CATCHALL LOG - JULY MISSIONS

[oneandmikleonly]

[What it says on the tin: got a July mission you want to play out? Feel free to thread it in here! Please note in the subject header what mission it is and if it's open to all or closed to a smaller group. If you want to make your own separate log for a mission, that's fine too, of course!

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reinforcing + more rooms: OPEN

[octoroom]

a. reinforcing: man octopus always carries gun in case he needs to escalate situation
[That's right. This terraforming gun is his.

Meaning, Fukami borrowed it and currently he's swimming back and forth outside of the base. He appears to be getting the lay of the land as the terraforming gun is securely grasped in one of his tentacles. Ignoring a few rabbitrays interested and eager to play, he'll just test this out and--oh wow, that's sure a thing. It really just makes land just like that.]

Hm. [An unconscious mental noise. Sorry, people.

But don't mind him, he'll just be knocking over the little piece he made before getting to... doing something. He appears to be building up the earth around the bottoms and foundations of the base, at any rate... and he might work on a part of a wall or two today. Don't worry about it. Surely looking out the window and seeing a gradually growing earth wall in the distance won't be unnerving in the least. Not at all.]


b. private rooms 2: electric boogaloo
[When he's not busy messing with the surrounding landscape, Fukami... works both inside and outside the base. You can catch him walking up and down the corridors of the base, checking things here or there, a hand (or tentacle) at his chin as he thinks about how to proceed. It's fine. Don't think about why he's standing and pondering too much.

Maybe you'll just be walking along when you see pink out of the corner of your eye and you'll turn to look out a nearby window to see Fukami carrying a corridor in his tentacles to just put that on an existing one... or on a room that hasn't been commandeered by any people. Which he'll then spend time reinforcing because this base is sure as hell going to be the sturdiest thing in the ocean.

OR PERHAPS you'll be there when he's finally finished it, several days after he began it. One of them. With help, perhaps??

LO AND BEHOLD, A NEW ROOM. His new room, specifically. He'll just be making a circle of it.

And maybe dragging two air mattresses into it, for now. He can't have this whole space to himself.] ...I suppose two or three more, [you might catch him murmuring to himself.]

b;

[discardia]

[ Yep, that sure is a new room. And Fukami hauling mattresses, so Cardia will just automatically grab onto one to help. ]

Is this your room?

[octoroom]

[Ah, Cardia. He gives her a grateful glance and lets her help, leading the way into the new room.]

Yes. And Shiro's. [Two mattresses and all.] I am planning to make more in the next several weeks, if you would like one as well.

A

[bonomial]

[A Turtle can't always be building a submarine. Don's taken a little break from his work, swimming out near the base so he can get an idea of where exactly the Shell Sub mk. II might eventually be launching from.

It's then that he spots Fukami - though he hears the octopus man first, the 'hm' resounding through his mind. At first Don wonders inanely if this might be a friend of Korosensei's, but it's just as likely that this a completely different kind of person.

He may as well be friendly.]

How's that terraforming gun working out so far? [He should totally take it apart one of these days to see how it works.]

[octoroom]

[Fukami's tentacles curl and he glances over his shoulder at-- that appears to be a turtle man. Not at all disconcerted (he's an animal himself), he nods very briefly in greeting before he surveys the area he's setting to working on.]

It is interesting. [It's all he supplies at first, but fires several blasts, slowly building up the beginnings of an earth wall.] But it works well.

Though it will take a little time until I can make walls with it that I'm comfortable with, strength-wise.

A

[undyingly]

[The gun is his for now. Shiro thinks it looks like a fascinating tool, and he kind of wants to take a look at it. And try it out. And that's probably a little scary idea -- though really, Shiro is a great deal smarter than he lets on at times.

of course, the fact that right now he's chasing after rabbitrays (and maybe hugging one they're adorable he really wants to keep one.

But even in the midst of rolling around in the water with one of the rabbitrays, he peers over at Fukami.] So what's the strategy for this, Fukami?

