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A third of the world is covered by the howling maelstrom that was born a century ago. It is not ordinarily a place you'd find people surviving, but sometimes things appear in it. Strange things - otherworldly things - brought into the mist of a howling storm of cloudy dust and wind that blows in whichever direction it wants.
Pelape finds Eefa and superpowers
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"You're the only alien I've heard of. Is there any particular reason to believe she wouldn't be human?"
thesignalandthenoise
"Just that she's irregular. Could be some magical add-on to a human baseline, but one of those could conceivably also affect how she ages."
thesignalandthenoise
"Most people do not have murderers after them for no reason and the ones that do can't identify strangers as those murderers in advance!"
thesignalandthenoise
"You don't have to apologize, if anything it's probably good that she just seems like a regular kid to casual observation, but there is clearly something up."
rebuild-together
"My first go at an explanation would be that she's maelstrom touched. The wolves are odd even with that, but I don't think her being an alien would be a reasonable explanation for that either."
thesignalandthenoise
"No. We'd landed probes on other planets in our system but they seemed lifeless. No signals from space or anything. Fiction was all about aliens showing up all the time though. - not literally. But often."
thesignalandthenoise
"Aliens would, we supposed, know how to get into space at intrasystem distances, and could teach us, and we'd be able to get off our rock."
thesignalandthenoise
"Well, the land parts. It is still pretty expensive and specialized to make new land."
thesignalandthenoise
"Thirteen billion, about. Creeping up but slowly, there's really robust population control treaties."
thesignalandthenoise
"Well, one does not encounter them all at once. The country I lived in was about six hundred million."
thesignalandthenoise
"- within a few hours? About half of them, we had faster transit than, uh, walking."
thesignalandthenoise
"I would've gotten around on a train. A series of linked wheeled things that ran on rails, much faster than anything that can roll freely on level surfaces can be safely piloted to do among things it might crash into. There's also airplanes, flying vehicles, those are a little faster but less comfortable."
