Christmas is here at last! Tis the season for gift-giving and snow. Snow may be harder to come by, though, but good news! URSULA will be lowering the temperature of the base to 32°F (that would be 0°C) in the evenings to encourage a Christmasy atmosphere.
Reminder that, there will be no AC requirements in December though we will still ask that you check in and, if you can, tell us your activities! We still need to write this post for January after all!
Speaking of which, see you guys next year!
Dreaming of a White Christmas
Given the nature of the game and the very tropical weather involved, we can't exactly make it snow for Christmas. We know you must all be very disappointed. We're so sorry! But we can give you something falling from the sky for the holidays!
That is to say: A spaceship is crashing.
But not just any spaceship. This ship happens to be a Kharaa ship, drawn to the area by the Nostromo's distress beacon just as the Sunbeam was before it. Of course, their reasons were far less friendly than the Sunbeam's. But surely no one around here would trust a Kharaa?
Around noon on the 7th a pulse will ring through the planet. It will temporarily disable any unnatural abilities in crew members as well as life support systems. URSULA will be able to get life support back online within an hour, while powers will come back within a day. What powers and abilities are effected are entirely up to you! Perhaps all of your character's abilities will be disabled, or perhaps none at all. It can also last longer than a day, should it be something you wish to play around with. We leave this choice in players' hands.
The crashed ship will be identified as The Narcissus, which URSULA recognizes as a cargo ship that did military runs. Although her scanners indicate no survivors, she would like to try searching the wreckage anyway.
Naturally, that's where you come in. Check the main mission of the month and see what you can find for Christmas surprises!
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.
BIOMES
The Grand Reef has been explored and more spiritual hotspots have been found. A massive hotspot has been found further down this area that has yet to be explored.
A small base has been discovered below the lava vents. It's fairly small in size and it seems to have been used as a research lab. It has been abandoned but it seems as if someone else has recently paid a visit to it in search of something. It is unknown if they found whatever they were looking for.
BASE
A barn has been made on the base island. As of now, it is home to Zelda's Loftwing, but over time it possibly can be expanded if more pets who may not be comfortable living in an underwater base are introduced. That's completely up to the crew! Speaking of the base island, the construction on it is still currently ongoing. Inside the underwater base, the construction of Can Town has begun in the second floor observatory. Crew members are encouraged to help build it.
Some other new additions include cotton candy, more herbs and spices, and a lot of different types of metal that were leftover from Naoko's mission from November. A few other things like a pesticide that a previous crew from another ship used to create the Barren Reef and a mysterious serum that seems to have some connection to the Kharaa has been recovered, but there isn't much known about the latter.
TECH
The new submarine has been completed. This one can reach deeper depths than the other submersibles at the base. The Goggleos have also been created, which are a piece of virtual reality tech that will enable characters who were not able to see Mikleo to now, well, see him. Yay Meebo!
SUNBEAM
A few more exchanges have been made with the Sunbeam, the cargo ship that temporarily orbited the planet for a couple of weeks. They gave some information on ISHMAEL, the Kharaa, the Degasi, and the Nostromo. They also did a few supply drops that included food (both junk and healthy), entertainment such as movies, various equipment and scrap, and also a lot of chalk. They said that they will tell others about the crew being on the planet so that now, the base can expect semi-regular supply drops from ships who happen to be passing by in the area.
KHARAA
Dave Strider has finally informed the rest of the base of the Kharaa presence on Iniidae! If any crew members wish to meet these apparently friendly Kharaa, Dave wants them to speak to Rose Lalonde first so she can use her Seer powers in order to peek into the future to see if it's safe or not. It seems like, for some unknown reason, having a very large group visit the Kharaa may end badly.
According to the Sunbeam, there is a Kharaa ship flying near Iniidae. The crew of the Sunbeam said that the chances of those Kharaa landing on the planet are slim because it doesn't seem like the type of planet they'd be interested in. Let's hope for the best!
HORRORTERRORS
A few crew members have made more progress with the Emperor. They've discovered that the sickness she has is similar to the one that had infected the base, but far more advanced in form. Her antibodies have kept the disease controlled enough as to not kill her, but she's still suffering from it. Some of the crew has helped purify her which has helped somewhat! She also revealed that it was a strange people who had made her and the Dragon immortal. The people wanted to use them as experiments. They have since vanished or died off, and the Emperor has no other information on them.
MEMORIES
Some progress has been made regarding the crew's mysterious arrival to the planet and their altered memories! It has been discovered that buried deep within the crew members' subconscious are memories of drowning and experiencing electric jolts. Once these new memories are remembered, it will feel like the memory of drowning was there all the time and suddenly recalled, similar to when you suddenly remember something you wanted to say or something you were trying to recall earlier. The fake memories will feel more like a dream now, something that came about organically from their own minds. In order to gain these new memories, each crew member will have to go through the process in order to have them invoked. It will be fairly unpleasant!
