#idiver

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It's the morning of 28th October (Friday), and before diving in, we upgrade Dave's Air Tank on iDiver from Level 7 (315 Bar) to Level 8 (370 Bar). This costs us 6,000 gold.

Although it's a Stormy day, the sea beneath the waves of The Blue Hole stays pretty much the same as a Rainy day - just the surface of the water is disturbed by pellets of rain.

We finally have the Limestone Cave generated on this dive, so we enter and explore the biome to grab more Seagrapes and complete the Ecowatcher mission by taking out 2 more White Spotted Jellyfish.

We couldn't find any new sharks in the Shipwreck Interior, only a Sailfish, which we catch with our Steel Net Sensor Trap and drone.

We keep encountering Longnose Sawsharks, so we tranquillise one and carry it away by drone.

While exploring the Shallows, something popped out of the sand - an aggressive Stingray, which we could harpoon like a smaller fish, but could be taken away by drone once dead. We opted to harvest its carcass.

We also capture a Whitetip Reefshark with the Steel Net Sensor Trap and drone it away.

Dive No. 59 did not see us break any records, however, we collected new ingredient and fish - Seaweed and Stingray.

Then an old lady on a raft named Clara comes up to Dave's boat and tells him that she's looking for a Great White Shark called Klaus. She says it killed her husband and she's been tracking it down ever since to get revenge... This leads her to The Blue Hole. Klaus' Hideout apparently appears only on Stormy nights. Looks like we'll be diving tonight to help Clara.

We finally can complete the Ecowatcher mission to "Remove Jellyfish" after having removed/caught 10 White Spotted Jellyfish.

The afternoon view of Bancho Sushi on a Stormy day is really depressing, with dark clouds hanging over the entire place...

We end this play session with an Achievement - "Momo's Secret", which was little cat family!

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It is the morning of 19th October (Wednesday), and we start the day off by first increasing the level of our Diving Suit from Level 3 (150m depth) to Level 4 (230m depth) on iDiver. This costs us 500 gold.

Then, we head into Bancho Sushi to train up Kyoko from Level 3 to Level 5, which increases her Serving skill to 155 and also helps us learn a secret recipe - Stellate Puffer Nicogori. We have to spend a further 8 Artisan's Flame to unlock and research the new recipe. Bancho has a pufferfish handling license, so it should be ok.

On our morning dive, we use the Small Net Gun to capture multiple fish alive in one-go for their roe.

While diving, we also pick up a tin of Common Cat Food which we will feed to Momo later.

Dive No. 37 saw us obtain a record 36 items, while catching Bluefin Tuna and Yellowfin Tuna, as well as receiving lots of different fish roe.

It's the afternoon, and we head back into Bancho Sushi to present the Common Cat Food we found to Momo the cat. After feeding Momo the cat food, we receive some love from it.

On our afternoon dive we officially enter the Blue Hole Depths, where we find a chest containing UV Light that helps us shrink the passageway full of Tubeworms that are blocking our way to the Sea People signal...

Following down the passageway of Tubeworms, at the end of it, Dave encounters the Sea People from before. The male seems to be panicking, while the female lays unconscious on the stone bed. There's no way Dave can understand what the male is saying, so he turns to Dr. Bacon for a solution. Dr. Bacon asks Dave to come back up to the boat where he might be able to devise a translator.

However, the way back up the Tubeworms passageway proves a bit difficult to pass, as there is a glitch whereby Dave would not face the left when shining the UV Light, instead he would face the right. So we had to use the meelee weapon twice to remove the Tubeworms.

On the way up, Dave kills a Longnose Sawshark and orders the Salvage Drone to pick it up.

Upon surfacing, we complete the mission "Going Deeper", by satisfying Dr. Bacon's curiosity to explore and reach the Sea People signal, and we receive 500 gold, 5 Black Pepper and 5 Olive Oil.

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The morning of 11th October (Tuesday) - Dave hops onto iDiver to upgrade his diving gear. Namely, to upgrade his Harpoon Gun from Steel Harpoon Gun (10 Damage) to a Pump Harpoon Gun (17 Damage), and also upgrade his Cargo Box from Level 3 (Viable Weight 19kg) to Level 4 (Viable Weight 28kg). In total, the upgrades cost him 1025 gold.

