Some voice testing!

[marchofideas]

Well, this is new. And somewhat unsettling.

Ah well. The Human Extermination Operation can continue wherever there are humans! Can't say I was particular attached to the ol' blue planet anyway, so maybe this a good step for me. A fresh start.

Still, better get started. They're not going to line up for me and politely die, are they? Are they? No, they aren't.

Comments

[greymelee]

Here's an idea. How about not doing that?

[marchofideas]

That is an idea! Well done. Award yourself a sandwich.

[greymelee]

[If Grey's eyes had pupils, he'd be rolling them right now]

Y'know, I was all set to have a mature conversation about your ridiculous plan, but if you're going to treat me like a twelve-year-old I'm perfectly willing to give you an atomic wedgie and drop you in a septic tank.

[marchofideas]

Oh, and I'm perfectly willing to enter into a frank and open discussion regarding the future! In future, you might want to open up your negotiations with something other than 'hows about no', though. It gives the impression you're, what's the word...

Really annoying.

[greymelee]

Really? Considering you'really openly plotting genocide I thought my opening was rather polite. Some people would just hit you with a car.

[marchofideas]

Appropriate? Maybe. Polite? Not a chance.

[reopen_the_door]

I hope you get into the same game as I do. Or better yet, come to my Earth. I'll show you a Door I think you need to see.

[marchofideas]

... I can't help but feel I'm missing some crucial context.

[reopen_the_door]

You are. But it's a bit hard to explain. Imagine millions of tunnels, each light by a color of light. And all over the place, Doors. And the Doors lead to different times and different worlds.

And they all lock on the tunnel's side. So anyone who gets trapped somewhere has to wait until the Door unlocks on their side again. Which takes anywhere between fifty to a thousand years.

Like I said. Come over here. If what's in the tunnels doesn't kill you, I've got a great blue and black number for you I think would fit just right.

[marchofideas]

Fascinating. Tell me, what're this things in the tunnels?

[reopen_the_door]

I'd say 'monsters' if that covered it. There's a lot of things. Shadows that spit acid, humanoid-things that move insanely fast and eat people alive. People that have been left in the tunnels and gone mad. Sentient crystals. Stick-thin things that touch others and make them decay rapidly, but you're still alive afterwards-

Come to think of it, we can skip the Doors. I'll just lock you into the tunnels and go back home.

[marchofideas]

Not such a bad idea. I'm confident I'd find a way out, and when I did I'd bring all that with me. Indeed, some tinkering... Perhaps I could change things a little, have them ejected directly...

Hmm. Yes, alright, let's go with your plan then.

[reopen_the_door]

If you got out, you'd be hard pressed to find a way to Earth. Or if you did figure out which color light led to Earth - which is a big if, that took a long time to work out even with a bunch of people working on it - you'd probably get the timing all wrong, not to mention the place. Five thousand years in the future in the middle of Antarctica won't do you much good.

[marchofideas]

You and I are working on two very different scales.

[reopen_the_door]

That overconfidence will in no way backfire. Keep it up.

[azzurrofiore]

Huh? Why? I like humans.

[marchofideas]

I think you are simply underestimating me. A trip to Antarctica, the middle of the Sahara or even the centre of the Earth wouldn't slow me down. A five thousand year delay would just be an irritation. I am a representative of the human genome. I've transcended biology as a series of chemical reactions, I've become an idea that has been had by every single sapient life form on Earth since the dawn of man.

Just try and hinder me for five seconds. I dare you.

[marchofideas]

I'll deduce you're not one and never have been then.

[reopen_the_door]

I'm not the one hindering you. Your mun is. You'll be here for as long as they want and you don't get to do anything if they get bored and forget you.

[marchofideas]

Oh sure, let's get all meta about it and knock all the drama on its ass, shall we?

[reopen_the_door]

We shall. [Smirk.]

[azzurrofiore]

Of course I haven't. I'm a Vessel. [Most humans aren't blue, after all.]

I'm not sure why that makes a difference, though.

[marchofideas]

Alternatively, I could remind you of my fourth sentence made here-

Anywhere there are humans, human extermination can continue. You might want to take note of the major population around here.

[reopen_the_door]

So where would people like me fall in that sentence?

[You know, half-humans. Whose ancestry may be much more directly off-world than even she realizes. Ravna crosses her arms, waiting for an answer. This oughta be good.]

[marchofideas]

[Most humans don't have orange circles for faces either, but weirds things happen.]

You couldn't possibly understand then. The impossible horror of being a human... What we really are what we really want...