[ Look, sometimes your pal tells you something really useful and you start looking into it.
And you forget to answer a very important question because sometimes you get easily distracted, and you only happen to read a long list of missed calls for a semi-related-but-also-not reason and--
[ Okay, Riz beats Gorgug in the volume department, but that still makes it a pitch of noise where the only word he can make out is snake. Snake?? SNAKE? ]
Snake?! Did Fabian get eaten by a snake? H-hold on, I need to find a ride!
[ There's no way he can run to the city in time! ]
What?! When did Fabian come into the equation? You were the one who sent me snake texts and then didn't pick up your phone!
[ Riz is yelling, which helps make it sound less like he's going to die of a heart attack. Which he is, probably. His legs are only so long, Gorgug. He needs a car desperately. ]
[ That's an 'oh' that takes a moment to come through, since Gorgug needs to register everything that Riz just said, coming to a stop in his own running. ]
I thought-- [ Does it matter what he thought? No, explain the more important part here: ] uh, I was looking for an air bubble-- I thought we needed an air bubble for the snakes.
Oh, well, we can kill them, [ that's an option! ] but some of us were thinking- maybe, we don't need to kill them?
We can just move some of them and-- put them somewhere they can live and not eat everything. [ A pause. ] We might have to kill some of them. Most of them.
[ Riz was personally on Team Kill, but if Gorgug wants to save them, he'll give him a hand. He's not sure why, but he knows on some level that you can't just go around killing things because it's the most convenient thing to do. ]
But what're they gonna eat? Like, are they gonna be your pets now? 'Cause I think you'd probably need to visit them every other day and throw some meat or something in. I don't think there's actually enough animals around for them to hunt on their own.
That's why I think we'd need to cull them--the person I was speaking to didn't sound against it, and there's some that wanna help keep them around.
[ They'll have to hope they can do something about it, but hey, it's not just a Gorgug thing. At least his feelings on it are... ]
We might just need to kill them in the end, but I don't think it's a bad idea to see what we can do. These people are judging us and our actions, and I don't know how much a good idea doing the easy thing in this scenario is.
[ Which, the easiest thing for the Bad Kids? Murder the shit out of some snakes. ]
If they wanted us to solve problems without killing anything, they gotta stop giving us problems that are solved by killing things, [ Riz gripes. He doesn't think that Gorgug is wrong, per se - nor doe he think that he's altogether right; it's his experience that the whole saving the world gig is often defined by how many things and people you can kill to make it happen - but it's pretty annoying. ]
The least they could do is give us some sort of rubric.
[ If he's going to be judged, he wants an A!!!!! ]
But yeah, let's at least give it our best shot. As far as I can tell, our food provisions are more or less unlimited, so we could start by trapping them and just throwing a bunch of steak at them every day.
[ Damn, Riz, that's so much effort.... Gorgug kinda wants to just kill them when he's talking about feeding them every day. He's never had a pet! This sounds like a hassle! ]
...Let's hope someone gets a better idea about how to handle them.
[ Really a vote of confidence in this idea, Gorgug. You started it!! Even if he did so by speaking to others who seemed to think keeping them around was better, and--he can still see the reasoning behind it. It's so hard not to feel like they're being judged. ]
Maybe we can ask the companion buddies to feed them.
You know what? Yeah! They're this place's fucking snakes, they should be their problem.
[ Riz is not, in fact, gung-ho about making the actual effort; he just lets his mind run away from his common sense. The more realistic vision of this picture is that they're really good at feeding the snakes until they both get wrapped up in their respective projects and are a little afraid of what they'll see when they return. ]
Were they always around? I don't get how they're a problem now. It's gotta be a test.
[ It's bizarre, really, and he only asks because he thinks if anyone would know, wouldn't Riz? He's the one you ask things and will likely get an actual answer.
And it's only because this is a test--and because a couple of people spoke about being nice to the snakes--that Gorgug is going through this effort that doesn't involve (full on) killing.
