text - Questions

[thearchangel]

Type: Text
Sender ID: thearchangel (Garrus Vakarian)
To: Public
Subject: Questions! Totally serious ones.
Warnings: N/A

Couple things I've been wondering about, lately. Figured now that the brand crap has settled down a bit, it's as good a time as any to ask.

- Any word on where the Paladin Leviathan went? Lost track of that discussion with all the under water adventures.

- Has anyone heard anything about any Riftfarers ever getting promoted in their respective Armadas? We know they have superiors, a council each - Paladins especially have a military type structure, from what I've seen. But has anyone ever been an officer? Or whatever passes for it in the Corsairs?

[It just seems weird, okay.]

- And ah, less seriously

[He almost starts typing "Looking for experience with getting a house" but deletes it. That's too forward, probably.]

Pet fish. Suggestions welcome. The hardier the species the better.

[NAILED IT.]

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[stealthpun]

First a dog, now fish.

Hoarding animals, Garrus?

[thearchangel]

[ - UH OH.]

What dog?

[HINT. HINT.]

I don't have a dog.

[stealthpun]

[You're lucky he's detective]

Right. Of course. Not that I would recommend keeping a person.

[Teasing!]

Goldfish is usually a good starter, just bear in mind they need more water than you'd expect.

[thearchangel]

[CRISIS AVERTED... Whew.]

Good joke. I'm laughing on the inside.

... Are goldfish, you know, hardy? Don't die easily?

[stealthpun]

You're lucky I don't know any dogs here.

[gottem]

They're quite resilient. Most often people simply underestimate how large of a space they need to thrive, but they don't die easily. I can write you some basic instructions for care if you would like.

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[book2thehead]

Oh? Are we the ambitious sort looking to climb the ranks of our armadas?

[thearchangel]

I'll pass. Had enough of military hierarchy for a while.

I just think it's odd. With how many of us are here, with how long some of us have been here... no one's done it yet.

[book2thehead]

Ah, that's right. You also come from a branch of government in your world, right?

At any rate, you certainly make a fair point. I'm sure it's not simply out of a lack of interest in the idea, either. Are you suggesting that perhaps riftfarers specifically are getting discriminated against in this way?

[thearchangel]

[Garrus Vakarian is never escaping the "how close to Primarch are you" allegations-]

Not really. Military more like.

Maybe. Maybe not - just seems like there would be some by now. For how long people have been coming in.

[book2thehead]

[Hey, there are no stones being thrown from this glass house!]

Do I detect a "former" in there?

It does seem strange. If not outright discrimination, then maybe there's some concern about riftfarers' tendency to abruptly disappear.

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[telepathicignorance]

Riftfarers have been here a long enough time it seems likely, but no one I know has been promoted.

I don't know much about fishkeeping.

[thearchangel]

Doesn't that seem odd to you? None of us, not even the ones with the most tenure, have been included in their promotions.

[It's fine, about the fish. Neither does he.]

[telepathicignorance]

It could be that they only promote riftfarers after they've been here longer than most of us would remember. Most of the people I talk to have only been here a year or two.

But ...yeah.

[thearchangel]

But then, they'd at least have some on their rosters. It doesn't look like there are any at all.

[telepathicignorance]

You know whats on the rosters?

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[stillarhino]

cant ya just catch something in the sea

[As if it were that easy. But it makes sense to him!]

[thearchangel]

Couple problems with that.

I don't do well with water. And I don't know anything about fish - including how to catch them.

[stillarhino]

dont do well with it? like you cant swim or something?

only tried catching fish a while back
worst part of its the waiting

[thearchangel]

No, I can't. It's a species problem. We physically can't do it.

I'm thinking the colorful kinds would be best. Catch any of those?

[stillarhino]

species?
hold up
the hell you supposed to be man

[Sorry, his curiosity is taking precedence.]

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[serendipitously]

I've been trying to do some searching with my abilities but I've come up with depressingly little useful information.

Would you really expect Riftfarers to be trusted in higher positions? I've been a part of a sort of...organization on another world before. Our higher ups certainly didn't jump to trust us with more knowledge and authority in it.

[ granted they were sort of evil... ]

[thearchangel]

I haven't heard or seen much of anything, either.

Why not? There's plenty of us who've been here long enough to prove themselves capable in one capacity or another. Especially with how they keep asking us to help with some new crisis.

[serendipitously]

There could be a number of different reasons. Perhaps uncertainty about how long anyone will stay? Even someone that's been here years could suddenly just disappear, couldn't they?

Or worry that we'll always be most loyal to our homeworlds?

[thearchangel]

They also don't know if one day someone's going to up and get killed by a monster. Fall off a boat and drown. Hell, they could just choke on their food one day. You don't need to be from another world to suddenly disappear on people.

Mm. That might make more sense. Still though... after all we do here. We're trying to help find the Leviathan they scared off - that seems like it should count for something.

[serendipitously]

You're right of course, but double standards have always existed between people in some manner or another.

Sometimes you can do everything right, with the right motivation, and still not really be trusted. Were you going to try to rise in the ranks then?

I'm not entirely certain if 'scared' is the right word from what I felt.