[ITP: emasculating alien technology]

[dontshakemyhand]

*It's a normal day of counselor arrivals. The sun is shining, the lake is stinking, and there's a new facility in the woods on the east side of the lake. For those who are pinged by this sort of thing, you may pick up on the fact that the entire building is alive, although not sentient. There are zombies carrying beds in through the entrance, and a

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[sent_to_try_us]

*nnnnnn and if I back off -

- and step in a hole and twist my ankle and squeak and possibly destroy one of my last pairs of shoes -

maybe that would be...surreptitious.*

[dontshakemyhand]

*Yeah, stealthy RIKE NINJA*

[sent_to_try_us]

*sob. ow. gonna just sit over here and look pathetic and maybe stare at the zombies, wtf*

[dontshakemyhand]

*Walks over to her slowly*

Are you alright?

[sent_to_try_us]

*...unconsciously cringing away because omgwtf giant*

I. I. I am sure I shall b-be perfectly fine...s-sir.

[dontshakemyhand]

*lol socute. Kneeling down politely, chuckling*

You have nothing to fear, child. Are you injured?

[sent_to_try_us]

*eek*

Oh, no, truly, it's nothing, you needn't worry yourself a-at all...

[dontshakemyhand]

If you're sure.

[sent_to_try_us]

I am...mostly...

...excuse me if it's ever so terribly rude, but - but are they - are those zombies helping you?

[dontshakemyhand]

They... have weak minds, rigid thought patterns... it's a simple thing to influence them.

[sent_to_try_us]

You - you can read their minds?

[dontshakemyhand]

And communicate with them.

[sent_to_try_us]

Truly? But they find it ever so hard to speak, and - and, well, I've never known them to - to say anything except, well...except 'brains'.

[dontshakemyhand]

Telepathy, my dear.

[sent_to_try_us]

...that sounds ever so impressive.

[dontshakemyhand]

Can you stand?