For anyone else planning on starting fires to make a point, don't do anything in an enclosed space and contact someone if you don't know what you're doing. There are people on board, myself included, who can regulate and contain a fire without it getting out of control, and I'd rather someone ask me for help with it than finding out a hallway is on fire and someone's dead.

I'm not complaining about why you're doing it or what it means, but fire is dangerous. It can get out of control quickly, and I'm pretty sure suffocating or burning to death isn't part of what you're trying to prove.

[And now feel free to go back to your regularly scheduled holy shit, the Barge is haunted, Zuko just wanted to put this out there before anyone accidentally suffocates themselves.]

[Zuko is still himself, and has wandered over into the market place, which is bustling with activity. He switches on the video, and you get some images of colorful food stalls and stands selling something closer to actual meals. There are a lot of people out and about, and some of them are giving him some funny looks, although whether that's because his outfit and general physical appearance sort of screams person visiting from far away or because of the scar is up in the air.]

This isn't all that different from some of the markets back home. But the palace is pretty different. [The camera angle shifts slightly as he turns to look back at it, although he's blocking any view you'd be getting of it.]

Has anyone seen Vanessa? Or, uh, my uncle?

[ooc: Open for spam in the marketplace! Zuko will eventually be heading into the castle pretending to be a foreign prince to go rescue Vanessa/get here away from Jafar Narvin, but otherwise has a free schedule for port. :D]

[Zuko sits imperiously at a desk in his chambers, which are far more ornate and expensive looking than his usual room. It's his suite in the Royal Palace, and basically everything shades of red and gold. His hair is longer and tied up in the traditional Fire Nation topknot, and is wearing full on Fire Lord raiments. The most glaring difference though? His face is unscarred.]

My people favor ambition. Drive. Something so many people here are lacking. Very few know what has to be done, and even then, some lack the will to do it.

You have to know what you want and take it. It's that simple.

Unrelatedly, I've come to miss having servants wait on me hand and foot. Does anyone have an inmate who wouldn't mind - [Read: who wants to be an ass to their inmate and make them work for me?] - doing a few chores?

[The feed clicks on to reveal a very annoyed looking Red Panda-like creature. Animal experts will realize he isn't actually a Red Panda, but a Fire Ferret, a creature native to Zuko's home world. It's taken a bit of figuring out, but he can work the communicator after having knocked it onto the floor of his room, and he can talk to anyone. Wanda's also come by to open his door, so feel free to encounter this angry but adorable critter in the hallways or around the Barge.]

How long is this going to last? I don't think I can handle being without thumbs for a week. At least I guess I know what Fire Ferrets eat.

Uncle, are you affected?