subnautica | action ; open base mingle

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action ; open base mingle

It’s been about a month or so since people started arriving to this world and onto the base—a month of shenanigans, exploration, danger, angry sealife and other things. In this still-small base, there’s all kinds of things that characters can do so, therefore, consider this an all-purpose base mingle post.

prompts:

→ i. it’s a fixer upper
[In the wake of the Aurora explosion, there were quite a few things that needed repairing. Even then, the base itself is by no means complete, with limited room and not even rooms for each and every person. Luckily, there aren’t all that many living in the base! Yet.

But, there’s always something to do. Are you helping with repairs? Trying to decorate the base somehow? Building something new that can add to it? Perhaps you’re one of those in the laboratory, researching what species that this ocean has to offer. Hopefully nothing else is blowing up.

Or are you just standing around, staring wistfully out at the ocean and not contributing at all? I mean, that’s fine, but…]

→ ii. catch of the day
[How’s that seafood? What? You have no idea how to cook it? Well, then.

It’s probably like sushi, where you can eat it raw, right? Or maybe you’re one of those bringing back fresh supplies to the base. Possibly still wriggling around fresh supplies. Can you actually (miracle of miracles) cook some of the fish/other things that are probably fish so that they don’t taste half-bad?

If all else fails, just munch on some seaweed. I hear it’s nutritious.]

→ iii. it’s like a giant sleepover
[Surely there’s nothing awkward about cramming yourself into one of the ‘free’ rooms around the base with your air mattress and curling up there. Have you set out a space for yourself? Found a nice spot where you’re usually alone but uh-oh don't count on that for too long?

Perhaps you’d rather just sleep in the hallway to avoid drifting off near others.

Maybe you just don’t sleep at all or you prefer roaming the base when it gets dark. Nightmares about sea creatures can be a doozy.]

→ iv. choose your own/wildcard option
[What else has your character been doing? Go wild!]

(These prompts are loose so you can make your own prompts for people to tag out of them. Make headers, tag around, use this post for whatever you like!)

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[She's happy that he's excited, since he seems very happy about his students, but also...that was a lot of words but also a lot she didn't understand at all.

????]

E-eh...?

[Give her a moment]

Um... how big is a giant pudding...? [WHY IS THAT WHAT YOU FOCUS ON]

Unbelievably big! In addition, unbelievably delicious! My mouth is watering at the mere memory...

[ he salivates for a moment or two before clasping his tentacles together. ]

As expected of a girl your age, you're interested in pudding, eh? If you want to hear about it, I suppose that will be the tale I tell you first. [ that grin seems to widen a little bit, though it's innocent. ]

[She looks a little flustered at the insinuation that she's mostly interested in the pudding (though she absolutely is).]

W-well, I... um, I worked in a cafe, so... we had a lot of different types of pudding, and I'd never heard of a giant pudding before...!

[... Right. Focus.

She makes sure she has her diary ready, pen held in her hand, and takes a deep breath.]

... Please do, Korosensei. You don't mind if I take notes, right? [So she can write it down in full properly later.]

[ not to fear, Mai, he's not judging you. After all, he'd also be mostly interested in the pudding. ]

Ooh! A cafe, you say? Then do you know how to cook, as well? [ or maybe bake?? cakes?? for him?? As he speaks, another tentacle slithers up the counter to remove the teabag steeping in the pot, and yet another moves to pour the hot tea into mugs for the two of them, all without so much as a glance in that direction from Korosensei. ] -- And of course you can take notes. Actually, it might be comforting for me...

[ how long has it been since he's heard the scritch-scratch of note-taking... too long. ]

[She is a petite young woman, okay, it's embarrassing to be overly invested in pudding.]

Mm... I do. I can make some dishes...and teas, and parfaits. Things like that. [It was a maid cafe, they will all be Kawaii.

(She still wishes she was that competent when making tea, though, look at him go.)] If I could find the ingredients here, I mean.

