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Who: Sorey & Mikleo / OPEN
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marsiva
When: Now!!

[ACTION]

[It's probably not normal for a lack of something to be the first thing one notices upon waking up, but Mikleo opens his eyes to the realization that there's a serious lack of... weight on his chest, one he'd become resigned to feeling ever since leaving Elysia. Malevolence was everywhere in the world, and only his contract with Sorey and Lailah had kept him from growing sick because of it, or worse.

Here, though, he feels not even an ounce of it. Which immediately brings to mind the question- where...?

Once he's up and on his feet and staring out the nearest window - witnessing the state of the sky, what in the world - it takes him a while to shake off the shock. He feels like his head's been invaded- thoughts, understanding forced into it, making his head hurt. This is space. He doesn't know why he knows this, but he does. Space, a fleet of ships traveling the universe like a fleet of whales in the ocean, prisoners for entertainment...

What does it even mean?

Sorey. I need to find him. Forcing himself away from the glass, he wanders the hallways, drawn to his Shepherd like a lost sheep. He has to be here. This feeling is unmistakable.]

[BROADCAST: VIDEO]

-ink this is how it works? Where’s the part I talk into? Try the top corner, it's flashing. Do you know why? -well because it’s communicating, isn’t it? Don't look at me. Oh! No no, it’s working now. ...yup. Okay! Geez…

Wow, this is so cool! Can everybody really hear me? -oh man, we can make recordings with this! You know, instead of having to lug around parchment all the time? We absolutely have to bring this back home.

Like people need more reasons to fear the Shepherd.

-ah, right! Introductions! I’m Sorey. I’m supposed to be an Engineer? I’m not totally clear on everything involved in that, so please be patient with me! Um, and since it sounds like we’re all in the same boat- I mean, this might’ve been asked before but does anybody know who we can talk to if we really, really need to get back? It’s kind of an emergency. This seems like a kidnapping but we’re not in a cell or anything, so it’s not as bad as it could’ve been, I suppose.

But definitely! Any clarification on how to get back would be really, really helpful.

You should probably stop talking like you're with someone, Sorey. People will think you're more weird than you already are.

Sorry, you’re right. It’s just really hard to pretend you’re not here when you look right at me like that...

[ACTION PART 2]

[Sorey and Mikleo can be found exploring the Marsiva. To those who can see Mikleo (have a look at his permission post please!), they'll both be there, talking animatedly. To those who can't, feel free to call Sorey out on, you know, talking animatedly to himself.]

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Of course, that's perfectly reasonable. I mean, with a relationship like that it's less like a religion and more like a corrupt dynasty anyway.

You wouldn't happen to have any literature on the topic on hand, would you? [Sorey has his Celestial Record, after all. Maybe she's got something! He wants to read up on this now.]

I... I mean, I do have a children's book about the first god, but why is this conversation happening before introductions?

[SIGH.]

Like he said, I'm Mikleo. This one's Sorey.

Do you wanna trade books?! I'll let you see my Celestial Record! I have a lot of supplemental material in it so please don't move things around, but it's okay if it happens. I've memorized the placement anyway.

[She may not be able to see Mikleo, but she can definitely guess what kind of face he's making.]

Nightingale. Gray Nightingale, from Takshaka, if that means anything.

... Is he always like this, Mikleo?

Nearly always. There are the occasional exceptions.

[He'd apologize, but Sorey is Sorey.]

[Her face is the absolute picture of sympathy, at least.]

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry. It's very nice to meet you. [so polite

now give me that book]

It's nice to meet you, too, I think.

So... Children's books aside, do you two need more explanation on this place?

[Back on track. He appreciates this human a bit now.]

We've gotten some information already, but the more we know, the better. What can you tell us about the ones who brought us here?

They're intentionally obtuse. They've deigned to have a two-way talk with us twice, and both times, they were very hard to question. You have to approach topics at an angle so they think they're talking about something else.

Their spokespeople are a woman, Diamond, and a man, Beau. I think Beau outranks Diamond- I made Diamond get emotional and quit when I accused them of being behind the attacks on our ship, and Beau had to take over.

One second, let me send over the guide I've been working on.

[Soon enough, the comm will buzz with a document.]

[Absolutely reading this now.] This is thorough. Have you been working on it long?

I could have been more thorough, but it's for the new people, so I don't want to flood them with too much information.

It's been a few months, off and on. I update it when something big happens, mostly.

[brb consuming SO MUCH INFORMATION, they love this stuff]

The history is especially useful. We need to know what has or hasn't worked in the past...

[Very dryly]

As you might have guessed from our continued presence here, nothing has worked yet.

Well, with more people arriving, at least there are more people to help brainstorm new ideas? [the silver lining, he will find it]

[Yep, as usual, someone here is a ray of dumb sunshine...]

I have a feeling it isn't going to be that simple.

Personally, I'm waiting for more mages to show up. The way I look at it, if any one system of magic can't let us escape, then if we learn and combine different systems of magic from different worlds that were never meant to interact, there might be weird interactions we can exploit.

Not simple at all, but probably our best shot.

You'll definitely want to bring Mikleo in then! He's a pretty powerful water seraph, he knows a bunch of difficult artes.

If it gets us back to where we belong, I'll gladly cooperate. And you can help, too.

[Elbow nudge. Surely the armitization can be of use, if they can figure out how to get it working properly again.]

We can talk shop later, though. When you're not on the Marsiva.

[WHEN I CAN FUCKING SEE YOU.]

[look how important is that to the process really]

Right! ...How do we get off of this ship?

It says in this guide she gave us that we'll be moved to a different ship at some point. That's a start, at least.

Yeah.

There's going to be music and confetti, by the way. Be prepared.

That's...festive. I guess it's better than nothing. [incorrect, nothing would be better] Do we get to choose where we go?

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