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- 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.”
- [...]
- I flashed an image of the giant boar the newcomers had brought in, and made a silhouette of them throwing its head down my stairs.
- “Ah, the boar’s body. Yes…” Kamella turned to her villagers. “How much of it remains?”
- “I think the hooves and some ribs?”
- “Did anyone touch its skull?”
- Kamella raised a hand, silencing them. “We’ll bring what’s left of it to you, I swear. I’m afraid we’ve gotten in the habit of reusing as much of everything as we can, though.”
- I flashed a thumbs up again. Then, I showed them an empty level, where I made multiple boars appear. They got that quickly.
- “Ooh, she wants to make a boar level?”
- Or, well, nearly.
- Ulfric spoke again. “She means she can recreate the things we bring in. So what we throw into her, she’ll be able to make afterward. Right?”
- I flashed a thumbs up.
- Then I gave them a preview of my progression status, using icons for the thing represented instead of words. The numbers, I kept the same, but I’d already shown Kamella how to read Arabic numbers.
- [QUOTE]
- Progression Status – How are you doing?
- Completed (°∀°)b
- Grasses
- Pixies
- Small birds
- Flowers – 17/100
- Small mammals – 11/20
- Medium birds – 14/15
- [/QUOTE]
- They figured it out easily enough, although Kamella had to get a reminder on what my numbers actually were. The whole time, her daughter was there watching like a hawk.
- “So if I get this right, she needs one big bird, nine rats and eighty-three flowers?” Karjn resumed. “For what?”
- “To get them, obviously,” Maryll replied. “See those that don’t have numbers? She has a pixie floor now, and she made your bird. So…”
- [...]
- I created another form over my entrance. A human shape.
- Curly dark hair. Pale skin. Too wide mouth.
- Two arms.
- I bowed.
- Thank you.
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