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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
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.
"You are unclean!"
"Do not [untranslated] the filth creature!"
"The filth creature will kill us!"
"Please do not kill us!"
"Do not [untranslated] the filth creature!"
"The filth creature will kill us!"
"Please do not kill us!"
"We are unclean! The filth creature has befouled us! We should all die!"
"I don't want to die!"
"What does the filth creature want?"
"How would I know? It's a filth creature!"
"Terrifying filth creature, what do you want?"
"I don't want to die!"
"What does the filth creature want?"
"How would I know? It's a filth creature!"
"Terrifying filth creature, what do you want?"
from_scratch
"I want you to talk." He pats his computer. "This can talk to me and it can talk to you. Talk to me."
More panicked babbling, then one alien says: "I was part of the [untranslated phrase]. I will talk to the filth creature."
It tentatively peers out of the building where it and the others are cowering.
"Terrifying filth creature, I am [untranslated phrase, probably a name]. [More untranslated speech]. Please do not kill us. We don't know what you want. We are very afraid."
It tentatively peers out of the building where it and the others are cowering.
"Terrifying filth creature, I am [untranslated phrase, probably a name]. [More untranslated speech]. Please do not kill us. We don't know what you want. We are very afraid."
from_scratch
They really don't have any other words they've used for non-evil-alien-people besides "filth creature", do they.
"I want you all to stop killing filth creatures," he says.
"We are all [untranslated adjective]!" wails one of the more hidden aliens. "The filth creatures will overrun us all and befoul all the inhabited planets and everyone will catch the filth contagion and be killed by the [untranslated plural noun]!"
"Please do not befoul us," says the spokes-alien. "Although the [same untranslated plural noun] will likely kill us anyway."
"[Untranslated adjective]! [Untranslated adjective]! We're [untranslated adjective]!"
"Shut up [profane intensifier]!" says another alien to the one who thinks they're all [untranslated adjective]. The adjective-wailer subsides.
"Please do not befoul us," says the spokes-alien. "Although the [same untranslated plural noun] will likely kill us anyway."
"[Untranslated adjective]! [Untranslated adjective]! We're [untranslated adjective]!"
"Shut up [profane intensifier]!" says another alien to the one who thinks they're all [untranslated adjective]. The adjective-wailer subsides.
"Those who have associated with filth creatures or crossed the filth doors catch the filth contagion," says the spokes-alien. "They [untranslated phrase] like filth creatures, and the [same untranslated plural noun] must kill them before the contagion can spread. This is why everyone in the armies that attack the filth creatures must [untranslated modifier] die before they enter the world-maze. If they returned and spread the contagion across the planet, the [same untranslated plural noun] would have to kill us all!"
"The end of the world!"
"Shut up [profane intensifier], [probably a name]!"
"The end of the world!"
"Shut up [profane intensifier], [probably a name]!"
"...They are filth creatures," says the spokes-alien. "I'm not an [untranslated noun]."
"If you were, you wouldn't be talking to a filth creature!" yells yet another alien.
"I would rather talk to a filth creature than die!" exclaims the spokes-alien. "Any who disagree are free to kill themselves!"
"If you were, you wouldn't be talking to a filth creature!" yells yet another alien.
"I would rather talk to a filth creature than die!" exclaims the spokes-alien. "Any who disagree are free to kill themselves!"
"So would we!"
"We did attack them first."
"No we didn't! That was the army! I've never attacked a filth creature in my life!"
"We here have never attacked any filth creatures," says the spokesalien.
"We did attack them first."
"No we didn't! That was the army! I've never attacked a filth creature in my life!"
"We here have never attacked any filth creatures," says the spokesalien.
"We're going to die anyway!" wails the one who wails a lot. "The [same untranslated plural noun] will destroy the planet to stop the spread of filth!"
"Shut up [profane intensifier], [name]!"
"Nothing else has stopped this filth creature, why would destroying the planet even help?" someone wonders.
"Tell that to the [same untranslated plural noun]!"
"You tell them!"
The spokesalien has nothing more to add at this time.
"Shut up [profane intensifier], [name]!"
"Nothing else has stopped this filth creature, why would destroying the planet even help?" someone wonders.
"Tell that to the [same untranslated plural noun]!"
"You tell them!"
The spokesalien has nothing more to add at this time.
"[Untranslated] is the opposite of filth," explains the spokesalien. After a bit of digital hemming and hawing, the computer renders its next sentence as: "The purity-keepers maintain purity so that no one is contaminated by filth. This is the most frightening colony planet, because of the filth contagion, but until today there had not been an incident in many thousands of years!"
"A contamination. An incident where someone [verb phrase] from the filth contagion and needed to be killed."