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.]

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Well, that certainly would be a problem. Can you find some other way to communicate with them? You're texting with me right now, after all.

I can use the communicator, but it's not exactly a timely method. It won't work if there's trouble.

Otherwise, I'll have to rely on the ones who can see me to rely important information.

Could you make those people who can see you into your ranking officers? That would expedite things - assuming the rest of your crew bothers to respect that sort of thing.

_{[ It's kind of a hodgepodge of people and backgrounds, after all, and this is hardly a military or organized affair. ]}

You're the second person to suggest that. I guess I should look into it, if they're willing. It does seem like a convenient way to get around the problem.

It's sort of what ranking officers are for. They take command when you cannot. It's a chain of command.

Hopefully we don't come across many situations where it's actually needed.

I do share that sentiment. I'd be happy if I never had to bother with any of this.

Better to be safe than sorry, though- isn't that how the saying goes?

Can't you, I don't know, abdicate? As far as I can tell, being any sort of ranked officer on these things is voluntary.

_{[ Not that they weren't where he came from. He could give it up if he
wanted to, he just didn't. ]}

That, and 'easier to ask forgiveness than gain permission'.

I think I can, technically, but I question whether or not there's someone else I would prefer to be in charge.

[Sorey would obviously be fine, but if he's going to be first mate anyway, it would be a pointless exchange. Obi-Wan, maybe? He's at least responsible. Would he even want it, is the question.]

I wish I could give you council on that, but I don't know who else is on your ship. It'll have to be a decision you make for yourself, but I think so long as you believe you're doing what's best for the crew, it'll turn out all right.

You've at least given me a few things to consider. Thanks for the advice, either way.

You're welcome. I hope you find a solution to your problem.

he's probably fine.

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