OCTOBER OOC POST

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Spooky Scary Skeletons

Happy October, everyone! We hope you enjoy all the Halloween candy you can get! This month we offer both tricks and treats for characters.

First, though, we would like player input on a matter. We want to propose raising the current player cap from 50 to 55. It's a very small raise but it would be the most we as a mod team can handle while still giving some extra room for players to come and go. We feel this is a good compromise between raising the cap by a larger amount and staying where we're at while allowing room for growth. This would be the only proposed raise with the current set-up of the mod team. As always we would bring any further changes to the players first.

We will gauge the response and make our decision in time for the TDM on the 15th.

October 15th: Test Dive Meme

Nightmare on Base Street

From October 1st to October 12th, the Sea Dragon will command the Dreamscape. With the sickness progressing, it turns to lashing out against the crew with new and terrifying nightmares. These nightmares have been drawn from the crew themselves by honing in the fears that they almost all have. The selected fears are:

• Helplessness; Can include metaphorical or literal helplessness
• Isolation; Can include betrayal and abandonment and projected feelings of such on other characters
• Loss of Self; Can include body horror, loss of control and loss of identity

In addition to these broader fears waiting to be put to creative use, several specific dreams will plague all crew members. These were again selected from the results of our innocent question and taken from specific characters. They are:

• Characters slowly morphing into something dragon-like, yet not; there are too many tentacles and mouths and eyes and strange parts to be a dragon. It's something stranger. Something that can't be understood by anyone.
• A pack of tiny, yipping dogs chasing you everywhere.
• A loved one or multiple loved ones, twisted and mangled with their body parts not quite where they should be, asking why the character did this to them and haunting them.
• An unsolvable metal ring puzzle with high stakes. The stakes of solving the puzzle are up to you and can be anything you want.
• A grotesque beast, morphing between something like a wolf, a spider and a human, made of oozing darkness, appearing and disappearing out of nowhere. Its attacks come fast, aiming for pain, but it always vanishes before it can be fought.

Scary, huh? But don't worry. Sorey and Mikleo will be dream-battling the Sea Dragon to make dreaming a safe place again. At what cost though will their victory come? Whatever the cost, they'll secure sleep for crew members by the 12th. Characters are encouraged to try missions to work out how to control or fight back the nightmares in the meantime! These methods will definitely be welcome in helping the crew get some rest and ensuring future nightmares are tameable.

Updates!

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.

BIOMES
An island that has been dubbed Amity Island has been discovered! It is pretty far away from the base, and is home to an extremely large spaceship crash. The body of ISHMAEL's programmer, Mimi Yun, had been found there. Another island, which is also fairly far away, has also been located. It is populated by animals like Land Sharks, Candy Beaks, and Fruit Flyers. Both islands are generally small in size and aren't diverse enough to be considered their own biome.

URSULA
Great news, everyone! URSULA has chosen a robotic body out of all the ones that were suggested. It has not been constructed yet but she will very likely excitedly tell people about it.

BASE
Construction on the base has been going well! The crew has terraformed an island that is now situated over the base. The island has fresh water lakes, but otherwise is still fairly barren. Redesigning the base itself is still an ongoing project. If anyone has ideas for new rooms to be added, please make sure to speak to Annabeth so it can be added to her floor plans of the base! The Magister's tank is also being expanded so he can travel throughout the whole base, although this project is still only in the beginning stages.

A baby Land Shark, named Rhodey, now calls the base his home. Also, there is now a woman's hand in a jar in the library. You know, for the kids.

DREAMSCAPE
The crew has experimented with the new functions of the Dreamscape! Using the Song, some of the dark spots have been healed. There has also been a spot deep within the Shroom Caves that shows a manmade structure. This structure still needs to be investigated in the waking world.

FOOD, FARMING AND HEALTH
The base now has more canned goods that should last them several months! It consists of food items such as beans, spaghetti, corn, tiny sausages, tea, and condiments. There is also a year supply of Chef Boyardee. There is also a supply of alcohol called Snake Skin, which is 60% alcohol by volume.

