# Pastebin Q8VW14WT
12:18 PM <AidenEldritch> ~He wasn't so goddamn obvious!~
12:18 PM <Sax> Alice smirks, having the high ground.
12:18 PM <SpookyBee> "... You idjits know they can hear you right?"
12:18 PM <Klurg> ~alice, I can come back with 20X worse~
12:18 PM <Don1Charles> ~Shut up, Fiere it ain't stealing.~
12:18 PM <Knygh_> Ivera sighs. "May you all stop your bickering." She says rather motherly.
12:18 PM <Don1Charles> "OH GOD ALICE NO"
12:19 PM <Sax> She continues to enjoy her relaxing ride on the warrior bug.
12:19 PM <Knygh_> The bugs seem startled by the sudden yelling, fanning out their wings and brandishing their claws. Ivera has to calm them down.
12:19 PM <SpookyBee> "This's what we live with on a day-ta-day basis, ma'am." Ki talks to Ivera, rolling her eyes.
12:19 PM <Knygh_> Nyx doesn't do this, he seems to be on a higher plane than the other bugs.
12:19 PM ⇐ LilySleep quit (eat@the.rich) Quit: Connection closed for inactivity
12:19 PM <Klurg> ~ok, sorry ma'am~
12:19 PM <Don1Charles> Charles holds out his hands, innocently. "We mean no harm, sorry."
12:19 PM <Aphex_> Stanek just sighs and keeps walking.
12:19 PM <Knygh_> Ivera sighs to her. "I feel your internal struggle, and it boggles my mind how you have no left them to their own pointless endeavours."
12:19 PM <Klurg> ~wait, I'm still speaking with my mind, dang I got used to this fast~
12:19 PM <Don1Charles> (ivera has rolled her eyes about 283 times this run)
12:20 PM <Knygh_> Not*
12:20 PM <AidenEldritch> "Contractual obligation," Ade quips at Ivera.
12:21 PM <Don1Charles> "It's a job."
12:22 PM <Don1Charles> Charles was excited to meet the big momma
12:23 PM <Knygh_> They enter into a large opening and come out inside a... Large, large, large arena. It's absolutely fucking massive. All the walls are lined with a hexagonal pattern, each closed up with what appears to be stone and gems. The entire wall pattern is made up of these, and there's potentially billions making up the chamber. They are all about the size of a Nillia bug each. So you can imagine, the chamber is incredible. It's, 
12:23 PM <Knygh_> probably big enough that it seems to be almost outdoors, and if you couldn't see the small glowing off in the distance towards the ceiling, it might as well be outdoors. And dead in the center, a gigantic... Huge Nillia bug. Big momma indeed. It's the size of a four story apartment complex, easily.
12:23 PM <Knygh_> And it's looking DOWN at the tops of your puny meatbag heads.
12:23 PM <Sax> Alice dismounts, and bows before.
12:23 PM <Sax> "Greetings, your Highness."
12:23 PM <Don1Charles> Charles gives a bow, the American kind
12:23 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade curtseys too, following Alice's model. 
12:24 PM <Klurg> Fiere bows, the kind where he's still standing up
12:25 PM <Knygh_> It's head, the size of a double decker bus, leans down slowly, looming over them. The bugs that followed them in bow and stay low. Ivera does the same as the group, and bows slowly.
12:25 PM <SpookyBee> Kisann just bows a slight, not one for curtsying.
12:26 PM <Don1Charles> (OK FISTFIGHT TIME)
12:26 PM <Sax> Alice holds her curtsie (not bow!), waiting to be addressed.
12:26 PM <Sax> (NO WE ARE NOT)
12:26 PM <AidenEldritch> (snek attak)
12:26 PM <Klurg> (a snek is thrown for sooprice)
12:26 PM <Aphex_> Stanek is there.
12:26 PM <Knygh_> Roll MDef everyone!