But he will absolutely forget about the snakes at some point. ]
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NO REPLY!!!! GIVE HIM AN HOUR. will you give him an hour. ]
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MISSED CALL: THEBALL
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MISSED CALL: THEBALL
[ Which is cool. He's normal. ]
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And you forget to answer a very important question because sometimes you get easily distracted, and you only happen to read a long list of missed calls for a semi-related-but-also-not reason and--
THE BALL????
R-riz, Gorgug is calling you back!!!!!! ]
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[ Is he huffing and puffing? You bet he is. Riz is running on foot to the new city in his tendency to jump to immediate alarm and --
He hasn't gotten very far, actually. He's not a fast runner. ]
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[ Okay, Riz beats Gorgug in the volume department, but that still makes it a pitch of noise where the only word he can make out is snake. Snake?? SNAKE? ]
Snake?! Did Fabian get eaten by a snake? H-hold on, I need to find a ride!
[ There's no way he can run to the city in time! ]
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[ Riz is yelling, which helps make it sound less like he's going to die of a heart attack. Which he is, probably. His legs are only so long, Gorgug. He needs a car desperately. ]
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[ That's an 'oh' that takes a moment to come through, since Gorgug needs to register everything that Riz just said, coming to a stop in his own running. ]
I thought-- [ Does it matter what he thought? No, explain the more important part here: ] uh, I was looking for an air bubble-- I thought we needed an air bubble for the snakes.
Wait, you're not in the city, are you?
[ Wait shit Riz are you okay!! ]
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[ Okay. He's calming down now. He's cool. He's super cool. This is how cool people act. ]
But we're all good! We're okay. It's all good. Fabian's good too. So is Adaine. So it's all... yeah.
[ ... ]
Wait, why would you need an air bubble for the snakes?
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But, why does he need an air bubble? Um. ]
You said they would die after a minute, so, that sounded like they needed air.
[ The thought process is really that simple, Riz! ]
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[ Hypocrite! Wasn't he just appalled at Fabian for killing the lion? ]
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We can just move some of them and-- put them somewhere they can live and not eat everything. [ A pause. ] We might have to kill some of them. Most of them.
[ That part is still being worked out, Riz. ]
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[ Riz was personally on Team Kill, but if Gorgug wants to save them, he'll give him a hand. He's not sure why, but he knows on some level that you can't just go around killing things because it's the most convenient thing to do. ]
But what're they gonna eat? Like, are they gonna be your pets now? 'Cause I think you'd probably need to visit them every other day and throw some meat or something in. I don't think there's actually enough animals around for them to hunt on their own.
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[ They'll have to hope they can do something about it, but hey, it's not just a Gorgug thing. At least his feelings on it are... ]
We might just need to kill them in the end, but I don't think it's a bad idea to see what we can do. These people are judging us and our actions, and I don't know how much a good idea doing the easy thing in this scenario is.
[ Which, the easiest thing for the Bad Kids? Murder the shit out of some snakes. ]
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The least they could do is give us some sort of rubric.
[ If he's going to be judged, he wants an A!!!!! ]
But yeah, let's at least give it our best shot. As far as I can tell, our food provisions are more or less unlimited, so we could start by trapping them and just throwing a bunch of steak at them every day.
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...Let's hope someone gets a better idea about how to handle them.
[ Really a vote of confidence in this idea, Gorgug. You started it!! Even if he did so by speaking to others who seemed to think keeping them around was better, and--he can still see the reasoning behind it. It's so hard not to feel like they're being judged. ]
Maybe we can ask the companion buddies to feed them.
[ Maybe? ]
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[ Riz is not, in fact, gung-ho about making the actual effort; he just lets his mind run away from his common sense. The more realistic vision of this picture is that they're really good at feeding the snakes until they both get wrapped up in their respective projects and are a little afraid of what they'll see when they return. ]
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[ It's bizarre, really, and he only asks because he thinks if anyone would know, wouldn't Riz? He's the one you ask things and will likely get an actual answer.
And it's only because this is a test--and because a couple of people spoke about being nice to the snakes--that Gorgug is going through this effort that doesn't involve (full on) killing.
But he will absolutely forget about the snakes at some point. ]