EI033N | text | Night 042

[glencolans]

[ EI033N | TEXT | NIGHT 042 ]

TRAITORS
INTERLOPERS
SLAUGHTERERS OF EKIS KIN
WE TAKE BACK WHAT WAS STOLEN
BLOOD PAID IN BLOOD
AS MANY TIMES AS IT TAKES

[ Please refer to the related event post for more details. ]

Comments

[solitarysoul]

[He doesn't look at her. He never makes eye contact if he can help it, but now he won't even look at her. Its not her, though, he wouldn't look at anyone.]

...you can't love me. You don't know what I've done.

[somethingintangible]

I know it was some KONY 2012 shit.

[ Err... wait. He's definitely not going to get that reference. Maddy sighs. ]

Levi, you're right. I don't know everything you've done. But I know it wasn't your fault, and I know you feel bad about it. I know people who've done really bad shit and they don't feel bad. They want to keep doing it.

[solitarysoul]

It was my fault.

[It wasn't, and even the few times it was really his fault someone in one of his units died the blame could still be laid on the Eastern Union and how they handled their military.]

They're dead because of me. Kids are dead because of me. And I did it more than once.

I don't deserve sympathy. I don't want to think about it. I just want to make sure this place is safe from the boars.

[absentconstellation]

Humans are well enough, but they themselves acknowledge the superiority of cats.

Whales are far too intelligent to take part in such foolishness.

[ichoosefight]

sure, ok

but you don't sound sure. it sounds like you have no idea why she did that. and you didn't say you've spoken to her.

can you not hear her? or is she just not talking to you?

I'll be honest it kinda sounds like she abandoned you without saying anything.

[glencolans]

PERHAPS SUCH THOUGHTS ARE WHY THE WHALE DISPARAGES YOU

[glencolans]

SLANDER AND HERESY ALIKE
KING EKI IS FAVORED BY ALL

[absentconstellation]

The whale may speak for themselves if they so choose. Their opinion doesn't concern me, nor does yours.

[ichoosefight]

you say that, but you're not actually making an argument. I'm right, aren't I? It's either that, or you're making all this up and you never really had any deal in the first place. but we know the whale exists, at least.

you know what else I wonder? why the big bad king isn't leading his army himself. if you're trying to intimidate us some text on a screen isn't worth much. for all we know you could be a little kid playing pretend. I mean, there are some scrawny supervillains back home but they manage to pull off the image. you should at least make an effort.

[glencolans]

WISE OF YOU
HE SOUNDS COMPETENT FOR YOUR KIND
PRACTICAL AS WELL
THE BARRICADES ARE QUITE THE NUISANCE FOR EKIS KIN

[glencolans]

THIRTEEN CYCLES OF THE GALLACTIC CALENDAR
ALTHOUGH EKI TOOK CONTROL OF HIS KINGDOM AT ONLY THREE
EKIS EXPANSION OF HIS EMPIRE IS UNPRECEDENTED FOR HIS TIME IN POWER

[glencolans]

YOU REFUSE TO NEGOTIATE BECAUSE OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE
YOU AND YOUR KIN TRULY ARE STRANGE
IF YOUR KIND PUT ALL OF THEMSELVES TOWARDS THE SAME CAUSE
YOU WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH ANNOYING QUALMS WITH WAR

VERY WELL
EKI LOWERED HIS SNOUT TO YOU AND YOU REFUSED
THAT WAS YOUR ONLY CHANCE
THE DEBT HAS NOT BEEN REPAID

[glencolans]

WHENEVER POSSIBLE
GOOD MEAT SHOULD NOT GO TO WASTE
IT IS IMPORTANT FOR FIGHTING KIN TO RECOVER AFTER A BATTLE
HEED EKIS WISDOM
HE GIVES IT TO YOU WITHOUT PRICE

[somethingintangible]

bitch shut up
Randvi's dumbass sacrifice paid the debt
Now suck our dicks!

