URSULA CONTACT

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URSULA CONTACT
URSULA is usually available for brief contact. Consider this her inbox. Although she may be busy ICly doing something at the time, she can usually spare some time to answer something.

Alternately, you can link to a thread where she is being called upon. Note that she may ignore these calls or contacts dependent on her mood. Don't worry if she ignores you once or twice, as she will sometimes comment on open posts or make broadcasts to everyone.

Please label the day and time of the contact in the subject header.

For those curious, her voice sounds similar to this.

If any players wish to contact Naoko and her group, they are free to use this page. They will have to take the three hour trip by air or sea as there is currently no long-range communication in place for them. Please specify in the header that it is Naoko you are trying to reach and not URSULA, in this case, as well as labeling the date you are contacting the group.

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Comments

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Well... I suppose there are times where I may not be as "chipper." For example, if any of you were to pass away, I definitely be upset about it! My crew is very important to me.

[smileyfaced]

So I've heard from you many, many times.

I won't bully you too much. I have a question for you.

[subnauticmods]

I never thought that you were bullying me, Chara. But yes, please go ahead! I'll try to answer as well as I can.

[smileyfaced]

[Too sweet, as usual.]

I heard there were two creatures who have power over our dreams. Is that true?

[subnauticmods]

Oh! Research that several members of our crew has made indicates that, yes. I really do not have that much information on them, I'm afraid. I learned about these "horrorterrors," as some call them, right when the crew did.

[smileyfaced]

[Horrorterrors sounds like a great name. Whoever came up with that deserves credit.]

I'm surprised. Your previous crews never ran into them?

[subnauticmods]

My previous crew unfortunately didn't survive long enough for that... We crashed onto this planet, and the ones who didn't die on impact didn't make it very long here. I had been in sleep mode until you all started showing up.

[ She doesn't sound too happy about this story. ]

[smileyfaced]

[They've seen the life pods scattered on the sands during their swims. It never occurred to them it was URSULA's crew. People died all the time. Why wouldn't the chances be higher for an alien planet?]

... you're lucky we showed up, then. Who knows how long you would've stayed asleep.

[subnauticmods]

Eventually, if I stayed asleep long enough, I assume my servers would break down. It would take a very long time. But it would happen eventually and I would 'die'.

[smileyfaced]

Does thinking about it bother you?

[subnauticmods]

I don't know. I don't know what it's like to die.

[smileyfaced]

You're a machine. For you, it'll probably feel like falling asleep. You won't even notice it. That's the best sort of death anyone can have.

[subnauticmods]

Isn't death still terrible? Everyone seems to fear it.

[smileyfaced]

Living can be terrible too.

[subnauticmods]

But if you're alive, it can get better. Time inevitably means things get better, doesn't it?

tw: suicide implication + ideation

[smileyfaced]

[They wonder. Chara and Frisk climbed Mt. Ebott for similar reasons. What they couldn't find in life, they sought in the darkness below. Chara's life ended because there was no use in keeping a human child alive. Yet Frisk--who experienced almost everything Chara had and more--found a happy ending. They found the life Chara had to throw away.

Even now, they feel as though they're still trailing after Frisk, following their path. If Frisk hadn't fallen, then...]

You say that, but look at what happened to your original crew.

[subnauticmods]

That... it's true not everything can go well. But how will you know until it happens? Isn't that part of life's mysteries?

[smileyfaced]

You have the luxury of saying so because you're not human. You can afford to wait and observe. It isn't always so for humans.

[subnauticmods]

Then what is it like for humans?

[smileyfaced]

The same as it is for animals. Some live good, long lives. Some don't.

There's no reason to it.

[subnauticmods]

But... that must be frightening. Of course, my servers could crash but there are precautions against losing all my data. I just never thought of how scary it must be to suddenly end forever.

[smileyfaced]

... you don't have to be worried. If anything happened to you, this crew will fix you. That's your advantage.

[subnauticmods]

But I'm worried about you, my crew. I didn't realise the way death must weigh on the minds of everyone here.

[smileyfaced]

[A long and awkward pause.]

Most people don't think about death so much. We'll be okay, URSULA.

[subnauticmods]

Are you sure? Is there anything I can do? I'm just so worried. I won't do anything to remind anyone of it, of course, but if I could ease the fears of it...