Happy September, everyone! So much for August being slow! This might be the biggest update yet. This month hopefully everyone can relax and enjoy the dubious fruits of their efforts.
Event
The dreamscape is back in action for the course of the month. Characters can become even more involved with it this month.
As a quick reminder, the dreamscape is another layer of reality accessible through dreams. The dreamscape is a vivid, bright and surreal version of the planet that the planet dreams together. Characters have dream projections of themselves that can investigate and interact with the dreamscape. Here, the creatures of the ocean can be understood in human terms, no manmade structures exist and no harm can befall anyone or anything. Creatures will remember actions taken in the dreamscape by characters in the waking world. Please take a look at the original post on it here as well as the collected information in the player discovery document here which records many of the discoveries characters made last time and shared with one another.
In the last days of August and as September begins, characters will start to be submerged in the dreams again. By September 4 they will have reached a level of submersion that exceeds their last time in the dreamscape. This will affect several different aspects.
- Shaping: Characters can shape the world around them actively with much greater control and alter larger areas, but it depends on the memories. Faded memories mean faded areas while clearer memories mean perfect recreations.
- Sharing: Characters will be able to share memories as well as the dream objects they make. The dreamscape will encourage this by offering the powerful feeling of connection after such an experience. Animal and plants can also share dreams and memories though of course their experiences will be very different.
- Empathy: Purposefully or accidentally characters may share emotions either through telepathy or through the shaping of the dreamscape around them into the forms of their thoughts and feelings. The stronger empathic link of emotion and thought sharing can stretch into the waking world so telepathy may lead to oversharing.
- People: While characters can manifest people now, these will be more like ghosts acting out memories. As they deviate from memories, they will become more hazy and uncertain because they’ll require active concentration and the imagination of the dreamer.
The dream will attempt to communicate with the characters actively by sharing elements of itself with them. The characters may hear what the sea life calls 'the song sung deep below' (note: only vocal) while around areas showing the scarring of the dream that appears around manmade objects. It will show them a vision of coral, kelp, and other plants on or in the manmade structures in the 'real' world and the scars fading away. Characters who listen to this will find that over several days, their efforts are genuinely rewarded by the dream scarring fading and becoming less drastic.
The Void song (note: only vocal) may also be encountered in the dream. Echoes of it might be heard as characters interact with dreaming at player discretion. When this occurs characters will find their empathic or memory sharing turning towards the negative and harmful. Bad memories, thoughts and feelings will spread. Their own minds will turn the dreamscape against themselves and others and they will lose control of the experience as they fall into the nightmare. Singing the song sung deep below can force some of this back and give dreamers the opportunity to seize control and bring calm over the dreaming.
Space Invaders
The Rabites have invaded! They come from a faraway island, brought to Floater Island by the hurricane. Plenty of people have been to Floater Island since then, though, so the little critters stored away on various crew members and snuck onto the base.
And we do mean 'little'. An adult is only the size of a quarter while babies are even smaller. They breed fast, within only an hour, and they eat just about anything. They seem particularly fond of clothes though, whether they're being worn at the moment or not. These Rabites can devour an entire outfit in minutes. What does that all mean? Now you have tiny, adorable creatures eating all your clothes, sometimes more, before scattering and disappearing into all the nooks and crannies of the base.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get rid of them. But can you really bring yourself to kill something so cute? Even if it ate your favourite underwear?
There sure are a lot of updates this month! Holy shit. Some of the updates mentioned here, along with a few others, have been added to the Biome and Base posts. As mods we don't manage the player-run Subnautica discovery document but we encourage everyone to use the document for details that aren't included on the Biome and Base posts.
BASE & BIOMES
Two new biomes have been added to the biomes page! The Underwater Islands discovered this month have been added along with a permanent ‘biome’ for the Dreamscape with notes on that plane of reality. In the Dunes there are also some ruins from Glenwood Continent (Tales of Zestiria) that include an invisible bridge. Don’t bump into that!
Also the Monolith continues to flash blindingly bright lights of every color on the outside of the ship.
URSULA
Various efforts have done a great deal to help our AI. URSULA has been able to witness shared memories through a telepathic interface, receive psychoanalysis, been given a sense of taste for an excellent cooking contest, started wearing cute sweaters on he drones, played with rabbitrays, rode on an aquatic hoofbeast, played in a gaming tournament.
