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Expatriate Darkleer ([personal profile] aim_exorable) wrote in [community profile] caughtinanetwork2012-01-19 11:14 pm

1 ♐ Voice ♐ A brief check up

[Wow, Darkleer is actually communicating with the network on a whole for once instead of being a miserable hermit. Must be a special occasion. Does anyone know his wiggling day?]

Now then. Have we all cleansed ourselves of the mess and done whatever strange death rituals foreign species feel the need to do?

[Okay, maybe it is just Darkleer being a coldhearted dick. Eh.]

I believe we should focus on the more important matter here. I have seen discussions scattered throughout the network, but it would be best to have all our thoughts and speculations focused in one place on both the destruction of those so-called faeries and on the recent appearance of that Carol individual.

For those of you who are oblivious and prone to missing the obvious, things are changing in this place. It would be best to be prepared.

[Don't be fooled, he's not doing this to be nice. He's doing what any troll knows to do: looking out for himself and the few he cares about. If that means even faintly working with others, well, he'll learn to deal.]

[Also, that's all the network is getting from him. Click goes the camera!]


[Filtered to Summoner]

[Darkleer hesitates before sending this one out, although his voice is just as stoic and stern as ever.]

Since your children in particular seem to be taking this badly, perhaps it would benefit you to know that those things which followed us were nothing more than mere robots. The technology may have been organic in nature, but it was still nothing truly living. No pain, no loss of life.

That's all.
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-20 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
II under2tand, hiighblood.
IIf iit would be acceptable, could thii2 occur iin a non-publiic area?
II am un2ure
about dii2cu22iing thii2 matter around other people.


[ Not exactly true, but some days were worse when it came to leaving the hive. ]
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-20 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for your con2iideratiion.
II 2hall go where you requiire me a2 2oon a2 you would liike.
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-20 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Ye2, II 2hall headed twoward2 the No2talgiia Quarter pre2ently.
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action forever;

[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-20 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There is a bit of a delay before the Helmsman finally arrives, his expression painfully closed off. He's been lost in those troubling thoughts for a little while now, and it was only becoming more and more disruptive to his thought process.

For some reason, the idea that he might not exist as he had thought he did bothered him in a profound way.
]
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-20 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ When he sits, the Helmsman draws his knees up to his chest. He's a lanky, awkward sort of man and it is not the most dignified of positions, but it certainly is an insight into his frame of mind. He obeys his orders meticulously, sipping tea with a slow, deliberate pacing as he attempts to exactingly control his breathing.

He is, unsurprisingly, distinctly uncomfortable with everything going on through his mind. His distress, however, does lessen some small amount after an uncertain number of minutes and he finally indicates a desire to speak.
]

...my apologieth, thir.
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-21 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I am.

[ The confirmation comes out as more of a pained sound than words. The thought of not being what he had once been still trips over his obedience protocols. He's supposed to be a proper component to the ship, and thinking about the fact that he is doing something else is what he tries very hard not to consider. ]

I am a component in thervithe to the Empreth. My life thtill revolveth around thith.
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-21 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The Helmsman takes a shuddering breath as that large hand settles on his shoulder, but he seems to lean towards the touch almost without thinking. He wants to speak; he wants to explain how much he needs to return to his original purpose. He was failing Her and he couldn't take it.

Was it why he could not consider other possibilities to explain the phenomena of Vatheon?

He isn't particularly sure. He can't speak, looking over and up at the other man beseechingly.
]
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-22 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeth, highblood.

[ It's volunteered very reluctantly, like he's afraid that's the wrong answer. He knows there are no real traps when talking to Darkleer. The other man is upfront and honest, bound by a code the Helmsman doesn't entirely understand.

But he can't shake the feeling that he's doing something wrong.
]
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
I will do ath you command.

[ The Helmsman closes his eyes, his breathing still very deliberately slow. He still feels faintly nauseous, not quite able to regain his bearings, but he's latching onto what he's been told to think.

That doesn't stop him from asking:
]

What if it ith true? What if we are thimply conthtructth of thith plathe?
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-22 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ He doesn't move, feeling rather oddly anchored by the feel of that single gentle repetitive motion. He does lean a little bit more, tension slowly bleeding out of his frame. Until just now, it hadn't been that apparent to him how much stress the concept had put on him or the physical consequences.

And he's still worried, still halfway sure that his existence is all a fluke and that he could not fulfill his programming, but...

He lets out a slow breath, almost a sigh.
]

...apologieth.
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-22 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ If he answers, does that mean the stroking stops? That's an odd thought to have, entirely random. It is not disobedient to delay in responding, not if he uses the time to think through any other difficulties that were worthy of the blue blood's attention as his engineer. ]
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[personal profile] p2iioniicii2t 2012-01-22 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I... am beginning to believe thythtem errorth are occurring more frequently.

[ Because, ultimately, there are so many things wrong with him, and he's not sure which issues would be of Darkleer's interest. It's a scary thought, that even if he does exist that his systems are constantly degrading. There are too many variables, too many changes, and helmsmen weren't designed for it. ]

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