Voice

[vinkus_witch]

ARRRRRRRRGH!

I despise this ship and detest the Admiral!

Comments

[doctor_j_crane]

Welcome to the club.

[vinkus_witch]

I can see why he hides where he is. I don't think anyone here actually likes him.

[doctor_j_crane]

I'm inclined to agree. I'm yet to meet anyone sane who actually has any affection for him.

[vinkus_witch]

That's comforting, at least.

[doctor_j_crane]

Yes, unless it causes him to resent us. Which is turn would lead to him deliberately inflicting the floods and ports on us.

[one_who_is_many]

You assume it has gender... How comforting.

[doctor_j_crane]

I'm sorry, I'm not yet prepared to think of the Admiral as a deity. He has a gender.

[one_who_is_many]

Not all creatures have assigned or even constant genders.

And not all Admirals who do are male.

[doctor_j_crane]

So you want me to call him 'the' Admiral at all times?

[one_who_is_many]

You can call it what you wish. I'm simply observing human inadequacy.

[doctor_j_crane]

You're observing the limitations of human language. I'm hesitant to call the Admiral 'it'.

[one_who_is_many]

Of course you are. Your kind possess an innate desire to anthropomorphise anything with facial characteristics or language skills no more complex than repeating a simplistic melody.

[doctor_j_crane]

Well, I can hardly deny that. Still, I don't see the point of diverging from the rest of my 'kind' on such a trivial issue.

[one_who_is_many]

You lack ambition. You wish your distinctiveness to be outlined as no more worthy than the very sentence of captivity you've been assigned.

[doctor_j_crane]

You wouldn't happen to be a warden, would you?

[one_who_is_many]

Not yet.