subnautica | 01.) Arrival

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01.) Arrival

9/29 telepathy broadcast
[All things considered there are plenty of worse ways to be transported somewhere. At least he remembers most of it this time. So. Hello Iniidae. If you're…literally…anywhere around the base you might hear the lovely song of the reefbacks. They're also probably not stopping anytime soon. Above the noise of them though there's soon a telepathic broadcast as well.]

I don't think I've ever heard a fish rap before. [If a voice can sound amused via telepathy, this one does. Never mind that to most people it sounds like the gentle call of normal sea life.] Sorry about that. They followed me to the base after they dropped me off, I'll take care of it soon. But in the meantime I'll see about taking requests. Maybe they know some Top 40s hits too.

Anyway, what's up? [He seems like he might leave it at that, but…] Question for you guys: how many of you are working on the base expansion project? I'd like to talk to you. I'm Percy, by the way.

9/29 base

[After some time, it seems as though the noise stops. Anybody who's in the underwater base at this point may be able to look out the window and spot a school of baby reefbacks, the ones apparently responsible for all of the noise in the first place. Now they're swimming in circles and in the middle cutting through the water with ease is a teenage boy. That's all well and good but said-teenage boy also doesn't have a breathing apparatus on him? Nah, he's just sort of swimming around and seems to be laughing each time one of the creatures sends him tumbling through the water. Sorry he's like this, but at least they stopped singing?

It's not long after that he leaves, waving goodbye to the babies and stepping back into the base. He's just as dry as he was when he entered the water and if anybody's in the entryway he sort of just waves and carries on. He doesn't get too far though before he stops at the stairs, glancing around as though he's debating if he should continue or not.]

You've been busy. [He says to no on in particular and he ventures out on his own, checking each room he comes across. Feel free to chat him up, tell him to get lost, wonder what he's doing, ask if they hallucinated he was outside, etc.]

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Do they know Taylor Swift's discography?

[ he's also someone working on the base expansion if only doing whatever annabeth Tells him to as in manual labor. clearly doesn't count. and he's joking about the taylor swift but even if it works it'd be hilarious so. ]

Just her first album. [Is he serious is he not who even knows? But seeing how the clicks and croons of the creatures seems to change right after Magnus asks it's. It's probably a safe bet. Cool. Thanks reefbacks.] That's not part of the base efforts is it?

At least they understand the classics, then. [ amazing. this may as well be part of the base efforts because it's awesome. ] Shockingly not, no. That involves more building and moving, expanding and I guess at some point an island. Apparently the architect doesn't care for the "haphazardly connected hamster balls" aesthetic.

[Clearly what needs to happen is Percy must take up the mantle of music education for these poor creatures...but instead Magnus gets a laugh. Of course. Of course that's how she would have phrased it.]

Yeah, I heard. Something about being able to create land and having other people shape it for her? But the architect's pretty intense. This place must have drove her crazy. [Please stop sounding so fond, Percy.]

[ do it, percy. ask ursula to make that your official job. music teacher to fish. ]

Yeah, it sure is a. Thing. That is occurring. Her designs are intense, too. But I'm pretty sure she's always been that way.

[Those poor fish...this poor base...]

Can confirm she's always been a little scary since I've known her. [Sorry Annabeth.] I'm gonna guess the base wasn't even that bad before but it still wasn't good enough.

She was scary even when she was a kid, trust me. Took building little domino towers waaaay too seriously.

Why can I imagine that perfectly? [It's kind of cute? Wait no.] So what'd she rope you into doing here?

Not much, so far. I avoided being conscripted most of the month by questing for food stuff. [ falafelquest ] But she is making me train with her, like fighting train, which kinda blows.

[Don't sound eager don't sound eager don't sound eager...]

What does that even mean? Questing for food stuff, I know what training means. What're you fighting with?

Like, searching the Aurora wreckage for seeds mostly. We have a farm. Actually we might have more than one farm? Who even knows anymore, I just wanted the ingredients for falafel. I have a sword, but Annabeth wants me to learn to fight without him. [ a pause. ] Er, my sword is named Jack and talks, I'm not randomly assigning my sword a gender.

[Yeah okay he's. Not going to try and wrap his head around seeds underwater on a wrecked ship because Magnus is saying something very weird, and you know it's weird when it's weird by Greek demigod standards.]

Okay. That's reassuring...I think, but I think we need to back up. Your sword can talk? Where exactly are you from that your swords talk and ours don't? [This is baffling.]

Boston. Haven't you heard? Talking weapons are all the rage, everyone's got one.

[ this is a DAMN LIE only magnus has the talking sword. since annabeth would kill him for trolling the guy who seems like percy the boyfriend, ]

I'm joking. I dunno why Jack's a sentient talking sword that can sing Beyonce, but he belonged to my dad. Only talking weapon I've really met. He lights up like a disco ball, too.