12:27 PM <Sax> 4df+3 OH FUCK NO
12:27 PM <Glacon> Sax: OH FUCK NO: 0 (4df+3=-, -, -, 0)
12:27 PM <SpookyBee> 4df+3 MDEF
12:27 PM <Glacon> SpookyBee: MDEF: 5 (4df+3=+, -, +, +)
12:27 PM <Klurg> 4df+4 you little
12:27 PM <Glacon> Klurg: you little: 2 (4df+4=-, +, -, -)
12:27 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+2 mdef plz stop
12:27 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: mdef plz stop: 4 (4df+2=+, 0, 0, +)
12:27 PM <SpookyBee> Clearly, Kisann's topheaviness was actually in her /brain/.
12:27 PM <Don1Charles> (plz I am so close to not having to go to medical)
12:27 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+5 ADE STRONK
12:27 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: ADE STRONK: 8 (4df+5=0, +, +, +)
12:29 PM <Knygh_> Alice and Fiere get a bad bad headache, as a loud authoritative voice sounds out through the chamber. "Greetings, those from this world we have struck up upon..." It pauses for a moment. "I am Nyctasha... God-Queen of the Nillia. You have been summoned to speak on the terms of us sparing your world's resources and reaping it's precious food supply. State to me your reasons against such actions." 
12:29 PM <Knygh_> It's all business apparently.
12:30 PM <Don1Charles> (Should we all give reasons?)
12:30 PM <Sax> Alice rubs her head, before looking back up.
12:30 PM <Klurg> (nah, our spokesperson will do the reasoning)
12:30 PM <Klurg> Fiere massages his head, not enjoying going through that again
12:30 PM <SpookyBee> "Oh boy... I've got me plenny'a reasons." Ki chuckles at Alice, thinking of all of the horrid, dangerous shit they work with daily.
12:31 PM <Don1Charles> "I can think of quite a few reasons why."
12:31 PM <Sax> Alice looks back and smiles at the rest of her team.
12:31 PM <Don1Charles> Charles says v quietly
12:31 PM <Sax> She's got this.
12:31 PM <Don1Charles> Charles smiles to Alice, giving a thumbs up of encouragement
12:31 PM <AidenEldritch> "Alice, you going to say something?"
12:31 PM <Don1Charles> Saving humanity time!
12:31 PM <Sax> "Of course."
12:31 PM <Sax> Alice faces back.
12:31 PM <Sax> "Greetings, God-Queen of the Nillia."
12:32 PM <Knygh_> It rumbles in response. "Yes, we have greeted."
12:32 PM <Sax> "I am Alice Szeto, Doctor of Pharmacology, Agent of the Foundation, and representing humanity and normalcy on Earth."
12:32 PM <Sax> "You have come to reap resources, but I believe that, instead of a take-all and give-nothing relationship, the Foundation is open to negotiating a trade."
12:33 PM <Sax> "That we will be more than happy to provide and steel our technical resources to feed all of the Nillia, while preserving Earth and her resources."
12:33 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade nibbles anxiously at her nails.
12:34 PM <Knygh_> It laughs. Loudly. Very loudly. "I highly doubt, you'd have the resources to feed all eight billion Nillia under my care."
12:34 PM <Don1Charles> Alice better have this, or Charles was gonna swoop in and try and convince
12:34 PM <Sax> "I understand the large implications, but the Foundation does not, and never acts alone."
12:35 PM <Sax> "The Foundation has its allies that will also assist in making sure that all of your brood will be kept safe and well-fed."
12:35 PM <Sax> "The Courts, Sereste and her Elorean Knights, and the other agencies of this planet that also represent Humanity at its finest."
12:36 PM <Sax> "You saw already how just one girl would be willing to sacrifice her life for teammates, even if she does not know them."
12:36 PM <Don1Charles> Charles couldn't imagine they could feed 100 of these for very long, much less 8 billion. But Alice was smarty
12:36 PM <AidenEldritch> ~You're in a relationship with one of them!~ 
12:36 PM <Sax> "We are willing to also sacrifice to ensure not just our own survival, but also the survival and well-being of our allies and friends."
12:36 PM <Knygh_> Way to go Ade.
