So, the food here is good, but mostly in that it's stable and available and that very very occasionally someone gets a full meal. It's not, like, actually very particularly yummy. There's the food-food, which are basically always boring in nearly the same ways, and then there's the food that you're only supposed to nibble the teeeeeniest bit on, which are more interesting in general but still get pretty old after a while.
It's time to see what else is out there.
Oh, then maybe more foods will come later! It'll keep an eye out for that and try to slip in beside one next time.
Hhhhhffffffffff. Fffffffffn. P. Phhhehhhh. Bhhhh. Beh? Rrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh. Mmmmm.
One of the foods is making the mediocre noises at a beige curved shape it is holding to its face.
Hhhhhhhhhhhh. Hhhhehhhh? Rrrrrrrrhhhhhh. Rrhhh. Lllh? Lh. Rrrrh. Llllllllllhhhhhhehhhh. Ohhhhhhhhh. Hhher - Hhhlllllllllllllm. HhllllllllLLLLLLLLLlllllllllhhhhh. Hhhhhehhhhhhhllllllllllllllllllllllllllllohhhh.
Roughly an hour later, a group of foods appear with a loud CRACK.
At least the loud noise is short this time.
It keeps hhhhhhhhhhhheeehllloooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhing and ghhhhhhhosssssting and ssssssssponnnnnnnnnggggggging to itself while it watches to see what they'll do. It's gotten so good at sounds in the last hour!
They all proceed to cast The Spell That Is Unpleasant and also one of them casts The Spell That Lets Them Communicate Slightly. The Spell That Lets Them Communicate Slightly says that it should go back home.
The concept of communication is still pretty far beyond its comprehension because it's so very advanced; even very clever beings can't really be expected to understand that.
Totally unrelatedly, the thought occurs to it that it could go home.
On the one hand that sounds really boring, because it's been at home basically forever and the entire time there wasn't as interesting as its short adventure since finding the beach has been. But on the other hand at home there are basically no onks nor very loudbad noises. Sometimes there's The Spell That Is Unpleasant, but honestly it doesn't even feel that bad right now, so probably it had only been naïve about what sorts of unpleasantness were possible.
Yeah, it'll start to drift home at least for now, it guesses.
Oh good.
The Obliviators take care of the rest of it once it's on its way back over the water.
Drift drooft. Water water sea. So much water, so much sea.
And then home!
The less-boring foods at home, the ones with The Spell That Is Unpleasant, confirm that it has gotten there and consider the matter settled.
It has been at sea for A While and is going to nibble the first thing it - ow fuck ow okay The Spell That Is Unpleasant is in fact actually unpleasant if it tries to eat anything at all. It will turn its appetite to the normal boringfoods.
The normal boringfoods are pretty much as expected. (Though sometimes they do make mediocresounds.)
Now that it's not quite so hungry it seems important to see if the normal boringfoods will become novel interestingfoods if it doesn't nibble on them for a while.
(Sssssssssssd. Sssssdahhhhhh. D. Dhhhhh. T. T! Ssssstahhhhhphhhhhhhhh. Nnnnnnnoooohhhhhhhh. Hhhhn.)
Well, they're still getting nibbled on. Lots of nibbling is ambient.
. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . Oh! Yeah, it kind of is, isn't it. There are other its around; that makes sense. (It is so smart.)
It floats up to one of them with an agreeable Ggghhnnm.
- It should have planned out more of how to achieve what it wants beforehand. Hm.
. . . Nnnnnrrehhhn? ('Food's been pretty good lately, hasn't it?') A usual, standard conversation topic.
Rrrrrmnhhhhh. ('Yeah.')
Mmmmmhhhhheehhhhhkhkhkhkhkhkh. ('So like, foods, are sometimes, like, interesting?')
Rohhhhrrrrrrnn. Khhhhehhhssssss. Hhhhhh. ('They're like, interesting. They do things, if you don't eat them for a while.')
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