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!))

Comments

[parodeity]

Yeah, don't do that to other people, though.

[ THEY'D BE MORE FURIOUS? dave can't work up the actual antagonism to be anything above "mildly irked" though. ]

But it's def losin' since you couldn't tag me back, duh. What do you have against asking me nicely for something, anyway?

[splinten]

[There is a shades-hidden eyeroll. 'Don't hack other people.' Yes, Dave, he fucking knows.]

Other people don't abuse time travel to cheat. We weren't playing tag, dude. We were playing keep-away.

[And Dave is a dirty cheater and must be stopped at all costs. Honestly. Dave should be worried about the bad things that Dirk is learning from him?]

I don't have anything against it in theory. In practice, I eventually concluded that I wouldn't ask you nicely for the well-reasoned conclusion that I didn't want to.

[parodeity]

[ ok but do you really know, dirk, sometimes dave is pretty sure you're worse at boundaries than he is!!! and dave would worry if he...didn't think surviving was more important than playing fair? but as it is he has never seen the benefit of playing fair.

you only get beat down by playing fair. ]

I was playin' tag, I even said tag. But that figures. I don't think you've ever said please to me once. Karkat never does either.

[ everyone he knows is a rude fuck -

no, dave pauses. ]

Scratch that. You have said please before.

[splinten]

I say 'please' with appropriate frequency.

[He is actually usually not too badly mannered? Verbally, at least. He generally asks for things indirectly which is why it isn't always obvious but he really has no problem with 'please' and 'thank you.' He is pretty sure he has said both to most of his friends.]

I'd estimate with reasonable certainty that I say it more frequently than you do.

[parodeity]

You do.

[ dave has zero problems copping to that? ]

I try not to ask people for shit to start with, though?

[splinten]

I've noticed.

[He slings his arm over Dave's shoulder.]

I fortunately was raised on the scraps of civilization and can't particularly call you on your barbarianism.

[parodeity]

[ luckily dave doesn't pull another fast one so??? i guess the tag game is over. ]

Are you gonna make it your wallpaper.

[splinten]

[Dave thinks tag is over but Dirk just changed that arm into a headlock and gives Dave a solid noogie.]

Tag.

[Dave encouraged this. But he relaxes in a moment because he is done being awful now, apparently.]

No? That would break Magic Mike's heart.</>

[...Yeah Dirk's wallpapers are just different pictures of stupid things Dave sends him. HE CAN TRY TO LEARN FOUL PLAY but he's a ridiculous sucker for Dave always.]

[parodeity]

[ ok but now dave isn't done and he promptly does the same thing back to dirk???? this is an endless feedback loop.

though he breaks into one of his small smiles at the comment re: magic mike. ]

Magic Mike is the most photogenic stalker in the world, I'm p sure?

[splinten]

[NO? NOOGIES ARE NOT ALLOWED FOR HAIR LIKE THIS not that... it actually does anything they're underwater and that hair is magic but still.

honestly it's stupid how happy stupidity like this makes dirk. they're real brothers! real brothers who get into stupid things!]

I didn't know you picked favourites.

[Of the Stalkers.]

[parodeity]

Bein' the most photogenic does not mean he's my fave, bro. Everyone's the best at somethin', supposedly.

[ also fuck you he will mess up your hair underwater if he wants to younger brothers are allowed to be problem children????? ]

[splinten]

The latter claim of those two is total bullshit.

[Not everyone is the best at someone. This is late 20th century consumer culture claptrap filling the proletariat with a sense of complacency while they are robbed more and more of what little power they had managed to claim for themselves.]

[parodeity]

Yeah, I know.

[ he grew up with zero self confidence, for all that he faked it. ]

But the Stalkers def all have their good points. Like, Stevie Wonder brings me all the shiniest shit?

[splinten]

He also doesn't know the strength of his own nose bumps.

[Don't be surprised that Dirk has memorized Dave's dumb names for these things.]

[parodeity]

[ no one else will ever take the time to do so...at least dirk gets it. ]

I forgive him because he finds awesome shit. When are you gonna make an animal friend that ain't soulless?

[splinten]

[He assumes Dave means the Light Frogs, but Dirk isn't their friend? Dirk doesn't even like them much.]

Dude. I'm the Magister's friend.

[He has fallen hard for that dumb Cute Fish it's sad.]

[parodeity]

You're his family.

[ but yeah he can't argue that's a different category since rose...is one of dave's best friends... ]

I bet you're waiting for like, the scariest animal in the world to pop up.

[splinten]

We've already met Cthulbro, heard he has an evil twin brother Cthulfoe, and regularly dealt with Reapers. Also Angel Wings, who are jackasses.

[And he has made friends with none of them.]

[parodeity]

You're such a buzzkill. Although it IS nice to have one family member who isn't going to bro it up with the horrorterrors.

[ actually that's really nice? ]

I take back my suggestion, you can continue to be bros with only whatever you get introduced to via the rest of us.

[splinten]

I see you didn't follow the logical conclusion that Rose or Roxy might bring a horroterror home for me to befriend.

[Like. The Magister is adorable but still tentacled, so Dirk is hoping that will sate Rose's deep need. But you never know. And he'll have to love whatever horrors are dropped at their doorstep and probably make tanks and babycams for them too because that is the role he takes in this family unit.]

[parodeity]

No, see, you're supposed to help me stop that kind of nonsense. We need to form an alliance here, for their own good. The last time Rose was buddy buddy with monsters from the beyond, we both fuckin' died.

[ and like that worked out but he still has nightmares of holding her hand and blowing up, because neither of them had known it would work out. ]

[splinten]

[Dirk won't even ask for an explanation because Homestuck? Death took all of his friends by surprise, blinding pain and then rising up out of multicoloured fires. Thanks for the assists, Jack, Condesce. He guesses.]

You helped them rap at one.

[So. ???]

[parodeity]

Ok, if someone gives you a shot to rap at Cthulu, you rap at Cthulu. That's a totally different thing.

[ how? ]

[splinten]

Fair argument.

[How in a way they agree on.]

You'll still be held responsible if we become its friend.

[parodeity]

You are not building a babycam for Cthulu, though, I draw the line in the sand at that absurdity.

[ ... ]

Ok no that would be funny nevermind you can totally do that.