driftfleet | he's probably fine.

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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

u kno u could probably make sorey a first mate

they help the captain out

or if uw anted u could put in a request 2 have u be first mate and sorey be captain

if you think thats better

really? they'd let us do that?

[Honestly, either of those options would be helpful. It would put someone who can actually communicate and is used to leading a group in a position of power.]

yep! its pretty easy 2 do

itll take about a week or so but it'll def go through

I'll have to discuss it with Sorey, then. I don't want to put any pressure on him if he's not interested.

[Though that would require them to communicate properly...]

[And since Clay can't read what's between the brackets, he has no idea there's a problem, so this should all be sorted out soon, right?]

yeah deffo talk w/him about it

being w/out a first mate can be p hard

[And he'd know, considering he went months without one.]

I

[wait]

I didn't understand that.

[WHAT ARE THOSE WORDS]

oh

sorry

[siiiigh people who don't come from an age where text speak is a thing]

let's try that again

yeah definitely talk with him about it

being without a first mate can be pretty hard :(

Why did you say it like that?

[He doesn't understand, why would you make yourself more confusing? What is this, is this a human thing??]

[w o w how dare you judge]

eh i'm used to it, friends from my world text like that too

faster to type, like shorthand!

which is good when i got things to do

[look, humans are weird, he's adapting]

I see. But isn't it only shorter if the other person understands what you're saying to begin with? How do you know if they use the same linguistics?

he's probably fine.

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