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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.
nonono7: (tall dark and handsome)

2, Shallows

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
This isn't where I was supposed to beeeeeee!!

[ Izunia's naptime is interrupted, very rudely, by the panicked cries of a girl. Assuming he pokes his head out of whatever crevice he's hiding in, he'll see a girl in a white bodysuit of some kind with glowing orange hair flying around in a panic, sometimes ducking underwater. Something incredibly, impossibly dark seems to be held in place between her hands, absorbing all of the light around it. ]

What am I supposed to do with this now!?
founderinglight: <user name="owlteria" site="tumblr.com"> ([my fave actually])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Did you know? The Lucis Caelums are twins. There's five streaks of blue light whistling through the water after Ardyn's flurry of pink.

Aside from that, however, Izunia seems to be a bit on the distracted side - he's more keeping track of the current state of the battlefield as a whole than he is focusing his attacks. The paralysis doesn't seem to have bothered him much, possibly because the tentacles aren't bothered by the mind effect and that serves to wake up the rest of him.

And speaking of those tentacles, at the moment, he's cruising to pin down one of their more possessed comrades, unless something else happens...]
blackestwitch: (‡ bitch please)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-06-10 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
They're the kind of people who will literally doom the entire world so they can hold onto power for as long as possible. For people obsessed with immortality, they're remarkably short-sighted. [ Does it sound like she hates them? SHE TOTALLY HATES THEM. ]
founderinglight: ([sketchyplaceholder])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm?

[Have an equally orange set of tentacles poking out in your direction, Nono, followed by a human torso and head as Izunia crawls out of the rock. He's yawning and wishing that coffee was a thing you could drink underwater, but awake enough thanks to the sound of her voice.]

Is something the matter?
blackestwitch: (‡ bitch please)

[personal profile] blackestwitch 2018-06-10 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
. . . How much do you know?
coagmentatio: for 10 minutes waiting for it to turn green (i just sat at a stop sign)

above water - no death, but otherwise it's whatever

[personal profile] coagmentatio 2018-06-10 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ You know what's really annoying about being late to a fight? Not know what the fuck is going on.

He's looking particularly frustrated when he gets here and is suddenly finding these asshole jellies trying to knock him off the cliff. Fortunately, he's fast.

Unfortunately, for them, maybe, he has a short fuse after the confusion of today. It's after he finds himself surrounded, he tries to just.

Burn them all... quickly. The less he uses magic, the better; he's really just aiming to get away, but... ]
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
... Probably not much at all, at least on that front? I don't know how much they're parallel in general, but humans don't tend to have psychic powers as a general rule.
nonono7: (has got me going so crazy)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh! An octopus!!! [ Nono that is clearly a man attached to those tentacles.

She quickly maneuvers that REALLY DARK SQUIGGLY THING out of sight. ]
I'm sorry! I was supposed to go outside the universe. Now I have a singularity here and I think the world might be destroyed.
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
... Well it doesn't seem terribly destroyed yet.

[That's pretty coherent for him just waking up, really.]

A singularity of what sort?
nonono7: (i'm startin' to lose my mind)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's the, um. Center of a black hole. It'll probably create a new Big Bang if it's observed. [ At least that's what her systems tell her, and she trusts them. ] I'm sorry! I broke the black hole.
founderinglight: ([ppppp])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[... You know what? He barely understands shit about modern astronomy but that does sound bad.]

And you haven't anywhere to put it?
nonono7: (has got me going so crazy)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
I thought I was going outside of the universe but I wound up here instead! It's very pretty! But it's definitely inside the universe!
founderinglight: ([sketchyplaceholder])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
You probably managed to get outside your own universe and wound up taken in by the Fissure.

[In contrast to her, he sounds mostly calm, even though the grogginess is rapidly dissipating.]

I might have a place I can put it where we won't have to worry about it, at least for a while.
nojohnyouare: Hands clasped like in prayer. (we are one and the same)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-06-10 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Enough. What I can see. But it's your business.
nonono7: (I don't know what to say)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah Nono doesn't sound. Calm. Mostly still freaked out. A little excited now though, strangely. ] You do!? Where!?!
founderinglight: ([hold])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[In response, Izunia pulls a can of... is that actually jalapeno soda? ... from his Armiger in a flash of blue sparks, before waving his hand and dismissing it again.]

Hypothetically there's no limit to what can be put in an Armiger aside from "as long as it's not a live animal" and what I can lift, though I don't know if the latter will apply.
nonono7: (you're such a big tease)

1/2

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ . . . . . ]
nonono7: (it's like i'm living in heaven)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
WOW!!! That's so cool! How did you do that!?! Where does it go!?

[ She approaches fast and looks ABSOLUTELY AMAZED. She does thankfully keep the singularity hidden behind her hands though. ]
foolishjustice: (Crow-An ambush?!)

[personal profile] foolishjustice 2018-06-10 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Goro feels an instant surge of pride at striking a weakness...but it's short lived. The sound of the screech hits him hard, locking him up down to his thoughts. Robin Hood vanishes, returning to mask form as Goro just floats there, fins rippling in the currents.]
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'm magic.

[That's too deadpan to be serious, surely.]

Family talent - things don't exactly go anywhere, as far as we can tell, they're converted to energy and back again. Which is why it may not work for that problem of yours, but it's at least worth a shot, certainly.
nonono7: (groovin' magic)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
Then... if you're willing to try it! We should!

The fate of the universe is at stake!

[ She pushes her hands forward, clenched tight over a small object. ]
founderinglight: ([late with spacebucks])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He's going to just sort of... close his eyes while they do this, just in case? And he stretches his hands ut under hers.]

Alright. On three, drop it. One. Two. Three!
byanyother_name: (Anguish)

[personal profile] byanyother_name 2018-06-10 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Kurama starts to swim upward towards the surface, planning to lurk just above the water out of the immediate range of the siren.

Except then that shriek pierces through his mind, stopping him dead in the water. And with his thoughts frozen, it's unfortunately too easy for the siren's pull to creep in again.]
nonono7: (get ready baby)

[personal profile] nonono7 2018-06-10 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is it. The moment of truth. ] Yes!

[ One. Two. DROP!!! ]
founderinglight: ([my place plz])

[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-10 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[DROP!!!!

The sparkle of light is a lot bigger this time, honestly sort of filling the area around them? But the moment it passes out of "Nono's possession" and into "Izunia's possession," the singularity successfully vanishes.]


... That feels like it worked.