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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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Those pulses kill all electricity for a while. You're going to have to wait it out.
[Dirk's tech is also all dead. But John has clearly had enough of a fit for two people, so he'll keep his cool about it.]
no subject
Oh yeah, totally convenient and useful in a time like this. Yeah, yeah, logic says we've gotta wait it out, but I am just going to stand here and be super mad and groan-y.
[ There's another one. BLUHHHHHHHH ]
no subject
[Dirk isn't going to object to that. The Eglishes (Englberts?) must be permitted their dramatics. Actually, is that more of a Jane thing? Jane's less shameless about it but she definitely does it.
Maybe all their friends are dramatic.
Either way, Dirk gets to his feet.]
We should camp out here for the night. I'll find a fortifiable position and hunt down some dinner.
[While John just has his fit? Honestly, John is probably much more suited for the recon of finding them a good spot on this island, but sometimes Dirk still forgets that he doesn't have to do literally everything.]
no subject
--!
[ John stops his whining and puts his attention back on Dirk. ]
Camp out?
[ One look around, and he can tell the sun is going down. John rubs the back of his neck. ]
Oh... Yeah, that's probably a good idea. In a little while, we won't be able to see where we're going.
I'll tag along. We shouldn't be alone either.
no subject
An aerial survey will be our best bet on finding somewhere. Something walled off on most sides would be ideal. We want an open top for the fire, but no matter what we can handle ourselves. [None of the monsters here will be an issue as far as Dirk is concerned. (Dirk thinks he can fight a Reaper Leviathan and win.)]
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Can't disagree there.
[ He exhales with his lips in an 'o' shape, which causes a bit of a whistle. ]
You know, I get that you guys are like... Clones of yourself and there's this weird situation where we're each other's like. Own parents and stuff, so I can't exactly make an assumption of Dave's Bro and you, but...
I don't know, you seem a lot more uh...
[ John taps at his temple. ]
Collected? Put-together? I'unno, from what I heard, Bro seemed more antagonistic than calm and calculated.
If that makes sense. It's more a 'thank you' for dishing out ideas. I'm kinda hangry right now, so my head's twisted in the wrong direction.
no subject
And oh.
Well all that worry was unnecessary.
Dirk's brain sure does get ahead of itself.]
Uh.
[Super put-together, here. Very collected.]
Don't worry about it.
[Nailed it.]
Hangry's a pretty serious condition. Worse than a pole through the head for altering personalities. We'll have to get that treated ASAP.
[He kicks off the ground so he can get an aerial view of the island and also because if he stayed standing in take-off mode, the sheer level of awkwardness he is feeling would get broadcast unbearably loudly.]
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[ John shrugs. Honestly, they're a bunch of dorks in his opinion. Cool dorks, but dorks nonetheless. ]
[ He takes off himself, wind picking up around his feet as he lifts off the ground in gentle flight. Might as well help in finding a safe spot for camping before they lose all of the light they have. ]
no subject
Despite himself, he drifts closer to John. And while he never stops looking at the ground...]
So you... never met Dave's Bro, right? You just heard about him from Dave.
no subject
[ A lot of this area has promise of being pretty dangerous, considering that there are monsters that come out. John seeks a covered area that they can claim for the night, but finding it in dim lighting isn't easy. Even while Dirk talks to him, he keeps looking. ]
No, I never did.
His Bro died a while back, so I never got the chance to actually see him. So yeah, it was all second-hand from Dave. All over PesterChum and stuff.
no subject
[So all of his impressions were from Dave. And he seems different from that? Which isn't bad. It's good. He wants to be different. But Dirk has to take in all the data and process all the information and overthink himself to death. So he draws on the contextual cues at least as far as that to work out a better picture of the worst version of what he could be.]
That area looks promising.
[He points to a series of cliffs. High range, rocky outgrowths, fewer trees. Less likely to have places for animals to hide and sneak attack them.]
no subject
[ John eyes over the area and lights up. ]
Oh yeah, it's perfect! Good eye, dude!
no subject
The next question is what kind of dinner you want. [Hangry Gods must be said before someone gets hurt.]
no subject
Not... Sure if I'm in a position to be picky. But something definitely with meat and substance.
What about you?
no subject
[He just assumes John can start a fire because...
Well, because John looks and sounds so much like Jake that he has forgotten they don't share the same survival skills.]
no subject
Uh, yeah.
[ John nods. ]
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can start a fire. With uh... Sticks.
[ It's then that he begins to rustle about for these aforementioned sticks. Really, John has no idea what he's doing. ]
no subject
I can show you how it's done.
[He can't let Roxy's future boyfriend and Dave's best bro, who is also Jane's Poppop, set himself on fire playing with matches. It would be terrible.]