light_mischief | [come sail away] ic inbox (season 1)

Yes, you've gotten it in one. No idea how we're supposed to actually manifest anything other than by, well. Fucking around and finding out. It's "worked" so far, but we have no idea what the cost of our poking around will be.

Fio is alright. As far as I know, she's unaware of how much of this might be caused by the being who visited her dreams. And while we've got to operate with some transparency, for safety's sake, Ava has refrained from telling me its name. Fio apparently gave it one, which is (according to Friday's lamentations) a bad thing. (We've used ❌ to refer to it.)

I have a historically bad record of keeping things too close to the chest, and I'm trying to rectify that. We can't bring any of this up to the Captain, because it could further fracture reality, and I'd rather not kill all of us.

No idea about the sigils. I really should talk to Crabb about it. You were here for the diner, weren't you? Do you remember what the Captain looked like after the race?

It's hard to find out when we aren't being told. We've got to escape the minefield, so what can we do except start running? I'm mostly relieved that some of us were brave enough to try. Good or bad I'm getting the feeling that we're making more "progress" than any past voyage has. I think I hate magic physics though. Don't tell me it's always like this.

Be careful that ❌ doesn't became a name on its own.

I do remember; he blew up in my face when he revived, and he owes me half of an eyebrow. That's actually why I asked. Does that have anything to do with this?

If it comes up, make sure you tell Ava that much. She's been feeling as if she has personally doomed us all when, at worst, she was one of a dozen people poking holes in our fishbowl.

I've been reading it as various different game show buzzers. I encourage you to do the same, if only because it makes thinking about our potential dimensional demise slightly more fun.

I don't know. It's certainly linked to the Captain, but the jury's still out on how much the two are interconnected. A part of him that he bound to the ship? His entire soul? Some memory manifesting its own sentience after thousands of years of imprisonment? Any of those could be true. All I know is that it reminds me a bit too much of Vile, and that makes me reluctant to see it as something in need of help. And I know that if I tell the Captain any of this, there's a decent chance I'll be taking my own whack at the already cracked glass.

If I see her, I'll let her know, although I'm not sure how I'm supposed to approach her about feeding a corpse to ghost contributing to our reality falling apart. This level of magic BS at play is not anywhere near my wheelhouse so sorry that I'm not of more help from studying astrology books or something. I spent most of my life in a small town in Pennsylvania. I can do people, I can't do that. Either way holding back sounds like a good idea. Sit tight before we actually understand what's happening. What else?

Edited 2023-04-01 07:33 (UTC)

Fair point, it isn't exactly the sort of small talk that comes up too often. Although she does seem to be bringing it up quite a bit...

Honestly, I'm glad to hear it. We don't need to interpret dream symbolism or encyclopedic knowledge of herbs. The Captain said that whatever comes next will be determined by us, which means we need to keep up people's hopes. I've blown through just about all of the goodwill I've been extended on the ship, which makes my motivational speeches go over like a lead balloon. Hopefully, if you see the chance to bolster morale, you'll have better luck than me.

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