hadriel | VOICE ; forward dated to the 23rd, late evening

Hey everyone, this is Peter. I'm, uh... Just lemmie-- Okay, I'm gonna preface this with "I'm fine", which... probably still sounds concerning to anyone who knows me. Uh, with good reason, but I promise that I really am fine.

Okay? Okay.

So... okay, you know those freaky tentacle snails that attacked those guys a little while ago? Yeah, they're still around. I ran into a few of them outside the city, and by 'ran into' I mean 'was totally ambushed by'. Like, I was just minding my own business and they jumped out all "Blahhhhgh!" and I was like "oh snap!!", so yeah, we fought a little and I got bit and, y'know, it hurt. And I know the one guy was all "hey call for back up if you see any" and I totally would have if I'd had a chance, but I didn't? I mean, not because I didn't want to, it's just like, in the moment I was a little distracted by trying to get away from the things, and I didn't have my web shooters on me because they're possessed by demons right now? So I wasn't gonna even try to catch one of those guys without my gear, so I left. My toothbrush tried to stab me this morning, I'm not dealin' with this on top of that today. I'm done, I'm tapping out!

Anyway, if anyone else ends up fighting these guys, go for the eyes if you can. They're kind of hard to hit because of all the tentacles, but if you can take their eyes out it slows them down. They're still dangerous, though, like, they will absolutely still try to fight you, so just like, don't stick around if you can help it. In fact, just don't go outside the city by yourself. Don't go anywhere by yourself. Y'know, buddy system up if you can. I don't know how many of these dudes are still out there, but I have a feeling that they're not going away any time soon.

Oh right, I did manage to break a chunk off one of their shells. I don't know how helpful that's gonna be? But I've got it at the lab if anyone wants to see it, assuming you can pry it away from Newt. I also got a photo! It's... not a very good one, but uh, I'll put this somewhere, I guess.

[attached photo: A City Boy Seconds Before Being Chomped By A Tentacle Monster.]

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They ambushed you...

[ There goes the majority of his goodwill and hope for not adding a third front to this war. So much for talking to them, them being related to a peaceful host species, if they're sneaking up on people one at a time and going for the kill? Wash sounds extremely unhappy and more than a little worried for the kid. ]

You're really okay, Peter? How many were there this time?

[ He is not commenting on the selfie. He's not. That's some Reds and Blues shenanigans right there. ]

Yeah, it was pretty rude.

[Oookay wait, now doesn't seem like the time for quips. He mentally kicks himself for not taking this as seriously as he should be, and then continues]

But yeah, I'm fine. I heal really fast. There were four of them, didn't even give me a chance to try to say anything before they were on top of me.

Rude's not the word I would use. It sounds like they're trying to pick us off if we dare to leave the city. You made the right call saying no one should go anywhere alone. We have no way of knowing how many more parties are going to be sent before they just invade, we might never get the chance to have the gods try and talk to them....

[ This whole thing is a mess, and he's very worried. ]

I'm glad you're okay. But I'm starting to think Hope may have been wrong about these being the host creatures... or maybe it's been longer and they've changed their ways and we shouldn't count on communicating at all. Their behavior doesn't match what we've been told.

I mean, the gods aren't exactly making an effort to go talk to these guys themselves. And who's to say they'd even give the gods a straight answer? They're obviously not cooperative.

[He's still down for the "catch one so the gods can chat with it" plan, but yeah he's got some hang ups]

There could be a million reasons for that. Maybe it's not even their fault, who knows?

[Oh good, this saves him a phone call.]

Guess our chances of talking to them ourselves are slim to none.

Let's just assume none now, we were already counting on slim to none so... slim's off the table. I'm worried Hope was wrong about them, picking stragglers off and going for the kill doesn't sound right.

At least they can't be working with the Null. We would've been invaded by now. But I don't know why a sapient species would attack us first like this if they aren't warlike. If they don't have some other agenda. It's too much like what happened back home.

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