Latest blog post: End of the chapter 5, and a short hiatus (2024-02-19)

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...God damn it, Dan.

This is the last LTC page made so far. I'm making a new batch, and I'm behind a schedule for them, so the next week there would be no update most likely, sorry for that.



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Bunnyboy (transfer from Disqus)

About animal instincts.
Curiocity, predatory instinct
Love, bonding instinct.
Are you sure all these primitive instincts are bad?
Are you sure all the aliens are without those?

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

Just realized, we can expect to see the human version of that last-panel face in a page or two, when the Three Musketeers realize that the shuttle had a crew of eight rather than one.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

About time someone told the truth. And he is exactly right on every. SINGLE. POINT. It's a planet full of stupid apes and we are TRYING to do better...doing it very poorly.

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Shadowkey392 (transfer from Disqus)

I would like to kick him now. Lightly, mind you.

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Carefulrogue (transfer from Disqus)

I'm disinclined to show him such restraint.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

"Dan, please stop talking before you cause any more pain."
"He deserves to know the truth about--"
"Dan I will show you animal violence if you don't shut up this second."

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

and you will go through that window.

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JoB (transfer from Disqus)

"What window?"
"You'll see it in front of you after going through this here wall."

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Shadowkey392 (transfer from Disqus)

With Dan in hand!

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

Only because he forgot to let go...stupid monkeys.

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Shadowkey392 (transfer from Disqus)

Also because they wouldn’t let him let go.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

Why? He said the right and HONEST thing.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

Telling Gharr that the shuttle was shot down was indeed honest. But breaking the news to him via a sudden hate-fueled rant about the evils of humanity, while Gharr himself was trying to figure out how to break uncomfortable news to them, was a pretty cruel way to go about it.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

Not really, it's the best way to save the universe from having to deal with humans. Fictional or otherwise.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

You've a very, very cynical view of humanity. Also, none of what Dan describes is actually a deal-breaker, the Alliance has been willing to live with much worse neighbors. Their real concern is whether we could withstand open contact with them.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

nope because.

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Shadowkey392 (transfer from Disqus)

Sure, but not in the right way, or at a good time.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

This is one of those things where. There is no right time or right way. And everything he said about our species is spot on.

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Johannes (transfer from Disqus)

God damn it Dan

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Greg C (Silence Echoes) (transfer from Disqus)

God damn it Dan!

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Furinkazan (transfer from Disqus)

does Gharr think they were hit by a meteorite or something?

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

I think he might have had outright amnesia about the whole thing. He went from business-as-usual to concussed in the space of about 10 seconds, and his line on waking up was "What happened? I don't remember anything."

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Carefulrogue (transfer from Disqus)

https://www.leavingthecradl...

This is his recollection on coming to.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

What a way to find out...

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Murphy (transfer from Disqus)

Why does Gharr look surprised?

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Carefulrogue (transfer from Disqus)

Memory loss: https://www.leavingthecradl...

His shock might be two-fold, one obvious, the other perhaps attributed elsewhere. We won't know until... whenever Darth catches up.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

Threefold, actually, that we know of.
1: Oh no, my friends were hit with something that was designed to be deadly!
2: Oh no, my first contact scenario just became a worst contact scenario!
3: This all happened because I gave Zane a falsified report saying there was no risk of this.

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Carefulrogue (transfer from Disqus)

I don't qutie remember what I was thinking, but those are all still valid as well.

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Keith Schiffner (transfer from Disqus)

you forgot 4. "this is a planet full of violent idiots". Oh and I forgot to say that last week.

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Lord Eric (transfer from Disqus)

Not an oversight. I don't expect Gharr to think that.






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Raharrs descended from the evolutionary branch that can be described as "apelike cats" by their evolutionary niche. Although initially carnivorous and solitary, they were forced to become omnivorous and form persistent packs during the latest of the rare ice ages of their homeworld, approximately 30 million years ago.