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.]

[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.]

[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.

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? ]