12:36 PM <Klurg> ~aiden, hush~
12:37 PM <Klurg> ~she and charles are just starting to date, you're assuming too much~
12:37 PM <Knygh_> She pauses for a moment. "Keep your information straight if you wish to speak diplomacy with me." She comments idly, before letting her continue.
12:38 PM <Sax> "We have the sciences to grow, in mass amounts, the meat that you require to sustain your race."
12:38 PM <Sax> "We have the technology to assist you in keeping your dwellings hidden from those who would harass you for their own gain."
12:39 PM <Knygh_> "But that is why we have come here in the first place." She pauses her for a moment.
12:39 PM <Knygh_> "We enchant our tunnels to burrow into other times and worlds, it is how we have stumbled upon your plane, and many like it before."
12:39 PM <Knygh_> "We have always repeated this process, with great avail. Tearing apart worlds to feed the brood. Why should you insist we change our ways?"
12:40 PM <Sax> Alice thinks, and then keeps going.
12:40 PM <SpookyBee> "... Mind if I say somethin', Alice?"
12:40 PM <Sax> "If I may have, how-"
12:40 PM <Sax> "Go ahead, Kisann."
12:41 PM <SpookyBee> Kisann smiles, before stepping forward- "Well, 'cause if ye don't, ye'r goin'a kill ye'rselves. And it ain't gonn' be fun."
12:42 PM <Knygh_> It pauses. "You have my attention, human. I shall listen."
12:42 PM <Sax> Alice smiles, and encourges Kisann to continue.
12:43 PM <SpookyBee> "Well, here's wha's gonn'a happen. So... Ye've been doin' this shite fe'r a while, so you already got ye'rself on a bad road- But ye'r jus' gonna keep eatin', and havin' babies, and eatin', 'nd havin' babies... Until ye eat everythin' ya possibly can, and suddenly ye got ye'rself a lot of hungry children with nowhere ta go... And when ye'r hungry 'nough,
12:43 PM <SpookyBee> /anythin'/ tastes good."
12:44 PM <Knygh_> "Perhaps... Eons down the line, we may be faced with this issue." It considers. "It has crossed my mind in the past, as have all concerns with my children."
12:44 PM <Knygh_> "Even so, what is your proposed solution?"
12:45 PM <SpookyBee> "Well, clearly ye got access to ye'r willy-nilly magic shite, jus' like we do. I'm sure ya don't wann'a watch ye'r kids munch on each other's bones, even if it /is/ a gajillion years in the future. Time ain't much when ye'r immortal, after all."
12:48 PM <Knygh_> "And so your solution happens to be?" It asks.
12:48 PM <Don1Charles> ~Damn, this could work~
12:48 PM <Knygh_> "You all find a way to feed us?"
12:49 PM <SpookyBee> "... Well, you can get y'erselves to other, uh... Planes'r whatever, try findin' something that just doesn't end. Turn it into a big-arse farm for meat-thin's or whatnot, really it ain't that hard in the end. An' pro'lly a lot less messy."
12:49 PM ↔ Knyght nipped out  
12:52 PM <Knygh_> "Farming is not something we do easily. And combat is prided in our culture." They DID duel them as a greeting.
12:52 PM <Knygh_> "But perhaps, but we will need to explore across the expanse of time further to find such a thing."
12:52 PM <Knygh_> "And a land hospitible enough to grow it."
12:52 PM <Don1Charles> (if only we had D-class in this universe to give them)
12:52 PM <Klurg> (we don't have D-class?)
12:53 PM <SpookyBee> "Mmm... Plus, I don' think ya want to risk Hiroshima Part Three."
12:54 PM <Knygh_> "Your threats are idle and ill advised. For every door you have seen we have thousands more, and should you attack us we will respond in full."
12:54 PM <Knygh_> "But, however, your suggestions of farming something meat-based is, interesting."
12:54 PM <SpookyBee> "I ain't makin' a threat, I jus' like makin' fun'a the U-S for their love'a explodin' things."
12:55 PM <Knygh_> "Your humor escapes me." It answers simply.
12:55 PM <Don1Charles> "We do a lot of farming of meat-based things. I am sure with your universal expanses, you could find a way to do it much better then our animal industry does."
