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[useofaswhat]

Looks like someone decided it's autumn, even though it ain't autumn 'cause we're not spinning round a sun and don't have seasons. Anyone got an idea why the Admiral thinks we all need t'be showered with dead plants?

The way I see it, there ain't any use for raining down magic leaves outta nowhere except to crunch when you walk on 'em. Seems we might as well get some use outta them. Any of you folks ever build bonfires back home? Wouldn't be too hard to rake up a pile and light it in the CES. Don't sound like a bad time, specially not if someone saved any of the rotgut from that last history-time break. [Duo? He's looking at you.]

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[buildindreemz]

Nobody really knows what he thinks, or if he thinks anything at all. [It was her first experience here, and it still gives her the shivers thinking about it.]

I don't know. People here come from all kinds of crazy places. People here can do magic, have superpowers, whatever you want to call it.

[useofaswhat]

Pretty sure he thinks, considern' he finds wardens to come on board an' pairs people up. But I dunno if he thinks about anything else.

Yeah, and I'm trying real hard to get used to it but that don't mean I understand any of it.

[buildindreemz]

Sure, though I think it's debateable how much control he has over things.

If I remember right, last year the Admiral wasn't in charge at all for the month of October. It was... complicated. [And fuzzy. She tries to block it out.]

I know, I don't get it, either. Nobody can do things like that where I come from.

[useofaswhat]

And that brings up an interesting question. Is it better if he does control everything and is a sadistic bastard or if he doesn't control a gorram thing? 'Cause I'm not too hopeful about him either way.

So what was in charge that month? What happened to the Admiral? [They really ought to include stuff like this in the welcome briefing.]

We got some people can do things others can't, but far as I know, nothing like that. [River was just uncanny, occasionally managing to stay this side of creepy.]

[buildindreemz]

Yeah, I get it. He's either a sadistic asshole, or a complete dupe. Neither option is very pleasant.

He was... kidnapped? I think. I don't remember all the details, I just remember being really scared that whole first month I was here.

[Ariadne shrugs a little.] Where I come from, we have technologies that enable people to do some amazing things, things that people from hundreds of years in the past might've thought was magic, but nobody can just... do things with their minds, or whatever. Maybe it's all relative.

[useofaswhat]

Got himself kidnapped. [Mal closes his eyes and massages his temple.]

So maybe he is just some idiot who can't steer. I'm startin' to wonder why I signed on again.

There's a lot you can do with the right technology and it ain't the same as a superpower. People've been messing each other up with machines for as long as they've had 'em. You see some strange húshuō in my 'verse but nothing quite like that.

[buildindreemz]

I think. It was a while ago. There are probably people who remember it better than me.

[She shrugs vaguely.] There are a lot of people here with weird powers. Hell, there are people here who aren't human, that's pretty weird, too.

[useofaswhat]

Yeah, I'm still gettin' used to that myself. [The robots and werewolves and such were weird but understandable, anyone alien or with superpowers still reads as a bit of a novelty to him.] The Admiral sure as hell ain't.

[buildindreemz]

Yeah, he's... I don't even begin to know what he is.