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=== Interlude: The Meeting === You tap through the report from some perimeter scouts, perturbed. It was the first known contact with the offworlders, and it did not go well. Of course, you are offworlders as well, and perhaps these...things...are the real natives, returning home. A quicklink to the visual data feed from the advance rover catches your attention. The image blooms on the screen in full color...the rover pilot, steering across Planet's surface and speaking sideways into the feed. "We're doing a routine patrol of the border, now...just looking for signs of whatever's out here. These are the times that..." He breaks off and you find yourself clutching the thin metal surface of your desk, anticipating. "Woah," comes the choked interjection from the pilot. The camera swivels to the outside. "Tracking one, make that two unknowns." Outside the rover an alien lurches, hunched beneath a load on its back. The alien's strange gray-green carapace is outfitted with strange silver plating that looks like armor. You take the controls of the camera and zoom in, taking in that inverted pyramid of a face, those eyes set so deep in the folds of the skull. They look sinister, but you never know. Maybe their faces are just...stuck that way. You zoom back and take a look at the alien's burden. It is another alien, slumped over the carrier's body. The pilot throws open the rover hatch and the entire cockpit fills with a strange wail that ebbs and flows. The pilot curses and hesitates at the door. "Worm's Breath, I can feel that...through my chest, in my head..." You flip down the volume. The sound vibrates through the rover. The alien turns slowly, and you see that the one it carries has scars on its face, as if eaten away by a mindworm attack. "Greetings," says the rover pilot, but the alien just looks at him. "Who are you?" the guard talks again, and now you hear it...his own voice returning, as if echoed from the alien, but with a strange warble that seems like a part of the wailing. "Can you understand?" and those words come back as well. The pilot shakes his head, helpless. Finally, the alien turns away.
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