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I discovered, the other day, that Adam didn't actually know why we yelled FIRST MATE at Jonny every time he tried to introduce himself as Captain -- only that we did, and so he quite reasonably joined in.
I hadn't realised this was particularly obscure Mechanisms lore, but, well, if A didn't know the chances are pretty high that quite a lot of other people also don't.
In case you didn't know about the fiction: here's the fiction. Obviously we don't know that Jonny killed Dr Carmilla, the original captain, but also: Jonny, having grown tired of the paucity of opportunities for career advancement when you're a member of a crew of immortal space pirates, was absolutely responsible for the death of Dr Carmilla and was definitely and unambiguously attempting to usurp her, or mount a coup, or however else you wish to indelicately talk about it --
-- which, you see, is why I cried when, in the live stream of definitely absolutely the last (quantum superposition) Mechs gig, Jonny introduced himself as -- pause -- First Mate, and we all collectively both near and far utterly failed to manage to scrape together the brain to shout back CAPTAIN.
And is also, of course, why I indulge myself to the tune of whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement that leaves him (even more) entirely out of sorts every time I do.
I hadn't realised this was particularly obscure Mechanisms lore, but, well, if A didn't know the chances are pretty high that quite a lot of other people also don't.
In case you didn't know about the fiction: here's the fiction. Obviously we don't know that Jonny killed Dr Carmilla, the original captain, but also: Jonny, having grown tired of the paucity of opportunities for career advancement when you're a member of a crew of immortal space pirates, was absolutely responsible for the death of Dr Carmilla and was definitely and unambiguously attempting to usurp her, or mount a coup, or however else you wish to indelicately talk about it --
-- which, you see, is why I cried when, in the live stream of definitely absolutely the last (quantum superposition) Mechs gig, Jonny introduced himself as -- pause -- First Mate, and we all collectively both near and far utterly failed to manage to scrape together the brain to shout back CAPTAIN.
And is also, of course, why I indulge myself to the tune of whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement that leaves him (even more) entirely out of sorts every time I do.