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Cam catches this summons while he is in his garden, because he has come to the realization that he finds bonsai really boring even if you are skipping a lot of the steps with conjuration and he does not want to continue to maintain this tiny tree enough to be at home for it for the next while.

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It's extremely dark. Dark enough that Cam can't see much of anything at all, other than some scattered sources of green light too faint to properly discern until his eyes get more used to the darkness. The way some of them move is suggestive of bioluminescent bugs, though, and there is a small amount of buzzing and chattering that dies down after a few seconds.

It's also pretty cold. Not air conditioning cold, nor the Arctic cold, more like a kind of not-quite-damp cold of a basement without any water leaks.

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...what has he got in the way of language updates.

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Wow that's, uh, got a much more complicated answer than that question usually gets, actually! There's this language that looks like a cross of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, proficiently but not natively fluent, and that seems to be the only normal language. But it does kind of feel like he got something else? It's just not something that actually uses any of the senses he's equipped with. Like, he could totally communicate if he performed this ineffable action with an organ he does not possess, or this other ineffable action with this other organ he does not possess, and if the former organ detected some kind of stimuli he would be able to interpret it as language probably, while the latter does not receive data (they're sort of like his vocal cords). Possibly he could use his eyes to interpret something that were produced by the latter organ, if his eyes were very different?

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Weird.

"Hello?" he tries in the speakable language.

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His eyes are getting used to the darkness, those are definitely bugs. Not yet quite used enough to determine which bugs, but some of them look larger than any natural bioluminescent bugs he's aware of from the light alone. Also, there's some buzzing and chittering in response to his voice, but not much, and some of the bugs scatter, but much fewer than one might normally expect.

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He's not a huge fan of bugs but he clearly has been summoned by Some Kind Of Space Alien Apparently. Can he see the circle?

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If he waits a bit longer so his eyes are even more used to it the bioluminescence turns out to be enough to let him see smudges that are faintly wet but not more than that, certainly not enough to actually read the circle.

Also some of those bugs are the size of medium-sized dogs. And have scorpion-like stingers.

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Yes well he doesn't really like that but he's indestructible and! also! space alien! so he's going to resist the temptation to try to kick the scorpions to death at this time. Eeugh though.

Okay, if he can't read the circle and the alien won't say hello, he will try: making stuff. Cuppa coffee?

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Nah.

(Also: they're not scorpions! For one, they're bioluminescent. For two, they have wings, and some are flying. So, more like flying glowing scorpions.)

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He Doesn't Like That BUT SPACE ALIEN.

Puff of air? Drop of water? "Hellooooo?"

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Buzz buzz chitter no go.

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"I can't actually speak the other stuff that came with this summons, it relies on anatomy I don't have and can't make!" he volunteers.

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Some bugs fly away that-a-way. Some buzz and chitter. None of them produce words, though.

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Can he leave the circle or is he in for a more boring time than bonsaiing.

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He can leave his circle!

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"I'm gonna... walk around a bit... and I will try not to step on any of you and/or your pets and/or your children and/or your space alien relationship for which I have no words," he says, "and that will be lots easier if you do not startle me or like touch me or anything, I am liable to fall over if those things happen, it's a thing that happens sometimes to people with two legs."

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Buzz.

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He picks a direction and starts walking, very slowly, one step at a time, seeking to avoid stepping and/or falling on any space bugs.

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The few space bugs that might've been in his way obligingly step/scurry/fly off, some looking more purposeful in that than the others.

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"If you can't pronounce this language, it has a writing system, and you managed the circle," he remarks, a few steps along.

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He seems to be going down a corridor or something and it has fewer bugs than the place he showed up at, so if they buzz they're not sufficiently numerous here for it to be noticeable. But what is noticeable is that wherever he's going is even colder than where he came from, with a hint of air movement. Also, the ground seems very uneven, more like natural formation than artificial construction.

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Who knows what artificial constructions might appeal to SPACE BUGS. Though then again who knows what natural formations might also appeal to space bugs, so. He goes very very slow.

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Colder, colder, colder, that's some natural light over there, and there's... sand? That's sand, under his feet. More and more sand, actually, and, hey, don't deserts get super cold at night, actually.

There's the exit.

Does Cam want to guess what that looks like?

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Is it... a desert? Possibly one full of space bugs? Maybe space bug architecture?

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It's a desert, and it has nnnno discernible architecture. The constellations aren't recognisable, either. And it's not full of space bugs, but there's bioluminescent dots here and there, flying in the distance, possible to tell apart from stars by their colour and movement. Also, there are four moons visible in the sky, too.

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