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!
Not unless someone seriously messed up when we opened the Ultimate Reward door. Which I'm not discounting given how badly pretty much everything else in our session has managed to go. [He's still pretty sure he's alive, though. He feels alive? He doesn't feel ghostlike. Maybe he wouldn't know, but he feels like he would.]
That does sometimes happen when you try to open that door! [Ultimate Unlucky Reward door. Dirk's session must have gone sort of well, though, if he got to the door. Were other humans playing that well in other sessions? But he knows about the Condesce... It's all kind of confusing!] I guess it's just something weird that's happening here, though! You're probubbly not dead!
[Probubbly why are quirks a thing. Why. Dirk regrets everything. He doesn't give it any reaction, but know that on the inside, he loathes this cruel world.
The situation is a bit more important, and somehow it feels like it makes more sense to talk to a fellow player of the game.]
Okay, so I'm probably not dead, and this might not be the universe we made. Is there anything you know about where we are?
Yes! This planet's called Iniidae, and we're all working for URSULA at the base to help study it and make it so people can live on it. URSULA's an AI, by the way. [Feferi lifts up her wrist, where her portable database sits just above her bracelets. She turns it on. It opens up to the creature database, but she shows its general state to Dirk.] We all have one of these that we can use to talk to her and learn about stuff once someone figures it out!
And wait until you see the base, it's really great and totally underwater, even if it's dry inside. [So cool! Feferi can accept the dry life in the name of how many species here seem to have trouble breathing in the water on their own.]
[Okay, AI, base, cool communicator wrist he's going to want to hook up to his glasses, and—
Oh for fuck's sake is he never going to escape the ocean. FEFERI. FEFERI DON'T BE SO HAPPY DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR ANCESTOR HAS PUT HIM THROUGH ON OCEAN-RELATED BULLSHIT. He kinda just... rubs his forehead a bit.]
Okay, I guess I can work with that. How deadly is the sealife? Anything more dangerous than what would have been found on Alternia?
Some of it's a little dangerous, but a lot of it's fine! [Fine by Feferi's standards, anyway.] Once you get a database you'll be able to look up everything we've learned about the animals here so far, but I wouldn't stick your hands in anything's mouth before you know!
[...Also.] You know what sort of creatures we have on Alternia?
[Look at this shoe dropping. It's happening. It's falling.] How'd you learn about that? You can't have been to Alternia! [It's a water shoe, so it's not falling very quickly, at least.]
It's going to be one of those nonsensical and unpleasant answers that happens when you play the game. [It's bullshit, Fef. The shoe is made of bullshit.] In the timeline I'm from, the Batterwitch more or less filled the Earth's oceans with Alternian species. The land, too, when there was land.
The Batterwitch? [That's not a term she recognizes for the Condesce, but her face has darkened in a way that suggests, when alongside the idea of there no longer being land, she has suspicions.]
[Ugh, you can't just go and conquer alternate Earths via cooking-based corporate invasion!] She's so--old-fashioned! [Feferi huffs, apparently offended on Dirk's behalf.] If I'd ended up the Empress, I would have changed so many things!
No, no, of course not! That would hurt the fish! [But seariously.] When I thought I would be able to fight her for her spot, I had great plans! Caring for people instead of killing them and helping guide the lowbloods instead of looking down on them--it would have been great!
That's the impression I got. [About Feferi from a ruler, based on what the pre-Scratch trolls said about their world. Admittedly a limited exploration, but it makes sense, and the pieces aren't too hard to put together with other information he has..] It sounds nice? Maybe a little condescending [...well, appropriate he guesses] but definitely an improvement over everything the Baroness decided to do.
[He pauses. Looks at the seahorse toy in her hand.] If it's a comfort, you can know that at least in one timeline, you had the chance to live that out.
I did? [A series of excited glubs escape her mouth.] I bet it was just a wonderful place, with lots of guidance and care for the weak by the more longer-lived members of society! [...So, yeah, a tad on the condescending side.] It's okay that things turned out like this for me, though. Not everything you want to happen will happen.
[She really is so happy about it. It... definitely is a little condescending, and there's an internal debate whether or not Dirk should pick that apart. He decides not to, less to spare Feferi's feelings and more because he doesn't want to make any assumptions about Beforan society when he doesn't have the details, more of a vague sense from fragments of information that flickered his way.]
That's a pretty go-with-the-flow attitude. [Wait, was that an ocean pun? ...No. He's going to decide it isn't. He votes against.] At least this place sounds more interesting than the Dream Bubbles for an afterlife.
I'm sure everything will be fine with everybody else. [She's always believed that. Even if Eridan was being stupid, she's still certain.] So it's great that I can help here even if I'm dead! Or, ex-dead?
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The situation is a bit more important, and somehow it feels like it makes more sense to talk to a fellow player of the game.]
Okay, so I'm probably not dead, and this might not be the universe we made. Is there anything you know about where we are?
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And wait until you see the base, it's really great and totally underwater, even if it's dry inside. [So cool! Feferi can accept the dry life in the name of how many species here seem to have trouble breathing in the water on their own.]
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Oh for fuck's sake is he never going to escape the ocean. FEFERI. FEFERI DON'T BE SO HAPPY DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR ANCESTOR HAS PUT HIM THROUGH ON OCEAN-RELATED BULLSHIT. He kinda just... rubs his forehead a bit.]
Okay, I guess I can work with that. How deadly is the sealife? Anything more dangerous than what would have been found on Alternia?
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[...Also.] You know what sort of creatures we have on Alternia?
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Yup.
[Drop the other shoe. He is ready.]
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[He keeps his tone level. He isn't trying to distress Feferi, but he isn't going to lie to her, either.]
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Would you have used a fishing gear company instead?
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[He pauses. Looks at the seahorse toy in her hand.] If it's a comfort, you can know that at least in one timeline, you had the chance to live that out.
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That's a pretty go-with-the-flow attitude. [Wait, was that an ocean pun? ...No. He's going to decide it isn't. He votes against.] At least this place sounds more interesting than the Dream Bubbles for an afterlife.
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