The farm now has two more robotic helpers: Rainbro Dash, who asks as a second guard, and Robot Santa, who weeds the farm.

WEAPONS, TECH AND TRANSPORTATION
The base is now guarded by an unspecified amount of weaponized drowns! There are a lot of them, and they are located both inside and outside the base, as well as at the island. The submarines also now have a net attachment that will hopefully make collecting items easier. Headphones have been constructed that play the Song, making it easier to control the Dreamscape.

THE VOID AND HORRORTERRORS
The evil horrorterror has been identified as the Dragon and the friendlier one is known as the Emperor. While the Dragon lives in the Void, the Emperor is trapped inside a cave and has no way out. All she needs is some sort of opening so she can break free and help the planet. More details can be found here.

After a dive into the Void, the Dragon has given the crew an egg. What is inside the egg is still unknown. Hopefully it's not another evil horrorterror.

RABITES
The rabites have been removed via a number of different methods that include relocation, neutering, and extermination. A couple may still be seen around the base, but their numbers shouldn't increase as wildly as they did as long as the crew continues to keep an eye out for them. Nice job!

Monthly Missions!

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: ISLE OF THE GODS

• URSULA SAYS:"Now that the base has been reconstructed and the island is mostly done, we can finish it off. So please follow Annabeth and Korra's instructions for getting the rest of the island set up, building the towers and other defenses and smoothing out any remaining areas with the terraforming guns. Of course, you're free to have fun while you do! Just make sure this gets done please. ...Did I do all right, Reyna?"
• REQUIREMENTS: Just what it sounds like! The island needs the towers built and the farm taken care of while if there are any further additions wanted, you know what to do!
• RESULTS: We get to have a nice, finished island. A real island just for the crew, giving more land for everyone to stretch their legs.

SIDE MISSION: HALLOWEENTOWN

• URSULA SAYS: "I'm sure everyone saw what Dave proposed, yes? A Halloween party! Just the idea is so exciting that I have to support it. Please make the base as festive as you can! And what about trick-or-treating? And costumes! Bobbing for apples? I'll find spooky music to play."
• REQUIREMENTS: Really have fun and go wild. Spray spiderwebs everywhere! Carve the billions of pumpkins we have! Dress up all month and watch horror movies. Even have a Devil's Night if you want and TP someone's room! URSULA feels all additions to Halloween fun are good additions.
• RESULTS: A spoopy base for Halloween fun!

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MISSION ACCEPTANCES

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[voicelog]

Mission: Isle of the Gods
Characters: Tony Stark and the rest of the crew
Details: He's already helping Annabeth with the construction of the base and he's willing to extend the offer to the towers on the island. More focal, he's busy working on completing a filtration system / decontamination chamber.

Mission: Journey into Mountain Island and beyond!
Characters: Tony Stark and Steve Rogers
Details: I don't know. They're just going to explore and get into dangerous situations, and a ton of trouble for a few days. It'll probably happen after the 12th because they'll need a breath of fresh air after the nightmare fiasco. :')

[lefthandfree]

Mission: Halloweentown
Characters: Bucky Barnes and whoever else.
Details: Look, he’s chaperoning. Fun is fun, but let’s not trash the base. Also he’ll probably (re-)introduce the game of Snap-dragon because it was a childhood fave of his. He’s a good adult, I promise. Oh yeah, he’ll also be carving way too many pumpkins and just leaving them in obscure places because he doesn’t want to keep them, but he’s good with a knife so why not.

Mission: The Hunt For Great Space Cow, et al.
Characters: Bucky, goin solo
Details: There is no feasible dairy substitute which is a huge tragedy because all these kiddos need calcium to grow up big and strong!! Bucky is going to explore the various (above water) islands over the course of the month (on-and-off) to try and find a good source of milk. Or whatever else he manages to find. He’ll also be attempting to catalogue any plants and animals he encounters for there to be a more rigid encyclopedia of locale flora and fauna on the land islands since that’d probably be helpful for people to have in general anyway.

