ye olde check-in

[leftbehindagain]

Who's here and what happened? Other than the sandstorm. You've probably heard it first.

[A few minutes later:]

...right, sorry, this is going to be a weird one for half-infiltrating, I can already tell. The locals are limited to four sentences of no more than six words each, but you can get a lot into six words.

This is Naoki. Or... Longstory, if you ask the locals, because I guess someone was feeling literal-minded. I'm already in town.

We should probably keep this brief, in the event of native eavesdroppers.

Comments

[itsananimalthing]

This is Riddick. And yeah, okay, we've been here before. And it was a fuckin' mess the first time. I've got most of the Jaunt, or the parts I was involved in. It's the one from right before Moebius.

And yeah. The psychic shit is weird. But not as weird as it used to be. At least they ain't forcing people to all think the same, this time, looks like. They're just livin' in each other's energies or whatever.

[leftbehindagain]

There is that, yeah.

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah.

Also I got some proof that they might remember some of us.

[He sounds kind of weirded out.]

[leftbehindagain]

[It takes Naoki a minute to make the connection... but Longstory's seen the statues dozens of times by now.]

Shit, that is you, isn't it?

I highly doubt anyone remembers you personally, at this point, but... I might have to see if I can turn up anything in what records are available.

[itsananimalthing]

THey don't write shit down around here, though. So good luck with that.

Some of us kinda participated in a revolution thing, so it's probably related to that. Also I killed a guy, but that's not unusual for me, back then.

[leftbehindagain]

There's more than one way to store information. And the revolution context is ringing a bell, which suggests to me there's something worth finding out. It may not be much, but it could still be useful.

[itsananimalthing]

Let me know what you find out. I know what I remember, but it might not be all of it, and they might remember it different than I do.

[leftbehindagain]

I will, don't worry.

[willyousee]

Living in... Care to explain?

[itsananimalthing]

Almost said in each other's brains, cuz they do that too, but it's less now than it used to be. Some fundamental shit changed here. Still workin' out what, exactly.

But for the energy shit, there ain't enough food to go around. So they share energy instead, healthy people with less healthy people. Kind of a psychic thing. Kinda fucked up, too.

[willyousee]

Kind of fucked up?! Blessed Elua and Eisheth, what the hell happened?!

[itsananimalthing]

People will do desperate shit when they think the world is ending. Or when they're hungry all the time.

Not that I agree, but I ain't like a lot of people. My freedom's too important to me.