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hunt4commonwealth) wrote2013-03-18 11:07 pm
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[Dylan's physical changes aren't as lovely and dramatic as some. When he disembarks he gets just a basic set of gills and some blueish webbing to help him swim, nothing more. His Force Lance is all but useless under water, so his first order of business is to find a spear or harpoon which with to defend himself and his crewmates if necessary (although he hopes it won't become so).
Once that's accomplished, his goal is primarily to talk to the locals and to keep an eye on everyone who has disembarked from the Barge and make sure they stay safe. But he also sneaks a bit of time away to play at throwing a roundish piece of wood he found into a "goal" between two wooden stakes, like a variation on solitary water polo.]
Once that's accomplished, his goal is primarily to talk to the locals and to keep an eye on everyone who has disembarked from the Barge and make sure they stay safe. But he also sneaks a bit of time away to play at throwing a roundish piece of wood he found into a "goal" between two wooden stakes, like a variation on solitary water polo.]
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He drifts down to catch the slow moving ball when it comes at him.]
At least you were already made for the pressure. [Odd to be able to talk. He had given up on the top half of his wetsuit at this point for obvious reasons- only the bottom half remained.]
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[His eyebrows go up a little at Rhade's colorful and spiny self.]
You're looking awfully pointy, Gaheris. Better be careful with those things or you might stick someone.
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Rhade is unfortunately a poisonous friend, at the moment, in the most literal sense.]
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[He picks up the ball and tosses it between his hands. It moves sluggishly through the water.]
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He holds up webbed fingers for the ball to be thrown to him at short range.]
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I've just got to be careful or I'll end up with a case of spine envy.
[He looks at the iridescence, entranced by the detail of the change.]
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Or this slow. [He can admit it. But he's not going to lie, he likes being spiny.]
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So modest. Just don't get too attached. I'm pretty sure that you could selective breed for more and bigger spines, but I think they wouldn't work so well on dry land.
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I can think of some young enlisted men who would disagree. [Rhade's reputation as a stern task master was well known on the Andromeda.]
But I know you'd never put a child through that kind of itchy torture.
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[And they did. He doesn't know if Dylan ever realized what he was doing in retrospect, but for a relatively peaceful society that only had to worry about hit and miss battles with the Magog (traumatic ones) Rhade was relentless.]
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He smiles.]
I bet Tarazed wouldn't have been nearly as populated if you hadn't been such a hardass on them.
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So, do you want to help me explore so I don't become trapped in anything?
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I'd better. Someone's going to have to make sure all those spines of yours don't get caught in things.
[The sunken ships are getting a pretty thorough search by other members of the Barge, and so far no one seems to have run into any major trouble there. No warnings or calls for help over the network. So Dylan thinks that scoping out the perimeter would be the most useful exploration they could do. There's something about the black wall beyond the circle of the Barge's light that puts him on edge. The word "abyss" springs to mind as he looks into the lightless deep.]
What do you think's out there? [He said to Rhade, speaking quietly.]
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[It's a snarky answer, but he's also thinking of the spirit of the abyss. The god of the Magog. At the same time, he's a Nietzschean, and no things are gained through fear.]
Probably some of the wrecks that have been pushed down by the current. [He grabs Dylan's shoulder carefully, using him as an anchor.]
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It reminds me of space, in the places on the edges of the galaxies where there aren't many stars.
[That's a more pleasant association than abysses and the things that come out of them.]
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[And he continues to use Dylan as a weight, though he has the spines on his back completely flared out in case something gets closer. He doesn't even know he's doing it.]
We might just want to watch out for aggressive cephalopods.
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From the look of things, if anything attacked us I could just throw you at them and problem solved.
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But he safely leans over his shoulder. What do you think is down there?
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I don't know. I guess that's the wonder of it. There could be a great civilization in an underwater, opaque-domed city out there and we'd never know it.
[Dylan found his optimism again pretty quickly.]
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And that terrible Nickelback song starts up as I'm typing this comment
[He's surprised that he's asking it, and astounded if it's true. If he's actually won back that much of Dylan's confidence.
He may finally be at peace with being a Nietzschean again, but sometimes he's still worried Dylan still has difficulty seeing more that that.]
lol!
[He knows that, with their history, this isn't just words.]
I trust you with my life.
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Even if technically, he knows Dylan is beside of him the whole time.]
Then we should see what's down there. [His hair drifts as he pulls back a little, very literally getting Dylan's back and providing a spiny defense.]
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How are your altered eyes at seeing in the dark?
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And if something happens to me and I fall unconscious, I'm expecting you to haul my heavy worlder ass back to safety.
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They have the weirdest habits though, like this person... what's the point of throwing things between two stakes?]
There is actually nothing there to hunt, you know that right?
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I'm not hunting. It's a game. I'm throwing it between the stakes just to see if I can, and how accurately I can.
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Can I try?
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The currents of the water make it a bit tricky. This sort of thing is easier on dry land. My people play a lot of games like this, often with one person trying to get a ball to go somewhere and another person trying to keep the ball from going there, playing against each other.
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"More difficult than it looks, you made it look so easy. My name is Kal-El, by the way."
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He doesn't know if there's an appropriate greeting for Merpeople. Handshake? Salute? Bow? So he just follows Kal-El's lead and hopes he doesn't accidentally do something rude.
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"It's nice to meet you Dylan. You are one of the newcomers, are you not?"
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"That's right. From the good ship Redemption." He doesn't know if it's really called that, but in Dylan's mind a ship ought to have a name, and so he's given the Barge one. "We're here for just a few days to explore peacefully, then we'll be off again."
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"Redemption. So it does have a name, up until now I have just been calling it 'the newcomer's ship'." If Kal's face darkens ever so slightly at the mention of 'being off again', he does his best to mask it.
"And what is this... sport you were playing called?"
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"The game doesn't really have a name. I guess it's a little bit like modified water polo. Really modified. In the original version there would be two teams, and the goal you try to put the ball in is above water."
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"Well... we can still have to teams, right? I'll be one, you'll be the other one. As long as you don't mind always winning... it is the first time I have played this game."
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He hands the make-shift ball to Kal.
"Probably the best way to start off is to trade off throwing and defending. I'll be in the defense position, so you try to make the goal and I'll try to stop you. Then after you do ten throws, we'll switch."
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"I might swim fast but I'm sure you've got better aim."