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Unknown Seas Mods / NPCs ([personal profile] bathymetric) wrote in [community profile] unknownseas2020-04-05 02:03 am
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COMMENCE EXPERIMENT

Fun fact: Did you know that the Pacific Ocean has a surface area of 62.46 million miles? That's not even accounting for depth.

You awaken to a sharp jolt, like you've just hit the drop on a roller coaster. Then it passes, and you're in a bed, suddenly very clearly awake. Is that right? Were you asleep? Your memory is a little fuzzy as you come down off the adrenaline, but it puts itself into place soon enough. This is not, as one might say, your beautiful house. If you have a beautiful wife, she sure isn't here.

The positioning of the bed inside your new room gives you a very clear indication of where you are - or at least, where the building is. Above you is a decent-sized window looking out on... well, the ocean. But not in a fun beachside resort way, to say the least. Fish swim by pretty frequently, here to keep you company - but they cannot hear your screams, and do not seem particularly bothered if you tap on the glass unless they're right by it. It's thick, man.

On the bedside table, you'll find two things: a key card with a number between 1 and 25 on it (no points for guessing which one is on whose, unfortunately), and a small handheld device, a little like a smartphone but mostly like a blackberry? Remember those? Anyway, accessing it will reveal only a scarce few functions: a list of profiles, a map of the building, and a very ominous set of rules. You might try to ignore that last one! Unfortunately, you'll find them in a frame by your door. And in a frame somewhere in every room of the place, if you go out exploring at all. The tablet also has a message for you when you open it:

Greetings. Please take an hour to become accustomed to the facilities, then proceed to the meeting room north of your dormitories. Attendance is mandatory. - The Professor

But hey, it... it also lets you play Snake! Who doesn't love Snake, huh?

Anyway, head out into the halls! Make some new friends - or maybe enemies, wouldn't that be exciting? Look around a little! Just make sure to be back for whatever this meeting is - after all, you want a chance to face off with your captor, right?
emberserker: Stuck-up pout. (hmph)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-05 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine. If it's not locked behind that door, there aren't many other places to search, so if there is anything, it would do well to look. Likely past these tunnels.
onefuture: (💀 Twelve.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-05 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good to see Anna knows when to compartmentalize.]

Yes, quite. Let's see if we can find anything that may be of use to us, or may at least tell us where we are. Perhaps the library would be a good place to start.

[You coming with?]
emberserker: Arrogant glare. (i'm the greatest)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-05 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see why not. At least there's likely to be some context.

[And they're off, then.]
onefuture: (💀 Four.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-05 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[To the library then! A rather...large library, hm. Lif, if anything, looks perfectly at home in a place like this, there's plenty to satisfy any sort of craving for curiosity.]

You take one end of the library, and I'll take another. That should offer us the best chance to cover all of the ground here.

[y'all are both about to be very disappointed, but Lif's already walking off to start at the nearest bookshelf and--

...]


Criminal activities. Of course there would be books on that here.
emberserker: Manic smile. (can you not)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-05 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems on theme, at the least. That and all these books on fish. He's got his fixations.
onefuture: (💀 Four.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-05 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...It certainly explains why we're trapped deep beneath the ocean. If all he's interested in are fish, then he should have just come down here himself and left us out of his insane fixation.
emberserker: Eyes closed, preparing to fight. (just a moment)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-06 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose then there'd be no one to murder.
onefuture: (💀 Five.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-06 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's true. I'm sure he could get plenty of amusement watching the fish murder themselves, if he really wanted.

[He's pretty sure he read that in a book somewhere??? He doesn't know.]
emberserker: Serious dismissal. (x number of bad ideas later)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-04-06 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
He can't exactly tell them to, can he?
onefuture: (💀 Five.)

[personal profile] onefuture 2020-04-06 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
...No, he can't. I suppose you've got me there.