All righty, we are back!
>>5731754You keep to observing the thing for now, trying to see if you can better understand its intentions, maybe even some of its strengths and capabilities. The bat-dragon-bot takes a few cautious steps on two legs, tilting its head back and forth, the ears on it swiveling slightly, as you do everything you can to stay stealthy, even holding your breath for a moment. It seems to still not notice or actively ignore you, ears pointing forward, now standing tall with its arms crossed, making more beeping and static vocalizations. As it stands at full height, you get a better sense of scale of it, with it close to matching the height of the large building entrances you’d seen previously, easily standing a good 5, maybe 6 meters in height. Okay, that does make it more likely to be an actual inhabitant instead of wildlife. Could try to record some vocalizations with your goggles for translation later, but you’ll wait for just a bit longer.
You also think to sketch it, getting out some scratch paper as quietly as you can and making a quick little drawing, putting in what details you think are relevant. Kinda hoping it has a name and isn’t like, DRGN-2187 or something. Hmm… you’ll call it, for now, “Chohazard.” Putting that name on your little sketch, finally it does something other than observe… by first raising its Ki slightly, enough to be clearly detectable, before lowering its energy again. It then places a small object on the ground, which springs to life as a little monoeye’d crawling drone thing, before it gets on all fours again and dashes a short distance away. You do your best to follow while still keeping to stealth, finding it… hanging upside-down inside one of the ruined buildings.
‘We all sensed that, Ghost Pepper. What’s it doing now? Over.’
‘Trying to draw someone’s attention, from the look of things. It’s this… bat-dragon-bot thing that’s showing clear signs of intelligence, but hasn’t vocalized anything close to languages we can understand. Over.’
‘Giru and 19 seem to think they have a lead in that regard. The basis for the written language might be some kind of… hexadecimal code, with very precise repeating symbols, and maybe an underlying binary basis for that code. Over.’
You look at “Chohazard” again, which is looking still at the little drone it left behind. Hmm… maybe it’s trying to use it as basis for first contact?
>A. Approach the drone and make it look like you were coming in from the direction of everyone, see how it reacts from that>B. Think Giru might be able to send it a message? That might work better, let it know we’re working alongside something closer to itself?>C. Teleport back, see if it notices you as you do that>C. Stealth mode down, let it know you’re here>D. Multi-Form to try and do a couple different things at once>E. Something else?