EVENT ★ ZETA-12 FINAL WEEK

[futurologists]

ZETA-12: FINAL WEEK After team Audentes makes it out of the desert in more or less one piece, they'll begin to notice the environment changing once again. After the sparseness of the sands and canyons, vegetation and water once again become more common; eventually, they've found a lush jungle with plants and rivers both plentiful. And like the changing environment, the squidges once again begin to transform. Please select an evolution according to your choice. Please note, you must have submitted your choice to the thread in the previous logs in order for your squidge to evolve. For those who encountered the cave: If they went into the cave, their squidge has taken on one of the following features: a fox-like tail, an armadillo snout (with tongue!), or enhanced sense of smell. However, if they stayed above, their squidge has one of these: a beak, a prehensile tail, or enhanced sense of hearing. THE JUNGLE (WEEK 6) The jungle air is thick with humidity, light barely filtering down past the dense canopy of leaves overhead. Unlike the forest back at the beginning of the journey here, the climate in the jungle is almost stifling, so recruits may want to look for refreshing Rainbow Berries to snack on and keep their energy up -- but keep an eye out for the Lucifer's Poppy, as its effects can cause the journey to reach an abrupt end. Rivers wind through the jungle, with waterfalls ending in relaxing pools where recruits can try to beat the heat and spend some extra time with their squidges as the journey's end approaches. Like the other biomes, there are no creatures here -- no birds, no bugs, no jungle cats -- but that doesn't mean that recruits can leave their guard down entirely. Apart from various poison plants (such as the Beezlebulb and the Malboro) other hazards to look out for include slippery, moss-covered ground cover that may cause a hapless recruit to lose their footing, and the dangers of heat exhaustion. Unlike the previous biomes, there is no major choice for recruits to make here. Instead, they must bathe their squidge in the Wellspring, a bubbling, faintly glowing pool of water in the depths of the jungle. The Wellspring is responsible for triggering the squidges' final transformation and allowing them to grow into adulthood. In order for squidges to evolve into an adult, squidge parents must have completed a certain amount of tasks during the Zeta-12 mission. If these tasks were not completed, the squidge will not evolve and will remain in its larval stage. The evolution form can be found on this post. Squidges who successfully evolve into adults will grow in size, anywhere between 122-183cm (4-6'). They will loosely retain their rounded shapes, their limbs and torsos elongating, and any physical transformations will also grow with their size. In adulthood, squidges are less needy and frightened than in their larval stage, and generally have a calm demeanor (with exceptions made if they happened to pick up an aggressive trait along the journey, of course). Their language remains a wordless burbling, but they can communicate with their caregivers through gestures. After bathing their squidges in the Wellspring, regardless of the success of evolutions, recruits should prepare to depart Zeta-12 with the knowledge that their alien children are better, stronger, and smarter for the time they spent together. OOC NOTES This log lasts ICly for one week, and OOCly for 1.5 weeks. Once the mission is completed and the squidges are bathed in the Wellspring, recruits will have until August 20th to say goodbye and let their alien wards leave the metaphorical nest. Direct questions about the Zeta-12 mission here. And don't forget about the bounty board! After August 20th, Zeta-12 bounties will no longer be completable. Please remember to fill out your squidge success form! Participation is required to pass AC this month. If you have any questions about the form, please direct them here. Forms must be completed by August 31th, 23:59 UTC.

Comments

do you feel lucky punk

[winces]

[ her cheeks color, as is typical whenever praise or any form of compliment is thrown her way. she does not shy away too terribly, though, instead merely looking sheepish, as if she’d been caught pulling some kind of prank. ]

There are plenty of people in my troupe who had varying roles, [ she says. which is simply the polite way of saying she’s a gd triple threat: singing, acting, and dancing. tyvm! ]

We made a pretty good team, though, [ she says, grinning faintly when the squidges start to squirm over her lap to accommodate each other. ] We should sing together more often.

I play a ZE I never feel lucky

[12inches]

[ Whoa. ]

[ How does so much talent fit into such a tiny body. If his heart wasn't otherwise occupied, he'd be a little in love right now. But he can still be in love with a concept, can't he? He's found the girl One Direction wrote that song about, but there's so much more that makes her beau-ti-ful (like for example: dat ass). tl;dr what a stellar human being. What a good friend. ]

[ Alright, after a soft reboot, he's functional enough to speak again. ] I'll say. It's a shame we don't really have anything to listen to here either... I mean I know tons of stuff, but I get the weird feeling our musical tastes don't have much overlap.

wow

[winces]

Yes, it is a sha—

[ she pauses suddenly, as if something had only just occurred to her.

rather excitedly, she turns towards him, hands finding his forearm to give it a faint but excitable squeeze. ]

But we do have music! [ she keeps forgetting she has it, in all honesty, given how distracted she gets with every new world. ]

Sigma, do you know of a Miss Shaky-ra?

[12inches]

Oh, yeah?

[ He blinks at her sudden bout of enthusiasm. What, did she find an old CD player around here or something? (Archaic!) Because if she's got instruments, they're still not gonna have music, the extent of his talent in that department is probably the chords to Wonderwall every white fuckboy receives upon coming into contact with a guitar in college. ]

[ But her query has him scrunching up his face in thought for a moment, repeating the name under his breath once, then twice. Actually, it's the repetition that makes everything click. ]

Oh, Shakira!

[ He's pretty sure, anyway. ]

Like, III'm on tonight, you know my hips don't lie and I'm startin' to feel it's right
All the attraction, the tension. Don't you see, baby, this is perfection.

[ Complete with little melodramatic headtilts where he sits. He's kinda getting into it... But he somehow manages to stop himself short. ]

That Shakira?

[winces]

[ her eyes light up instantly at the sound of a familiar song (one of her favorites, to be honest). she leans forward, hands coming upon his arm to grasp it in her excitement. ]

Yes! That Shakira. [ her cheeks color a little upon realizing she had been pronouncing it wrong this entire time... but it doesn't dull her enthusiasm in the least. ]

I have quite a few of her songs, so we can listen to those if you like!