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

[littlecousin]

Maybe? They're shapeshifters, and I don't know if they revert when they're dead.

[She swims over to one of the bodies, her long ponytail streaming behind her in the water, and pokes at the dead flesh.

Nita, stop that.]

[imaginate]

[Kyle follows and scans it with the ring.] Shouldn't these be less intact?

[littlecousin]

Yeah. At this depth, usually everything converges on any biomass that sinks from the surface.

[Even if she weren't an environmental science major, that's the kind of thing Atlantean children learn about the way surface children learn about the water cycle in grade school science.]

[imaginate]

[Kyle 'hmms' in response as he examines some of the other bodies, and pauses as he comes to one in particular, eyes widening slightly in shock.] This one's human.

[littlecousin]

You're sure it's not just a kedan mimicking a human? ...Where did a human body come from?

[Not cool, turtletopia. Not cool.]

[imaginate]

No, it's definitely human. [He moves away from it slightly so she can take a better look.]

[littlecousin]

[Not that Nita is exactly an expert on humans, but that sure looks human to her.]

What is going on?

[imaginate]

[Kyle examines a few others near him.

Grimly:] There's more.

[littlecousin]

Maybe it's the remains of the people from the mainland?

[Nita didn't visit because ew, deserts.]

[imaginate]

I haven't been there. [He looks around.] These ones don't look like either human or kedan.

[littlecousin]

They're not Atlantean, either.

[She drifts a little closer to Kyle without thinking. The light is comforting.]

I seriously don't like this.

[imaginate]

Me neither. [He scans a few more. Hm.] How long do you think they've been dead?

[littlecousin]

On Earth? I'd say less than a day. Nothing dead stays intact on the bottom without magic. They'd all be eaten by now.

Here? Who knows?

[She shrugs.]

[imaginate]

[Well, there's only so much you can do with "ew creepy" here, he supposes.] Let's keep swimming, then?

[littlecousin]

Yeah. Not sure what else we'll find, though. The bottom of the ocean is usually barren, unless there's a seamount or a thermal vent or a trench.

[Anything--most things would be better than bodies. Nita falls in beside Kyle.]

[imaginate]

Funny. We should be seeing more of those.

[littlecousin]

Depends. There are huge chunks of the seafloor with nothing like that. Most of the ocean is about as interesting, scenery-wise, as the North Pole. About as hospitable, too.

[She's used to surface dwellers not knowing much about the ocean but coral reefs and days at the beach.]

[imaginate]

It's a little weird that there's nothing for miles: at home we've got a few underwater cities at least.

[littlecousin]

Think how far it is between towns in Kansas or, I don't know, Siberia. Now imagine an area three times as big. That's the ocean. We can't settle all of it, and we wouldn't want to. I mean, this [she gestures around them] is basically Siberia. My people don't like to live in the cold and the dark any more than surface dwellers do.

[imaginate]

[Hm good point.] Maybe if Aquaman shows up you two can compare notes about that.

[littlecousin]

["Aquaman." Who names you people.

...thinks the Sub-Mariner.]

Is he from your Atlantis?

[Surprisingly, no one has mentioned Aquaman to her. At all.]

[imaginate]

King of it, yeah.