>>29996343

“Dale, you sure the lights are on down there? I can’t see shit.”

You nod at the voice. “Uh-huh. Lights are on. Can’t see shit, no shit to see.” You look at the displays around you, swiveling in your chair. “Most you’ll maybe find is an angler here or there.”

You toggle the controls, switching to the camera booms. You pan them around, seeking anything of interest.

“Dale, I just got some movement on Camera 4.”

You look at the corresponding monitor.

“Nothing there, now.”

“Rewinding the clip… Huh. Just my imagination, then. 13,500 feet and dropping.”

You stare at the screens around you. “Nothing interesting right now. We’re on a budget, aren’t we? Should I switch the lights off?”

“It’s your call, Dale, though I’d appreciate having less of a dent in my pocket. Besides, I haven’t seen so much as a squid since we started the drop. Weird, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, I guess. All the same…” The vessel groans. You feel yourself gripping the boom controls a little too tight. You expel a lungful of oxygen-liquid, and silently curse at whatever compelled you to this task.

“Hey, I can pipe down music for you if you like.”

[Turn off the lights?]
[Also, anything you want to listen to?]

>>29996351
Yes
Yellow Submarine by the Beetles.

>>29996374
Sure, why not. Same as this.

>>29996343
>breathing manually
Yyoooou sonofabitch

>>29996374
>>29996400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=needk89bJUg

“Alright, fine. Killing the lights.”

“Saving my wallet for me! Good man. So, what did you want to listen to?”

“How about Yellow Submarine?”

You hear a solid slap. “Should’ve seen it coming. Seriously, man?”

“I’m in a submarine, and it’s yellow. It fits.”

“You are way too literal-minded, and we painted the thing red. Remember?”

“Nope.”

“Ugh. Fine. Enjoy your entirely all-too-fititng music. But just for that, I’m not going to talk to you for the next five minutes.”

And soon enough, the voice of Ringo Starr falls on your ears. It sounds strange, coming through the fluorocarbon liquid you were breathing. You shut off the lights and stretched your arms, watching the depth meter climb.

“Hey, Marky?”

“Still not talking to you.”

“You just did.”

Silence.

Whatever. You lean back in your chair and stare at the displays lighting up the tiny cabin. Nothing but pitch-black water. Nothing to worry about at all.

“And our friends are all on board
Many more of them live next door,” you follow along, tunelessly.

“Don’t you start singing, Dale. My poor, delicate ears can’t take it.”

“I’m staring at blank LCDs in a metal pod 15,000 feet under the sea. What else am I gonna do?”

“Stay quiet like a good little boy?”

“Fuuuuck that. Oh, speaking of which. How’s your kid doing?”

“He wants to be an oceanographer when he grows up. Taking after his pops already, hah!”

“Yeah? That so?”

“Yeah, he’s-“

Static.

“Marky? Hey, Mark. Mark, you there?”

No response. The music is still playing, though, and you're still diving.

What do you do?

>>29996351
A penny saved is a penny earned. Alone in the darkness we go!

>>29996716
Hit the emergency release button.

>>29996716
Check our info feeds and equipment to see if anything's wrong.

>>29996755
no, not this, very bad idea

>>29996775
this on the other hand, good sensible, safe

>>29996775
>>29996878

You swivel around to the equipment monitor. Oxygen’s normal, outgoing feeds are normal, incoming feed... looks like something happened to Mark’s audio cable. Your hand moves instinctively to your pocket before you realize that you don’t have any pockets, and that your phone is a few miles above. There’s nothing to do until they fix things above you. In the meantime, you flick the lights on for a bit. The screens around you turn a slightly brighter shade of gray, flecked with white. Detritus from high above. Nothing interesting. You flick the lights back off.

The static cuts out with the music. You sigh, or try to. You’ll be stuck in here for the next several hours.

You unstrap yourself from your seat, half-walking, half-swimming through the fluorocarbon liquid. The submersible creaks as the pressure continues to increase. You think the liquid you’re breathing is supposed to help mitigate the effect of that pressure, but…

You shake the thought away.

One of the LCDs goes black, then boots up again.

SORRY DALE. RAT CHEWED THROUGH A WIRE. HIJACKED SCREEN 9 TO COMMUNICATE. LOOK FOR A KEYBOARD SOMEWHERE AROUND YOUR SEAT. SHOULD BE ALREADY PLUGGED IN.

You pull it up. What do you say?

>>29997154
OH GOD HELP ME! THEY'RE INSIDE ME! THEY'RE TEARI

>>29997154
Report that everything else is as normal. Ask him if there's anything we need to be doing.

Tell him to have someone get the damn rats away from the wires that are actually important.

>>29997223
>>29997192

OH GOD HELP ME! THEY’RE INSIDE ME! THEY’RE TEARI – You type back.

REALLY DALE? OUTGOING FEED IS STILL FINE YOU KNOW? BIOMETRICS GREEN.

HAD TO TRY. EVERYTHING ELSE NORMAL. ANYTHING I SHOULD DO?

NOT YET. WON’T GET INTERESTING UNTIL WE BEAT CAMERON. GOTTA GET HIM BACK FOR THAT AVATAR MOVIE.

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT XD. TELL BRIAN TO GET THE DAMN RATS AWAY FROM THE IMPORTANT LOOKING WIRES BTW

WE HAD A CAT ON BOARD. THOUGHT THAT SHOULD HAVE KEPT THEM OFF. GUESS NOT.

Indeed. You flick the lights on again. Still nothing outside.

BTW DALE. TURNING THE LIGHTS OFF AND ON COSTS MORE POWER, MORE $$.

You flick them off and on vigorously for a couple seconds before leaving them off.

JACKASS.

You feel the submersible shudder.

UH-OH.

What do you say?

>>29997404
WHAT WAS THAT?

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>>29997404
PANIC

>Cat on board
We are fucked. It's going to sit on a keyboard or shed fur into a computer's cooling fan and we're going to die from equipment failure

>>29997404
Did you do something with the cable or did we just hit something?

