unknown_oosea | TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

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!

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[Okay, but why is there an aquarium in this lab?! What on earth? Seteth is just looking over the tanks, his brows furrowed...]

...I do not understand. We can see fish by simply looking out the window, so what is the purpose of... this?

[are they freshwater fish? Are they just... fishceptioned? what is happening.]

4.

[Well, he's come into some coin, and he's kind of curious about what that strange machine in the hallway is actually for, so he's going to give it a long, measured look before... sticking a coin in and backing away cautiously... fortunately, it doesn't explode or anything. It does, however, spit out... a snapped writing quill?]

...

I... see. Hm.

6.

[Wildcard it up!]

It... does seem very unnecessary, doesn't it?

[ Just another question without an answer... She lets out a sigh. ]

I'd ask about it, but I'm not sure I'd get a straightforward answer.

Neither am I, honestly. It would be one thing if they were all fish you would expect to find in rivers and streams versus the ocean, but I cannot say I see a pattern...

Perhaps it is an overly complex joke.

Maybe... Unless someone was studying them.

[ Gotta pass the time somehow, after all! ]

I do feel bad for them... Have they been taken care of before we came here, I wonder?

I suppose that could be it.

[...he does look a little more closely at the fish...]

Hm. Well, they do not seem to be in poor shape, though I admit, I am not exactly an authority on fish health.

Mm, neither am I... though they at least look like they've been fed and their water changed.

[ A pause. ]

I suppose it's up to us to do that now.

Well, I suppose I cannot object to that. It is certainly more pleasant than the other activities offered to us.

Another useless trinket.

[Hey, Seteth. Aela's got a few coins and she's hanging out in the doorway, arms folded as she watches.]

Have you had any luck with this machine at all? I have heard that it can give items from our homes.

[And as usual, there's nothing much in her tone to indicate whether she likes that idea or whether it's just something else that's mildly annoying.]

This is my first time attempting it, actually. I was not expecting something so... hapless.

[...though, hm, he does look at it a little more closely...]

Admittedly, this does look like the sort of quill I use to write with back home, and I do end up writing enough that they break fairly regularly...

One of your own, then. It hardly seems like an item that should have been brought here. Did it possess any magical qualities?

[Like sure, most of the items are mundane and boring, but the ones that belong to people should probably be kind of special, right...]

No, not at all. I... cannot fathom why they would decide to bring that here. I know a friend of mine would return them to me when I misplaced them, but I always assumed that was because I am the sort to dispose of them properly when they've broken rather than leaving them lying around...

I believe that is, perhaps, what one might term 'a cruel irony'.

[where the hell did he come from.]

[...where did he come from. Then again, Seteth has tried to master the art of very suddenly appearing behind students who are up to mischief, so he can’t say he doesn’t get it...]

...you know, thinking about it, I cannot say you are wrong. I do wonder how aware the actual fish are of that, though.

Not at all, I am sure.

[kirei, please.]

Are you familiar with the fable of the frog in the well? I would almost compare the situation to such a thing, though I seriously doubt our gracious host thought quite so much of it in their choice of decoration.

...I am ashamed to admit it, but I do not believe I have heard that one. Though, perhaps I just know it in a different form.

[You know, different worlds and all that.]

But yes. I am sure it is intended to get at us rather than the fish themselves.

[Piers is also kinda just... staring at them with a mix of annoyance and distaste.]

They're like us, yeah? Can see outside but can't survive outside their little box.

...I suppose so, yes.

[........]

I cannot imagine the purpose of devoting an entire room to an on the nose metaphor, though...

[Piers shrugs. Hell if he knows]

Spite?

[And as if driven to ruin the grim mood, Obstagoon, who had followed it's owner here, snuffles the tank... and moves to try and eat a fish through the glass. Of course, it just clicks it's teeth and kinda drools all over the surface but what can you do]

...quite possibly, yes.

[......................you know he’s looking at Piers’s... fuzzy friend, and. Um.

Hm.]

I wonder if we are allowed to eat them.

Doubt the Prof would care, but dunno what Type they are 'cept Water. I'd rather not die 'cuz I ate poison, yeah?

[...type???]

I... suppose some of them resemble fish I know, but you are right. I cannot say if they are poisonous or not. It is better to leave them be.

[he doesn't seem to notice the confusion]

Not that I want to depend on the Prof feeding us. If they decide to starve us out it'sa option.

...indeed.

[heavy sigh...]

Perhaps some of the books in the library can help us identify which ones are safe to eat.

TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

Seteth | Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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