THE AURORA was once a sight to see. An impressive mining ship, home to many, it could travel across great interstellar distances while providing all the comforts necessary to those within. Its star-sailing days are over now, as it now is a terrible wreckage, with salvage and dangers for those who come near.
It’s also exactly where the new crew members just showed up. URSULA will be immediately sending the on-base crew towards the Aurora, while those who have just arrived have some time to explore. The Aurora, however, isn’t the safest place to be. There are some large creatures in the water, and they may not be friendly towards the crew…
Below is a timeline of events as they unfold, with some further information!
1000: THE AURORA
While the new crew may have arrived anywhere throughout the ship, many will have found themselves in the common rooms, surrounded by the comforts of those who once lived here. Those who choose to wander further may find many rooms throughout, often in varying states of decay. While there are smaller predators on the Aurora and the danger of a wrecked vessel, an unsettling peace pervades the crashed ship. For now, they are safe.
1030: THE BASE
At 10:30 in the morning, URSULA reaches out to all crew members with an urgent message:
”All crew members please report in immediately! Life signs detected on the Aurora! Please stop all other activities and begin rescue mission. Gather any supplies you need, use the vehicles and help any survivors you find. Devices are near the entrance to track life signals once you're on the Aurora. If they're safe, please remember we need to salvage what we can from the Aurora as well. The supplies will benefit any survivors as well.”
Get cracking, crew! Base and Biome have information on what kind of weapons and defenses your fellow crew have had.
1100: THE AURORA
Thanks to the transportation they had built, the base’s crew is able to arrive in record time. They can help seek out their new crew members, take the opportunity to explore more of the Aurora, or just sulk in the transporter. URSULA reminds everyone that salvaging is a key part of their mission, and they should gather what they can before returning to base.
1200: THE AURORA
The crew however only gets an hour to enjoy itself (?) in the wreckage. At noon, URSULA broadcasts to all present, new and old:
”Attention! Dire warning! Reaper Leviathans! According to what I've salvaged of my database, they're apex predators from the westernmost region of the ocean. One signal coming from the west, two others coming out of the Void from deep below the ship!”
The crew may try to evacuate, but it is probably better to prepare for battle or hiding instead. They won’t get enough time to get out of the way before…
1210: THE AURORA
The Reapers are here. Peering out one of the Aurora's entrances will reveal that they are already circling around the vessel, as if they realize something is inside. One even beaches, its entire, 160 foot body soaring through the air before slamming down into the water. It almost feels like a warning. A threat.
URSULA urges the crew to stay inside where it is safe, but if anyone does insist on charging forward, she advises them to split into teams and take on as many Reapers at once as possible to avoid any group being teamed-up on by multiple Leviathans.
NOTE: To fight a Reaper Leviathan, comment under the REAPER FIGHT THREAD comment below! We ask that you work in teams of two or three for the battle to keep threads organized and minimize the number of fight threads the mods will need to work through. Be mindful that these are extremely fierce, dangerous, fast, giant apex predators, and they are very likely to do damage against those who fight them! By tagging in, you are agreeing to put your characters at risk of injury from the Reapers. As URSULA advised, those who don't want to get hurt should hold back and wait.
1300: EVACUATION
Things are looking grim. While the crew's teams make a good fight of it, these Reapers are durable, and they just keep coming back for more. It seems they're on a mission, to stop the crew, no matter how battered they become.
That's when the bellowing starts. Coming from everywhere, a song like that of the cavalry that disorients the Reapers as a large pod of Reefbacks swim in. Several put themselves between the ship and the Reapers, allowing anyone on aboard to safely get into the transports and into the water.
Others begin to fight. The use the concentrated power of their songs to knock back attacks from the front, powerfully lashing their tentacles like whips to crack against the Reapers. In battle they're surprisingly agile, able to spin around in a moment's notice to alternate between confusing and attacking the Reapers.
