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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.
burninglight: (can i bear to seek the truth)

[personal profile] burninglight 2018-06-02 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Another annoyance on top of several.

[and there he goes]

[.....]

[enjoying the silence yet, zuzu]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-02 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Well if that's all he has to complain about, they're doing better than Izunia could have hoped.

He leans over the edge, following the swirl of dramatic pink light with, yes, still a tinge of worry.]
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[personal profile] burninglight 2018-06-02 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[He's going to be a while, because scientific curiosity is leading him about as far down as pressure allows.]

[...Might even get pretty hard to see that little magenta glow, too.]
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-02 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He's cool. As long as you know that glow doesn't rev up into combat mode. He's totally chill.

Don't get the bends, Ardyn.

By the time he comes back up, he'll find that Izunia has settled in with his phone and is steadily texting someone, laying out on his stomach in the sand with a fish idly "sniffing" his hair as it flutters around in the current.]
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[personal profile] burninglight 2018-06-02 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Eventually he did come back up, glowing swords dismissed and looking less than impressed.]

...those work underwater?
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[personal profile] founderinglight 2018-06-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
The ones from the androids? Yes, they're fully waterproof.

[Smile for the camera, Ardyn. Shutter noise.]

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