driftfleet | 2nd Blight

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2nd Blight - video

Who: Riona and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: On the Blue Fish, if you really want
When: Now

[The device is propped up somehow on Riona's bed. It affords a view of her stretched out on said bed, fiddling with a long knife that she picked up on the station. It's sheathed, and she seems to be doing it just to occupy her hands. Don't worry, she's not about to go around threatening anyone with it.
She glances over at the camera and offers a smile.]

It occurred to me this morning that it's been approximately a month since I arrived here. Admittedly, it's put me in a bit of a contemplative mood. Been thinking of the usual: what I'm supposed to be doing right now back home, the people I left behind, my dog...

[She misses his slobbery kisses...]

But fear not, I'm not here to weigh everyone down with me waxing nostalgic and pining for home. As while I was doing that, it also occurred to me that I've learned quite a bit in the few weeks I've been here. Not just about all this technology and whatnot - though I am of the mind that refrigerators are one of the loveliest things ever invented - but with what I've been able to experience and, of course, the people I've been able to meet. Before anyone goes off, I'm not applauding Atroma. They're still a bunch of bastards. It's more like making the best of a... well, weird situation.

So I pose a question to you all: if there is one thing you could take back with you to your world - whether it's a physical object, an experience, a bit of knowledge you've gained, or so on - what would it be? Feel free to take the question as seriously or not as you'd like. I'm curious to see what all of you would be willing to take from our time here.

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It really is if you've never seen that kind of equipment before which, I will admit, I fall into that camp. It's not as difficult to use as it might appear, though. I would try and find someone on your ship who knows how to use it and see if they can help you. If not, I can try.

[She's hardly an expert but she knows enough to run Dany through the basics.]

That's good to hear. I've never been on any of the other ships, so I couldn't say as to how they are run. What is your assigned job?

I am a communications officer though it's a wonder I know how to use the equipment at all, I think.

[She's gotten by with her own luck and with the augmentation she's been given. It still made her feel self-conscious about whether she was even going to settle in the Caprine anytime soon.]

I would like it very much if you ever felt the need to visit the Caprine. Or perhaps a visit to your ship is in order? I've explored the station some but I haven't been to other ships.

Ah, so am I! The augments help with understanding our jobs. It's a... strange feeling, though, having something feed you information. In your head.

[Riona still isn't used to it, honestly.]

I would always welcome visitors, though it may be easier to come to your ship. Ours had locks installed recently, so I would have to let you in.

It truly is strange. Do the other augments function the same way?

[Because at least then she knows that she and Riona aren't alone in this strangeness.]

I see. If you ever find yourself with a free moment, feel free to come for a visit then.

[Strange that not all of the ships have locks such as that, or perhaps didn't feel the need to use them. Whichever the case may be, she was glad that Riona was willing to come pay a visit.]

I believe so, yes. Mostly everyone I've asked about them says the same thing. My shipmate who first explained them to me is an engineer.

[Nope, it's just one of the many delightful things they all get to experience together.]

I'd love to, thank you. Give me a good time and I'll do my best to be there.

My captain is rather... relaxed. I think he wouldn't mind if I took a moment from my duties to see you.

[And if he did mind? Well she's still Queen in her own right, if you asked her, and she wasn't going to ask permission. It wasn't as if Riona posed a security risk.]

Usually not. Our duties are not terribly time-consuming. The audience would find it very droll otherwise, I would think. [Said with no due shortage of dry sarcasm.]

And I'm sure the strange worlds most bring with them are able to provide some entertainment. My captain likes to read strange picture-filled books and he has a dog with him that I'm sure he would have named as his hand if he could.

[Comics, Dany. They're called comics.]

[The mention of a dog perks Riona right up.]

Your captain has a dog? Is it a large beast, or some little lap pet?

More of a lap pet. She's a furry little thing.

[And would be their first officer if Joseph had is way, probably.]

I suppose that is a little more sensible, giving the cramped quarters on these ships. I envy your captain, regardless.

[Her tone is wistful, almost sad. She dearly misses her Kiter.]

Do you have a dog back home?

[She's with her there, as far as missing her beloved children.]

I do. My beloved mabari, Kiter. My constant companion and occasional partner in crime.

[Commiserate with her, Dany.]

I don't think I've ever heard of a 'mabari'. Though I've never seen anything nearly as sweet as Cloudy either.

[Traveling around as she did somehow left little time for having pets when she was growing up. A tragedy, honestly.]

A mabari is a breed of dog from my homeland. They are valued for two things: their strength and their intelligence. They are warhounds that have no equal in all of Thedas, and you will also find none so loyal. [She smiles fondly, if not a bit mischievously.] And they are smart. There's a proverb in my land: "A mabari knows how to speak, and is wise enough not to."

I hope I should have the fortune to come across one then. I'm lacking a bit in protection these days, without a Queensguard, and a warhound sounds as if it would suit me just fine. Do they hunt their own food or do you provide for them?

[Please tell her everything.]

If you do, please let me know as well. I miss having a dog terribly. [She doesn't feel whole without her Kiter around.] I usually give him food, but he's more than capable of finding his own. He liked putting half-desiccated animals in my companions' unmentionables if he thought they weren't eating enough.

[...mostly Morrigan, in truth. Still funny as hell though.]

Do you not know how to wield a weapon or defend yourself?

[There's a moment where she just has a look somewhere between shock and surprise because her dragons were assholes but they never put dead animals in anyone's undergarments-!! ~~Mostly just ate children but that's neither here nor there they weren't always that awful and used to be tiny and adorable~~.]

I- no. I do not. I had guards to defend me.

[Not even gonna touch the other thing you said, Riona.]

[Wow Dany. Wow. FINE BE THAT WAY.]

Mm. Problematic when they're not around.

[Which is why self-defense is the best kind of defense.]

Would you be interested in learning how to protect yourself sometime? Nothing terribly vigorous, just a few maneuvers.

It is. I've never thought of having to learn something like that. I always had my dragons near or my guard. I suppose I had better at least learn something basic enough to be useful.

[How good at it she might be remained to be seen. However, it couldn't be denied that her ancestors - namely the women - had all been great warriors who road their dragons with ease. She had no proficiency in either of those skills. Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal had not been obedient. They had been far to destructive for her to control.]

[Okay, that's -

Wait. Dragons?]

...you had dragons?

[WUUUUUUT]

Yes. Hatched and raised on my own.

[Smiling because she does enjoy this reaction when people in the fleet find out about them. She does miss them.]

And they... obey you? I did not think dragons capable of such-

[She suddenly pauses, mulling over something.]

Though they are intelligent enough to, now that I think of it. But still, I could never imagine one willingly listening to a human. Usually we're a light lunch.

They do listen, but still exist in their own independent nature.

[Sort of.....? Okay, maybe she's bending the truth a bit. Drogon, at least, came back for her. She would figure the rest out eventually.]

I am their mother, so I have nothing to fear from them.

[Sort of.]

[...

Okay. That sounds fake, but okay.]

Perhaps dragons in your world are a shade more cooperative, then. High dragons in Thedas are a menace when they're set on nesting, and will not be deterred.

[And there's only one way to deal with them when that happens.]

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