ANIMALS
The base now has more animals, including an Annoying Dog, a very handsome but totally normal dog, a cute spirit/shinigami called Ecchan, and an aquatic hoofbeast. Dogs on base now have cute sweaters. They often match those on URSULA’s drones.
A peaceful filter feeder called The Intestine has been found in the Dunes. Research was done on extracting silk from spider-like silk-spinners on Floater Island. Birddogs were found to respond positively to glowing trolls. Thanks to care from people on the base the Reefbacks continue to extend their protection and support to the crew and will rescue any they find in trouble. Food preferences of lizard horses and noodle swings have been discovered.
BASE
The kitchen and shower room hallway were repaired after the storm. Good work! The base also now has an entertainment room.
The rabbitray aquarium now has an extra level for playing in. They also were given Creepvines to play hide and seek with. Multiple private and personal rooms have been added to the base. As a note, the base page will be partly rehauled at the end of this month depending on actions players take to fulfil the month’s main mission.
BASE COMFORTS
URSULA has given everyone an extra blanket that has something they treasure sewn into it, whether it's an object, a person or a place. She'll do her best to make it something personalized and meaningful to keep them warm, the way they keep her warm. A big sign in the kitchen reads “THE CORAL STOPS HERE.” We also now have an anime club. The shower rooms contain an odd machine.
Some characters have taken to making clothing for each other. It’s great we now have an actual Fabricator to help with it! The base also has two different kinds of volleyball, one synthetic and one made of horrosloth hide. Experiments in bedding are underway as are missions to find cheese.
DRONES
The base drones are experiencing a problem where they may bother anyone who seems to be enjoying another's company, whether it's platonic or romantic. They won't be able to tell the difference. The drones can't be everywhere at once, of course, so they won't be able to interrupt every single time. Also they wear cute sweaters. Perimeter drones have been increased and are now equipped with rocket cannons.
COMMUNICATIONS
Several new modes have been added to the communicator. These are Meme Mode (spams 1950s videos and memes randomly) and Report Card Mode (gives a map, profiles of those you exchange names with, an egg-hatching and pet caring game, and in some cases virtual undergarments.)
The communicators can now also download Naoko’s Catsume (a game where you lure cats to your island,) Creepvine (an app for sharing short videos), Instaclam (an app for sharing images), and D.vision (a streaming program that allows subscriptions to different channels).
FOOD, FARMING AND HEALTH
Grapes and cacao beans can now be harvested from Mountain Island due to a farm planted there. This is called the Garden of Weedin’. The base farm now can harvest the supplies for green tea (dried in the old Earth fashion) and popcorn (also dried for easy popping). They can also now harvest red beans and strawberries. Plans for developing the farm to include areas for livestock (and animal racing?) are underway. Jelly shrooms were found to actually be a powerful antibiotic that would be useful in completely eliminating cell distorting diseases like viruses and abnormal cell division like cancer.
SALVAGE
Salvage last month includes but isn’t limited to a box of poker chips, a board game about the zombie apocalypse, an Etch-A-Sketch that still works, a full ping-pong set, a large case of unused glowsticks, a massive tub of legos, as well as an odd assortment of Christmas-themed clothes like sweaters and coats (tacky but comfortable), a few useful high pressure suits, a container filled with posters (of fine movies such as Titanic, Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, Interstellar, Europa Report, The Beast, Leviathan, and other similar fine works of cinema,) batteries, flashlights, fire extinguishers, and some fuel, two lisa frank hazmat suits
WEAPONS AND TRANSPORTATION
The base now has a weaponized sound cannon that can damage and disorientate a Reaper while causing it pain. More require finding diamonds. The base has also been equipped with extra stasis rifles and propulsion cannons. Several blueprints have been added to resources. There’s also this. We have five new jet skis that dive underwater and glide on the surface.
MONOLITH LIFEPODS
Now that the pods have been fixed, they can keep someone in a sleeping stasis for one year. After that, the pod will automatically awaken the person as past this point the body's condition becomes compromised.
Dreaming from there will always start them at the same place and mean returning to the same place. Even outside of normal times, characters using the pod can control their dreams from these pods up to the area of entire houses. As currently available during the dreamscrape, playing memories is possible as is rearranging them, slowing them down and so forth. People are still be difficult but doable. It will rely on the person's knowledge of them. So for example, Chara may know how Asriel would react perfectly but have trouble replicating Frisk. Consider it almost like an artificial intelligence. The dreamscape here is very welcoming.
