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TEST DIVE #2
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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?
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?
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What—you really think Sis would like it, Mao? [naturally, he falls for it.
why wouldn't he? if there's potential to never have to give selena away to some other unworthy man!! then of course he'll consider this possibility.]
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Uh huh! I'm sure of it! Here, lean down and I'll even fix it for you so it's in the best position!
[ He's ... too tiny to properly reach it. Shhh. ]
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Oh, right. Okay hold on— [he says as he starts to lean down, but then he realizes.
selena isn't even here.]
—MAAAAOOOOO! [why is he being duped by a child!]
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And he takes a playful step back as he grabs his stomach and laughs. ]
Oh no, I've been found out! I can't believe you believed me! [ ... ] Well, actually I can.
[ Tytree ... ]
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which is fine, because how long can tytree really stay mad at him for his shenanigans? the answer is not long, especially not when there's a little fuel here. so sure, he's laughing heartily, but he's also taking a step forward as he pulls the bow from his hair...]
I've got an idea, Cute Little Mao... [yeah.
he's going there.
and slapping the bow right on mao's head. mao-chan..., how cute.]
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He agrees that he's cute, duh, but also that trigger word. And his putting the bow on him! Ugh! No more laughing! ]
Tytree! Hey! I'm not little, you jerk! [ Okay, he is, technically, but not in the sense of the word he's sure Tytree is meaning!!
And he takes that bow right off his head! Huff! ]
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[now tytree is just laughing wildly, because it's pretty funny to see mao get so worked up over this.
this is definitely what happens when they don't have someone else to gang up on. oops.]
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Wh-What? Sure I can! [ And he'll go ahead and reeeach up (Tytree, why so tall .... HE'S NOT LITTLE THOUGH OKAY ...) to place that darn bow back on Tytree's head. ] And besides, this belongs to you, so don't try to pass it off onto me!
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Geez, it's not like this is what I wanted anyway. May as well let it go to someone it suits better! [he's not keeping this bow in his hair.
even if selena would have probably said it was cute. that's not the point here at all!]
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I hope the only thing you're implying with that is that it's because I'm cute!
[ He's fine with the cute part of all this, but don't you dare say he's little again! ]
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[...he says, naturally. you know, before leaning down and pinching mao's cheeks with force.]
Such a cute, cute little brother!
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T-Tytree! Shtop it! Thish's too far!
[ You didn't have to assault his cheeks like that! He gets it, you know he's cute! It's hard to talk like this, ugh ... ]
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(no it won't, and they both know it.)]
All right, all right! [he'll relent, pulling back and laughing hard enough to have to clutch his sides. some things never change, regardless of where they are.]
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And so he'll pout a little as he rubs his cheeks. Uuuuu ... ]
Geez ... You really are a brute. [ Hum hum. ] I get that you're jealous of my cute appeal, but you didn't have to go and try to sabotage me like that. [ You know, by ruining his adorable cheeks.
Can he turn this back around on him? ]
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[go ahead, turn your back on him, mao...
if you dare.]
Sabotage would be pulling your underwear up over your head! [will tytree actually go for the atomic wedgie though? it's hard to tell with the way he's laughing.]
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He is definitely not turning his back on him now, good lord. ]
Wha — you better not even think about doing that to me, Tytree!
[ There's no way he would stoop so low ... is there? He can't tell!! ]
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And what if I do? [he should probably know that he'll be met with a flare shot directly to the face, but he's gotta ask anyway.
punk.]
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Then I guess I'll have to get started on your funeral song!
[ Don't mess with him, bro, fire beats grass. ]
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Funeral!? [come on, isn't that going a little too far, mao!?]
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Uh huh!
Mistakes~ Mistakes~♪
Tytree made lots~♪
And now he'll be~♪
Buried at sea~♪
[ How's that? It's admittedly one of his darker songs, but he thinks it's fine nonetheless.
He can't help but laugh now though. ]
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[that is horrifying. how can he sing such a morbid song so happily!?]
Argh, that kind of song gives me chills! Can't you get a little older before you start terrorizing people!?
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Seriously, Tytree?! You're still treating me like a little kid?! After all that?!
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[something... like that...]
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A small sigh. ] I'm not sure this is worth arguing anymore.
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literally.
because that's what he's doing, both boisterously and victoriously.]
It's okay, I'll let you admit defeat gracefully! Hehehhehe....
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