JELLY SHROOM CAVE BASE EXPLORATION | ACTION

[imsorey]

[In the early morning, just after breakfast is cleaned up, Sorey sends a telepathic broadcast to whoever is still currently hanging around the base:

Hey everyone! We found a strange cave way down deep in the tunnels a couple of weeks ago, and the fish down there told us there were humans living down there somehow! We’re going to check it out today. You’re welcome to come with, but bring some kind of shielding, all right? There’s a whole bunch of Tiger Plants on the route, and those spikes they shoot are no joke!

Mikleo chimes in: If you have swimming troubles, I should be able to take you around, though a couple of you might want to bring Seaglides as well. We mapped out a partial safe route, but keep in mind there’s some very large predators, and the water pressure’s going to be pretty intense if you move too far from us down there. Come prepared for that.

Should you as an intrepid explorer decide to venture down into the tunnels with them, there’s plenty to see. Glowing Jelly Shrooms are scattered across the caves, the only bit of light offered so far down in the dark. Sorey and Mikleo will lead the group in a careful circuit through them, not going too close. It’s easy to see why when a couple of Crabsnakes poke their heads out curiously.

The abandoned base the group will come across is small but has some useful items if you care to take a look. There’s also a dully glowing three-person Seamoth to be discovered not too far away, out of power, if any technologically-inclined people want to figure out how to get that back to base for use.

((OOC: Open mission post for Jelly Shroom Base Exploration! Sorey and Mikleo will tag whoever tags in, but feel free to jump other people as well and branch your explorations out separately if you’d like. There’s a lot to find!))

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[splinten]

SOULMATE

[Holy shit, who is the person who keeps leaving these weapons behind.

Dirk sorts through the crates to find out what still works and what doesn't. He doesn't really need blades thanks to Loki (although it is very tempting to steal that lightsaber) but he thinks they could probably bring a lot of these back to base, especially if they can fix up that Seamoth.

But when he picks up the set of clothing and starts feeling them, he finds a knife. And another knife. And another knife. Dirk ends up standing beside a pile of knives, holding a shirt in his hands.]

I can't tell if this was ironic.

[Another knife falls out of the shirt.]

SEAMOTH: NOT A TURTLE SUB

[Of course Dirk makes his way over to the Seamoth. Of course he tries to get it to work. He makes an inspection of the vessel, and after figuring out that it should be functional, he reaches out a telepathic call.]

If anyone has anything with a power source they can let me drain, bring it to the Seamoth. I should be able to charge it.

[He has some other methods in mind, but they'd be a lot of work right now. For the moment, he can be found hooking up a Seaglide to transfer its juice to the sub.]

soulmate

[oneandmikleonly]

[Mikleo starts to drift over when he sees Dirk put the first knife down, curious, but it takes him a while to cross the crowded little base, with most of his concentration on controlling the water around the group. so it's just. this slo-mo progression of Dirk putting down more and more knives and Mikleo's expression growing more and more comical.]

Isn't it just impractical? Can someone even fight with that many at once without seriously hindering themselves?

[splinten]

[Beautiful. Truly magnificent slomo journey, Mikleo. Dirk would clap, but they're underwater.]

I have no idea. Whoever it was really did not want to get caught without something sharp on them.

[This is ridiculous. This is like shoving swords in a fridge? There are so many.]

[potentite]

[Jake is going to help with the seamoth by dangling his feet at Ripley, his new friend, while Dirk works on it.]

When you get it juiced up, can I ride in it? Ripley wants on board, too.

Ripley actually just wants to fight Jake but whatever close enough.]

[splinten]

[That isn't helping at all. Dirk actually sticks his head out to look at Jake.]

You can help if you want.

[HE KNOWS YOU KNOW MECHANICS, ENGLISH.]

soulmate

[imsorey]

[Curiosity leads Sorey over to check out what Dirk is doing--things in crates are usually useful! And that's when he sees more and more knives being pulled out and can't help but make a face.]