>>29997460
I saw when that happened. I can't believe how much of a grind that game has become.
>>29997452

WHAT WAS THAT?

NOTHING. JUST THE CRANE FUCKING UP. AGAIN.

PANIC

PANIC!

HAPPENING

HABEDING

YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

IT’S THE FUTURE YOU CHOSE

KEEP CALM AND PANIC

HABEEEBING

ALRIGHT, ENOUGH MEMESPAM. WE’RE FIXING THE ISSUE RIGHT NOW. JUST SIT TIGHT. BY THE WAY, CHECK YOUR SONAR. WE’RE SEEING SOME WEIRD SIGNALS UP HERE. ANYTHING?

You swivel to the sonar display. Clear all around. What do you tell him?

>>29997570
Nothing on screen.

>>29997570
Nothing to report bossman

>>29997570
All clear down here. You sure this isn't -another- fuckup with the equipment? I'm starting to think that volunteering was a bad idea.

>>29997606
>>29997638

This.

also, I'm loving the references to the Abyss, OP

>>29997570

IF ONLY YOU'D LISTENED, you'd realize that it's still reading clear down here. Maybe the cat chewed some wires up there?

>>29997606
>>29997638
>>29997639
>>29997729

IF ONLY YOU’D LISTENED

WTF

JK. NOTHING ON SCREEN. CLEAR AS A WHISTLE DOWN HERE. ANOTHER EQUIPMENT FUCKUP?

PROBABLY. A LITTLE CONCERNED. ALL THIS MACHINE FAILURE SO FAR IS WEIRD.

GREMLINS, MARK. FUCKING GREMLINS. OR THAT FUCKING CAT. ANY WAY TO NOT TYPE IN CAPS?

NOT WITH WHAT WE’RE USING.

MAYBE THIS WAS A BAD IDEA.

DIVING TO 50,000 FEET UNDERWATER IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA, BUT WE DO IT ANYWAY FOR…

SCIENCE!

EXACTLY. REMEMBER. KEEP CALM AND PANIC.

You smirk. Soon enough, the crane starts up again, and you feel the capsule sinking down.

2/3RDS OF THE WAY TO BEATING CAMERON’S RECORD, SOON. HOW DO YOU FEEL?

I’VE HAD BETTER DAYS. COULD DO WITHOUT EVERYTHING BREAKING DOWN.

HAHA. NO WORRIES. WORKING ON IT. SHOULD HAVE AUDIO AGAIN SOON.

NO PROBLEM. BY THE WAY, CAN YOU BEAM DOWN SOME MORE MUSIC?

AS LONG AS IT ISN’T THE BEATLES AGAIN.

What do you want to listen to?

>>29997819

Holy Diver - Dio

>>29997819
Octopus's Garden
failing that, the Aquaman theme song

>>29997868
I'll second this for no other reason than I can't think of any other diving related songs

>>29997868
That's perfect.

>>29997899
Sorry about the trip.

>>29997819
Dragula

>>29997570
NO READING
RUN A DIAGNOSTIC CHECK EITHER THERES A PROBLEM DOWN HERE OR UP THERE

>>29997868
>Ominous shit going on
>Equipment failure
>Song about going insane and being chased by a sea monster

>>29998004
>PERFECT
>PRINT IT

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>>29997941
>>29996719
Oh no, the time machine is malfunctioning too!

>>29997868
>>29997899
>>29997901
>>29998004

HOLY DIVER.

You can picture it, as clear as day. The image of Mark slamming his head into the desk in front of him. He’s laying there, unmoving. No response. You count off the seconds: 3, 2, 1.

ARE YOU FOR REAL. FUCK YOU, DALE.

Soon enough, music starts playing.

NO NO NO, THE ORIGINAL, BY DIO. NOT THE KILLSWITCH ENGAGE COVER.

YOUR FAULT YOU DIDN’T SPECIFY. YOU DESERVE THIS.

He changes the song anyway.

BY THE WAY, YOU DID RUN A DIAGNOSTIC UP THERE, RIGHT?

OF COURSE. WE’RE DOING EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK. “And audio’s back. Can you hear me now?”

SAY WHAT?

“Very fucking funny. Alright. Crane fucked up, but that’s fixed now. Audio cable got chewed through, but that’s been replaced. We have no idea what’s going on with the sonar display, ours reads wonky while yours reads clear. We’ll be installing a new display in a bit, see if that helps at all. What else do you think could go wrong? Oh, and you should strap yourself back in.”

“Maybe a shark comes along and bites through the cable?” You tighten the straps on your chair, setting the keyboard between the armrest and your leg.

“It’d have to be a big fucking shark, in that case. Nothing alive we know of is going to chew through that thing.”

“Sea hyenas.”

“Those don’t exist.”

“Hey, we don’t know that. That’s part of the reason why I’m down here.”

“You’re a real joker, you know. Anyone ever tell you that?”

You shrug. “Eh, couple times. Here and there. There and… ah, hell. I thought I could make another joke.”

“Right. Enjoy your song about being chased by a sea monster.”

---

>>29998170

You lean back. You’ll do just that, closing your eyes. A strange sound comes to your ears, like a low-pitched hum.

“Another audio screw-up, Mark?”

“No, this is… uh, this is coming from outside the capsule. External microphones are sending it in.”

“Can you pinpoint where it’s coming from?”

“You’re the one with the cameras and controls, Dale.”

Right. You swivel the cameras around, trying to locate the source of the sound.

[Roll 1d100’s to determine success]

>>29998170
incoming sea hyena

Rolled 49

>>29998188
"OH GOD, SEA HYENAS ARE REAL! PULL ME UP MARK!"

Rolled 47

>>29998188
spot check time.

Rolled 10

>>29998188

Rolled 65

>>29998188
>Hit the 'Get Me The Fuck Outta Here' button.

