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?
Mission: SURFING the world wide web Characters: Ami Details: She wants to map the digital landscape of Iniidae as she can access it, starting with the network on the base and branching out to whatever devices might be accessible in URSULA's full range, for future travel purposes. She'll be doing this by moving through the network, noting paths and exit points, comparing them to physical maps, then accessing the assumed matches from the outside to verify connections. No exit points will be used from inside until they've been checked from the outside, in the interest of not popping out in the middle of the ocean and dying. Any ?MYSTERY EXITS? will just be left alone for now.
This will be a long-term project (two months, likely more) because shit's complicated and takes time yo.
i figure i should comment to this instead of just laughing a lot on plurk. PLEASE HIT ME UP IN REGARDS TO ANYTHING LISTED HERE OR IF YOU WANT ME TO JOIN STUFF ig i need to go to sleep
hajime wiiilll be. well first of all, on the 7th when the pulse rings out and temporarily disables people's powers, it's gonna turn off her note. her note is also her actual soul, that is a thing. SO after everything goes cray hajime is probably just gonna immediately collapse and be like. i don't want to say dead, exactly, but she's gonna be deadish???? and will just be lying around. when she wakes up she'd just be like "lmao that was weird" and continue on with whatever she was doing cause that's how she rolls i'm sorry. this will only last a day. just tuck her in a corner and put a blanket over her it'll be fine.
other than that, she'd explore the crashed ship and also do the random acts of kindness? i want to do a secret santa and she can host it BUT IF SOMEONE ELSE ALSO HAD THAT IDEA THEN YOU CAN?? or we can do it together idk i think lucy mentioned dave might be into that idea too iirc.
karkat doesn't even fuckin know how his powers work so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on that front. he is definitely gonna explore the ship PARTLY SINCE HE'S LIKE.... RESPONSIBLE FOR IT EVEN SHOWING UP AND CRASHING, NOT THAT ANYONE KNOWS THAT HA HA... ha... anyway so count him in there. he is also gonna go crystal hunting with the sub because he is very determined to find those huge af crystals that were mentioned in a datapad? he may check out the deeper grand reef area for that next idk WAVES HANDS
reyna will. well first of all i once again fucked up the security squad plans that i mentioned in the november ooc post so my bad there. i am going to try it again for december, so i'll be looking at all the people who said they would be interested last month and if anyone wants to join in on that now that will be fine. she'd also be interested in checking out the ship why do i play so many nosy people. she... won't be too bothered by the power thing personally since it won't inconvenience her too much? but she'd be concerned about the power nerfing anyway, even if it's a short period of time and she will probably try to look into that and see if there is a connection to people whose powers got weakened when they arrived to the base.
Zelda is going to kick your asses when you play around with the Master Sword. SHE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT CHRISTMAS but once it is explained she'll happily help? Also she's willing to go help salvage the ship and especially look for survivors! She will throw up barrier defence magic if required to help you out.
Dirk is going to get started on the carnival once the plans are finalized for its layout. Because now we don't build haphazardly or else we'll make Annabeth cry. He'll also salvage that ship HARDCORE because HELL YEAH NEW MATERIALS FOR HIS TECH.
also he's going to be anguished by the cold nights because this??? is not the ocean apocalypse he was ready for???? please help him keep warm. EXPECT TO SEE HIM WALKING AROUND IN A SNUGGIE BECAUSE FUCK THE COLD
Mission: Stupid Nonsense Characters: Rose Lalonde Details: Rose has been hardcore knitting for a while for Christmas Sweaters. She's got the ones for friends handled, BUT she's also undertaking the grand quest of harassing her brother with a Christmas Sweater Advent Calendar. As in, a sweater every day until Christmas. Because he needs to be drowned in sweaters, she supposes. She is going to ask URSULA her opinion on sweater designs to fill the days because as creative is she is, 25 sweater designs are uh. a bit much for her. Will she drown in her own yarn in the process. Yes. Will it stop her. No.
She will also ask what kind of sweater URSULA would like herself, since of course the friendly AI overlord needs one as well right.
eta: aND ALSO she's making the Magister a water-proof Christmas sweater THAT'S ALSO IMPORTANT...
dave will want to go visit that kharaa wreck. ALSO, THERE'S HS BIRTHDAYS UP THE WAZOO THE FIRST WEEK we'll try to have a post for a group party. and i will actually get up the belated sub party post. also, he wants to do a christmas party aaaand i think ic secret santa was kicked around??? (on that note: thoughts on a christmas gift meme? we used to do them at route where people could like drop off comments and people could then drop off...whatever people got them just for sanity but ??? ASKING. ALSO HE WILL BE WEARING TERRIBLE SWEATERS ALL MONTH, DAILY, HAPPILY because his sister loves him. he will probably be severely upset by a temp power loss and on edge and constantly checking his communicator for the time and on edge.
annabeth will be drawing up plans for the carnival/the other things she asked about. she'll vaguely participate in christmas stuff as well, and will be mostly unbothered by power outages. she'd be interested in the ship wreck tho.
rapunzel WILL BE SO INTO THE HOLIDAY SEASON once someone lets her in on what's happening anyway, and i fell off the ball on her tags so i will actually post with her this month yes.
rose is drowning in yarn and knit goods. hs bdays including her own is this month and. christmas and. all kinds of whatever THERE'S SO MUCH. she's drowning dave in even more yarn. she's also still monitoring the kharaa thing except during powerloss where instead she will just be guessing and feeling really uncomfortable for that amount of time. and. stuff. probably. LOOK WE KNOW I DON'T KNOW HOW PLANS WORK
magnus will be doing. something. illegalizing christmas music. ruining your holidays by mentioning that he hasn't had a christmas in two years bc he was homeless. enjoying falafel I DROPPED THE BALL HARD ON HIM LAST MONTH so he will. do. things. stuff. wear a sweater if he can find one. someone give him a beige sweater.
