Naviadna Mingle

[thespaceopera]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: Anywhere on the fleet or in the system
When: The month of June



Welcome to Naviadna! Enjoy the beautiful sights, amazing technology, and all the other wonderful things this system has to offer! Where will you go? What sort of shenanigans will you get up to? How are you dealing with the planet's insistent singing at you?

Have fun!

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Comments

[abracafcku]

Pfft, if I want to see it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't even need to ask nicely.

[Lup had been sidestepping around offering him a tour before because of his memory issues, but now? Well, now he was fully himself again and, well...actually she was technically mad at him for pranking her, but fuck it. It'd been one hell of a good prank.]

And I made that ivory door she needs to channel the spell. Dunno if you saw it when she cast - but she asked me to transmute it awhile back. That shit took work and that was before I even had all my shit together.

[shroudedsecrets]

... I did not realize the door itself was a component. Then you may have my gratitude as well, for obliging her.

[But for the bulk of what he has said... it actually takes her a moment, because the way he evaded her question and yet answered one she hadn't quite asked proper was... disturbing her, the more the conversation continued. Had something changed...? Surely Lup would have mentioned...?]

[abracafcku]

Surprise - I'm useful.

[He yawns and stretches out against the warm sand before resettling in his original lazy position. It was nice, just pseudo-sunbathing like this.]

And thanks for the thanks. I worked hard on that for like...10 minutes. Twenty? Something like that. She handed it over awhile ago, back when she was making that uh...

[He raises his hands, tossing up a pair of air quotes.]

"Other network" that people've been using. I dunno if I even need to keep that secret anymore. That shit's out in the world now.

[shroudedsecrets]

... that was some time ago.

[And for someone like her who could barely keep track of time, it did feel like a while ago. That was nearly back when the pair had first arrived, after all. She was still adjusting to their presence then, of still getting her bearings with ... experiencing things again. So much of her perceptions had changed that it was difficult, to think back to that mindset.]

Around the time of your arrival here.

[abracafcku]

Yuh-huh. Took some convincing for me to trust her enough to like, do her a solid that way back then.

[He shrugs again and stretches his long legs out on the sand, crossing them at the ankles.]

Kinda ridiculous now when I think about it, but y'know, Taako's all about preserving Numero Uno and shit was all sideways back then.

So after taking a spin in the ol' Mansion, you're feeling better? You go listen to the planet and get something in return or are you just trying really hard to ignore it?

[shroudedsecrets]

... you did aid her, in the end.

[Even if it was hard for him, it said enough that was able to find a way to trust Lup, back then. It almost seemed that he'd... regretted it now. Hm.]

... I have listened to it. Hard not to, when it has been so... intent. What it has tried to restore to me is... complicated. That seems to be the way, with these sorts of planets.

[abracafcku]

Well ch'yeah. Pretty sure we traded some shit for it - a favor for a favor. Or maybe I owed her already. I dunno. Can't remember.

[He snorts at his own word choice and then opens his eyes again, watching Honerva.]

So what'd it try to give you in return? Something weird? A better fashion sense?

[shroudedsecrets]

It wanted to remind me... of where I had come from.

[On some level, it's strange to have this conversation with Taako, but on the other, maybe not so strange.]

It could not provide... memory, but there were concepts, to grasp.

[abracafcku]

[He snorts a little at her answer.]

Maybe it couldn't provide it to you, you mean. So, if they couldn't give you memories of home, what'd it give you? A picture? Some sorta book?

[shroudedsecrets]

[There's something very telling about Taako's words, and she holds him in her gaze for a moment, before continuing on, as she levitates out an object from a small bag on the other side of Kova.]

... It led me to a place where there were flowers that I knew but could not yet recognize. I was... there for some time, until I came across this item from my past. I could not tell you the context for it, aside from that.

[An implication that she had achieved something, anyway. She had brought a flower back to the ship as well, which he might have seen in passing.]

[abracafcku]

[He reaches up as the object flies up out of her bag, plucking it from the air and turning it over in his hands.]

Looks like some kinda award....? Maybe you won nicest face markings in your office? Definitely not Best Conversationalist.

[He knows the flower though - he's seen it on the ship.]

Stuff from the time you can't remember though, huh? Maybe it'll come back to you?

[shroudedsecrets]

... Perhaps.

[There were times she wondered how recoverable it all was. The parts of herself that were not so entwined to others. The way she would feel less, when there was still so much more.]

It is a reminder, if nothing else. Even if I am unable to recall what the exact meaning is, it must have meant something once.

[If she had not realized there was any connection at all, what worth would it have had?]

You seem as though you must have received something far greater.