>>5517463 >>5517487 >>5517500 >>5517565You spend some time contemplating how to best communicate your intent. Whatever you do, it must seem friendly - scaring the creature is unwise. Many units of thinking later, you devise a suitable transmission.
<span class="mu-i">IMAGE OF TASTY PLANTS. WARM COLORS. SOOTHING HORN MUSIC. THE FACE OF A HAPPY BIPEDAL CREATURE. IT IS NICE TO MEET YOU, FRIEND!! I AM COMMANDER-OF-TEN-TENS SEVEN OF MY HIVE, BUT YOU MAY CALL ME ONE-WHO-HOPS-WELL. MAY I KNOW YOUR NAME?</span>
Despite the great consideration put into your message, you seem to throw the creature into a panic. 「誰がいるの?!俺は武器を持っているぞ!」 After looking over its surroundings with its visual organs several times, the creature seems less anxious, and more just confused. 「頭のネジが外れるじゃん。」 Ah, you can guess what that means from the creature's mental state - it is questioning its sanity. You should reassure it.
<span class="mu-i">YOUR MENTAL STATE HAS NO PROBLEM. I AM COMMUNICATING WITH YOU VIA A MENTAL LINK. I AM INSIDE THE RING.</span>
You only manage to get one more thought through before being thrown more than ten antennas away. <span class="mu-i">I CAN ONLY COMMUNICATE WHILE MAKING PHYSICAL CONTACT. PLEASE DO NOT-</span>
To your relief, it is not too long before you are retrieved. <span class="mu-i">I sense many questions. We may work them out slowly. To reintroduce myself, I am COMMANDER-OF-TEN-TENS SEVEN, ONE-WHO-HOPS-WELL. What is your name, friend?</span> There is some hesitation, but then your sensors pick up acoustic waves.
[薪。」
<span class="mu-i">Your name is TAKIGI?</span> Agreement. <span class="mu-i">Good. I can only sense vague emotion from you, so it may be difficult for us to hold a proper conversation. Please focus on a single thought and transmit it to me through our mental link.</span>
After some time, the creature communicates with you again. "How?" <span class="mu-i">How am I here?</span> There is both agreement and disagreement in its thought. <span class="mu-i">How am I in a ring?</span> There is agreement in its thought. <span class="mu-i">My soul is sealed inside the ring. My civilization created the vessel and sent it into space. I arrived here by chance.</span>
「Why?」 <span class="mu-i">Resources were dwindling and our civilization was doomed to decline. I am here to start a new life and pass on my home's legacy.</span> It resumes walking through the forest and thinks for some time. 「What want. You. What you want.」 before you can answer, it continues. 「What get. Me. What me get.」
It is talking terms. Understandable.
