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Jul 07, 2011 18:13

[Merlin's sitting at the foot of a bed, a large laundry basket beside him. The actual laundry is folded beside it so that the basket can instead hold a duck - one of Freya's, looked after by him until she's able to do it herself ( Read more... )

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[video] hirac_utzum July 10 2011, 20:08:37 UTC

The monsters that I have fought against do not naturally hold such weapons. Their natural forms are actually quite harmless, and are easily killed by merely stepping upon them. [Or flushing them into space...]

The thing that makes them monsters is that they forcibly take over the bodies of other beings, and turn them into slaves within their own minds. A person can be forced to kill his loved ones, or turn them into such slaves as well, and be unable to do anything but watch.

[video] pratservant July 10 2011, 21:23:49 UTC

That reminds me of goblins...

Is there no way to get rid of them once they take someone over?

[video] hirac_utzum July 10 2011, 21:34:48 UTC

They must exit their host's brain every three days to feed, but others of their kind are usually charged with keeping the host captive during that time. So it is very rare, next to impossible really, for one to manage to escape.

[video] pratservant July 10 2011, 21:43:27 UTC

So people...they're forced to do the unthinkable to stop them.

Has it ever happened to you? I mean, someone you care about?

[video] hirac_utzum July 10 2011, 21:54:48 UTC

Someone I loved was made into a Controller once, yes. But the creature in her head was near the end of its feeding cycle, and we were far from its food source. Fortunately for us, Yeerks are cowards--it had little choice between giving itself up and dying from starvation.

[video] pratservant July 10 2011, 21:58:00 UTC

That's good. You were certainly lucky.

What is that they - Yeerks - eat, anyway?

[video] hirac_utzum July 10 2011, 22:06:37 UTC

[It's not like he didn't realize that in starting this conversation he would eventually need to point out the extra-terrestrial nature of this particular species of monster. But he still sounds a bit awkward when he speaks.]

They consume energy from their home planet's sun. They have been able to create a portable form of this, so they can feed on Kandrona rays anywhere that they have established a base of operations.

[Well, there is little point in avoiding the obvious now.] My people are presently engaged in war with them throughout the galaxy.

[video] pratservant July 10 2011, 22:21:42 UTC

So...not only are they monsters, they're somebody else's monsters.

[The concept of 'throughout the galaxy' is too vast, though being in Anatole has given him some understanding of the concept. He can remember when Camelot was a huge deal to him, the promise of Albion almost too much.]

[But war, he understands.]

How are you faring against them?

[video] (SOB SO LATE, SORRY) hirac_utzum July 31 2011, 21:24:49 UTC

It is... difficult to say. Before I came to this place--before I died--my people lost an important battle.

But many years ago, I came into contact with a being who could... not tell the future, exactly. But he could see a path that could lead to a favorable outcome, and allowed me to know of it. I think, before I died, that I may have done something that could help my people to stand a chance against the Yeerks. [His people--both Andalite and human.]

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