oo1; accidental video/action

[theirinurpants]

Who: Alistair and YOU?!
Broadcast: Fleetwide; mostly accidental.
Action: On the Marsiva!
When: Now? Now. Sure, now.

Teagan? Teagan! [ The man on the camera is young, handsome, and looking a bit put out to be where he is. This isn't his castle! What is this place? He's also sort of looking away from the screen, not fully aware he's broadcasting. He mostly thinks he's talking to himself. ]

Okay, hah hah, very funny, you've had your joke, now where are you? And where am I? I'm sure I've got a very important meeting with someone who will be very angry when I don't show up - not that I care much if I'm making the Orlesians angry, it's sort of funny when their faces get all red and they start trying not to swear, but still...

Have I been kidnapped? Has someone kidnapped me? I'm pretty sure kidnapping the king is treason. I can have your head for that. [ He doesn't sound so much angry as... vaguely confused and disoriented. ] Off with your head. Whenever I figure out who you are, I suppose.

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[theirinurpants]

Not really. I mean, it was a barn, there were dogs, it smelled how you might expect it to.

[lord_wizard]

[Nice evasion, but try again]

I meant, rather, how you got from one to the other.

[theirinurpants]

Mostly a lot of people died.

[lord_wizard]

[He can't even begin to find any humor in that, and he frowns]

Unfortunately that's how a lot of changes of succession go.

[Which he will not ask anymore about, for the time being.]

[theirinurpants]

It was stupid and shouldn't have happened, but hopefully things will calm down now.

[lord_wizard]

I wish you the best of luck. [He does his best to make that not sound sarcastic]

In the meantime...consider this a temporary vacation?

[theirinurpants]

It's maybe not my idea of a vacation, but at least no one expects anything from me.

[lord_wizard]

Nothing terribly onerous, at least. You'll have an assigned job, but considering the over-staffing of the ships at this point you'll likely be able to ignore whatever it is.

[He misses the time when the Starstruck had a second cook.]

[theirinurpants]

I'd rather follow orders than have to give them.

[lord_wizard]

[He really really want to say 'then becoming king was a strange choice' but bites his tongue.]

Unless you end up captain, you'll be safe from any responsibility.

[Being nice is hard sometimes]

[theirinurpants]

Small blessings. I'm counting them.