LOG 7 – Underwater base – 07/02/2022

We headed over to where the Doll suggested that the underwater base was based on the stories she had heard from her Papa. Sampson was our guide, taking us out during the night so we were harder to see. Didn’t take too long to get to the random patch of water we were looking for so we headed under the waves while Sampson headed off to another part of the ocean ready to be called back to us.
 
Was nice to have a proper swim, even if it was night – we did find a formation of rocks with a ventilation cover and a keypad, with Atlantean runes on it. The Doll spelled them out using seaweed and I pressed them in at which point a load of old mechanisms opened up an airlock thingy so we could go in (had to wait for AJ since he wouldn’t fit, but talked about why we have some stuff in the water and some outside of it, and why soggy food isn’t super appealing and that humans tend to complain about being underwater all the time while we waited for him)
 
It opened up into a room with scuba gear and equipment racks, clearly not touched in a very long time especially with the lights flickering and just lots of dust. Apparently back in our timeline the crown was being studied in the lab so that’s where we headed first… but of course as soon as we did that the alarms went off and a few gun turrets came down and started shooting at us, or at least at some illusions while the others destroy them. unfortunately in smashing up the gun turret the computer got busted, but super weirdly, the Doll ends up staring at the screen and her eyes start flashing crazy- I pulled her away and she just said that the crown was under the communications hub and that the computer told her… she was definitely acting super weird though.
 
Deciding to head there, Impulse managed to figure out the code by looking at which key pads had been most worn and trying those combinations. The meeting room we entered had a few drones, but with an illusion between them they started shooting each other and thinking it was the intruder which was kinda hilarious! AJ managed to rig up one of the cores of the robots that Impulse threw him to give the all clear signal so we had a bit of quiet time, during which we explored a security safe in the next room (the Doll lead us straight there, pretty freaky) and not only did we get the Crown, we also grabbed a crystal sceptre and a man’s beard.
 
With those in hand I figured we were done, but the others decided they wanted to check out the hanger. Seemed pretty dumb to me to go exploring when we had the fricking Crown of Atlantis, but I certainly wasn’t going to just leave it here or at the rebel’s hideout, so caved and went with everyone else to the hanger bay. I guess in the end they were right (not that I like to admit it) since we found this Atlantean military shuttle, still hovering so clearly working, and would be super useful … could even take us into space! I guess I was pretty surprised, but I managed to teleport it out of there and into the Dolls base – I’ve never teleported anything that big before so I guess that’s pretty cool. Think the Doll named it Taarna, which is a decent name I guess, think it’s something to do with the music she listens to? Anyways, with that done, we FINALLY teleported out of there and back to the base.