Your regularly scheduled creepy visitor

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and anyone who needs him... or wants to chat to him
Broadcast: No
Action: On any ship except Marsiva, Tourist or Red Fish because he avoids visiting two and can't visit the third.
When: While the fleet is moving and probably a bit after

[There is this thing Cole does.

He visits other ships. Sometimes he put the Pathstone alongside to visit and sometimes he takes a shuttle, but he's constantly wandering all over the fleet, being with people, circulating.

He hasn't done it in a while. He got a nasty fright and went into hiding for a while.

But the creepy psychic being is back! Sticking his large nose into all the business.]

Comments

[nerdeology]

Yes, so I've noticed. I don't think I've ever met anyone so... open, I suppose is the word.

[killedwithlove]

People have layers. Hidden bits and shown bits, faces for the world and faces for private and faces they don't even realise they have.

[nerdeology]

And your kind do not? Do you keep nothing hidden?

[killedwithlove]

... no.

What would we hide? Spirits are very simple. We are what we are, wholly and completely.

I hide things now. Now I'm more than just spirit.

[nerdeology]

I guess it's harder to imagine, living so simply. We seraphim are our elements, but we're ourselves, too. It's very different.

[killedwithlove]

Yes, very different. You're elemental but like mortals in your thinking and being. We're not. We're... conceptual?

[nerdeology]

How does a concept form an identity, if you don't mind my asking?

[killedwithlove]

No. Not usually.

Some do. Very old, very powerful spirits. A fear so great that it becomes Nightmare, things that terrify but you can never quite remember clearly. Wisdom so firmly worshipped that it becomes the keeper of the Wild Woods.

Or... spirits which are shaped by mortals. When mortals die, their souls appear in the Fade. Their memories and emotions. If they encounter a spirit, it can reshape that spirit.

Compassion might be lost and think it's Cole.