( npc post ) - video

[savrou_npc]

⚍⚍ INCOMING TRANSMISSION ⚎⚎

[The feed begins abruptly. All crew members' MIDs flash red text across the screen, a high pitched alert sound erupting from the device. A man with tanned skin and white hair addresses the Moira as a whole.]

It has come to our attention that your ship has visited our planet once before. That your crew, though less in size than it is now, removed priceless glass works and various supplies without payment or any sort of agreement.

You are not welcome here any longer! [His face is flushed a deep crimson. They don't abide rule breaking or stealing.] Your crew has four days to be off Caducus Primary.

[Which was kinder than they deserved, but it was their way. The man doesn't give his name but he exudes authority and anger. He is displeased and disgruntled.]

Do you understand?

⚍⚍ END TRANSMISSION ⚎⚎

[ ooc: feel free to address the representative from Caducus Primary. he'll answer inquiries as he sees fit and with a noticeable amount of misplaced disdain and anger.]

Comments

[forwardmomentum]

It sounds as though they hold some kind of spiritual signifcance for you.

[ which isn't really a reach, given what he's seen of the planet. his eyes narrow slightly in contemplation. ]

'By the hands and minds'? Are you, er... [ he gropes for the word, trying not to feel ridiculous for suggesting it, although hey, he drinks with aliens these days. ] ...telepathic, or something?

[savrou_npc]

Spiritual in the sense that my people forged the sculptures, gave them life.

[The representative frowns, it's not a questions he's been asked before. Visitors were usually aware of the infinite possibilities in the universe and didn't question them.]

I am not, but there are those that are. Have you looked into the glass? If you do, what you see is the result of something greater than ourselves.

[forwardmomentum]

[ somehow miles gets the feeling that this man means it literally by gave them life. maybe clairvoyant is a better word than telepathic, but either way, they seem to be able to pass on something ethereal to their art. ]

'The result of something greater than ourselves'? [ sounds like more cagey bullshit to him, but he isn't denying that he's seen anything. miles still isn't quite sure what to make of what he has seen. ] What do you see when you look for your reflection, then?

[savrou_npc]

I only see glass. There is no reflection.

[Which was why he was chosen to be their representative. He could make decisions without remembering the past or getting lost in the future.]

[forwardmomentum]

I...see.

[ that is a most troubling answer, aside from it being cagey as all hell. if it isn't complete bullshit, that is. but miles has the creeping sense that it's not. it's clear this conversation isn't going anywhere useful anyway, so he might as well quit while he's ahead. ]

Well, sir, we'll be out of your hair shortly. Is there anything we can do before we leave to make some sort of amends -- I know there isn't anything we can do in the way of restitution, but some gesture of good will on our part, perhaps?

[savrou_npc]

As I've told your other crew members, there is nothing you can do for us. No good will that you can impart that would right the wrong done us specifically.

[A pause, and he points at the screen, at Miles.]

However, the universe is a balance of rights and wrongs. The scales were tipped one way, tip them back the other. That's what we ask.

[forwardmomentum]

[ miles considers that a moment, biting his lips together and almost objecting, but then his mouth thins and he lets out his breath. ]

All right. [ he's reluctant to relent like that, but what else can he say? he tilts his head in slight bemusement, though, his brow crinkling slightly. ]

And how do you suggest one would go about doing that?

[ he doesn't expect a real answer. he's learned by now.

but it's worth a try. ]