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>>29998205
>"OH GOD, SEA HYENAS ARE REAL! PULL ME UP MARK!"

>>29998188
>feed music output to external speakers

Rolled 46

>>29998188
>>29998223
No. This is what we came here for- to find things nobody has found before. We're not going to flake out now, are we?

At some point, we need to say "What a story Mark!"

Rolled 35

>>29998188

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

>>29998188

Rolling for monster girl

Rolled 93

>>29998282

Goddamnit I'm a fucking moron.

>>29998282
She's a sperm whale, not your waifu

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>>29998309

THE DICE HAVE SPOKEN

>>29998309
Welp

This about to git gud

>>29998327
>Sperm Whale
If I ever date a fat chick...

>>29998337
We may be too late anon, you don't know if this is a first of 4 kind of deal or not.

>>29998405
Yeah, Op can you clarify how this is going to work please ? Maybe drop a little "Writing" when you have enough votes ?

>>29998405

Why must you ruin the fun?

>>29998434

Sure, sorry. Was first of 4, currently writing.

>>29998446
Er, first 4.

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>>29998446
;_;

>>29998473
where is that from anon?

I'm going to post a list of songs that we could use to keep up the theme we've got going.
Tycho-Adrift (From his album, Dive)
The Deep One Song
Queen-Under Pressure
Motley Crue-She Goes DOwn
Nirvana-Dive
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
Basically anything by Jimmy Buffet

>>29998446
Np man, liking it so far.

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>>29998521
>Nothing by aqua

>>29998534

“I can’t tell where it’s coming from. Seems like it’s coming from everywhere at once. Oh god. Oh god! Sea hyenas are real! Pull me up, Mark! Pull me up! Where’s the ‘Get Me the Fuck Outta Here’ button, I need to hit it!”

“Hardy-fucking-har.”

“Ph’nglui mglw’nfh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”

“That’s… uh, impressive. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard someone say it out loud. Say it again, so I know how to pronounce it.”

“I just made up the pronunciation, Mark.”

“Still impressive. Anyway, pretty sure it’s just a sperm whale or something. No need to worry.”

“Sperm whale? Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s make a new sperm whale single. You know how they sing songs, right? Let’s give ‘em a new one.”

“What are you t- No. No, we are not broadcasting Holy Diver to sperm whales. No.”

“Alright, here we are. I think… it’s coming from somewhere south. No idea on the range, but it’s definitely outside of the operational zone. What’s down that way?”

“More of the Superatlantic Trench. We have no idea what’s down there.”

“Cthulhu fhtagn.”

“Alright, get serious, now. There’s a storm coming in, big badass mother. We can keep letting you down, or we can pull you out, try again another day.”

“You’ve been letting me down this entire time.”

“I swear to god, Dale.”

“Pull me out so I can do this all over again? Hell, no. We keep going.”

“Alright. Arrrgh, god dammit, not again! Hey, get awa-“

The audio cuts out.

RAT?

YEAH. SOMEBODY UP THERE REALLY HATES US.

YOU’VE BEEN TAKING HIS NAME IN VAIN ALL THIS TIME. THINK HE FINALLY NOTICED.

Mark doesn’t respond. The sound continues to build.

What do you do?

>>29998565
Are our lights on? Flip 'em on if they aren't.
Broadcast Holy Diver anyway.

>>29998565
Check our screens for any new information about what it might be.

>>29998565
Pray to poseidon...

Rolled 83

>>29998565
Flip the lights on, check the sonar again, complain about the half-assedness of this whole project, get blamed for said half-assedness.

>>29998565
Pray to NEPTUNE, GOD OF THE SEA!

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>>29998565
Deeper.

Deeper.

No stopping.

No going back.

Ask Mark to turn on the lights and ready the lascannons

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>>29998605
My fucking nigger

We rock this underwater gig

>>29998642

And to Thassa, for good measure.

Pray to aquaman

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>>29998700
I think she likes us.

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>>29998722
>>29998700
>>29998642
>>29998631

As long as we're praying to sea gods, lets hit Oceanus and Tehys too.

>>29998752
Dagon? Dagon's a sea god, right?

>>29998773
Dagon is just an up-jumped Deep One! Lets pray to Cthulhu.

>>29998744
>>29998752
Don't forget njord

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>>29998791
Isn't he sleeping though? We'd have to pray pretty loudly to wake him.

Okay, so we're turning on the lights and looking around for any disturbances.
While frantically praying to:
>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
Are there any other gods we want to pray to?

>>29998814
How about God?

>>29998837
Okay, so the full list is now
>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
>Yahweh
>Allah
>God

>>29998814
Sedna.

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>>29998814
Which god is in charge of the damn rats?

>>29998880
Karni Mata, hindu god of Rodents.

>>29998857
Okay, It's official, we're Beni from the mummy

I don't even care what OP says, we are.

>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
>Yahweh
>Allah
>God
>Karni Mata
>Sedna
>Varuna

David hasselhoff

>>29998957
Veto. Let's not get too crazy, here.

>>29998957
I don't know if we want the attention of the Great and Holy Hasselhoff

>>29998994
>>29998977
You dare deny The hoff, watcher of bays and destroyer od communism.

>>29998814
Why not pray to Eris
She's obviously wrecking our shit so it'd be best to give her a shoutout

Also we should feed the audio output from Holy Diver to the external speakers

>>29999035
Agreed

>>29999035
As long as we're praying to tricksters, we should throw in Coyote and... I don't know any other trickster gods.

>>29999035
We already discussed doing that with Mark. Let's save the music until we've found a deep one we can wake.

