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

hopefully they can keep this up lol

[bythewaves]

I will wish you good health then, and hope for the best.

As to that... I am happy enough to serve in whatever capacity you deem fit, but for now... do you think anyone will mind overly if I turn the room given to me into a music room?

fingers crossed

[nerdeology]

A music room? How would you do that?

[He has never seen such a thing.]

[bythewaves]

Well... I suppose it would depend on what instruments I would be able to acquire. But if the room is relatively soundproof, one could set it up with a few small things to both teach and to play. The rooms do not seem overly large, but stringed instruments, for example, and woodwind also, generally do not take up much space. And that way I do not need to cause trouble if I make too much noise when composing.

[nerdeology]

You might have some difficulty with getting instruments, but I doubt anyone would object. Assuming you don't make too much noise while the others are sleeping, anyway.

If you want to make it available to people outside of the Huntress, though, your best option is to do it on the Iskaulit.

[bythewaves]

That would be the main concern, yes - I would want to acquire sound-proofing, of some description. But the Iskaulit? Another ship?

[nerdeology]

Yes. Besides the Marsiva, there's another large ship traveling with us. This one's accessible to anyone at any time, as far as I know. Some people have set up shops there, or made space available to others for certain services.

[bythewaves]

That sounds promising for a more public space, certainly. I might do that, I think, and keep this room as something more private. How would one get to the Iskaulit?

[nerdeology]

Every ship has a shuttle or two that are free to use for anyone who wants to visit other ships. They're not very hard to fly, but if you want to do anything complicated with them, you should look into getting lessons first.

[bythewaves]

I fear I would not know what to do with them, unless the augment came with lessons built in! So I suspect I would need lessons either way.

[nerdeology]

Much as I hate to admit it, the augment makes it easier. I'd never seen vehicles like the shuttles before, but I can fly one well enough to get from place to place when I have to.

[bythewaves]

Then I will have to hope it has done so for me as well! So far, it has been quite useful in basic things, although I do not think I will ever enjoy the strange thing they call "food" here.

[nerdeology]

No argument here. The only time I even bother with the food is if I'm cooking for someone else.

[bythewaves]

You...do not eat?

[nerdeology]

Sometimes I do, if the food is good, but I don't have to.

[bythewaves]

That must be incredibly useful. But it also tells me you are probably not mortal?

[nerdeology]

I'm not. My kind are called seraphim. The easiest comparison I've found is it's a type of "spirit".

[bythewaves]

Like the Ainur of my world then. I am honored to meet one of the Holy Ones here.

[nerdeology]

[Whoa, hey. He honestly never expected to meet anyone who holds his kind in high esteem here. Consider him officially daunted.]

"Holy Ones"? Are spirits worshipped where you're from?

[bythewaves]

Not by us - and they have always insisted that they were but our older siblings, there to teach and guide, and wished for our respect, yes, but not worship, for they are themselves but servants in the end. But Men do, I think, sometimes.

But we call them "Ainur" or "Holy Ones" because they are the builders of our world, beings of spirit and not flesh, although they could wear a physical form when it suited them to do so.

[ He promises, no worship. Just a lot of automatic respect ]

[nerdeology]

[Respect is something he can get used to, so awesome. just wait until his occasional immaturity comes out]

It's somewhat similar then, but not the same. We're not worldbuilders or anything, and we do have bodies, though most people can't see or hear us. Our relationship with mortals is meant to be symbiotic, but they've been out of touch for so long that many seraphim were forced to abandon them.

[bythewaves]

[ The Ainur can be just as immature, Maglor will not be surprised ]

Like, but not like, eh? I am sad to hear that things between you and Men grow distant, but it is so in my world as well, that as Men grow they leave as all behind.

[nerdeology]

It's typical of humans to stop believing in what they can't see.

It isn't hopeless, though. We're working to bring things back to how they ought to be, and even if it takes time, it's working out so far. The blessing of the seraphim has been restored to a number of regions already, and true faith is coming back to the people, too.

[If this were voice, he would sound proud; as it is, all he can do is type very enthusiastically.]

[bythewaves]

It is - Men move swiftly ever forward, and forget to look back, I think. They carry less baggage, but some things are forgotten that perhaps should not be.

But I am glad - and I hope that you will see the renewal of old ties.

[nerdeology]

You say "Men" as if they're not your kind. Are you not human?

[He'd been distracted the first time, but something in the way he keeps phrasing it makes Mikleo curious.]

[bythewaves]

Ahhhh, my apologies - I was told that I should use 'human', instead, but I am old and set in my ways.

But yes - my people call ourselves Quendi, or Speakers, but Men... humans, that is, have always called us Elves.