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The null torturing those tentacled creatures. Cutting them open and trying to implant mechanical stuff in them. They were trying to .. control them I guess. It doesn't really look like it worked since most of them died.

Why does everyone record torture?

[she releases a low sigh] Grife. No wonder why they're angry. They probably figure we'll do the same things to them. [a pause] What kind of--mechanical stuff was it?

Because no matter where you go in the universe, there are going to be nassheads.

Circuit board type things. They were wiring it directly into their brains. Or trying to anyway because it seemed like a lot of them died before it got that far.

[ The video he watched was on a phone so it was small and not high fidelity, but he got the jist.]

Maybe. Or maybe the ones that attacked us are experiments that didn't fail? There's still a lot we don't know.

[she looks crushed] Sweet Mistress. How could--how could anyone be so cruel?

[she looked over the post talking about what happened, but she feels more . . . reassured getting the information from someone she knows and trusts]

That's true. [she sighs] I wish there was a way we could talk to them. We don't want to hurt them, or at least I don't. There's got to be a way for us to share this planet.

Depending on if the Null already got ahold of them we might not have a choice. Unless we can sever that tie somehow. Or pull those things out of their heads. Though from the video I'm not sure we'd be able to without killing them or it being agonizing. It might be better to end it quickly.

[To put them down like rabid dogs that can't be trusted. That's what they would have done to him if he'd managed to get out of Jacob's bunker with Rook. It's probably better for everyone if he died, it might be better for these creatures too.]

The Null will be the problem, not the nautilus things. If it wasn't for the Null they would probably not be anywhere around us.

[she looks even more distressed]

I--I hadn't even thought about that. The idea that the Null had already done something that will make it impossible to coexist. That's awful. I can't--why are beings so cruel to one another?

[the Daxamites, the Null, the aliens sometimes. cruelty for cruelty's sake is completely foreign to her nature]

The Null . . . they're going to come back, aren't they? Everyone says so.

[Okay, so maybe Nate's right and he shouldn't be telling all this to someone so young. But she had asked, and he's gonna be honest. Though she does look upset enough that he almost wants to hug her.]

It seems like that's just the natural order of things. Anything that's strong dominates the weak and can do what it wishes.

Though it would be nice if what it wanted was something other than making things suffer. But hasn't happened yet.

[And being the least hopeful person ever he's pretty sure it never will.]

Yeah. They will. We don't know when or how, but they're not going to go away until we either beat them back, or they get what they want. Which seems to be killing everyone.

[she's strong, she can take it. after a brief adjustment period. during which, she will be Sad. and she could use a hug?]

I guess so. I should . . . know better by now.

No, it hasn't. Not even in my time when we should know better.

[and she's painfully reminded of the Daxamites and the fight back home]

We can't let them kill everybody. We've got to fight. The only problem is, my powers are for defense. I'm taking swordfighting lessons, but I'm nowhere near good enough to take on something like that.

Well the best advice I got on how to fight the Null is to run away and not get in a fight. So that's not real helpful.

They're machines right? We just have to figure out how to break them.

[They need his technologically inept sheriff who once broke the coffee machine because it had more than two buttons.]

Defensive powers will come in handy should everyone need to run away. Or we go into hiding or stand siege.

I don't have a choice. I'm in the Guard and even more than that, I'm a Legionnaire. I couldn't possibly sit out this fight.

I have a feeling that's gonna be easier said than done. But the Lab has had all this time to study the destroyed Null, surely they have some ideas?

[that takes some effort. how'd he do that?]

Let's hope it doesn't come to that. If it does, we're in a lot of trouble.

You're in the guard?

[Somehow that escaped his knowledge.]

The lab seems more geared towards science than anything that would actually help us. Probably anyway. But on the other hand one of them is trying to make a flamethrower so maybe they have some ideas on how we can defend this place.

[He's still not sure. It melted. They were a police station that was coffee-less. It was a red-alert situation, they called for backup from a neighboring county.]

Yeah, I have been since I came here.

[and she finally gets to patrol by herself, yay!]

A flamethrower? [she sounds concerned. which makes sense because she probably burned to death] Who's that for?

[that's pretty impressive. and it was nice of the neighboring county to come to the rescue]

[No no un-yay! She is like twelve and who keeps letting all these children onto the force????]

Peter's making it. I think he was gonna use it to protect the lab but so long as he's not burning my range down he can do whatever with it.

[she's a fully grown woman where she comes from]

Oh. I . . . guess he can be trusted to not burn down the entire town?

By the way, I am so jealous that you guys got to have an adventure and I didn't.

Yeah it'll be fine. If he does, he'll go into self imposed community service for the next seven hundred years to atone for it. I don't think we have anything to worry about.

I guess it was an adventure up until we found the bunker and all the blood and torture videos. The trip home wasn't very fun.

I have some MRE's left if you want to simulate the experience with some terrible freeze dried food.

[Nice save before spiraling down into everything is terrible.]

[she starts laughing] Oh! Oh, I bet he would! Grife, it would be almost worth it to burn down something small.

...no, I guess it wouldn't be?

Ugh. [she makes a face] No. No. I have enough to cope with eating canned mushy peas.

[progress!]

It'd warm us up a bit at least. That's something.

[he sighs and runs his fingers through his hair.]

Yeah it .. was pretty awful and I didn't even go down into the bunker.

You don't want to try something that claims it definitely might be a pork chop?

We could roast marshmallows and make s'mores! It would be fun.

[she looks on empathetically]

Do you want to talk about it? Or would you rather be distracted?

I don't even eat pork chops that are pork chops! I am really not going to eat one that claims it definitely might be a pork chop.

It .. actually would. I could go for some gooey chocolate and graham cracker goodness.

[He needs a day off badly.]

It doesn't matter really. I'm sure they'll tell everyone what they found eventually. I shouldn't be the person to break the news.

I smelled it and I'm pretty sure it's made of compressed sawdust. And salt. Lots of salt.

So could I. I wonder which alien we'd have to bribe to get that.

[so distraction it is. she can do that]

Okay. I can wait.

[she makes a grossed out face]

That sounds awful! I can't stand salty things, especially not salty things that are pretending to be a pork chop.

Tranquility probably. That sounds nice and tranquil.

[Though he doesn't know if they can ask for something as mundane as s'mores ingredients.]

I think that's how they get it to last so long, just salt the hell out of it and put it in a bag. The pasta is okay, but the meat ones look horrible even if I did eat meat.

A little burning building and making s'mores in the flames? Yeah, that would work.

[she assumes it's worth a shot? after all, she's heard of people getting all kinds of things from the aliens]

Yechhh. I'd be afraid to touch even the pasta ones. But how'd you get so many of those things, anyway?

Well I have to eat something out there. I'm not going to chance that the shrubs are edible.

They showed up randomly a few months ago. Along with my shovel and the knife. There were a bunch of MRE's around so I collected as many as I could.

[she giggles] No, of course not. The local plant life is probably poisonous and hates us.

Oh. I guess that's pretty lucky they showed up. You couldn't have known that you'd need them for some big trip out into depression, but it's good that you had them.

It probably has teeth and will try to bite me too.

[Knowing this place anything is possible.]

Yeah, some of them are from the future according to the dates, but apparently even a hundred years from now MRE's still taste like ass and look like cat food. But it was something.

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