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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
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from_scratch
"I'm sure it won't come to that. We request no further contact for a period of eight local days while we prepare to interact with you through properly quarantined volunteers," says the administrative type.
from_scratch
"I can go investigate how the other planets are doing first but it probably won't take me eight local days and I'm not an especially patient sort."
"Is it threatening us?" the administrative type asks the student.
"I have no idea! My primary focus was architecture!"
"I have no idea! My primary focus was architecture!"
from_scratch
"I'm not going to attack you, but I very badly want to get this entire mess over with and that means having a conversation."
"Filth creature, by communicating with us against our wishes you are risking contaminating us with a contagion that causes extreme distress often to the point of suicide," says the administrative type. "If it broke loose on this planet, it could destroy what little stability we have been able to maintain. We ask that you stop and give us eight days to construct proper quarantine protocols."
from_scratch
"I don't think that would really take eight days. You could just find a volunteer and launch them into space for me to rendezvous with. I wonder if you're thinking of doing something else."
"Eight days is a generous margin but it's not at all an unreasonable estimate for how long it would take to replicate the quarantine system from Earth," says the filth student. "And the quarantine system from Earth is the only method we know must be effective."
"Not to mention we are still being routinely attacked by rioters and degenerates," says the administrative type. "Filth creature, if you truly wish to avoid destroying any more planets, go away and come back in eight days."
"Not to mention we are still being routinely attacked by rioters and degenerates," says the administrative type. "Filth creature, if you truly wish to avoid destroying any more planets, go away and come back in eight days."
from_scratch
Sigh.
Cam finds out how long the local day is and tries another planet.
Cam finds out how long the local day is and tries another planet.
The local day is twenty-two point three hours by Cam's reckoning.
The next planet has been thoroughly overrun by rioting. The amount of communication he can intercept is not enough to give him a clear picture of anything other than lots of people engaged in lots of violence.
The next planet has been thoroughly overrun by rioting. The amount of communication he can intercept is not enough to give him a clear picture of anything other than lots of people engaged in lots of violence.
On the next planet, nobody figured out the black hole trick but someone got their hands on enough powerful explosive weapons to blast every population center down to bedrock, their own included. No survivors are evident.
Destroyed, destroyed, fallen to rioting and chaos, destroyed, destroyed, figured out the black hole device and waited until he actually showed up before they set it off...
from_scratch
And now Cam has to pedestal out of another black hole, great.
This would be an unqualified disaster if the only players involved were him and this species of alien. But they were mid-third-genocide when he got here. There probably are not exactly four sapient species in this universe. They have to cope or - not cope. If they're not coping now at least they didn't generate another dozen planets' worth of - of art and history and small children to blow up first.
Next -
This would be an unqualified disaster if the only players involved were him and this species of alien. But they were mid-third-genocide when he got here. There probably are not exactly four sapient species in this universe. They have to cope or - not cope. If they're not coping now at least they didn't generate another dozen planets' worth of - of art and history and small children to blow up first.
Next -
The next one has only been half bombed out, and it's clear that there are survivors, but they're not using communications equipment he can spy on easily.
The one after that, apparently, is the ancient home of a secret cult who have taken the opportunity to seize power and start ritually sacrificing purity-keepers in gruesome ways. Apart from the ritual sacrifice problem, this is actually one of the most stable planets he's seen so far.
The one after that, apparently, is the ancient home of a secret cult who have taken the opportunity to seize power and start ritually sacrificing purity-keepers in gruesome ways. Apart from the ritual sacrifice problem, this is actually one of the most stable planets he's seen so far.
The cult says:
"It's the Destroyer! The Destroyer has come!"
"It's the Destroyer! The Destroyer has come!"
"What are we to do now?"
"Do we dare communicate with it?"
"I'm not talking to it."
"Let's wait and see what it says."
"Do we dare communicate with it?"
"I'm not talking to it."
"Let's wait and see what it says."
"Heresy!"
"That doesn't sound like the Destroyer at all. Maybe it's a trick."
"That doesn't sound like the Destroyer at all. Maybe it's a trick."
from_scratch
"The whole destruction thing is a big misunderstanding," Cam says. "If there is something - not a person, please - which you would like me to destroy as a demonstration that can be arranged, though."
"Well, something just brought about the end of civilization as we know it."
"If the voice didn't do it, I say we ignore the voice."
"Agreed."
"Agreed."
"Agreed."
"So be it. Let us all ignore the strange voice."
"If the voice didn't do it, I say we ignore the voice."
"Agreed."
"Agreed."
"Agreed."
"So be it. Let us all ignore the strange voice."
from_scratch
"Your civilization is really stupid and ended itself as soon as another person it couldn't kill came along."
The cultists, having decided to ignore him, proceed unanimously with this plan.