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: SALVAGE THE NARCISSUS
URSULA SAYS:"How unfortunate... I believe last time we retrieved bodies from the Aurora and salvage as well? I suppose needs must. We should once again do what we can here and take whatever we need. I'm only grateful we managed to turn off that signal before anymore came! But why didn't they contact us?"
REQUIREMENTS: Pretty simple! Just explore the fragmented ship to your heart's content.
RESULTS: Salvage, goodies and surprises. If there's something in particular you want to find or do with this ship, let us make Christmas miracles happen for you on this ship of dreams! Just tell us what it is.
SIDE MISSION: RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
URSULA SAYS: "Perhaps with everything that's happened, it might be good to bring some holiday cheer to others! That's perfect. Everyone, please cheer up one random crew member."
REQUIREMENTS: Just like it says, bring some holiday cheer to others on the base by doing random acts of kindness. Spread the happiness! This can't possibly be awkward. Note that URSULA will help your character with any convenient issues needed. She can break the showers to help you fix them for kindness! Don't worry it totally still counts even if she helps.
RESULTS: URSULA will be happy and so will someone else probably?
Following the river northeast, they'll come across something huge at the end of a canyon. This massive structure is unlike anything else they've seen before. They'll be able to enter through a moonpool docking area. The insides are strange to say the least but they haven't been flooded, so it's safe to walk around in. The base appears to be in low power mode from the dim lighting.
Each area of this massive complex has an aquarium. They're empty currently. Other areas have rows of smaller tanks that are also empty. Several tanks can however be found occupied with these creatures however they don't appear to be alive. Or dead, for that matter. But they aren't moving.
Playing with strange terminals can get them to respond, though given the language barrier, it's hard to say what's going on... A video will play if they mess with it enough, showing an old friend outside, tearing into the facility from the canyon walls until it comes to rest how it is now.
Oh my goodness this is wonderful, thank you so much! This is great, it'll give the exploration crew a lot to work with. That said, one more round of questions from some of the members coming on the expedition.
1.) Is it possible to move the tanks and if so, could they bring back one of the tanks to the base for URSULA to check out/Dirk to study its soul? Percy would mostly be interested in trying to get it to respond.
2.) What kind of architecture is around this abandoned place? Are there any plans Annabeth could hijack and bring back to the underwater/island base?
3.) Sorey and Mikleo would like to explore the ruins of this base! Would they find anything of particular interest? Also, is there malevolence and/or foreign bacteria contamination that would be scanned for?
4.) Is there anything Dirk or Annabeth could get off of the computers to bring back to the base for Ami to check out? Annabeth will be bringing her magical canon laptop (the Daedalus laptop she received upon entry in-game) to hook up to the terminal to see if it works or not to find more information.
5.) Dave is going to be Dave and look for secret passages. Would they find anything or is the base just what it seems?
Otherwise our current crew is just made up of a bunch of OP magic users so we will try not to destroy anything probably. Thank you again!
We wonder why this month is the month of "we promise to try not to explode it"...
> It is possible to remove the tanks and take them back! Is that really wise, though? Well, we'll see. URSULA will mention she's seen them before on occasion but they always stayed away from the base, so she wasn't sure what they were. At the moment it seems to have no soul. But that doesn't mean it was always this way. Investigating the creature further will reveal it's... missing some parts. Like the brain. How can this be discovered? It wasn't put together well, so it might fall apart with too much poking. It's completely organic, too, not machine, so be careful with it.
> The architecture is completelyalien in nature. Rather than stairs, it has ramps. At least it's accessible. Angular corners compromise much of the structure and beams hang down at odd places. The designs all over the place do seem to have some meaning, given that only a few patterns are 'generic' (like the ones on the floors) while the rest on the walls and pillars have their own unique look.
> Our lovely little ruin friends! There is a very fun area to be found that leads between the floors of the center. This elevator like shaft is still in working order, which is good because there's not actually an elevator. Stepping in, however, will suddenly put the pair in Zero G, where they can easily bounce off the walls to any floor they like. As for bacteria, in the aquariums, they'll find traces of not only the jelly shroom disease but a more advanced version as well matching the one the Sea Dragon has.
> They will be able to bring home a great deal of information! While it's all in an alien language, Ami's abilities will be able to translate it to something more or less understandable. The gist seems to be that the facility was a disease research center. They call the disease 'Carar'. Unfortunately, the lifeform in containment unit seven broke free and destroyed much of the facility in rage. After that, a quarantine and destruction program was activated. According to the data, this happened over 1,000 years ago.
> Oh Dave. Sure, why not. There's a secret passage in one of the control rooms that leads to a special storage chamber with... gasp, crystals inside! These crystals are ion crystals. Very precious and rare material that can power anything. Just be careful not to wind up trapped. The door blends into the wall very well.
This is fabulous, thank you very much! I really appreciate everything and all of this information to disperse to the other players.