[Maid parfaits are not likely meant to be made with sea salt and fish guts.]

But okay...! I'm glad, then. I'll take notes while you tell the story. [And it'll be good for both of them...a true win-win situation. This is such a Pure Thread.]

Parfaits?! [ oh, he's interested now...!! He doesn't care if they're Kawaii Desserts, he's a girly drink man already. ] That sounds wonderful!! I'll make sure to start looking for substitute ingredients right away!! And then you can test out those new recipes on me!

[ he is eagerly volunteering for this new taste-testing position that he just made up. But he wants to eat parfaits...

Some of those spare tentacles curl around the handles of the two piping-hot mugs of Sea Tea, and he picks them up, holding them in front of himself. ]

Anyway, let's go sit down! Maybe hearing about Kayano-san's mammoth pudding will give you some flavor inspiration.

[He's so excited.... Korosensei must like sweets, then? Mai's not sure what they'll be able to work with here, but.... It's cute, and it makes her giggle, a hand pressed lightly over her mouth.]

Okay...! When you find ingredients, let me know. I'll do my best to make you a good parfait!

[At least she has...some skills. Useless skills, but they exist nonetheless.

She'll go ahead and follow where he leads, nodding. Sitting, stories, tea and parfaits.]

This...almost feels a little more like home, like this.

[You know, aside from the fact that he's a giant tentacle monster.]

[ oh boy, handmade parfaits from a cute young lady. truly, he is the luckiest sensei. Enthusiastically nodding to her, he simply leads her to one of the pod-like structures in the room, tapping on it so that it opens up to reveal one of the table settings. Sitting down there is a bit of a tight squeeze for him, but he makes it work. He's squishy. ]

Fufufu. Perhaps for you. This is much more easygoing and slow-paced than my home life was. [ there's less threat of murder, for one thing. As he extends a tentacle to set her teacup down in front of her, he realizes he's going to have to explain that whole assassintion thing to her for his story to really make sense, and he wonders just how much of it he should divulge... He's been rather enjoying playing at living a normal life down here, but it feels wrong, somehow. (Like he doesn't deserve it, maybe...?) ] Here you go. I haven't tried it before, but I think that this should mimic the taste of real tea fairly well. I dried and crushed some varieties of kelp growing around the base.

[He is squishy, it's kind of fascinating, and Mai only realizes that she's staring a little a moment later, catching herself and quickly covering her mouth with a hand in embarrassment. Oops...

She'll accept the tea quickly enough, inhaling it deeply, and...well, it smells different, of course, but it still seems closer than anything else they've had, and that makes her happy.]

Mm... thank you very much, Korosensei. It smells really nice.

[Bit by bit, they make things a little bit more like home--or, at least, that's what she's hoping for.]

I guess we really will be okay here... I was wondering a little when we first arrived, but... [But they adapt.]

[ the flavor is closer to a strong green tea than black tea, unsurprisingly. It is made of kelp, after all. He doesn't seem to mind the staring, if he even notices it; he just stares back with that static expression on his face. ]

You're very welcome, Mai-san. [ he leaves his mug on the table in his tentacles for now; he hates burning his tongue. ] And you will be okay. At the very least, this Sensei has no intentions of letting anything bad happen to all of you. It may be early for me to say this, but feel free to talk to me about your concerns at any time. Consultation is also one of a teacher's duties.

[What a protective sensei.... Mai can't help but smile a little at that, ducking her head. It's strange how that does make her feel safer. She supposes... if there has to be a teacher here who will protect his students, what does it matter what he looks like?]

... Okay. I'll remember.

[But!]

But... if there's anything I can do for you too... please let me know...! I know I'm not very good at...fighting sea creatures or swimming or handling the dangerous things or... [really anything useful at all] ...b-but you've been very kind to me, so I want to return that kindness whenever I can!

