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suspicious mage is suspicious

Who: Khadgar | OPEN
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Windrose
When: now

[Look, someone is actually taking it easily, making notes and recording everything that happened lately so he can go through it all later and pick thing apart.]

I'm probably looking too much into this but-

[He shifts, wincing slightly as he sits more upright.]

We're here for entertainment right? Could Atroma have staged that attack? It doesn't seem like they gave a damn during the attack and, I mean, the Marsiva wasn't touched, was it? What would be more entertaining for people than seeing us all in real danger?

If they're willing to just kidnap us, they wouldn't be above this!

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[So thought provoking, his thanks.] I just can't trust this place to have proper coincidences.

[Faint nod.] As rested as I can get.

That's a good place to start, but coincidences could still happen. You could lead yourself around in circles that way.

And somehow that answer sounded less than reassuring.

Good thing there are experienced people here to tell me when my suspicions are all wrong. [he's not... completely against help.]

You aren't wrong. [Deep breath. Ow.] I broke a couple ribs, sleep isn't easy.

I guess it is. [You're going to end up getting her involved in fleet mysteries somehow aren't you?]

No spells for fixing ribs I take it?

[Not intentionally? He can at least promise to try to keep trouble focused on him rather than anyone else.]

No, I'm a mage, not a priest. And the garden on the Iskaulit doesn't have the ingredients to make a healing potion.

You did at least see a doctor, right? [Though she knows ribs can just take a long time to heal without much to be done to speed it along unless there's future tech or magic involved.]

Maglor bound them for me but there's not much else that can be done. [So no, he didn't really.]

Dr. Maglor? [Suspicious.]

Uh... no? He's an elf. [Not looking right at the video now.]

Well, if he's good enough for Santa...

Does he have a lab augment?

Santa?

[Wait. Not important.]

I don't think he does but I'm not actually sure.

You basically just saw a random guy about a physical injury?

He offered to bind my ribs, easier to have someone else do it than try myself.

[Wow, way to make it sound worse than it was.]

Yes, other person is a step up from doing absolutely nothing.

I can sleep at least a bit easier now.

I'm saying do better. I know we don't have anyone with the augment but try the Blue Fish. They're lousy with them.

I'll be fine. I may not be a priest or a medic but even I know that broken ribs are hard to treat.

It's your call. [She clearly thinks it's a bad one though.]

[He can tell. The Archmages pulled that on him sometimes.]

How about I promise to see someone if it gets worse? For now I can breathe and sleep more than a couple hours at a time.

Fair enough. [Especially since she has no power over him to make him do anything.]

And for what it's worth, I do tend to think everything we run into is staged by the Atroma. [Even if she sounded more skeptical initially. Skeptical is kind of a default setting.] They pick the flight plan. Even if they weren't controlling the other fleets they probably knew we'd be running into them.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. [Not that he thought most people in the fleet wouldn't agree but he's had unpopular opinions before on his own world.]

It'd be nice if we could make Atroma answer for that.

Sure. They seem to hold most of the cards though. Hard to make people pay for things when you can't even find them.

They are around though, we'll find a way to get to them. We just can't give up.

You sound so much like me back in my first multidimensional abduction by mysterious overlords. Find a way to keep that. [She's been feeling jaded about making the attempts.]

Not a new adventure then?

[Khadgar shrugs and then crosses his arms.] I don't give up easily.

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