[Dice CYOA] Diving Deep [WINNERS pg 41]

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 2
Stage: 1 - Shallows

Breath: 9/10 (-1)
Score: 0 (+1)

Hotaru was glad the stub paw hadn't been too bad, so she decided to continue on in the shallows. As she proceeded, she heard some splashing coming from ahead and saw some cute sea otters. It seemed they were offering for her to play with them, so she swam after them in excitement. Unfortunately, she had not expected to get tangled in some of the kelp.


You make friends with some sea otters in a kelp forest, but get tangled up for a bit. +1 Score, -1 to Breath  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 3
Stage: 1 - Shallows, moving on to stage 2

Breath: (8/10
Score: 1

Once Hotaru had managed to free herself, she wondered where the sea otters had gone. As she was looking for them, she noticed a tunnel out of the corner of her eye. Hmm, she decided she should explore it, maybe it would lead her in the right direction. She swam over to it, her tail ending in a lightning bolt shape helped her move. As she went through it, she noticed a trench, wondering where it would lead.


3 - You find a small tunnel that opens up into a trench! Move on to the next round!  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 4
Stage: 2 - Trench

Breath: 8/10
Score: 1 (+2)

Hotaru continued her swimming, when she saw something glittering nearby. Her curiosity was piqued as she swam closer, hoping it was something good. Her eyes widened in surprise, it was an ancient coin! She gently lifted it with her tail, it really was quite pretty.


3 - Something glinting catches your eye...it's an ancient coin! +2 score  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 5
Stage: 2 - Trench

Breath: 8/10 (-2)
Score: 3 (+3)

Hotaru was headed around a corner, wondering what else she would find here. That was when she got surprised by a giant sea turtle. It caught her off guard, causing her to want to flee at first, until she took a closer look. Now that she thought about it, it was very amazing. She chided herself for being so jumpy of such a creature, she should have known better.


4 - You round a corner and come face to face with a giant sea turtle! It startles you, but leaves you in awe. -2 Breath +3 score  

[belloblossom]

Round: 1
Stage: Shallows

Breath: 9/10
Score: 1

Nereid was out for a pleasant swim, determined to go adventuring, but happy to enjoy her time as she went. She was so pleased to find some sea otters to help her spend her time, yet it was rather embarrassing when she became so impossibly tangled. How lucky she was that her new friends were willing to help her out!  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 6
Stage: 2 - Trench

Breath: 6/10
Score: 6 (+2)

After admiring the sea turtle a little longer, Hotaru decided to continue her journey. As she looked around, she caught another glint not too far from where she was. Could it possibly be another coin, she supposed there was only one way she could answer that question. She went over to where she spotted it and just as she suspected, another ancient coin. She added it to the one she already had safely wrapped up in her tail.


3 - Something glinting catches your eye...it's an ancient coin! +2 score  

[belloblossom]

Round: 2
Stage: 1 - Shallows

Breath: 8/10
Score: 2

Nereid wasn't inclined to leave her sea otter companions so quickly (maybe she could convince one of them to be her familiar!) and so she swam after them, intending to play with them longer. Yet, she only got more and more tangled in their kelp forests, while they sped on without her. It took her longer to get untangled this time. Maybe she didn't want a sea otter as a familiar after all.  

[belloblossom]

Round: 3
Stage: 1 - Shallows

Breath: 7/10
Score: 3

It was no use. The more she twisted to try and bite at the kelp, the more ensnared Nereid became. Eventually, she made enough frantic racket that an older sea otter, much more silver than the brown youngsters she'd been tracking earlier, came to her aid, though not before complaining about the noise. She promised she'd be more quiet, but only if he could point her in the way of adventure, or at the very least, out of this kelp forest!  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 7
Stage: 2 - Trench

Breath: 6/10 (+2)
Score: 8

Hotaru felt she needed to return to the surface, to take a moment to get some air. She swam back up and allowed her head to break the surface, it was nice to be able to get a moment to collect herself again. She placed the two coins she had collected on a rock, so she wouldn't have to carry them all around down there. Then she dove back under the water, feeling ready to continue her journey.


1 - You make your way back up to the surface for a quick breather before heading back down. +2 Breath  

[belloblossom]

Round: 4
Stage: 1 - Shallows --> Move to the next round

Breath: 7/10
Score: 3

The old sea otter was kind enough to show Nereid not only out of the kelp forest, but also to a small tunnel, which she was just able to squeeze through! She turned to thank him, but he had already vanished into thin water. Shrugging and turning back around, she swam until the tunnel turned into a trench. How exciting, she thought, this really was leading her towards an adventure!  

[belloblossom]

Round: 5
Stage: 2 - Trench --> Move onto the next round!

Breath: 7/10
Score: 3

As Nereid followed down through the trench, she eventually spotted a drop off, leading down a ways. Feeling anticipation build up within her, she started to make her way down, deeper and deeper as the sun was swallowed up above, no longer in her view as it was in the shallows. She was beginning to wonder what she might find while she was here, when she spotted a cave in the distance. Score!  

[Dea and #Teddy#]

Round: 8
Stage: 2 - Trench

Breath: 8/10 (-2)
Score: 8 (+3)

Hotaru got back to where she had been, rounding a corner, wondering what she would find next. She was so lost in her thoughts, she didn't notice right away that she almost ran into something. When she did, she had to stop abruptly, startled by another sea turtle. Wait, could it be the same one she had seen before, she didn't know. She just watched them for a moment or two, it was still amazing, whether a new one or the same one.


4 - You round a corner and come face to face with a giant sea turtle! It startles you, but leaves you in awe. -2 Breath +3 score  

[belloblossom]

Round: 6
Stage: 3 - Cave

Breath: 3/10
Score: 3

Naturally, Nereid went into the cave. She was so enamored with having found it so quickly that she wasn't quite looking where she was going until she her nose crashed into something else. She looked up to see blank eyes staring at her and quickly back-tracked, taking a left instead of a right back at the last two pathways she'd found in the cave and keeping a more wary eye out for anything else ominous in her path.  

[belloblossom]

Round: 7
Stage: 3 - Cave

Breath: 7/10
Score: 3

It was getting pretty hard to breath, between the sudden spook and the water pressure, so you can imagine Nereid's relief when she found an air pocket in the cave. Swimming quickly, she lunged for the pocket, only to hit her head on the rocky ceiling. She blew angry bubbles, but took several deep breaths, before submerging again and continuing on her way. The climax of her adventure was near, she just knew it!  

[belloblossom]

Round: 8
Stage: 3 - Cave

Breath: 7/10
Score: 6

As Nereid continued to explore, she started to spy the makings of ancient ruins of one sort or another just inside the cave. It was then that she spotted it, a small statuette of... well, it was hard to say what it was now, but it would have been a Seathi like herself, as one point. Time had worn its features away, but it was small enough to hold and she was happy to hold it. It was always fun to bring back souvenirs from adventures, after all!