URSULA's voice crackles on over all forms of communication, radio and telepathic. In both, her transmission seems unstable. "Warning. Urgent. Attention required. I really mean it. Please evacuate the water. If impossible, hide immediately. The blast will be incoming from the east. The Aurora has reached critical status. Dark Matter engines failing. Core system failure impending, counting down in ten... nine... eight... sev-- sev-- five... four... three... tw--"
Should any be above the surface in the line of sight of the Aurora, they will witness the fires of explosion. The outer shell pops and bursts into flame, billowing out, a deafening roar that cracks with a heavy wave buoying through the water. Shocks of steam fill the air, scalding what surfaces they burst over. A rain begins.
In some ways, it is the safest place to witness.
Below, the explosion ricochets. A shock blasts through the water, then another, sending wave after wave pushing seaweed flat down, knocking animals about, scattering and rocking sand. Pulses of burning hot bubbles shake through a radius, fizzling out only after it sears and disperses to ravage what rises above. Cold water filaments web through the pods of heat. The ocean shudders.
Even as far as the base, the Aurora’s explosion makes itself known. The whole structure shudders on its supports, loose items shaking and falling, rushes of white and dark water bursting past the observatory windows in one wave, another, a third, and in one empty observatory, a crack breaks through the glass, forcing URSULA to seal off the area temporarily.
Rain still falls above the Aurora’s wreckage. The last of the fires will be doused. When the waters become cool again, new sea life will move in to make food of the their dead brethren.
A strange keening shivers in the air at the edge of hearing.
[As a note, direct any questions regarding this event to the March OOC Post! And a special note for Korosensei, go for it ♥]
[Fukami's expression is a little curious-- not that he'd expected her to make a break to be free of him, but it still catches him off guard. A little.]
[And so she'll remain there, seated with him as long as she can before she's pulled away to help with other disaster relief. She's worried, after all, and even if she can't help him more than this...
It helps, even if just a little, to be able to remain there for now.
She can really only help, before she goes, that it helps him too.]
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subnautica2016-03-21 01:56 pm
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[THAT'S TERRIFYING doesn't that only happen in movies???]
I... I didn't know something like that could happen....
[Deep breaths, Mai.]
Um, but... I'm glad you weren't closer to it.
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I, as well.
[he would have been really cooked octopus]
However, whatever lived closer probably didn't survive that explosion.
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That's...so sad.
[all of those poor fishies who never saw it coming.]
I hope...that everyone who is here with us made it out okay...
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[It's okay, Mai. They'll be eaten by the fish that survived. CIIIIIRCLE OF LIFE.]
...Yes, I hope so as well. URSULA managed to warn us, so they probably found cover.
[Well, part of that's just reassurance for Mai's sake, but it could also be truth.]
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Oh...thank goodness. [She sounds sincerely relieved at that, so it seems she bought it regardless.]
Um--is there anything else you need, Fukami-san? Is there anything else I can do...?
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[With a shake of his head.]
I'm afraid there's nothing but to wait now. [He pauses.] Thank you.
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[She doesn't mind waiting for a bit--but she'd rather stay there to make sure he's okay, if she can.]
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I don't mind. You may do as you like.
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It helps, even if just a little, to be able to remain there for now.
She can really only help, before she goes, that it helps him too.]