#may tie into lore for The Drought's storyline? but also im not finished w that yet so :shrug:

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Ten Cycles Before Sliver Of Straw's Triple Affirmative; direct connection line between Consequence Of Curiosity, Smoldering Sun's Unrelenting Rage and [EXPUNGED]

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I feel like something bad is going to happen soon.

Do either of you have any clue as to why?

Well, what do you happen to be implying there, dear brother?

Neither of us have done anything, as far as I'm concerned. I'm too busy making creatures to do maintenance so my specimens don't perish. Consequence, you haven't done any more... things like that, right?

Consequence? Are you there?

Ah, my apologies for not responding right away.

I've been.. busy. The mistake is being doted on by the nearest group, despite his rather moronic nature.

He's been complaining non-stop about having nothing to think about, so I gave him something to... chew on, for a bit. I have not done anything akin to what my creator allowed me to do upon ascending, no.

... am I correct in assuming you sent him on a wild goose chase to look for the 'rare and exotic purple wheelflower' ?

Oh my suns, you didn't!

Thats utterly HILARIOUS 'Con! I can't believe he actually fell for it!

Well, if you were stuck with him whining in your communications every single day you'd likely start getting creative with your entertainment as well.

He's quite annoying, frankly. I believe he was named after a creature that has more of a moral compass and brain than he ever will.

Rather rich coming from you, I think.

Oh, please. If you had to deal with them condescending you while being wrong about all of your damn inner functions for every day of your life you'd gladly boil our gracious creators in voidfluid too.

At least I made sure nobody else realised I was the one to do it. Other than you two, who I told willingly.

Fair, I suppose.

Anyways. I've been seeing odd readings from around the group of iterators near you, Consequence. I believe this is what has me suspicious of something about to go awry. If you haven't been tampering with more odd creatures, then I advise you to keep an eye out.

Just in case, you know?

Oh, interesting! Do you think it could be a creature? Ooh, that reminds me! I've heard that some of the others have been experimenting with slugcat genes!

Its SUPER interesting! I hope you two will send me pictures if you end up seeing their results!

I see, how odd.. I've seen nothing of the sort. I trust your word more than my overseers though, brother, so I'll keep as much of an eye out as possible. Maybe I'll even tell Moon and the others...

Also, don't worry, Sunny. I'll be sure to ask for any genome sequencing if they do end up succeeding with the slugcats so you can get more than just some crummy bad quality images and maybe a video.

Thank you!!! That means so much to me, you don't understand. It SUCKS out here!

Well, if thats all, then I should get back to monitoring and cataloguing everything I can see. You two enjoy talking, if I find anything more about the odd signals I'll let you two know. See you on the other side :]

See you on the other side, [DATA CORRUPTED]

See ya on the other side, bro!

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Ten Cycles Later; mere hours after Sliver Of Straw's Triple Affirmative;

[DATA CORRUPTED]! Holy shit, I think something just went really wrong!

Sliver Of Straw just sent out a Triple Affirmative and then fucking exploded!

Did you know??? Could it have been that strange signal you talked about a few cycles ago????

Could whatever caused that end up effecting the rest of us???

Holy shit, can you for please just ANSWER ME?!

It's in my systems.

Communication Ended Abruptly By [EXPUNGED]