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. ]

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[glencolans]

[A brief pause.]

OF COURSE
EKI FORGETS THAT YOUR KIND CANNOT LISTEN
BUT EKI KNOWS THAT YOU ALL ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH OTHER
YOU OPERATE AS A HIVE EVEN IF YOU DO NOT HEAR ONE ANOTHER
YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR KIN HAVE DONE

[lonelynotforsaken]

['Hive' makes Martin shudder internally.]

Okay, we're definitely not a hive.
The Pacairs are humans, too, and we've got nothing to do with them.
And I'm currently responsible for one other person, the one I'm traveling with.
I don't have any control over the others.
But I'm reading the rest of the replies you've sent.
Your kin are the boar on the island, right?
I promise that whatever's happened, it was us not realizing those were your people.
I know that doesn't make up for the ones you've lost.
How is our blood going to bring them back, though?
Isn't there something that would be better for your people than just killing us?
You've been wronged, even if we didn't mean to hurt you.
So, let us make it up to you?

[He does feel bad about the boar he'd run off of the food now. But this is still a survival situation. How could they have known the pigs were people? That's not a thing. Are all of the animals in the forest?]

[glencolans]

EKIS PEOPLE WILL DO BEST IF THEIR ANGER IS SATED
KILLING IS REPAID IN KILLING
UNTIL ONE SIDE FALLS TO THE OTHER
EVEN EKIS DULL KIN RECOGNIZE THIS FACT
YOUR FATE WAS SEALED AS SOON AS YOU DECIDED TO HUNT FOR THE FLESH OF OTHERS

IF THIS IS YOUR ATTEMPT TO SURRENDER TO EKI
THEN TERMS CAN BE NEGOTIATED
STATE HOW YOU PLAN TO APPEASE EKI AND HIS KIN

[lonelynotforsaken]

[Martin pinches the bridge of his nose briefly. Maybe if he plays along enough, he can end this.]

Your Majesty, I told you we’re not a hive.
I can’t speak for the others.
Just myself.
I’d ask you to again consider what killing gets you and your people.
The dead can’t make reparations.
They’re dead.
And killing us might not even keep us dead.
The Hunter has killed our people before.
And they came back to life.
If your people are hurting or hungry, then let us share our supplies and work together so we all have enough.
Many of us can use tools to catch fish or build or bind wounds.
Isn’t that more useful than dead bodies that might not even stay dead?

[glencolans]

SILLY PEASANT
KILLING IS REPARATIONS
EKI DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YOUR KIND RETURN FROM THE DEAD
BUT THIS IS A BOON
AN EXAMPLE
YOU WILL RESPECT EKIS POWER MORE IF YOU DIE BY HIS KINS TUSKS MORE THAN ONCE

[lonelynotforsaken]

[Count to ten. Then eleven. Maybe fifteen.]

Or it gets... boring?

[Wait.]

I didn't mean that to be a pun!
I just mean that fear loses its effect if you do something over and over again.
If you want to terrorize us into submission, that doesn't really work, either.

[glencolans]

THE PEASANT THINKS THEY CAN GIVE WAR ADVICE TO EKI
INCREDIBLE
WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST THEN

[lonelynotforsaken]

An end to hostilities and a meeting on neutral ground to discuss what each of us can do to help the other.

If you mean how do you terrorize us better?
I'm not stupid enough to tell you that.
Sorry.

[glencolans]

YOU SEE THROUGH EKIS CLEVER WORDPLAY
THEN THE PEASANT IS NOT AS DULL AS EKI THOUGHT
IT WAS WORTH A TRY

[lonelynotforsaken]

[…]

How old are you, Eki?

[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

[lonelynotforsaken]

That's pretty impressive.
It's also pretty sad that you're stuck here away from it now.
Unless you mean your empire here?

[glencolans]

BOTH YOU PEASANT
EKI MAY NOT BE ABLE TO HEAR HIS CHARGES FAR AWAY
BUT HE WILL CONQUER THIS LAND AND FOLD IT INTO HIS EMPIRE
HE KNOWS HIS KIN ARE REJOICING ALREADY AT EKIS VICTORIES

[lonelynotforsaken]

Do you really think you'll be able to conquer this whole land?
What about the Hunter to the northeast?
No offense, but I'd put my money on them in a head-to-head match-up against you two.
Although, if you DID prove you were stronger than them and could kill them, I think you'd have all of us at the airfield ready to bow down to you in an instant.
I'm definitely a lot more scared of them right now.

[Please, dear god, take the bait and just go fight each other.]

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[aluminumandash]

he reads this motherfucker

and hes a lot smarter than this idiot

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[lonelynotforsaken]

[Martin rolls his eyes.]

I genuinely don't care.
Eki's the immediate problem.
And if he has to deal with Eki, they might take care of one another as problems for us.

[aluminumandash]

sure and one of em might just die and come back maddern hell

he dont give a shit about the airfield
dont give him a reason to

[lonelynotforsaken]

You're assuming a lot about him and whether he's going to be mad at the airfield or me, personally.
I'm okay with him wanting to kill me.
We now also have an actual name for him.
You're welcome.

1/3

[aluminumandash]

you telling me to be fucking optimistic

2/3

[aluminumandash]

fucks sake

3/3

[aluminumandash]

[ But he's already, irresistibly considering the implications of the name. Beyond suggesting Eki isn't talking completely out his royal ass. ] said humans cant pronounce it. mouths arent equipped.

[glencolans]

THE HUNTER
YOU MEAN GHEENDAEKS
YOU MUST THINK EKI IS TRULY FOOLISH
GHEENDAEKS AND EKI MADE A DEAL LONG BEFORE YOUR KIN ARRIVED HERE
THEY ALREADY WORK IN SERVICE TO EKIS EMPIRE
YOU SHOULD FEAR THEM AS YOU SHOULD FEAR KING EKI

[lonelynotforsaken]

So, you both arrived at the same time?
Given how strong you are, I didn't think you'd need to make deals.
Is Gheendaeks one of your vassals, too?