[ he has a funny way of doing that. At her shy admission, his skin tone shifts to an orange color, a dark red circle fading into shape on his face. An approving expression! ]

Nurufufu... Thank you. You're a very kind girl. And handling dangerous situations is hardly the only kind of skill that's useful. You'll find a place here where you're needed, too, I'm sure.

[ he smiles at her - or, well, he's always smiling, but he seems to be smiling at her with his eyes this time, in a way. ]

Now, you wanted to hear about the giant pudding assassination?

[He does seem to be smiling at her properly like this, and it makes her feel a little warmer too; she ducks her head a little more to hide her widening smile, but she's clearly pleased. She'll find a place where she's needed--nothing else would please her more than that. To feel like she's contributing to the other people working so hard here...

That would help.

So she nods, sipping her tea, and--]

Oh, yes, I--

[.................................................................she chokes on her tea.]

A-assass-- [COUGH.]

[ yeah that's about what he was expecting. He just nods serenely, although some tentacle unfurls from his graduation robe to pat her back soothingly so she doesn't choke on her tea. ]

That's right. This giant pudding was created for the purpose of killing me. [ what's a good way to explain this... he may as well be straightforward, like he was with 3-E when he first met them, he supposes. ] As you may have noticed, I'm not a normal teacher. To put it simply... I'm a monster that could destroy the planet come March. The students of my class were tasked with assassinating me before that happens.

[ a pause to let that sink in. ]

Heheh. Are you surprised? Well, in the end, they decided to try and save me instead of killing me, but for this past year, I've been training them in the ways of both academics and assassination.

[This is really hard to understand!!

A monster that could destroy the planet? Students tasked with assassinating him? People trying to kill him? But he'd been nothing but kind to her and everyone else from day one, despite how everyone had reacted to his appearance, and he was always trying so hard to help everyone with whatever he needed.

He's been right there trying to support her all this time, and he barely even knows her.]

I... Korosensei, you're not a monster...! [Of course that's what she'd fixate on.] Maybe you're...sort of odd looking and... I don't know the circumstances for d-destroying-- [the world... she can't even get that off her tongue, that seems too heavy for her to comprehend.]

... But...! Someone as kind as you couldn't be a monster!

[ It's a lot to take in, so he was expecting this sort of reaction. Not the fixation on protecting his identity so much, though. He can't say he's ever really had someone stand up for him like that. Naturally, he dismisses most of it - being a monster or not doesn't matter to him in particular - but her kindness does touch his heart, and he laughs gently. ]

You really are a nice girl, Mai-san! Well, if it bothers you that much, I won't call myself that. [ tapping his suckers against his mug. ] Anyway, those are the circumstances in my classroom. It's my job to raise those children into excellent students and high-quality assassins. And they're quite good at it, too!

[It's nice to hear that much, at least... him not referring to himself as a monster gets her to settle a little, even if she still looks a little unhappy about it. Granted, Mai's the sort of person who's far too gentle to even be able to handle the thought of killing someone else (despite how many times she, herself, gets murdered) so...honestly, it's quite a ways outside of her ability to comprehend.]

I... I see... [She wants to talk about how proud he is of his students, because it's cute...but he's proud of how his students are getting better at trying to kill him????]

... I'm sorry, I don't really...understand, but... I'm glad that you haven't been killed.

[Even if he's training them to be awesome assassins.]

As am I. [ a nod of lighthearted agreement. ] It's difficult to understand, so please don't worry about it too much. Just know that this path is one I accepted myself. It may sound frightening or sad, but I have no regrets about being their teacher or their target.

[ in fact, his only regret is that he can't spend more time with them - if he could, he'd like to always watch over them. But a teacher has to let his students go at the end of the year. Even so, he's proud of what they've become already. ]

My class - oh, they're class 3-E, that's what they're called! - anyway, my class has 28 students in it, and they're all very different! Each one has their own perspective on life and death, and their own array of tools they use to tackle life's problems, both within the school system and when it comes to assassination! Really, they're wonderful! I wish they were here so that you could see them, too. [ ahem. pull it together, sensei. ] One of them decided to try and make a giant pudding for an assassination. Kayano Kaede!

