{action}

[guidance]

base:

[waking up, Fi finds herself definitely not in water. everything about the situation registers on her systems as new, and yet corresponding to the dream that was so fresh in memory. curious. strange. worthy of investigation - instinctively, she knows that to sit and wait idly is not the best course of action. there will be time for rest later.

so she begins to look around, beginning from the second floor, leaving the Sea Equipment room with the drone that had greeted her following behind after they exchange telepathic pleasantries and "Miss Fi" states her intentions. nowhere that anyone else can go is off limits in her investigation. Fi floats, gliding in the air gracefully, taking in locations and what the rooms seem to be purposed for. all for the sake of data. all for the sake of understanding and building a complete map as soon as possible. poking her head into everything, she can't be anything else other than another new arrival.

Fi doesn't greet others first, but she pauses and will remain a respectful distance away from them when she sees them, looking and observing who they are and what they seem like to her. sorry to those that find the looks that are halfway to staring more unsettling than polite. she wants the lay of the land before anything else, including names.]

water:

[of course, the base is not the only place to go. the world outside is far greater in scale and still calls to her to come and see without stopping. a wetsuit is not even a thought for her, and she drifts through the water as she is, a streak of blue that doesn't so much swim as simply travel through the water. but her work is interrupted by those of the aquatic species that come to satisfy their own curiosity, the more bold or friendly sorts coming closer and causing her to halt and acknowledge them.

for them, she drifts a little, lets them come closer or turns so that the edges of her cape fan out, as interested in them as they are her. the concept of some of them being dangerous is there, but she wants to know. wants to see them, record them, take in the data about them if it's allowed. in a way, she looks like she's having fun, as though they're innocently trying to communicate instead of a mutual moment of trying to understand what the other species is about.

there are different types - rabbitrays, some are called, gasopods another, or hoverfish another group, so URSULA's logs will say when she looks at them later. so much to learn. so much to see.]

wildcard.

[Fi is pretty much anywhere and everywhere right now, so if you have a scene in mind you want, go for it! cave exploring, floating in the dreamscape, whatever's wished.]

Comments

[splinten]

[He senses her approach and catches sight of her movements. Either URSULA has gone and taken her own leap with the coolest interface he never thought to design, or it's a newcomer.]

Nice moves there. Very sleek.

[What. He's impressed?]

water

[potentite]

[Jake happens to spy her around some rabbitrays. He stops, staring at her.]

...Um...

[She is so so pretty. Wow. Shit, no, he needs to not stare. And say something? Don't be weird? But he's already flustered.]

Um. Hello, miss. Lovely rabbitrays you have there.

[Nailed it.]

[expulsions]

[Fi isn't the only one in the water today without a wetsuit. Percy's jumped back into the ocean to explore on his own though he seems to lazily be letting the water carry him wherever it wishes to carry him. He doesn't plan to venture too far from the base just yet and it's for this reason he's busy watching the rabbitrays play together.

However, they seem to have found a new playmate and zip forward, leaving Percy in their dust.]

Where're you going? [His voice might echo to Fi even if he's trying to talk to the fish. He'll swim forward, cutting through the water to catch up before he stops a few feet away from the newcomer.] Oh.

[...give him a moment to look her over. What is she? He just doesn't know. But that doesn't stop him from watching the animals curiously check on Fi.] These kind are really friendly but they scare pretty easy too.

[forsage]

[ roderic hadn't noticed at first, focused on grooming a sleeping daisy's fur to keep her nice and neat. (because one of them had to be and roderic is a lost cause at this point.)

only when he accidentally drops the comb - "dammit." - and reaches down to grab it back up does he notice that someone else is in the room and jesus whoa. he needs to bite down on his tongue to make a sound, not wanting to wake up his dog as he lamely raises his hand to show he sees them now. ]

Um… Hiya.

Take it that you're new here, huh?

[ because he likes to think he would remembering seeing… them. ]

base

[inject]

[ Currently, Valentine was taking notes on the Disease culture pots. She was aware that someone else was in the room - in her line of work, she couldn't afford not to be - but she didn't turn around to see who or what it was. Probably a good thing; she didn't want to be distracted right now. ]

If you're not wearing protective gear, or at least respirator, I suggest getting out.

[ Since she was wearing one, she spoke telepathically. ]