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Here is a demon. The demon is in his swimming pool.
He doesn't swim naked, so he takes the summon anyway.
demon cam vs the clam planet
from_scratch
from_scratch
That's nice!
Of course, they wouldn't have to evacuate their planet if they would talk to him, but aside from occasionally yelling at them about that Cam's fresh out of ideas.
Of course, they wouldn't have to evacuate their planet if they would talk to him, but aside from occasionally yelling at them about that Cam's fresh out of ideas.
In fairness to the aliens, if Cam was not indestructible, their maze of self-destructing outposts and industrial complexes would be a really effective way to cover a retreat.
Time passes. He covers more and more of the maze. Someone manages to sneak around him and blow up some of his relays.
Time passes. He covers more and more of the maze. Someone manages to sneak around him and blow up some of his relays.
from_scratch
Well, that's inconvenient. He'll have to go back and hunt down whoever did that and replace the relays and apologize for the interruption in service.
The people who blew up his relays throw themselves at him and set off the self-destructs on their weapons, mildly inconveniencing him.
Onward and onward. Maze maze maze maze.
This looks like an unusually large Sphere.
Actually, it kind of looks like a planet.
Actually, it kind of looks like a familiar planet.
Also, once he gets clear of the giant crater where the complex housing the portal used to be, no one is shooting at him and nothing is blowing up. There are no more portals in sight.
This looks like an unusually large Sphere.
Actually, it kind of looks like a planet.
Actually, it kind of looks like a familiar planet.
Also, once he gets clear of the giant crater where the complex housing the portal used to be, no one is shooting at him and nothing is blowing up. There are no more portals in sight.
from_scratch
"I found a planet. I found a real planet. I found the planet humans come from in my world. You don't have weird physics, you just have a weird magic system which allows pocket dimensions with weird physics. This planet looks perfectly normal if somewhat the worse for wear."
from_scratch
"Yep. And it's overrun by aliens. I will... wander around watching bits of the Earth self-destruct, I guess."
from_scratch
And Cam flies around, looking for aliens, possibly evacuating in something he'd like to get a tracking device on.
It took him long enough to get here that an astonishing number of aliens have already left. Huge sprawling cities cover much of the planet, uncharacteristically failing to explode as he passes over them, largely empty of life.
No aliens here. No aliens there. No, no aliens anywh—
Aliens!
Cowering terrified aliens, attempting to hide from him, absolutely not shooting at him or blowing themselves up at all whatsoever!
Aliens!
Cowering terrified aliens, attempting to hide from him, absolutely not shooting at him or blowing themselves up at all whatsoever!
from_scratch
Yeah you better be cowering and terrified. Just look what you did to the Earth. Cam likes the Earth.
Cam lands.
Cam lands.
These particular aliens are using some unfamiliar words, but it's possible to decipher their yelling as far as, "DO NOT KILL US! DO NOT BEFOUL US!"
from_scratch
Cam wonders vaguely how his program figured out "befoul", decides this is really not the time to go look at its inference backchain, and fumbles around with his vocabulary until he has his best approximation of "talk to me so I can talk to you".
Not yet, no. Although he can tell that the aliens are saying things like "You are frighteningly powerful!" and, again, "Please do not destroy us!" and, for a little variation, "We want to live!"
from_scratch
Can he say 'I do not intend to kill you unless -'. Or 'you can live if you cooperate'. Or something.
He doesn't currently have that vocabulary, but the panicked yelling of these aliens is teaching him some new words.
Sentences such as the following begin to come clear:
"The others will destroy us!"
"They will destroy the planet!"
"We are befouled already!"
"I am frightened!"
"We are unclean!"
"I don't want to die!"
Sentences such as the following begin to come clear:
"The others will destroy us!"
"They will destroy the planet!"
"We are befouled already!"
"I am frightened!"
"We are unclean!"
"I don't want to die!"
from_scratch
"I don't want you to die," Cam asserts through his translator. He is pretty sure the promises police will not come after him for not incorporating the conditional.