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Welcome to The Waters Between!

Somewhere in the ocean, miles below where human eyes and ears have traveled, there lies a current. It is a great sweeping motion of water, it runs contrary to gravity and physics and defies the pull of the moon and the movement of the tides. Once a creature enters the current it will be dragged along. Many find their deaths there, pulled apart by fast water or managing to exit only to find themselves dashed against rocks or reefs. Of all creatures, only the Sea Serpents know instinctively how to use this current and it is their route to one another's birthplaces and homes.
This is the Waterway.

Default Setting:

The Open Seas - home of the Everblue

Here pods of Everblue can form and meet. It is a lush place, the coral home to shrimp and other delicacies and the open ocean full of schooling fish. Occasionally an Everblue may decend into one of the wide, dark chasms to search for squid and adventure.
For the inventive Everblue, this place is ever changing and interesting. Rotted out barrels, piles of coral and tangled ropes make a natural obstacle course for those who love to race while dreamers can watch life amoung the corals for hours.
As with any place, it has it's dangers although they are less. The open sea makes it easy to spot sharks, be they tiger sharks from the sea or barracuda or cookie-cutter sharks from the reef. While most Everblues and sharks will ignore each other here, woe be to any lesser shark who attempts to attack a pod of strong Everblue adults.
Fishing boats and tourists boats will stop here occasionally, but it's a simple matter for an adult Blue to stay submerged and avoid there attention (and perhaps steal some of their catch!)
The real only danger is for unwary Everblues that stay too close to the shore during bad weather. They run the risk of being cut to shreads against the coral.
For the average and intelligent Everblue, Open Sea is a peaceful place to explore and relax.

The Waterway is a route to the homes of any of the Sea Serpent species. Should your serpent wish to take The Waterway to a place that isn't the Open Seas or is indeed a place uncharted by the USS Leviathan, feel free!
However, please post a description of where your Serpent is located so that others may join it (or find that it has abruptly joined them).

Poking her way around the old barrels and ropes, Miyako made her way into the open waters for the first time. Having only wandered in the Everblue grotto, she was still getting used to the current. Dodging her way carefully, she avoided the sharp coral. Seeing the Coraleater, she shrank behind a rather large rock. The young Everblue had never seen a different species before and didn't know what to think of it.

She looked up, surprised. "Miyako," the Everblue stated warily, eyeing the spines and moving a few inches backwards.

"Tag?" Miyako thought as she watched NiUmi swim away. Being young and not much of a game player, the Everblue didn't know what to think. "I'm it?" She thought over this and possible things she might have done to scare the other serpent away that quickly.

"Was I supposed to?" She asked, raising one eyebrow and looking at the brightly colored spines again. 'Was this some sort of Coraleater ritual? To swim away and wait for the other to go after them?' The everblue thought to herself. Now she was just confused.

"So.. you're trying to say.. That you chase others around for fun?" Miyako swam in a few circles. "So if I was to.. do this, I'd win?" Swimming towards the Coraleater, Miyako tagged the other's tail with her own and sped off.