scared to go out

  don't even want to send drones out

  what if a human finds one?

  they might kidnap it. or shoot at it. definitely a record of that sort of silly behaviour. i mean come on there are literal monsters around and you waste your bullets on a harmless little robot?

  okay fine technically not harmless

  terrifying quadx2crudlauncher mounted on top

  still though

  actually you want to know the worst thing

  that wasn't even the same direction #4 wandered off in

  the girl who saw me fiddling with antcorpses i mean

  that's nowhere near the river

  it's in completely the other direction

  what i am saying is that there are probably humans across the river

  and also more humans in suburbland to the south

  is it the south?

  never actually checked

  doesn't matter

  The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

  we got a heap of humans around is what i'm saying

  well two

  at least

  but probably way more

  hives of the things

  or burrows

  there's a proper word

  communities?

  no i like burrows more. sounds more. mammalian.

  what am i going to do with these pesky mammals

  what is going to happen when they find biscuit fort

  i mean i didn't exactly make this place inconspicuous

  subtlety was not on the priority list at all

  thought i had this city to myself

  oh what a happy idiot i was

  so now i got

  like

  the only building standing in twelve blocks of scrapharvested rubble

  apart from ant prison of course

  what i am saying is that a big warehouse fortress with turrets and melted walls decorated with assorted antbits is just exactly the sort of place a human would look at and be like 'yep. that's the one. that's like the objective or whatever. gonna be treasure chests or something in there. or some dude to give me a new quest. maybe a blacksmith. new sword. gunmods. loot.'

  what was i talking about

  right humans yes. could i invent. like. nonlethal means of dealing? i mean for sure i do not want to kill anything that can beg for its life. that is a line i'm not gonna be able to just skip over. no killing anything that can potentially leave orphans that will notice its absence and cry about it. that's the rule. don't do stuff that creates crying orphans.

  so like

  sleep darts?

  why did my mind instantly go there

  so impractical

  you have to estimate weight and metabolism and all that junk to get the right dose and then what? just leave a sleeping human around? a tasty little treat for any giant insects that happen to be wandering past?

  jin you beautiful impetuous fool

  you are better than this

  so

  teleports?

  teleport a human somewhere i am not? i could make like a little cosy tea room somewhere way away from my base. and if i have to deal with a human and i do not want to deal with a human. just. like. bamf. teleport them to a lovely tea room. they can have a nice cup of tea and a biscuit and then keep doing their regular human activities. walk around. talk about the weather to each other. survive in this weird kind of apocalypse thing we've got going on. and most importantly leave me the flip out of things.

  okay

  think i got a plan here

  turns out teleports are the answer

  as always