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[Caellath]

"Yeah. It seems we awoke a whole civilization of lighteaters inside that dimension. Very endearing." Milno says, walking near the table.

[piecewise]

"Steve! We're all pretty beat up and done with this place, but with a sturdy container the size of a cooler and three fairly large directional lights I think we could capture you some live shades. Interested?"

Faith then flipped up her faceplate to talk to Conrad.

"Yeah, you could say that. Uh, there's actually a lot of stuff that happened, that I think you should know about. This wasn't just falling on trees or whatever. Some of it was," she said, holding up her hand with the missing finger.

"First of all, we found your brother's corpse. Sorry. He apparently fell off a place in the Citadel, not sure how. We also found his journal though, and we've copied all the information in it so you can have it. It's... interesting. No sign of your other brother, though."

Handing him the journal, Faith continued.

"Secondly, turns out we woke up more Lighteaters. One infested one of our member- you probably saw us bringing his corpse back here- but abandoned him and made a new body out of stone when damaged. They look like puddles of ink when, er, dormant, so if you see anything like that don't touch it. Anyway there's a lot of noise in the Citadel now, which we think might be related, and part of it's guarded by a Wyrm, and the Lighteater we saw had a tuning fork staff thing that manipulated stone. So, it might be a lot more dangerous in there now, sorry. We also cut up the path a bit, well, kind of a lot, so there's some dark stretches there now. Sorry again.

Oh and the part beneath the Fall is now bereft of sand for some reason so the elevator no longer touches ground. No idea if it's going somewhere or coming back or what, but again, presumably due to the noise and Lighteaters. If that noise was always there then what killed your other brother might have essentially been the tide.

In more cheerful news, we found out that the things in those pits aren't actually hostile, just dangerous, they seemed to not know what we were but of course they're sharp insectthings, so they cut us up just from coming out to see what was up, and the Wyrm is apparently a stone and... whatever everything else is centipede-like house-thing that the Lighteaters can apparently ride and control. So, I dunno why one was following you, but I'd assume it'd less likely now that it's got its masters back. Unless that was something completely different but similar, like a cow to a riding horse.

So, that's the situation in the dimension now. Sorry for making such a mess of things, and I hope either the Lighteaters aren't hostile and/or you were done going in there anyway."

>You don't exactly have those things, but if you think you can do it fast then I can send a shuttle down with them.

Conrad listens to your entire breathless explaination and takes the journal when you hand it to him. He looks at it for a bit as you tell him about the lighteaters and nods as you finish, breathing heavily.

"Guess I'll have to keep that fridge locked from now on." he says, putting the journal down on the table and starting to read what he was reading before.

[PyroDesu]

Faith, let's get the cripples into the shuttle and in stasis for retrieval while you get your toys for capturing things.

Steve... tell the medical bay staff to get ready for an influx of people dead, dying, and crippled. Also, I would just like to say that I would like to be conscious while I'm in there for my legs, not just awake from stasis with whatever the staff there puts on me.

[piecewise]

Faith, let's get the cripples into the shuttle and in stasis for retrieval while you get your toys for capturing things.

Steve... tell the medical bay staff to get ready for an influx of people dead, dying, and crippled. Also, I would just like to say that I would like to be conscious while I'm in there for my legs, not just awake from stasis with whatever the staff there puts on me.

>Yeah, I'll make a note that you'd like to be awake when they start jabbing and cutting at your nerves to hook them up t the prosthetics.

[Caellath]

"Worst, do you want to capture one of the large or smaller ones?" Milno asked, turning his head to Faith.

((Also, asking Faith to stop looking at her teammates' bodies during the stasis process. ))

Get the cripples on the shuttle.

[PyroDesu]

More replacing damaged, civilian-grade leg prosthetics with... whatever grade the HMRC gets for its convicts. I already went through the whole "jabbing and cutting at your nerves" bit. Albeit, at that point, there weren't all that many nerves left to be jabbed or cut at, in my legs, at least.

[Knight Otu]

Gorat dopeslaps Faith as she mentions capturing live shades. Surely the whys of it don't need to be mentioned, he thinks.

[piecewise]

"Worst, do you want to capture one of the large or smaller ones?" Milno asked, turning his head to Faith.

((Also, asking Faith to stop looking at her teammates' bodies during the stasis process. ))

Get the cripples on the shuttle.

You carry Simus to the shuttle while maurice follows along. You help get them both out of their suits and into the stasis pods.

(Is there anyone else that really needs or wants to get in?)

As you walk out of the shuttle a second ship passes overhead and then pulls around and lands.

Gorat dopeslaps Faith as she mentions capturing live shades. Surely the whys of it don't need to be mentioned, he thinks.

You slap faith upside her stupid, gonna-get-the-rest-of-us-killed head.

[IronyOwl]

"Hey! They're tiny and small, and we'll be like ten feet away from the path at worst. And yes, it'll be quick, and yes, I mean the tiny footlong ones that die instantly in light.

Also, absolute ideal is four people for this, but we could do it with one, well, one able-bodied one, if we really needed to."

EDIT:
Hobble to the second shuttle, examine what they brought us.

[Caellath]

"I have no problem with it, I was planning on doing something so we could capture the smaller ones anyway. Something to grant us navigation through sound, even if limited, would probably make things easier for us."

Help Gorat get into the pod if he wants to, go catch small shades afterwards.

[piecewise]

"Hey! They're tiny and small, and we'll be like ten feet away from the path at worst. And yes, it'll be quick, and yes, I mean the tiny footlong ones that die instantly in light.

Also, absolute ideal is four people for this, but we could do it with one, well, one able-bodied one, if we really needed to."

EDIT:
Hobble to the second shuttle, examine what they brought us.

The ship has a few standing lights and a light proof metal container about the size of a cooler.

[IronyOwl]

((Are the standing lights of adjustable height?))

"Well, this is definitely what we need. Minimum is three, but the more the better. I uh, I can't really help carry any of this. Or wait, actually..."

Attempt to use a light as a crutch, in order to haul it into the portal.

[Knight Otu]

"Well, don't get stepped on by a stiltwalker then. Unless you can think of an use for me on that hunt, I'm going to get podded."

[IronyOwl]

"Well, that depends on who else is coming. You're mostly able-bodied, so you could make a nice backup if Travis or May aren't down, and you could certainly help with just standing there and flipping switches with me."


((How many lights exactly do we have? That might affect precisely how many people I'd like. As in, if we have 9 I'd like two able-bodied people, if it's any less Milno alone should do the trick.))

[piecewise]

((Are the standing lights of adjustable height?))

"Well, this is definitely what we need. Minimum is three, but the more the better. I uh, I can't really help carry any of this. Or wait, actually..."

Attempt to use a light as a crutch, in order to haul it into the portal.

(you got 5 lights)

Milno just comes and takes everything from you, carrying it all back at once thanks to his suit. You follow him back to the house.