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[uncorrupts]

--why are you taking your hands off the steering?

--because I have to get a good angle for my viewers! Duh.

[introducing your host, gamer girl extraordinaire.]

Listen, this isn't the time to be doing that. We need to reach the base on this radar, and we need to work together.

--she's working on her blog! Oi, listen to him!

[the video feed turns to focus on the other two aboard the ship; one’s a toothy young redhead who seems to be wearing nothing but swimming jammers for some reason, and the other is an older guy in some power rangers suit of sorts. welcome aboard S.S. Inappropriately Dressed]

--excuse you, it’s not a blog! It’s called a livestream! Anyway, the name’s D.Va, and the older guy to my left's not a bad pilot. Ignore the guy behind me.

--you're judging other pilots right now!? I’d give you a 0 out of 10! We almost just hit that reef, holy shi --

--rude! Seriously, chill out for a second, will you? I'd like to see you do better!

I'd like to see you do better too!

The two of you, stop! [shiro, the older guy, seems to have had it with their bickering, pulling the steering handle upwards to avoid a cluster of mushroom trees likely to ruin their ship] The seas are rough as it is, we need to work as a team right now. You can go at each other's throat once we're out of this!

Ch, if we get out -- fine, what do you want us to do?

You, in the back, buckle up. You’re going to get thrown about and hurt.

...A-ah... [a guilty click... safety first yo]

And you, D.Va, is it? Concentrate on piloting. It’s hard to see and the seas are pushing us around as it is, so try and keep the ship as stable as you can!

-- ...Okay, fine.

...I can livestream your stupid piloting if you want from back here.

-- If you know how to set it up, be my guest!

Hey, to your right!

[it seems like a crash, the lights going red on board, and the visual feed spinning as the ship spirals out of control under their hands. good thing shiro told you to buckle up, huh, rin? amidst this mess, some shouting and ordering about, the stream cuts off. will our heroes live another day?]

[yeah, they do]

-- ot it all. That was actually some really amazing piloting, both of you... [someone sounds a little starstruck... what sugoi he has witnessed, the world will never know, because rin did not in fact record that shit]

D.va, well done. That was really impressive--I have to say I wouldn’t have been able to pull this off without you. [turning around, he smiles at the redhead teen, even if wtf? at your lack of clothes, homie] Doing alright? Name's Shiro, by the way.

-- Rin. -- It's a girl's name, but I'm a guy.

[shiro gives him an odd look. d.va definitely does the same.]

-- Aww, you’re so sweet, Shiro! [d.va flashes a grateful smile at him, also thoroughly impressed.] Honestly, it was your quick thinking that got us out of trouble. I usually don't like being ordered around, but I'll let it slide. [she then turns to rin, sitting behind her--and he better have recorded all of that!!] See? Told you we'd be fine!

[shiro offers a smile at them both. thumbs up with his mechanical arm.]

Let's get out of here and see who we can find in the base. They might be able to help us out.

[little did our heroes know that upon opening that door into the base, they would be greeted by the sickness apocalypse. moans, groans, sniffles and hacks. what’s worse, the ocean going nuts outside because of a hurricane, or the dribbly-nosed zombies in the only place considered safe from the elements?]

...after all that, is this place haunted or something...? E-eh --

You guys might want to stand back--

[...was that your burrito of death our triumphant trio has just trampled, like those wildebeests over mufasa? remember... remember...]

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[alienates]

[ karkat had been minding his own business, being annoyed as usual considering how this hurricane + sickness is fucking all their shit up. he was just walking down the hall with some fresh blankets when

who the fuck??? ]

Holy shit, where are all of you even coming from at this point? I swear if any of you are sick you're getting thrown out I refuse to watch someone else vomit.

[gnasher]

[people are sick? Rin believes it, considering this guy looks like a plague victim, with that skin tone]

Hey, you don't look good -- you're all...

