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WHO: All y’all
WHAT: A nice vacation to ease everyone in
WHERE: Various locations on Alkonost Island, including Navi
WHEN: Sept 12-30
WARNINGS: Use ‘em in your threads if needed!
Welcome to Alkonost, the beautiful tropical island on the planet Tetagari where you have just made an emergency crash landing! You’ll be here for a while, so settle in and get cozy with your new shipmates until Navi is repaired and ready for takeoff.
Alkonost is a small island with an eponymous beachfront village, with the rest of the land covered in tropical rainforest, dry forest, and grasslands. Most of the land is still wild, as the Alkonost population is centered at the beach, though ancient ruins can be found a bit more inland. Alkonostians are a humanoid, amphibious people, with light green skin, gills, and webbed fingers; they are friendly and welcoming to tourists, business contacts, and intergalactic refugees alike.
Speaking of business, the main exports of Alkonost are various types of fish, shell jewelry, and a unique, dark red pearl that is only cultivated in the waters surrounding the island. These red pearls are highly prized on other islands and provide the bulk of income for the Alkonost population. They’ve also recently attracted a band of pesky pirates, which has taken to raiding export ships and even the pearl farms themselves, on occasion. Warning signs are posted near the shoreline and will be explained by locals if asked.
While visiting, you can elect to work as part of a fishing or pearl farming crew, or with one of the island’s fruit collection squads, and you’ll be paid daily in fresh fish and equally fresh fruit. For necessities of the non-consumable sort, the village open-air market is open every day for all of your shopping needs. Otherwise, grab some sun on the beach, dance and sing around bonfires at night, get to know your fellow passengers, or just chill on the ship and get to know Navi.
WHAT: A nice vacation to ease everyone in
WHERE: Various locations on Alkonost Island, including Navi
WHEN: Sept 12-30
WARNINGS: Use ‘em in your threads if needed!
Welcome to Alkonost, the beautiful tropical island on the planet Tetagari where you have just made an emergency crash landing! You’ll be here for a while, so settle in and get cozy with your new shipmates until Navi is repaired and ready for takeoff.
Alkonost is a small island with an eponymous beachfront village, with the rest of the land covered in tropical rainforest, dry forest, and grasslands. Most of the land is still wild, as the Alkonost population is centered at the beach, though ancient ruins can be found a bit more inland. Alkonostians are a humanoid, amphibious people, with light green skin, gills, and webbed fingers; they are friendly and welcoming to tourists, business contacts, and intergalactic refugees alike.
Speaking of business, the main exports of Alkonost are various types of fish, shell jewelry, and a unique, dark red pearl that is only cultivated in the waters surrounding the island. These red pearls are highly prized on other islands and provide the bulk of income for the Alkonost population. They’ve also recently attracted a band of pesky pirates, which has taken to raiding export ships and even the pearl farms themselves, on occasion. Warning signs are posted near the shoreline and will be explained by locals if asked.
While visiting, you can elect to work as part of a fishing or pearl farming crew, or with one of the island’s fruit collection squads, and you’ll be paid daily in fresh fish and equally fresh fruit. For necessities of the non-consumable sort, the village open-air market is open every day for all of your shopping needs. Otherwise, grab some sun on the beach, dance and sing around bonfires at night, get to know your fellow passengers, or just chill on the ship and get to know Navi.
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navi tilts their head questioningly at murmur and blinks slowly.]
[and something about the way murmur answers the question sticks out - perhaps his use of the word design? navi pulls back from all screens and leans toward murmur with their full attention.]
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And Rebellion had caused enough problems.]
I only speak the truth as I see it. Still, you are welcome.
[He understands. Genuine compliments and praise are sometimes a strange thing to grow accustomed to.
That does earn a slight smile, the faintest hint of being impressed radiating from the strange being. They, after all, also communicated in a similar manner through impression rather than spoken word alone.]
How very perceptive. You are correct, we are created for this purpose. Each among us designed with specific tasks in mind.
[Well that certainly seemed to gain Navi's attention.]
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The answer to that is somewhat... complicated. It has been some time since any among us have received anything one could call a direct order, so one could say we have been largely left to our own devices. Even so, most still perform their tasks as far as we understand them to be given. That isn't to say rebellions are impossible nor have never happened.
[One in particular comes to mind.]
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An excessive demonstration of our presence influences human action, rendering free will questionable. Ours is that of background influence, we are not to directly impact or influence the mortals.
