crickets?? | ota | un: hawkeye

[alsohawkeye]

Okay, so there are definitely aliens here. (Or I guess we're the aliens, technically.) It'd be good to try to compile what we know so far in one place, so here are a couple questions:

1. What are we calling them? I've heard crickets, I've heard grasshoppers, and a bunch of other stuff that seems even less polite. Can we agreee on one? Any other ideas?

2. I haven't run into any that seem chatty yet but I hear they talk in colors???

3. Do we have any idea how the people they took were chosen/singled out? Did you/they all go to a specific place or distance or do something to draw their attention? Anything in common? Looking for patterns never really worked on the ship but we could try.

Comments

[alsohawkeye]

Wow. What were you watching that was that bad?

Picking wings off crickets was a punishment? That's even weirder. Why are crickets being punished for you blowing things up?

[fullmoon]

A nature documentary.
I was young.

The crickets were already dead.
Cricket legs were an ingredient in the potion I ruined.
I'd been lazy and threw in the whole cricket.
It was poetic really.

[alsohawkeye]

That is a bit poetic. The nature documentary wasn't also about crickets, was it?

[fullmoon]

No, it was about wolves.

You still haven't explained how a study session is punishment.

[alsohawkeye]

Oh.

We got extra homework. The real punishment was just having to sit there for hours instead of going to do all the extracurriculars we were supposed to be doing at that time.

[fullmoon]

They didn't even make you clean anything?

[alsohawkeye]

No. People would have complained to their parents and the parents would've had a fit if they did. They already got mad that we were being kept out of sports and music lessons and stuff.

[fullmoon]

That's amazing.
Our caretaker still has chains in his office from hanging students from the walls.

[alsohawkeye]

Seriously?

[fullmoon]

It's been a long time since he was allowed to use them.

[alsohawkeye]

How long is a long time? I hope we're talking hundreds of years at least.