Consider this a disclaimer: what you are about to hear is not a question regarding the Admiral's motives. If I might be blunt, I don't actually care what his motives are, or indeed if he has any at all. Thank you so much for your time.

What purpose does it serve to assign legitimacy to one moral code over another? People subscribe to a moral code because it's what they've been taught, or because it allows them to survive, or because they enjoy it. Some give credence to their own code and consider it better than all others, while some aspire to a code they consider to be superior to theirs.

If one's moral code indicates one's ability to lead and make the "right" choices - the absurdity of which statement I'm not about to delve into, it's far too easy - where do people with elaborate designs on world peace by means of violence fit in, or, conversely, those who would kill to eliminate violent crime, or those who relish crime but would view assisting others as an equally worthy adventure? Of course, there are also hypocrites who betray their own code, or those golden, selfish few who exist alone and codeless.

I would like a definition of right, please. I would like all of them. Maybe I'll make a collage.

spam | merlin

[In a way, he's surprised he wasn't saddled with baggage sooner. Surprise and curiosity don't mean that he wants to be approached or even approach himself, however, so he has been steadfastly ignoring any and all messages from Merlin. They're excruciatingly unimportant.]

[Instead he takes a seat in the gardens - an unusual place of rest for him, which is part of the point. Besides, there's something enjoyable enough about plant life. It doesn't ask annoying questions.]

[Mermquis has no intention of avoiding the ship; it looks as though it might contain valuable things or manipulable people, and therefore must be approached. He circles it twice cautiously, then reverses direction and circles three times with obvious curiosity.]

[During these slow circles, he gets closer and closer, peering into windows as he passes. It takes a while, but he also begins to attend to those who are leaving the ship to explore. Some he watches, some he watches and follows, and some he watches, follows, and provides with one of the following:]

No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
What am I?


( ooc; this is a choose your own adventure basically. find him anytime as he's circling, as he's stalking ya, or pick any of the three riddles :> )