thespaceopera: (drifting)
Voices from Heaven ([personal profile] thespaceopera) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2017-03-03 11:56 pm

Just Keeping Swimming | March Planet Mingle

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on Mafik
When: The month of March



[Welcome to Mafik, the water world! Hope you brought your best swimming gear and don't have a paralyzing fear of water, because that's all that's here! So get out those wet suits and enjoy life under the sea!

In other words, it's a mingle! ]

> System Information
helmsplitter: (so tired of this)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-10 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
So you pretty much become invisible.

[Well, damn. Good thing Doudanuki is A) attuned to Spirit Stuff and B) knows Maglor then.]

That'd be useful, if it hadn't almost sent you to a monster-infested temple. Because that's all that's out here anymore - monsters. The town's dead silent, which is why I heard you moving around out there. The entire thing's just...

[He glances over his shoulder as the buildings recede slowly into the background]

...Hollow.
bythewaves: (Arnold concern)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-10 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Unless you know to look for me, yes. [ Maglor agrees ]

I learnt to do it deliberately, although I do not usually bother. But when I'm caught in the Song like this... it's entirely involuntary. My family knows what to expect, but most other people won't.

[ He frowns, looking back, and his eyes are sad ]

That explains why the Song that drew me out was so sad. The city mourns it's people. Are the monsters responsible? Or is something else going on?
helmsplitter: (discussions)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-11 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
You might want t'let your crew in on that. You don't want them to miss you leaving the ship again.

[Who knows what could have happened if Doudanuki hadn't spotted him after all?]

And as for all... [He gestures with his free hand to the city] that? Something else. There was writing about the sickness you see in the big city. Something about visiting the "resting place of the Dark One." Not sure what that meant.
bythewaves: (Arnold concern)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-11 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor nods ]

Nelyo... that is, my brother Maedhros knows, Fingon too. But I ... I suppose I should mention it to the others.

[ He frowns at that ] It might be a way of saying 'death', I suppose. But did it reference where they went before they became ill?
helmsplitter: (forget the past)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-11 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeah. Might wanna do that.

[Because he can't always guarantee he'll be around to catch Maglor the next time he wanders off. Hopefully there won't be a next time, but he doesn't want to take that chance.]

That's where they went - to the Dark One's resting place. After that, they came back sick according to one message. Most of 'em just talked about leaving the city, but that one? That one stuck out.
bythewaves: (here i stand)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-11 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor frowns, thoughtfully ]

Hmph. So... an illness from a place... something touched, or breathed, maybe, or ... [ Or deliberately inflicted, like the creeping maladies that came on the fumes of Angband and Mordor, or in the bodies of those taken and then returned ]

.... you think it was the temples?
helmsplitter: (silence)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-11 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[He stops walking as that realization hits him. Could it be the temples? He went inside one - will that cause him to come down the same illness? Can a sword even get sick?]

....I dunno, but with all of us going in and out of 'em, maybe we should warn people.

[He looks up at Maglor.]

Was that why you were heading straight for one?
bythewaves: (Arnold worry)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-11 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor frowns, feeling carefully through the memory and trying not to get lost in the song again ]

I... am not sure. Maybe? Perhaps it was not the temple itself but something beyond it or within it?
helmsplitter: (what you say)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-11 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes the sword, rattling it within Maglor's grasp.]

Don't go back there.

If you aren't sure, just leave it be for now. When we get back to the ship, maybe back to the Iskaulit away from the water, then we can figure that out.

[He doesn't want Maglor to disappear back into the trance.]
bythewaves: (Arnold concern)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-12 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor starts, blinking briefly before nodding ]

Thank you. I suppose it would be better to wait. [ He shakes his head ]

But I worry for the young ones...
helmsplitter: (baka ja nee ka)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-13 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[He makes a wry face.]

Ain't everyone here a young one t'you? What with being nine thousand whatever years old.
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-13 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor chuckles softly ]

I suppose, in one way of looking! But the children are younger again, and.... well. Little ones are very precious to us, and I would hate to see them in danger.
helmsplitter: (so tired of this)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-13 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, you mean the children.

[He keeps walking. The tantou often acted like children, even though most of them were among the oldest in the Citadel. He doesn't have a lot of experience with actual children, come to think of it.]

Well, if it's any consolation, there weren't any in the city. The ones that are still around are all in the main city hub and people are workin' pretty hard to figure out what's making everyone sick.
bythewaves: (profile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-14 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Aye - although I am never quite sure what age Men count adulthood from, in honesty! I imagine things are a little different when one is a blade, too.

[ Maglor follows easily, not wanting to make Doudanuki stay out here too long either ]

Does it seem to be spreading? [ He wonders ] I ... should probably see if I can help. My folk do not usually get the same illnessess as Men do, although I do not know how that translates across.
helmsplitter: (contemplation)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-14 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
Swords don't have children and the age for humans seems to change with the times. When I was first forged, they were considered men and able to fight or go get married after about fifteen years of life. Now? I have no idea. It seems to be different.

