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driftfleet2016-01-17 01:11 am
collegedropout) wrote in driftfleet2016-01-17 01:11 am
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video broadcast. REAAADING RAAAAINBOW.
Who: Sam and you!
Broadcast: video.
Action: if you're someone aboard or visiting the red fish would like, just lemme know!
When: today! Jan. 17th. hurrah.
[Sam has been mostly settling in. Now that the planet's behind them and he's got a hardy collection of salt and a bundle of self-written notes about the icy world they left behind, he's gotten back into learning some sign language (to bug Coil with, of course, though he's obviously not so great yet; sorry Coil). Outside of that, Sam's gotta keep himself busy, okay? Okay.]
And now we're buckled in for this long-winded space roadtrip again, right? At least I'm out of pajamas for this one.
[Small favors. Has it really been a month since he popped up? Feels like just yesterday. It's been a hoot, being in motion. Sort of.]
I'm all for the power of technology, but I'm actually more a fan of physical, paper books. There's just a difference there that's hard to replace with a network device. Anybody have any they'd be willing to let me borrow? Or maybe even trade for, though I'm a little limited on goods, fair warning. Hell, if there's a place around here with an actual library, that'd be great; I wouldn't mind helping out there with extending it however I can, planet to planet. Keeping it updated. After all, there's an eternal stream of history, fiction, poetry — all from different worlds and universes. Why not take advantage of the circumstances and learn about all of that in our spare time?
Anyone who takes there time writing or recording information, let me know. We could maybe include it in whatever we already have, get some cataloging in place, maybe download things digitally into the system as a back-up? If we have the ability to yet.
[Hmm. He sounds amused for a moment when he continues:]
If you guys did have to pick a book or series or something to include in a collection around here, what would it be?
... Chances of finding it in the middle of some random galaxy is kind of low, but I'm pretty sure us being here was one in a million.
[Wait, another thing.]
We have kids on board, too, right? Maybe I'll look for some kids books at the next place. I can only imagine how bored they'll get, sitting around on a ship. It's not like this place is giving younger passengers a lot to do.
[guys he's a fucking nerd what do you expect out of him]
Broadcast: video.
Action: if you're someone aboard or visiting the red fish would like, just lemme know!
When: today! Jan. 17th. hurrah.
[Sam has been mostly settling in. Now that the planet's behind them and he's got a hardy collection of salt and a bundle of self-written notes about the icy world they left behind, he's gotten back into learning some sign language (to bug Coil with, of course, though he's obviously not so great yet; sorry Coil). Outside of that, Sam's gotta keep himself busy, okay? Okay.]
And now we're buckled in for this long-winded space roadtrip again, right? At least I'm out of pajamas for this one.
[Small favors. Has it really been a month since he popped up? Feels like just yesterday. It's been a hoot, being in motion. Sort of.]
I'm all for the power of technology, but I'm actually more a fan of physical, paper books. There's just a difference there that's hard to replace with a network device. Anybody have any they'd be willing to let me borrow? Or maybe even trade for, though I'm a little limited on goods, fair warning. Hell, if there's a place around here with an actual library, that'd be great; I wouldn't mind helping out there with extending it however I can, planet to planet. Keeping it updated. After all, there's an eternal stream of history, fiction, poetry — all from different worlds and universes. Why not take advantage of the circumstances and learn about all of that in our spare time?
Anyone who takes there time writing or recording information, let me know. We could maybe include it in whatever we already have, get some cataloging in place, maybe download things digitally into the system as a back-up? If we have the ability to yet.
[Hmm. He sounds amused for a moment when he continues:]
If you guys did have to pick a book or series or something to include in a collection around here, what would it be?
... Chances of finding it in the middle of some random galaxy is kind of low, but I'm pretty sure us being here was one in a million.
[Wait, another thing.]
We have kids on board, too, right? Maybe I'll look for some kids books at the next place. I can only imagine how bored they'll get, sitting around on a ship. It's not like this place is giving younger passengers a lot to do.
[guys he's a fucking nerd what do you expect out of him]
[video]
[He can't quite imagine what that entails. He's heard plenty of the old stories derided as being children's tales, because only children are foolish enough to still believe them. Are those the types of tales these books contain?]
Maester Luwin always taught us from history books. I liked the stories with battles, but Old Nan would tell me about monsters instead, and I liked those better.
[video]
Or just ridiculous stories for the sake of humoring a bored kid.
[child please]
I can't tell if that's what your Nan told, though. Were they scary monsters?
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They're supposed to be. Do you know about white walkers?
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How about we trade scary monsters, then? You share, I share.
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Old Nan used to tell me about the Long Night, a winter that lasted for a generation, when the Others came down from the Land of Always Winter and invaded the North. They're pale and cold, and they ride on the corpses of animals and enchant the dead to fight against the living. They can only be killed with swords of dragonglass, which the first men of the Night's Watch used to drive them out in the Battle for the Dawn. My father used to say that none of it really happened, and it's all a story, but there's still a big wall up to keep us safe, and the Night's Watch to hold it. A man of the Watch saw one once, and deserted. [Then my father executed him.] Everyone just thought he had gone mad.
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What do you think? Think it's real?
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Many things I was told not to believe in have turned out to be real.
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You know, when I was about your age — the same thing happened to me, too.
I learned a lot of scary stories weren't just scary stories.
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What sort of stories?
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What's your opinion on ghosts?
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Because I got to say, those are some of the scariest stories.
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How can they be inside the pictures?
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You know, like being tied to someone else when you're little, so you don't wander off too far.
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No, he really does.]What if there isn't anything special around them when they... What if they're far from home?
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I don't think I want to ever be a ghost.
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He's known quite a few ghosts, after all.]
I would never want anyone to have to exist like that. For most, they start to lose parts of who they used to be. Forget. Or sometimes their need for closure or revenge twist them into terrible things themselves.
That's why it's important to lay ghosts to rest, if it's possible.
By doing that, you're saving them.