Mission: Scrap Scavenging
Characters: Bucky and Tony Stark
Details: In order to gather parts to build Bucky’s eventual new arm, the two of them are going to be exploring and scavenging the Monolith for spare scrap and electronics that can be salvaged for use without taking to much away from the overall structure or setup (which Tony would be better versed in, so Bucky is just going to take his word for it). It’ll likely be a few trips over the course of a few days since they can’t carry all of it back all at once. Not all of it would likely fit well in the cargo bins Peter installed on the jet skis.

(last one, sorry!)
Mission: Shut Up And Fight Me!!!
Characters: Bucky Buckerton
Details: Bucky wants to make his fighting/combat facility thing but without needing permission from anyone to make it. I don’t really know what would be the best place for him to do that (probably on the island at least at this point), but he’d build his own shack if he needs to to get it. He doesn’t believe in zoning laws, but he’s respectful enough to put it a good distance away from other people’s anything, for whatever that’s worth. :’)

and if it helps you can reply to each separately as a different comment. sorry for the mission spam OTL

[superseding]

Mission: IC abilities list
Characters: Hotaru, anyone who'll answer her
Details: It was a while back... a long while back I'm so sorry, but back when Mikleo first encountered the Sea Dragon, they had some discussion about surveying the base for people's skills and abilities, so if people wanted to offer or ask for help, it'd be organized and easier to access for everyone.

Hotaru will ask people in person/over the communicator, but she'll also ask URSULA if there isn't some kind of like digital form/survey system or program in her database that she could use, too. (She wants something like Google Sheets and Forms, but she's from the early 1990s so she has no clue??) If there isn't anything like that, Hotaru will ask someone more tech savvy to help her with programming it (since she'd also like it to be accessible via the portable database/communicator), but she'd ask URSULA first (and she'll disclose why she wants it).

She will totally give all of this info to Reyna.

[sparrowfeather]

Mission: Halloweentown
Characters: EVERYONE... !!!
Details: I don't have deets, Rose is just super enthusiastic about Halloween since it will be her first time experiencing anything like that! She'll be dressing up as a... princess knight. Like a certain someone. She might add feather earrings just for fun. Anyway, expect to see Rose helping out with whatever she can and just... making everything look as gaudy as possible.

[forsage]

Mission: Purrfect Arrangements
Characters: Roderic + Daisy the dog and whoever else.
Details: He wants to make several cat beds for the cats! He knows it's impossible to make +100 but he wants to try to make many as possible to keep them comfortable, darn it. He also wants to make them some cat toys to keep them entertained. Daisy, for her part, is going to be a mother to the cats she took them and make sure they stay in line and behave.

Mission: No More Explosions Please
Characters: Roderic and whoever else.
Details: He'll be continuing on with his work of trying to get the shield generator he's been tinkering with for the last month to work. Long story short it uses magical energy instead of electricity or normal energy so there's no concern of electrocution when fixing or updating it. If something attempts to attack using electrical energy or force, it'll absorb and redirect energy at the attacker because that's what you get. He just wants to get it jumpstarted on electricity to see if it really works here before he looks for someone magical to fuel it but… he needs it to work first… It's ended up exploding on him in the past.

Mission: A Talking Dog?!
Characters: Roderic, Daisy the dog, and whoever else interested.
Details: Roderic realises that maybe he can try to find Daisy in the dreamscape and communicate with her. While he doesn't want to sleep that much, he will be taking a few power naps here and there to stay functional and might as well be productive and look for his dog if she's sleeping at the same time too, hoping to have a conversation with her of any sort and learn what she knows. Does she knows she's a good girl? Does she need anything he didn't pick up on? He needs to know.

[fistallday]

Mission: Isle of the Gods
Characters: Dori
Details: He's big. And strong. And good at lifting things. Why not.

[armoured]

Mission: Isle of the Gods
Characters: Alphonse Elric and anyone
Details: Al will be using alchemy to help fix up the island and do anything he can to make it habitable and functional.

[expulsions]

Mission: Isle of the Gods
Characters: Percy and whoever
Details: Percy will be working on the island base because Annabeth probably won't let him avoid it. His focus will be to explore the ocean depths for materials that can be used to solidify the towers and buildings on the islands.

