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

[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.

[splinten]

Good because I could not tell Roxy 'no' if she asked for one.

[Can Dirk tell anyone in this family no...]

[parodeity]

Have you actually ever met the word no?

[ dave can count on one hand the amount of times he has heard dirk tell him "no". HE HAS A SKEWED VIEW OF HOW ACCOMMODATING DIRK IS? he's also never heard dirk tell anyone else "no" because mostly he hangs with dirk and some strilonde combo when there's someone else around. ]

[splinten]

You do not want to hear the intimate details of my relationship with the word 'no.'

[To extend the metaphor. But yes, Dirk is aware that Dave has a very skewed perspective here. Dirk likes to go with the flow in a lot of things and will do almost anything for his family? But he is pretty sure he spent most of his early teens trying to tell all of his friends 'no' and being ignored, repeatedly, in various ways.

Not to mention all the 'no's he has told himself and his various iterations. ...Also being ignored a lot, really.]

[parodeity]

Idk, sounds like a thrilling tale.

[ he's pretty much joking, though. ]

I'm pretty sure you'd build some sort of stalker bot to sic on Cthulu even without bein' asked, though.

[splinten]

The girls shouldn't have to ask.

[And Dirk, in some bizarre way, can't help but feel like he has to provide for his family? (He is the 1950s dad, it is him.) He wants them to be safe. He wants them to have the resources they need. He wants to give them every comfort he can make or gather because he loves them and they're important to him and he needs to support each and every one of them.

It's probably the best direction his habit of caring too much has ever gone in.]

[parodeity]

You're such a sap.

[ like. the world's biggest sucker. ]

[splinten]

Ain't ashamed of it.

[He proves the point by giving his (currently baby) brother a sideways hug.]

I'm more fortunate than I can account for to get a family I love as much as you guys. The least I can do is help you out when I have the right abilities for it.

[enough sap to encase a millennia old insect honestly]