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legionmissions2017-05-23 10:49 pm
bachido) wrote in legionmissions2017-05-23 10:49 pm
The Deep Green Sea
Who| Kubo and Beetle
What| A search-and-rescue mission on a rainforest planet, for two Legionnaires who might be voted Least Likely to Complain About Camping.
Where| The planet Possuelo, newly discovered subject of much scientific survey.
When| Just after the Teen Party, vaguely during Other Mother and Gods Among Us.
Warnings/Notes| Venomous creatures! Carnivorous plants! Quicksand! Piranha squirrels!
The forest is as deep as a sea, and geographically, behaves like one. I have recorded trees whose trunks top two miles in height, where the unseen ground plunges in ravines so deep that only deep sea explorers have ever been as close to a planet's core without breaking the crust. Just like a sea, one would hardly suspect such depth, gliding over the uniform green of the canopy. One unbroken vast sea of leaves, studded with flowers, alive with creatures that have climbed and flown up from the depths. I see a new species every day. I have no doubt if I could descend past that impenetrably thick canopy with more than just my sonar, I would likely see a new one every hour. I only wish I had the luck - or rather, the funding - to make such an expedition.
Doctor Euptychia got her wish - to descend beneath Possuelo's canopy, but not by funding. A malfunctioning gyrocompass had set her research ship crashing into the jungle, her last dispatched coordinates issued several minutes before her many-mile careen into the deep, heavily overgrown layers of the planet's sealike jungle. Though the doctor had managed to put out one last message indicating that she was alive - and that her ship, while salvageable, needed parts she couldn't exactly forge in the rainforest. Including a new GPS. With her location uncertain within five or so miles of her last known coordinates and power for interstellar communications low, the good doctor needed a good rescue.
Kubo was already planning the first act of the thrilling story as he and Beetle stood at the edge of Possuelo's green sea, ready to begin their expedition to Doctor Euptychia's last known coordinates to execute a search pattern, find the doctor, and deliver her the tools they'd all need to call their ride back to civilization.
Kubo had told Beetle the story several times already on the ride to Possuelo, ostensibly so Beetle would remember it, but if he were being honest, mostly because this was certain to be a great tale.
"It DOES look like a sea," Kubo said, staring in wonder over the waving green from the plane where their shuttle had landed, dispatching them with their supplies. Behind them stretched an arid desert of red sand, but in front of them, the ground dropped down in a gentle slopw, grass growing into shrubs, growing into saplings, into trees that had all risen, like water, to the same level. "Father, have you ever seen a forest this big?"
He looked over his shoulder at Beetle as he stepped into the grass, eager to begin this great adventure, the Sword Unbreakable ready in his hand for the thick undergrowth he'd seen be hacking his way through.
What| A search-and-rescue mission on a rainforest planet, for two Legionnaires who might be voted Least Likely to Complain About Camping.
Where| The planet Possuelo, newly discovered subject of much scientific survey.
When| Just after the Teen Party, vaguely during Other Mother and Gods Among Us.
Warnings/Notes| Venomous creatures! Carnivorous plants! Quicksand! Piranha squirrels!
The forest is as deep as a sea, and geographically, behaves like one. I have recorded trees whose trunks top two miles in height, where the unseen ground plunges in ravines so deep that only deep sea explorers have ever been as close to a planet's core without breaking the crust. Just like a sea, one would hardly suspect such depth, gliding over the uniform green of the canopy. One unbroken vast sea of leaves, studded with flowers, alive with creatures that have climbed and flown up from the depths. I see a new species every day. I have no doubt if I could descend past that impenetrably thick canopy with more than just my sonar, I would likely see a new one every hour. I only wish I had the luck - or rather, the funding - to make such an expedition.
Doctor Euptychia got her wish - to descend beneath Possuelo's canopy, but not by funding. A malfunctioning gyrocompass had set her research ship crashing into the jungle, her last dispatched coordinates issued several minutes before her many-mile careen into the deep, heavily overgrown layers of the planet's sealike jungle. Though the doctor had managed to put out one last message indicating that she was alive - and that her ship, while salvageable, needed parts she couldn't exactly forge in the rainforest. Including a new GPS. With her location uncertain within five or so miles of her last known coordinates and power for interstellar communications low, the good doctor needed a good rescue.
Kubo was already planning the first act of the thrilling story as he and Beetle stood at the edge of Possuelo's green sea, ready to begin their expedition to Doctor Euptychia's last known coordinates to execute a search pattern, find the doctor, and deliver her the tools they'd all need to call their ride back to civilization.
Kubo had told Beetle the story several times already on the ride to Possuelo, ostensibly so Beetle would remember it, but if he were being honest, mostly because this was certain to be a great tale.
"It DOES look like a sea," Kubo said, staring in wonder over the waving green from the plane where their shuttle had landed, dispatching them with their supplies. Behind them stretched an arid desert of red sand, but in front of them, the ground dropped down in a gentle slopw, grass growing into shrubs, growing into saplings, into trees that had all risen, like water, to the same level. "Father, have you ever seen a forest this big?"
He looked over his shoulder at Beetle as he stepped into the grass, eager to begin this great adventure, the Sword Unbreakable ready in his hand for the thick undergrowth he'd seen be hacking his way through.
i am the slowest 8|;;;
Nonetheless, his strength in storytelling- now that was still Kubo's forte. Beetle listened eagerly as they moved, trying to visualize it as Kubo spoke. Something distantly crowded at the edges of his mind, dancing just out of reach, it felt like if he reached a little further he could grasp it...
Happening quite a bit more often, recently. Sometimes he could, sometimes he couldn't, but he always, always tried. And as Kubo paused right on the edge...
Beetle perked up suddenly, raising a hand. "...but then one of them said, 'We'll dig out way out'!"
He was so proud to remember this he didn't quite notice he was walking right in to those trees.
WHUD.
Counterargument: no I am the actual slowest
First - "Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" The many peaks and river valleys in the Forest of the Golden Lake meant that the trapped soldiers could have far less to dig THROUGH than climb UP.
Then - "You remembered something!"
It was exciting and encouraging - and interrupted, as Kubo giggled at Beetle walking into the wall of fallen trees. But even with the giggling, he didn't give Beetle much time to react to the impact before letting loose his flood of questions.
"What happened after that? With the bear climbing the tree, and the warriors downriver, what happened to them?" Kubo jammed the Sword Unbreakable into one of the logs, grabbing one of Beetle's left hands to keep his attention. "When you remembered, was it just a flash, or the rest of the story? Did you see it, or did you just . . . know that's how it went?" He hesitated a moment before adding, "Did I tell the rest of the story right?"