Second Challenge

[shorterinperson]

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[ I'm sure you all know this look. It's a look of a sort of disappointed annoyance. It's that look your friends give you when you tell the same pun for the third time and still expect it to be funny. It was never funny. Just give up already. ]

After being here a week, I've come to a few realizations.

There's no hierarchy, no discipline, no

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[gotgreenmagic]

And that took you a week?

Eeesh.

[shorterinperson]

I kept holding out hope that maybe I just wasn't seeing the whole picture. Stupid of me, I know.

[knowsthepeople]

What kind of show?

[shorterinperson]

The kind of show an anxious knight puts on when she's had a bit to drink.

[knowsthepeople]

Got any ideas on how to keep that from happenin'?

[shorterinperson]

By finding something more productive to do than sit around on this boat full of madmen! Haven't you been listening?

[thestrongwin]

How cryptic. A show?

[shorterinperson]

Whatever I can muster up after a few good drinks.

[with_discipline]

There are areas in which you could offer your time. The infirmary, the laboratory, the gym, to name a few.

[shorterinperson]

Then sign me up for all three. I can heal, work basic spells, and teach combat techniques.

[with_discipline]

[...Spells. Gtfo out of her lab. :|] Then you'd be best in the infirmary and the gym. Doctor Martha Jones heads the former; if you are offering to teach, then I suggest making a public announcement to that affect.

[shorterinperson]

[ Whatevah, she do what she want :| ]

I think I will.

[ But AUGH she got all hot and bothered and now you're being perfectly reasonable and how dare you stop her tirade. ]

Thank you.

[19centconstable]

What have you been trying to get done? The thought does count some.

[shorterinperson]

I've been trying to find a way to see what's going on at home, figure out how this place works, and how I can help. So far I haven't found anything particularly uplifting.

[19centconstable]

I do have to admit that I wouldn't mind knowing for certain that nothing back at the station has gone horribly wrong without me...

What have you found, though? Even if it is depressing. I'm new myself, and I think there's merit in knowing anything, even if it turns out to be unimportant. You can always forget it again later.

I...also must admit that I find myself interested in seeing what kind of show an anxious knight puts on when she's had a bit to drink. I saw Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and it was very gripping, even before that man got murdered. I also saw The Great Farini fire a man out of a cannon, although I've since been told she was actually a woman. I'm not sure why he didn't just say so; that seems even more impressive.

[shorterinperson]

I can scry within the ship just fine, but everything outside is hidden by this bizarre swirl of colors. I have no clue what that means.

I'm sure it would be appropriately raucous and pointless.