Itsa mingle!

[amicably_absent]

Who: SS Golden crew and any visitors
Broadcast: Probably not
Action: SS Golden
When: When you'd like!


[It's a mingle! So mingle!]

Comments

[precedented]

[ Wryly. ]

I suspect you are meant to be on the ship. At least, long enough for you to realize the difference between lost and found.

[amicably_absent]

This ship? Which ship? What ship?

Who are you? Do I know you?

[precedented]

Your ship, the Golden. You had best get acquainted it, for your own good.

[ How to say this without coming off as odd to someone who already is an oddity in his own right. . . ]

I am one of your ship mates. We are meeting for the first time.

[amicably_absent]

I have a ship?

[He sounds overwhelmed and disbelieving.]

Where did I get it? Why did I give it such a boring name...? Is it actually golden?

[He pauses.]

Hang on. You used my name. How do you know my name?

[precedented]

Well, it is a ship we all share. And no, it is not golden. Your name was on the ship manifest.

[ Leto wonders if Glitch can retain this much information. He needs actual bonds to make this work. ]

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch wrinkles his nose, fully aware that he probably won't remember this very quickly.

A ship. A big ship then...]

There was a sleep creeper. He got in bed with me. I don't know what else he did...

[precedented]

A . . . sleep creeper?

[ He retraces Glitch's timeline, slipping into the past. His expression clears up. A man named Sascha, apparently. ]

I don't think he, ah, did anything else to you.

[amicably_absent]

[If he heard the name, Glitch might even remember it.]

But we can't be sure of that. And that's not the point! Creepy sleep creeper.

[precedented]

[ Leto doesn't really pay attention to physical or social boundaries. Ruby never cared for them, when they were a team, constantly draping or touching each other for comfort.

Besides, most people would avoid touching him on principle. ]

Did you tell him off?

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch is fine with close contact. If he's chosen it.]

Of course I did! And he got indignant that I was upset!

[Leto may actually be able to see it happen. High emotions, stress, something fires and then midfires in Glitch's remaining brain, a sequence that never completes and instead resets to where it was moments before.]

He got indignant that I was upset!

[And the same things starts to happen again. He'll keep doing it until the feedback loop is interrupted.]

[precedented]

[ He interrupts carefully, his tone soothing. ]

I'm sure it won't happen again.

[amicably_absent]

[Glitch blinks, and gets past the glitch.]

Damn right it won't. I don't sleep where he is. I could... make a thingy.

[He pushes his fingertips together. There's thoughts, sparking, hints of the former brilliance trying to push out.

Then he looks somewhere else and then back, blinking. Wiped free again.]

Hi! Have we met?

[precedented]

[ Memory loss was one thing. Leto was familiar with that. This . . . might take a new level of patience. ]

Yes, we have. Just now, in fact.

[ There must be an easier way of doing this. But magic . . . or magical impairments were beyond his skill to heal. ]

[amicably_absent]

Oh! I don't remember your name, sorry. I probably won't for a while. I remember Cain! And... and DG!

DG! The witch!

[He's off again, some other time and place.]

[precedented]

Glitch, you need to center yourself. You cannot lose yourself in another world right now or you might meet an unpleasant fate.

[ He'd shake him a little, if it would help. He can't use his skills on someone with a wandering mind . . . so to speak and Leto was loathe to touch anyone without their permission. ]