TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

[bathymetric]

THE UNKNOWN SEAS TDM

Hello and welcome to the Test Drive Meme for Unknown Seas! Welcome to the bottom of the whole ocean, kids. Use this as a space to freely test characters or character options in something close to the setting! Standard format applies, drop your character name and canon in the subject line

The facility is pretty simple, even if there isn't an exact map yet. There are a number of various windowless rooms and common areas in clusters connected by long glass corridors built in the bottom of the sea. If you look up you can see more tunnels above, but they're darkened completely. Here's some prompts! The kids love prompts, right?

1. Arise from the depths (of sleep)

You wake up in a very functional and simple bed in a very functional and simple room. It's definitely not, however, where you went to sleep. Did you even go to sleep? That's pretty alarming. Also potentially alarming is the window in the wall above the writing desk you've been given - that's uh. That's water out there, buddy. You're underwater. Well-lit underwater, but underwater. You should probably look around or maybe outside - who knows, maybe other people are around here? Or maybe you want to try to demand to speak to a manager.

2. Killing time

Between bursts of violent murder, there aren't exactly a bunch of scheduled activities in this place. So there's a need to fill the time somehow... what are you doing to kill time? I know most everyone interested is a murdergame vet of some kind, so feel free to add in whatever standard murdergame rooms you like to fill the space! There's all kinds of things here. Maybe there's a theater, or an art room, or... an aquarium, for ultimate levels of nonsense?

3. Motive time!

The Professor has announced a new motive for murder! Maybe you've been given an envelope with your deepest darkest secret, maybe you're being offered a great deal of money... maybe he's giving the kitchen staff a week off! There's all kinds of things he could do.

4. Material goods???

There's a vending machine in the hallway, with no... buttons for selection or anything, which is weird. All you can do is drop the coins you sometimes get into the coin slot and hope! It might drop all kinds of things - it's regains, you know the drill.

5. Down where it's wetter, down where someone's deader...

There's been a murder! Get out there and investigate, or like... don't. I'm not your dad. Maybe you want to shield some poor teenager from a grisly murder? Or maybe the investigation is over and you want to chat about the grisly murder over some relaxing tea from the kitchen. You do you!

6. Other

Or maybe there's something not on here that you want to do! This TDM is for you, live your dreams!

Comments

Della Duck | Ducktales Reboot

[nothingcanstop]

[2/4]

[ Nothing can stop Della Duck. You've probably heard her declare this, during your time in captivity. She's driven--nay, determined--to get back to her family, without playing by this hoity-toity Professor Schmo's rules, and you can quote her on that!

Each day she's been doing something new to try and find the way out and today, you see, today, she's...making a real big racket in the brand new woodworking room? Hope you didn't want to do anything there, because it's just...an utter mess. There's something that used to be a crowbar twisted up on a bench, and a bunch of materials strewn around the floor, and so many books from the library, all sorts of instruction manuals and building for dummies type things? Della's got her bill in one of them, muttering to herself as she's scribbling away some...very poorly drawn plans for something, like a- is it a catapult? A cannon? ...A plane? It could be anything. ]

Come on, Della, you rebuilt yourself a rocket, this should be nothing!

[ ...Oh boy.

Maybe you catch her gathering materials instead. She's popped that vending machine full of enough coins to swim in (maybe, potentially, don't quote that, her uncle would likely disagree) and is busy sorting them into useful and not useful, with a middle pile for the maybes. A bottle of extra scented shampoo? Not useful. A metal baseball bat? Useful. An inflatable shark pool toy? ...Okay, that one goes in the potentially pile.

And so on.

She's...sort of taking up the whole room, though? That doesn't even account for how some of the not useful things, she's just been piling them up in a corner. She'll get to them, she's been saying, all day, all yesterday, all week, it's fine, she's just trying to focus on what matters right now. A little clutter, that's fine, right? That's fine!

...Did you happen to come across some of the clutter lining the hall to the woodworking room? Uh. Well, she'll get to that too. ]

woodworking room

[obstagoodboy]

[Piers was one of the few that wasn't that shocked by a humanoid duck. Sure, he was a little startled that she could talk a human language but other than that? Nothing.]

Oi, Della. You hear me in there?

[He is kinda picking his way through the mess]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Can she hear you...? She's patting around, dipping her head under the table, overturning another box of knickknacks... ]

Take the wrench, got a wrench, where's the wrench-- Piers! My good man, you got a wrench?

[ Verdict still needed. ]

[obstagoodboy]

[He snorts]

Mate, my life is a wrench.

[What does that even mean??? He does dig around to find the discarded tool and hand it to her]

[nothingcanstop]

Ehhhh, I'd picture this whole sitch as more of a screwdriver, myself. [ What does that-- whatever, she takes the wrench, barely looking in his direction. ] Thanks.

Gathering Materials

[ladygeryon]

Hey Della. [Nira's slowly picking her way around the materials with her walking stick, kind of used to this by now.] Found anything useful this time?

[nothingcanstop]

[ Currently shaking a ceramic ball, to see if it's got any liquid in it. ...It goes in the maybe pile. ]

Jury's out on the majority, buuut a few I could work with. [ Tapping the ground with her prosthetic leg, waiting for another vending machine item to shake loose. ] Any of this stuff yours, grab it now.