ROXY will be doing birthday/Christmas things all month including but not limited to making ugly sweaters for all the animals on base (including other pets like the doggos on base + the Magister + etc), and also hanging up mistletoe everywhere especially where it is the most awkward/least convenient. She's also going to be working on medicine for the Emperor with Valentine's help thanks to the efforts of Sorey & Co., otherwise I am up for anything this month!
UNDYNE will be helping Goatdad settle in and will more than likely be looking forward to Christmas shenans too! She's just been busy raising Fuku and getting pissed at Komaeda constantly for who knows what anymore, she just ANGERY + likes to SCREM so who knows. She will also be a fish popsicle for the month, so someone please load her up on sweaters/mittens/hot cocoa and she'll love you forever, albeit violently. OH AND carrying over from last month, she and Frisk found some stuff they'll be sharing on the network shortly, so keep an eye out for that too.
RAVEN will be the only one being effected by the powers outage because I want to give the poor girl the happiest holiday season ever??? she's only been here a few weeks and already she needs a break. So far, no major plans for her this month, just slowly building up CR and eager for more! this will be a good time to get to know her maybe since without her powers she'll be free to feel emotions for the first time in her life, whoops. (her emotions are p intense)
Just FYI I will be slow thanks to backlog from the last two months + finals this week... ganbatte, me... so if you get tags from me on threads that are like two months old, I'm so sorry please don't feel pressured to tag me back i should've gone on hiatus a lot sooner eughhh lookit me inspiring all this confidence as an rper and as a human being
Mission: When Spirits Sleep Characters: Fi Details: Fi is going to be knocked out into a deep sleep in the Master Sword due to the pulse, and she's going to take the opportunity to return to the Dreamscape and see if she can travel out in it towards spiritual hotspots. Her destination is nearby the massive one in the Grand Reef, but others are on the path she's going to take, trying to discern what they're like in the Dreamscape. She'll be keeping her eyes open for any abnormalities as well as looking for clues as to why the one in the Reef is so giant.
Percy is going to drown. No I'm kidding (sort of) but he is absolutely going to be freaking out about the powers thing because it inconveniences him a whole lot. Whenever he gets his powers back though he'll want to check out the Narcissus/crashed ship.
One of the other things he'd like to do is further explore the underwater tunnel system that's been mentioned to him even if apparently it's a hotbed for viruses. Oh well. Sorry about him...
With the cold weather in the base too one of the other things he'll probably do is create a giant blanketfort for everybody to huddle in if they wish. He'll even (probably find someone to) provide cookies and hot cocoa to get into the holiday spirit.
AND HOLIDAYS. CHRISTMAS. Percy is going to go super-hard for Christmas, probably decorate shit until he gets bored, drag around Homura and force her (and anybody else) into the holiday spirit??? I don't know Percy's a mess, someone help him.
And most importantly Percy will probably be doing anything the demisquad asks him to do...or anyone. He'll be checking in with friends and volunteering himself for missions simply because he's bored and used to this anyway.
Fi this month has a few goals in mind! When the 7th hits, she'll be affected by the power outage - and for her, that means that she's popping from the spirit form everyone knows into her Master Sword form, entering a deep sleep for a while. This means leaving a nice shiny sword out for people to run across and mess with as they please until she wakes up in several days. While Fi will not be conscious of anything that goes on with her vessel, anyone who wants to wave around a sword and generally get into mischief is more than welcome to.
Once she's back from that and the Dreamscape adventure she'll be having in the meantime, she'll want to start organizing to gather up people to take the submarine to the Grand Reef and investigate that giant hotspot like she mentioned last month. When the details are ironed out, she'll send telepathic messages to everyone who wished to join in.
Other than that, her month is open, to help join in salvage or be taught the meaning of Christmas or end up as the stoic faced comic relief in whatever adventures people would like a new companion for. For all her lineface, she's quite curious and ready to ask people questions about things.
Also bonus if someone can get her to wear a sweater or otherwise be festive. Magic makes changing your clothes totally possible.
yo hello! Eon here with Sanson. He's a Servant type of spirit who has a 'spirit sense', so I'd feel like he would keep an eye on Fi in addition to his self-imposed duties as crew doctor. We could probably do something with that, if you're cool with it!
Ami is among the people who are going to get knocked the fuck out by the pulse, so she'll be out of commission briefly there (shit maybe they should all have a dreamscape solidarity huddle?).
After that: her avatar got fixed, so she's good to do adventurey shit and she's going to be exploring the digital networks on Iniidae, which will involve a certain amount of traveling in meatspace that she'll be tagging along with people for.
And besides that I'm keeping options open! There was a bunch of stuff I wanted to get her into last month that didn't pan out because of an attack of the busy.
Ami's going to be in a similar situation on the 7th and will be spending the day in the dreamscape, if Hajime could use something to do besides not exist during that time.
Sanson is a returnee; he will be taking up his old post at the medbay/resident base doctor if needed. He's a spirit and doesn't sleep, so he will also patrol the base at night and maybe watch you sleep just in case. Fun times.
Due to being afflicted with the shrooms cave disease, he's actually weakened this month and would need to take magical energy/prana from other people in order to stay materialized. I have his intro post here if you'd like to play with that! Once he gets recovered I plan for him to tag along on the scavenge mission to scout around.
Other than that, I'm open to options. He has a dad-ish personality so that might be worth mentioning o/
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