[grey]

[Rin jerks reflexively forward, but then realises if this is contagious, he wants none of that shit]

[have some pointy-mouthed gaping as Rin tries to work out how to proceed in this life that now must accommodate both underwater living and an actual bubonic plague victim]

Do you need help to the med bay? Is there a med bay?

[goafk]

...Whoa.

[ Totally not answering the question, because holy shit this guy has horns?? And grey skin?? She'll just be giving him a strange look as she tries to figure it out. ]

What are you? An alien?

[ RUDE ]

[uncorrupts]

[ah... shiro's more used to running into aliens, even if this guy seems generally rude to rin and d.va. nothing like today to meet new ...fellow living creatures.]

We're not sick, I can assure you of that. [--glances at rin] He may be a little dizzy, but that aside, we followed this base's ping on the radar to get out of the ocean. What's going on?

[napstablook]

[ Nope.

That was a ghost.

Your feet went right through them. ]

Oh... do you want me to move...

[gnasher]

[so, when Rin had joked about this place being haunted, it was about 90% a joke. 90% because, well, the world was big, and science wasn't progressed enough yet to maybe capture all lifeforms invisible to the human eye, so obviously there was room for as of yet undiscovered forms of life]

[like the one his foot has just gone through]

H-h-hah...?

[Rin had always thought that, if said invisible lifeforms were discovered, there'd be a lot of technical jargon and expensive funny metal devices that whirred and a lot of news coverage beforehand]

[also, that they'd be discovered by someone who wasn't him. he's not even wearing shoes, and he's stepping in]

S-s-seriously?! It's a ghost -- !

[yes, a g-g-ghost. jinkies]

[goafk]

[ That

indeed....was a ghost.

But D.Va's not afraid, nope, especially because this ghost looks far from menacing. And she's just a little amazed that she can see it! What's even happening. She has no idea, but she's excited. ]

A ghost!! An actual ghost! Shouldn't you be playing pranks on people instead of lying on the floor?

[ Because that's what a ghost is supposed to do, right. ]

[oneandmikleonly]

[so can any of you see this kid who'd passed out near the door, or did all three of you just kick something completely invisible just now and trigger a bout of groggy, nauseous-sounding telepathic snarling, that's important

...if it's the latter it sounds something like:]

Ow! OW! Watch it! Who even are you...?!

[goafk]

[ TOTALLY INVISIBLE.

The telepathy thing is still new to her, so she looks around to see who's complaining--but she can't quite figure it out. While searching, she shifts a little and. Probably most likely accidentally steps on his foot or something, w h o o p s ]

Huh? Am I hearing things?

[splinten]

[Dirk is very sick. Dirk is very tired. Dirk has been dealing with collapsed infrastructures, a high fever, and the inevitable demise of his childhood guardian. He is not up for dealing with this.]

Goddammit.

[He stands staring at the trio, a floppy puppet hanging out of one hand, his puffy eyes obscured by his shades. He is also in his ridiculous God Tier pjs since they're his sickperson clothes, so that just makes it all more stupid. He's just so Done.]

Do any of you think you know why you're here.

[uncorrupts]

[this seems a really dire situation. shiro glances back and forth between d.va and rin, then settles for the rather bizarre appearance of... this homeboy. and his floppy puppet.]

I'm starting to think we don't, not really.

[HE HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS]

What's going on here?

[gnasher]

[this guy looks like shit. it makes Rin feel slightly better, since he lost his cool about two ghosts ago]

[maybe he's a camp counselor?]

The deep-sea research program out of Tokyo? -- I'm Rin Matsuoka, from the Iwatobi prefecture, recently scouted by Sydney's national team.

[slowly, his gaze slides to... the puppet... hanging from Dirk's hand]

[counselors... needed educational tools... like puppets, right]

[right...]

[goafk]

[ Okay, so she kind of heard all the stuff about this actually being another planet, earth not being the same earth and all of that. She wants to believe this is all just a huge joke, but uh. They've had some interesting encounters already that all of this is becoming more and more believable. ]

So this isn't the East Sea, is what you're telling me? What next, pigs are gonna start flying and unicorns are actually real, right?

