OPEN: ACTION/TELEPATHY

[intranslatability]

( ACTION/ADALINE )
[ ada has, more or less, spent the last month mostly doing her own thing. from reading up on the past information in order to get a better idea of what's occurred before her arrival to finding out new ways to establish a routine for eve's sake, she's been keeping herself fairly busy.

and she keeps finding new ways to occupy her time. she's in the kitchen at the moment, a pair of wires clenched firmly between her teeth as she attempted to get the repair kit she had on the table to finally work with her.

between the repair kit and the tools she had taken from the lab and the rough schematics and notes she had been taking, the table she was occupying looked less like a table and more like a warzone.

it'll be a few minutes until she realised there was someone near her ]

Oh. Sorry about that. [ would that be enough to satisfy eve?

no. apparently not. feeling eve's nagging at the back of her mind, she relents by trying to sincerely add, ] Am I taking up too much of the counter? I can move some of my things if you like.

( TELEPATHY/EVELINE )
Hello?

I hope I'm not bothering anyone at the moment but I simply wanted to know if everyone has been faring well today. After all it's been quite a month, hasn't it? Never thought I would find myself being part of anything... like this, to be honest.

One minute I was with my sister in the park and the next minute, I'm here! It's been quite an adventure so far. Storms and all.

telepathy

[inject]

A follow up to my announcement earlier in the month. My full report can be found on URSULA's databases, and there is a version on the datapads as well as one hand written in the lab. Read those for more details. The short form is as follows:

1. The antibiotic is synthesised from a natural resource found inside the Jelly Shrooms that grow in their eponymous cavern. From lab analysis, the antibiotic can completely eliminate any viruses or diseases based around abnormal cell division. They are an excellent resource and I would recommend getting many of them to stock the med bay. Unfortunately the disease itself lays dormant in the Jelly Shrooms, and a risk-reward assessment ought to be conducted when gathering.

2. Unfortunately for us, the disease was neither one of abnormal cell division or viral. As I said before it appears to be a symbiotic relationship between bacteria and fungus. It targeted the blood lived primarily in the respiratory and digestive system of infected individuals.

3. Blood samples from crew who did were not ill showed that they were also infected with the disease. It simply remained dormant.

4. Sick crew members showed a very high white blood cell count to combat the disease - futilely. Neutrophils were unable to locate, kill, and ingest pathogens effectively, meaning the disease was winning against the body. This is unsurprising as this is an alien planet - it is unknown if the body would be able to adapt in an adequate amount of time. The disease appeared to be turning parasitic in visibly infected crew members compared to the dormant state inside the non-symptomatic.

5. The antibiotic will not clear the disease entirely. It will cause it to go dormant inside of us rather than outright kill it. This is the best that can currently be done. The parasitic relationship will vanish once the antibiotic has run its course. However, prepare to feel miserable while it does just that.

6. Finally, when introduced to native flora and fauna the disease lay dormant just as it did in the Shrooms. Roughly one week after introduction, native life appeared to grow healthier and stronger. Plant growth time and appetite for both fish and plants were increased. The results faded after the first week and there appeared to be no trace of the disease inside either after this time.


For the time being, we are living with a dormant bacterial-fungal infection. It will not harm us, however I will require monthly blood tests to check its state inside the body.

I would advise caution when searching new biomes and interacting with new life forms. This disease clearly has a place among the native flora as something beneficial and could be found in anything. Perhaps a scanner to test for its presence could be uploaded to URSULA's database, and anything scanned in a new biome will show its presence.

But someone else can work on that today.

I'm going to the hot springs.

[[Feel free to respond to Valentine telepathically or meet her in person in the springs!]]

001

[wises]

8/24: arrival

[ on the off chance you happen to be, like, swimming around above the base or something or flying in the air above the base or just chilling on a sandbar around there, guess what. you're treated to a teenaged demigod falling out of the sky and into the ocean. she shrieks a little as this happens because what the fuck what the fuck a stupid portal courtesy the gods is one thing but couldn't they at least -

no. what is annabeth thinking. of course the gods would not make certain she like, landed on her feet or something. of course she's just dumped into a fucking ocean why the fuck not.

if you happen to laugh or stare or anything she'll be grumpy about it after getting her bearings: ]

What are you looking at?

[ look. today is normal day in the life of annabeth chase but that doesn't mean she's Thrilled about being dumped onto a new planet mostly made of water. where is her dumb boyfriend when she needs him???

otherwise she can be found surrounded by stalkers who seem to want something shiny? she's looking very reluctant to part with the shiny objects on her, though. ]

No, you can't have these, my dad gave them to me. [ leave her earrings Alone. leave her dad's college ring Alone. also leave this dagger she has Alone, that's important too??? maybe you have a shiny object to sacrifice to the stalkers so annabeth can actually escape without hurting them? ]

8/24: base

[ okay. she's sopping wet when she finally makes it back so she can be found. drying off. but after that annabeth just pokes around, getting gradually more irritated by the layout of the base. why is this how things are. why are things ridiculous. who planned this shit.

she also does take the time to claim private room 16 because while she's used to and likes sharing a room, she's not sure she wants to share a room with strangers over her half-siblings. so she can be found doing that.

or, rather more prominently, she can be found claiming a work area in one of the labs, typing on a laptop with an odd symbol and a weird-ass keyboard. if you recognize ancient greek, you'll be able to understand the symbol and the keypad and what's on the screen, but otherwise that sure does look like a lot of squiggles. she seems to be documenting a map of the base, and glaring at it.

...but there's also the possibility of her glaring at her communicator in a rather confused fashion as she tries to read some of the text posts. ]

...clari...clarified... [ damnit ] I wonder if I can hook this up to the laptop somehow. I can't read this. [ greek demigod problem 19485406. she's muttering to herself rather than speaking to someone directly, but it's easy to overhear her. ]

8/25: architect

[ okay so like. the first thing of import annabeth did was apply to be Base Architect because she doesn't approve of most of the shenanigans going on and at least wants things to be organized re: the layout. she doesn't seem particularly inclined to organize the shenanigans going on otherwise but let her sort out the base itself. ]

Hello. This is Annabeth Chase - and I applied for a position on the crew: Architect. So, if you need assistance building anything please let me know. I've got plenty of experience and I think we can organize things a bit more than they otherwise have been.

[ read: stop putting shit wherever you feel like it HAVE A PLAN FIRST ]

underwater islands exploration | action

[alienates]

[ HEY. so are you feeling better after your sickness? done submitting your designs for URSULA's potential new body? well, i have some news for you! after some adventures, a new biome has been discovered.

... like, a couple of weeks ago actually, but karkat has finally decided to actually share that he discovered this new biome? because he kind of wants to explore it but knows it's a Dumb Idea to go alone. so this afternoon, everyone will be receiving a telepathic message. ]

Hey assholes, I found some new islands that look interesting or something. If you want to come along meet me in an hour at the front entrance. And bring your dive suits. It's all sort of underwater. Now hurry the fuck up, I don't have all day.

[ if your character decides to go along to this very politely worded invite, then they are going to be checking out some islands similar to floater island except. underwater. they're close to mountain island, which means it's more or less a three hour trip out to get to them so that is a thing. there's also a new species they'll run into called bonefish and many fins, and both look super friendly. a piece of the aurora has also landed here.

more detailed info on the islands can be found here. don't get eaten by alien fish or w/e. ]