[ladygeryon]

[Nira makes her way over to look through the piles, before pulling out a giant stone sword from one.]

Ah, this is mine! Sort of. It should have been returned to Terrakion a long time ago, but I guess I was the last human to handle it.

gathering materials

[coolbaby]

[ Amanda has had a lot of time to get used to things here. Like talking ducks, and talking raccoons, and uh. Kirei. So there's no shock left at the presence of these things (except maybe Kirei).

There is, however, definitely excitement at how many things are popping out of the vending machine. ]

Whoah! Did we get a casino and I missed it?

[nothingcanstop]

Casino? Ohhh no no no no no, if there were a casino you'd be seeing a lot more gold. [ A pause, as she examines a wooden duck carving. ] Or, you know, a lot less, probably, I hear those things are rigged.

[coolbaby]

I mean I wouldn't know, but... someone's gotta win sometimes if they want people to go, right?

[ She shrugs. ]

Mostly I was just trying to figure out how you got so many coins at once.

[nothingcanstop]

Ohhh. [ That's a great question. To which-- ] Non-Tooth Fairy likes me?

[ Della shrugs. Naturally. ]

I just woke up with a bunch piled up next to me. Wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

Gathering Materials

[drladysounds]

What a bounty you got!

[Shelley seems to approve the piles. Ah, organizing things to get what's useful...good move. She seems kind of drawn to the non-useful pile of items, though]

When life gives you lemons, you either make lemonade or you make bombs with them. Do you mind if I take some stuff from here?

[There she is, smiling and looking kind of excited about rooting through it. She's no hoarder, but she considers herself the crafty sort, the type of person that'd find use to odd things]

[nothingcanstop]

Nerp, go riiight ahead-- [ Della emerges from her pile (there's a down blanket in here, should she be worried?) and spins around to address Shelley properly. ] Hold on. Have you made bombs with lemons? That's a thing you can do?

[drladysounds]

I can't, but I know someone who I'm sure can. It's science. With science, you can do anything!

[Shelley's thing is more the bold and adventurous action, not the science part, really. She starts rooting through the pile]

I haven't made lemons explode yet, the only thing I have exploded is...uh... [She hesitates for a moment] ...an evil lair in a volcano.

[She hesitates because really, she's starting to realize talking with people around here about her weird adventures only earns her puzzled stares]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Her grin widens, and without missing a beat: ]

Was it an active volcano? Those are just the pits, amiright? Like, when you have to outrun all that lava and they just SPPPCHEEWWWW [ and she mimes one exploding, because of course she does ] all over the place?

gathering

[thieviusraccoonus]

I'm all for making the best of a bad situation... [Says the Raccoon who's honestly just kind of shown up. Where did he come from?? Why is he so quiet??]

But I'm pretty sure there's way better things to steal than the change out of the vending machines.

[nothingcanstop]

[ Gasp! ...Not at his sudden appearance, but the accusation. ]

Perish the thought! All these coins've been legally acquired! ...Through randomly appearing in my room, each morning, which is mildly creepy but still convenient.

[thieviusraccoonus]

You too? Must be some ghost spreading it's coin collection.

[He's only half joking.]

[lovelikeyou]

You built yourself a rocket?

[Rose wasn't too taken aback by Della. Sure, she's never seen a talking duck, but she's seen lots of alien beings in general. And isn't it funny how she looks so much like an Earth duck?]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Oh! Company! Della pops her head out of a pile of dubiously useful materials. Rose is like...huge, but she's like, comparable to Storkcules or the other Greeks that way, and like 50% of them are pretty okay, right?

Her chest puffs out as she grins. ] Well, I already had the blueprints. And the skeleton of it- uhh, corpse of it, it had all the meat-y tissue things and skin and... [ Meandering, meandering... ] Yes! Yes, I did, you betcha.

[lovelikeyou]

It had skin?

[Rose mostly seems curious about this information, although it is frankly horrific.]

We used to have a few dropships. But they were destroyed a long time ago.

gathering materials

[hardnosed]

[ While the sight of a walking, talking duck with hands wouldn't have struck Jasper as particularly out of the ordinary either way, Della's species isn't quite the priority now. There's a set of brisk, heavy footfalls from outside the woodworking room, the kind you'd hear if someone who was eight feet tall happened to be patrolling the halls for no good reason, and then they stop.

And then there's a heavy thud, the kind one might hear if someone who was eight feet tall happened to slip on something and flailed around comedically for a full five seconds before managing to brace herself on a wall. About three crunch noises follow, accompanied by heavy breaths, before Jasper growls: ]

Who did this.

[ It's probably fine. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ Della's head pops up from her project, and she calls out, cheerfully: ]

EVERYTHING OKAY OUT THERE, JAS?

[ Jas. She has a nickname. ]

[hardnosed]

[ SHE SURE DOES ]

STOP CALLING ME THAT-- [ Wait, this really isn't the problem at hand. She cuts herself off and calms down in the most minimal sense of the word. ] Your junk is in my way. Move it before more of it gets crushed.

[ The door swooshes open, and she ducks her head in for a second. What was probably, at some point, a heelie dangles sadly from one massive hand. ]

What are you even trying to do with all of this garbage?