scared to go out


    don''t even want to send drones out


    what if a human finds one?


    they might kidnap it. or shoot at it. definitely a record of that sort of silly behaviour. i mean come on there are literal monsters around and you waste your bullets on a harmless little robot?


    okay fine technically not harmless


    terrifying quadx2crudlauncher mounted on top


    still though


    actually you want to know the worst thing


    that wasn''t even the same direction #4 wandered off in


    the girl who saw me fiddling with antcorpses i mean


    that''s nowhere near the river


    it''s in completely the other direction


    what i am saying is that there are probably humans across the river


    and also more humans in suburbland to the south


    is it the south?


    never actually checked


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    we got a heap of humans around is what i''m saying


    well two


    at least


    but probably way more


    hives of the things


    or burrows


    there''s a proper word


    communities?


    no i like burrows more. sounds more. mammalian.


    what am i going to do with these pesky mammals


    what is going to happen when they find biscuit fort


    i mean i didn''t exactly make this place inconspicuous


    subtlety was not on the priority list at all


    thought i had this city to myself


    oh what a happy idiot i was


    so now i got


    like


    the only building standing in twelve blocks of scrapharvested rubble


    apart from ant prison of course


    what i am saying is that a big warehouse fortress with turrets and melted walls decorated with assorted antbits is just exactly the sort of place a human would look at and be like ''yep. that''s the one. that''s like the objective or whatever. gonna be treasure chests or something in there. or some dude to give me a new quest. maybe a blacksmith. new sword. gunmods. loot.''


    what was i talking about


    right humans yes. could i invent. like. nonlethal means of dealing? i mean for sure i do not want to kill anything that can beg for its life. that is a line i''m not gonna be able to just skip over. no killing anything that can potentially leave orphans that will notice its absence and cry about it. that''s the rule. don''t do stuff that creates crying orphans.


    so like


    sleep darts?


    why did my mind instantly go there


    so impractical


    you have to estimate weight and metabolism and all that junk to get the right dose and then what? just leave a sleeping human around? a tasty little treat for any giant insects that happen to be wandering past?


    jin you beautiful impetuous fool


    you are better than this


    so


    teleports?


    teleport a human somewhere i am not? i could make like a little cosy tea room somewhere way away from my base. and if i have to deal with a human and i do not want to deal with a human. just. like. bamf. teleport them to a lovely tea room. they can have a nice cup of tea and a biscuit and then keep doing their regular human activities. walk around. talk about the weather to each other. survive in this weird kind of apocalypse thing we''ve got going on. and most importantly leave me the flip out of things.


    okay


    think i got a plan here


    turns out teleports are the answer


    as always