Challenge #03076-H153: Charms to Tame the Savage Breast
A first contact between humans and a new species almost degrade to a war, until they hear humanity music for the first time… – Tom
First contact is… risky. Both sides have no idea what to expect out of the other. One species’ friendly greeting can be another’s instant death threat, or grave insult to their grandmother. In a situation where any move could be hostile, it’s safe to move very still and do one’s best to try and read the other party. Which left the seemingly eternal question - eye contact or no eye contact.
Given these problems, it should therefore be no surprise that both parties, upon first meeting, make the very wise choice to run away. Those who dare return and take risks with their minds open to accepting mistakes are the ones who make great progress or, at minimum, interesting pieces of history.
Remembering this, Human Dio tried hir best. It was quite the process. Step one - divesting oneself of anything that could be a weapon but was also not hir livesuit. Which meant just about everything that wasn’t actual livesuit. Ze felt… naked. Second step - waiting patiently where the last sighting took place. Dull. As. Heck. At least there were games in hir eyescreen.
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Challenge #02737-G180: Learning the Hard Way
A telepath reads a human mind. They were almost overwhelmed while reading this: https://youtu.be/yBLdQ1a4-JI – Anon Guest
Human contact is not for the uninitiated, especially when one is a Melil. Their species is one of the few that developed natural telepathy. It was something of a shock to all that their gift could be used to read the thoughts of other species.
That said, other species do not have the mental capacity of silencing their unbidden thoughts like the Melil can, and asking them to do so is worse than counterproductive. Worse so with Humans. Imagine being the poor Melil who encountered the very first Human.
Now imagine being a Melil teen who decided that the new restrictions were too restrictive and struck out on hir own for the Edge Territories to learn for themselves about the dangerous new cogniscent life form eking out an existence there. Which is exactly what Beni was doing.
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Challenge #01459-C364: Dangerous Encounters
A [Human science ship] is basically a prickly little echidna going through space wearing a mortarboard. It just wants to science. If you stop it sciencing, it can survive you kicking it, hurt the foot that you were foolish enough to use to kick it, and call for help from the other, decidedly LESS peaceful ships Humanity has to offer. – @recklessprudence
Humans are dangerous. Everyone knows this. The preferred method of interacting with humans, for the longest time, was simply two words. “Run away.”
But there are always a few who believe that chasing their chosen employment is more important than long-term survival. Other Galactics referred to them as ‘Edge-clippers’. Those who made their fortunes by skating along the very cusp of safety.
Gorqax didn’t bother the human vessels he spied. He just insisted on doing his mining and salvage work where he could keep an eye on them as they went about their business. When he scanned them, or read their emissions, it seemed like they were doing science. They made no efforts to communicate with him, so he made no efforts to communicate with them.
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Challenge #01397-C302: Weird Encounters
Frisk Meets….
1) The Mystery Skulls
2) Scooby Doo – Anon Guest
[AN: This puts the gap count down to ONE. Also, I’m assuming you mean the Mystery Skulls of MSA]
1)
Frisk signed, You’re new. Hello.
The formally-dressed Skeleton in front of hir glared down at the child. He was apparently nodding to a beat that Frisk couldn’t hear. He didn’t speak, and that could be because he didn’t have a lower jaw.
Frisk tried offering him some monster food. A candy that ze had saved from the bowl in the Underground.