Mission: Halloweentown
Characters: Percy and whoever
Details: Percy will be working on designing a Halloween funhouse for the base in honor of the holiday spirit. He'll also probably be helping with decorations, etc.

Mission: Fish army
Characters: Percy
Details: Percy will also be interested in exploring the Dreamscape himself and communicating with some of the sea life there about defenses for the Dreamscape, especially after the sea dragon attack.

[potentite]

Mission: Blue Lanterns
Characters: Jake English
Details: So basically since the dreamscape is actually really great for helping jake's powers, i wanted him to try a couple of things to help combat nightmares! basically his power runs on potential and providing/giving 'hope' which in this case means the power of belief, many possibilities and making things happen. so with that in mind just a couple of things real quick he'll try!

- Provide with hope: Basically just what it sounds like, he'll create a sort of bubble of feathery hope to protect them from things on the dreamscape for a short period of time.
- Create hope projections: Things or people that can fight for him (and those he wants to protect) on the dreamscape.
- Imbue with potential/hope: This one is more like temporarily giving someone one of the above abilities so they can use it while he's sleeping/dead/whatever. Like a one time use hope bubble or projection.

[splinten]

Mission: HUGGABLE AI OVERLORDER
Characters: Dirk Strider, Hajime Hinata, Mettaton on hug duty, I think Tony and Peter, OTHERS? Lots of people are helping to build our cute AI overlord a hugbot.
Details: URSULA has requested a body that makes cute emoji faces and combines this and this.

Dirk & Co will be working hard to ensure her dreams won't be dreams! For the last month they've been developing all the tech they need to make sure she has the right kind of sensory development. Aside from sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch/thermoception, Dirk has also been very careful with the proprioception so that while there's a sense of embodiment, it won't be overwhelming. He's programmed it so URSULA can alter that if she wants to more fully identify herself with that body, but for now he's made sure that it's balanced out by programming a sense of her existence that isn't limited to the body. He doesn't want to hurt his AI pal!

Other notes is they're making sure that she'll be very huggable! (Mettaton is helping with this.) He'll take advantage of some soft-robotics tech to ensure that the limbs can be used for cuddly warm hugs (temperature controlled of course). He has adjusted all the controls on the body so that URSULA has full autonomy, although she'll hit warnings if she goes to points that he feels might be unsafe for her robopsychologically.

The whole thing has also been designed to be fairly open-ended, so it would be easy to come back to it and modify it with extra elements if they need to.

EDIT: ALSO HE'S PROBABLY GOING TO ASK PEOPLE TO COME UP WITH A FEW OUTFITS FOR URSULA TO START OFF IF SHE WANTS THEM....

[heroina]

Mission: ~THE REEF OF THE DEAD~ idk it's a spooky mission title for a spooky month
Characters: Reyna and Percy, idk maybe others?? shrugs
Details: They are going to check out the sparse reef that URSULA mentioned to Reyna here and see what's up with that. Try to figure out why there's nothing living there, if it could be habitable, etc etc

[imsorey]

Mission: Searching for the Emperor's children
Characters: Sorey & the dreamscape investigation crew, and whoever else wants in!
Details: The dreamscape crew is doing a bit of follow-up on the info they gathered from last month! The Emperor said that she wouldn't leave the cave without her children, and since they didn't actually see any children nearby in the dreamscape they're going to take a look in the same spot while they're awake. They'll also ask the local (friendly) sealife if they've seen any of the Emperor's children around to try and get some clues, in the dreamscape and while awake.

Timelines are still up in the air so this may happen before or after Dragon shenanigans; if that changes anything at all I can pick a vague date for them to look into things.

[intranslatability]

Mission: The Dusty Recesses
Characters: Eve!
Details: While Eve is in the dreamscape hiding and Ada is freaking out over the whole thing, Eve will be exploring the Dreamscape to the best of her abilities without realising the dangers of it and communicate with anything that looks/acts friendly to her. Speak with them, try to share stories, go wherever that looks interesting/alluring. If she ends up getting injured or anything of the sort because of these choices then that's fine with me because honestly Eve this is not one of your better choices in life.

