/takes the huntress out back and buries it (jan mingle pt. II)

[scrubscrub]

Who: Anyone on the SS Huntress! Crew and visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Huntress
When: More of January! We got three new crew mates and it will be messy.

IT'S ANOTHER MINGLE FOR OUR EVER-EXPANDING SHIP.

Also, we need an update on how well Koala is doing at pinball.

God, help this ship.

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

So your advice is for me to question myself and individually determine my own path, but not to focus on myself?

[ Solid advice, but confusing as hell. ]

[beardstrokes]

Well. Too much focus leads to self-doubt, guilt . . . some of the problems you're already aware of.

Your path will always intersect with the paths of others. Use that to your advantage and the answers you want will come to you.

[eyeforaneye]

[ ugggh but I hate people, damn it, Obi-Wan ]

... is this normally how your first conversations with people go?

[beardstrokes]

[ Grow up. ]

I can assure you, this is not even the oddest first conversation I have ever had. But it does come close.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Check back in ten years. ]

What a consolation. I'll think your advice over.

[beardstrokes]

Of course. Take your time.

[ You'll probably need it. ]

[eyeforaneye]

[ One positive step per four hundred chapters, that's my motto.

All the same it'll be easier after he's actually finally gotten some sleep, something that seems to be eluding him here, and he raises that knife again just as a gesture of acknowledgement -- a wordless thank you? -- before he's heading back out of the room. ]

[beardstrokes]

[ He nods lightly, in acknowledgement. ]