>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
>Yahweh
>Allah
>God
>Karni Mata
>Sedna
>Varuna
>David Hasselhoff
>Eris

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>>29998957
>Lost underwater, loosing my shit
>Praying as hard as I can for help
>Sudden movement outside
>Notsureifwant.jpg
>Look through the window
>There's a shadow looking back at me
>Turn the light on
>It's David Hasselhoff
>Tells me We're going to Hawaii
>MFW

>>29999070
This might be starting to become a bit excessive.
>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
>Yahweh
>Allah
>God
>Karni Mata
>Sedna
>Varuna
>David Hasselhoff
>Eris
>Coyote
>Loki
>Anrita
>Anansi
>Hermes
>Huehuecoyotl
>Iktomi
>Lugh
>Mercury
>Veles

>>29999070
Loki, of course.

>>29999079
Let's throw a 'and whoever else it may concern' in there too.

>>29999118
Throw in Lil' B and we'll call it a pantheon.

>Aquaman
>Cthulhu
>Njord
>Oceanus
>Tethys
>Poseidon
>Neptune
>Thassa
>Yahweh
>Allah
>God
>Karni Mata
>Sedna
>Varuna
>David Hasselhoff
>Eris
>Coyote
>Loki
>Anrita
>Anansi
>Hermes
>Huehuecoyotl
>Iktomi
>Lugh
>Mercury
>Veles
>Lil' B
>And to whom it may concern.
Well, I think that's quite the tidy little wrap up.

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>>29999172
I'm glad we've come to a cohesive vision for our worship.

>>29999118
You can never be too safe when it comes to gods.

QM says he's experiencing technical difficulties and posts aren't loading for him.

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>>29999204
Yeah, 4chan's fucking up bad right now.

Just happy I'm not the only one with that problem

Alright, 4chan is kill for a decent portion of us by the look of it.

MARS says he'll try and resume the quest at 19:30 server time.

>>29999286
4chan is fucking up
>ITS HAPPENING

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>>29999514
t̷̰͖͝h̭͍ȩ̼͕͕̝̳ ̴̛̳̬̮̥̻̠͕e͕̜͟͠͝n̗̫͓̫͍d̡̤ ̝̹͍͓̺̹̳͉d̤̬̟͕̼̩̞͟r̤̭̮̣͟a̡͏̻̰w̰̭̩͈͖͈͡͡ś͖̖͓͜ ͚̥̼̜̙n̰͉͘͝ẹ̴̜̖̳̻̫̹̣͜a͙̝̬̼̼̞̕r͏̹̩̗͙̮̫͚̯͘

>>29999514
It's happening. It has happened. It will happen again.

The cycle continues.
>history findness

>>29999286

Will keep the thread alive until OP returns from the deep.

>>30000436

A solitary bamp.

I RETURN FROM THE DEEP.

Reading through right now.

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>>30001447

Awwwwww yeah

>>30001447
I vote praying to Eris and feeding the audio output from the radio to the external speakers

>>30001999

Oh God. Oh Jesus. Oh Poseidon, Neptune, Oceanus, Tethys. Cthulhu. Aquaman. Fuck it, David Hasselhoff and Lil’ B. Please don’t let me go down in a steel and plexiglass coffin, never to be heard from again.

You offer this prayer to the sea as you flick on the lights.

You offer another prayer to whatever trickster gods are wreaking havoc with your electronics – Loki, Coyote, Eris. Especially Eris. At – you check the depth gauge – 23,000 feet below, you could do with a little less chaos and discord. You take a moment to give it some thought, and then flip the bird at whatever rat deities are out there for good measure.

You fiddle with the boom, turning the camera up to look at the cable. No slack, as far as you could see. Nice and taut, and you were still dropping steadily. You turn the camera out towards the south. The low humming sound seems to be dying off.

“Alright. Time to do something silly and stupid.”

You check to see if there’s any loudspeakers hooked up to the exterior, pawing through some wires, glancing back and forth across screens. It’s a shame, really – you feel that Holy Diver could’ve been a great hit with the whales.

Enough silly shit, you think, now that you’ve got your nerves back in order. Still nothing on the external cameras other than detritus from above, floating like snow. Outgoing readouts are green, incoming readouts… audio’s dead, as you expected. The song ends as you check your radar. Something fuzzy at the edge, it seems. Scattered fish, maybe? You’re not entirely sure what to make of it, and it disappears by the next ping. More gremlins, you think to yourself. Must be gremlins.

---

>>30002042

You hammer out a message to Mark.

WHAT’S GOING ON ABOVE?

WENT AFK. LOUSY FUCKING CAT FINALLY CAUGHT THE RAT. BIG MOTHER FUCKER, LONG AS MY ARM.

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS LONG AS YOUR ARM?

DON’T EVEN FUCKING SAY IT.

THIS IS SOME HALF-ASSED OPERATION WE HAVE GOING HERE.

It takes a while for Mark to respond.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. AUDIO’S OUT FOR THE REST OF THE DIVE. PROBABLY LONGER. NO MORE ON HAND.

DIDN’T WE STOCK UP ON ALL KINDS OF CABLES A WEEK AGO?

WE DID. NO POINTS FOR GUESSING WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM.

FUCKING RATS, MAN.

YEAH. STORM’S COMING IN. DID I MENTION THAT?

YOU DID. JUST LIKE I TOLD YOU, WE’RE GOING STRAIGHT DOWN. NO WAY IN HELL AM I GONNA GO THRU THIS AGAIN.

HAHA, I HEAR YOU. HOW’S THAT LIQUID BREATHING COMING ALONG?

MANUALLY. YOU SICK, SICK MAN. STOP REMINDING ME.

I HAD TO GET YOU BACK, SOMEHOW.

YOU ALREADY GOT ME BACK WITH KILLSWITCH ENGAGE.

COME ON, IT’S NOT A BAD COVER. THEY’RE NOT A BAD BAND.

YOU CAN’T SAY THAT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.

>OPINIONS

I SWER 2 GOD M8

The craft judders, sending the keyboard floating up. You slap it back down into your lap

8KIHUM0;WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

No response.

What do you do?

>>30002064
Spin lights around, more sonar, attempt to get the spinning to stop using the thrusters.

