Open Action: Fleet Wide

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and EVERYONE
Broadcast: No
Action: EVERY ship in the Fleet, bar Marsiva, Three Twins and Tourist (Though you can easily find him on another ship if you're from one of those)
When: First week of the month?

[This is a thing Cole does.

He travels the Fleet a lot, from ship to ship, meeting people, talking to people, hanging out. He sees people he knows and meets new ones, or ones he just didn't encounter before

He wants to help everyone. Which means meeting them first. Or finding them. Doing that might involve poking through the ships, even if he really shouldn't. Or going through personal belongings. Sorry about that. He's curious.

And armed. It is worth mentioning he's got a pair of wickedly sharp fighting knives on his back. Sorry about that as well.]

Comments

[killedwithlove]

Hello.

[Cole straightens and look straight ahead... which tends to keep his face in shadows from his VERY OVER SIZED hat.]

You're not mortal. Not... like most people.

[stayinthecar]

...what do you mean?

[ and how do you know? SO MUCH AWKWARD ROBOT SHIFTYEYES. ]

[killedwithlove]

Your emotions are more like... Megaman. He's a program, in a robot body.

I don't entirely understand that.

[stayinthecar]

I am a person.

[ :( ]

[killedwithlove]

Yes. You're not a spirit.

You still sound... different.

[stayinthecar]

How do I sound different?

[ it's a genuine question, he tries to sound like everyone else but still winds up stilted and isn't sure why or how ]

[killedwithlove]

You sound... muffled. Like Megaman. You're there but there's another layer between me and you.

[stayinthecar]

Oh. You don't mean my voice. Are you psychic?

[ He pauses just slightly before asking it, familiar with the concept but never having encountered it in person before coming to the fleet. ]

And are you my crewmate?

[killedwithlove]

No.

I don't know. What's psychic?

And no. I like on the Pathstone. I'm visiting.

[stayinthecar]

Psychic is relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, especially involving telepathy or clairvoyance. A psychic can use extra-sensory perception, which seems to be what you're doing to sense me.

Oh. Who are you visiting?

[killedwithlove]

[Cole watches and listens intently, nodding slightly.

He understands virtually none of those words. Not the ones that matter.]

I don't understand you at all.

I'm just visiting. Here.

[stayinthecar]

I hear that a lot. [ Zeta blinks, sizing the stranger up again, with his weapons and general manner of going though things. ]

You're trespassing?

[killedwithlove]

I'm visiting.

The ship. And the people here. I visit all the ships, except the Three Twins and the Tourist.

[stayinthecar]

Oh. Well... welcome?

[ He doesn't quite understand why you'd just ship hop without telling the people on the ship, but as long as you don't break anything. ]

[killedwithlove]

Thank you!

[He seems genuinely pleased to be welcomed.]

You still sound different, though.

[stayinthecar]

I'm not sure what to tell you about that.

[ He's really not sure. The truth isn't something he's comfortable revealing. But... ]

What do you think it is?

[killedwithlove]

Hm.

[Cole thinks about this.]

Maybe... you're a computer golem? I don't know. Megaman explained to me, he's a soul in a mechanical body. Like our golems.

[stayinthecar]

[ A golem, a creature created by magic inside an inanimate body.... hm. ]

No, I don't think that's accurate.

[killedwithlove]

You're more like Megaman than anything else.

[He leans in, than draws back sharply.]

I'm sorry, I didn't realise my questions were upsetting you.

[stayinthecar]

...it's alright. [ He's more amazed than anything, now, that Cole can sense actual emotions from him. ] I had hoped no one would be able to tell I'm different, and had been lucky so far.

[killedwithlove]

Oh.

I notice things no one else does. I have different... perceptions.

[stayinthecar]

Please don't tell anyone? I don't know how my crewmates would respond.

[killedwithlove]

It's your secret, not mine.

I won't tell.

[stayinthecar]

Thank you.

I don't mind that you're here, but why are you armed?

[killedwithlove]

... are you not armed?