KHARAA DEVELOPMENT
While this knowledge is not currently being shared around the base, we’d like to include it so that everyone is aware of the situation. Note that due to time mechanics, it will take approximately five more months before the Kharaa develop to this point. The information is here, here, here and here. In brief, over the next few months a crashed Kharaa ship will be found and rescued. They will repopulate an island, develop hosts and learn to rap and love apple juice. They also still love conquest.
KHARAA/WAR/ISHMAEL RESEARCH
Humanity has been confirmed as at war with the Kharaa, a parasitic-bacterial species that takes on a fungal or algae-like form and possesses host bodies. Humanity has been losing the war. This is why they chose Iniidae as a base to retreat to and hide from the Kharaa in but it also has potential as a weapon the Kharaa could use since it is a living planet. The AI ISHMAEL has been confirmed as composed of multiple nanites and capable of teleportation and taking on any shape required. He is programmed to protect humans from serious harm or death and eliminate threats to humanity.
The data log pastebin has been updated with all new recordings found and shared.
DISEASE RESEARCH
The disease that infected the base an odd combination of bacterial and fungal. Although not unheard of, it's something closer to a symbiotic relationship between the two that has evolved them both into something stronger. It targets the blood and lives mainly in the respiratory and digestive systems. Native lifeforms are not harmed by it, and about a week after introduction, anything she infected with seem healthier and stronger. Plants will grow more rapidly, fish will be more energetic and lively and so on. Appetite will increase for both. After about a week the effects will fade and they'll return to normal.
Blood samples show that all base members are also carrying the disease. Unlike with the ill crew members, it remains dormant. Blood samples from crew members who are ill will show very high white blood cell counts with the disease winning despite it. The disease in their cases seems to be turning parasitic compared to the people who aren't sick. The base has an antibiotic out of these findings. It will be very strong and unfortunately make the ill sicker before they get better a week later. It will satisfy the disease enough to cause it to go dormant in them rather than outright kill it.
Initial ideas have been floated to make a scanner for this microform.
TECHNIMAGIC RESEARCH
Water spells have a special affinity with material from Iniidae and affix to it more easily. No matter what scraps from the Aurora always result in fire spells. Table coral and fish armor/bones will act like water metals but the more powerful the creature or plant, the more powerful the spell.
Metals are incredibly susceptible to tampering. They can hold fragments of abilities assuming the person infusing the magic can use their abilities well and has a good idea of how they work. Material from magical hotspots themselves cannot be affixed with anything in particular but will carry the power behind the spell or magic within them like magical batteries.
VOID RESEARCH
An exploratory drone has shown that Cute Fish and threelargecreatures inhabit the Void. Two hours down is a writhing mass of Reaper Leviathans. They appear to be acting as a barrier and attack any manmade objects that come down. There is the roar of a much larger creature that devours Reaper Leviathans. This creature also spoke to Undyne when she attempted to swim to him: “You aren't even worth eating. None of you are worth it. If you wish to prove yourself to me, defeat what is before you first. You've already defeated one, so continue. Slaughter. That will be enough.”
Remember you're also free to explore and do whatever you wish and can ask us about your own mission objectives as well.
MAIN MISSION: HOME SWEET HOME
URSULA SAYS:"Annabeth has so many wonderful ideas! Her ideas for the base are incredible. I fully support all of her plans. However, I do understand what a massive undertaking this is... so I'm giving Annabeth full reign! She's the official Building Manager, your Architect, and for as long as the project takes, full resources are going to her. Please assist her in any way possible. I'm sure everyone would like the project completed soon. Then we'll be ready to tackle the island!"
REQUIREMENTS: First let us just say these designs are amazing because really we're so impressed. Bravo! And luckily, everyone can pitch in to help make it a reality! Annabeth is in charge of the project but of course everyone has unique an helpful ways they can help out. All that's required for this project is to help however your character can! Materials, moving, building, whatever is needed or requested. We'll have a special thread for how your character is contributing.
RESULTS: The base will finally have an actual structure to it, which really is a miracle.
SIDE MISSION: THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
URSULA SAYS: "Oh my! These creatures are so cute... What if I named them, "Rabites"? I like that name. Rabites. Oh! Yes, so I supposed we should... really do something about them, shouldn't we? They are a little troublesome. But they're so sweet... I'm sure everyone can think of a kind way to take care of them, right?"
