Escape 026

[prefers_chess]

Comments

[child_radical]

What they wanted us to dig up obviously had something special to it.

[prefers_chess]

Naturally. So the question is, what is the significance of that object to the aliens?

[child_radical]

I didn't stick around long enough to see the full extent of the area myself and others were being forced to excavate.

[prefers_chess]

What did you see, for the sake of curiosity?

[absinthe_eyed]

Maybe the slugs were in league with the deities and, once they proved more of a nuisance than an asset, the deities found it necessary to eliminate them. Maybe the higher powers sent the slugs to inconvenience the deities. This did happen in tandem with Charon's small rebellion.

Or maybe none of it means anything. Maybe the events in the City are entirely random.

...Are you feeling better?

[prefers_chess]

A small rebellion indeed, apparently, since nobody has yet mentioned it but you. Regardless, the theory of inconvenience makes little sense because no noticeable inconvenience was presented. As for the other theory, the affiliations of the parties are reasonably irrelevant. Regardless of who wanted the excavation at the mountain, the point is that someone did, and therefore there must be something desirable there.

My quarantine has ended, yes.

[absinthe_eyed]

No one? I thought it was significant.

If the deities want something in the mountain, they may have been using the slugs as a means of forcing us to dig for them. When the unaffected complained loudly enough, they discontinued their plans. It doesn't matter. Are you suggesting that the mountain should be excavated?

Good.

[prefers_chess]

As yet I have seen no mention of an uprising led by a revolutionary named after the ferryman of the River Styx.

Why bother using the slugs as a means of infiltration? They regularly compel us to take action against our will through their curse events. The slugs would merely present an unreliable complication in the form of an independent middleman.

I am suggesting that further investigation is in order.

[adamantined]

I think these things had been here for a while. I don't think they just randomly showed up and invaded.

[prefers_chess]

What makes you say that?

[adamantined]

That thing they were having people dig up. It's obviously been here for a long time, long enough to be buried. If they'd just gotten here, they wouldn't have needed people to do that.

[prefers_chess]

Does anyone know what it is? I have heard descriptions of metal corridors.

If they really were aliens, it might be a spaceship.

[makes_you_tick]

This place is a nexus. The aliens could've come from anywhere. I find it possible they were brought here just like the rest of us. Or maybe they'd been here for awhile, waiting.

I got the idea they weren't the brightest bunch of slugs, but they did target people with supernatural skills, as well as adults and children. In fact, it looks like they went after anyone they could get. They were completely focused on the digging. I have no idea why.

You're right about the sign, of course.

[prefers_chess]

Possible, but unlikely. Why bring them here only to eradicate them via the kazoos and cupcake bombings?

Presumably, because there was something really nifty that they were trying to get at. I, for one, would be interested in knowing what that really nifty thing happens to be.

I observed as much the other day.

[makes_you_tick]

Maybe they didn't know they brought them here.

Are you going there to take a look at it? You managed to avoid getting caught the whole time, didn't you?

[prefers_chess]

An interesting concept. It would suggest that our jailers are fallible.

I'm considering it. And barely, yes. Though my evasion of capture did come at the expense of a few courses of action that, in retrospect, I am not entirely proud of engaging in.

[had_not_lived]

People doing things they're told not to is hardly unique to the City.

[prefers_chess]

True. Which does not change the fact that the method, when used here, appears to be infallible.

[had_not_lived]

I think it has to do more with bringing mysteries to people's attention.

[prefers_chess]

There is nothing mysterious about a simple request not to be disturbed.