Okay...

[She still doesn't get it, but he's trying to reassure her, so she's not going to question it too hard right now. Instead--]

But...how could a giant pudding be used for an assassination?

[It's....admittedly hard to imagine, as hard as she's trying to (and there's something silly about it, enough so that it takes a bit of the edge off of the fact that this is supposed to be a murder attempt.]

[ it's difficult to explain to anyone, honestly, which is why he hadn't really tried until now. And, probably, part of him liked living "freely," without anyone knowing who he really was. Having a blank slate. But part of him also knew that it wasn't really a blank slate - he isn't ever going to be a normal human again, he's still potentially dangerous, and there's an awful lot of red in his ledger that isn't ever going away. It's better this way. ]

That's what I thought, too! Naturally, it was suspicious that Kayano-san suddenly wanted to try making a giant pudding at school, but the idea was so exciting that I didn't mind. [ nodding to himself. ] Anyway, I'd always dreamed of eating my way through a giant pudding, so I wasn't about to turn her down... I mean, doesn't everyone have that sort of dream? That's just a natural human desire.

[ if you say so... ]

There was a sudden national surplus of eggs in Japan, and Kayano-san was suddenly struck with inspiration. Instead of throwing the eggs out, she wanted to salvage them, and create an enormous pudding! You would be amazed to see the structure she built to make it, too. The mold was almost 7 meters high! And to keep it from melting, she criss-crossed it with pipes that would pump coolant around! Sensei couldn't believe it! Oh, more than that, she even created a special recipe to keep the giant pudding from collapsing on itself from its weight!

Edited 2016-04-29 06:22 (UTC)

[Honestly, it...is just such a silly story that Mai can't help but hang on every word, fascinated. She sips her tea to hide a smile at that, because... it's just honestly such a clever and creative use of eggs. And he's so excited about it...]

That's amazing... she must be a really talented student!

[To come up with something like that... Mai can barely create already made parfaits and puddings, okay.]

Did you eat it, Korosensei?

[Obviously he's not... dead...so....]

Of course!! Kayano-san let me eat the entire thing! I could hardly believe it when she told me. That might be the best gift anyone's ever given to me...

[ well. second best. Korosensei finally picks up his mug, too, although he doesn't take a drink yet; he blows on the top of it a little bit cautiously. He just hates burning his tongue. ]

Well, not the whole thing, actually. Like I said, it was an assassination attempt. At the very bottom of the pudding, there was a remote-controlled bomb that she intended to set off once I ate my way down there. Unfortunately for her, I sniffed it out before she ever got a chance to do so. Even though she'd filled up that pudding with all sorts of different flavors, the scent of a handmade bomb was unmistakable to this nose. Nyuhuhu.

[ what nose... ]

[What nose... it takes everything Mai has to not peer at Korosensei more closely to look for said nose.]

Oh... that's... [BOMBS?? That's kind of frightening, but she has to remember. Different classroom, different rules, and Korosensei seems proud, so...]

Um. [SAY SOMETHING NICE, MAI.] That's a very creative assassination attempt...!

[Nailed it]

Right?

[ apparently, she did nail it, because his response is perfectly enthusiastic. It's hard to say whether he's ignoring her discomfort on the topic or honestly oblivious to it. He leans in, beaming with pride. ]

It may have been an obvious plot, but her ingenuity deserves applause! She put so much thought into the physics, the chemistry, and the flavor experience... And she managed to make it all work, too! Sensei was very impressed. With her skills in planning and organizing, she's sure to have a successful career ahead of her.

[He's so exuberant about this... it's hard for Mai to focus on the fact that it's about assassination when he looks like a pleased as punch (octopus) teacher.]

Oh... that's true! I've never heard of anyone successfully making a giant pudding, so she must be very smart!

[What a good student...]

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mai is too pure...

she has a lot of love to give...for korosenseis...

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