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  1. Through the Living Heir
    “Lots of ways. We could get carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water, we could take coal and water, we could take it from anything alive, or anything edible.” I assume they were walking to the river Merryn mentioned. When they reach it, Nick dips his foot into the water and xenosuit roots begin to grow out from it. “I need water for a couple reasons.”
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    Rust, too, scrambles out of the way as the driver swerves to avoid you. “I think those might be sky people. Why is Adtea attacking them?” @SpiritOfWrath @Through The Living Glass
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    Nick’s expression clouds a bit upon realizing quite how much power this First has. Of course, maybe it was a better situation than that of the IISC. SIMON picks that exact moment to tell Nick Tenth’s xenosuit is ready. “Alright, your suit is ready.” Nick tears a strip of biofabric off his own suit and hands it to Tenth. “This will need to grow; I think we should gather some biomass before go. I’ll need to make you a computer to run it - right now we can patch SIMON onto the helmet.”
  4. Through the Living Heir
    Nick is still wondering about what the Giants found on the other planets, and why they decided to conquer them.
  5. Through the Living Heir
    Alvar notes all the talking and looks down at the man he killed, slightly ruefully. His blood pulls out of his body and reinforces the blade as Alvar walks over to the bandit leader. He leans casually against a tree. “Interesting… quite a strange business model you’ve got there. I could try to kill you, but I’d be out of a job. How much would a recruit get?”
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    The object is moving several times the speed a human could run. It is a sort of wagon-like box, rolling of bendy spokes around wheels. There’s two figures in the front, both shrouded in black fabric. They turn around in alarm as Adtae cuts through one support for the roof, which seems to be made of a similar canvas. They speed up as it drapes over them.
  7. Through the Living Heir
    Cole smiles. “Freedom? He said that was better. He told me lots of things. Why do you want to know?”
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    “Why would I lie to you if I was? Actually, if I was, there’s probably many reasons I would lie to you. If I wasn’t, I don’t know why I would lie, but I bet I could come up with something.”
  10. Through the Living Heir
    Apparently Nick’s world invented a warp drive and made contact with several species of intelligent aliens, forming the Interstellar Intelligent Species Council, or IISC. Supposedly microbes are moderately common, on around 1 in ten potentially habitable planets, but then few of those microbes evolve further, and few of those further-evolved lifeforms actually end up continuing to evolve instead of stagnating, and few non-stagnating biospheres have intelligent species, and few - one in 13 - intelligent species develop interstellar travel. So the fact that Tenth’s solar system has another planet with complex, sapient life is huge; even with different Goldilocks zones for different biochemistries, only two known intelligent species shared a system, and those two were on a single planet.
  11. Through the Living Heir
    Cole is legitimately confused. “Who is that? The Duke?”
  12. Through the Living Heir
    Alvar spins, twisting his blade to try to block the strike. A string of blood held together by magic connects to the end of the blade.
  13. Through the Living Heir
    @Through The Living Glass @Spark of Hope @SpiritOfWrath The moving object suddenly pivots, moving directly towards you. It’s still far away, but it’s a relative compact shape moving slightly up and down as it speeds in your direction. Rust expands in alarm. “What is that? It is alive, but strange.”
  14. Through the Living Heir
    Once Nick is done with Aki’s interview, he starts on Tenth’s. And, like with Aki, he wants to know all about your magic, technology, and contact with other planets.
  15. Through the Living Heir
    Cole shrugs. “I’m not even sure. I’m just here, honestly. I came with the other people there.” He thinks for a second. “Does the Duke need any carpentry done?”
  16. Through the Living Heir
    “Some of you? That’s a strange phrasing…” Cole springs up and follows them inside.
  17. Through the Living Heir
    Cole, directly behind him, cheerfully says, “Nope!” Cole yells, “What?” back, and lays down, trying to hide a knife somewhere.
  18. Through the Living Heir
    It’s quite far away, and the rusty haze makes it difficult to make out. But something is moving closer to you at an angle. Rust’s vision doesn’t reach that far, so they continue eating a third blade-plant.
  19. Through the Living Heir
    Nick finishes the interview, but then he wants to hear EVERYTHING. He’s not prying too much, but anything Aki will tell him is dissected and mixed together as he searches for synergies.
  20. Through the Living Heir
    Alvar quickly awakens, freezing himself a sword and shield before even getting up. He hears a scream. I hope I don’t have to cut my losses. This would have been a good job. Alvar smoothly rolls to his feet and behind a tree, assessing the situation. His water is dangerously low from practicing; he’d have to resort to blood. Even if his companions can’t pick people off one at a time, he maybe can - he quickly finds the bandit furthest from the others and, moving with smooth, lethal speed, closes the gap and attempts a killing sweep with his serrated sword.
  21. Through the Living Heir
    Nick still feels like Aki’s homeland sounds familiar. He’s never been to Earth, though, nor studied its geography, so he wouldn’t recognize it much better even if Aki called it Japan. He goes around and interviews each person on turn, then has SIMON clean up the result. “Anybody want to watch this before I send it out?”
  22. Through the Living Heir
    Rust has emotions but finds the concept of family strange. Apparently they split when they run out of memories, but because memory can be shared they don’t have any special attachment to “their” swarms. @SpiritOfWrath @Through The Living Glass @Spark of Hope After around two hours, you can see movement in the distance, at an angle from back where you came.
  23. Through the Living Heir
    Cole begins swaggering in the direction of the castle. “My lips are sealed! Not literally, that would be bad. Like, maybe one of those school people could do that…”
  24. Through the Living Heir
    Rust is more interested in senses and feelings, because they need to know about the culture of the sky people, which Kal cannot tell them about. @SpiritOfWrath, is Adtae just standing there for four hours?
  25. Through the Living Heir
    While consuming the blade plant and waiting, Rust tries for some small talk with Kal (?) about what it’s like to be human, answering any questions about Ferrians their companions may have.
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