[He shrugs slightly.]
Other than that, perhaps he desires we exercise free will of our own. He has a tendency toward the enigmatic, I cannot say for certain. If we were completely without purpose we wouldn't continue to exist, so there must be something.
[One might expect that statement to come with some uncertainty. Quite the contrary, Murmur was confident there was a purpose, ge just didn't know what it was yet.]
On that note, your friend Tim mentioned some of the cruelty you and yours have experienced. I realize this is likely a sensitive topic but... I would like to witness for myself. If you are willing.
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[Such as aiding the Navigators' cause. He offered out his one ungloved hand, with something of a reassuring smile.]
If you are willing, I can take it.
[He's been through literal Hell. This will merely be another notch on that belt.]
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[what navi sends murmur is small, a few brief fragments of memories, amorphous sensations and feelings rather than a linear timeline of their history. there's pain, of course: nerves on fire with the pain of being cruelly dissected while still conscious; the duller pain of having their mind invaded and controlled by an uncaring creator; sharp pains of taking fire and crash landing and enduring insults and anger from passengers. there's fear of what horrors the zerentians would subject them to, fear of being caught again and lobotomized after making their escape, fear of feeling the harm that would come to their passengers if captured. there's the cacophony of connectedness of being part of the community of navigators, and the deafening silence of having that connection severed.]
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Were they fabrications, he would have detected that immediately. As it was he did not use his own power to push for anything further, simply following the flow of information as Navi chooses to present it. He is untroubled by the out-of-order nature of it, seeming to adapt seamlessly to a non-linear sense of time.
It isn't necessarily the images themselves that were too disturbing, it was the emotions. All that fear, all that pain, all the torment. Shared among them all, and worst of all that one blinding deafening silence.
When it finally faded it took several long moments for him to snap back into reality. While he wasn't visibly shaken, there was an undercurrent of the deeply disturbed distress he was under having experienced all of that at once. It wasn't beyond his scope, as he'd promised, but it was still a lot to handle. A few moments and he finally shook free from the influence.
He nodded, once, matter of factly.]
I understand. I will assist. Thank you, for your honesty.
[Rolling a shoulder as if to dislodge a heavy weight he regarded Navi.]
Are you primarily biological?
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[but there is a small wave of concern mixed with mild confusion that rolls off navi after murmur's reaction. is he really ok with this? even though it was only a small glimpse, navi knows it's a lot to suddenly experience. this was how they pushed the zerentians back, the first time they began to actively fight back.]
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[Mortals were dishonest, Celestials were dishonest, everything was dishonest. It was refreshing to have some degree of trustworthy reliability in something in the universe. Stars didn't lie, but they also didn't have much going on in their lives. Burning away, as one does.
He did offer something of a reassuring smile at the concern rolling off of Navi, he understood her impressions better than most might as angels typically communicated in a similar format. They needn't worry, he wasn't lying about his ability to handle the pain.]
I assure you I am uniquely qualified to endure. [It came with the territory of his visions, of being who and what he was. The burden of agony had always rested on his wings.]
Yes, I believe that is a sufficient enough definition. Being organic, I should be able to assist you in your mending process if you'd like. Direct me to somewhere you'd like a focus and I can do my best to urge things along. I am not the most powerful healer among my brethren, I believe that distinction falls to Raphael, but I should still be reasonably competent.
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You are not accustomed to offers of assistance in your repairs? A simple answer would of course be our survival presently depends upon yours. A more complex includes I am able, and you are in need.
[And all of the various complexities that lie within the decision to make altruistic acts.]
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[so that explains the confusion, at least. but it's a refreshing change to encounter a passenger who understands this and is willing to work together with navi instead of against them.]
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The idea of being connected to something larger than themselves does tend to be both off-putting, and perplexing to them. It is a foreign concept, so instead they default to a focus upon their own survival.
[Especially in times of uncertainty and panic, such as those caused by waking up on a space ship torn away from their tasks and homes. He places his now gloved hands on the wall.}
The pleasure is mine.
[With that, a soothing warmth flows from him and into the Navigator's walls. There's no fancy lightshow, nor fanfare, though there does seem to be the faintest glow emitted from just beneath his hands. The gentle healing energy will fill them, trying to seek out the worst of the damage to focus on.
Though Navi is much larger than any being Murmur has yet attempted to heal, so there's no telling how effective his magic will be. Even so, it's worth the effort.]