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

[whydoyoushine]

Nah, go ahead. Gives me something to do.

And I don't know. Raito is this overlay's brother, and I can't even get anything out of him. Whatever it is has got to be serious.

[photonicfighter]

He's your brother and... oh. That's... very serious, you're right, if that's information he isn't even sharing with you. You probably don't need me to ask, but... that sounds like the kind of thing that's worth keeping an eye on. Maybe it's important.

[whydoyoushine]

Oh, I'm already keeping an eye on it.

Mr. Sparkles is a monkey named Kirakira-san here--he's really good at getting into things...I think I might end up putting him to good use at some point.

[photonicfighter]

A monkey? Well, if you think he'll handle it safely, I guess that's a plan...

[She is operating on far, far too little information, here.]

[whydoyoushine]

Don't worry about Mr. Sparkles, he's a professional.

[photonicfighter]

...a professional what?

[whydoyoushine]

Monkey. Professional monkey.

[photonicfighter]

Oh.

I'm not sure if I should have expected that...