>>30002064

Uh, check the boom? are we still descending at the correct speed?

>>30002064
start checking all the equipment, anything to stop you panicking.

>>30002064
Point one of the external cameras upwards, or something. Watch the monitors.

>>30002200
>>30002211
>>30002268
>>30002424

You check the boom, first and foremo- WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BOOM. The LCD is completely black. You switch to the second camera, rotating it back around to the first.

The arm is crumpled, twisted, as if something dense tore past it. The camera is gone entirely.

You rewind through footage from the stationary cameras. Black water, white snow, and then suddenly something huge tearing for a fraction of a second. You can’t believe how fast it was. Even at this depth, the lights should penetrate for several feet. Whatever that thing was…

You laugh nervously, typing another response to Mark.

CTHULHU FHTAGN, MARK. SOMETHING JUST TORE OFF CAMERA 1.

Still no response.

You spin to the thruster controls for the first time, rotating the capsule slowly, bringing the other boom around, trying to find the thing again. Maybe a torpedo? You wonder, but at this depth? You hope it was a torpedo. Humans, you could deal with.

MARK? STILL THERE?

Nothing. Maybe he’s busy preparing for the storm.

You systematically check your equipment monitor. Life support, good. Batteries, good. Outgoing feed, good. Incoming feed, audio’s broken, but the display still works.

You wish this damn thing had a porthole. Something you could just look through, instead of feeds and screens and cameras.

SORRY ABOUT THAT. WHAT’S GOING ON? HOW DID YOU LOSE THE BOOM?

SOMETHING BIG AND FAST HIT ME. CRUMPLED THE BOOM, TORE THE CAMERA OFF.

YOU SURE YOU DIDN’T JUST HIT A ROCK FORMATION? CHECK YOUR SONAR.

You check the sonar display. The weird fuzz in the corners, again.

SONAR’S FUCKING UP. I’M GETTING FUZZ.

NO, I’M SEEING IT TOO. WONDER WHAT IT COULD BE.

THIS IS FREAKING ME OUT, MARK.

LOOK, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FINE. YOU WANT US TO PULL YOU BACK UP RIGHT NOW?

What do you say?

>>30002689
HELL NO, I'M NOT GONNA PUSSY OUT UNTIL WE AT LEAST BEAT CAMERON

>>30002689
PULL ME THE FUCK UP MARK BEFORE I COME UP THERE AND SKIN YOUR ASS

>>30002689

FUCK THIS. BETWEEN THE STORM AND THE EQUIPMENT PROBLEMS I'M CALLING IT QUITS. WE'LL TRY AGAIN WEDNESDAY.

>>30002689
Agree. We dont have any audio cables, one of our vital camera's gone, we need to re-do this entire operation. But first, to stock up on supplies. We haven't evn beaten Cameron and with all this shit lost, getting swallowed by some ancient primal deity could get really fuckin' real.

>>30002689
No. We've gotten this far. We can't pussy out now.

>>30002689
Fuck this shit get out have a marine biologist or some one look at what little we have see if they can tell what it is. Also more supply's and rat traps. Lots of rat traps

>>30002874

Seconding this.

>>30002689
>PULL ME BACK UP MARK SHIT IS FUCKED

>>30002745
>>30002748
>>30002750
>>30002874
>>30003105

YEAH. FUCK THIS. PULL ME UP BEFORE I SWIM UP THERE AND SKIN YOUR ASS.

DIDN’T YOU SAY WE WEREN’T GOING TO QUIT BEFORE WE BEAT CAMERON?

THAT WAS BEFORE ALL THE AUDIO CABLES GOT CHEWED THROUGH, THE SONAR FUZZED UP, THE CRANE FUCKED UP (AGAIN), THE STORM ROLLED IN, MY BOOM GOT TORN OFF BY SOME GIANT SEA MONSTER THING, &C. IT’S LIKE A NEXUS OF BAD LUCK SUCKING UP ALL THE BAD LUCK FROM EVERYWHERE INTO AN ENDLESS BLACK HOLE OF BAD LUCK RIGHT ON TOP OF US.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, I GET IT. PULLING YOU UP NOW. IT’LL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE, KEEP IN MIND, AND WE’LL HAVE TO RESCHEDULE FOR NEXT MONTH. WE’RE LEASING THE DEEP OUBLIETTE TO BRAZIL IN THE MEANTIME.

WAIT, WHAT? IS THAT WHAT WE NAMED IT?

… YES?

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, MAN. WHATEVER.

You sigh. You’re a little frustrated that the fluid prevents you from sighing properly.

OH, AND MAKE SURE WE GET A SHITLOAD OF RAT TRAPS.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT. I GET IT. WE’LL DO BETTER IN A MONTH.

You feel the capsule begin to rise… then stop.

MARK? MARK, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

LOOK’S LIKE THE CRANE’S STUCK AGAIN. HANG TIGHT.

Right. You’ll do that.

ALRIGHT. SORRY. LITTLE ON EDGE. MIND PIPING SOME MUSIC DOWN?

YOU MENTION ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH DIVING AND I WILL PERSONALLY CUT THE CABLE.

What do you want to listen to, now?

>>30003173
Under the Sea- The Little Mermaid OST

>>30003173

...Moving On Up (the Jeffersons theme song?)

>>30003253

YES

>>30003173
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
(get it because if the cord is cut we're a lead zeppelin going down and will be walking up those stairs if so, hyukhyuk)

>>30003253
THIS!

>>30003253
Yeah, sure.

>>30003253
>>30003275
>>30003342
>>30003402

Writing.

>>30003507

UNDER THE SEA?

CABLE! CUTTING! NOW! HAVE FUN GETTING BACK UP BY YOURSELF!

JK, JK, PLEASE DON’T CUT THE CABLE. HOW ABOUT MOVING ON UP? THAT TECHNICALLY WORKS, RIGHT?

