Deep Rise : An Illustrated Xenofiction Adventure

[chimericWilder]

> You can do with something of less quality. Besides, when you are hungry, everything tastes better.

[Armok]

> try to order plains ape in an attempt to disturb it.

[Nighzmarquls]

> Eat its face.
> Ask for something a bit less good but greater in quantity!
> You can do with something of less quality. Besides, when you are hungry, everything tastes better.
> try to order plains ape in an attempt to disturb it.
> Do something obscene. (carry over)

Oh the urge to leap up and rip that squishy stupid delicious face off!

Its a lie of course the face is not delicious, its been used in a servitor, the flesh would taste different, not fresh, no spice from that searing light above. Just the cool clammy chalkiness of the deepness in home. And that vaguely erotic hint of...

CEASING LINE OF THINKING

Anyway!

Surface plains apes never hold their flavor if you keep them down here long, and no matter what some of the distant cities promise, the Domesticated kind is nothing like free range!

You better just order something simple and bland like you have for most of this semester, you never have the restraint to save your clout for big events or dire dull drums like now.



Resigned to simply take it from the stupid plains ape faced servitor you prepare to speak when a jolt from your legs comes unbidden with fresh vocalizations in a stringent chorus of desire!

Roast Plains Ape Free Range, Cooked Till the Core is Bubbling!

Oh no, you've done it now...

You can see the putrid thing contorting its muscles around on that smear of calcified ugh!

Its... Just not right for a servitor to be able to do that down at you!

_..._Apprentice of the House Quoriaka_..._
_..._Bloomed from the Flank of Splitareitrix Emboldened The Eldest of House Quoriaka_..._
_..._Providence is ever willing to supply for the needs of the Dormitory_..._
_..._But the supplies so bequeathed to the stores by thy Family Quoriaka and its honorable Eldest Ancestor Splitareitrix Emboldened_..._
_..._Is Insufficient for every Apprentice to enjoy the delectable richness of freshly roasted Surface Ape_..._
_..._It is unfortunate that Apprentice of the House Quoriaka cannot enjoy thy favorite dish, which thy had thus far enjoyed with great regularity_..._
_..._Of course Prior to thine recent induction into the honorable status of Apprentice to the Elders of the Dormitory_..._
_..._Perhaps thee would Wish to request the Charity of another Apprentice who has been blessed with greater call on the Reserves_..._
_..._Providence is certain some of thine fellow Apprentices would understand the great deprivations thy must endure far from home_..._
_..._ ??? _..._

Oh Royals...

That...

That was worse then usual... you... you...

You want to curl up in a corner and not be seen right now...

Wait Who's that behind you?

Oh Hey! My Favorite none servitor is here! How can I be of SERVICE to you? Oh is that Big ole Providence giving you trouble again? I Can Fix that No problem... PROVIDENCE!

Get My Roomie Here that Order on my bequeath! And also a bowl of those Red Fungi-light Things from the surface and the Ceiling Oooze it looked zesty today!

The Royals and Elders just hate you, That has to be it... its a conspiracy to get you to end yourself because your such a poor student... yeah there is no way that this much suffering is a natural coincidence...

Why does THE ROOMMATE always come by and show off how much their family is willing to give them per semester.

Oh what are you going to do now?!

[Wessolf27]

>Ragescold on your ROOMMATE

[Nighzmarquls]

Sorry ta psyche ya on that one folks but wanted to introduce life from the perspective of the room mate before you get a chance to resolve that little brawl

>Ragescold on your ROOMMATE

Oh you are so going to rage scold your ROOMMATE but wait what is this?!

Oh dear it appears that you are no longer MetaSerevaori of House Quoriaka, in fact you don't even know anyone named MetaSerevaori but YOUR FAVORITE ROOMMATE is from that family, maybe they know them?

Either way your just catching a brief contemplation after a really dully lecture on stuff you already know about, you should probably wake up.



Ah that is delightfully better!

You are EXTREMELY FRIENDLY and happy to introduce yourself!



You Are?

