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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[splinten]

[Dirk puts his face in his hands because now he has to look after the health needs of an entire collective.]

[subnauticmods]

[ Thanks for adopting the Kharaa, Dirk.

P Diddy considers the question. ]

That depends on our host. For example, if the Dirk became a host, anything that makes him healthy would work for us.

[parodeity]

Huh. Do you know what stuff would make the hosts you guys have now healthy? If not I guess we could ask some of our doctors?

[ he just slides into providing dirk with a telepathic translation of shit which he should have done to start with. ]

[splinten]

[Thank you, Dave, that would have been easier earlier yes.

Also please do not consider the Dirk as an example host???]

[subnauticmods]

[ Too late. The Dirk is an example host. ]

Hmm... we are not sure! The species of Iniidae are not on any known databases that exist off planet. We can only speculate based on what we have seen from watching them in the wild. If you give us more time, we can research this more carefully, Dave!

[parodeity]

If you can, that'd be cool. You guys need to take care of yourselves and stay healthy, okay?

[ advice dave himself does not take ]

[splinten]

We can give them the information in our databases on Red Eyes.

[To help them stay healthy. Sorry Kharaa you get this now.]

[subnauticmods]

[ They seem slightly confused by this since thing like taking care of themselves and staying healthy isn't normally very high on their list of things they need to do. ]

[ To Dave: ] What did he say? [ And then to the both of them, even though Dirk can probably only catch a few words: ] Normally we do not have to worry about things like health. We are many off this planet.

[parodeity]

Oh we have info on the light frogs, they're the red eyes. To give to you?

[ :|a he considers what they said, but. ]

I think Dirk's actually right here. You should worry about health because...I'd be sad if you guys died? You have to take care of yourselves. If P Diddy died you wouldn't get to do the same things or be in the same place, y'know? You're him now. Even if y'all are collective, the details are important, too.

[splinten]

[It actually makes Dirk wonder if in a sense they're all splinters of each other, or something like that. Separate and yet connected, distinct but of the same root. With Dave naming them and teaching them all these things, would they even be able to reintegrate with other Kharaa?

Food for silent thought as Dave pushes Dirk's pro-health agenda on these alien kids.]

[subnauticmods]

[ The Kharaa all fall silent at the words. There's still one in the back drinking apple juice though.

After a moment, they all begin to start chattering again though. ]

Why would you feel sad for us?

[parodeity]

Because when your friends get hurt or die, you're sad. It's a thing that happens. And you'd be losing the life you have now. Like...don't you kinda like it? Maybe you could have another host and another life someday, but I think maybe you should focus on the fact you're alive right now and living with family and friends and whatever. What's the point otherwise?

[ he's not sure how to word it. maybe that works. maybe it doesn't? but. ]

And I'd feel sad that I wouldn't get to talk to you as you are now, you know? I guess that sounds weird probably to you....but I'd miss you.

[splinten]

[That one Kharaa with the aj is proof that Dirk must take care of these kids as he would the Magister. They are Dave's children.]

You might try figuring out how they understand individuality and life to help you explain your idea of it to them.

My guess would be that every individual is part of the whole. The collective can continue on without that piece, but regardless of continuity, the collective has been changed. Some part of this Kharaa group will have been lost forever. The group will always be a little bit different, or in more charged terms, less. Even if they develop new members, they are still less their dead. That's pretty sad to me.

[It is, coincidentally, not dissimilar to how Dirk talks and thinks about splinters.]

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[ P Diddy listens to what they're both saying, although he still can't understand Dirk. Either way, he cocks his head to the side. ]

We don't do "sad". We are... [ He looks over at the other Kharaa, like he isn't exactly sure what word he's looking for. Apparently none of them do either. ]

[parodeity]

I'm hurt. You wouldn't miss me if I were gone?

[ but yeah, ok, that makes. sense. although dave doesn't know that not knowing the word means they don't do it, but he's...idealistic in a few dumb ways. ]

Dirk's saying that you can continue when you lose a piece of your whole, but that if you lose a piece, it's still a change. Some part of your group will have been lost forever, and will be a little different. I think differences can be good, when you learn them and when it's like...I guess loss is just a sad thing to humans. But I get that you don't get it.

[splinten]

[Thumbs up bc thanks for passing it on Dave.

P Diddy is endearing to Dirk. Here he goes.]

[subnauticmods]

[ P Diddy does whatever the thumbs up equivalent is for his small alien body. ]

If we lose a piece, it just means the others will have to work harder for the mission. [ The mission known as intergalactic conquest. ] It isn't sad, it's failure!

[parodeity]

[ find a happier mission guys ]

Yeah, see, usually thinking of death as failure is like, frowned upon in human society.

[splinten]

[Instead of doing a comparative analysis of human cultures and their responses to death, for once in his life Dirk SHUTS HIS FUCKING MOUTH.]

Not a good approach to failure, no. That might be another concept you want to talk about with them. In general it'll be easier to explain your perspective if you're able to understand theirs first.

[subnauticmods]

[ P Diddy almost points out that human society probably feels that way to make themselves feel better because they die pretty easily. He does not say it, though, because he is learning about friendship. ]

We will try not to make you frown then, Dave and the Dirk!

[parodeity]

We'll try to keep y'all smilin' too.

[ his terrible accent in kharaa is denoted by my continuing to write out his texan twang. don't judge me ]

By the way, what's up with the conquest mission, anyway?

[ has dave really not seriously asked about this in like, nearing a year of looped time.









maybe.

sorry dirk. ]

[splinten]

[He doesn't ask 'Have you seriously not talked about that' but the vague angles of his minor turn towards Dave express in a language that only Striders can understand exactly that feeling.]

[subnauticmods]

[ P Diddy tilts his head in a confused manner. ]

What exactly do you mean by that, Dave?

[parodeity]

Like, why is that a thing? Goals usually have reasons, I guess?

[ not always but "just because" would also be. a thing to work with? ]

Like my current goal is to figure out who is in charge of making cheese and help them, so that end result I can get pizza. And also nachos.

[splinten]

[Why is this Dirk's brother. Why is he trying to help with this.]