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May you survive!

Welcome everyone to May! With our third month in, we have another set of new arrivals. Thank you all for being so welcoming to them! We still have a few more appers coming in, so be sure to check out the OOC Introduction post. The IC introduction post will be going up shortly. Let’s hope everyone is ready for it!

As last month, we have updates based on what was done last month and two missions, a main and a side! This time, the main mission will also have a mini-event for everyone half-way through the month!

Updates!

Thanks to what you turned in for missions and what you noted on your AC posts, we have a number of updates to offer!

BIOMES
The Jelly Shroom Caves have been discovered under the Grassy Plateaus. They are currently unexplored! URSULA, however, has requested that the crew NOT explore these caves until they have better defenses. She encourages them to take on the Side Mission to accomplish this.

URSULA also notes that Floater Island will be passing by! There will be a post MAY 15th for a Floater Island mission as part of the monthly Main Mission. URSULA will be accompanying the crew on this mission to help gather information!

Lifepods have been appearing randomly in various areas overnight, as have large pieces of wreckage from the Aurora.

CREATURES
Research by characters reveals that Sand Shark armor works well against most smaller attackers and against fires. In addition, Reefbacks will now sense distress from crew members and if in the area try to defend them! It seems the crew has in general made friends with much of the ocean: Brain Corals in the current areas will warn if Stalkers are incoming by waving their weird worms around, and several Stalkers have been trained to understand the reward system and will even approach swimmers in a non-threatening way with gifts of metal or supplies on the assumption of a reward waiting for them. They may turn on swimmers if they aren’t rewarded for their efforts!

BASE
There is a new addition to the base: a Tiger Plant! This Tiger Plant in the lab will occasionally still try to fire needles at people. It's in a tank so it doesn't do any good but it is a very angry plant apparently. Watch out!

AURORA
The Aurora entrances mapped out, including the one to the storage supply room. This will make approaches to the Aurora, and exits from it, far easier to manage for those who take advantage of this knowledge! The Aurora has also been added to the list of Biomes!

FOOD
Several food missions have succeeded! Characters who want more variety can check out any of the foods added to the information on the KITCHEN section of the base page.

LIFEPOD BLACKBOX
A lifepod blackbox was discovered! If anyone goes to the lab to listen to its message, this recording play:

"This is an automated distress signal from Aurora Lifepod 17. Co-ordinates attached. Please send immediate emergency relief team" [silence followed by male voice] "You've been down too long in the midnight sea. Oh, don't you see what I mean?"

Monthly Missions!

As last month seemed to go well, we will follow the same format with one main mission that lets the crew work together on different parts, and one side mission that draws on extra benefits but isn't as urgent. We hope that this allows for more coherent efforts and are happy to work with you going forward on the best way to do 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: THOSE BEFORE YOU

• URSULA SAYS:"Recent events have me wondering about my former crew... Although I know it is likely they are dead, I want to hope they are alive and safe. If they are, they would no doubt be grateful for help from us. If they aren't... We should know what happened to them. This may protect the current crew! I have several leads that may help locate them."
• REQUIREMENTS: This mission will have two possible avenues of exploration! Crew members can visit the life pods and wreckage appearing, and must bring back whatever information they have to URSULA. She will decrypt what is found in black boxes and make it available to everyone.
  In addition, as stated earlier, on May 15th, there will be a post for Floater Island, where crew members can investigate the materials there! For this portion of the mission, we’ll be putting an OOC Questions thread within the IC Floater Island post so that you can tell us what you’re investigating and get results as you go!
• RESULTS: More information about the previous crew that may help the current crew. URSULA will be extremely grateful. In addition, any salvage found can be used by the crew. These particular missions may help the crew find more advanced synthetic materials for their work..

SIDE MISSION: DEFENSES

• URSULA SAYS: "The Reaper Leviathan... it certainly is fearsome. It is also possible it is not the apex predator of this region, though I hope I'm wrong. In order to stay safe, we need to build up weaponry and defenses. Many of you are fighters. Please, put your heads together to create something to protect yourselves."
• REQUIREMENTS: Git Gud. This mission can involve salvaging resources for weaponry or defences, designing or building said weaponry or defences, or even training fellows in how to better survive against some of the threats in the sea. Anything done to help the crew survive the ocean’s more threatening elements will work towards this
• RESULTS: Whatever you make! New armor, new weapons, or even new skills!

In addition, we have a continued call for Mod Applications! If you have any other questions or suggestions, let us know!

BASED ON CODE BY TESSISAMESS AND SUPERSUITS

Comments

Dirk Strider | Homestuck

[splinten]

gdit why aren't bossfights over how many times does a guy have to get decapitated around here

Intro: Dirk will be arriving, regretting the destruction of his sylladex, and then leaping into battle because all problems can be solved with swords. All of them. ANYONE WANNA FIGHT A REAPER WITH HIM because he'll try to pvp it if no one stops him. he is a glass cannon who thinks he's a tank

Main mission: I'm happy to have Dirk do some life-pod exploring! I guess I'll wait on the Floater Island post to plot for that but he will probably be there too?

