This is awkward

[scooba]

Type: Text
Sender ID: Pers, Freminet
To: Everyone
Subject: Who wants to talk about the ocean?
Warnings: N/A

I'm sorry about this but is there anyone who wants to talk about the ocean?

[Happy now, Sherlock?? He's talking about this!!]

Comments

[obliviscere]

I'd love to. What about the ocean do you want to talk about?

[scooba]

The tides and how beautiful it can be.

And when you swim in the ocean, it feels like it's a whole other world.

[obliviscere]

Sounds like you really like the ocean! I've been trying to learn to swim better. I didn't get much of a chance to until this place

[scooba]

Oh.

...Has anyone taught you how?

[oathkeeper]

the ocean! yeah! i love the ocean! let me talk about the ocean!!everything about the ocean is the best! The fish, the seashells, the seasalt breeze, riding the waves!! i could talk about the ocean every day!

[scooba]

[...]

What else do you know about it?

[Too much energy for him!!!]

[oathkeeper]

[Freminet just had to post something that's incredibly targeted at the ocean islander boy. Take him or leave him!]

about the ocean? i guess a lot! i was born on an island so i was in the ocean all the time as a kid. i learned how to swim in the ocean before a pool, even.

NOT HERE.

[refantasma]

[Nico reads this the best he can. Makes a mental note to distract Sora from the ocean.]

[oathkeeper]

[NICO NO]

text; un: encoreinthedeep

[encoreinthedeep]

[ This ocean man... will not take you by the hand, both because this is online and he is socially awkward, but he can talk about the land he understands. ]

Ask your questions.

[... this is what "talking about the ocean" means, right. ]

[scooba]

What do you know about the ocean?

[Because he really has no idea how to start this conversation.]

[encoreinthedeep]

[Too broad. Rephrase your question.

... is what Ulpianus types out at first. But he has to account for the fact that he is unfamiliar with this person, and written correspondence like this does not allow for transfer of non-verbal information. It may be worth to expound a little. ]

Broadly formed questions are ineffective for exchanging knowledge. Specify an area that interests you.

un: sunbursted

[sunbursted]

Sure. I haven't been near an ocean in a while, but I love swimming in the water. There's something really freeing about it. Maybe because the edges are so spread out, you know?

What did you have in mind to talk about? Or are we just spouting out things we like?

[scooba]

I guess things that we like?

I don't know, I asked because someone told me to go talk to other people about what I like.

[sunbursted]

Oh, okay! I like swimming in the ocean. My magic's all nature-based, so anything naturey is good to me. But I also like to wildshape into a whale or a dolphin or something and swim that way. The ocean is really cool.

Do you swim?

not here

[astudyinviolet]

[ And to think that the guy who Sherlock was thinking of hasn't even shown yet, but look at these responses.

See? Make some ocean friends, Freminet. ]

[makoglow]

What is it about the ocean that you like?

[scooba]

...How calm it is and that it's so different from the world above. It feels like it's a whole other world where I don't have to worry about anything.

[makoglow]

Is that what got you interested in the ocean in the first place?

text | un: BlossomingTide

[withermarked]

[ Well, Faulkner has... some kind of relationship with the whole concept of water. Sure. He'll bite. ]

How come you're looking to talk about the ocean?

[scooba]

....Because I wanted to see who would listen to me.

[That and Sherlock told him to do that.]

[withermarked]

[ He's not entirely sure what to do with that, but he won't question it more. ]

I would listen to you talk about the ocean.

un: verboaten

[verboaten]

I'm up for it, but why the sudden urge to chitchat about it?

[scooba]

Because someone told me to.

[verboaten]

They told you to? What for?