Video! You are spared the trolltext.

[peanutblooder]

[Hello Tranquility, have a grey-skinned, bull-horned kid with a stutter. He's tinged with a slight orangey-brown blush, because addressing an entire ship is kind of a big deal!]

Hi, everyone! Uh. I'm Tavros and as you can, I guess, probably see, I'm a troll. Or, if you can't see, please know that I am that. I do not want to exclude anyone, based on their preferred mode of sensory input.

So, I want to offer to anyone who is experiencing difficulty with an animal, because there are some on the ship apparently, my skills of communing with them, to better understand and change their behavior, and thus end any difficulties experienced. I, uh, definitely want everyone to know that I am here to be helpful in whatever way I can, basically!

[This is important! You don't get to be in the fleet if you're dead weight.]

On that note, the being-helpful one, uh, I guess since there are a lot of trolls now, and the ship has a lot of humans, or other species that now look human, if you have questions about how troll society works, I will try to answer them. Uh, our culture is pretty different, and misunderstandings may occur. Possibly someone has done this already, but I thought I would offer also. I am, uh, generally pretty open to cultural exchange, and that sort of thing, and it would, I guess, be good to work together while we're all stuck here.

Um. That's all. Bye.

[Okay, kid, good job, you did it. Now spend a willpower point to not throw the comm out the door and cower in your blanketpile.]

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[sermonize]

Hello, Tavros. Though you are mistaken. I would have passed on long before you were hatched.

[peanutblooder]

Uhhh. Oh.

...

Oh! So this is, uh, weird time shit. You're somebody's ancestor?

[sermonize]

[ pfft. way to phrase that. ]

So I have heard, yes.

[peanutblooder]

[Not his terminology, but when you've dealt with as much weird time shit as Tavros's group of friends + humans have, some sort of shorthand handwavey explanation becomes useful.]

Is, uh...asking what your name is, a thing, that it would be okay to do?

[sermonize]

You are not potentially unnerved by the presence of an adult?

[ oh please oh please oh please. he is tired of these cute little troll kids being terrified of the idea. ]

[peanutblooder]

Well, uh...to be perfectly honest, me being unnerved by things is, kind of, just how me and things interact. Um. BUT! Of course I am probably definitely terrified of being in the presence of an adult and possibly offending you and uh, I hope...you are not offended that I did not make that clear immediately. But, uh... I'm on the same ship as you now, and I am serving useful purposes so...so someone would...hopefully, probably be upset with you, if you culled me, just out of hand.

Um. So if we all recognize that this is, potentially, the case, and that you will thus attempt to exercise the truly massive amount of patience involved in tolerating uh, a lowblooded juvenile such as myself in your presence... then. I will be in that presence.

Okay?

[sermonize]

I am slightly more offended that you would immediately assume that I would be of the mindset to cull anyone. Rest assured, that is not the case and I do understand why you would believe me to be just as violent as the rest.

The truth is, I am overly excited to meet the twelve of you.

[peanutblooder]

Because...of the rest? Also, you haven't seen me yet, so. Um. There are, uh, other reasons, why culling me, might seem to make sense. But I am being useful! I really am, I swear.

But, uh. I guess, if you want to meet, that is still okay. Trying to avoid someone, when we are all here on one ship, is probably not a thing that would work, so, uh, I guess I would rather do this, and have it settled, than worry about it.

[sermonize]

Allow me to say this again: I am not going to harm you.

[peanutblooder]

O-okay. Sorry. I will believe that, as hard as I can!

...Um. Should I go somewhere?

[sermonize]

Go somewhere?

[peanutblooder]

Um. To meet you? I don't know too many places yet, but if you have somewhere you want me to go, I will try to find it.

[sermonize]

Oh! [ welp. pleasant surprise. ]

I have been here for a while, so perhaps it is better for me to come to you.

[peanutblooder]

Oh, uh. There is a garden, I have heard, but not been to. Um, would that be acceptable, as a place?

[sermonize]

It most certainly is. I will be there shortly.

want to start a log, or shall I?

[peanutblooder]

Um, I will head right there, then.

go for it 8>

[sermonize]

See you sson.

[ aaand a click. off he goes. ]