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[gobybessie]

I ran into one of our dear aliens, Badri, a while back. He was eating Happy Meal, so it seems that continues to be an odd theme. In the library, of all places. The audacity.

He told me a few interesting tidbits that I thought you might like to hear. I'll break them down.

• Turns out his friend Geoff has been subtly manipulating everyone. If anyone's ever had a passing thought that they trust him unusually easily, that's because you probably are. Badri said it's not mind control as such, but "suggestion," although I'm not entirely sure what that is. However, if we know about it we might be able to resist it, so perhaps we could come to see him in a different light. Who knows?

• Badri's power is mental too. Supposedly completely harmless, although I don't know what makes him say that. For those of you who missed that, someone on the network got to see him use it to kill a pidgeon, supposedly by accident. He said he didn't know it would be smart enough to get scared to death. I don't know about you but this doesn't sound like something "harmless" to me.

• There are more of them, but this definitely didn't come as a surprise. I already thought as much. They're called "the children," but that was all I could get from him on that point.

Comments

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[dead_black_eyes]

First of all, thank you for sharing this information, John.

Second... it doesn't sound "harmless" to me, either. If they're trustworthy, it doesn't seem right that they'd need any kind of "suggestion" to influence us, does it?

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[knights_king]

Yeah, but what would Geoff be doing with that ability? Is he doin' stuff we can't notice?

[Audio]

[gobybessie]

I don't know. If they really have studied us for a while, they might be very well aware of the fact that humans can have quite some problems with acceptance. It could just have been for the sake ease.

But I agree. It is suspicious.

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[gobybessie]

All I can be sure of is that he's keeping us from being suspicious of them, for whatever reason.

[audio]

[charcoalfeather]

Whoa... so, they're really up to no good?

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[prismaticdestruction]

so...they are bad but maybe not?

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[icy_heavens]

I knew there had to be something up with the fact that we all trusted that guy.

And like hell any power that can kill something is harmless. What the hell kind of logic is that?

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[moreweaponsthanyou]

Okay. That's creepy. And pretty suspicious too.

You know, if they're 'the children'...who're 'the parents'?

[audio]

[gobybessie]

I don't know. I don't think we should make any hurried assumptions, but ... Possibly.

[Text]

[gobybessie]

So it seems.

Like all things, it seems to bring more questions together with the answers.

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[gobybessie]

Perhaps he means it in that it's not exactly offensive, and depends entirely on how the one you use it on percieves it.

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[gobybessie]

God?

[ He's being partly facetious, but ... Who knows. Maybe it's to do with some sort of religion. ]

[audio]

[charcoalfeather]

They were already seen in that space tower with a bunch of happy meals, and they didn't want to tell us what they were doing. Maybe this is connected to that somehow.

[audio]

[gobybessie]

I'm actually not sure the Happy Meals are anything that worthy of note. I think it might truly just be them eating, although I don't know why they would have taken such a fancy to that.

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[purestambition]

[Oh.

She wants to kill something, now.]

Thank you for this information.

Certainly, this explains why Benwick is always the one who speaks for them in public. The one who acts on behalf of them with the government. He's always there when necessary, isn't he?

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[alilyinthemoonslight]

[This... explains a lot. Especially up on the Orbital Elevator, when she and Winter met the two of them.]

Well.

THIS is a problem.

[audio]

[charcoalfeather]

I don't know... what if the aliens are using them for something else and don't need to eat?

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[prismaticdestruction]

maybe the answers we are looking for will come up soon? it would be nice to know for sure.

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[icy_heavens]

He basically said intelligent creatures would scare themselves to death if he uses it on them. Meaning he has to know that if he used it on a person, it would kill them. Still not a definition of harmless as far as I'm concerned.

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[moreweaponsthanyou]

What would alien gods even be like?

....Cthulhu?

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[gobybessie]

I always figured it was because he's simply the highest ranking of them here, but the reveal certainly adds something else to it. I have to wonder. What happens if he isn't there?

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[gobybessie]

Quite. They've been here for some time now. If they do not mean well ... Lord knows what damage they might have done so far. And what damage they could continue to do.

[audio]

[gobybessie]

Badri was eating it. But perhaps it's a source for something else, somehow, you mean?

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[gobybessie]

And hopefully they don't do so by the aliens turning on us somehow. In any case, I would rather not sit around and wait for it.

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[gobybessie]

Me neither, but it isn't quite that hard to twist it around. All technicalities.

As far as I'm concerned, however, the point is that it CAN kill. And that's all that matters.