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Random preindustrial people think they are amazing powerful aliens and are delighted to have them visiting.

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They feel kind of bad about lying to the preindustrial aliens.

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Huh? They're not lying. They are, in fact part of the grand organization of amazing powerful aliens and they know the thing they're teaching and if they tell the aliens "I used to be a funeral worker" the aliens will not care.

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Okay, but, like, the preindustrial aliens are not apprised of the significance.

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...no one else thinks there's any significance. Because there isn't.

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But what if, if these aliens found out that someone thought there was, they would agree, or be offended that they are not getting high status people to help them, or are upset that they can't honestly deal with the clean castes from Amenta now, or something.

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They are welcome to explain all about where they come from to the aliens if they sound interested. He bets the aliens will be more intrigued than upset.

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Somebody tries that.

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...are the aliens going to get sick?

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No, they have healing magic.

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Then the aliens are confused about what 'unclean' means.

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Uh, other people from their home planet just think they're inherently disgusting and won't touch them.

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Oh, like little green scorpions? Those are inherently disgusting and one shouldn't touch them. 

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...she guesses like that maybe.

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...and maybe there are aliens somewhere who, like, eat little green scorpions. And it'd make sense to take all the little green scorpions and send them there where they'll be appreciated. Is that the idea?

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Sort of.

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How do they send pictures of the babies to grandma, again, exactly? They tried it but it didn't work.

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They have to tap the picture here, not just in the general vicinity -

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The locals do not ask about the inherently unclean thing again, though apparently word gets around that maybe Vanda Nossëo will relocate the horrible scorpions.

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...it's probably not a priority unless the scorpions are people.

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No, they're insects. They're like three inches long.

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There could be people who are three inches long but the reds do not happen to know of any.

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It'd be really great if they got rid of the scorpions though sometimes they bite children and the children die.

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...they will probably try to find some way to fix that. Probably not by scorpion relocation. It would be hard to find them all.

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Well, they don't know what the aliens are capable of. 

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