[...Boston? Annabeth?

...how did it take him this long to put two and two together, gods.]

I can't decide if that's awesome or crazy. I want to meet Jack but I'm not a huge Beyonce fan. Hopefully that's not a problem. [He's taking this in stride but he's definitely in a state of "?!" at the moment.]

You're her cousin aren't you? I mean I guessed when you started talking about her but she never told me you were someone with a talking sword. [He's also just assuming Magnus is a demigod but assuming so far...well, it hasn't worked out too poorly for him but he's still missing a lot of pieces to this puzzle.]

Nah, he can sing other songs, too. And yeah Jack's always up for chatting someone new up, he's uh. Very talking for a sword.

[ not that there's a high bar for being a "talky" sword ]

... Oh, Hel. Sorry, I should have introduced myself. Yeah, I'm Magnus, Annabeth's cousin. You're Percy, her boyfriend right? Yeah, she didn't know about it until recently. Neither did I, really? I pulled him out of a bay a while ago, so it's possible she didn't get a chance to fill you in back home before coming here.

[How is Jack real. Percy's starting to wonder if maybe he got ripped off with Riptide, but then he thinks about how he and Riptide have been through so much together and then he realizes that Riptide's a sword and this whole line of thought just got weird.

Even weirder, he thinks, is the fact that Magnus used Hel. Sure, it sounds like hell, but the context is enough to tug at the back of his brain. So...not Greek. And also Magnus would have been claimed by one of the Greek gods by now. It doesn't entirely surprise him that Annabeth didn't know Magnus was like them (or had a talking sword) but he doesn't really know how to tell Magnus that the last thing he truly remembers is New York and senior year and promises of getting to be together and aim for college in New Rome. He doesn't think to mention the context in which Annabeth mentioned Magnus either but here they are.]

Yeah, that's me. Good to meet you, man. We didn't get a lot of time to catch up here or at home. All of this probably would have made a lot more sense ten minutes ago if we had. Suddenly I have a lot of questions...

[ listen magnus would consider trading if it weren't for that fact that jack being sentient made up for magnus' total lack of fighting skill.

at least he didn't use "frey's fripperies". ]

Nice to meet you too. Annabeth named a bay after you, for the record. She mentioned the whole, uh, Greek gods in New York making her life hard thing. Any questions I can answer? Or pawn off on Annabeth?

[His only response to that is a laugh.] So I saw. Korra showed me the plans earlier. [Things not being said: it's kind of cute and flattering.] Questions might be better in person. Are you around here somewhere?

[He's also just flat-out curious about Magnus as a whole.]

Yeah, I'm in my room. Er, our room, I guess, since Annabeth says she's gonna have us be roommates. Hope that's cool with you.

[ he's pretty curious about percy, too. who is this boy annabeth would kill with a kazoo according to a post riordan made that may or may not be 100% canon. ]

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[I accept no other canon tbh but. If a person can sound like they're shrugging via telepathy, Percy does.]

Cool with me. Uh...third floor right? I'll be up there in a few. [There's also the sound of disappointed reefbacks coming through the connection but you know what that's Percy's problem, it's fine.]

Yeah, third floor is where most of the rooms are. Room 16.

[ when percy gets there he'll find room 16 is a living area with two doors leading to the room-rooms. one is standing open to a beige, clutterless dorm room where he will find his new roomie, who looks like kurt cobain slashed with annabeth chase. ]

[I can't believe this is a real description of Magnus, but anyway it's not like Percy's slow. He's up on the third floor within a fairly short timeframe and by the time he finds room 16 he'll appear in the doorway.

First...he's going to look at Magnus. Then he's going to look at the really, really bland room. Then he's going to look back at Magnus.]

'Sup. [Good start, Percy.] ...first question, why's the room beige? [He'll save all of the hard-hitting questions for a few minutes because he's stepping into the room to get a better sense of his new living space. And also so he's not just hanging out in the hall. That's always good.]

[ it's so real he gets compared to a kurt cobain bowling ball after getting a haircut. ]

Yo. [ with a little wave. amazing. ] Uhh, because beige is my favorite color? But you can paint your half whatever you like. [ gestures to the. other half of the room. hopes percy's favorite color isn't, like. electric teal zebra stripes. ]

[I'm glad it's a bowling ball specifically. Percy might be able to make that comparison if he remembered what Kurt Cobain looked like off the top of his head, but he doesn't. So instead he's just going to settle on what's presumably his bed and...awkwardly take Riptide in pen-form out of his pocket to set it next to him. There. His space has been claimed.]

I'll keep that in mind. [He's letting his eyes roam for a bit before settling back on Magnus, tilting his head curiously.] You haven't been here much longer than me, have you?

[ watches him set a pen out. ok, little weird, percy. ]

I got here the day after Annabeth, end of August. So, like a month. [ shrugs. ]

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