[He just keeps walking, one hand on his sword and making sure he keeps Maglor on the other end.]

As for the sickness? Yeah. I get the feeling it's getting worse. Every time I visit the main city here, there's more kids or more adults with the symptoms. Swords can't really get sick as far as I know, which is why I'm out here, doing what I can to investigate. If you got any healing magic or something, you can help the people in the city.
bythewaves: (Arnold worry)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-14 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
That would make sense. [ Maglor agrees ] It would be strange for a blade to have a childhood! You might be a young blade, I suppose, but not a child, eh?

[ He nods ] Some of the Men in my world consider adulthood at that age also, but the Dunedain age slower, and they tend to name adulthood at eighteen, and full maturity in their twenties.

[ He frowns ] I wish I was able to heal. I know some basic battlefield first aid and I have some knowledge of the common healing herbs, but little more than that. But that it is spreading... that is ill. I hope the healers and doctors here can help.
helmsplitter: (discussions)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-14 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not that young. [grumble grumble] And we have younger times, but we don't really have a childhood like humans do. We don't really age, we just learn more about the world and either our vessels stay around so we're alive, or they get destroyed and we die.

[He shrugs]

If you can't heal, don't worry about it. I can't either, so I'm just doing what I can in my own way. [A beat] What's a Dunedain?
bythewaves: (regard)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-15 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
No, I suppose you are not. [ Maglor acknowledges with a smile ]

Mm, I am glad yours was not, however! I will do my best to make sure so, here.

'Dunedain' means 'West Man' - Men of the West, if you wish something that scans a little better. They are the descendents of the Edain, the three tribes of Men who came first over the eastern mountains to Middle-earth and became elf-friends. Their line of kings descends from Elros, who was Peredhel - Half-Elven, but who chose to become mortal. They have a tendency to live a little longer - those of Elros' direct line may make several centuries, at times.
helmsplitter: (silence)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-16 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
.....I was. Destroyed, I mean. I've died a lot.

[Destroyed, he means. That's the thing about him, he's not exactly...a normal sword spirit. He tries to keep the tone light, but all the deaths he's had are always in his head and they bother him sometimes.

But more importantly (and so he can abruptly change the topic to something that doesn't remind him of fire and pain)--
]

So they're humans, but they used to be kinda like elves? Why not just call them humans?

[Huff]

Why do you guys have t'have so many names for stuff?
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-17 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maglor's breath hisses in low sympathy, but he doesn't dwell on it, since Doudanuki likely does not wish to be reminded ]

I will do my best to not let that happen here. [ He promises him ]

Mm, not really - say more that some of them have a little, tiny, bit of elven blood, and that strain will sometimes out! And we like words, we elves!

[ He chuckles a bit ] The very first name we called ourselves when our foreparents first awoke, was Quendi. 'Speakers'. For we were the first to devise words for things, and ever since then we have been doing so. But Men do so also, do they not?
helmsplitter: (not like i care)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-17 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[He gives a half-hearted shrug and keeps walking. Even if he died here, he's pretty sure the other Doudanuki swords out there somewhere would just pick up where he left off. It was the beneift of being a mass produced sword - somewhere there was likely another of him.]

I guess humans do. I think one word for each is more than enough though. Who's got all that--

[Right, time. Elves live for as long as the world is around so...yeah, they have the time. Doudanuki sighs and stares up at the "sky".]

I guess you guys have the time to sit around and make up a thousand names for the same thing.
bythewaves: (Arnold smile)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-18 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose so! But we do just like language, I think. My family has a bit of a history with that sort of thing, and I am very fond of the different ways people speak, myself.

[ Maglor smiles at him gently ]

I still regret the fact that our languages are automatically translated, here. I miss the chance to actually learn.
helmsplitter: (someone farted in here)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-21 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Doudanuki makes A Face(tm) and looks away. He'd hate learning all the different languages here.]

It's already hard enough havin' to learn how to say everyone's names. Making it so we couldn't even talk to people here would probably lead to war pretty damn quick.

[Not that that outcome would make him unhappy, but he's pretty sure most of the Fleeters would hate it.]
bythewaves: (hm?)

[personal profile] bythewaves 2017-03-21 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe, but you might be surprised! In any case, our captors clearly decided they did not wish the hassle.

And you do well with our names, which I assume are quite odd, for you?
helmsplitter: (food in face nao)

[personal profile] helmsplitter 2017-03-22 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you guys have weird names.

[Blunt sword is blunt.]

But when you're used to names like Shokudaikiri Mitsutada or Izuminokami Kanesada, it ain't so hard to learn other ones. Mostly it's the pronunciation that trips me up at first.

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