Check-in! (Check fin?)

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay. Uh. Wow. I did not expect to be Investigating as a mermaid. Selkie. Finvestigating. You know.

I also did not expect to get all kinds of shiny mermaid knowledge dumped in my head the moment I ended up in the water, but that seems to have happened anyway. So if anyone wants to know anything about that shit, please do ask me. The most important thing is that the Thalassian Mermaid Queen, the Dread Empress or whatever, is as scary as fuck and our cover story should probably be that we ran away from her empire because we didn’t want to become cannibal berserkers. Which are a thing. Oh my god.

Anyway, it looks like we’re in the world with the Labyrinthine Shoals? Like, that’s evidently where we are. We’re in the Shoals. And I guess we’re mermaids? Some of us? Can anyone chime in to tell me if there’s anyone around who’s not a mermaid.

Actually, maybe we should make this a general check-in with, like, name and species. I’ll go first: this is Thorne and it looks like I’m a California sea lion selkie.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

She turns her own people into cannibal berserkers. No.

[awitchdidit]

Not like we don't have some of those as Travelers already...but fine.

Next empire-ruling sorceress we meet, though, I call dibs on diplomacy.

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, fine. I just have feelings about people who force other people to eat people.

[awitchdidit]

That's fair. I have a couple billion minions who eat anything, but that's what they do naturally...

[thornsofmalkav]

Well yeah. They're goats.

[awitchdidit]

On the other hand, vampires are vampires...so the problem is afflicting someone with this then, rather than simply guiding an inherent nature?