But any crew members watching can see the toll it takes on the Reefbacks. One Reefback in particular chooses to guide the crew back to the base by swimming along aside them. Thick, dark blood trails in the water behind it but it beats off any curious smaller predators like Stalkers. But its shell is cracked, its 'face' smashed in, and it gets no further than the Kelp Forest before it settles into a dense patch of creepvines for a final rest. It sends out a final cry that somehow feels like a wish for the crew to keep going on to the base, away from the continuing battle.
The rest of the pod manages to drive the Reapers back, though they too have their casualties. Still, the Aurora and the crew are safe for now.
Perhaps that was their only wish.
Direct any questions and plotting to the OOC post and have fun!
[he's pleased with his choice here, because it'll be quickly apparent that...
well, there's a lot of things, and maybe possibly that tytree didn't take that much time to look specifically at what could be found in there because it seemed better to have someone else helping out.]
Yeah, can't argue with ya on that. Things in here are kind of a mess...
[even if the supply situation is good and some stuff seemed to be in pretty good working order.] Seems like whatever happened here wasn't pretty at all.
--start at the far wall and see what we find? There's a breach in the wall there; we need to get what's near it either further away or out of here, or it'll be swept out and ruined. Well. Swept out and ruined more; some of it must have gone out there already.
[ While Yarne is busy defending his face, Loki will gently land on his head. All that hair makes it look like a comfy perch... He'll try not to scratch with his talons, but they're not really shaped for comfort. Maybe all of Yarne's fluff will minimize the poking? ]
Oi. You're ten times my size, aren't you? You don't have to cower.
It seems to be the ship of whomever came here before us.
[Fukami frowns slightly, shaking his head as if to indicate the fate of those who had been on it was... probably not super okay.] I do not know how you arrived inside it like that.
[There are many more octopi in the sea, so it's true he doesn't understand this extinction dilemma. That said, it's normal for people to be concerned (if only a little) about dying...]
[His cute animu name even means depth. As in sea depth. It's fine not to think about how unoriginal that is.]
If there is a way I may assist, yes. [Of course, he'll pay his respects to a fellow sea creature. That said, he's oddly glad for his experience with Memoca right about now or he'd be double-taking at 'peeps'.
[ Truly, the Striders are winning in the Who Can Be More Awkward race. Or losing, depending on your perspective of what constitutes as winning. ]
Never has there been such a lovely barnacle attached to me.
[ Since the only other barnacle she ever has is Dave, who is not as pretty as their mom. ]
Mhm, Dave's clingier than he seems. Give him time. He comes off far more stoic and "cool" than he is. [ Though now she suddenly wonders if Dave does expect parental figures to hit him since Bro seemed to take a more literal stance on strifing as opposed to TAKE THE PONY, ROSEY but that's all things Rose is just. Inferring from what Dave does and doesn't say. And therefore not something she can actually discuss at length. ] I'll try to work on being more clingy, if you want?
It depends on where you live. A safe estimate would be about 75 years old, though the oldest human recorded lived to be 122 years old. For the record, the lifespan of an octopus as I know it is only a few years.
[ But he... assumes Fukami doesn't fit that bill. ]
...I've lived for a couple hundred years now, so I suppose I am different from your home's octopi.
[Just gonna get that out of the way. But hm. 122 isn't long at all. Really, it's hard to say what would be old age to him when creatures in his sea tend to live extremely long unless they're killed by other things. Not immortal, just very long-lived...]
[ She'll let Mai lead the way back and keep close! And before she forgets, she'd better introduce herself. It feels like she's making a brand new friend after all! ]
[ From her words, it's easy to tell the woman had been her a little longer than her, similar to Mai. She's quiet, stepping away from the window and moving to sit in an empty seat. ]
[ Elize is a rather obedient child when it comes to listening to responsible adults. Even if they're requests that she's very much against. Fortunately, it doesn't sound like she has any problem with sticking nearby Yarne.
She bends down near a pile of damaged books and picks through them. Maybe he's buried around here somewhere. ]
[ She bites down her bottom lip and shakes her head sadly. It feels like whatever happened on the Zenethra wasn't too long ago. Milla saved all of them. ]
I... don't think Milla's here. But I can tell you about the rest of my friends...
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