Do you really think we need that many knives?

[splinten]

Someone did.

[For fighting crab snakes? He has no idea.

Although.]

Don't people use knives for cutting fruits?

[He doesn't know but he feels like he has seen it on tv.]

seamoth;

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy is floating somewhere nearby, where she is currently captchaloguing one or two baby jelly shrooms for future experiments, when she hears Dirk's telepathic call. She perks up and immediately begins swimming towards him. ]

I have some tools in my 'dex you can have? A propulsion canon, a stasis rifle or three... hell if you think it'll help, take all of it. We can always make more.

[ She finally meets him at the Seamoth, Transfuser still in hand. It's obvious the kind of stuff she's been working on! She just so loves playing with DNA, what can she say. ]

Can you really get it to work?

[splinten]

[Ah, Roxy. Of course she's snatching up the DNA. He tilts his head at the sight.]

It only needs power. Any guns you can spare will help.

[It shouldn't be too hard to take their energy packs and transfer them over to the ship.]

SEAMOTH

[inject]

Hold on.

[ Valentine cuts her way through the ocean to come towards Dirk and the Seamoth. Normally, she objected to going too far away from the base. This opportunity, however, was far too good to pass up.

She stopped and tread water near him, taking her well-wrapped defibrillator out of her medical bag. It wasn't unwrapped just yet. Since it was adapted to fit her arsenal of medical themed weaponry, the charge could be even greater than the medical tool normally sported. The voltage output could be tremendous when tugged out of resuscitation range. ]

Could you do anything with this?

[splinten]

[If it isn't his crankiest nurse sparring-buddy (?? buddy part dubious). Dirk waits on her approach. If anyone around here is likely not to waste time with something useless, he knows it would be Valentine. What she pulls out only confirms that belief.]

That should be perfect. We'll definitely be able to get it out of the caves with that.

soulmate

[parodeity]

[ this is an inappropriate amount of weapons and dave is getting almost restless as they keep finding them. he knows exactly one person who stays this well armed with everything strewn about randomly...at least dirk keeps things tidily up in his sylladex?

he hasn't said much beyond poking around though until dirk says the word ironic and he snorts. ]

How the fuck did this dude walk around without stabbing himself 24/7 is what I wanna know?

soulmate

[ruffledup]

[You know. She could actually see some of the people she knows wearing those clothes.

That should probably worry her.]

It could be useful in the right hands. And in the right situation.

[She grimaces. Thedas creates a skewed perspective, okay]

[potentite]

[A]
[Someone got distracted with the grumpy boxing snail. Jake is floating above it, having chased it outside, and keeps playing a rather dangerous game with it of lowering his hands down, waggling his fingers, and yanking them back before it can snip them off.]

I guess I'll name you Ripley? How about Amanda Ripley?

[The snail scuttles under him, reaching out in the desperate hope to fight him.]

Maybe I can carry you back...


[B]
[Jake has temporarily taken one of the recordings. He'll put it back when he's done! But right now he's trying to figure out where in the cave it was made. He presses his ear hard against it and keeps listening to it, doing idle loops in the water because staying still is for losers.]

Oh horsefeathers. [He sputters and settles down on a jelly shroom which is luckily not housing anything. The recording discussing the ship keeps replaying as he stares out into the darkness of the cave, thinking.]

A

[oneandmikleonly]

[he's got an unseen (though perfectly audible) audience raising invisible eyebrows. they hadn't met the Boxing Snails the last time they were in here. fascinating creatures -- and as unafraid as the Crabsnakes, apparently.]

If you do, you might have to either take it back or make some kind of setup that approximates this cave for it fast. It may not do very well outside these conditions.

B

[imsorey]

[Swimming over to take a look at what he's found, and helpfully keeping an eye out for any Crabsnakes. He doesn't know if any of these new kids can fight off giant water monsters yet.]

