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

[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…?]

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It didn't.

[Bodychecks? Dave??]

It did. I'm faster than you.

[ MESSES UP DIRK'S HAIR ]

Bullshit.

[TICKLES DAVE!!]

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!

Edited 2016-12-20 19:04 (UTC)

[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.

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.

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!]

[ 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.

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

So you're admitting to being trouble.

[ 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.

[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.

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 ]

[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.]

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.

[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.

Sooooo what you're saying is we found batteries.

[ that's way less interesting when it's put that way? ]

Man, that's barely worth a secret passage trip?

[The battery comment actually seems to trigger something in Dirk's memory.]

Oh, fuckin' duh. Crystals came up in a Nostromo log. The one survivor who missed their dog. They talked about precursor bases trying to turn this planet into a mega cannon using the planet's weirdness. They mentioned crystal for powering that.

Huh. You know, that sounds like a bad idea to me.

[ making a planet into a cannon. ]

Could be because goin' full Death Star is a dumbass idea, but. Would these be good for base power?

Starkiller Base. We need to catch you up.

[URSULA has more movies for them! But he's thinking it through.]

Theoretically. We should do some tests on them first.

If they are a better power source, would they be able to boost our communicator range?

[ dave dirk JUST said they need to do tests ]

Because that shit gets annoying as fuck quick.

We would need to do tests. I'm currently speculating on even what they're for.

[Dave. Dave don't jump ahead.]

Well, if we could translate alien logs...has anyone ever asked Naoko about what other alien species we should even be on the lookout for? Like. Besides humanity and the kharaa. Maybe she knows what the fuck built this place?

[ though he usually doesn't jump to asking naoko anything it's an option. ]

I don't think so. I mentioned the that Mimi Yun was with an alien when she died, but she didn't add any information or ask specifics. We can try asking her about the entire concept of a precursor base.

Do you think there's a possibility these guys were natives? I mean probably not but...it'd be cool?

[ now he's just suggesting things he thinks would make a good story. ]

[Dirk realizes that this is what Dave is doing. And... so he ruffles his hair.]

A precursor race with advanced technology that tragically died out before we could encounter them, presumably because of their own hubris.

We can name them Atlanteans.

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