[octoroom]

[Well, Shiro, play with your rabbitrays and the adults will get some work in... also the gun is his. He's not handing it over, good luck getting it out of his tentacles. He hefts it slightly, in fact, beginning to construct a wall, bit by bit by bit.]

Strong walls, preferably. They'll help against the hurricane.

URSULA mentioned the height at which she thought it would be good to build them up to. I'll be doing their foundation first.

[He pauses to glance down at him.] How are the rabbitrays? [HAVING FUN, HUH, SHIRO except part of Fukami is amused by it.]

tech lab projects + more rooms: open

[splinten]

Lab Projects

[Dirk is at home in the tech laboratory. It is basically his favourite place to be. He has claimed one corner of the lab and set out various projects in front of him.

He can be found 1) planning and constructing the mecha for Sisi, to be completed on the 14th. 2) Planning out and building initial pieces an extra room, and 3) building extra propulsion cannons, transfusers, and stasis rifles.

He is also playing lots of music. So much. Many of Dave’s own original remixes are part of Dirk’s working mixtape.

Sorry if you don’t like sound? He’s hard at work, but he’ll look up if anyone tries to talk to him, approach him with a new project, or tell him to turn off his music.

He probably won’t turn off the music but he will notice that you did ask.]

External Structures

[Dirk also moves outside the base. Early on, he sets up several of the platforms they build rooms on. With a welding tool, shades, and swimming trunks, he puts everything into place. However, even Dirk doesn’t have enough hands to do everything on his own. When he senses someone swimming by, he calls out to them.]

Can I borrow you for an assist?

[Look at him, all grown up and making things questions. Please be proud.

Sorry to whatever you thought you were doing.]

lab

[potentite]

[As shy as he is and despite the few minutes he spends outside the lab, debating if he should even go in, he really does want to work on his project somewhere easier. Okay, it's fine, he can just ask Dirk if he can sit with him. That's fine. Easy.

He doesn't actually come in for about ten minutes and he still feels shy approaching Dirk.]

Oh, um, would you mind too terribly if I pulled up a seat with you?

rooms;

[ninepercent]

[Maybe if Dirk had looked to see who was swimming by he might have thought twice about calling out. Because here is Andrew, swimming nearby, drawn closer despite himself due to curiosity.]

What do you want?

[A brow quirks up in question, a glimpse of expression.]

lab!

[voidkatini]

[ Roxy is hanging with Dirk in the tech lab today, laying on the floor with her legs and feet propped up against the wall, and working diligently on URSULA's programming some more with her phone. Some might find writing code difficult on a touch-screen without a fully functional keyboard and such, but Roxy appears to have no trouble at all as her thumbs fly away across the screen.

She may not be a stickler for real English grammar, but she sure as shit is a stickler when it comes to programming grammar, and there are a lot of mistakes. No wonder URSULA's been having such a rough time lately. ]

A thousand bajillion lines cleaned up, only a bajillion million more to go! [ She announces to no one in particular before going right back to humming along with Dirk's music. She's not as big on rap as Dirk is, but that doesn't mean she doesn't enjoy listening to it.

It's nice to just be able to hang with her bro like this. Once upon a time, she would have killed for this opportunity. She cranes her head back to look at him, and watch him while he works...

She smiles at him. It's nice. ]

outside!

[splasher]

[makoto had peeked outside from one of the windows and noticed dirk hard at work building some things. (those shades though... dude is so cool, but that can't be relevant to swimming...) he decides to gear up with his own black+green swimming jammers (dirk is so casual as it is! and they're close to base anyway) and steps into the ocean after securing his head gear mask on.]

[swimming over, he hears the question in his mind, and immediately nods, swimming closer.]

Sure! I came by to see if I could be of help, anyway. [he smiles even if it's hard to tell through the mask] Hey, Dirk.

MEDBAY EXPANSIONS/UPGRADES

[demoiselled]

[ for this mission; feel free to do mingle-esque comments in reply to this re: med bay shenanigans! ]

[demoiselled]

a; painting;

[ this is like the least important medbay upgrade EXCEPT NO IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. elise is a tiny short thing though so she has to stand on tiptoe to paint the highest parts of observatory wall.

