GESB: Operation Cocoa Puffs

[Myitt]

"Yeah, you can call me up anytime you want to go grocery shopping or look at issues of People magazine in the middle of nowhere," Myitt says with a wry smile.  She pauses for a moment.  "Hey, don't worry about me, Breek.  I'm sort of used to it by now, I guess.  I can't go and see my family, because they're um...occupied.  Yeah."  She forces a little laugh.  "You guys are probably the closest thing I've got to family these days."

((Awww, how horribly depressing, and just in time for Christmas  ))

[Shenmue654]

Mar bites his lip a bit at Breekan's "middle child" comment, as if it hit closer to home than he would have liked. "It wasn't just that. I felt like we were going to be marginalized. We were being asked to watch over these little twits and were even considered "lesser" in comparison. And yet here they were, much weaker and about as smart as a rat compared to one of us. Considering I was pretty much the big brother of the family, I couldn't let this stand. So I didn't. Free will and mental clarity makes mortals suffer and kill one another, from what I can see. I have succeeded."

Mar lets a slightly proud grin curve across his face. "Perhaps I'm just a particularly irritating pawn in a larger game, but I find it rather liberating. As for your situation...that seems rather sad, isn't it? It would be almost futile to resist it. A mouse cannot be anything but a mouse, as so with mortals. Crayak's omnipotence as a Highest would also complicate matters. I have no idea why he prattles on like that from on high. What's the fun in playing Chess if you cannot sometimes move on the board yourself? There are things here you can only learn from getting on the level of those below you."

[Breekan1]

Breekan nods. "It is sad. It's a bit like knowing the ending to everything before it's all over, knowing I'll lose and all. But hey, it's all about the journey, right? And who knows- maybe I'll get lucky." He smiles. "So it sounds like you're pretty high ranking amongst the types you cavort with- I hadn't realized I was talking to the Big Nasty. And I get where you're coming from- sort of. I'd be pissed too in your situation. Besides... testing mortals, causing them to fall from grace... In a way, at least for someone like you, I guess it's almost the same as a counter-argument to the whole Free Will thing." He shrugs. "Not that I condone it in any way, but you're more alright than I'd figured you to be, Mar... When you're not creeping on Myitt."

Breekan nods at Myitt's remarks as well. "The bar is basically the most absurd extended family one could ever hope for. It's just like a family reunion, except possibly with even more drunken fighting."

[Shenmue654]

"Mhm, that's about what everyone says about me," murmers Mar with a slight grin. "Most mortals who meet me personally either get exactly what they were expecting or this. A few of them meet me again much later. They're rather more on the frightened or disturbed end of the spectrum. As for free will...the entire affair is ridiculous. It's somewhat impossible given the nature of larger things above you, and where it is possible it tends to be dangerous 60 percent of the time. I think that He shouldn't have gotten rid of it entirely, but there needs to be a kind of guide to it if you will. Less blind freedom and more periodic censorship. He didn't agree. We've been fighting over it ever since. I imagine He'll have it end at some point. I'm never entirely convinced that He didn't set me up. Especially since in one sense, I couldn't have done it if He didn't let me."

Mar shrugs, sitting in midair. "Either way...the Bar is really rather an odd plane of existence, isn't it? Beings from all ends of the spectrum can interact without pomp and circumstance. It wouldn't pass muster there. I've used this particular personality numerous times, but rarely with such an intent. I hated being mortal. But I have the strangest feeling I'll be doing it again when we get back."

[Myitt]

Myitt grins back at Breekan.  "Thanks, buddy.  Tara says thanks, too, that was her, you know."  She taps a few controls and starts up the little hotwired discman, dangling under the control panel amidst a jumble of white, glowing wires.  Patsy Cline's I Fall to Pieces starts up, tinny, over the communications system. 

She listens to Mar and Breekan talk.  "Oh, Mar.  You know what cracks me up?  You're just in denial about your addiction to mortality.  You never go back, you know."

[Shenmue654]

Mar laughs at Myitt's comment a bit. He then conjures a little bit of strange black light, flying it around his hand. "Well, I'm not mortal now. Though I'm hardly going for Incredibly Omnipotent right now. I admit an addiction to the mind, yes. It's so much easier. I only have a few things to do instead of millions, all at once. But the giant wound from a simple spell, the emotional confusion and stuttering? I don't really go for that, no."

[Myitt]

It's Myitt's turn to laugh.  "That's something you get used to, as well, Mar.  All the emotional stuttering, the self-doubt.  Although I've never been hit with such a wild array of fluctuating emotions before coming to Earth.  Maybe it has something to do with human females."

<Hey!  Don't get all sexist on me!> Tara growls.

"Or, maybe not."  Myitt smirks.

[Hunter]

After the ship tour, John said to Gaz "You can call me John, Captain. Or do you want me to just call you Gaz?"

[Darth Revan]

Thordon comments, "You have a very simple ship. It is nice."

[Gaz]

"Gaz is fine," Gaz said, "Morgan's got a bigger crew than me, that's why he gets called Captain. And yeah, she's a small ship but gets the job done."

Suddenly a head pops out from a room at the end of the hallway. It was Fletcher.

"I see you conveniently forgot to bring them into the engine room," he said. "Thought you were proud of your ship. Ain't you proud of what keeps her running?"

"I was getting there," Gaz said. "And, as Fletcher so wonderfully put it, is the engine room. Heart of this ship."

Gaz patted the wall as she walked into the room.

[Shenmue654]

Mar sighs at Myitt's comment drolly. "Yes, I suppose it comes with the territory. But still, I do not think I have ever been that confused in any other mortal incarnation. I suppose it's because I've been coming at this from a different angle, then."

[Chad32]

(Haven't been to this thread in a week. I suppose we can post in here more if we ever get terenia to earth and save her sister.)

"Well Ardiss, a simple thank you would suffice. Unless there's something else you want? Are you still not happy? Are you still sore about the stupid ship? I can get you another ship. By the Kandrona sun, I can get you something a lot better than that ship! Or maybe you want that involuntary Human again? You like having to restrain your host every three days and not be able to rely on her at all if you ever find yourself away from other life? You are a strange one to be sure." Temrash said, getting bored with Ardiss' stuck up attitude.

[Myitt]

((Were we in Ardiss' Bug fighter?  I've forgotten if it was hers, or Myitt's...I think it was Myitt's, and Ardiss' ship is still back at the bar?))

Myitt grins.  "And you were surrounded by girls.  That may have added to the confusion.  It's a normal heterosexual human male behavior."

[Shenmue654]

((Hehehehe. We've all gotten a little confused ever since we got the Cocoa Puffs. X3 ))

[Gaz]

While in the engine room, Gaz got a message from the console from the bridge to one in the engine room.

"Well," she said, "we'll be leaving the white in...15 minutes. We'll be back at the bar in under an hour."