lonely with his class full of wonderful children. ]

Heeeh? Really?! Can I see? I want to see!

[ don't stroke his ego, Korosensei... ]
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.]
tentaculled: (tentacoiffe)

[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?! ]
roundoff: (☉ no? didn't think so!)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-24 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[WTF, BRO!! Kaden's eyes widen at that as he falls for it, entirely:]

Whoa, whoa! You're putting my pride on the line?! Okay, here we go then!

[And he's way too excited after that... Once he's sure there's enough space between him and Korosensei, he couches so that he can get enough air and proceeds to do a backflip - though by the time he comes out of it, he's definitely a large, furry beast multiple times his original size.

Then there's that echoing laugh.]


Hahahaha, see, see?!
tentaculled: (tentacheer)

[personal profile] tentaculled 2016-04-26 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ wow. look at that. just like his favorite movies!! Except this is way better than any CGI. Even a giant, color-changing tentacle monster like himself seems amazed and enthralled by Kaden's transformation, and he presses his feelers to his cheeks in giddy excitement. ]

Uwaaah! You really can!! That's amazing, Mr. Fox! Just amazing! Can I touch your fur?!

[ wow that last part is unrelated but he blurts it out anyway. Also, even though he's asking, he's already reaching out to pet Kaden's shoulder as he speaks. The texture of his rubbery, slightly-damp tentacle might be a little... weird, but. ]
roundoff: (☉ more amazing?)

[personal profile] roundoff 2016-04-29 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heh.

Kaden's just going to preen happily at that, his tail wagging pleased behind him even as he bends on his forelegs a bit just so that it's easier for Korosensei and he doesn't have to reach up that much. At least it's not like Kaden's going to say no to being pet....]


Right, right?! Go ahead, I know it's pretty great. I take really good care of my fur so it's suuuuper soft!

[Probably like touching a crowd.... The tentacle feels weird but.

That's ok... He'll brush his fur out again later.]