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[cold_dry_pieces]

Last month was certainly interesting, to the extent that I can remember it. I guess it figures, as soon as you get used to the way things work, they have to change. The slugs were a little too long-lasting to count as a curse, right?

Out of curiosity, does anyone remember what they were doing up on the mountain?

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[citadelspirit.livejournal.com]

Haven't there been curses that have lasted that long? Rare ones, but they seem to exist. For example, I believe the snow in summer curse was more than one day.

[cold_dry_pieces]

More than one day, sure, but that was more than a week.

[citadelspirit.livejournal.com]

I have my doubts that a race of slug-aliens managed to find us in this interdimensional location. The odds of a jumpspace accident bringing a ship outside its own universe is 1x10^-23%. Effectively zero.

Unless there is more than just the City in this pocket dimension.

[cold_dry_pieces]

But what are the odds of any individual being brought to this dimension? Who's to say the slugs didn't end up here the same way everyone else does?

[citadelspirit.livejournal.com]

If so, then their starship may have been moved. Perhaps it is still on the mountain somewhere. Alternatively, just as they were brought in, they were killed -- and oddly enough, they don't appear to have come back as a usual citizen would. So without them, their starship may be useless, and the overlords here could have simply gotten rid of it.

Have you asked them? I doubt they will give you a reasonable answer, but you can try.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I try and stay under the Deity radar, when I can help it.

On the other hand, if the slugs did revive, there's no guarantee they'd do so where they died, is there? For all we know they could be amassing again, out of sight. I kind of doubt it, but with so many unanswered questions I think we have to accept that we know basically nothing about what happened.

[citadelspirit.livejournal.com]

We know nothing about many aspects of the City. It is an infuriating aspect of this place.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Yeah, tell me about it.