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[The blight would not stop.

The world's leading experts have been trying to find a cure, to no avail. Th blight keeps changing, keeps foiling all attempts at being fully understood. It's almost sentient, or at least more sentient than any disease that's been encountered before. People fear the disease jumping from what's left of the grapes into other plants, into animals, or even humans.

You can only watch as entire economies and ecosystems collapse. You can only bury your head in your hands as your own business comes to its end. The destruction of the clusters of grapes has not simply destroyed the wine industry, either-other businesses are being destroyed by the plague. Food, transport, retail, nothing is untouched.

You look on your own vineyard, its yield almost entirely blackened and dead.

This can't keep going on.

-

A week has passed since everyone's arrival. No one has died, yet. But surely no one is holding their breath to see if they would survive this unscathed. They are veterans of the game, and they must know that whoever it is that is in charge demands their pound of flesh. The question is when it will happen.

It is the second week, after all-and when the second week of the game comes, death is not far behind. Not even when you wake up, feeling something different in your mind as you remember the truths you originally woke up with, deep in your mind. You feel...lighter, somehow, when you realize there is a change.

Even so, there are 15 strangers left in this place.]

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Something like that-lun. All I really know is I felt silly trying to talk to them-lun.

I probably would too. Well, I talk to Gab sometimes, but it would be silly to expect an answer back.

[Gab is just panting away in his arms and occasionally trying to sniff Kyuubey...]

[What a good boy!]

Lun. Earth dogs can't really talk-lun.

Earth... dogs?

[well with her looks he didn't very well think lala was from earth, but oftentimes those sorts also haven't heard of it, so this is interesting. what is she, a neptunian or something]

So what planet are you from?

Saman-lun. It's pretty far away from Earth-lun.

[~~so far that physics apparently work differently~~]

Oh yeah? You guys made first contact yet, or just checking the place out with probes? Ever lose a transporter pod at the south pole?

[he kind of doubts this is the alien who left that but it's not like they ever found the real explanation for it.....]

There shouldn't be anything like that on Earth-lun. We can't make contact until humans learn interstellar travel on their own-lun. Just a few agents living there secretly-lun.

[Although Abraham does kind of seem like the type to misplace a transport pod, come to think of it.]

I can see how it wouldn't be too hard to blend in. Well, thanks for following the prime directive. It must've been someone else's pod.