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 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.
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!
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.
Mission: Map Exploration! Characters: Komaeda and people interested here. Details: Komaeda was interested in further investigation regarding the world map found at Amnety Island. Specifically going to the marked spots since they're points of interest. Mountain Island probably first.
> We'll note that the markings on the map are deep down, and unfortunately some of them cannot be reached at the moment with their vehicles. If the crew finds more suitable material to upgrade the submarine and other vehicles with, though, the locations that are further down will become accessible!
> Moving onto a location that they can get to. Mountain Island. The marker isn't really the island itself, but the water next to. They will have to travel towards the side of the island opposite of where Naoko's group has made camp. Once there, they will have to dive down.
> Strangely, after a while they will notice a lot of holes in the underwater mountain that Mountain Island forms the head of. At first glance, the holes might not seem too unusual, if it wasn't for the fact that all of them are the exact same size and depth. If any of the crew members touch the holes, they will find that the rock is completely smooth in each of them.
> Whether or not these are manmade or natural will be solved if they go a bit further down underwater. A strange machine that looks like an odd drill will be found on the side of a rocky cliffside. It's extremely damaged will most likely not be fixable, but its parts can be salvageable if anyone would like to pick it apart.
> There is also a datapad, left in the driver seat of the drill machine. It fell underneath the seat, so whoever abandoned the drill most likely did not see that it fell down there. There are a few things on the datapad. One is a list of at least a hundred planets that seem to have been contestants for possible terraforming. Next to almost all of them, though, is [ KHARAA PRESENCE FOUND ]. Only a dozen do not have this marking, including Iniidae. There are also diary entries, except they have all been both encoded and locked. The final item on the datapad is a voice recording.
Person 1: Are you sure this is the right place? We haven't found shit. Person 2: They keep saying it should be here somewhere. There's something about this island that's—oh nuts. Person 3: [ untranslatable shrieking ] Person 2: What do you think it's saying? Person 1: Probably that it wants to fuck us up! I keep telling you we need to kill it. It's going to kill us if we don't. The boss is going to be so pissed when she finds out about this. Person 2: She won't. Come on, we have to keep digging. If we don't find anything then Gareth wins the bet and I'll be flat broke. Person 3: [ more shrieking ] Person 1: Oh my god, shut up, you goddamn alien! Tam, I'm going to kill it.
> If they continue looking after this find, there will be one more very noticeable thing. A hole, much like all the others, will be found with one exception: its size. It's about five times bigger than all of the other ones, but if someone were to touch it they'll see that it's as smooth as all the others, indicating that it was made by a drill as well. However, at the center of this hole will be the remnants of crystals. They are very tiny and oddly shaped, as if they were bigger before but were forcefully removed by something.
> If they continue to go down after that, they will find that there are no more holes after the large one. That's all for this portion of the map.
I GUESS IN ADVANCE for when komaeda brings back the datapad/whenever WHAT'S THE UNTRANSLATABLE SHRIEKING TRANSLATED TO if you're, like, fluent in kharaa shrieking (goddamnit dave)
you know because he'll hear it at some point and can. presumably understand it
The first set of shrieking can be translated to, "Alone. I'm alone. Where are they? Where have they all gone?" The second set is, "We should have never come here."
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≡U.R.S.U.L.A. NAVIGATION
Spooky Scary Skeletons
Nightmare on Base Street 
Updates!
Monthly Missions!
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Characters: Komaeda and people interested here.
Details: Komaeda was interested in further investigation regarding the world map found at Amnety Island. Specifically going to the marked spots since they're points of interest. Mountain Island probably first.
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> We'll note that the markings on the map are deep down, and unfortunately some of them cannot be reached at the moment with their vehicles. If the crew finds more suitable material to upgrade the submarine and other vehicles with, though, the locations that are further down will become accessible!
> Moving onto a location that they can get to. Mountain Island. The marker isn't really the island itself, but the water next to. They will have to travel towards the side of the island opposite of where Naoko's group has made camp. Once there, they will have to dive down.
> Strangely, after a while they will notice a lot of holes in the underwater mountain that Mountain Island forms the head of. At first glance, the holes might not seem too unusual, if it wasn't for the fact that all of them are the exact same size and depth. If any of the crew members touch the holes, they will find that the rock is completely smooth in each of them.
> Whether or not these are manmade or natural will be solved if they go a bit further down underwater. A strange machine that looks like an odd drill will be found on the side of a rocky cliffside. It's extremely damaged will most likely not be fixable, but its parts can be salvageable if anyone would like to pick it apart.
> There is also a datapad, left in the driver seat of the drill machine. It fell underneath the seat, so whoever abandoned the drill most likely did not see that it fell down there. There are a few things on the datapad. One is a list of at least a hundred planets that seem to have been contestants for possible terraforming. Next to almost all of them, though, is [ KHARAA PRESENCE FOUND ]. Only a dozen do not have this marking, including Iniidae. There are also diary entries, except they have all been both encoded and locked. The final item on the datapad is a voice recording.
Person 1: Are you sure this is the right place? We haven't found shit.
Person 2: They keep saying it should be here somewhere. There's something about this island that's—oh nuts.
Person 3: [ untranslatable shrieking ]
Person 2: What do you think it's saying?
Person 1: Probably that it wants to fuck us up! I keep telling you we need to kill it. It's going to kill us if we don't. The boss is going to be so pissed when she finds out about this.
Person 2: She won't. Come on, we have to keep digging. If we don't find anything then Gareth wins the bet and I'll be flat broke.
Person 3: [ more shrieking ]
Person 1: Oh my god, shut up, you goddamn alien! Tam, I'm going to kill it.
> If they continue looking after this find, there will be one more very noticeable thing. A hole, much like all the others, will be found with one exception: its size. It's about five times bigger than all of the other ones, but if someone were to touch it they'll see that it's as smooth as all the others, indicating that it was made by a drill as well. However, at the center of this hole will be the remnants of crystals. They are very tiny and oddly shaped, as if they were bigger before but were forcefully removed by something.
> If they continue to go down after that, they will find that there are no more holes after the large one. That's all for this portion of the map.
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you know because he'll hear it at some point and can. presumably understand it
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