Aliens! Multi-pup post.

[helpful_squid]

Sometimes the Bar's demographics skew just the tiniest bit away from the usual human-heavy distribution. Today, for instance, there is a glowing purple-pink squidlike creature drifting through the rafters, fiddling aimlessly with a number of machine parts it's found. It secreted a few of them away at Cubefall to work on later and found them looking

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[a1enzo]

"Hey, W.F.!" calls a sprite from below.

[helpful_squid]

It isn't an abbreviation the Huragok's heard before, but no one else is responding, so it turns and peers downward.

"Prrrt?"

[a1enzo]

Enzo waves. "How's it going?"

[helpful_squid]

The Huragok whistles cheerfully and makes a gesture not unlike a thumbs-up. It's been a good few weeks lately. And Enzo?

[a1enzo]

"I'm good! Hang on a nano, okay?"

He maximizes his boogie baud and ascends to the rafters.

"That's better," he says, offering a hand.

[helpful_squid]

Weighted Forward reaches out one tentacle to make contact in return.

< Long, time, no, see. >

[a1enzo]

Uh-huh! What's been processing?

[helpful_squid]

< Many, things. Met, many, people, here. even, one, human, from, my, world. >

[a1enzo]

Oh, yeah? Who?

[helpful_squid]

< Name, John. Covenant, calls, him, Demon. >

[a1enzo]

Enzo stares. Why?

[helpful_squid]

< John, one, man. Does, damage, of, entire, army. Destroyed, entire, Halo. Covenant, fears, him, like, no, other. >

[a1enzo]

He destroyed a... Halo?

[helpful_squid]

Vergil has to think about this for a while. Eventually:

< Ringworld. >

[a1enzo]

Enzo still doesn't understand this fully, but he certainly gets part of it.

He deleted a world?

[helpful_squid]

< Yes. >