catchall rupert

[skyagain]

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[skyagain]

[ cloud has a moment of panic where he's like oh boy i am going to drown, that sucks, but then he can breathe in it and then it's just.

it's just weird now. ]

... Rupert? You good?

[ can HE breathe or is this because cloud is allegedly undead now ]

[agleam]

[he panics for maybe like ten seconds before he realizes cloud is talking and pauses, opening his mouth experimentally to try and breathe]

—Oh, that's weird. Uh, yeah, I guess I am?

[skyagain]

How...?

[ this place is so weird. how are they underwater and breathing. he hates this hotel so much ]

... You know how to swim, right?

[ since there is no walking. forward. ]

[agleam]

Good question! But it beats not being able to breathe, so I guess I won't question it that much. This time.

[he is now half expecting the normal way water operates to kick in halfway through and drown them both, but he's not going to think too much about it. it's fine.]

Uh - yeah, I do.

[but since he's a noodle he isn't very fast at it]

[skyagain]

[ he is also expecting them both to drown eventually. the sonic drowning music plays in the bg. cloud kicks the water experimentally to move forward ]

Great. ... Guess we'll just keep moving forward and see what happens?

[ in the ocean. ]

[agleam]

Yeah, sure. I'll, uh, try my best.

[his uno eye is unfortunate. i'm assuming since they can talk and breathe the water is also somehow magically not messing with it, but it still makes it weird to move in a straight line, probably, especially since he doesn't swim that much.]

[skyagain]

[ don't worry rupert! cloud isn't going that fast either because his left arm is still fucked up. very rude of the game to heal him of two out of three holes in his body. these dumbasses are going to die. ]

... Why did it have to be swimming...

[ luckily for them the shipwreck isn't that far from their starting point! unluckily for them, they still have to try to maneuver through a shipwreck. ]

... Think we're supposed to go in?

[agleam]

...We're probably supposed to go in, but I also really don't want to.

[he's going to go in. he just has to stare into the middle distance for like ten seconds first.]

[skyagain]

... We're not going to be able to see shit in there, either. [ no it's fine. cloud will accompany him in being tired. ] And I don't know that my sword works great underwater.

[agleam]

What are the chances we'll find a convenient underwater door leading out of here somewhere if we just decide to swim past this?

[skyagain]

With our combined luck? Not even the ghost of one. We're going to end up in a whirlpool and right back here somehow.

[ pessimism. ]

[agleam]

Don't give them any ideas.

[his tone makes it clear he isn't serious at least]

[skyagain]

They don't need my help for that.

[ he's not sebastian, but cloud kicks off towards the ship ]

C'mon, let's get it over with. [ a beat ] ... Watch out for sharks.

[agleam]

[rule of funny now decrees that the first thing they're going to run into is a shark

but not yet. he's swimming inside cautiously, looking around.]

You see anything?

[skyagain]

[ cloud's eyes have a very slight brighter glow in the dark. this is not nearly enough to see jack shit underwater, including whatever ironic incoming shark is about to happen. he swims over until he finds a hole in the hull ]

A lot of wood. Think we can fit in there?

[ in my head this is just going to be the little mermaid scene ]

[agleam]

Probably? I think—

[whatever he's about to say gets discarded as he hears something. it's the jaws theme (no)

it's the sound of water churning and swishing around somewhere behind them, and he pauses. slowly:]

Please tell me you don't hear or see something and I'm just imagining that noise.

[skyagain]

[ there's a pause right back as he listens and also looks behind them. ]

... Get in the hole, now.

[ he'll grab and yank him forward so he can force rupert in first before following. now they are even more in the dark in the hull! but at least they missed the first shark bite! they can tell this because the shark chomps on wood right behind them ]

I don't think we can outswim it.

[ rupert asked for one thing and cloud is only givig him bad news instead. what a dick. ]

[agleam]

What's—

[he's about to answer before he gets shoved inside. i refuse to use the word hole in this thread except for that one time, but here they are inside the ship! he's just looking at the shark as it tries to break through the wood.]

Cool! Great, uh... What are the chances we can hide or something before it breaks through? Or, like, hit it with the sword and hope it goes away?

[this is why he's not a strategist]

[skyagain]

I don't know how much momentum I can get to swing it underwater. And right now...

[ the downside of being inside the hull is that this is kind of a ... tight fit. once again i have nerfed the buster sword by putting it in a closed environment ]

I think I'm more likely to make it a second entrance if I try.

[agleam]

[a beat.]

...So do you have a different plan or are we just going to wait for the inevitable, here?

[skyagain]

I'm thinking. [ GIVE HIM A SECOND ] Maybe there's a door or something down here. Let's just... keep going further and see.

[ can they even see anything. ]

[agleam]

[they cannot. but also he glances back towards the shark which is making progress on getting in, so:]

Uh, yeah, swimming in the dark in the hopes we find something definitely beats this.

[off they goooo...]

[skyagain]

[ off they go! there is definitely some bumping into walls or poles or whatever ships have in them. i am not a ship expert ]

Every week I tell myself these are stupid, and then every week I'm back here trying not to get eaten by a shark underwater.

[ why don't they LEARn, RUPERT ]

[agleam]

Next time you can pick the door.

[that is not the problem here]

[skyagain]

That's obviously not the problem here.

[ sometimes the meta text is right, rupert. anyway, wow, do we want them eaten by a shark or to find a treasure? a mystery we can decide but it absolutely needs to be that they see a glint somewhere in the dark that looks accessible but won't be easily so because of irony again ]

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