REQUIREMENTS: Quite simple! Just get rid of them or get them under control. Keep a single one as a pet, eat them, kill them, throw them in the ocean, attempt to relocate them, whatever the solution, just do it before you have no clothes left at all!
RESULTS: The base is free of Tribbles Rabites. And so are your pants.
Mission: Dream Song Characters: Chara, Mikleo Details: THEY'RE GONNA CHAT UP VARIOUS WILDLIFE IN THE DREAMSCAPE AGAIN AND...also singing both the Song and Void Song at various species there to see how they react...
Also Mikleo is going to try uh. Dream forming a tiny replica of the angry horrorterror and the shadowy glimpse of the friendly one Dirk passed on to him, so he can show them to the sea life and ask the animals if they know anything about either creature. That seems sensible.
Mission: Dragon Dreams - The Sequel Characters: Korosensei, Nagisa, Ada/Eve, Chara, Chihiro, Zesties, ??? (basically whoever wants IT'S A BIG RISKY PARTY) Details: THEY'RE...GONNA PACK THEMSELVES OFF INTO THE DREAMSCAPE AND GO GALLIVANTING INTO THE VOID PERSONALLY...they'll try to be careful. This would be after Mikleo did his equivalent of waving horrorterror wanted posters around the ocean I guess.
Priority # 1 is going to be following the song sung deep below and making their way back to the friendly horrorterror and trying to communicate further with it! How are you trapped? What can we do for you? Why are you helping us? They'll see if sending empathy and friendly/curious feelings along to it will help with communications.
Priority # 2 (unless they get kicked out before then) is going to be heading Void Songwards to go yell at the angry horrorterror again and basically also try to understand it better and what it's trying to do, why it trapped dreamers, why is this world so messed up??, etc.
Priority # 3 which is more incidental would be chatting up any of those other giant non-Reaper Void denizens. They'd be pretty interested in finding the theoretically friendly one which followed the drone along but would also speak to any unknowns they happened across on the way.
Mikleo you're starting to join team bad ideas with Dave and is that really where you want to be?
> One interesting note is that the Void Song no longer only equals aggression. In the Dreamscape, it is also capable of bringing about misery, bad feelings, darker emotions and generally nothing good still comes of it. For fish this might mean thinking a Reaper Leviathan is going to attack them or a time when one of the crew members hunted them for food. Reefbacks might remember the loss of one of their family members. It can also induce nightmares so violent that force the creature to wake up.
> We note this works on crew members equally well.
> The replicas of the horrorterror and the more friendly one will be identified as the Dragon and the Emperor respectively. The Reefbacks will note the Emperor used to patrol the waters and protect them from the Dragon in exchange for food. The two species have been at war since as long as any of them can remember. But the Emperor vanished a lifetime ago and the Dragon retreated to the Void.
> The eldest Reefback will note they are the most in tune with the will of life, which they will clarify is the world (the planet in otherwords). Whatever it wants, they want.
Now, back to the Void!
> The empathy will help a lot! Unsurprisingly, although a very intelligent animal, it is very tired of being trapped and wary still of new visitors, so having a connection that soothes it will matter a lot. This time she'll be much clearer in her responses to questions or at least try to be.
> To answer the questions, she'll say the cave is too small for her to leave and too wide for her to break out of. Something trapped her here. She knows she is very deep down and that this path only exists 'here' in the Dreamscape. It's her reaching out for help. As for how to help, she just needs an opening. The reason she's helping is because she believes the planet needs allies. They're desperate. This is all she can think of to help.
> The Dragon, meanwhile, will be much less helpful. In fact, it will attempt to set them on fire by spewing lava and uplifting masses of sea bed at them. Of course they won't die but it would hurt quite a lot. It considers it a fair warning.
> The Cute Fish they stumble across are all babies and will not be terribly coherent. They mostly want to play with the visitors and will spend most of their time nuzzling at them or trying to tickle them with their tentacles.
> The friendly creature will apologize for not knowing they were here sooner. It doesn't believe they belong here, as only the strongest creatures live in the void. But since they insist on coming, it feels a motherly urge to protect them.
