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Griffie is checking on the Winterbite Mint, harvesting shears out.
The absence of spacesuit does not guarantee the absence of travel.
They now show various things having rocks fall on them and either being damaged or not being damaged, then ask about Griffie.
They now show Griffie taking various actions that either lead to, in one group, being lit on fire or having a rock falling on them, or in the other group just being undamaged. They then add drones doing things that might or might not lead to rocks falling on them, seeing how Griffie sorts those.
mid-the-yuccas
Griffie sorts the sphere-constructs having rocks fall on them in the same category as Griffie having rocks fall on themself, and the sphere-constructs being undisturbed by rocks in the same category as Griffie being undisturbed by rocks.
mid-the-yuccas
Griffie's circulatory fluid is white, not silver, but that's otherwise fairly realistic. It looks like a question, not a threat, though. The spikes go into the rocks and fire category.
mid-the-yuccas
Griffie receiving a pencil – or maybe a fake pencil? They're visually similar – goes in the category where no injuries or damage happens.
They show pictures of weirdly clothed humans being stabbed with spikes, lit on fire, or hit with rocks, and put them in the rocks-and-fire-and-spikes category.
mid-the-yuccas
They have humans? That's not necessarily weirder than the holly and mistletoe. It does suggest promising things about eventual linguistic compatibility. Are the sphere-operators humans? Can Griffie go to a human environment?
Anyway, yes, injuries to humans work like injuries to Griffie and presumably work like injuries to sphere-constructs.
They add Griffie going through a space with various lines, and whenever their body reaches a line it comes out of another line like a portal, leading to Griffie being shredded.
mid-the-yuccas
Yeah, that can happen with naked portals. Griffie's lucky it didn't happen when they ended up here. It is another kind of injury, like spikes and rocks and fire.
They are now going to clear the categories, and instead play videos where things happen that strongly telegraph leading to either one category or the other, but don't actually depict it. Including cases where they show that one of two tunnels lead to it by having people go down them, and then end with someone beginning to go through one tunnel or the other.
After a few examples, can Griffie play this game as well?
mid-the-yuccas
Given how blatantly telegraphed and how non-technology-reliant the video examples are: yes, Griffie can play this game.
They now add a video. It has bigger drones with multiple circles of light coming out of them when they move coming to Griffie, and moving Griffie to a strange metal structure floating in space, then being taken inside where there are humans. Which category does this go in?
mid-the-yuccas
Griffie looks uncertain and wiggles the video around a bit in an attempt to indicate this.
The sphere tablet screen went black when grabbed, what if Griffie's presence breaks more things for some reason? And as much as they would like to be in an environment where humans can survive without personal life support, they can in fact wait a month if that is necessary for safety.
The screen reverts, depicting scenes like the previous stages, but with two changes.
1) There are mercurials as well, who are also vulnerable to fire, stabbing, rocks, and naked portals
2) There are arrows pointing to some or all of the individuals, and only those individuals getting injured puts it in the injury category
They now give two versions of the final video with Griffie being brought inside for Griffie to sort. One has only a single arrow pointing to Griffie. The other has arrows pointing to the humans and mercurials on the ship.
mid-the-yuccas
Griffie guesses that they would be safe inside the big metal structure. The area shown is full of friendly looking people and nothing that would be more hazardous than outer space. Griffie drags the video with an arrow over their head to the non-injurious category.
Griffie is less confident in the humans and the other humanoids being safe. Their life support systems might be made of technology that shuts down when in the Life Bubble effect, like that sphere's glowing glassy tablet maybe did. If that's the case, Griffie could probably stay away from the important systems, but they don't currently know where those systems are.
Griffie wiggles the video with arrows pointing at the humans and the other humanoids around near one circle and then the other in uncertainty.
New game! They show a video that strongly telegraphs that something is going to happen to the people with arrows, then it goes to a sketch of the thing. The person as on fire, the person as stabbed, and so on. Can Griffie play this game when instead of a sketch there is a parchment-like space after the video?
mid-the-yuccas
Yes, Griffie can, but if this is going to lead into asking what exactly will happen when Griffie goes inside the humans' and other-humanoids' large metal structure, a new medium isn't going to help as much as the sphere-operators (who are presumably humans and other-humanoids?) might hope.