<downs> hee
<downs> I came up with a story for that game with the flashlight and the desert
<downs> :3
<sclytrack> go ahead, short version.
<downs> a sun is close to going supernova
<downs> the indigenous people of a near planet haven't developed spaceflight yet
<downs> so a nice, alien race lifts them off and puts them in a huuuuge generation ship
<cracki> i want to read that.
<downs> but
<downs> space is dark
<downs> and making light is expensive
<downs> so they put transceivers in their heads that tell their brains that it's day.
<downs> (they got experience with that kind of manipulation)
<cracki> lol
<downs> so their brains are making up their own images based on secondary senses and feedback information
<cracki> the transceivers waste more energy than a light source.
<downs> nah
<downs> their mostly self-contained
<downs> mesh networking
<downs> and a light source would have to be as strong as the sun
<cracki> i accept that
<downs> but now!
<downs> the generation ship, slow as it is, is attacked, by pure chance, by a slow-moving race of scavengers
<downs> (they can hibernate for centuries until they find something to eat)
<sclytrack> lol
<sclytrack> reminds me of something
<downs> anyway, that's the reason you can't see them at first
<cracki> call them Wraith?
<downs> lol
<downs> no
<downs> not sentient.
<cracki> yes, olo!
<cracki> iratus bugs then
<downs> and the thing is, they don't share the network system
<downs> lol
<downs> anyway, that's why you can't see them at first
<cracki> go on...
<downs> but your flashlight is an _actual_ flashlight.
<downs> so when you shine it at them, it makes RL light
<downs> and suddenly your eyes get actual info again
<downs> see, it makes sense
<downs> :3