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subnautica2016-07-21 03:05 pm
mythbuster) wrote in subnautica2016-07-21 03:05 pm
monolith revisited | mingle
One fine morning, a boyish voice broadcasts to everyone around base:
There's a lot left to explore inside the Monolith, so I'll be visiting it today. If anyone else wants to come along, feel free.
Once all interested parties are assembled and traveling arrangements sorted out, they're off to the Monolith! Given the length of the journey, this will be a real time investment. A one-way trip takes nearly two hours by flight. Traveling in silence? Boring. How should they occupy their time? Travel games? Joy rides in the Seamoth? Maybe even some old-fashioned chit chat??
Once they arrive, there's plenty to explore. With some sniffing around, they'll find a map revealing that the Monolith contains a cafe and common area, crew quarters, lab, med bay, and "special alien containment" room. However, it'll take some ingenuity to actually reach each area. And by ingenuity I mean bombs.
Which is why the group will need a demolition crew! Get to blasting those walls in logical places. Or illogical places. No one ever said it had to be a good demolition crew. With enough willful destruction, surely all of the the Monolith's secrets will be laid bare in no time.
(( Here are the full details on what can be found in the Monolith! Create your own topics and go nuts. ))
There's a lot left to explore inside the Monolith, so I'll be visiting it today. If anyone else wants to come along, feel free.
Once all interested parties are assembled and traveling arrangements sorted out, they're off to the Monolith! Given the length of the journey, this will be a real time investment. A one-way trip takes nearly two hours by flight. Traveling in silence? Boring. How should they occupy their time? Travel games? Joy rides in the Seamoth? Maybe even some old-fashioned chit chat??
Once they arrive, there's plenty to explore. With some sniffing around, they'll find a map revealing that the Monolith contains a cafe and common area, crew quarters, lab, med bay, and "special alien containment" room. However, it'll take some ingenuity to actually reach each area. And by ingenuity I mean bombs.
Which is why the group will need a demolition crew! Get to blasting those walls in logical places. Or illogical places. No one ever said it had to be a good demolition crew. With enough willful destruction, surely all of the the Monolith's secrets will be laid bare in no time.
(( Here are the full details on what can be found in the Monolith! Create your own topics and go nuts. ))
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'Antediluvian,' in this context, means before the flood that cinched the deal of me and Rox being the last humans alive on Earth. I use the term to denote cultural constructions that don't necessarily have to be carried through now that we have the freedom to determine our own sense of what being human means. [Can monotone be pointed? Maybe. It's pointed at Jake.] Basically, it's shit like gender or class that shouldn't have any control over us now that everyone is dead.
Hope's Peak, as an institution, would be one of those antediluvian systems. It functions by first defining its elite by the parameters you described and then dividing them both conceptually and structurally from those who don't fit into those parameters by setting them into a special course.
[Jake was right. Don't get him started. He can go off on a philosophical rant about it so easily.]
From a postapocalyptic position, being the best at something doesn't matter when you're selecting out of two. One of us being better than the other in some category would immediately qualify us for Hope's Peak by its own parameters, even if we weren't really any good at whatever it was. And that's ignoring the fact that Hope's Peak wouldn't even exist from out perspective even if it once did. From my position, the only thing that matters or gives hope is survive and knowing you aren't alone.
[He drinks more of his coffee. This really is nice.]
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[Okay, well his first question is if Dirk and Roxy were the last people on Earth, how does Jake factor in? Also how the hell they were lucky enough to be the literal last two people on Earth, and also become gods, and what caused the flood, and also what the fuck is Homestuck.]
In your hypothetical situation, you're right. There's no way Hope's Peak would be able to function, because that's... not talent. Having talent means you're the best, but... people don't have multiple talents. There's something about them that stands out to be better than anyone else, something not everyone has. And that's what Hope's Peak is looking for. The philosophy falls apart.
[Is what he says, but whether or not he believes it..? The real q. Instead he just exhales through his nose, holding his coffee loosely in both hands without bothering to drink from it.]
But... I agree with that. Being able to survive and not being alone... if that's not hope, I don't know what is.
