Do not go gently into that goodnight, rage rage with all tentacle might - seriously though, humans ruin everything. Traipsing through space, landing on "people's planets" and just being very grabby-grabby about things that don't belong to them.

It's okay, I'm human. I can say these things.

Here is a species of "people" that are short-lived but had no clue that there's this thing called mortality and some fuddy duddy human just had to open their big mouth and make a poor little alien fear death.

Plot/Storyline/Themes:
What happens when a species becomes self aware, and focuses on the mortality part of it's life cycle and then figures out the very human concepts of : I scratch your back and you scratch mine / what's in it for me? / the long game / lies by omission/The big bully on the playground.etc etc

Character Development/Favorite Character:
Booooh! Leeyay! That human threw an existential grenade into the narrator's lap and just sashayed away without a care in the world.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene::
Success! Explosion! Boom! - Okay there was none of that. But Narr finding his way back home and speaking Leeyay was a great scene.

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “I mean, once you decide to find out why people die and how to stop it— really truly seriously decide—you can’t let little things like some pain stop you. Otherwise you might just as well have stayed home and died.” (Narr on breaking and entering and being brave )

Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts:
■ What in the hell is this species. Slug alien? OctoSlugAlien?
■radiole

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