...even then, she doesn't quite reach...

wow that sure is a lot of pink did she ask anyone before she started this? no. well, she asked elize and maybe hotaru but the 12-year-old girl squad was hardly gonna nix the pink explosion. ]

b; equipment/feng shui

[ throughout the week/month, elise can be found changing things around in the medbay. from the herb garden rack she gets from ursula to the various equipment they grab from the aurora or from ursula, the medbay is definitely getting a lot of attention this month...

and elise is making it her mission in life to learn how all this new techy med stuff crap works. she attempted to watch some 50s videos on this stuff, but is now just reading information about them, sitting at a desk in the medbay and squinting suspiciously at the nebulizer. ]

Why's machine stuff gotta be so hard?!

[ she will MASTER YOU medical equipment that is not magic... ]

spelunking; closed to haruka

[superseding]

[ Everyone has been too kind to her. That Haruka has been especially considerate of her frail health is a blessing, but a small part of her does want to be treated normally. She wants to be normal. She wants to fit in. Even if she doesn't deserve it.

She looks at the Chompers digging, digging their own caves and glances back at Haruka. She's fine with crawling down into there even if it's a little scary because she'll be alone, but she has to show she can do this. She can prove she's useful, and she can gain Haruka's approval. She can....!

But she does have one last question before she goes sneaking into these caves: ]

What should I look for?

[upturning]

No need to go down too far or anything. Just give us an idea of how far they go.

[Hotaru's the smallest out of everyone who volunteered to go to the island, age and illness making her thin and nonthreatening. How deceptive. Hotaru needs to be out of her sight only for a few minutes; there's no point in losing sight of her and letting the situation get out of her control.

She crouches down next to a hole that seems to be fully dug and unoccupied, trying to avoid too much chomper attention and to come off as nonthreatening as possible. Haruka draws her hand across the burrowed earth.]

If we get separated, meet me in the caves. And...if they seem like they're getting fed up with you, get out. [Reasonable advice, and antithetical to her own goals. But if she has to be the one to swing the blade, she'll swing it.]

two birds one stone; closed to mikleo

[superseding]

[ What did Hotaru do in a past life to deserve meeting someone as good as Mikleo? It's what she wonders on the way to the remnants of the Aurora. That Mikleo is always so willing to help everyone is wonderful.

Of course, traveling with someone you can't see is still a little nerve-wracking. Whenever there's a lull in conversation, she can't help but glance around every now and then, like maybe this time, somehow, she'll be able to catch a glimpse of him. In whatever silences they have, she fights the urge to ask, to think, is he still there? She trusts him and believes in his goodness enough that she doesn't, but she can't completely shake off years of being left alone.

Once they're near their destination, she looks to where she hopes Mikleo is (but probably isn't). ]

Thank you again for coming with me. I'm not sure I could do it alone.

[ But also, because she promised at least two people she wouldn't go off into the ocean by herself. ]

[oneandmikleonly]

[he does try to help -- sometimes there'll be a flurry of bubbles where there shouldn't be, or a brief blurry shape defined by the currents they're swimming through, his efforts to make himself at least locatable if he can't make himself visible. he can't always keep it up, though, especially when they're concentrating on avoiding the various dangers of the biomes near the Aurora.

he's catching his breath when she pipes up, so the reply takes a moment, but it comes with another helpful bubble flurry.]

It really does take teamwork to come out here! The ocean's rough. I'm glad you asked me.

[mostly he's glad to keep her company, though he has a personal reason as well; he's wanted to ask her about the incident where...someone else...seemed to have taken over her body, but it's hard to have that sort of private conversation in or near the base.]

current generators | closed to sorey

[oneandmikleonly]

[it's a beautiful day outside. the sun is shining, the waves are calm, and two nerds and some accompanying drones are striking out along/near the surface towards Floater Island, carrying the generator components that they need to set up there and chattering amongst themselves.]