(And just to confirm, these crystals wouldn't happen to be the same as the ones Percy and Annabeth found small versions of in the Kelp Forest, right? "While searching the kelp forests, they will find an extremely rocky area. A lot of different species of fish hide within the rocks, including some of the larger predators, so they should make sure to be careful.
> On closer inspection of the rocks, they'll notice that it's actually made of a different type of mineral than the usual undersea rocks they'll find. It's a lot like diamonds in many ways, only darker in color. Very small crystals about the size of a thumb nail can be spotted around the rocks as well. The sea animals will react hostilely if they attempt to take any of those. If Percy tries to talk to them, they will more or less tell him to mind his own business.")
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Following the river northeast, they'll come across something huge at the end of a canyon. This massive structure is unlike anything else they've seen before. They'll be able to enter through a moonpool docking area. The insides are strange to say the least but they haven't been flooded, so it's safe to walk around in. The base appears to be in low power mode from the dim lighting.
Each area of this massive complex has an aquarium. They're empty currently. Other areas have rows of smaller tanks that are also empty. Several tanks can however be found occupied with these creatures however they don't appear to be alive. Or dead, for that matter. But they aren't moving.
Playing with strange terminals can get them to respond, though given the language barrier, it's hard to say what's going on... A video will play if they mess with it enough, showing an old friend outside, tearing into the facility from the canyon walls until it comes to rest how it is now.
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1.) Is it possible to move the tanks and if so, could they bring back one of the tanks to the base for URSULA to check out/Dirk to study its soul? Percy would mostly be interested in trying to get it to respond.
2.) What kind of architecture is around this abandoned place? Are there any plans Annabeth could hijack and bring back to the underwater/island base?
3.) Sorey and Mikleo would like to explore the ruins of this base! Would they find anything of particular interest? Also, is there malevolence and/or foreign bacteria contamination that would be scanned for?
4.) Is there anything Dirk or Annabeth could get off of the computers to bring back to the base for Ami to check out? Annabeth will be bringing her magical canon laptop (the Daedalus laptop she received upon entry in-game) to hook up to the terminal to see if it works or not to find more information.
5.) Dave is going to be Dave and look for secret passages. Would they find anything or is the base just what it seems?
Otherwise our current crew is just made up of a bunch of OP magic users so we will try not to destroy anything probably. Thank you again!
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> It is possible to remove the tanks and take them back! Is that really wise, though? Well, we'll see. URSULA will mention she's seen them before on occasion but they always stayed away from the base, so she wasn't sure what they were. At the moment it seems to have no soul. But that doesn't mean it was always this way. Investigating the creature further will reveal it's... missing some parts. Like the brain. How can this be discovered? It wasn't put together well, so it might fall apart with too much poking. It's completely organic, too, not machine, so be careful with it.
> The architecture is completely alien in nature. Rather than stairs, it has ramps. At least it's accessible. Angular corners compromise much of the structure and beams hang down at odd places. The designs all over the place do seem to have some meaning, given that only a few patterns are 'generic' (like the ones on the floors) while the rest on the walls and pillars have their own unique look.
> Our lovely little ruin friends! There is a very fun area to be found that leads between the floors of the center. This elevator like shaft is still in working order, which is good because there's not actually an elevator. Stepping in, however, will suddenly put the pair in Zero G, where they can easily bounce off the walls to any floor they like. As for bacteria, in the aquariums, they'll find traces of not only the jelly shroom disease but a more advanced version as well matching the one the Sea Dragon has.
> They will be able to bring home a great deal of information! While it's all in an alien language, Ami's abilities will be able to translate it to something more or less understandable. The gist seems to be that the facility was a disease research center. They call the disease 'Carar'. Unfortunately, the lifeform in containment unit seven broke free and destroyed much of the facility in rage. After that, a quarantine and destruction program was activated. According to the data, this happened over 1,000 years ago.
> Oh Dave. Sure, why not. There's a secret passage in one of the control rooms that leads to a special storage chamber with... gasp, crystals inside! These crystals are ion crystals. Very precious and rare material that can power anything. Just be careful not to wind up trapped. The door blends into the wall very well.
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(And just to confirm, these crystals wouldn't happen to be the same as the ones Percy and Annabeth found small versions of in the Kelp Forest, right? "While searching the kelp forests, they will find an extremely rocky area. A lot of different species of fish hide within the rocks, including some of the larger predators, so they should make sure to be careful.
> On closer inspection of the rocks, they'll notice that it's actually made of a different type of mineral than the usual undersea rocks they'll find. It's a lot like diamonds in many ways, only darker in color. Very small crystals about the size of a thumb nail can be spotted around the rocks as well. The sea animals will react hostilely if they attempt to take any of those. If Percy tries to talk to them, they will more or less tell him to mind his own business.")
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And they just might be! There's at least one alien discovery in each biome to find. This species certainly left behind a lot of stuff to be found.
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