>>5466013You go round asking the aliens to argue why they should get to be freed, not the others.
“Sure, Prissy Shitonya has an EMP grenade, and she’s enough of a stupid lumbering chitin-for-brains to fumble into the security room and knock over the warden with her grotesque lard-filled body, purely by accident,” Phom spits.
“But you wouldn’t be stupid enough to release that dumb bitch instead of <span class="mu-i">me</span>. I have the key to this whole fucking ship. You know I’m right.” He waggles the chip in front of your face.
Schallaya is not as collected. “Are you SERIOUSLY asking ME, a PRINCESS of the NOBANION EMPIRE, <span class="mu-i">ME</span>. To try and convince YOU. A lowly, inconsequential RAT, scurrying around this ship like your kind are wont to do. You’re joking. <span class="mu-i">OPEN THIS GOD DAMN DOOR!</span>”
The coleopteran queen starts slamming the barrier again. “It doesn’t MATTER that Phom has a maximum-security robot identifier! It DOESN’T MATTER that it works, or that he stole it from the warden. <span class="mu-i">I</span> should be the one to get my revenge! LET ME OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT LET ME OUT!”
>>5466402>"If you're sho shmart then why don't you steal something to get through that forcefield first? You complete buffoon. You trapped idiot. You're the whole circus, tent included."Phom looks quite put off by your retort. “There wasn’t anything to fucking steal, dumbass. If your species had the slightest bit of activity in that disgusting engorged head of yours, you’d realize that the force field generators are inaccessible from here, short of ripping out the whole floor. And the field crystals are stored behind that wire mesh, which, <span class="mu-i">news flash</span>, is also inaccessible.”
He takes a moment to add, “And I’m not a buffoon, you rancid wet-wipe.”
>Tell Her Beetleness she can probably use the emp to disable the field“Ugh! Uneducated, as expected. Are you aware, peasant, that EMPs <span class="mu-i">don’t work</span> on force fields? That they’re COMPLETELY different mechanisms?? I suppose it’s too much to ask for the <span class="mu-i">common folk</span> to pay attention in preparatory school.”
>Release GlimseYou’re wracked with indecision, and also annoyance. You decide to open up Glimse’s cell, since he’s been the least frustrating (and the most silent) so far. You immediately reconsider your decision when the long, spindly creature curls his body around you in a most uncomfortable manner.
“Ahhh. It feels good to stretch my bones like this again,” Glimse coos. “As promised, alien, I will retrieve that field crystal for you.”
Glimse uses his prehensile tail to grab the big pink gemstone, which you swap for your plastic club.
“Use it well,” your new companion says. “Simply press on this side, and the crystal emits a weak force field – you could defend yourself, create a barrier, or even make a bridge. Press the other side, and it disrupts any field it touches, including the ones in the cell doors.” Seems useful.
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