> It goes on to explain that the void is home to anything willing to attack on the dragon's command. While afraid of the dragon, it wouldn't attack them though. It recommends not hurting anything in the void if they can, even in self-defense, since it could end very badly for them.
> It also insists that you don't mind the Dragon too much. It's just a little cranky ever since it fell ill.
- Would the Reefbacks be able to clarify a little more on what the 'will of life' is and if that's different from the 'Dragon's will'? Or would they stay vague about it?
- Is the Emperor malevolent . . . I am sorry I have to ask this about so many things
- They'd ask it why the planet needs allies! I mean some of them would like to BE allies for sure but it would be good to know what's threatening so they can keep an eye out for it outside the Void as well.
- DOES FRIENDLY MAMAWHALE HAVE A NAME they're real cute! Also if Mikleo showed them an impression of the Dragon's malevolence would they recognize that as the illness affecting it or know if the illness is something else?
- Would Sorey and Mikleo be able to shoot the Dragon with a bolt of purifying power amidst all that fiery devastation? Would it have an effect on its malevolence? Like, it's straight up not damaging, it's just purification power. They're trying to turn the bad decisions into good ones :(
> The Emperor is currently somewhat malevolent. Not high amounts but probably enough to worry about the poor thing a little. Being trapped isn't doing it many favors.
> The planet needs allies, according to the Emperor, from both itself and the outside. The planet can't make decisions anymore. It will note some of the people among that have been marked with green earlier by the planet, so it probably trusts them to some extent.
> Mamawhale doesn't have a name as far as she knows but URSULA would call their species "Titania" which she thinks is her best name ever. Moving on, she would recognize it as the illness! She'll also worry and tell them not to get sick too.
> They would be able to! It would have a small effect in that it would stop the attacks for a moment in a daze. It's something at least!
Question! Dirk's been taking his Soul Train(ing) to heart. Would there be anything worth noting if he tried to get a sense of the souls of the different animals they encounter? I've been using the metaphor of kinds of energy (eg the energy of stop/go in a ticking clock, of rise/fall in beating wings, a vibrating neutral pulse, etc) if it helps at all.
We can't promise to be beautiful with it but we'll try! Please feel free to elaborate on these to make them prettier.
> The Emperor is ancient and deep, still and heavy. The crushing weight of water in the dark, lonely depths.
> Reefbacks are a song of generations. Every reefback that has ever been and ever will be singing a verse before passing it on, around and around forever.
> Cute Fish are chaotic, upbeat, hot currents under cool, calmly rolling waves.
> Titania, the mamawhale, is a rock breaking a river, still but worn and tired among all the other noise.
> The Dragon is fire, the energy of a volcano as it erupts and flows, destroying everything in its path simply because it does.
Question, since Chihiro's focus is going to mostly be along lines she previously understood...
Which in this case, means asking Mamawhale about when the Emperor fell sick, and if there is anything that Mamawhale knows about that may help with the Emperor's sickness. With the Dragon's malevolence being recognised as the same thing, she'd also ask if the Dragon has been sick too, or if they always felt that way.
Granted, at least with the Emperor, Chihiro would also want to ask it if there's any means of helping address its illness.
... Also, she'd ask Mamawhale if she'd like to be given a name. Or choose one to use with the crew! Names are important she says with absolute certainty of a ten year old who had her name taken away for a while.
> The Dragon fell ill within the pass hundred or so passes of the seasons, in this case meaning 100 years. She'll explain the species is very, very long lived and for the Dragon's life span, it hasn't been sick for long.
> She doesn't know anything that can help but she knows things that get sick usually don't get better. She doesn't know what that means for a creature like the Dragon though when it can live through so much.
> With the Emperor, it knows a very long time ago, there was something that thought it knew better about about the illness but the Emperor doesn't trust such things. She's very tired now.
> Mamawhale doesn't really understand but if the crew wants to name her, she won't mind. She understands it would be something only she would respond to. So if they want to name her, they're free to!
- Are the Cute Fish recognizably the same species as the Magister? If so, can they also be taught to fistbump?
- Is it possible to get near the Emperor at all, or is there blockage of some sort even in the dreamscape? Is it possible to scope out what's keeping her trapped physically or is it too dark and weird?
- Would a group concentrated effort to use their ability to shift the dreamscape environment to straight up MAKE an opening for her do anything?
