[Brainiac had walked away to take some scans of the area. He returns to what's very obviously an altercation that some of the group seems to be trying to break up.]
[When he speaks, he doesn't necessarily yell but there's a firmness to his voice that draws attention. It makes him sound like a schoolteacher just inches away from giving the whole class detention.]
What a relief it is to see everyone taking our pressing circumstances seriously and giving mutual cooperation the effort it deserves. It's not like our lives are being treated like the idle playthings of some higher power or anything.
[You could cut through the sarcasm with a knife.]
[His eyes bugging out just slightly he turns to each of the offended parties.]
[Phos first.]
You. Despite this man's face being eminently hittable, violence is the last thing we need right now when we're facing such perilous circumstances. For all we know, we could be facing external threats at any moment.
[He turns to Dixon.]
As for you, cease your pointless destructiveness. We have no idea who might be offended by destruction of the environment or what's responsible for the creation of these statues.
In my universe there was a species capable of causing petrification of living beings through mere line of sight, a process which rendered them into detailed statues much like these. The process was reversible - provided some feckless imbecile didn't smash them for his own amusement.
We have no information about our environment or about what forces are in play, and that means we should manipulate the environment as little as possible. Making assumptions is ignorant at best, deadly at worst.
Now are you all quite finished with this pointless barbarism? Or should we assign leadership based on feats of physical strength, start fashioning spears, and determining who will be a suitable sacrifice to the sun god?
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[When he speaks, he doesn't necessarily yell but there's a firmness to his voice that draws attention. It makes him sound like a schoolteacher just inches away from giving the whole class detention.]
What a relief it is to see everyone taking our pressing circumstances seriously and giving mutual cooperation the effort it deserves. It's not like our lives are being treated like the idle playthings of some higher power or anything.
[You could cut through the sarcasm with a knife.]
[His eyes bugging out just slightly he turns to each of the offended parties.]
[Phos first.]
You. Despite this man's face being eminently hittable, violence is the last thing we need right now when we're facing such perilous circumstances. For all we know, we could be facing external threats at any moment.
[He turns to Dixon.]
As for you, cease your pointless destructiveness. We have no idea who might be offended by destruction of the environment or what's responsible for the creation of these statues.
In my universe there was a species capable of causing petrification of living beings through mere line of sight, a process which rendered them into detailed statues much like these. The process was reversible - provided some feckless imbecile didn't smash them for his own amusement.
We have no information about our environment or about what forces are in play, and that means we should manipulate the environment as little as possible. Making assumptions is ignorant at best, deadly at worst.
Now are you all quite finished with this pointless barbarism? Or should we assign leadership based on feats of physical strength, start fashioning spears, and determining who will be a suitable sacrifice to the sun god?