driftfleet | 03 - though shadows fall

Who: Asteffiel
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Tourist
When: June 9th

Guess who hadn't noticed the planet had a hold on him? The plantman!

Guess who just figured out that his fascination with it wasn't just because they finally got to another planet.

Asteffiel's use of video is probably not good for anyone's stomach. He's shaking (like a leaf, hahahaha-), and appears to be hiding under a table, given that it's not night time, and he's glowing. It just has the side effect of making his eyes appear particularly bright off-white, which doesn't help his nervous rambling at the video. Which he managed to turn on after he started talking...

"-t just me, or was it others? I don't want it to be just me, I don't I don't! If something could talk to me, does that mean that other things could talk to me? I was fine against Mor... Mord... More Dead Moths, but is it because I am not home? Am I too far from Mother? Mother I am sorry I made bad friends, I don't want More Dead Moths to get me like Lilac!" Is more or less the gist of his rambling into the device. There are repeats, but it's pretty clear that he's rather terrified of something being able to mess with his head.

So he's hiding in one of the medical bay cabinets.

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There was some on... uhm... Mor? There was a planet before that last planet. That is how I got seeds!

Really? Man...I think I would have liked Mor better than the forest. I only got here a few weeks ago, so I didn't get to see it.

Mor had us wear disguises so we didn't look that ... out of human normal? Which wasn't fun.

Disguises? Like what?

It made me look like a human.

[ Pouting a little. ]

But like.. illusions? Do you have Mesmers?

Mesmers? No...is that some kind of device?

They are a kind of... of magic user. They use illusions! It was like one of theirs, but instead of appearing with butterflies, it appeared because you had a collar on.

So it's a collar that makes you look human. Did it feel strange?

[That'd explain the displeasure.]

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Yes. You expect things, when you go like this. [ He claps. It sounds particularly wooden, no surprise there. ]

And then it doesn't work out. And it's confusing to look down and you're not the right color.

Yeah, I bet...and you have to do that every time there's people around?

When I was near the city at all, yes...

[ Which was very sad! He liked the quests, he just didn't like having to .. not be him. ]

If they're going to drag us around space, they could at least find places where people don't have to do that sort of thing.

[Or maybe that's too much effort for a bunch of kidnappers.]

Mmmhhmn!

Or they could take us to each others homes! That would be more interesting than some weird place like that!

Wouldn't that be pretty bad if they wanted us to stick around? Not that I want them to keep us here, but I know if they took us back to my home there's no way I'd be leaving for this show again.

... This is a good point.

And there is also that maybe some places have things that would want to eat people who arrive. [ ... Like his world. Lots of things like eating people there. ]

I do not think this is that sort of show?

[Eat people??? Yeah, excuse him while he tries not to envision that.]

I hope this isn't that sort of show!

It would be bad. I would rather have the weird disguises.

[ Asteffiel nods in agreement. ]

I guess if you put it like that, it's better. But I'd rather people didn't have to go through either of those.

[ Another agreeing noise. ]

... But then we would be... left having to do actual plays? [ 'Reality TV' made sense as 'a play about daily life', which means otherwise they would... have to do like, historical plays or something otherwise, right? ]

[???]

Plays? What do you mean?

The.. the whole fleet thing? Isn't it a big... [ He scratches at his head, above where the augment would be. ]

... Television... program? We don't have those, so I had been thinking of them like plays. Where you go see people dressed up telling a story?

If we didn't go visit weird places, would we have to dress up and tell stories?

[Huh, so is that what it sounds like to people who've never seen TV?]

It's not really like that. We can choose to act for the audiences, but none of us really agreed to...of course, it's not such a bad idea to dress up and tell stories if you really do want to entertain our mysterious audiences.

[He grins. Yuya likes being kidnapped about as much as any other member of the Fleet, but he's a performer at heart. Until he finds a way home, he could do worse than tell stories.]

... So it's like pulling someone in the audience who wants to be sleeping up on stage with you? Only we're the someone in the audience?

... Except I had never heard of this thing before we came here... [ Hmmmn, his analogy didn't work. ]

Hm, it's more like...

[He's taking this analogy seriously.]

It's more like if you took in somebody who wasn't even at the play and instead making dinner at home, and told them they were part of the show now!

Ooooh.

... Were you making dinner at home? [ That sounded very specific. ]

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