[Audio] First Contact

[amicalolafalls]

[There's nothing but the sound of breathing at first. Distant, echoing sounds of traffic and civilization. Almost as if he were in an alley, halfway up a fire escape. Something that might be the sound of someone wetting their lips.]

Hi.

[A space then, where the thought of a laugh might fill it but nothing does.]

I'm Glenn. I-

[There's a noise, almost disbelieving.]

So this... It's some kind of purgatory, right? I know there was information. Something about...spirits, and kidnapping? Only I'm not sure how kidnapping works exactly if you're already dead. Never been good at all of that religious stuff.

[A pause, and then a sigh.]

So am I close? I just know there's no way I'm alive. Trust me on that one. Anyway, this place... It isn't even touched. No way a real city looks like this. Maybe the...message when I got out of that thing had more information. I didn't pay it much attention.

I was kind of waiting for her to tell me I was her only hope.

[Glenn takes a deep breath, more purposeful this time. He sounds more certain, when he speaks again.]

I guess this is my way of saying that I'm looking for answers. If anyone's got them.

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[youfool]

Ahehuh, I would hope not.

[He offers commentary on the guesses]

Cold; warmer! Yes, there are certainly a lot of issues with the population. No souls, for one; heartless automata awaiting...we know not what. Not that I advise treating them badly, mind. Ought to be good stewards if nothing else.

Are you familiar with the idiom that ends with "great artists steal"? Genessia and those who manage it would like to be great artists themselves, with life as their painting. As the aforementioned automata might demonstrate, they aren't very good at it, so they'd like us to blaze the trail. I know that's a little abstract and unactionable, but that's the truest I've heard thus far.

You see, Genessia as a whole is largely incapable of solving its own problems, so it's up to us to do it for them, like it or not. Most, unfortunately, do not. I don't know; I find it very flattering to be chosen, however arbitrarily, as a symbol of "Life". Your metaphor is right on the money.