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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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People take sports very seriously, so it's a very win at all costs mentality. Or something they're just jerks and likes hurting others.
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[Like. HE'S JUST SAYING? He didn't miss that.
He just didn't think it was particularly strange, except juxtaposing it against this.]
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It's not that I want to go out there just to hurt them. I just... really enjoy the competitiveness of it? If someone comes at me, five times bigger than me with the intent to rip my head off, I want to beat them? I want to outplay them, and outsmart them, and send them falling to the ground.
It makes you feel alive.
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I get that.
[Competitiveness? Fuck yes. There's a reason he set all of his battle bots to 'kill mode.' What's the point of training if it isn't pushing you to the edge?]
You may have to pick up a new sport here. Unless the playing field is smaller than I'd expect, it will take us a long time to get the resources for that kind of space.
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[ which is awful and neil can rant about how awful that is but he won't subject dirk to that sort of torture. ]
I'm not even sure if I'd even like other sports.
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Not that Dirk "here's a dissertation" deserves that mercy.]
You'll probably want some kind of hobby. Being in the middle of the ocean with little access to anything external and a lot of free time tends to breed them.
[So many hobbies, Neil. He had to come up with so many hobbies.]
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What are your hobbies then? So I can get an idea to work off of.
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'puppets, horses, robots, porn.'
No, that's not a thing to say.]
I don't know if my hobbies would be to your tastes. [Solve this with a flashstep, quick.] I generally like to take on individual projects. That's one of the reasons I'm working on improving the droids. That, and I am trying to get a drink of actual orange soda instead of a trip through the uncanny valley of similar beverages.
Then there's the continuous hobby rather than the discrete focus. Taking up a sport would be like that. Any kind of exercise or skill you wanted to improve would work.
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[ kevin would probably murder him if he didn't do this, anyway. it sounds like a joke but it really, truly is not one.
he raises an eyebrow at a certain part of dirk's explanation though. ]
You have a craving for orange soda?
[ neil doesn't exactly have a favorite beverage as he spent years just accepting what he could get, so being on the search for a very specific one is an interesting concept to him. ]
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I'm not exactly craving it. It's more that I'm accustomed to having it around.
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and anyway, neil gets that. wanting to surround yourself with the familiar. it's the reason he even asked for the fox in the first place, after all. ]
It's a big place. Maybe there's a stash hiding around somewhere.
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I imagine if URSULA had a metric ton of orange soda, it would be contained in a large storage tank labelled 'semi-acidic coloured sugar water.'
She might stop us from taking any. The danger to human life is too high.
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[ does she... have hands? she's a computer or something, right? does she have a... robot body with hands? neil doesn't pay enough attention to the science fiction genre to know any of this. ]
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[Dirk no.]
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[ a pause. ] No, actually, I am.
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None. It just occurred to me now.
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[ he skeptically glances at the droid before looking back at dirk. ] I'll stop talking about Exy, I promise. But what are things you think she'd get tripped up on?
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The resources part is more difficult. I can teach the droids to understand what orange soda is like, but if we don't have anything on hand that can be used to make it, it won't make a difference. That's probably why the droid gave you a robotic fox. It had the resources for one, not the other. If you want an Exy field, you'll need to gather the materials for it. URSULA sounds like she cares about us humans getting our recreational needs met, so if you can find what you need, she'll probably do what she can to support you.
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whether or not she's genuinely doing all of this for their own good, being here still makes neil feel trapped. and that is the one thing he has spent almost a decade trying to avoid-- being stuck in one place, with no real exit strategy. this ai could be the most caring, thoughtful thing in all of creation, and neil would still hate her just on principle. ]
How would you, personally, use that to your advantage? Besides the orange soda, since that seems like a no go.
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URSULA is his favourite AI, except maybe the rapbots. Squarewave was really adorable.]
There's very little I personally need, so I don't feel like there's much to be exploited for myself. I dunno, man. I wouldn't mind getting my Bro's films, but that's exactly the sort of thing that URSULA and the droids can't manage. [Especially for how his Bro did filmography.]
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[ his equipment would be easy enough to duplicate since he has his own here. but it's like dirk said-- the field size. there definitely isn't somewhere large enough for that, unless they settled for something smaller?. hm.
he almost asks about to ask about the films, but discussing siblings is venturing into territory that is a little too personal. neil would rather stay clear of that. ]