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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Considers this...]

There's hardly any need for that in Skyrim.

[........poison is a thing in skyrim, aela. you guys just haven't got enough science yet to realize that autopsies can be useful because you were too busy focusing on magic and also whatever nonsense is happening with the daedric today.]

Very well. Should it be necessary to ensure our survival, I will not interfere.

Oh, good. You're reasonable. Some people like getting all up in arms over everything even when they don't have a leg to stand on, it's tiring.

I acknowledge that my knowledge of such things is lacking in comparison to many of you. This is not my area of expertise and I see no reason to interfere when our lives are on the line. Should it produce results, then I have no arguments.

[It's a little fucked up, but ehhhh. It's fine, it's not like Aela's morals are all that rigid to begin with, don't worry about it.]

You're not going to insist on doing any rites for the guy or anything, are you?

I'm not a Priest of Arkay.

[like that explains everything...]

Were he one of my shield-brothers, I would do what I could. I doubt the Professor would permit the usual rites, however.

[but since he's no one aela cared about it's fine!!!!!]

I don't care if you want to. I'm just not really a church guy and would prefer to not just stand around looking awkward while you did whatever you'd be doing.

[Anyway, he's just going to be having a party looking this guy over for the time being while we discuss happy things.]

So what are the usual rites, anyway?

A funeral pyre, followed by a recitation of rites. Of course, such a thing requires all of the Companions in attendance, and isn't always feasible given how many of our lot die far from Jorrvaskr.

[She's quiet for a moment, eyes on the victim, though it doesn't look like she's really paying attention to his corpse anymore.]

Even if I did wish to attempt such a thing, I doubt the Professor would allow it. Setting fires hardly seems like the best idea in a space like this.

Yeah. We burn the dead too, where I'm from, just with less rites involved.

[this is officially one of the worst tags i've written in a while.]

I'm sure somebody's going to want to start memorializing the dead around here. It wouldn't surprise me, anyway.

[c u r s e d]

It's an understandable part of mourning, although I question those who claim to have formed bonds with the others so quickly.

[no one could have possibly befriended the first victim and culprit, of course!!!!!!!]

I don't think anybody's actually formed bonds with anyone, but that doesn't mean people won't act all devastated anyway. Either because somebody died at all and they think that's worth mourning no matter how close they were, or because they thought we were better than this as a group, or something.

The sooner they get all of that out of their systems the better.

It's as though many of them haven't seen death before.

[So either other worlds are way more peaceful or Skyrim's kind of fucked. Considering the civil war and the dragons, uhhhhh...]

Blind optimism is hardly new, but I can't imagine they will keep that up for long. Every time we are given an incentive, someone will find it worth killing. Our captor wouldn't bother if it wouldn't work.

Oh, definitely. And who knows, maybe they'll surprise me and they'll all have some common sense about things. People just tend to be weird and fake about death, where I come from. There's not much point in mourning people you don't actually care about.

Fake? In what way?

Again with the whole devastation thing. Every death's a tragedy, every person deserves to be mourned and all that. Definitely not always the case.

I can't really speak for this guy, though. Didn't know him well enough.

I understand such a sentiment in theory, but in practice there simply isn't time to mourn everyone who has fallen. That is what the priests are for, and there will usually be someone to mourn the fallen.

[It's just not her!! More important shit to do, less feeling awful about death, you know how it goes.]

Neither did I. At the very least we will find his killer.

[Though it's more for practical purposes than to avenge him.]

Given our options are either "solve this" or "die trying" and I'm not feeling like dying today, we probably should.

I doubt any of us are interested in dying today. I'll leave you to it, then.

TDM - Somewhere, beyond the sea~

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