IWUAaDNW: Party 5.2

What if, instead of waiting during the night, I also had people training in me then? With a twenty-four seven rotation, I would only have to worry about mana at the time when upkeep came knocking.

That seemed like a good idea. If I did that, then I could easily afford turning my empty rooms into spawners, which would net me a whopping two hundred and fifty-six giant insects to throw at problems without fear of losing them.

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I did. Cycling between my luminous pixies, I created a moving image of a soldier stabbing a spear into a bug, then picking up the ant’s head like a trophy, followed by a thumbs up. I repeated my message and waited until they got it.

“That last one means “yes”, or “okay”,” Maryll chirped when the thumbs up showed up. “I think she’s saying we can… kill her minions? Are you sure, Taylor?”

She asked me the last part while the rest of the villagers reacted noisily and happily to that idea.

I flashed another thumbs up at her.

“Why?” She asked.

I flashed an ant, which puffed into motes as things that died in me tended to, then made those motes coalesce into another ant.

“She has enough spawners,” Ulfric guessed. “Anything we kill down there gets replaced.”

“A mother does not simply replace her children!” Raffaa exclaimed from where he was in the crowd. “They are reborn, not replaced! Is that correct?” I flashed Raffaa’s own jovial grin at him. Somehow, his own brightened even further. “Ah hah!”

“Ah hah!” the two kids on his shoulders agreed, then burst into giggles.

Cute.

“We are very grateful, Taylor,” Kamella said. “This will help us greatly.”

Yeah, well, I wasn’t going to do that for free.

I flashed an image of a square room with soldiers in it, with the sun shining. Then, the same image, only instead of the sun I added a moon crescent.

…then I remembered this world didn’t have a moon, so I tried again with a black and starry sky.

It took a few tries before the first guesses started coming in.

“Uh, she wants people in day and night?” Someone finally suggested.

I flashed a thumbs up.