[onethousen]

Mission: Halloweentown
Characters: Chihiro!
Details: She's been working on re-planting and feeding the Clam Farm at the base and harvesting "honey pearls" (she won't stop calling them that, I'm sorry). A portion of these she'll start setting aside to use for the end of October, when she'll melt them down in freshwater and find string or sticks to basically make rock candy for everyone. For the candy exchange.

She'll also be running a candy exchange where she'll make sure everyone on base gets at least Some Candy, and everyone else is given candy to give out to people or hoard on their own, whatever their hearts desire. So anyone willing to donate to that is welcome! #howdoeshalloweenworkanyway

[voidkatini]

Mission: Attack on the Zoologically Dubious
Characters: Roxy Lalonde
Details: Fed up with the horrorterrors, Roxy decides to take matters into her own hands. She's going to go the Rogue of Void version of Super Saiyan on the Void, attempt to "steal" it by using herself as a sponge, and take it off planet and idk straight into the sun or something badass like that. Or just keep it bottled up inside her until everything passes and they can sleep normal again. She's never attempted to take something of this magnitude before, and she knows there's the very strong possibility of not coming back from it, and she's okay with that. She's also aware it won't work at all, and she's okay with that, too. But she refuses to do nothing while the Dragon terrorizes them, and she knows her connection to the Void makes her a prime candidate for this kinda really stupid lalondey suicide mission garbage.

[napstablook]

Mission: Fish Farm!
Characters: Napstablook and everyone here
Details: Napstablook wants to build a farm for Peepers, Rabbitrays, and the fish that live inside the anemones (so the anemones too). It should be big enough to hold enough peepers to supply the base with an adequate food source even if things get scarce outside and for rabbitrays to play. The farm should be essentially reinforced glass with meshed vents to stop the fish getting out but to let currents in - as well as coral and other flora for added filtration. It should have a tunnel leading to the base and to the existing farm, as well as a little sad and droopy house for Napstablook to live in.

[hopefragment]

Mission: SHSL Brain Fuckery
Characters: Hinata, Dirk, Komaeda
Details: While it's probably a terrible idea, Hinata wants to test putting someone (himself) under heavy enough sedation that it would be impossible for him to enter REM sleep. He wants to see if people would be able to sleep and rest their bodies without entering the dreamscape, if it won't exactly rest their minds as much. He'll have Dirk and Komaeda standing by to monitor him so he doesn't like... die or anything... but hey maybe he can get trapped in the dreamscape all Inception-style or something irdk.

[stillyou]

Mission: Nightmare on Base Street
Characters: Frisk
Details: Frisk is going to try to combat the nightmares in a nonviolent way. They're going to start by handling the dog stampede the same way they'd handle dogs in the Underground: dodging and petting them, until all have received so many pets. If this is helpful, they may move on to other nightmare types.

[onethousen]

Mission: Facing Fears
Characters: Chihiro
Details: She's going to be playing stubborn chase scenes with the shadow-monster nightmare, since her own tendencies are such that she won't want to be provoked into fighting, no matter how scary the forms it takes on. Partly because she'd be taking it as facing her own helplessness sort of scenario, and that means not lashing out, but doggedly... pursuing...

... Anyway, in process of doing that, she will look to ask any of the species she runs into in the dreamscape if they've seen the same entity/advice on how to handle this. If none of them have any idea, she'll be thinking about that, too; considering placement of the base, she'll likely go looking to talk to the reefbacks, the stalkers, and if she can make it way... way... out there again, to Mamori-san. (She doesn't have to be able to make it to any of these places, as a note! That's just her intentions.)

I'm not even sure if this makes sense, waves hands around??!

[inject]

Mission: The Effects of the Song
Characters: Valentine, a group of volunteers. If no volunteers appear, she will use herself.
Details: Over the next few days, Valentine wants to monitor the effects of the Song on the severity of the nightmares during sleep. She'd like to have hard data on how it wears off over time, or on ways to make it more useful.