I AM THIS CLOSE, DALE. DO NOT TEMPT ME, FOR I HOLD YOUR LIFE IN THESE HANDS OF MINE.

He plays the song anyway. Halfway through, the capsule shakes, then starts to rise again. “Alright. Finally getting somewhere.” You glance at the equipment monitor one more time. All green, save for audio.

You turn the keyboard around in your hands, then hammer out another message.

HEY, CAN YOU GET ELLIE TO LOOK AT THE FOOTAGE OF WHATEVER HIT ME?

WE’RE HALF-ASSED, BUT NOT INCOMPETENT. ELLIE’S WORKING ON IT AS OF FIVE MINUTES AGO.

YEAH, RIGHT. YOU’RE TELLING HER TO CHECK IT OUT RIGHT NOW.

ALRIGHT, WE’RE INCOMPETENT, TOO. JUST A BUNCH OF RAGTAG MISFITS ON THE HIGH SEAS.

The craft judders again. This time, you hear a snap coming from up above. Oh, no. Oh, God, no. You glance at the depth gauge – falling, and falling fast.

MARK? MARK?

-MESSAGE COULD NOT BE SENT. CHECK YOUR NETWORK SETTINGS.-

What do you do?

>>30003763
>Try not to cry
>Cry a lot

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>>30003763
PANIC
Then calmly check if there are any deepsea diving suits abroad the vessel
If none are found
PANIC

>>30003763
Thrusters to max power, try and arrest our fall. Blow all the ballast, jettison everything jettisonable.
Don't panic.

>>30003763
Can we make the craft neutrally bouyant so we don't keep falling until we hit the bottom?

Also check cameras

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>>30003763
Start mashing buttons.

Alternatively, begin jumping and hitting the ceiling in an attempt to push it back up

If all else fails, scream to awaken our snowflake hidden power to save us

>>30003841
Seconding that

>>30003763
Prepare ourselves for inevitable death by dehydration or starvation or something. Maybe contemplate ways to off ourselves.

>>30003763

Oh, FUCK.

Um, panic/adrenaline mode. Let's do whatever we can to slow the craft's fall, jettison crap, flotation devices, emergency kits, whatever we've got. Get a diving suit on, if we have it, and keep an eye on the depth gauge. It's going to be high pressure central out there if we get deeper, and we need to prepare for hull collapse, since we're dropping like a stone.

>>30003822
>>30003841
>>30003960
>>30003965
God dammit, you people, panic is not going to help us here. It will, in fact, do the exact opposite of helping us.
SO STOP VOTING TO PANIC, YOU BRICKWITS, YOU'RE GOING TO GET US ALL KILLED.

>>30003822
>>30003841
>>30003848
>>30003874
>>30003938
>>30003960
>>30003965
>>30003989

How about all of the above?

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>>30004045
Let's go for it

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>>30004045
Sounds good, but maybe get rid of the second Panic

>>30004094

Seconding this, we should be better trained than that.

>>30004079
>>30004094
>>30004285

The fluorocarbon fluid, the all-metal construction, served to make the Oubliette just barely more dense than water. If it was air, you’d float up naturally. The name never felt more fitting. You jettison the ballast, and you descent slows to an acceptable speed. Your depth gauge reads… 36,758 and still falling at a rate of a foot every couple seconds. You literally dropped like a rock, but at least you beat Cameron’s record.

You look over at the dive suit. You’d never make it, even if you used it. Shore was some thousands of miles away, and at the bottom of the Superatlantic Trench, you’d crumple anyways after a step outside. The thing simply wasn’t built to the same tolerances as the Oubliette.

No way to jettison anything still inside. You drop the remaining three booms and engage the thrusters.

The thrusters don’t respond. You slap the controller with your hand. It probably won’t help, but it makes you feel a little better. After all, you’re on the verge of breaking down into tears.

You wonder idly if there’s a way to kill yourself before you die of suffocation or starvation.

No, no. There has to be a way out of this.

There’s no way out of this.

Has to be a way.

No way out.

You unbuckle yourself from the seat, swim to the top of the cabin, and push. It’s an insane, desperate idea, but it’s all you have. You think you hear someone screaming. It’s a while before you realize it’s you.

What do you do?

>>30004306

Are we still trying communication?

Also, keep praying, it's pretty much the only thing that'll save us at this point.

>>30004306
Try the thrusters again. Take stock of all available assets- tools, wiring, anything. Is there any way to cut unnecessary bits off from the inside of the pod?
Use the speakers to broadcast our prayers into the depths.

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>trapped deep underwater falling to the bottom of the ocean with no hope of escape

Thanks for hitting on one of my biggest nightmares, MARS.

>>30004306
Search the craft for any sort of radio
Send up the signal flares
Start playing Ride of the Valkyries
Pray to Poseidon again and promise you will become his divine instrument if he lets you get out of this
Look for your copy of the HHGttG
Wrap yourself in your towel

>>30004306
>>30004360

This, or just try and swim out. Who cares if the pressure will destroy us.

>>30004306
Wait, maybe some option will present itself.
Maybe we'll crash into atlantis.

>>30004403
We'll die instantly and the whole craft will decompress
No

>>30004360

This. At least it's something.

Let's not suicide just yet, boys.

>>30004439

Yeah, that's pretty much the last, delusional thing we will ever do. Just don't.

>>30004439
Actually, at this depth it would be 'the whole craft would compress.'

I just realized, if we're only slightly denser than water, we'll reach a point where the water is cold enough that it's denser than we are. We might not hit the bottom.

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>>30004439
All the way

>>30004306
look if there is an ledge or something we can land on to stop descending. it wont save us but it will buy time to think.

>>30004306

Stay calm. Rock back and forth, mumbling ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

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Mark said our pronunciation of Cthulhu language was impeccable
Why not pray to the Old God and see if he will help

You slam your head into the ceiling.

The pain of the impact knocks some sense back into.

“Take… assess the situation,” you tell yourself. “First… check the equipment readouts.”