[chimericWilder]

Caw of house Doom

[Wessolf27]

Seckeska

[cryptidWrangler]

>Spoiled Bratwurst of House BLUHBLUHBLUH
>Cheertwit the Derpened
>Joviolate Explorascen

[Armok]

Haipieijit of house Epenor.

[Gloopy]

Grkkl'yrrk

[Nighzmarquls]

> Caw of house Doom
> Seckeska
> Spoiled Bratwurst of House BLUHBLUHBLUH
> Cheertwit the Derpened
> Joviolate Explorascen
> Haipieijit of house Epenor
> Grkkl'yrrk

You are Cao oh sorry thats your GIVEN name, you suppose some folk find that innapropriate but your just so happy to share it, there are just so many wonderful people to know and even with all of the forevers its going to be really hard to meet and be friends with them.

Your taken name is Cheertwit Explorascen of House Joviolate.

Most folk think that you give the wrong first impression with such a light hearted and silly taken name but it always suits you and its best to be honest about things.

You are almost always so cheerful and you love to twitter and hoot and warble little songs just for the fun of it. You also Love your Squidpad Servitor!

You named them "Scribble Cute!", your Incubator & Ancestor Haipieijit the Ever Becoming, Eldest of House Joviolate made it just for you to keep you entertained!

Oh You Love Servitors, they are so ADORABLE and those things their made of are GREAT too!

You'd Love to go up and see the surface, your FAVORITE ROOMMATE is so lucky, their family goes to the surface and catches new creatures for the many trades in the city!



Speaking of the wonderful ROOMMATE they are probably waking up soon, Oh you should go find them and give them a nice FRIENDLY greeting!

Your class schedules are opposite for some reason you've never quite understood (After all its the choice of the apprentices what classes they take) but you figure they must really enjoy all those random subjects they keep choosing from the Professors!

Oh my you just know your forgetting something... oh YEAH!



You specifically remembered some wonderful surprise plan in one of your arms, then chopped it off and sent it off to go set up the surprise so that you could enjoy it with your FAVORITE ROOMMATE together.

Goodness this is going to just be the MOST ROYAL after class break EVER!

WHAT DO YOU DO FIRST?!

[Wessolf27]

>Ponder about fashion

[Armok]

> dance

[chimericWilder]

> Spontaneously Aggress!

[Nighzmarquls]

Apologies for getting this up so late, I had to take a nap after work today... But here ya are.

> Spontaneously Aggress!
> dance
> Ponder about fashion

Oh goodness you just love fashion, you spend a portion of yourself thinking about it most all the time!

Your always considering new interesting arrangements of cloth, leather, polymers... there are so many options!



You've even toyed with that soft metal that no one seems to like for anything but writing!

Of course there is no practical value in all this design work, after all clothing is something you come up with for yourself and then dictate servitors to construct for you... absolutely no one would ever pay any clout for a full time clothing designer!

Why such a thought is so silly it hardly needs explaining.



Not that you let THAT stop you from exercising Scribble Cute by doodling all kinds of new ideas that your probably not going to wear until your well done with the apprenticeship.

Oh you love your little servitor and its NIFTY color changing skin! you've been training it to make new colors lately but your thinking you might have to go and ask your Incubator to grow more capable skin for it soon poor little Scribble Cute has been getting stressed with some of the higher range approximations and some new pigment would make that so much easier for it!



Oh my! you do believe this is your BEST collaboration with Scribble Cute yet! Yes you will most certainly tell it to memorize this one for later study and then transfer over to a laminate!

Of course your FAVORITE ROOMMATE would say that its not any contribution from Scribble Cute since it IS a servitor but that is just gunky leg thinking on their part.

You know that servitors are all gifted with wonderfully clever thinking kernels... you've seen your family gently core them out of those adorable little calcified boxes their kept in since you were a bloomling.

Anyway this monumentus occasion deserves a victory dance of jubilation!



Hooray for You!

Yipee for Scribble Cute!



Ah that was a lot of fun but you can't spend all your break dancing!

(even though that would be incredibly fun and you have done it before)

There is a surprise being made by your recently separated limb and you should not be late!
But because of your thoughtfulness you still need to puzzle out where it is that you would have planned to have it happen...