It's too bad there's no real way to get a broad look at the effects of these with our own eyes. Calming hurricane currents in such a large area. . . now there's something I'd want to try and replicate as an arte someday.

[imsorey]

We could try and take a look from above, but that would mean being stuck in the middle of a hurricane once it hits.

[Saying it lightly, teasing; the hint of wistfulness in his tone says that he'd love to see it too.]

It would be amazing to be able to replicate it though. You could practice on a smaller scale, couldn't you?

PLUMBERS INC

[splinten]

[Okay, kids. We're finally going to make ourselves a brand new bathroom. The process will come in several stages.

STAGE 1: PLANNING. Gathering a group of people who know how bathrooms work. Planning out a layout for the bathroom. Ignoring URSULA's suggestions of a hot springs. ...maybe not ignoring the suggestion of seashell seats? Who knows what we'll end up with this crew.

STAGE 2: MATERIAL GATHERING. Get on your goddamned scuba gear and get us metal, minerals, and possibly giant clam shells.

STAGE 3: CONSTRUCTION. Going into the sea. Setting up the plumbing, building the main structure, building and installing all the important toilet fixtures.

STAGE 4: DECORATION. This may be the most dangerous step of them all.]

[ooc: Open mission post for the toilet plan. A ROOM FILLED WITH TOILETS. This couldn't possibly go wrong. Mingle freely and set up your own prompts for others to reply to if you want!]

stage 1

[hopefragment]

[He's even got a pen and a notebook he took from the library to take notes for this. This is going to stay on topic, and we're going to get a concrete plan together. This is a necessity, even moreso than hurricane prep.]

I guess... maybe we should start with what kinds of toilets are actually feasible to build enough of? Based on what kind of materials we think we might be able to find.

[ stage one! ]

[forsage]

[ roderic is going through the list of URUSLA's suggestions while he speaks, frowning a little bit as he either crosses something out in disagreement or circles something he might actually agree with. ]

-I guess the biggest challenge is the piping. [ compared to the shower system, they didn't have any existing systems to fiddle or improve. but he really wants another toilet that has some semblance of privacy.

thank god he had studied the pipes of their previous subject extensively. he thinks he can copy that for the toilets if needed. he's about to ask something when he stops himself upon seeing one of the suggestions, his brow furrowing in confusion. ] … Seashell seats?

Stage 3 | Aqua-Koopas

[bonomial]

[So the Turtle who lived most of his life in the sewers is going to build toilets. Is this poetic justice at work?

Everyone's constructed a robust set of blueprints by now, so the real difficulty is in getting down to actually... make the things. This is one of the main reasons Don volunteered: his indirect experience with water systems and his incidental ability to move well in the water are helpful when you're making an underwater plumbing system.

Donatello would really appreciate a buddy or two to help with lugging the tools around for this underwater bit. Every once in awhile he might call up to the people working on the interior sections of the toilet room (tm) via telepathy:]

Is that pipe flushing through? [Or maybe:] Now? ... How about now?

[This is touchy work underwater.]

(this is so late) terraforming and crash powder gathering: OPEN

[inject]

A: TERRAFORMING

[ With URSULA's reccomendations, Valentine took off into the deep blue with her terraforming gun and seaglide. There were others that she'd left out for her workmates, and she didn't waste a moment of time. The trenches and walls weren't going to make themselves. ]

At least ten feet, mind. Nothing shorter. We want the base to take as little damage as possible.

[ Telepathy was a good thing, it seemed, because the noise the gun made was ear-splitting enough without adding the churning of the earth too. ]

B: CRASH COURSE

[ Here she was, out to gather crash plants so that she could make microbial cultures for easier production. She jerked her at the opening to the lair, needing to use her teammate as bait. ]

Quick in and out. If you're very fast, you might not even lose any fingers.

[ Or maybe they'd already been gathered. But the drones did need some refilling, too. She could also be found out there, topping them up with some of the powder that had been taken. There was more than enough to grow in the labs. She was in a rare good mood. ]