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In the meantime he enjoyed a montage about Gwen Stacy. Why didn't they make movies about other people in the Spiderman universe honestly? Miles would have been cool, too. There's a severe lack of exploration there despite Thor and Iron Man and X-men getting a larger exploration overall. Peter Parker is just the most recognisable? Like how everyone thought there was only one Robin when they voted for him to die even though that was actually Jason Todd and not Dick Grayson. It really is tricky to reconcile these sprawling universes when it comes to casual fans versus devoted fans.
He sips his coffee.]
Well, I guess I'll agree on that.
[Goddamn it, Strider.]
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He considers what Hinata is saying. He isn't going to debate him about Hope's Peak in itself. It doesn't seem like it has any point. But the main thing that he was trying to say—that of course Hinata can be his friend even though he's a god because that'd be stupid otherwise?—was expressed and agreed on, so that's good. Probably.
Now to get back at Jake.]
So everyone agrees I'm totally right about all of that. Thanks, especially to Jake, for listening to my something-something-being-from-the-apocalypse-means-codswallop-golly-gee-Mary-Jane-sure-has-a-pair-of-knockers-on-her talk. [He bets his day dream was about Spider people. Goddammit, Jake.]
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Uh...
[Follows... Dirk's gaze to Jake. Assuming Dirk is even looking, since shades and all. What did he miss...]
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Consarn it, Strider, I was not thinking about any bosoms! I was pondering the fact that Spiderman's universe isn't fleshed out in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so I didn't wallop you with the fact that you were still reared on the teat of Hollywood as much as I was so all this pretentious bullshit about being above our standards is a bunch of soft soap.
[He huffs, embarrassed.] I don't think about ungentlemanly things in the company of friends.
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[Peppermint coffee is great to sip while judgementally not wearing any expression at all.
Sorry, Hinata.]
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[We were having a serious discussion not thirty seconds ago, how did this happen?
In spite of himself, Hajime can't help but laugh quietly, running a hand through his hair as the tense set to his shoulders eases. In spite of all that, something like this is... actually more familiar to him. Even if he's not totally a part of that conversation, the fact that it's happening is enough.
Just carry on.]
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It's a saying! It's not like I was actually thinking of breasts! I swear which of us has green eyes again? Don't worry so much jesus pancake flipping christ.
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You need to refine your mental construction of me if you're interpreting this like that.
[He stops. Makes himself reign it in. Jake isn't coming from nowhere with this. It has a good basis. So chill out, Strider.]
I understand why you might think that. But I was just teasing you, Jake.
[Hinata doesn't deserve to witness this.]
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But that's a question to ask gun friend another time. Since Jake is probably the one to be more forthcoming with that kind of information, he thinks...?
Either way, it's a little awkward for him, so he just takes a sip from his coffee and pushes it toward Jake.]
Anyway... don't we have the Monolith to investigate...? I'll make sure to bring some of this stuff back, so don't worry.
[he says, as if he's not going to be hitching a ride on one of them anyway, so really it's them who's going to be bringing it back.]
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Oh! Righto, we really should scope it out more. It would be a shame to miss out on anything.
[If he didn't learn from Jane that regifting is a bad idea, he'd try to apologise with Hinata's coffee. Instead he just holds it to his chest.]
I'll probably stay looking around here? [That way Hinata and Dirk can choose to avoid him if they want since he went and screwed up.]
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Dudes. Splitting up isn't productive for either survival or not being alone. Are you two trying to be the anti-hope brigade?
[FRIEND STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER HOW AWKWARD THINGS GET.
He can't believe he has to be the one to talk like this. At least he can say it in his normal voice and avoid saying anything painfully cliche. He can't survive being a shonen protag.]
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[He nods firmly. It's just that there's less chance to sit around navel-gazing if they're moving and exploring rather than enjoying their coffee shop au.]
I just meant we can come back for the rest of this stuff. But we should keep moving for now.
[Also-- it's nice to be included in the actual exploration, too, since he kind of just showed up to prevent them from drinking syrup right out of the bottles.]