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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


portebonheur: (pic#10100831)

you included the important part of the title (also d)

[personal profile] portebonheur 2016-04-15 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Marinette just wanted to come in and check what materials they had. All she wants to do is try to make something. Maybe adding some flair to their blankets would give everyone a boost. Plus, she feels her creative energy about to explode. The first thing she notices is the smell though. Old sweaty socks?!

She looks around and then stops. Oh. Oh god. Play it cool she has to stop reacting like this if they're living together (Living together she's living together with Adrien they skipped a lot of steps but living together with Adrien) then she needs to relax.]


O-Oh, ah, uh! A-Adrien! You-- [Hang on. Her usual stammering is interrupted. The smell is coming from him.] --Did you spill something?
chataclysmic: (pic#9935477)

i almost put "that show about ladybugs"

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-15 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
[This was probably about the last thing he could have hoped would happen, right in this moment. Somehow, through the graces of overpowering body sprays and a preposterous tendency to take three showers in one day, Adrien had up to this point avoided any awkward conversations about why he smelled like gym socks at any given moment. And yet here he was, sitting on the glass floor of an underwater base with a small robot who was very proud of the round of odorous cheese perched atop three of his fingers, looking up at the stammering face of a one Marinette Dupain-Cheng.]

[It took him a full fifteen seconds of staring, open-mouthed, before he remembered words.]


Um-- no, it's. The Droid made cheese. Kind of.

[He looks from the cheese, to his classmate, back to the cheese, to the droid, and back to Marinette, and pretty concretely wants to die.]
portebonheur: (pic#10088132)

the show about cat puns works too

[personal profile] portebonheur 2016-04-15 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. This is a new way to see her crush. Even Marinette's mind is stretching a little to twist this into a cool situation. In the end she can't help laughing and walking closer.]

I guess it tried its best but... I don't think you should eat it. You can smell it the moment you walk into the room.

[She knows they say smelly cheeses are good but. This is a little much. Please don't die from cheese poisoning, Adrien.]
chataclysmic: (0131)

also the show about ship squares and disney princesses

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-15 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
[That's because he's not cool at all, and everyone thinks he is, except he didn't have that problem here, and now she's here, and he's suddenly trying to backpedal into looking cool with a round of smelly cheese on his fingers and it's not working. Her laughter comes as a welcome relief from steadily increasing nerves, and he echoes it with a short chuckle that he swallows as he stares at aforementioned cheese and shakes his head.]

I actually don't like cheese very much, it was more of a curiosity I wish I hadn't tried to sate. [Curiosity killed the cat, after all. A beat of silence, and he looks up at her.] But, hi! I didn't know you were here.
portebonheur: (pic#10100826)

adrien is the truest disney princess minus his animal friend being rude

[personal profile] portebonheur 2016-04-15 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. Right back to awkward. Well, she didn't think Adrien would be here, either. And what is she supposed to say? "Hi I'm Ladybug and this akuma battle went pretty weird and I chased it to another planet"? Quick think of something!]

H-Hi! [She waves.] I guess they needed someone to help design the base, I mean-- Decorate the base! Make it nicer? And well here I am! Somehow?

[She laughs nervously.] I'm not sure what else I can do here though...
chataclysmic: (pic#9915576)

the rudest familiar.

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-15 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, you know. You could. He'd accept that. But he'll also accept decoration bug. He smiles, setting the fake-cheese on the Droid's head gently and standing up, scrunching his face at the hand he'd had it perched on and reaching out with his other hand, instead.]

That's great, though! If anybody can make this place fashionable it's you, Marinette.

[He has no idea the ability those words have to fry her brain like an egg.]
portebonheur: (pic#10100827)

[personal profile] portebonheur 2016-04-16 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
[More like a complete short-circuit. Marinette turns red and reaches up to tug on her ponytails, only to stop herself at the last second. No, no, that would look too weird. So instead she tries to smooth her hair out, because that is way less weird, while trying to talk. Trying.]

I-I-I, well, I, uhm-- [She laughs. Why is she laughing? Why can't she talk like a normal person.] I-It's really similar! Simple! Simple!

[Marinette hangs her head. Please someone help.]

A-Anyway, I, well, you're a successful model so I'm sure you have a really keen eye for details, too! There's no way someone with your experience couldn't do just as well!
chataclysmic: (0111)

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-16 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[The outstretched hand settles on a popped hip (always modeling, even unconsciously) and he shakes his head with a smile.]

Are you kidding? I model, that doesn't mean I know anything about decorating. I can probably look at an outfit and tell you if it'd do well on a runway, and I can probably tell someone's shoe and dress size just by looking at them, but I don't know anything about how fabric turns into clothes.

[Danger, Marinette, he's stepping over to you, and that sure is his not-cheesy hand moving from his hip to settle on your shoulder.]

But you, on the other hand, took a Derby Hat contest by storm and impressed my father and shut down Chloé's attempt to take it from you with grace. You'll do fine here.