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USER: #C1BA57 - THE LIBRARY
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This is Cairngorm.
I've noticed that books have writing in them again, which means the library should be back to it's original form. It'll be more useful to everyone if it's organized and has librarians in charge of maintaining it. I'm used to doing work like that, so I don't mind organizing it, but it might be more time efficient to ask if there are others with the skills to help.
Firstly, we should familiarize ourselves with the restored materials. I've only been able to find useless books about talking animals so far, but one of you must have found something other than that by now. It would take years for me to read everything by myself, so if you could summarize any books you've found and return them to the library, you would save us all some time.
Secondly, has anyone considered keeping record of what's happening here? We should start creating archives for future reference now that we're able to. That's assuming we'll be stuck here for however much longer. There are other things like records of the plants and animals we come across that the library would benefit from as well, if you have any. We should be keeping all information like this in one place.
If you have other things in mind the library should have, or are familiar with any of the texts you find, let me know. I'd like to start working on this as soon as possible.
This is Cairngorm.
I've noticed that books have writing in them again, which means the library should be back to it's original form. It'll be more useful to everyone if it's organized and has librarians in charge of maintaining it. I'm used to doing work like that, so I don't mind organizing it, but it might be more time efficient to ask if there are others with the skills to help.
Firstly, we should familiarize ourselves with the restored materials. I've only been able to find useless books about talking animals so far, but one of you must have found something other than that by now. It would take years for me to read everything by myself, so if you could summarize any books you've found and return them to the library, you would save us all some time.
Secondly, has anyone considered keeping record of what's happening here? We should start creating archives for future reference now that we're able to. That's assuming we'll be stuck here for however much longer. There are other things like records of the plants and animals we come across that the library would benefit from as well, if you have any. We should be keeping all information like this in one place.
If you have other things in mind the library should have, or are familiar with any of the texts you find, let me know. I'd like to start working on this as soon as possible.
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That said, wolves are real, but they don't generally have the lung capacity to blow a house down.
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Complicated
Interesting just complicated
We don't have any books like that at all on my planet
Or at least it was no one's job to write books like that
But while reading I realize there's so many animals in these books that I'm unfamiliar with so most of the points of these books are lost on me
Though the idea of an animal being able to blow a house down already sounded pretty unrealistic
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There's a fox wandering through the forest and he finds some grapes dangling down from above.
"Just the think to quench my thirst," he thinks.
He takes a leap to try and get the grapes, and he misses. He tries again, and misses once more. Giving up, the fox turns up his nose and says, "They're probably sour anyway," then proceeds to walk away.
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Is the point that it's better to pretend like you don't want something just because you couldn't achieve it
That seems like a weirdly specific lesson to teach someone
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No, no, the moral is that you have to work hard to succeed in your goals. Or, to a more grim extent, that it's easy to hate the things that you want and can't have.
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It's a waste of paper to teach that in such a roundabout way
Not to mention that hard work doesn't always mean you'll be able to achieve something
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Those are young humans?
Are they harder to teach than adult ones or something
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[ He's laughing at himself, actually. But that might be hard for Cairngorm to understand, so he quickly corrected himself. ]
That is to say, the stubborn ones are. Anyway, they're not hard to teach, they just learn a little differently because they don't know much about the world and need to learn through experiences, usually. Which is why we tell stories like that.
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Gems are only kind of like that when we are born
The only stories we learn from after birth are the history of our planet and stories about gems who lived in the past
Either way you seem to know a lot about these children
Is there a reason for that
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I'm around kids quite a lot. I named most of the ones that were born in my territory back home, actually. And... admittedly, I've always wanted a kid myself. I'm just not in a position to have one.
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Some gems make clothes or furniture for fun
It depends on the gem and what they find entertaining
So...your kind reproduces generation to generation
Like slugs [ sorry caramia that's all they can liken it to... ]
Don't you need to have offspring to keep your species alive?
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Er. Yes, like slugs, sure. And most other living things. But, yes, we do, but I, myself, can't really afford to have a child. I don't have the time to raise one properly, and the environment it'd grow up in would be an admittedly dangerous one... On top of all that, I don't age like other humans do. I'm functionally immortal, and the thought of raising a child and watching them grow up just to watch them die sounds... heart-breaking. I don't think I could handle it.
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That's too bad
Are there others in your kind that can reproduce instead?
All of us gems live forever so I guess I can't understand the feeling of watching someone else grow up and die while I live
If we're stuck here for long enough I'll probably get it when I start outliving the human inhabitants
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That said, I'm sure we'll find a way to get us home, so that won't be a problem.
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Gems get abducted from time to time so I've witnessed that
But it's not like the gems I've seen get taken away were my children or had a definite lifespan or something
So it's a different kind of loss
Either way I think we'll leave eventually I just don't know how long it's going to take
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They're a species that lives on our moon
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Literally what the fuck...]I'm so sorry. That must be terrible.
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You said its pretty dangerous where you live too
So we all have things we are facing
It's just the way things are
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Here is nothing like that. Everything is unknown and we are given scraps as a means of answers.
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But we can't expect to know everything after just over a month of time
It hasn't been nearly long enough to know if there's a pattern to
Whatever it is that's happening
At the rate things are going I won't be surprised if it takes a year to know anything substantial
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Of course finding a way back is preferable
Realistically I don't see it happening soon is all
I don't think it will take centuries but definitely some stretch of time
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And certainly it will, but one should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.