12:55 PM <SpookyBee> "Eh, pro'lly a human thing."
12:56 PM <SpookyBee> "Plus, I'm sure /some'a/ you buggies gott'a enjoy somethin' that ain't fightin' other people. Like puzzles. Puzzles're fun as all heck."
12:56 PM <Knygh_> "Meat is meat to us." It nods. "But a typical world lasts us a few hundred years at the most, provided it is actually habitable."
12:56 PM <Knygh_> "We enjoy architecture, another reason we explore worlds." It answers.
12:56 PM <Don1Charles> "Or, art. Your species does seem to have quite the architectural advance."
12:56 PM <Don1Charles> (omg same time)
12:57 PM <AidenEldritch> (itt: kisann saves the universe by introducing them to rubik's cubes)
12:58 PM <Knygh_> "As you have spoken, we will consider your suggestions." It grumbles, sinking back down to dormancy. "Depart now, as I must ponder our options.
12:58 PM <Don1Charles> ~I hope we get our weapons back~ Charles really missed his switchblade. This was the longest he had been without it
12:59 PM <SpookyBee> Ki shrugs- "Eh, sure, works fe'r me." Kisann ponders the idea of a cooperating society of Nillia and Humans. ~... Wonder if that'd be the next Pride thing.~
12:59 PM <Klurg> ~yes, that raises a good question, your highness. Do we get our weaponry back?~ fiere asks by thinking
12:59 PM <Sax> Alice is more than happy to help spearhead such relations.
1:00 PM <Knygh_> "You will recieve said weapons on your way to your homeland." It rumbles. The bugs come to usher them out now. Ivera among them.
1:00 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade sighs. Her legs feel like they're about to fall off.
1:01 PM <Don1Charles> "Is there any other types of samples we could take back with us? From your incredible species." Charles asks politely to Ivera
1:01 PM <Don1Charles> (pers?)
1:02 PM <Knygh_> Ivera shakes her head. "You have taken this knowledge, it should be enough."
1:02 PM <Knygh_> (You can try)
1:02 PM <Don1Charles> 4df+7 we are but innocent humans who need da infos
1:02 PM <Glacon> Don1Charles: we are but innocent humans who need da infos: 7 (4df+7=-, 0, +, 0)
1:02 PM <Don1Charles> Charles does not press too hard, but he puts on his charm!
1:03 PM <AidenEldritch> 4df+5 pwetty-pwease~
1:03 PM <Glacon> AidenEldritch: pwetty-pwease~: 5 (4df+5=+, -, 0, 0)
1:03 PM <Don1Charles> Charles and Ade both look up to da bug with puppy eyes
1:03 PM <Knygh_>  4df+8
1:03 PM <Knygh_> 4df+8
1:03 PM <Glacon> Knygh_: 8 (4df+8=0, 0, +, -)
1:03 PM <Don1Charles> (critfail plz)
1:03 PM <Knygh_> Ivera sighs. "I'm sorry but no."
1:03 PM <AidenEldritch> (BY OUR PUPPY DOG EYES COMBINED)
1:03 PM <Knygh_> They continue to usher them out towards the path.
1:04 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade pouts, but doesn't press her luck any further.
1:04 PM <Don1Charles> He nods, holding up his hand and smiling. "It is alright, thank you for this time here."
1:04 PM <Klurg> "g0ef." fiere clears his throat "ooph, I really needed to exercise my vocal chords. guys, let's just go home"
1:04 PM <Knygh_> "We have not allowed outsiders here this long in much time."
1:04 PM <Don1Charles> "I do certainly hope we were pleasant guests."
1:04 PM <Klurg> He has been speaking with thoughts this entire time, fiere forgot how to language for a couple of seconds there
1:04 PM <Knygh_> "We appreciate your stay, however we must allow you to depart now."
1:04 PM <Klurg> ~you were great hosts~ fiere says as he leaves
1:04 PM <Klurg> fiere thinks*
1:05 PM <Don1Charles> Charles tips his hat, bowing to her. "It has been a pleasure." He was actually sort of eager to get back into the open
1:05 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade mock-salutes Ivera. "Thanks for the company."
