WEEK 6

[bathymetric]

Good morning, passengers. Happy Sunday. Happy New Year.

Three more of your number gone - or four, depending on your point of view. But regardless, you're down three bodies. The boat is getting less crowded, week by week. A loneliness only exacerbated by yet another new floor, and yet another section of topdeck. There are almost too many facilities for you to use by now, aren't there? And yet the amenities keep on coming. One of them is even personalized, this time, and perhaps not in a way you're fully comfortable with.

Who knows, maybe if your number falls enough, you'll be able to just exist permanently on the different floors. Might keep you out of the trial room for more than a week.

Are you at the point where you'd settle for that yet?

And if you look to the horizon, out in the distance... there are clouds starting to gather on the horizon this week.




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[ ooc: Welcome to week 6, everyone! Remember to turn in AC here and coins for regains over here! If you wish to get in contact with the npcs, Davy Jones is over here, and The Captain is over here! And as requested, profiles are accessible here. ]

Comments

[dokkalfheimr]

Absolutely so. I take up issue often with the behavior of mortals, and I dislike their tendencies toward making others suffer, but bluntly put I wouldn't want to erase the parts of them that make them...well, themselves. That seems well over a line.

[sivard]

Exactly.

It's not like I don't get what they were doing, on some level. Malevolence is toxic; it can kill malakhim, or turn us into monsters. But humans aren't out there doing it deliberately, it's just one of those things.

I can't fault them for it, and every malak who chooses to mingle with humans is aware of the risk.

[dokkalfheimr]

Where I'm from, the mortals don't pose any inherent danger to us; it's nothing about them being what they are. Their danger to us comes more often in their tendency to kill before anything else, and in their desire to destroy and take advantage of what isn't theirs.

Their behavior and their desires are the threat. But there's nothing inherently wrong with them, I believe.

[sivard]

...ah, yeah, we've got people like that, too.

I know that's why there are a number of older malakhim who isolate themselves from humanity, making their vessels some pristine forest or something like that.

But in my experience, most folks are good people.

[dokkalfheimr]

You can bond with inanimate things in such a way?

[That's fascinating?]

[sivard]

Yeah, of course. But a malak who uses a holy body of water as a vessel wouldn't be able to stray far from it. It's why I like Siegfried; I take it with me.

There's also the option to take a human as your vessel; there's a whole ritual involved with it and everything. I've never done that, though.

[dokkalfheimr]

I thought the nature of humans was the issue to begin with...?

[sivard]

Not all of them. It's... mm, how to explain it.

[He frowns.]

A soldier who knows he is doing the wrong thing, but does so anyway would produce malevolence; a man who revels in the violence he causes would not. Does that make sense?

A person who lives by their ideals, who has significant resonance, could make a suitable vessel. It gives them access to our artes, and us protection from malevolence. Not a bad deal, if that's your thing.

[dokkalfheimr]

...I am not certain I fully understand, but I think I can follow the idea.

[It sounds like a mess to work out, honestly.]

Do the mortals here produce such a thing, or is it something that only happens in your world?

[sivard]

They don't seem to. If they did everyone here would probably already be dead. Despair breeds malevolence.

[And Zaveid would be a dragon. Hooray!]