Side missions: Dirk will build bots which can rap AND battle, as well as salvage shit. (Theoretically he could train people but after Jake and Dave he feels like maybe he shouldn't try that. He's too mean.)

Way more important side missions: Redecorating. Building turntables. Rapbots that just dispense things without battling. Attempting to make the base as homely as possible by turning it into a mess. ORANGE SODA QUEST? all this and more.

[parodeity]

DAVE WILL HELP FIGHT THE REAPER...stares at dirk, don't die like three times in the fight and make him decapitate you though...also i demand he gets hit with orange soda??? beyond that i will want other shenanigans i'm just focused on the intro part rn jazz hands

[splinten]

We know our long-term goals, they involve Wiz's new beautifully paintjob and then possibly building Wiz tons of siblings and decorating them too.

YES FOR ORANGE SODA and also yes, Dave. Protect your brother. Don't let him die three times again. He will do his best to avoid decapitation? (No he won't.)

[parodeity]

I mean are there better long-term goals? DAVE WILL HAND YOU THINGS and/or just distract you a lot, sorry Dirk.

gdit dirk he's going to strangle your attached head or at least scream internally while meticulously stable timelooping in battle to haul you out of potential decapitation situations

[splinten]

it's weird how having actual human beings to talk to in person and just enjoy yourself with dampens his productivity? kinda crazy tbh. (10/10 would sacrifice productivity for again)

see isn't it nice having Bro knocked off that pedestal
and into the basked underneath the guillotine

[parodeity]

dirk why you gotta do you...roxy can keep her head on!!!! come on all the cool kids are doing it

[splinten]

I guess it's something that she just knows how to
a-void

[parodeity]

all right but for the reaper thing just lemme know when to tag in if you want to start them off at some point or whatever? 8|a i'm going to write a top level involving dave being a moron about apple seeds

[splinten]

dave control yourself

BUT SURE THING do you want to grab a third person for the fight or are we good on brotherly combat (no tz to bail them out this time)

[parodeity]

no, he's probably going to cry a little bit i can't even lie

IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE ELSE WHO WANTS IN I'D BE CHILL otherwise a two-way thread is also fine with me. :|a I can always drag along megs with rose but the lalondes can clearly have a motherly team of their own...strilonde family bonding time: killing bosses, take 2

also wow i think dirk was the only one who needed constant bailing out in their fight!!! THEY HAD TO KEEP REWINDING ON HIM...it was hilarious...

[splinten]

LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GETTING A GUILLOTINING SERVANT so probability of dirk keeping his head just went down again so I'll toss something up for us there soon!

AND
yeah pretty much I think he's the only one who needed repeated time rewinds. someone, please tell him he's not a tank. anyone. just. just anyone make him realize he CANNOT TAKE INFINITE DAMAGE.

[parodeity]

also whenever requesting floater island mission things becomes a thing (I AM STILL LEARNING THE MISSION SYSTEM...stares at hands) the strilondes should do a family vacay mission or smth

or have at least 1 mission together somehow

they'd be...such a disaster

[voidkatini]

GROANS

[splinten]

someone had to

Re: Dirk Strider | Homestuck

[lamortespoir]

I'm here for some reaper fighting... time to execute it aww yeah.

[splinten]

YES FOR SURE WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN DAVE AND DIRK THEN FOR A THREE-PERSON BATTLE AGAINST A REAPER

[lamortespoir]

DEFINITELY, TIME TO EXECUTE SOME SNAKES

[splinten]

GUILLOTINE GUILLOTINE

don't accidentally decapitate dirk

[lamortespoir]

summons a guillotine out of thin air nbd


dnw friendly fire doesnt exist in fgo apparently....

[voidkatini]

did someone say something about exploring a place called floater island? because i got the OG floater right here.

[splinten]

I googled Floater Island, there are TREES and GRASS on that.

Dirk's going to have a field day. LOOK ROXY IT'S NATURE. NATURE ON LAND (sort of). TREES. This is even better than Jake's planet.

[voidkatini]

oh no how cute Rox totally wants to see Dirk having a field day (heh) with nature! Really, I have no idea what to do here, so I'm just throwing out ideas.

[splinten]

CATCHES ALL YOUR IDEAS.

I want Dirk getting irritated because Lalonde goes out and URSULA can't update him on where she is and if she's okay. Stupid Void powers. dirk stop spying on your friends.
no

Re: Dirk Strider | Homestuck

[imsorey]

Sorey and Mai were discussing making the base feel more "homey" so maybe Dirk can explain his terrible awesome sense of style to them and they can tag-team Operation: Very Important Redecoration(?)!!!

[splinten]

YES!!

He won't decorate it with smuppets for the sake of Dave but he will be happy to scatter LOTS OF MESS and HORSE POSTERS and nonsense all over the place. REDECORATING IS REALLY IMPORTANT!! Gotta make things feel comfortable!