Popping into Bancho Sushi, Dave researches the last Cooksta Bronze-rank recipe, Seasoned Kajime which is Kajime seaweed mixed with Black Vinegar. This unlocks an achievement, "Culinary Researcher" for us for researching 5 recipes.

Following this, we put 2 batches of Seasoned Kajime on Today's Menu for a total of 8 servings of the dish. We are betting that it will sell out.

For our morning dive, Dive No. 20, we witness the Waterproof Box item in action. Placing the box down underwater, Dave is able to use it like a storage box, putting in items from his inventory on-hand into the box which will be automatically retrieved once Dave ends his dive. The box can hold up to 10kg worth of items.

Dave then went on to fight the Longnose Sawshark again, explore the very beginnings of the Limestone Cave where we harvested some Sea Grapes and fought an agressive Atlantic Anglerfish.

We managed to obtain a Hush Dart from one of the Weapon Boxes underwater, thus completing the blueprints for a Hush Dart. This means we can craft a permanent Hush Dart weapon for Dave!

Going over to Duff's Weapon Shop, we craft the Hush Dart using 2 Red Starfish, 2 Orange Starfish, 3 Copper Ore and 50 gold. Duff gives us a cinematic of the weapon's creation a la Michael Angelo's Hand of God, except it's Duff and a robotic arm.

The afternoon's dive, Dive No. 21, sees us obtain the Small Net Gun from the Weapon Boxes. We utilise the gun to trap multiple White Trevally. We also journey further into the Limestone Cave, this time putting to sleep and harvesting some White Spotted Jellyfish.

This dive saw us get the remaining 1/3rd of the blueprints for the Small Net Gun, meaning we can craft a permanent Small Net Gun for Dave to carry! The Small Net Gun costs 4 Rope, 2 Scrap Iron and 100 gold to create.

The evening sees our Applicant List come in from the Flyer Ad. It appears Raul has applied again, together with a low-skilled Mitchell. I'm not happy with either of them, as I'm looking out for some other applicants. So I take out an Internet Ad for 400 gold, which will give me a maximum of 4 Applicants. We'll know the results tomorrow evening.

To Be Continued...

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It is still the morning of 10th October (Monday), and Dave checks out his Ecowatcher Missions Progress. We have removed 5 Fried Egg Jellyfish, as well as culled the Overpopulated Invasive Fish: 5 Red Lionfish and 5 Titan Triggerfish. This gives us 30 progress points, in addition to the previous 10 for a total of 40 progress points. We need 10 more progress points to reach Level 2.

Next, Dave goes onto iDiver to upgrade his Air Tank and Diving Suit to Level 3. This means he can now hold 145 Bars of air and dive to a Depth Limit of 150m. This cost us a total of 360 gold.

We head over to Bancho Sushi again to set up some things. Firstly, we start putting up some Flyer Ads again to get 2 more applicants in the hopes that we can get a better server than Liu.

In the meantime, we also Research a new recipe - Agar Tokoroten, which we happen to have the ingredients on-hand: 3 Agar and 1 Soy Sauce. The Tokoroten is a kind of jelly made from agar and is served cold in soy sauce. We place it on the Menu as our special dish for tonight's service.

Our morning dive, Dive No. 18, sees us battling and killing a Longnose Sawshark at the depths of 103.3m. Harvesting the shark gave us 10 pieces of meat at 13kg. During the dive, we acquired the Small Net Gun which gave us another 1/3rd of its blueprints. The deeper dive also meant that our personal best Depth went up to 107m. We even acquired a new Cooking Ingredient - Black Vinegar.

For the afternoon dive, Dive No. 19, we harvest lots of fish including the Green Humphead Parrotfish again. We also obtain the Red Sniper Rifle which has high damage and useful against a large fish. We decide to use it against the Whitetip Reefshark later on during the dive.

In the meantime, we stumble unto the Currents formation and pick up the Main Mission's Drone equipment: Computer Chip, Motor and Camera Lens. Navigating the Currents was exciting and dangerous as the sudden gush of underwater air can blow and smash Dave against the rocks.

Upon surfacing, Cobra quickly takes the parts to build the Drone and tells us to check back with him tomorrow about the delivered and promised Bomb. We then get the reward of 500 gold, 5 Soy Sauce and 5 Salt.

This dive saw us dive the longest at 14 mins and 45 secs, and get a ton of fish and Cooking Ingredients. It also saw us acquire another 1/3rd of the blueprints for making a Red Sniper Rifle.

To Be Continued...