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!
Usually there's a little bit of telling with the showing!
[But he isn't complaining, and at the gesture he pushes forward into the storage room. And pauses for a second, taking it all in. He does look pretty impressed, thought he can't see what's in most of the containers without opening them up first. It's still a great find.]
[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.]
[That is quickly becoming apparent to Sorey, and after doing a scan for cave crawlers he heads further in to pry open some containers and see what's there.]
It's a pretty great find. I bet we could use a ton of this stuff! Especially if there's any food that hasn't gone bad.
[He takes a few steps in the direction Tytree indicated, curious as to what kind of storage room this is if people just leave weapons lying around. Right next to the food, no less! Not that they've confirmed there's food, but after a second he goes back to looking.]
How long have you been here, exactly? I take it you're not from the original crew.
[it's a brief confirmation of what sorey's saying—he definitely isn't from the original crew int he least. everything he is completely new to him, despite the way he's trying to take everything in stride and find the bright side of the situation.]
I heard a voice telling me I had another trial to do, so I went through the door like before and... here I am. [even he knows that probably doesn't make much sense. the sacred beasts' trials were kind of confusing to explain anyway.]
This is, uh, another world. Which could be part of a trial, but I'm pretty sure it's just an accident.
[He's relatively confident of this information after having been around for a few weeks. Being thrown into an ocean planet is weird even by mystical trial standards.]
I don't think the Sacred Beasts could just... up and drop someone in another world. I didn't even—another world?
[he needs so much help right now. clearly, he's baffled enough to talk about the sacred beasts like it's nothing to someone who clearly wouldn't know if this really is "another world." it sounds like something in a book, or a story mao would tell, not something that's happening to him right now.]
I was asking myself that same questions for about a week. I feel like I'd understand more of it if it was something out of a book, honestly. It's still hard to get used to, but it's sort of easier knowing we're all in this together.
It's definitely a lot, I never even though something like that was possible...
[which also by default makes him concerned for his friends and what's going on back there in his own world. they were kind of in the middle of a lot of really important stuff.]
But you're right! It's better to have comrades to work with figure everything out with than being on our own, anyway.
That's the spirit. We'll figure it out in no time! There's still a lot of things I know I need to do back home, so it's not like I want to sit around here just waiting for a way home to fall into my lap.
[Though he'll take the opportunity to learn about the world, he knows that he's still on the clock. The last thing he wants to do is finally return to his world only to find that it's been overcome by malevolence.]
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[He's so ready and can't stand this suspense at all.]
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[he'll just motion towards the door instead. trying to explain it in words would just spoil all the excitement, after all.]
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[But he isn't complaining, and at the gesture he pushes forward into the storage room. And pauses for a second, taking it all in. He does look pretty impressed, thought he can't see what's in most of the containers without opening them up first. It's still a great find.]
A storage room, nice!
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[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.]
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It's a pretty great find. I bet we could use a ton of this stuff! Especially if there's any food that hasn't gone bad.
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[okay, so maybe even tytree knows that's unlikely, but it seems pretty good in theory, doesn't it?]
Only thing I saw for sure were some weapons over that way. Soon as I saw that, I knew there was probably a lot more hanging around!
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[He takes a few steps in the direction Tytree indicated, curious as to what kind of storage room this is if people just leave weapons lying around. Right next to the food, no less! Not that they've confirmed there's food, but after a second he goes back to looking.]
How long have you been here, exactly? I take it you're not from the original crew.
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[tytree shrugs—what other reason would anyone need weapons, right? they obviously must have, since there's a bunch of them in the storage room.
but he can't really give much of a definitive answer aside from that. he doesn't know, because...]
Eh, me? I dunno... about an hour? Maybe a little longer! But not much, today's the first time I've seen this place.
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[He figured as much from their initial meeting, but this is at least one way to confirm it.]
Do you know how you ended up here?
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[it's a brief confirmation of what sorey's saying—he definitely isn't from the original crew int he least. everything he is completely new to him, despite the way he's trying to take everything in stride and find the bright side of the situation.]
I heard a voice telling me I had another trial to do, so I went through the door like before and... here I am. [even he knows that probably doesn't make much sense. the sacred beasts' trials were kind of confusing to explain anyway.]
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Sort of the same as me, then. Except without the trial. That's what happened to quite a few people who are here now.
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I thought that's what this was supposed to be, so now I'm kinda confused... [even if he's rolling with it.]
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[He's relatively confident of this information after having been around for a few weeks. Being thrown into an ocean planet is weird even by mystical trial standards.]
The trial sounds normal by comparison.
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[eh...
eh?
eh?]
I don't think the Sacred Beasts could just... up and drop someone in another world. I didn't even—another world?
[he needs so much help right now. clearly, he's baffled enough to talk about the sacred beasts like it's nothing to someone who clearly wouldn't know if this really is "another world." it sounds like something in a book, or a story mao would tell, not something that's happening to him right now.]
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[He falls bad, really. It's not the best introduction to an alien planet.]
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[that's a big bomb to drop but it's not like he wants to be left in the dark, either.
but—well, he's not sure how to process that, either.] What kind of weird book story did I fall into here...
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I was asking myself that same questions for about a week. I feel like I'd understand more of it if it was something out of a book, honestly. It's still hard to get used to, but it's sort of easier knowing we're all in this together.
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[which also by default makes him concerned for his friends and what's going on back there in his own world. they were kind of in the middle of a lot of really important stuff.]
But you're right! It's better to have comrades to work with figure everything out with than being on our own, anyway.
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[Though he'll take the opportunity to learn about the world, he knows that he's still on the clock. The last thing he wants to do is finally return to his world only to find that it's been overcome by malevolence.]