Amentans colonizing places
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Sounds interesting! Some Dwellin would probably want to help.

An Amentan could go touch their local Well if they wanted, to see if anything happens.

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The Amentans confer among themselves and select a volunteer, one of the greys.

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Well, this way, it's in the village.

Two locals assign themselves as guides and start jogging off. Rather quickly. 

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The grey can keep up!

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They have to work for it, Dwellin have long strides.

Here is a small iron age village with a short wooden palisade. The gates are wide open and the main street is cobblestone. All the huts look, perhaps surprisingly, well made, neat and tidy.

There's a sort of little park in the center, with a tall tree that has very pale bark and a rainbow of leaf colors. His guides tell the curious onlookers that the alien is going to see what the Well does for them.

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It's good it's neat and tidy!

The grey approaches the tree and pinches a leaf between her fingers.

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Nothing seems to happen. The blue leaf feels a bit rough, but that's it. It will come off easily if she pulls.

The guides reach for leaves of their own, and both - shift their posture, look distracted for a moment.

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She holds on for a bit in case it just takes a while the first time, but eventually gives up and shakes her head.

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"That means no, right?"

"I think so. I didn't catch much of it."

The first one head-jerk-shrugs and unceremoniously breaks off a smallish twig with mostly blue leaves, proferring it.

"Science experiment," in the Amentan language.

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She accepts it.

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"Let's go back then."

"Wait, if their chief isn't here-"

"Jikka..."

"No, mrr, blue here. Want to fight?"

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She's a little torn but shakes her head. "Blue find out."

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Dwellin use a dissapointed sigh the same way as Amentans do apparently.

The other one laughs. "Told you so."

"Go shuttle." And they can go back.

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They go back to the shuttle. The grey reports on these events to the blue.

The blue, after some conference with a green, decides it is okay if one or two greys want to nonlethally spar with the locals.

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The Dwellin have these leather foot covers to make kicks less lethal! They decide to have a tiny lottery to pick out their fighters since so many want to. Nobody goes to fetch the one who stomped off earlier. 

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The Amentans brought weapons but not sparring-for-fun weapons, so they can just try this unarmed?

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Sure, that's easiest. They draw out a little circular arena in the dirt.

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What are the usual rules?

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Wear claw guards, to first blood or yield, no eye or crotch shots? If it were a serious match it'd be to incapacitation or yield and anything goes.

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Okay! Usually the grey would want a mouth guard for her teeth but she didn't pack one, so maybe don't sock her in the jaw too hard.

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Right!!!

The winner of the mini-lottery is Tarin, and appears to be the alien equivalent of a 4-year-old, a bit short and generally smaller. They're grinning (which sort of looks like the expression a happy dog makes???) as they step into the ring. Their compatriots cheer them on. Someone warns the grey not to get complacent, Tarin was a soldier in a past life!

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She was a soldier in this life! Admittedly that tends to involve very little hand to hand.

She circles him slowly.

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Tarin holds almost perfectly still, then launches headlong into motion with as fast a series of feints and strikes as he can manage. 

He's fast. And startlingly strong for his size. And not hesitating at all.

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He can beat her pretty quick, though she's slippery the first couple times he gets a hold of her. She's pretty good natured about the loss, wants to know if her crew got that on video. (They did.)

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"That was fun! Thanks for the spar!" Tarin agrees. (He then goes and brags and poses for his compatriots.)

 

Suusvu the prospective metal-buyer wants to know what video is?

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