[splasher]

[he's not sick, really. he's just going about base, hugging colourful sweaters to give to anyone's who's feeling cold, a few drones with fabulous cozies following after him to help him in his quest.]

[he stops his mid-trot down the hall, pauses, settles onto this feeling of "i just saw something," and walks back to where the hallway turns right, turning on his feet to face it.]

[is that--]

Rin?

[gnasher]

[it's a familiar voice in an unfamiliar place; it takes Rin a moment to place it, red hair flipping around stupidly while he looks for the source]

Yeah, Matsuoka Rin, over here -- ?

[???]

[aaand turns]

[gnasher]

Makoto!

[his face betrays him, lighting up instantly. so his friend signed up for this crazy adventure too...? that's nuts!]

Yo!

[gnasher]

[he tempers the expression down, though, catching himself being embarrassing]

Uh, what are you doing here...? You never told me you were signing up for this.

[princessia]

[ Elize is tiredly tottering down the hall, only having just left the aquarium to make way for the kitchen. Constantly using her healing magic on herself can only do so much against the mysterious illness. She's toting a blanket bundle in one arm and her wand in her free hand. Even on the base, she doesn't often part with her weapon.

When she spots the trio in the halls, she freezes up in fear and clutches her wand tightly. She doesn't talk to everyone on the base, but she recognizes most people. These three look unfamiliar and they might have a tiny sick girl trying to bludgeon them with her wand. ]

Wh-who are you all?

[uncorrupts]

[okay, first thing shiro notices is that she looks both scared and not--quite alright.]

[he steps forward, just a few steps, stops, and raises his hands, to show that he isn't a dangerous dude and that these fools with him aren't going to jump all of a sudden and launch at her or whatever.]

Hey! Name's Shiro. This guy here is Rin, and this is D.Va. We just arrived. I know the base was very likely not expecting us, but it's the only settlement ping we got on the radar of the ship we piloted to get here.

We mean no harm.

[imsorey]

[Sorey is less of a burrito of death than most, but he's still piled under blankets by the door and has his soggy nose stuck in a book, trying to keep out of healthy people's way.

That obviously isn't working out very well since he's a victim is triumphant trampling.]

Whoa, whoa, back up! Watch where you're going!

[uncorrupts]

[mufasa...]

Ah, sorry. [what do you say to sick people who are kind of in the way regardless??] Need some help?

[also, since he also needs help;] We just got here. Would you mind telling us what planet this is?

[nobeans]

[ Kei's mostly... Minding his own business! He isn't too keen on getting near the sick people unless they need help (look at that, he's trying to be helpful). He's a bit sick himself, doing his best not to sniffle or sneeze... Which kind of fails. If anything, he looks extremely tired?

He's doing his best, basically.

So, yeah when people just BARGE IN, he can't help but immediately jump to his feet in surprise! ]

Woah, woah! Watch your step, will you!? [ YOU MIGHT TRIP...? ] Can you be a bit more careful?

[goafk]

[ Oh hey, someone who's not actually dying and very much alive!! D.Va braces herself, soldier instincts kicking it at the sudden movement, but it's just another cranky resident. ]

Hey! We didn't expect to land here and find a bunch of slugs on the floor! [ SLUGS....really, D.Va..... ]

And don't get too close if you're sick, too. I have a stream to set up!

[lamortespoir]

[ Sanson may catch the attention of the three new arrivals as one of the only people who is visibly not sick at the base. He's holding a bottle of medicine in one hand and a wet towel in the other.

Having been here for months, he just stares for about three seconds. ]

Come in. You can stay in the laboratory if you wish, it is mostly clear. Or come help me.

[ The Servant delivers it in the most deadpan way possible, as if three new people is nothing new at all... which it isn't. ]

[gnasher]

Clear? Of the living dead, you mean?

[a weak joke, considering this guy is so monotone he might as well be a zombie... yeesh, don't think such stupid unsettling things, this place is creepy enough as is!]

-- Are you the medic?