Just confirms what you already know. Batteries are no longer charging, but good for another several hours if you keep the lights off. Outgoing feed, dead. Incoming feed, dead. Ambient temperature is… 50 F and rising? Impossible, it should be just above freezing. The knowledge chills your heart. You might just keep falling, all the way down.

You wonder if being buried alive is similar to this. As inevitable.

You shake the thoughts from your head. “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,” you murmur. Silly, superstitious phrase from a silly, superstitious age. You strap back into the chair, and engage the thrusters again.

[Roll 1d100’s to determine success. Taking the first 4 rolls.]

>>29998514
Limb Legion, IIRC

Rolled 33

>>30004639

THRUST OUR THRUSTERS.

Rolled 13

>>30004639

Rolled 75

>>30004639
welp here comes the fail

Rolled 39

>>30004639
I totally bet we hit Atlantis.

>>30004677
hay, i win

>>30004677
YES
LUCKY 77
WE WON THE LOTTERY

>>30004677
>>30004698
>>30004708
>The DC check was the last two digits of your post

Writing.

>>30004776
FUCK
PANIC

>>30004814

The thrusters roar to life, churning the water violently. You nearly slide out of your seat as they shoot you upward.

You remember something about decompression sickness. You’re not sure if the fluorocarbon fluid will mitigate the effects of the sickness, but to be safe you ease off on the thrusters. At the rate you’re going, it’ll be a couple hours before you breach surface. Plenty of time, then, for you and your thoughts.

The monitors go bright white for a brief second. You look around. Nothing but snow. You flick off the lights to conserve power, and settle back down into your chair.

“Well, that was fun. Next month sounds like a great time to almost die at the bottom of the sea again, right Poseidon? Cthulhu? Lil’ B?”

You laugh. You don’t like the sound of your laugh. Too high-pitched, too forced.

Movement on the starboard side. Just a glimpse of something big and fast, like last time. You rotate the capsule around to face it with your booms… and realize that you just jettisoned them for buoyancy.

What do you do?

>>30004913
>>30004913
We don't have cameras? Sonar?

>>30004913
Keep going up. Not much we can do about it..

>>30004913

If we have nothing but sonar, we've just gotta keep rising. Start humming I'm Going Home from Rocky Horror.

>>30004913
Humm the theme song from Cheers

>>30004913
Keep going up.

Sit in a corner in case something smashes right through and hits us. Although that would be the worst of our problems.

>>30004986
>>30004992
>>30005064
>>30005148

“Shouldn’t have lost the booms.” You recognize that even with the booms, you wouldn’t be able to fend off whatever the thing is, but having them around would at least make you feel better. You look around, thinking you might relocate yourself... No, the chair's still the safest place in the capsule. It was designed to be the safest place in the capsule. The capsule itself... well, you'll have a nice long talk with Mark and Brian about keeping the damn thing lighter than water.

You glance down at sonar. Just fuzz in the general direction of the thing. It barely registers, for some reason. Nothing you can do about it, but keep ascending and hope for the best.

You start humming a few bars, singing tonelessly.

“On the day I went away, goooooodbyyyyyyyyyyeee.”

There it is. It moves like a bullet. It’s coming right at you. You feed power to the side thrusters. The bastard barely let you get through the first bar.

[Roll 1d100 for success]

Rolled 2

>>30005205
here we go

Rolled 73

>>30005205
Try singing to it with the external speakers! Music will soothe the savage beast!

Rolled 84

>>30005205
Rollan

Rolled 59

>>30005205
Fuck it, just start singing the space jam theme

>>30005267
put the dice in the email field, friend

>>30005243
>>30005255
>>30005273
>>30005295

Writing.

Rolled 53

>>30005205
Start sucking my thumb for comfort in order to not panic again

Rolled 38

>>30005205

Was all, I had to say, now IIIIIiii....

Rolled 94

>>30005299
Scotch is a hell of a drink my friend

I am going to go ahead and add my two cents; I really think that music and not panicking are the two things that will get us through this. Music seems to be agitating this thing, and giving in to panic seems to be making the situation worse. Music is a channel of higher energies, whereas panic is a very base energy. We need to keep the music going, and allow our intense fear to manifest itself into heroic bravery and positivity in the face of madness.

>>30005351
BROTHER!

>>30005406
Those are certainly words.

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>>30005406

So... Jesus, take the wheel?

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>>30005406
Let's do it.

Commence: Don't Stop Believing, Journey

>>30005406
It's a good thing we balanced our humours out before we submerged, then, isn't it?

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>>30005457
>Le may-mays

>>30005457
Kind of.

>>30005473
This man understand.

>>30005318

The capsule swerves, and the creature scrapes by, sending you spinning as it passes. You quickly correct with a few taps of the thrusters.

“Man, I could get used to this. Was all I had to say, now Iiiiii- fuck, this ain’t gonna work. Mark! Space Jam th-FUCK.” The cable’s still cut, and audio’s been dead for a while now.

“I want to listen to the Space Jam theme, and I can’t remember the lyrics.” You swivel the capsule to face the creature again. It hardly resembles anything living – a battering ram, no. A comet trailing tentacles, ending in a rounded beak. “Hello. My name is Dale Valminuto. You cut my cable. Prepare to… fuck. I don’t have anything to kill you with.”

It charges forward at you.

What do you do?

>>30005483

Sorry, I failed my will save.

Rolled 65

>>30005430
>brother
S-sure no grills on th-the i-in-internets, amirite?

>>30005527
Brothers can be girls. When they're wearing a dress.

>>30005508
Evade with a sideways burst of the thrusters. Failing that, go back. If we're not fast enough, then RAMMING SPEED.

>>30005508
Commence the browning of the pants

Rolled 26

>>30005508
Just yell BREAK THE WALL DOWWN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okmi0mCNJ8g

>>30005508
EVADE

>>30005508

AHA! Shine the lights at it!