> Yes they are! They can be taught to fistbump. Like the Magister, they are highly intelligent and able to adapt and learn rapidly. Any greetings or gestures given to them will be learned. They'll happily consider anyone who teaches them these things as family.
> Spikes of malevolence might deter anyone from getting close to the Emperor. The fact that it looks like a very large, empty area along with the spikes of malevolence might be a hint as to what is keeping her locked away.
> A concentrated group effort would be enough to give her more space but she'll explain as much as she wants to be free, she can't leave without her children. Despite saying that and insisting they're nearby, no signs of them will be uncovered.
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September Settles
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Space Invaders 
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Characters: Chara, Mikleo
Details: THEY'RE GONNA CHAT UP VARIOUS WILDLIFE IN THE DREAMSCAPE AGAIN AND...also singing both the Song and Void Song at various species there to see how they react...
Also Mikleo is going to try uh. Dream forming a tiny replica of the angry horrorterror and the shadowy glimpse of the friendly one Dirk passed on to him, so he can show them to the sea life and ask the animals if they know anything about either creature. That seems sensible.
Mission: Dragon Dreams - The Sequel
Characters: Korosensei, Nagisa, Ada/Eve, Chara, Chihiro, Zesties, ??? (basically whoever wants IT'S A BIG RISKY PARTY)
Details: THEY'RE...GONNA PACK THEMSELVES OFF INTO THE DREAMSCAPE AND GO GALLIVANTING INTO THE VOID PERSONALLY...they'll try to be careful. This would be after Mikleo did his equivalent of waving horrorterror wanted posters around the ocean I guess.
Priority # 1 is going to be following the song sung deep below and making their way back to the friendly horrorterror and trying to communicate further with it! How are you trapped? What can we do for you? Why are you helping us? They'll see if sending empathy and friendly/curious feelings along to it will help with communications.
Priority # 2 (unless they get kicked out before then) is going to be heading Void Songwards to go yell at the angry horrorterror again and basically also try to understand it better and what it's trying to do, why it trapped dreamers, why is this world so messed up??, etc.
Priority # 3 which is more incidental would be chatting up any of those other giant non-Reaper Void denizens. They'd be pretty interested in finding the theoretically friendly one which followed the drone along but would also speak to any unknowns they happened across on the way.
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> One interesting note is that the Void Song no longer only equals aggression. In the Dreamscape, it is also capable of bringing about misery, bad feelings, darker emotions and generally nothing good still comes of it. For fish this might mean thinking a Reaper Leviathan is going to attack them or a time when one of the crew members hunted them for food. Reefbacks might remember the loss of one of their family members. It can also induce nightmares so violent that force the creature to wake up.
> We note this works on crew members equally well.
> The replicas of the horrorterror and the more friendly one will be identified as the Dragon and the Emperor respectively. The Reefbacks will note the Emperor used to patrol the waters and protect them from the Dragon in exchange for food. The two species have been at war since as long as any of them can remember. But the Emperor vanished a lifetime ago and the Dragon retreated to the Void.
> The eldest Reefback will note they are the most in tune with the will of life, which they will clarify is the world (the planet in otherwords). Whatever it wants, they want.
Now, back to the Void!
> The empathy will help a lot! Unsurprisingly, although a very intelligent animal, it is very tired of being trapped and wary still of new visitors, so having a connection that soothes it will matter a lot. This time she'll be much clearer in her responses to questions or at least try to be.
> To answer the questions, she'll say the cave is too small for her to leave and too wide for her to break out of. Something trapped her here. She knows she is very deep down and that this path only exists 'here' in the Dreamscape. It's her reaching out for help. As for how to help, she just needs an opening. The reason she's helping is because she believes the planet needs allies. They're desperate. This is all she can think of to help.
> The Dragon, meanwhile, will be much less helpful. In fact, it will attempt to set them on fire by spewing lava and uplifting masses of sea bed at them. Of course they won't die but it would hurt quite a lot. It considers it a fair warning.
> The Cute Fish they stumble across are all babies and will not be terribly coherent. They mostly want to play with the visitors and will spend most of their time nuzzling at them or trying to tickle them with their tentacles.
> The friendly creature will apologize for not knowing they were here sooner. It doesn't believe they belong here, as only the strongest creatures live in the void. But since they insist on coming, it feels a motherly urge to protect them.
