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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-05-31 11:39 pm
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DUNGEON LOG: KEYSTONE REEF

Expedition day dawns, as usual, with an android mass text -

Okay, so, this time we're aiming to go out and stabilize the Fissure in the reef you can see up a little to the north of here. The waters are usually pretty calm this time of year, so if you can swim instead of needing to take a boat, that'd be a great help. We only have a few of them.

Also, I know that last time was a mess, so I'm just gonna say this: If you need to get out for any reason, just send us a message and a picture of your location. We'll get a drone out to you as soon as we can and bring you home. No questions asked.

( ゚▽゚)/ Stay safe out there! When you're ready to go, meet us down at the beach. The rocky, sparkly one, not the sandy one.


Unlike previous expeditions, this time there's no rooftop sendoff - instead, as Charm noted, the tables are set up on Glitterstone beach, along with a series of boats pulled up on the sand. Two rowboats that could maybe sit six people but probably better suited for four, a trio of inflatable rafts (with motors attached to the back, all mismatched) of about the same size, a two-person dinghy and a long canoe that could hold two or three.

Besides the little fleet, there's also the usual bagged lunches (in gallon ziplocs this time, and other such watertight containers), and every boat is equipped with a large number of those chepa dollar-store water bottles, all with their airtight store seals. There's also a selection of life vests and other floatation thingies in a box next to the table. Strange hovers over the setup, checking watertightness of a handful of first aid kits with a spritzer and a bucket to submerge things in. They give a little wave to anyone passing by headed to the boats.

For those who opt instead to swim, everything seems perfectly normal until you reach the border of the Fissure... When, very suddenly, it isn't.
founderinglight: ([beep])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[I'm sorry, Heart, Izunia is too high to take any threats seriously right now so he just laughs.

Yes, that's his whole response.]
myocordial: (141)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-06-06 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Why are you like this. You're so annoying.
myocordial: (012)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-06-06 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It has always worked well for me.

[Well. Mostly.]

I do my best fighting when I'm enjoying myself. Although I do acknowledge that my situation is a tad, ah... unique.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-06 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Why are you like this?

[It's Izunia's turn to be contrary and dumb apparently.]
foolishjustice: (It's a pleasure to meet you.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-06 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[A nod.]

Maybe...though, I did find him a bit pudgy from eating the giant insects in the forest.
foolishjustice: (Strange isn't it?)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-06 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head.]

I started from up here...though, the way that went, maybe I would have been better off entering through that hole in the side of the ship...
foolishjustice: (This looks bad.)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-06 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like you got a more useful form than I did, then. As much as I enjoy how this tail looks, the spines are more of an inconvenience than anything.
seafoamgreen: Courage mixing in (She guides him smooth or grim)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, huh, it's that one woman from the weird horrible dream forest. (And a couple of those slightly-more-entertainingly-horrible card games.) Undyne feels like she ought to say something, so she gives her a casual wave, forgetting that Sonja probably can't see it.]

Hey. Find anything cool down here?
seafoamgreen: Too much obsession is stupid (Red as a rose is she)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[The light flickers on and off briefly as Undyne blinks in total confusion.]

Uh, I'm not hungry?

[Belatedly realizing that might not be the most important part of that assumption to correct, she adds:]

And I don't eat people!
seafoamgreen: You want an ideal world, right? (Default)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Undyne grins and gives her a thumbs up with the hand that isn't currently occupied with a struggling shark.]

You had a pet bear? Awesome!
myocordial: (101)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-06-06 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I asked first.
seafoamgreen: The world will rotate the opposite way (What is the ocean doing?)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they're fun!

[Undyne grins, giving a nearby shark a friend nudge of her own as one of her new friends breaks away to go say hello to the newcomer.]

...Wait, how come you can't? They don't vanish when we stabilize the Fissure or something, do they?!

[She looks kind of worried now. Maybe she should've asked a few more questions about how all this worked before she agreed to carry a piece of previously unknown magitech into a weird dimensional tear for a bunch of androids she met less than a month ago? ...Nahhhh, that would've been boring.]
myocordial: (153)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-06-06 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heart stops immediately as he realizes that he actually hit something. He rights himself in the water, trying to see where-- ah. There.

And when he hears what Kurama is saying, he has to stare a little in baffled amusement.]


I think generally the one doing the hitting is supposed to apologize.
fistsofchange: (Yang Wei shot someone)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-06 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lin took a moment to scrabble with the flashlight, then pointed it at Undyne. Then she started to relax just a bit.]

Oh! The fish person from that card game. Undyne, I think? You scared me half to death!
myocordial: (008)

[personal profile] myocordial 2018-06-06 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I assume needing oxygen will be an issue for you, mm?

[None of that here. It's pretty sweet and makes him all the more equipped to head underwater.]

Of course. There's still more than enough to do there as well.
makejapangreat: (pout)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-06-06 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm sure whatever force saw to it to make me what amounts to a "sea snake" is feeling awfully pleased with itself right now.

[which is to say, he hates this]

And you're some sort of... shark, I presume. With an unwieldy tail. [what is the point of that tail.]
makejapangreat: (alarm)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-06-06 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[!!]

I— m-maybe?

[His hand's brought up to his chest, effectively easily enclosing the device within it, but he's not... immediately denying or moving to hide it, at least? This particular girl's voice doesn't sound as accusing as some other people's had...]
seafoamgreen: Courage mixing in (She guides him smooth or grim)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, yeah! And you were, uh... [It takes her a moment to remember the name] Bai Lin, right?

[She grins cheerfully, getting a better look at her new aquatic form. As far as she's concerned, all these changes are an improvement over the human versions.]

Hey, you look pretty good, congratulations!
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-06 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And you also already know a good portion of my traumatic history, and my brother, and the combination is roughly eighty percent of why I'm like this.
fistsofchange: (Today is going to be a good day)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-06 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That's me!

Do I? I like being able to breath underwater and not having to worry about drowning, mostly. I never really thought about how it looks.
seafoamgreen: The nameless hero (Into that silent sea)

[personal profile] seafoamgreen 2018-06-06 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, uh... This might be kind of rude, but all humans look pretty similar to me? You guys all have to tell each other apart by hair color and eye color and that's it, nobody has wings or tentacles or anything. It's kind of nice seeing more variety around here.
fistsofchange: (I don't know what that means)

[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-06 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I never thought about it like that. I guess we're just used to it.

[She continued climbing for a moment. A terribly oceanic abyss wasn't the right kind of place for her.]

So when you say I look pretty good...Is that just because I'm all fishy now or...?
daughterofthemark: (04F. A soaring shadow above)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-06-06 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hopefully nobody was counting on Arianna to realize something's wrong. She knows Mai isn't usually this cuddly, but clearly that can only be a good thing. So a hug is happening.]

Thank you, Mai. I know you will.
daughterofthemark: (12F. Daunting frozen path)

[personal profile] daughterofthemark 2018-06-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It is...

[??? how do you even explain this]

It was how I learned to use my abilities as a Sovereign.
makejapangreat: (regret)

[personal profile] makejapangreat 2018-06-06 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[His expression sours slightly.]

In fact, a couple already did.

[mmmMMMM... the way he's looking at Akira suggests he's not entirely sure that that wasn't the point. Yet another way to humiliate him...

... it's somehow more humiliating that to some degree he actually got attached to this stupid thing. Damnit... he might actually be. Sort of glaring off to the side a bit. This is stupid? This is stupid.]
Edited 2018-06-06 23:40 (UTC)