If it's a deep-sea creature, it likely has some serious light-sensitivity!

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>>30005508
Keep evading until we make it to the top

>>30005615
>>30005575
>>30005551
[Roll 1d100's to determine success]

Rolled 17

>>30005627

Rolled 44

>>30005627

Rolled 87

>>30005595
Rolling for this instead, because I like this idea.

Rolled 72

>>30005627

>>30005508
Trust down at maximum to evade

Rolled 1

>>30005639
You unbelievable fucker. What a waste of a good roll.

>>30005627

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>>30005632
>>30005636

>>30005642
>In a liquid
>Changing direction quickly
Whatisinertia.jpeg

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>>30005659
WHY

WHHHHHHHYYYYYY

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>>30005659
Oh gods what have I done.

>>30005659
Well. That was a bullet dodged.

>>30005639
I'll incorporate this, seeing as it doesn't conflict.

>>30005632
>>30005636
>>30005639
>>30005640
Writing.

Rolled 1

>>30005642

>>30005659
what have you done...

>>30005659
>>30005713
>Two consecutive 1s

Oh God what.

>>30005674
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL NYE

>>30005713
>>30005723

... I'm so very tempted.

>>30005713
My God...we are doomed.

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>>30005713
>>30005659

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>>30005713
>>30005659
The gods hate us.

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>>30005740
DO IT

>>30005740
I wouldn't blame you.

>>30005740
First half is above
Second half is double ones

Do it.

Rolled 65

>>30005740
Do it if you want to, man.

Rolled 34

>>30005740
>>30005767
Captacha: Paribily dufk

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>>30005740
Do iiit.

>>30005704
>>30005740

“BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!”

You flare your lights on as you push your thrusters to their maximum. The light seems to stun it just enough for it to falter, and it passes by. Its wake tugs the Oubliette.

“BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY!”

You turn the lights off once again, rotating the capsule.

The thing charges at you once again. You push your thrusters, flare your lights –

And a great gaping maw swallows the thing whole. Thousands of glowing eyes stare down at you. Tentacles lash out like whips around the Oubliette, ensnaring it. Your thrusters spin futilely, churning the dense water. Its mouth opens, revealing teeth like daggers, glowing with bioluminescence.

What do you do?

>Try not to cry.
>Cry a lot.

---

END.

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>>30005767
>>30005773
>>30005798
>>30005808
>>30005847
>>30005886


Remember people, you asked for this.

>>30005886
Welp.

>>30005886
Aww, but fun quest! I enjoyed this quite a bit.

>>30005886

Sweet oneshot, MARS.

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>>30005886
>Shit our pants.

OH GOD WHAT

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>>30005886
Welp, thanks OP.

You know complete failure aside the banter made it one of the best quests I have seen in awhile.

>>30005886
Damn.

>>30005886
well....that was abrupt bbut not unexpected....also did mark totally cutt the line

Rolled 7

>>30005886
Can we have a redo? ;_;
Pweeese?
I was just starting to have fun

>>30005953
This, really had fun with this one

>>30005886
Maybe Mark will come back soon and send a new sucker down to find out what happened.

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>>30005886
Good quest, OP. Look forward to seeing more of you in the future.

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>>30005886

>>30005980
> redo
> rolls 7

Hehe.

But, yeah, how about it OP?

Well, perfect timing for me to go to sleep. Awesome quest MARS, the dialog was pretty great.

>>30005886

WAIT - can we at least TRY to pray to Cthulhu again? The Old Ones always reward their servants in the face of great odds.

I am super curious to know what were some of the other possible outcomes, or at least, was there a successful possible outcome? PLZ MARS ENLIGHTEN ME

>>30005886
I can only pray I face my death shouting the Bill Nye the Science Guy theme.

Thanks for playing, everyone!

>>30005895
>>30005921
>>30005964
>>30005980
Oh, well! Who knows? He could still be alive being slowly digested over millenia, in horrific pain.

>>30005940
>>30005981
>>30005994
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

>>30005941
Yeah, I tried! I didn't have any idea what I was going to do until a couple hours before I started. DEEP SEA THING just called out to me.

>>30005953
Ha, good to know. Honestly, I was worried when I started out that I wouldn't be able to nail the banter down. I'm glad you thought otherwise!

>>30006051

Could we have survived, OP?

Rolled 7

>>30006051
Nah Mars it was perfect can I reroll on the redo though? ;_; I was having so much fun and I'm not even out of scotch yet

>>30006051
Thanks for the thread, OP! Archived.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/29996343/

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>>30006118
>Rolled 7 again
Guess it's your unlucky number!

>>30006051
If I can give you a bit of advice, I've been following your stuff for bit now and while you nail the writing part to a T the universes you choose tend to be either too complicated (Blame!) or a bit boring (Anima).

Makes me sad because you can really carry a game.

>>30006051
Do you plan on doing another one anytime soon?

Oh, and in case you'd like to participate in or read more of my quests, you can find me at http://twitter.com/MARS_ASCENDANT

>>30006046
>>30006099
I had some ideas floating around like finding some kind of monolith-equivalent at the bottom and going OH MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS, pirates boarding the ship as you came up... I dunno. All sorts of things, all of which seemed like good ideas at the time. Successful outcomes ranged anywhere from just surviving to receiving PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER and things.

I had no idea where I was going with this. I do regret not having a chance to go "What a story, Mark!" though.

>>30006118
>>30006029
Maybe another time? It's 23:00 and I've got to get up early tomorrow. Full day of classes ahead. I'll be running more stuff in the future! Sorry, scotch-anon. But I'll definitely have some more light-hearted things along with my usual grimdark despair things!

>>30006048
I, too, can only hope for such a fate.

>>30006016
Aww, thanks!

>>30006190
Hmm. I'll keep that in mind, and try to spice things up in the future. Thanks for the advice!

>>30006202
Possibly? I don't know that planning is the right word for it. I'll definitely do more quests, though!