subnautica | arrival in style

[ARRIVAL]

[Two girls, one in cloaked dark colours and one dressed in light, soar down on a large bird and land on the base island, near the farm. The blond girl in front dismounts first and turns back to the other.] This is a farm, so there must be people around here of some kind. I didn’t see any buildings from above… but we could look around for something hidden?

[ The cloaked girl follows suit, and dismounts from the bird. She reaches out with her empathy, but doesn’t sense anyone nearby. ] It would have to be hidden well.

[Pink girl smiles.] In that case, we’ll have to look very well to find it! [She gives her bird a pat on the neck.] Fly up and tell us if you see anything, friend! We’ll start the search down here. [The bird takes off; Zelda focuses back on Raven with the same smile.] Are you ready to start looking?

Sure. [ Raven deadpans and floats over to get a better look at the crops. It’s so strange. It’s definitely been tended to recently, but there’s no sign of anyone anywhere. She looks back over her shoulder at Zelda, who is smiling at her. Why does she attract so many friendly people.

Do forgive her if she doesn’t smile back. ] … I’m Raven.

[She is forgiven.] I’m Zelda. It’s very nice to meet you.

[TELEPATHY]

[ While not the most talkative of the duo, Raven decides to test out her new telepathy to see if she can contact anyone on the island, or elsewhere. ] Hello? [ IS THIS THING ON ] My name is Raven. I was under the impression there would be more people here. Guess I was wrong.

[It’s okay, Zelda will have the friendliness for the two of them. She offers warmth and kindness via her thoughts.] My name is Zelda. We both came here in response to a call for help. Can anyone hear us?

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[Al loves the farm, it reminds him of being home at Resembool. The surrounding area isn't exactly the same, an ocean rather than mountains, but he did grow up with farmland all around him and it's comforting. So he spends some of his spare time up there, helping out where he can. Usually he's on his own, so the sound of voices catches his attention.

An armoured head pokes out from around a corner and a young voice echoes out from the inside warmly.]

Hi, have you both come to help out on the farm?

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Zelda is momentarily startled by the movement, but this voice is warm and friendly and not an enemy. When she spots him, she smiles warmly and waves at him.]

Hi! We just arrived here. Does the farm need help?

[She may be the Headmaster's daughter, but she knows how to do manual labour if it comes to it.]

[He immediately warms to someone who sounds so friendly in return, clanking closer so that he can hold a proper conversation.]

Uh huh, we always need help to make sure everything is running smoothly, but I think that settling in is probably for the best at first.

[He rubs at the back of his head.]

You're taking being here very well.

I was called here to help something. It might be fake, but I want to try doing what I can for this place anyway. That's why I'm not upset about being called away.

[Even if what she heard was mistaken, people do seem to need help. She can't begrudge having a purpose for being here.]

I haven't heard of anyone coming here voluntarily before.

[But then, he's not been here long enough to talk to many people about it yet.]

Do you remember how you got here from where you came from?

There was a portal in a lake. The voice in it called to me, and I passed through it to answer the summons.

[And this is a normal thing that people would normally do if a magic gate said they needed some help? Yes. Yes it is.]

[Wait, what? That... makes no sense at all, and it sounds incredibly disturbing.]

What did the voice sound like? What did it say exactly?

Mm, a little ethereal, I guess? [She thinks about this with her hand on her mouth.] Like the voice of the divine. Her exact words werrrrre... [Trying to call them up exactly for Al!] "Come to us. Answer our call and bring light back to this world."

It was close to that.

[Interesting that she says 'her voice', so her deity is a woman, but the actual words aren't very helpful.]

And you didn't even question that?

[Zelda knows this is weird, but also. Her life. She smiles at him.] This isn't the first time something like that has happened.

Really?

[He can't quite believe what he's hearing, though he's instantly more curious.]

Could you tell me about the other time, please? It might help me understand why we're here.

It's a long story, but I'll try to make it as short as possible. [Let's see, what's the cliff notes...] A primordial evil was beginning to break free of its bonds, and I heard a calling to answer my destiny and help stop it. I answered the Goddesses' call, and events conspired to help bring the Chosen Hero to vanquish the evil with me.

Does that help?

[What in the hell is she talking about? She might as well have told him something else ridiculously farfetched, like a magical ocarina could teleport someone seven years back and forth in time.]

Uh.

[Does it help?!]

Not really, I'm sorry, I don't really believe in a God or Goddess.

[That. Is not the answer she expected, actually.

It makes her giggle.]

You don't believe in them? Have you never been witness to the blessings they bring?

No, I'm sorry, I haven't.

[He doesn't want to disrespect her faith, but he can't lie.]

There are a lot of beautiful and amazing things in the world, but it's all explainable by science.

[Wow that's cute. But okay.]

You don't have to be sorry! You're from somewhere else, aren't you? Maybe the Goddesses didn't make your world.

How can you be so sure that they made yours?

[He doesn't mean that to sound rude, he's genuinely curious.]

There's a lot of proof all around Hyrule, both on the surface and in the sky. Their divine blessings are granted to the worthy through trials that speak to the values the Three Goddesses, and the Goddess Hylia, wished to encourage in the people of the world.

[Also. For other reasons.

But she will refrain from dropping that one on Al.]

[A lot of that just sounds like believers seeing natural phenomena as work of the divine, but he's far too polite to say so.]

I've never heard of Hyrule before, that's where you're from?

Sort of. [It's sort of a concept she's working on making real right now.] Where are you from?

Amestris, it's a pretty big country on a planet called Earth.

[It's still bizarre to have to clarify that.]

What do you mean 'sort of'?

I'm from Skyloft. The Goddess you don't believe in [gotta tease him] raised it above the surface to protect us from the great demon king Demise and his demon minions. Then she placed the cloud barrier so that no one could cross between surface and sky.

Recently, we opened up the cloud barrier and were able to defeat Demise once and for all. Many of us are moving down to the surface, which I thought we could call Hyrule.

[That sounds absolutely ludicrous.]

You mean you actually defeated the-- devil of your world? And the Goddess helped you do it? You met her?

arrival in style

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i'm so sorry this took so long

NO PROBLEM clearly i have my own Slows

we can be slow together!

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