XVIII. The Adventure of the Once-Forfeited Bequest {Video; Open}
{As usual, Holmes has been mostly avoiding the network due to his self-imposed technology ban, selectively viewing communications made by either new people or those he already knows; and even then he's been quite lacklustre about it. He's been doing things in person, observing, talking, stalking, and is therefore not entirely aware of the nature of this flood before he begins to address all of you lovely people.}
I have been considering the lack of accepted currency aboard this ship. That we must agree upon values, that we must learn a system of barter should we wish to gain anything beyond that which is provided. The main focus for this...study, or at least that which holds my highest interest, would be which set of prior circumstances least prepares one for this environment.
{This would normally be where he stops talking, but, well, flood and all. He pauses, deep in thought, and then continues.}
Living the life of the lower class as I once I was made, sinking to those depths which only the newly destitute so readily seek, I suppose has caused me to concentrate unduly on this study. It was a special Hell, waiting for mother to die, and then knowing that I would be subject to the whims of my brother-who quite thankfully has few whims and had even fewer reasons to keep a not inconsiderable estate for himself. How convenient for her, that my removal had been performed before my father's death and did not fall upon her vile yet frail constitution, as she would have had not the courage to do so herself.
{OoC: While Holmes has been nanomited, the flood is far more responsible for this post. The main affect for the nanomites is that he doesn't care that he's said what he has; otherwise he would have been mortified.}
I have been considering the lack of accepted currency aboard this ship. That we must agree upon values, that we must learn a system of barter should we wish to gain anything beyond that which is provided. The main focus for this...study, or at least that which holds my highest interest, would be which set of prior circumstances least prepares one for this environment.
{This would normally be where he stops talking, but, well, flood and all. He pauses, deep in thought, and then continues.}
Living the life of the lower class as I once I was made, sinking to those depths which only the newly destitute so readily seek, I suppose has caused me to concentrate unduly on this study. It was a special Hell, waiting for mother to die, and then knowing that I would be subject to the whims of my brother-who quite thankfully has few whims and had even fewer reasons to keep a not inconsiderable estate for himself. How convenient for her, that my removal had been performed before my father's death and did not fall upon her vile yet frail constitution, as she would have had not the courage to do so herself.
{OoC: While Holmes has been nanomited, the flood is far more responsible for this post. The main affect for the nanomites is that he doesn't care that he's said what he has; otherwise he would have been mortified.}