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Video: Gotta catch up on all the gossip!

[When Zelda first wakes up, her immediate instinct is to take a bath, and that is exactly what she does. It's not until an hour later (and much cleaner) that she bothers to talk to other people. After that, she picks up her SFC to make a video post, looking a little disoriented.]

I do apologize if I worried anyone. I suppose it was only a matter of time before I fell into a sleep coma as well. Has anything of interest happened in the past two weeks? I would appreciate hearing about it.

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[The princess swims up behind Duke, deciding she only feels safe observing that THING from over his shoulder. It doesn't seem to have any interest in them though, it just moves along its way. Once it's good and gone, Zelda uncurls her fingers from Duke's tunic and dives deeper, heading towards the light of the city.]

[ Duke studies it as it swims off, then notices Zelda swimming in a different direction.

Oh. Right. Bubble. Duke follows, occasionally twisting and studying anything that catches his attention. ]

[A curious octopus seems to take an interest in Duke's braid floating about behind him. When Zelda turns to see if he's following, she sees the little thing trying to latch on and covers a smile, gesturing for Duke to turn around.]

[ Something behind him?

Unfortunately, Duke's turn does not enable him to see the octopus, as it has managed to catch his braid and that moves with him.

What? ]

[Bubbles escape Zelda's mouth as she laughs, swimming forward and reaching over Duke's shoulders to gently grab hold of his braid and tug the little octopus into view.

Oh, that's... a little closer than she'd intended to get to him, but he'll probably be distracted by the animal, anyway.]

[ Yep, Duke is distracted. There's a little stream of bubbles as he seems to think he knows somethng similar, if Zelda reads lips, but oops, underwater, that doesn't work so well.

He's going to coax the octopus onto his hand rather than his hair, though. ]

[Zelda knows an animal similar as well, though she would consider it a monster. She watches as the octopus curls its tentacles around Duke's fingers curiously, thinking that it seems much nicer than an octorok. For whatever reason, it's not particularly frightened of either of them. Maybe it's trained, or maybe it's simply never seen people before. She reaches out to touch it too, and earns a harmless squirt of ink to her face as it jets away.

WELL THEN. Apparently it only likes Duke!]

[ That was quite rude of it. Duke isn't quite sure why it would think Zelda is a threat. But it definitely marks it as a relative to an Octopoise, Tentacler, Aquicia, or Jons.

Here, maybe if he waves the water about the ink won't stain Zelda much. ]

[She makes a face, having accidentally tasted a bit of that ink. Gross! Oh... what's that large shadow down there? Zelda gestures to something VERY big moving below them. Is it a whale? She's heard that they're friendly.]

[ Oh, that is very fascinating.

Zelda, have you found out that Duke has very little fear when it comes to creatures many times his size? Because if you have not, this is proof -

Duke starts swiming down. ]

[Perhaps he should show a little fear. As he gets closer to the creature, he'd be able to see that it's definitely a predator. Whatever it had been doing at mid-depth, it's given up and it's heading back up now. For Zelda's part, she'll swim to catch up with Duke and tug on his arm insistently. This thing is not for petting.]

[ Maybe. It does have a nice amount of teeth, which is usually okay, and look rather hungry, which is rarely a good thing for something that size. And like its going to head in their direction, which is a very bad combination.

Duke thinks that going down, to deeper than the hungry thing was, is a good idea. but to do that, they'd have to pass it. Which would attract attention, and who knows what spells would do underwater.

Hiding place, hiding place. Is there anywhere to hide? Duke's not sure how to get the idea of 'hide' across with no words, but he's looking for something with a bit of careful swiming down but not toward the creature. ]

[She may not be a creature of the water herself, but Zelda does know the Zora. There's still "scent" underwater according to them, so they need to place themselves in such a way that the current takes their scent away instead of towards the monster. There isn't really anywhere to hide. She doesn't want to startle Duke, but at this point they need to communicate and she'll just have to do so telepathically.]

~I'm sorry for the intrusion. We need to place ourselves so that the current carries any traces of us away from the monster rather than towards us. Can you tell what direction the current is going?~

[ If it wasn't for the Zora Tunic, Duke probably would have choked himself with the startled inhale there. He wasn't expecting that, at all. and thus this is Duke floundering like he forgot to swim because he just heard a voice and it was Zeldas and he's underwater but what ]

[ His momentairy flailing and thinking he should cough moment does give him a nice view of the creature again, which puts words to situation rather than how did I hear words.

Duke stops swimming for a moment, and pays close attention to what his hair does. Best idea? maybe not, but it works. They would want to swim through, and against the current a little, right? He'll just point at his hair, and maybe, because if she can think to him, he could think back? His somewhat jumbled thoughtprocess gets... thought loud. if one can think loud. Duke isn't going to think on that at the moment. ]

[Though she can't hear his thoughts (that is an intrusion she wouldn't ever take part in purposefully), she can see the direction he's pointing. His braid, of course. Zelda nods and swims in the direction indicated, doing her best to use fluid movements and not flail around and draw attention.]

[ Whatever works! Now hopefully they can just swim on down past it, and no troubles will be had. This is not the environment in which Duke would like to test the effectiveness of underwater spells. He'll keep himself between Zelda and the creature, though.

Just a pair of not-tasty, funny shaped fishes. Honestly. Pay no attention, creature. ]

[Its vision is poor, and with their position it doesn't notice them using its other senses. It swims on past. Zelda's shoulders sag slightly in relief. She points down deeper, looking at Duke questioningly. Depth test?]

[ Duke studies the creature's path up, then down deeper. Hmn. When he feels its safe, he tests to see how quickly he can go up. Quick enough for his tastes, at the very least, because he swims back down, nods, and starts down further. ]

[Zelda follows after him. It's no surprise that she's the first out of the pair to want to return to the surface, especially considering how very sensitive her ears are. When they just barely reach the top curve of the bubble, she shakes her head rapidly and points up, swimming with all her might for the surface. When her head breaks the water, she lets out a gasp and shakes it rapidly, trying to get the water out of her ears.]

[ Duke swims back up a lot slower than she did. She probably is in mid shaking water and may have progressed to tapping the other side of her head in home to knock water on the angled down side free by the time he surfaces. ]

... was under the impression rising too fast was not good.

It's... oh, I have a bit of a headache now! It probably isn't good, but I wasn't really thinking.

[She wiggles her ears around in a rather impressive display to try and clear them.]

I believe the tunics should be suitable for escape if the bubble ruptures, but I wouldn't recommend trying to live down there in that pressure.

Hmmm. [ This focused look is part figuring out how hard that pressure would be on ears if the pressure was sudden, and part because he's not sure if he has a healing spell suited for headaches. ]

Think, in case of rupture, may be some moments of stunned. Sudden pressure, not to mention the rushing of the water.

That is true, we did descend somewhat gradually...

[A few more shakes of her head and she seems mostly recovered.]

The important part is that we know now that being at that depth doesn't mean instant death. Confusion and possible damage to the eardrum is possible, but death is unlikely.

.... [ Unless they were inside when the water crashed in, but lets not focus on that. ]

... Some sort of alarm, attached to the bubble. If it fails, distinctive sound, and alerts those to gather tunics...

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