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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

The ship itself got really creepy. Rusty, rotted, scary. Then the visions started happening. Hallucinations, or whatever.

People started seeing things that had happened - bad things, scary things.

And there were other things, too. Entities, shapes you would only see out of the corners of your eyes. It got progressively worse as the month went on. It was really terrible.

[Her mouth twists a little.] Ivy - she's obsessed with plants. Kill or threaten to kill any plant and she'll try to torture you, mind-control you, whatever. Pretty nasty stuff.

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useofaswhat

So the Admiral thought it was a good idea to let everyone on board go all paranoid an' crazy. Do I got this right? [Excuse his incredulity. He can understand the floods. He can wrap his mind around breaches. But this sounds like making things spooky for the sake of spookiness, and with less-than-stable folks around that was as bad an idea as giving a baby a butcher knife: it might have started with good intentions but it's guaranteed to end in a bloody mess.]

And how's she do that? I met plenty of women who do some torturing on the side but messin' around in someone's head's a different story.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.