Event | Turtle Dive | January 16 - 19 | Everything's better down where it's wetter~

[hazelwood]

Characters: Any and all PCs, plus an offering of Lieuen
Date: January 16th - 19th
Location: All Sectors
Situation: Tu Vishan begins to dive to the ocean floor and the city of Keeliai seems unbothered by the process. Bonfire funtimes are made available to all!
Warnings/Rating: Underwater situations; to be updated as noted

>See the comments of this post for various situations and areas available for tagging.
>Each header will be set for a date and/or area.
>A unique thread under the bonfires is available for discussions with Lieuen, should there be interested parties.
>Feel free to start your own header for specific situations.
>Refer to the two OOC posts for further details. 01 | 02

Comments

what do you mean, 'not into girls'? ;P

[notdreaming]

Is that really necessary?

[ She doesn't want to kiss Nita don't make her! ]

boy crazy since age 14 when she started scoping out her cousin \o/

[littlecousin]

[No tongue! It's not kissing!]

If you start to drown, do you really wanna die?

[Kara you are being kind of weird.]

LMAO why am I not surprised

[notdreaming]

Couldn't you just carry me to safety?

[ Look she made a resolution okay it'll all work out ]

namor's really hot js

[littlecousin]

I'm not going to--

[--have this argument.]

Okay, if you think you're gonna need to start breathing again, just head back for the turtle. I'll make sure you get there.

[Which may include "kissing" because dwi she's not letting you drown. it's a really nasty way to go, okay.]

so they tell me

[notdreaming]

Okay. [ She finally nods her agreement. She doesn't really want to drown. Just... priorities. ]

[littlecousin]

[Yes, good, inexplicable reluctance to not die overcome.]

Right. Let's head for the barrier. I've been on that side already [she points] so let's try the other one.

[notdreaming]

Alright. Let's go!

[ She lifts off the ground to head in the direction Nita indicated. ]

[littlecousin]

[Nita rises beside Kara, her ankle wings fluttering.]

If it's the same on the other side, it's gonna be pretty gross. There were lots of bodies.

[notdreaming]

[ Kara takes a look with her x-ray vision, after taking a minute to get it to work. ]

It does look like there are bones.

[ A lot of bones.

Gross. ]

Where did they all come from?

[littlecousin]

They do burials at sea here, so that might be part of it, but this place is so shady that I bet it's not all.

[Nita shakes her head.]

With this much...stuff coming down from the surface, you'd think there'd be more life, but it's pretty barren out there.

[This isn't how ocean ecosystems work!]

[notdreaming]

I thought we were always moving. They shouldn't be littering the ocean like this.

[ All of this is very strange. ]

[littlecousin]

It depends on the currents. The turtle could be riding a deep sea conveyor, and that would tend to collect all kinds of junk.

[Nita looks over at Kara.]

How'd you see the bodies at this range? Do you have telescopic vision?

[notdreaming]

X-ray. It's too dark out there to see much with telescopic vision alone.

[littlecousin]

Speaking of which...weird request, I know, but do you think you can, um, modify the way you're glowing? Seawater soaks up the reddish stuff more quickly and it doesn't penetrate as far. If you could stay near the green end of the spectrum, it'd be way more efficient.

[Aquatic Science Time with Nita.]

[notdreaming]

I don't know. I've never tried.

[ She closes her eyes and frowns, figuring there's no time like the present.

She glows a little dimmer. Then a little brighter. Then dimmer again. She peeks an eye open. ]

Did it work?

[littlecousin]

[Some people's powers are just weird.

Thinks the fish girl with ankle wings.]

I think so?

[She squints a bit.]

It's not a big deal either way. It's just that red light tends to attract predators. There's usually not much at this depth that can cause a problem, but...

[Nita trails off with a shrug, because giant turtles throw everything she knows about how ecosystems work out of alignment.]

[notdreaming]

If something attacks us I can fight. [ She has laser vision! And it won't interrupt her sunny glow. ]

I'm ready to go if you are.

[littlecousin]

Hey, I'm Atlantean. They teach us martial arts along with the alphabet. Fighting is covered. Let's go!

[Kara's a way faster flier than Nita is, so someone might end up getting pulled along.]

[notdreaming]

Good.

[ Kara takes a deep breath (just in case) and dives into the wall of water headfirst. Here goes nothing. Just don't think about breathing, and whatever you do don't exhale. ]

[littlecousin]

[Nita makes the transit from air to water with complete grace, the only sign she's in a different element now her gills flaring to life on the sides of her neck.

She is paying careful attention to Kara for signs of impeding drowning.]

So, uh. You probably can't talk, huh?

[There might be a flaw in their clever plan.]

[notdreaming]

[ Kara just shakes her head. A small oversight, but they can communicate well enough with body language, right? Swimming is more awkward than flying. She half propels herself and half kicks and paddles to move in the direction of the bodies. ]

[littlecousin]

[Surface dwellers and swimming. It's just sad.]

Can you do the same thing in the water you do when you're flying? It might be faster.

[They never actually illustrate how Atlanteans swim, but even the random fishman-on-the-street can do like 30 mph.]

[notdreaming]

[ Kara nods, but doesn't move. She doesn't know where they're going, so she has to wait for Nita to take the lead. ]

[littlecousin]

[Right, right. Nita sets off toward the ocean floor, but is paralleling the barrier. She wants to be able to get Kara back into the air quickly if the other girl can't hold her breath as well as she thinks.

Every so often, she dodges one of the corpses with quick, fish-like movements. Aside from the grisly debris, the deep ocean is featureless and boring.]

There might be some fish or urchins or something on the actual ocean floor.

[notdreaming]

[ Kara flies along through the water beside Nita, looks over and nods at her suggestion of checking the ocean floor. If they could just find some life maybe she would feel better.

It's much easier to move through the water by flying, and as she does she notices that she doesn't even really feel well while she's glowing like this. Weird. ]