Escape 026

[prefers_chess]

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[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.

[makes_you_tick]

I've known for awhile that our jailers are fallible. You were around for the sheep, weren't you? And we caught one of them not terribly long ago. Everything about them screams children with too many toys. They've got more power than they know what to do with.

What happened?

[prefers_chess]

The sheep occurred very early on in my term of internment here. As such I have very little reliable data from that period. As for the one we caught, what is to say that he didn't allow himself to be captured? I've heard that they blew up one prison before. What's stopping them from destroying the one he's in at the moment?

I may have behaved in an ungentlemanly manner toward a member of the female persuasion.

[makes_you_tick]

You'll find that not everything that happens here is due to the deities as you're here longer. I suppose it's possible they plan it all out, but would we change our strategy then? We have to focus on their weaknesses. If they're infallible, then nothing we do will matter, will it?

It's pardonable when avoiding a slug in your head, I imagine.

[prefers_chess]

I am not arguing the theory that they are fallible, merely remarking on the importance of using proper evidence in supporting the point.

Pardonable, yes. But still somewhat distasteful.

[makes_you_tick]

Of course. Remind me to tell you about the Architect sometime. And the zombies, although that could've been planned.

True. At least it's all over with now.

[prefers_chess]

Actual zombies? Not the rabid sheep variety?

Rest assured, amends have been made.

[makes_you_tick]

Actual zombies. That was a couple years ago.

Good to hear.

[prefers_chess]

Interesting. How were they inevitably defeated?

[makes_you_tick]

Someone came up with an anti-virus. I believe the deities helped with the clean-up, similar to the situation with the sheep- although not quite as obvious back then.

[prefers_chess]

Biological warfare? It gets better and better all the time.

A real zombie invasion sounds cooler than a bunch of rabid zombie sheep. I bet the real ones didn't grow on plants, either.

[makes_you_tick]

Cooler? No, these were people in the City who had gotten sick.

[prefers_chess]

Perhaps, but it's still preferable to being besieged by sheep.