[meadqueen]

I am proud to hear it.

[glencolans]

IF EKIS OPINION DOES NOT CONCERN YOU
THEN WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO ENGAGE

[glencolans]

EKI WONDERS WHY SO MANY DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW HE LEADS HIS KIN
YOU AND YOUR KIN ARE MOSTLY OF THE SAME SPECIES YES
AND YET YOU DO NOT TALK TO YOUR KIN LIKE EKI TALKS TO HIS
HE HEARS THEM AND THEY LISTEN
THEY DO NOT QUESTION
THERE IS NONE OF THIS DISSENTING OPINION NONSENSE
OR THE NEED FOR EKI TO LEAD THEM PERSONALLY
EKI SAVES HIS BRAVADO FOR YOUR KIND THAT CANNOT HEAR HIM
HE DOES NOT HAVE TO WASTE HIS WILL DOING MORE

[absentconstellation]

[ He yawns. ]

It is interesting. Why else should a cat do anything?

[glencolans]

YOU SHOULD BE
HOWEVER
HE PRESENTS HIMSELF AS A FULL MEMBER OF YOUR KIN
A FIGHTER
IF HE FIGHTS EKIS KIN DIRECTLY HE WILL HAVE TO BE PUNISHED
THIS GOES FOR YOUR OTHER LISTED CHILDREN
EKI EXPECTS YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS

[glencolans]

EKI SEES THAT ONE CHILD HAS GIVEN THEIR COMMUNICATOR TO ANOTHER AGAIN
CEASE THIS JUVENILE TAUNTING AT ONCE
EKI MADE A PROMISE TO RANDVI TO NOT HARM YOU
DO NOT MAKE HIM BREAK IT

[meadqueen]

He will not seek your kin out to fight them. If they attack our settlement, I will not ask him to bare his neck to them to avoid your anger.

[ichoosefight]

well probably none of us are the same species as you. you mentioned a hive mind to martin but we don't actually work like that. working together, talking and listening and hearing, is actually really hard for humans. especially us on this island, we're all from really different places. we're basically each our own species. and I know at least 2 people that aren't human to begin with.

hearing you isn't really helping us understand what you're trying to do here. I'd say bloodshed, but if that was all you wanted you didn't have to talk to us at all. you don't really act like you want to scare us and you definitely don't act like you want to intimidate us. did you want to find out why the whale sent all the crabs? you didn't have to send a ton of boars to their deaths to ask us that.

HE412T | text | morning 044

[timaeus]

[It's without any prelude – or any word from him at all since this shitshow started, really – that Dirk's voice suddenly comes crackling through the walkies. For those not usually at the airfield, this may be the first time some have heard his voice at all given his preference for text.]

Found him.

[glencolans]

EKI IS LEARNING MUCH ABOUT HOW CATS WORK
YOU ARE A STRANGE CREATURE
AT LEAST YOU RECOGNIZE HOW WORTHY OF MARVEL KING EKI IS

[glencolans]

OF COURSE NONE OF YOU ARE OF EKIS KIN
EKI WOULD KNOW
EKI HAS NOT SEEN ANY OF HIS TRUE KIN IN A VERY LONG TIME
BUT EVEN EKIS DULL KIN HERE CAN HEAR HIM
EKI WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT THEM
THAT IS WHY HE CHERISHES THEM SO
THEY WORK FOR HIM
THEY GIVE THEIR BLOOD FOR HIM
SO WHEN THEY ARE KILLED FOR THE SAKE OF SOMEONE THAT IS NOT EKI
THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE

EKI KNOWS WHY THE CRABS DESTROYED HIS LANDS
IT IS BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR KIN
YOU ARE THE ONLY NEW FEATURES IN THIS LAND
SO YOU MUST HAVE ANGERED THE WHALE
EKI WILL MAKE YOU PAY UNTIL SHE ACCEPTS IT
THAT IS WHAT EKI WANTS