solaire

He has not been appraised of the utility of the space or enter keys. Or how to do capital letters.

They're not essential. "And your friend?"

sirmeowalot

"Really! Well. I have a lot of other questions, but I'm not sure where to start. Do you have questions for me."

whyletalive

"Well," he holds up his computer to project the reply at an angle invisible to the pile: if my summoner dies, I go back home, and it seems like this place is maybe in need of some help.

.how.will.you.stop.summoner.summon.again

Good question. Blank bar is the space, by the way. They seem to have been doing some kind of local magic I'm not familiar with and only accidentally did my kind instead. I don't know what they need to do local magic and also don't know how much I can expect them to medically be like a normal human.

they dont have blood1 not normal. i dont know how kind of local magic needs either.

The body pile has recovered from the lightning strikes and is making indignant noises, but no new special effects are forthcoming, at least. The Lichtenberg burns marring its everything only seem to have done localised damage.

I only have medical training about normal humans, so if I start guessing, I might accidentally kill them. Dental cement seemed safe enough. If they need to eat I can make holes in the cement and tube-feed them.

Catshrug.

what help will you do

Good question. I don't really know much about the place where I find myself besides that it's got literate magic wielding cats and piles of guys trying to end the world! I'm not used to either of those things. Do you have suggestions?

Pause

food/

He kneads the ground.

mission

What would you like to eat, and what is your mission?

not me. cats at home many.

mission is take

He pauses, paw hovering over the keyboard.

thing to ground

.... dont know how to say. from big rock cat thinks rock needs to become bigger rock in ground.

I'm afraid I don't understand.

draw/

Nod. Drawing tablet.

I'm afraid that doesn't help me very much apart from how that last bit looks like maybe the planet will blow up, which seems bad. Does your own language by any chance have a written form so we can get machine translation going?

no

He sits down, taps the spacebar a few times, and tries again.

big rock monster fighting home. brothers defeated monster. found rock in monster. old man mind cat said monster thinks needs to take rock under ground and into big rock. else the planet will blow up. and other than blow up.

So... you live in a colony of other talking cats. You fought a rock monster, it had some kind of special rock inside of it. A cat who is - psychic? thinks that you must put this special rock in some other rock that is underground. Because otherwise... the planet will blow up and also other bad things will happen?

a cat who is psychic thinks that rock monster thinks that. yes and also other bad things will happen.

Pause.

colony of other talking cats but mom is humanity.

Oh, a human engineered you? To talk, to do magic, or are both things new to your group? Also what is the rock time limit, and how does this relate, he gestures at the pile.

The cat is confused.

mom is mom not engineer.

some cats can talk and do magic in my group. some cats can talk and do magic outside my group.

i dont know what is the rock time limit. i dont know how does this relate. this is not in what psychic says what rock monster thinks. i have not seen big rock yet.