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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


redy: (MarinetteW32)

a. tales of ladybug and chat noir, see i finished it for you

[personal profile] redy 2016-04-15 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well. marinette's brain is certainly storming, but probably not in the way ursula actually wanted it to. thoughts of missions... no. it's more like thoughts of adrien agreste, her heart beating in her chest as she tries to piece herself together. what the heck? who actually thinks she's going to be productive when it's just the two of them, and—

—and he made a blanket fort with a blanket cape, that is so cute—

—no, focus! f... focus! focus on the fact this kind of seems like some aquarium date, except with something like homework, and maybe the ocean is a little more ominous considering half the stuff in it isn't the usual ooohh no there, her mind's storming again.

what did he say? fish cakes... fish cakes, soap. soapy fish cakes. ]


I like soap. [ ......... what? no, she really likes him, not soap. not that she doesn't like soap. ] Er. IIii mean, I like soap, but... yyyou're right! Fish cakes. Shouldn't taste like soap, so...

[ with less intensity to correct herself this time, and somewhat defeated she reaches for one of those fish cakes: ]

... Do they actually...

[ throw her into the ocean. ]
chataclysmic: (pic#10019360)

still too long.

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-15 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Par for the course, Marinette is being funny again. He still can't figure out what her deal is, but it's charming in its own right, and he passes her a folded blanket in case she, too, wants a cape. Or, just a blanket, since it's probably going to get pretty cold in here after a while.]

I mean, I like soap too, and maybe that's just an underwater thing.

[Upon seeing her reach for the bag he sets down the recorder and holds out the bag, smiling.]

It could also just be me, I dunno.
redy: (MarinetteW82)

i put forth the effort and this is how you repay me. smh.

[personal profile] redy 2016-04-19 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ how thoughtful... no, of course, adrien's always thoughtful! and gorgeous. aaand kind. aaand ah, okay, she should take that offered blanket with a mumbled thank you—her throat's still a little dry and it feels like every word needs a moment to scream "NNNOOOO" before it comes out of her mouth. if they even decide to come out of her mouth. some of them might've just swandived back into her vocal chords and crashed with other words, making the usual messes. like... zoonimals.

let her just... quietly wrap that blanket around her shoulders before she looks over the fish cake... and then takes a bite.

her expression starts with her standard ear-to-ear smile that she can't really fight when adrien's around, as she's oh so nervous but oh so happy, and then a couple of chews turns that into something slightly more inquisitive because ah, that's it, that's the questionable taste adrien's talking about...

... her brow furrows.

a hand goes up to her mouth.

she'd reassure adrien that no, no, it's definitely not just him, but she's trying to figure out how to gracefully get through the soap she's currently chewing.

HELP. ]
chataclysmic: (pic#10042056)

you know you love me.

[personal profile] chataclysmic 2016-04-19 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Zoonimals, is it? Honestly he'd probably think most of her mushed-together words were cute if he could make any of them out, but she spends so much time mumbling or just stammering nonsensically that half the time he can't even figure out if what she's saying is words in the first place.]

[Despite his complaints that the chips taste like soap, he tosses another one in his mouth and crunches on it with a placid expression, watching her as she politely brings a hand to her face in what appears to be an attempt at hiding the alarmed grimace that comes from the flavor. He has to make a conscious effort not to laugh at her face, peering around for something to let her spit the chip out.]


See? They taste weird. You don't have to finish it.