MerchManDan wrote:Heh.
N: "Knowledge of the ancients at our fingertips!! Thousands of years of information waiting to be accessed!!"
A: "Yes, we need to erase it immediately and never tell anyone it was ever here!!"
N: "....wait what"
hmmm... my original response to this at 5 am seems to have been eaten by a Grue... so i will try again, this time WITH a working flashlight in my possession...
what if that's NOT Nadette's "shocked at the thought of DESTROYING this place" expression, but her "OMFG!!! What the F is THAT!!!" expression, because she sees something that Atsali does NOT see, whether it's because she not looking in that direction, or because it's in a low light area that Atsali has already stated that she has difficulty seeing...
i think it's a combination of both... and the thing she's seeing... are any of y'all familiar with Minna Sundberg's comic "Stand Still, Stay Silent"... the monsters in that are mutated/diseased humans some of whom have *merged* together into a larger lifeform called a Troll and even larger ones called Giants... very horrific, very hard to kill... I'll bet that they are something similar, and that is the reason that Tsillah couldn't identify them was because 1) they weren't *shadows*, 2)they aren't exactly HUMAN anymore because they are the remaining psychic residue/ souls/ whatever, of the Ethititians after they escaped the Storage Crystals... Atsali said that they had been blended together (we now know it was due to the sabotage by Thup the Nu Gui)... and thus the forms that Tsillah saw, (and i suspect the Nadette is seeing RIGHT NOW) are ALSO *blended*, human-ish creepy-crawly, already insane BEFORE they went into the Crystals , and only made WORSE afterwards....
and if Atsali IS correct in her hypothesis that this IS a "Stone Tape" scenario, i agree wholeheartedly that it NEEDS to be destroyed... we Barely came thru the Cold War without nuking ourselves back to the stone age, we are barely keeping our heads above water right now as regards to WMD's and various Terrorist organizations and rival nations (not just the USA against XYZ, but ANY National Rivalry), etc... think of the chaos that would erupt if GOLEM technology were to be re-discovered from what is stone-taped here? then think about WHO would MAKE one, or more than likely, MULTIPLES?!?