In mysterious fathoms below; Closed-ish Mingle 12/12

[expulsions]

[When Percy Jackson gets an idea, it's better just to let him do it even if it's probably a bad idea. Such an idea is how a large group of explorers wind up taking a submarine or two out toward the dunes, Percy swimming alongside them to lead them onward before diving down under the dunes. Let's do a little exploring where the water flows below, shall we?]

i.

[Deep under the dunes the group will find several waterfalls and caves to explore on their own. There's also the acid river he mentioned to a few people, all surrounded by tree-like plants in arches and pathways.

The eel is still there and even more agitated Percy brought friends this time. Do try to take care not to get electrocuted, okay?]

ii

[That's about where Percy stopped the first time, but with a crew now it's easier to keep going. Crew members may wish to follow the river northeast where they will all discover an unexpected and massive structure. It's easy to enter the docking area and check out the inside of the base through the dim lighting.

It's clear that it's different than anything else they've seen before. Crew members can explore the different floors but it's clear that every area has one thing in common. What will you do with these aquariums?]

iii

[Because really, the base itself has a lot to look at. Each aquarium houses weird little creatures suspended in a stasis mode. They're definitely not moving, but it appears the tanks can be moveable.

Aside from that, there are also some terminals that could use some attention. Any of our tech-inclined crew members can fiddle with it enough to bring up a video showing someone large tearing into the facility they're in, knocking in the walls until it settles to its current form.

But if you're not interested in weird aliens or weirder terminals, there's plenty to look at. An elevator-type opening appears to be the in-between of the floors. Be careful where you step though seeing how it'll flip you into Zero G.

Or you can explore to your heart's content. Who knows what else you'll find…?]

wildcard

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Comments

[splinten]

[No sassy reply. A pause. Dirk turns around.

Well, he can still sense Dave's soul. There's only one appropriate reaction. He reaches out telepathically as he drifts over to where he last saw Dave]

Nice going, Scooby.

[parodeity]

Velma gets tossed in this shit just as often as Scoobs and Shaggy, asshole.

[ no real ire in his tone; he's fine if curious and probably could have said something to drag dirk along but did not. oh well. ]

Also I can be the SAG if I wanna because guess what I'm hypothetically rich and that's how the world works. Unions are a poor man's daydreams, didn't you hear?

[splinten]

Then I'll make my own union, with equal pay, and blackjack.

[Poking at wall, poking at wall—there we go. Dirk is now through the secret passage.]

Huh.

[parodeity]

Addin' blackjack to a thing does not automatically make it better? And also if you try to do equal pay with a union you know you'll get crushed under the heel of industry heads. Like apparently me in this hypothetical scenario? Though I feel I was probably pro guild but in an ambiguous and sarcastic way. Which probably was not ambiguous. And the sarcasm was probably directed at people who asked me why? Not like I can say for sure but if I had to guesstimate I'd go in that direction.

[ dave is eyeing one of the crystals, clearly debating Touching It. ]

[splinten]

That would be a dumb thing to touch.

[Come on Dave. Dirk walks over, his hands in his pockets. But also willing to knock Dave's hands away if he touches them before they examine them more.]

My Bro was sarcastic at people who asked him 'why' in general. It was his favourite occasion for irony-rich bullshit replies. But yes, he was big on looking after everyone who worked on his projects. He did not participate the irony of critiquing Hollywood while being a prime example of its workplace shittiness.

[Does Dirk sound a little proud? He's proud. Of course his Bro was a good dude to those who worked for him. His Bro was Good and Cool.]

We're definitely stealing these.

[Like the second they walked in they surely were going to loot the place.]

[parodeity]

If we're stealin' them we should def touch one first? You can glasses scan it but I'm definitely gonna touch one.

[ like that makes up for his desire to touch the thing... ]

Makes sense. Even when I hate someone I tend not to believe that they shouldn't have access to...whatever.

[ which is halfway resigned sounding but whatever. dave tilts his head to the side. ]

I think Vantas was lookin' for crystals for some reason.

[splinten]

One of the logs, I think.

[Btw Dave can't touch it if Dirk touches it first.]

[parodeity]

[ HE CAN SO HE JUST SLAPPED HIS HAND ON ONE >( ]

Yeah but I can't remember why the logs made that a thing. I'll ask later.

[splinten]

[Dirk shoves his shoulder against Dave.]

You don't have to touch it if I'm touching it.

[parodeity]

My hand absolutely got there first.

[ hipchecks dirk in retaliation ]

[splinten]

It didn't.

[Bodychecks? Dave??]

[parodeity]

It did. I'm faster than you.

[ MESSES UP DIRK'S HAIR ]

[splinten]

Bullshit.

[TICKLES DAVE!!]

[parodeity]

It's not!

[ i mean

keeps

messing with dirk's hair thank fucking god no one else found this secret passage amirite ]

I'm the fast one you're the one with stupider hair. It's s-science!

[splinten]

[Dirk makes a growling noise and TICKLES MORE AGGRESSIVELY??? yeah they're lucky that they're the only ones down here. Less Velma and Scooby, more Shaggy and Scooby.]

I'm fast and you're trouble.

[parodeity]

No, I'm faster, I have to be faster -

[ why is he arguing this but he seems stuck on that point even as he breaks off into a laugh. ]

And I'm not trouble, fuck you, I'm a public service.

[splinten]

Yes, the main places for taxes: firefighters, police officers, and shit stirrers.

[He is now going to try to flash-captchalogue the ion crystals while Dave is laughing too hard!]

[parodeity]

[ there are enough here that dave can captchalogue a bunch too, dirk? don't play. also he appears to still be hung up on being faster because he will try to get more than dirk more quickly. this matters to him for some reason and it's probably stupid but gestures at dave ]

Y'all'd be bored if I weren't here.

[splinten]

[Well, that's it. I guess he just has to go to tackle Dave.]

So you're admitting to being trouble.

[parodeity]

[ he has to catch dave first and dave is. not attempting to put on breaks of any sort? ]

No, that's still a public service so the rest of y'all don't blunder into shit, because it comes prepackaged and preblundered.

[splinten]

[FINE HE'LL JUST STEAL MORE ION CRYSTALS FOR HIS SYLLADEX. they're both limited, neither of them can carry all of these]

Maybe I'd rather be the asshole preblundering into things, Dave.

[parodeity]

Too late, I dibs'd it.

[ a split second later, in a tone bordering on uncertain more than sulky: ]

I'm faster, though, for real.

[ d r o p it dave ]

[splinten]

[Dirk stops moving.]

You are. We've confirmed that.

[With the Strife where Dave kicked his ass despite Dirk going insane. And also in all practice Strifes since.

This time when he tries to move over to Dave, he isn't trying to move fast enough to get him. It's a half-hug, not a tickle, that's intended.]

[parodeity]

Oh. Right.

[ haha this never happened. dave huffs out an annoyed put-upon sigh at the half-hug but will sling his own arm over dirk's shoulders before looking around. ]

Yeah so. What do we even think these things do. Like. Can you scan them or something. Do you have Spock scanner tech.

[splinten]

[Sucker. Dirk lightly bumps their heads together. It never happened, and everything is fine.]

My shades can look for certain kinds of radiation. Heat, for example. So far everything I'm seeing of them indicates they'd be good energy sources.