event } you can jive

[seeingyou]

WHO: Open to all passengers!
WHAT: A visit to New Ecrillion, and all the music your ears can handle. Plus, bonus new partners!
WHERE: Anywhere in the city of New Ecrillion, or Navi.
WHEN: June 19 through July 10
WARNINGS: Add these to your comment subject lines as needed! And if you end up partying literally to death, please record it on the death page.

Hello, passengers! Hope you're all ready for an announcement, 'cause Navi's voice is getting beamed into your head right about ... now:

Attention, passengers.
We'll be docking soon at the city of New Ecrillion, on the planet Zegnolia, where we will remain for approximately three weeks, local time.
Please stand by.

From the announcement until landing, to help everyone adjust to the new environment, Navi will gift all passengers with a a faint hummed melody.

Upon docking and disembarking, passengers will find a bank counter just past the terminal, where your new windfall of Navigems can be exchanged for credits (the universal currency). Try not to spend it all in one place!

Now, go get your groove on! Just remember to take breaks to hydrate.

Comments

[imarealistnotacynic]

Richard wipes his eyes. It's unintentional as he puts them back on before looking away, "...I don't- I don't bring it up."

He presses his lips together, "I know I can count on your silence and ...discretion and support."

"Did I explain and reveal a few things."

[albatrossomen]

"Hardly a topic for casual conversation," Murmur offered. No one really talks about their traumas, even if he does tend to know a whole lot more about them than he reasonably should. More weird, mysterious angel things.

"Of course. Your secrets are safe with me." Murmur doesn't go blabbing lightly, and it's not his place to reveal to others the inner workings of an individual.

"Some. Your current struggle in expressing yourself now, at the very least, makes significantly more sense. It isn't my place to tell you how to behave, but I do think you wouldn't be remiss in reaching out more to Alex."

[imarealistnotacynic]

"Alex ... knows some of it. Just not the extent that you now do."

He frowns, "...Did it help? To understand? Each one of those choices were choices my parents made. Being a human is hard."

[albatrossomen]

"Oh, I hardly expect you to divulge unto her your darkest secrets." There are gentler middle grounds to be had, Richard. Think now.

"Every being with a mind to understand hardship suffers in their existence, Richard. That is not an experience unique to your species. Your parents failed you in their duty to you, of that there can be no question. Now the question is, what will you do with this understanding?"

[imarealistnotacynic]

This is a stolen season. A half life.

"What all beings do." He draws himself up and tries for dignity, tries for decorum, tries for humanity, "...Try and maintain myself."

He sighed, "...All any of us can do my friend. Can you get back to the ship all right?"

[albatrossomen]

Stolen opportunities are still opportunities not to be squandered. "This situation grants us a rare opportunity for reflection." He commented idly, as if following the train of thought unspoken.

That earns something of a faint smirk, touched with a faint hint of disappointment. "You are more than a creature of instinct and mere survival, human. You would do well to remember the gifts with which you are blessed." Reason, empathy, thought. Those qualities have driven them through centuries of progress, now is not the time to forget them.

A dismissive gesture. "I am the last you need to worry about. Do try not to drink too much, I hear it's bad for your health." And with that, and the understanding that this was a dismissal Murmur is gone. Nothing more than a faint breeze and his leftover empty plate to indicate he'd been there at all.