20k Leagues Under the Sea: ☆zrael

[idolpro]

ROOM DESCRIPTION



[The elevator deposits you in the interior of a spacious submersible with a decidedly steampunk aesthetic. All of the metal is brushed bronze, and the navigation tools look to be turn of the century]

[Through the periscope, you can still see the sky; the water visible through the circular windows is a pale blue-green, kissed by filtering sunlight]

Comments

RULES

[idolpro]

[The following rules are visible scrawled on a piece of paper on the navigation desk:]

Welcome to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea!

Your goal is for your team to travel a distance of 20,000 leagues in your submersible. The teams that continue the longest will win a ~fabulous prize~: instant and painless revives, and full healing for one team of their choosing.

The journey won't be easy, though. Every time you choose to take your submersible further into the briny deep, you run the risk of suffering a fatal setback imposed by the challenges of the sea.

You can turn back at any time, safely surfacing. However, fortune favors the bold, and once you ascend, you cannot return to the challenge.

So the decision each round is up to you: will you boldly press onward, to discover the unknown? Or will you return to the realm above, and leave behind the ocean's watery secrets?

ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

[Are you ready to set out on your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision]

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

Undersea adventures, huh? Yay.

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

[ seems really excited for some reason ]

- That's right!

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

...Oh, right. You like that book, don't you...

1/2

[constellationprize]

Mm, that's right! Well, the copy that I had was one that I gave to Red before she left, because it was one that we liked to read together, so I thought that it would be good if she was able to have it, but isn't it amazing? There's the imagery there, but Verne has a really keen eye for speculation which with little reliance on the usage of magic or relics remains sound within the reasoning greater associated with the sciences such that many among his feats depicted come to border on divinatory in nature -

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

[ oops ]

Um - well . . . I think that it's really nice!

But what do you want to do...?

Re: ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

[cute...]

If you wanna go ahead and take the dive, that's fine by me.

ROUND 1 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 1 SUBMISSION

[constellationprize]

56!

And going down.

ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"A slight declivity ends in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms depth. Here, there is no fine sand, no submarine prairies, no sea-forest. It is the coral kingdom.

The light produces a thousand charming varieties, playing in the midst of the branches that are so vividly coloured. You seem to see the membraneous and cylindrical tubes tremble beneath the undulation of the waters. You're tempted to gather their fresh petals, ornamented with delicate tentacles, some just blown, the others budding, while a small fish, swimming swiftly, touches them slightly, like flights of birds. But if your craft approaches these living flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony would take alarm. The white petals would re-enter their red cases, the flowers fade as you look, and the bush changed into a block of stony knobs."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to take a sample of coral and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Are you ready to continue your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision if you plan to continue]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll another 1d100]

Re: ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

[ whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ]

It still seems like it's okay ...

Re: ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

Yeah, no problems so far. So we'll keep going?

Re: ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

Mm, I think so -

Um, do you want to try and collect the coral, too...?

Re: ROUND 2 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

I don't need a souvenir, so it's up to you.

ROUND 2 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 2 SUBMISSION

[constellationprize]

30!

And down.

ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

"There are rays of gigantic size, five meters long and with muscles so powerful they could leap above the waves, sharks of various species including a fifteen–foot glaucous shark with sharp triangular teeth and so transparent it is almost invisible amid the waters, brown lantern sharks, prism–shaped humantin sharks armored with protuberant hides, sturgeons resembling their relatives in the Mediterranean, trumpet–snouted pipefish a foot and a half long, yellowish brown with small gray fins and no teeth or tongue, unreeling like slim, supple snakes.

Among the bony fish, you notice some blackish marlin three meters long with a sharp sword jutting from the upper jaw, bright–colored weevers known in Aristotle's day as sea dragons and whose dorsal stingers make them quite dangerous to pick up, then dolphinfish with brown backs striped in blue and edged in gold, handsome dorados, moonlike opahs that look like azure disks but which the sun's rays turn into spots of silver, finally eight–meter swordfish from the genus Xiphias, swimming in schools, sporting yellowish sickle–shaped fins and six–foot broadswords, stalwart animals, plant eaters rather than fish eaters."

[You take in the sights through the portholes, beholding the wonders of the sea. All around you, your submersible hums like a well-oiled machine, performing the duty of keeping you safe most admirably]

[At this depth, the pressure is beginning to increase. It will be more dangerous to continue from here]

[You think that you could coax the submersible's delicate robotic pincers to catch a fish and bring it in as a keepsake from your journey. Would you like to try? y/n]

[Are you ready to continue your grand journey to experience the undersea world and all its wonders? y/n]

[Please roll a 1d100 and submit your result with your decision if you plan to continue]

[To try for the keepsake, please roll another 1d100]

Re: ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

[ all but squished up against the window at this point ]

Do you want to keep going...?

Re: ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

Can't think of a reason not to.

By the way, don't those fish look pretty tasty...?

Re: ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[constellationprize]

Do you want to have fish to eat tonight...?

Re: ROUND 3 DISCUSSION

[avestan]

Y'know, I think I do.

ROUND 3 SUBMISSION

[idolpro]

Re: ROUND 3 SUBMISSION

[constellationprize]

Keepsake: 65

Dive: 15. Going down

ROUND 3 RESULTS

[idolpro]

[The mechanical claws carefully reach out to grab the largest of the swordfish--why settle for less?

It takes a few tries to get a good grasp as it majestically writhes and struggles. Yet eventually it must submit to the power of man. The craft's arms retract, taking the swordfish along with it inside the hatch.

As it does, you hear an unsettling cracking--as the fish is tugged out of the water and into the ship, it begins to thrash even more.

There is a louder scratching and scraping after that, and the entire submersible begins to sink quickly, taking on water. You know this, as by now, the waters rise to your ankles, and lightning strikes of fissures crack the glass at the windows.

Suddenly there is an eruption. The air compressed inside the craft sends its decks flying, as if the powder stores had been ignited. The thrust of the waters sends great waves for quite a ways.




[Only you can say what exactly happens after that. But eventually you wash up elsewhere...]