Do horses have feathers?

b;

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy is off doing her own thing when she hears Jake's unique brand of cursing off to the side. Curious, she floats over to him, even taking a seat next to him on the jelly shroom he's resting on. Her personal projects can wait. ]

Why so glum, chum?

[ He looks frustrated. Maybe she can help! ]

A

[inject]

[ Someone is trying to salvage here, English! ]

If you fry it up with a bit of garlic, it might even taste nice.

[ There was a slight snap to her voice. Nothing too aggressive, but verging into irritable. Valentine wanted to find any further recordings for them to piece together... and of more immediate importance, she wanted resources.

Boxing Snails as pets for the base were not part of those! ]

[inject]

WEAPONS

[ Poisons? She was there. Her syringes had been empty of anything refined for so long. Some vials went straight into the bags to be taken back to the lab, of course, but others found their way into her medical bag and down her cleavage after they'd been scanned.

Coming here had been worthwhile for reasons more than just finding out who had made this base and what might have happened to them. ]

BLOOD AND SKIN

[ Some things existed to be scooped up and brought back for analysis. The glowing vials were one of them. Unlike the poisons, none of those made their way into Valentine's personal care, and instead went straight into the bags for the labs. ]

I do so love getting my hands dirty. Get that last one for me, won't you?

RECORDINGS

[ Well, she liked having getting her hands dirty, but like she'd said to Mikleo before, she hated a good mystery. While she was primarily concerned with the biomes around the base, this was too important an opportunity to pass up. Resources, yes - but also to find out what had happened to those who'd come before them. The recordings were so tantalisingly eerie.

Valentine hated not being able to piece together a puzzle.

In the otherworldly purple light, she drifted while listening to the first recording on repeat. ]

'It could originate here, on this planet'.

[ Well. ]

Isn't that something.

blood and skin

[imsorey]

[He does a double-take to look around and make sure that she is indeed talking to him before getting the last glowing vial and safely tucking it away.]

Sure thing. Are you interested in this kind of stuff?

recordings

[oneandmikleonly]

[those recordings sounds especially eerie down here, a human thing against this backdrop of mushrooms and subterranean lava.]

Wonder if the artifact they found was mechanical or magical. We seem to be stumbling across a healthy mix of both sorts of things lately.

late...

[princessia]

A.

[ Elize is still getting accustomed to swimming, so she's rather slow and clumsy at it. She may be falling behind just a little bit as she stops to admire the glowing jelly shrooms lighting their way in the tunnels. She's not close enough to the shrooms to put herself in danger, but it's when a crabsnake sticks its curious, ugly head out, the poor girl gets startled. ]

W-wait up!

[ Panicking, she struggles to swim to catch up with the rest of the group. If you're close enough, she might try to grab onto you without much thought. Oops. ]

B.

[ For the most part, Elize has been probably feeling useless for a majority of the mission. Up until she finds a batch of cooking utensils on the base. Not that she's capable of cooking, but Tytree and Fukami come into mind. They would likely be able to put these utensils to use. She calls out timidly through telepathy: ]

I found something for the kitchen!

[ It's not... a recording that hints more about the planet or a brand new sea vehicle... but it's definitely something! They have to eat too, right? ]

A

[imsorey]

What--?

[His swimming falters a bit when she grabs onto him, if only because he wasn't expecting it. He turns to get a look at who it is and offers a hand to help her steady herself. And then when he turns a little further he sees the crabsnake shifting back into its shroom, its head still turned towards them like it's watching to make sure they don't get close.]

Oh. Stay close; I don't think they'll bother with us as long as we don't get too close to their homes.

b

[splinten]

[Dirk comes quickly over to see what she has found. And he sees, and it's... utensils.

Actually.]

That's a great find. We don't have enough of those around.

[There are a lot of people and not as many forks.]

a

[oneandmikleonly]

[she can't see him to grab onto, but he's the one pulling most of the group, so that definitely gets his attention. she's close enough that he doesn't bother messing with the water further, but reaches out and grabs her hand.]

Easy! They don't go too far from the mushrooms, you're all right.