[trainees]

Mission: Baby Land Shark Update
Characters: Peter, Rhodey the baby land shark, Reyna and Rin (??), possibly URSULA and others
Details: So this is mostly for me wondering how Rhodey would get along with the other sea life in and around the base (like the Magister, for example). Would he get along with them? Try to eat them? Can they be friends or are they fated to be enemies??

Also, some more details below:

- the first thing Peter will try to do is teach him the Song, because even if Rhodey may not be affected by the nightmares it's still a good thing to have just in case (can land sharks even sing?? who knows).
- Peter leaves most of the actual training to Reyna because she's technically the mom, but he will try to give Rhodey his own brand of training, which is generally play-wrestling, playing tag, and going over what's dangerous or not
- Peter is small, so he relies mostly on speed/agility and escaping rather than outright fighting, and since Rhodey is still small for now, he'll try to pass that onto Rhodey if he can.
- If Rhodey isn't with Reyna or Rin, Peter takes him along with him to the tech and bio labs. If he's not in any of those places, he'll be with Tony in his mancave.
- Peter tends to ramble at Rhodey a lot, especially when he is sleep deprived. So basically for the entire duration of nightmare hell week. This also applies when he's sleeping.
- They'll also try to take Rhodey out to the island for a walk/swim around the base to see how he likes it. They're still trying to figure out the best way to socialize him?? Peter might try to ask URSULA about it
- When Rhodey misbehaves, they'll all call him by his full name which is Rhodey War Machine (i'm sorry).
- He's been slowly introducing Rhodey to others on the base and encourages him to make friends with them if he likes.
- Rin races Rhodey all the time and surfs with him

tl;dr they're Trying.

[mistimed]

this is probably the stupidest idea i've ever had

Mission: BWONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG
Characters: Horō + anyone who gets caught up in this damn mess.
Details: The loss-of-identity nightmares have been ripping Horō a new one psychologically. My idea here is that the repeated barrage of feeling like a useless, empty shell is starting to take its toll, and maybe in the dreamscape some of Horō's base programming is starting to wake up. The nightmare apparitions are starting to look more like people she knew 1000+ years ago, her sense of purpose is blasted down to bare instinct, etc. Basically, her memories are starting to come back because her sense of self is so worn down. Obviously she can't actually use her gamebreaking timeskip or soul-devouring powers, but...the muscle memory might be there when she's asleep and she might recognize that these are things she Used to Do.

Once the void + nightmares return after Roxy's dangerous stunt, Horō's going to...chase the nightmare wolf/man beast the next time it tries to run from her. Because she is stupid, so stupid, and because it's instinct to chase after the monster that can't be stopped. So she's going to subconsciously try to skip forward in time to chase the monster. Since it's the dreamscape and everything's way cooler and different in dreams, I figured this might have some consequences, even if she can't actually skip forward in time. She will keep trying to chase it even if it means going deeper, making this at least the third mission this month to reference Inception, a movie I used to have memorized and now have completely forgotten.

[goafk]

Mission: Halloweentown
Characters: Hana "D.Va" Song and anyone else who wants to join in!
Details: D.Va wants to hold a horror game livestream thing during the Halloween party. And it's not gonna be just her playing (she doesn't get scared at all), but anyone who wants to join in! Games like Amnesia, Outlast, etc. will be on the lineup. Basically she's looking for people who wanna play, and also for those whose reactions will get a good laugh out of her and the rest of the base.

[coronae]

Mission: HALLOWEENTOWN candy production squad
Characters: rapunzel, anyone she can get to help
Details: She's going to be looking for more sweet-flavored plants and fruits on floater island and in the safe shallows! Sweet-flavoured animals are also acceptable. In addition she'll look for things she can use as food colouring so she can make fun-coloured candies. she'll be cooking basically all month to try to make lots of different sorts of things. since we have cocoa plants, she will also do her best to make chocolate. she's an expert chef so this...should provide stuff???

Mission: MURALS
Characters: rapunzel, maybe chihiro or whoever wants in
Details: she's going to start up painting some of the walls that are plain! she'll as URSULA if she wants any particular scene in the drone bay since that seems like URSULA'S place, but will otherwise be doing lots of flowers and seascapes and stars. she likes painting, okay.