> It goes on to explain that the void is home to anything willing to attack on the dragon's command. While afraid of the dragon, it wouldn't attack them though. It recommends not hurting anything in the void if they can, even in self-defense, since it could end very badly for them.
> It also insists that you don't mind the Dragon too much. It's just a little cranky ever since it fell ill.
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A couple of followup questions:
- Would the Reefbacks be able to clarify a little more on what the 'will of life' is and if that's different from the 'Dragon's will'? Or would they stay vague about it?
- Is the Emperor malevolent . . . I am sorry I have to ask this about so many things
- They'd ask it why the planet needs allies! I mean some of them would like to BE allies for sure but it would be good to know what's threatening so they can keep an eye out for it outside the Void as well.
- DOES FRIENDLY MAMAWHALE HAVE A NAME they're real cute! Also if Mikleo showed them an impression of the Dragon's malevolence would they recognize that as the illness affecting it or know if the illness is something else?
- Would Sorey and Mikleo be able to shoot the Dragon with a bolt of purifying power amidst all that fiery devastation? Would it have an effect on its malevolence? Like, it's straight up not damaging, it's just purification power. They're trying to turn the bad decisions into good ones :(
POSSIBLY MORE QUESTIONS LATER wheeze
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> The Reefbacks believe it's one and the same.
> The Emperor is currently somewhat malevolent. Not high amounts but probably enough to worry about the poor thing a little. Being trapped isn't doing it many favors.
> The planet needs allies, according to the Emperor, from both itself and the outside. The planet can't make decisions anymore. It will note some of the people among that have been marked with green earlier by the planet, so it probably trusts them to some extent.
> Mamawhale doesn't have a name as far as she knows but URSULA would call their species "Titania" which she thinks is her best name ever. Moving on, she would recognize it as the illness! She'll also worry and tell them not to get sick too.
> They would be able to! It would have a small effect in that it would stop the attacks for a moment in a daze. It's something at least!
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> The Emperor is ancient and deep, still and heavy. The crushing weight of water in the dark, lonely depths.
> Reefbacks are a song of generations. Every reefback that has ever been and ever will be singing a verse before passing it on, around and around forever.
> Cute Fish are chaotic, upbeat, hot currents under cool, calmly rolling waves.
> Titania, the mamawhale, is a rock breaking a river, still but worn and tired among all the other noise.
> The Dragon is fire, the energy of a volcano as it erupts and flows, destroying everything in its path simply because it does.
> Let us know if there are others you need!
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Which in this case, means asking Mamawhale about when the Emperor fell sick, and if there is anything that Mamawhale knows about that may help with the Emperor's sickness. With the Dragon's malevolence being recognised as the same thing, she'd also ask if the Dragon has been sick too, or if they always felt that way.
Granted, at least with the Emperor, Chihiro would also want to ask it if there's any means of helping address its illness.
... Also, she'd ask Mamawhale if she'd like to be given a name. Or choose one to use with the crew! Names are important she says with absolute certainty
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> The Dragon fell ill within the pass hundred or so passes of the seasons, in this case meaning 100 years. She'll explain the species is very, very long lived and for the Dragon's life span, it hasn't been sick for long.
> She doesn't know anything that can help but she knows things that get sick usually don't get better. She doesn't know what that means for a creature like the Dragon though when it can live through so much.
> With the Emperor, it knows a very long time ago, there was something that thought it knew better about about the illness but the Emperor doesn't trust such things. She's very tired now.
> Mamawhale doesn't really understand but if the crew wants to name her, she won't mind. She understands it would be something only she would respond to. So if they want to name her, they're free to!
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I have to apologise because this is the result of a ten year old talking with another crewmate but yes!
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- Are the Cute Fish recognizably the same species as the Magister? If so, can they also be taught to fistbump?
- Is it possible to get near the Emperor at all, or is there blockage of some sort even in the dreamscape? Is it possible to scope out what's keeping her trapped physically or is it too dark and weird?
- Would a group concentrated effort to use their ability to shift the dreamscape environment to straight up MAKE an opening for her do anything?
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> Spikes of malevolence might deter anyone from getting close to the Emperor. The fact that it looks like a very large, empty area along with the spikes of malevolence might be a hint as to what is keeping her locked away.
> A concentrated group effort would be enough to give her more space but she'll explain as much as she wants to be free, she can't leave without her children. Despite saying that and insisting they're nearby, no signs of them will be uncovered.
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