1:07 PM <Knygh_> The bugs lead them to the entrance, and pause to give them their weaponry back. Ivera approaches them, handing them a metal plate. On it are knives, large, made of the same strange metal of their Carapace. "These were made for each of you to take with you."
1:08 PM <Klurg> Fiere takes a knife ~Thank you!~ he thinks, still wanting to try out mental communication before he leaves
1:08 PM <AidenEldritch> "...Well then." Ade takes the knife and wonders where she's going to put it. "Thank you very kindly."
1:08 PM <Don1Charles> Charles takes his weaponry back first, eagerly, before he takes the knife with wide eyes. "Nice."
1:08 PM <SpookyBee> "... Huh. Fancy. Thanks love." Ki smiles at Ivera, taking one!
1:09 PM <Sax> "Thank you kindly, Ivera."
1:09 PM <Sax> "It was a pleasure and honor to meet you."
1:10 PM <Sax> "May we continue to converse and discuss a potential friendship for the years to come."
1:10 PM <Don1Charles> Charles offers to carry Alice's blade for her
1:10 PM <Klurg> ~hope we get to meet you again. you were all great hosts, and we will make great allies~
1:11 PM <Sax> Alice hefts the blade herself.
1:11 PM <Sax> How heavy?
1:12 PM <Knygh_> Ivera nods. "You all may depart now, humans... We look forward to your next visit." They'd be lead to the cave entrance as before, to begin the long upward walk out of the cave system.
1:12 PM <Knygh_> They are about the size of a bowie knife and weigh slightly less than a large steel knife. The material they are made with is unknown to you.
1:12 PM <Don1Charles> Charles will put his in his backpack and turn on his flashlight as they walk
1:13 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade doesn't have anywhere to put hers. "Charles, mind carrying my knife before I stab myself?"
1:13 PM <Don1Charles> "Yeah sure." He takes it and slides it inside his jacket-sheath
1:13 PM <SpookyBee> Kisann nods, before turning around and heading on out with her new flashy dagger!
1:14 PM <AidenEldritch> As Ade walks, she goes over her copious notes. ~Probably going to need to buy another notebook at this rate...~
1:14 PM <Knygh_> Alice is given a dagger with a darker reddish-blue hue, special to the other ones!
1:15 PM <Sax> She cradles it, and carries it with her up and out!
1:16 PM <Knygh_> You all begin your long trek back out and back home.
1:16 PM <Don1Charles> Charles got ready to radio back to the base once they reached the outside, if those radios they were given worked
1:17 PM <Don1Charles> "We probably shoulda asked them to stop making all those tremors." He notes
1:17 PM <Knygh_> Well, too late for that.
1:17 PM <Knygh_> You all, head on back home.
1:17 PM <Knygh_> Fin for now
1:17 PM <Sax> "Whoops."
1:17 PM <Klurg> ~I think that it's a miracle that we even got this far~ fiere tried to speak telepathically to chapels, but forgot that he didn't have that anymore
1:17 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade rips a page from her notebook. Scribbles "THERE HAVE BEEN NOISE COMPLAINTS FROM YOUR NEIGHBOURS; PLEASE KEEP IT DOWN". Tosses it back in the cave.
1:17 PM <SpookyBee> "... We should pro'lly requisition artillery strikes on that mountain."
1:17 PM <Don1Charles> Wooooooowwwww twas long
1:18 PM <Klurg> charles*
1:18 PM <AidenEldritch> woo run
1:18 PM <Klurg> so fiere just stared at charles whilst looking like he was thinking of something
1:18 PM <Don1Charles> "Fiere I have a girlfriend"
1:18 PM <Klurg> "saveqeg" fiere forgot how to language again
1:18 PM <Klurg> "Agh! again"
1:19 PM <Klurg> "got too used to that telepathy in there"
1:19 PM <Don1Charles> "Fiere..." Charles pats his buddies back
1:19 PM <AidenEldritch> Ade snickers.