he's probably fine.

[nerdeology]

Who: Mikleo
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Huntress!
When: Now, basically

[You know what's great about being a seraph? Never getting sick. You know what's not great about being a seraph? Having zero frame of reference for what being sick is like when you experience it for the first time. And after a month of quietly enduring and/or ignoring it, despite being a water elemental trapped on a planet full of poisonous water, it's finally caught up to him.

It doesn't help that this realization comes hand in hand with the fact that he's been upgraded to captain, apparently, which is as nonsensical a decision as he's ever heard from the Atroma. The one perk - besides the sudden lack of malevolence on the Huntress due to Greed's departure - means that he now has a big bed to curl up and be miserable in.]

I have a few questions.

is there some sort of guide for captain's duties? for those who lack experience.

also:

how do you tell whether you are dying or just sick

[...Those questions should probably have had a completely different priority, but whatever. He's too sick to be bothered.

He makes an attempt at sending this out as an anonymous communication, but he's a bit too light-headed and bleary-eyed to pull it off, so it probably doesn't work too well. He still doesn't show up on camera, so there is that.]

Comments

text | i'm sorry

[revivo]

Whether or not you get better.

text | WELL SHE'S NOT WRONG...

[nerdeology]

I suppose I invited that one.

[SO very helpful.]

text

[revivo]

It'd help if you'd mentioned what was wrong with you.

[honestly she sort of assumes he's just hungover or breathed in some of that bad air]

Text

[digthefuzz]

[Time to drop some wise words of experience:]

1. Nope.

2. I think that's what doctors are for.

Text

[nerdeology]

[w o w kurt so wise]

doctors don't know anything about my kind, so it's hard to tell for them.

Text

[digthefuzz]

oh

Sorry, man. I didn't realize it was like that!

[A brief pause before he sends a follow-up.]

But, maybe they could have some insights anyway? You never know. At least doctors would have a better shot than most of us!

voice

[monolike]

I'm pretty sure you're not dying, Mikleo. [Though you are definitely sick and that is weird. Would be scarier if Dezel hadn't gotten sick first.]

voice

[nerdeology]

[Uuuugh you jerk, don't make him talk.]

Sure feels like it. We're not immune to poison...

voice

[monolike]

Looks like it. Maybe because it was your element?

...you don't have to talk if you don't want to. [sorey's just more comfortable with it] Want me to bring you anything?

text

[interstices]

Everyone else's level of dramatics.

text

[nerdeology]

wouldn't that mostly rely on whether or not they can tell, too?

text

[interstices]

Well, you don't sound too certain of yourself, so you might as well depend on their reactions.

Text

[save_the_souls]

[....Oh boy.]

They made you captain?

[But you're like...invisible to most people? What even Atroma]

And I could try to examine you, if you'd like- though I'll admit I don't know anything about seraph physiology.

Though, I'm wiling to guess you're not dying.

Text

[nerdeology]

It's absurd, I know. I've barely even spoken with most of the crew due to their lack of resonance.

[And how is he supposed to introduce himself now? "Hello, I'm your new captain, I've actually been here for months"??]

I'd like to assume that as well, but I've honestly never felt like this before.

[It's. Kind of terrifying?]

Text

[save_the_souls]

Yeah... [Hmmm] Maybe you could have Sorey be your spokesperson? Like some sort of...shadowy, mysterious leader.

[Then again Sorey and Mikleo are about as shadowy as a desert at high noon. BUT ANYWAY- ]

Can you tell me how you're feeling? The symptoms, I mean.

text since he figures he should probably say hi to his captain?

[bythewaves]

Have you spoken to a healer or, sorry, a doctor? They would be the best person to ask.

Ah. Also. Hello. Forgive me, I am not familiar with this form of communication, but I am new on this ship. But as for being a Captain... I do not know what it would involve in this situation, but I suppose if you consider yourself simply a leader for the people, it would be a place to start.

i'm sure this will be a great first impression...!!

[nerdeology]

I am a healer, myself, and I'm not aware of any doctors who know about my kind. That's kind of the problem.

Anyway, welcome aboard, I guess. Thanks for the advice.


(psst he has a visibility permissions here, for future stuff!)

[ video ]

[beardstrokes]

[ A little wry. ]

Congratulations.

I can probably check to see if you're dying or not.

[ video ]

[nerdeology]

Oh? You're an expert on seraphim, now?

[Honestly, he wishes someone was. Sorey comes the closest, but even he doesn't know what to do when they're sick.]

text;

[geonomy]

[Oh. Well, that sickness thing doesn't sound good, and very far out of Clay's realm as well. He figures the doctor types can get on that, but he can at least answer something else.]

sorry ur not feeling well :(

and theres no real guide for captains u just gotta kinda figure it out

but ive been captian for about a year now so i tinhk ive got some expreience

text;

[nerdeology]

[....give him a minute to make sense of that, text-talk is a very new concept to him, omg]

Can't you offer some advice? I've honestly never been a leader before.

[Prodding Sorey in the right direction and keeping him on track isn't exactly the same thing. At least, he doesn't think it is.]

text;

[universal_charm]

Can't really help with the last one - my doctor tended to think I was always dying and then switch to sick, so I'm not sure which is why.

_{[ He's lying, but that he's not a doctor is true enough. ]}

As for the captain part - what are you not sure about, as a captain?

text;

[nerdeology]

[you're giving your doctor a bad name, dude]

the news I received was unclear about what exactly I'm supposed to do, and my experience with the previous captain was very-- nonchalant.

I suppose I want to know if I'm missing anything.

text.

[intelligently]

You're not dying.

( 95% not a guess )

text.

[nerdeology]

Guess I should be glad that everyone seems so confident about that.

[It would probably mean more, coming from lab support, if he was human.]