Its somewhere that your roommate and you could both enjoy the wonderful thrill of the surprise, but where to go? you might have planned that your supposed to go and find them... or maybe your limb is setting up the surprise in AMBUSH for your roommate (that is always a squeel!).

Oh so many wonderful choices!

To the Observatories!

To the Apprentice Commons!

[Wessolf27]

Observatories!!!

[chimericWilder]

Yes, Observatories. What a fitting place to ambush someone from.

[cryptidWrangler]

>To the Apprentice Commons!

[Armok]

> cloth, leather, polymers... leather... scrib- Hey! What'd happen if we took some of that colour changing skin, made dress of it, and hooked it up to our own congress? It'd be a whole new way to express ourselves!

> Probably would want some local thinking kernels spread over it to make interesting patterns without having to think up every detail and try to send it through some single nerve that on top of it would have to be re-learnt every time we took the dress of and had to sever the connection.

[Nighzmarquls]

> Observatories!!!

> Yes, Observatories. What a fitting place to ambush someone from.

> cloth, leather, polymers... leather... scrib- Hey! What'd happen if we took some of that colour changing skin, made dress of it, and hooked it up to our own congress? It'd be a whole new way to express ourselves!

> Probably would want some local thinking kernels spread over it to make interesting patterns without having to think up every detail and try to send it through some single nerve that on top of it would have to be re-learnt every time we took the dress of and had to sever the connection.

> To the Apprentice Commons!

Ah Skippidy Do! The Observatory would be a GREAT place to ambush some one, could that be why no one ever hangs out there right after your done with classes?

Its not like that one INCIDENT left anyone permanently injured... they just needed some intensive medical care and had to be told what their name and focus was afterwards.

Anyone could forget that if they fell that far and splattered...

Hardly any harm at all!

You'll just check though so you can enjoy the view and then head to the apprentices commons.

Yeah!



Oh Goodness and Royals breath!

You just had the best idea ever!

This one even tops the newt flavored ice cream slurry one from just before class!

Your going to have to give up some of your semesters clout to afford the extra thinking kernals, and the yardage... and You'll probably need to track down the medical instructor on how exactly one builds one of those interfaces... But this will surely make everyone think you are GREAT instead of always kinda, glaring at you from a distance.

You Swear you didin't know it was THAT spicy but no one will let you live down when your Chile melted through your first taste tester's body...

They were hardly out of commission for more then four classes!

Well maybe it was twelve but you don't like those weird clunky shaped numbers.

Oh goodness your here!



The Observatory is such a great spot, you can see a lot of the city from here and it has one of the BEST views of the city's ROYAL:

Tender Hater of the Surface that Lashes us with Kindness

You've missed classes just luxuriating in the little twinkling light of the ROYAL Tender Hater but it does not look like anyone is here and no surprises or notes left by your industrious little arm...

Mmmm

Wait what were you doing?

[Wessolf27]

You were looking for your wonderful person of a roommate.

[chimericWilder]

Preparing your most insidious plot-ambush yet

[Nighzmarquls]

> You were looking for your wonderful person of a roommate.
> Preparing your most insidious plot-ambush yet

Ah time to head back down to the apprentice commons and track down your roommate so you can then get ambushed by your masterful plan that you've conveniently relocated in your arm so that it can carry it out, Yes your pretty sure you did that all right.

Oh hey its Ramaniculs Machinartisan... oh dear they still have not gotten over that incident in the practical studies servitor class.

All you were doing was showing off what you could do if you ramped up the adrenaline on a quadruped based servitor rig and there was all the tendons you re-routed so that every single muscle fiber pulled on the legs...

But really they were fine and the Servitors have already finished getting that dent out of the wall.

You thought they would have liked the applications.



Well onward to... hmmm, your in the commons now but where exactly are you going to go?

There is always your room but your pretty sure that the roommate would be out and about by now... where would they be going to after finishing their adorable dream journal entry.



Oh you probably should fix something up to make it up to Raman but what exactly is it that they like again?

Hmm

Wait... you were doing something right?

[Wessolf27]

>You were thinking about getting some grub with Rama

[chimericWilder]

You'd made an invention you wanted to show them. Probably nothing too incredibly dangerous. Maybe.