dualisnet | PSA From your Friendly UN: GarbageMan

Oh they sure as shit are! Put people in a world with giant monsters and you'll get some high grade big fish stories.

Finally! Someone else from a world with monsters. You've any idea how hard it is to find other people from monster infested worlds?

Well, ours came from an alien invasion. So I reckon it's not the same sorta monsters. But I'd be real interested in knowing if it was.

[It means there would be a reason he could still hear the voices here. Well, one voice, anyway.]

[Oh, space monsters? Seifer knows about space monsters! Finally!]

Wait did yours fall off of the moon too?

[Uuuuh... Fall off????]

No. But some still live there. A bunch of them called the 'Hive'. There was actually a big war there once. A lot of Lightbearers found their final deaths- Lightbearers are basically immortals. Humans brought back from the dead and given special abilities. They're pretty much invincible except under some very particular conditions.

Namely? Some real serious monsters that know how to do it right.

[Yup. Fall off.]

The Hive huh? Are they bug-like? Wait, you bring people back from the dead and turn them into something else? Do they know they died? What makes 'em invincible?

Sounds like your monsters are intelligent. Is that right?

[Might be nerding out a little the Lightbearers sound kind of cool.]

Yeah they're intelligent. They got some old ones, too. Now I know old don't necessarily mean 'wise', but it does mean you have to survive a lot to get there and you got to learn from it.

There's a big round machine that decided to make them, so it could have people to fight for it. I don't think it should have done it, but since every bad thing that showed up in our world was chasing it? I don't think I'll ever be partial to any choice it made.

You're right. Old at least implies tough. Especially for something like that.

A machine just decided to make them. On its own. How the hell?

...Then again there's this whole Head thing here so I guess maybe that ain't that crazy.

Old Drifter's got a good long bedtime story about how the alien technological being came to visit Earth bringing wonders and a new Eden for man to enjoy, only to be followed by hell. Short version of that story is a lot of other people wanted that damn thing even if it chose us. To fight back and defend itself? It grabbed a bunch of dead humans, gave them 'ghosts' that would never let them die, and filled them full of special powers.

Some of the aliens are pretty creeped out by the undead superpeople it up and made. Honestly? I don't blame them. I'm pretty creeped out by them, too.

Anyway, I hate it and wish it never showed up because now more people are dead because of it than it ever helped. We would have been better off without it. Every gift horse you get given you look that damn thing in the mouth, you hear me? Because even free stuff has a price.

Anyone sane would be creeped out by superzombies.

Shit. Sounds like the whole mess could have been avoided if the machine up and minded its own damn business. That ain't bad advice. Ain't a damn thing "free", everything comes with a price.

Sounds like your world paid a hell of one.

[Seifer's not wrong, but Drifter's not quite ready to out and say he's one of those creepy zombies. Not until it matters. He wasn't lying, though. He hates the whole idea of what Lightbearers are.]

Now, I need to hear your tale of things just fallin' off the moon. Gravity is a hell of a thing but I ain't ever seen it dream that big back home.

[That's going to be quite the surprise should it ever come to light that he's one of those Lightbringer things. He'll be getting all the questions.]

Right, the Lunar Cry. So I don't know the specifics of it, or hell if anyone even knows the specifics but you're probably right in thinking it's some kind of gravitational event. From the whole two other worlds I've seen now it seems like our moon's either a hell of a lot bigger, or a hell of a lot closer than most.

Anyway monsters live and multiply on the moon, don't ask me how they do that without water or air monsters do what they want. Then roughly every 80-100 years a Cry happens, and it pulls a whole lotta them off in one big stream. And do I mean huge. It's not uncommon to completely obliterate a city off the face of the world.

The ones that don't land in the main pillar or die on impact fan out and fall for miles around the impact zone. Suffice it to say our world's pretty crawling with monsters now and that's about it.

... Ain't any in the ocean come to think of it. Maybe cause their ain't any water on the moon?

Doesn't sound much better than our situation, Brother.

[Though the races coming after the Traveller have been coming in a huge swarm, constantly.]

Our moon's been inhabited for a long time by a bunch of aliens that don't belong there. Monsters in their own right. They believe in a thing called the 'Sword Logic'. Ever heard of live by the sword? Die by the sword? Well, boy do they live it, and live it. And us squishy humans, we believe in kindness, and they think that's the biggest mistake of all.

[Constant devastating swarms in the manner of Lunar Cries would destroy the planet utterly.]

Yeah I know the concept. Usually the kinda thing you read about in storybooks.

[Kindness. Still learning how that works, honestly.]

D'you think there's any merit to their way?

Well. Let's see. We had somethin' give us ever'thin'. Just supply us with an endless bounty during the golden age. But we went down fast when we was attacked. But the king of that race and his son? They finally bit it to someone with a bigger sword who only wanted to protect people.

So yeah. There's merit to it. There's merit to givin', too. Moderation is a beautiful thing, brother. Never have too much of a good thing or it blinds you to what else would do you some favors.

PSA From your Friendly UN: GarbageMan

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