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Who: ANTS ... and Blanks I guess.
Where: The commons area to the west of Pyxis
When: Day 144, Late
What: :D

[It's pretty far from civilization, but a double column of giant cave ants marching in WILL attract attention.

The first of the colony seem to establish perimeters, cutting or biting lines in the ground.. Others come after, dragging blocks and wood...

There is some large scale construction going ... and happening fast.]

HA HA! Easy on the west wall there! Solid! No holes!

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Red saw a list of who was with him not long ago, I think.

This many?

I didn't see it. But it's possible he has workers who aren't from this place as well... or were from the group before us.

Mm. That's what I was thinking. With this many... some of them have to be left over.

They could come from any number of sources.

I suppose so.

Some might even be what they appear to be, though I doubt it.

Could they be constructs? The Judges have created things for their games before.

[Thiiinking it over.]

Maybe. I don't think their constructs have ever left the arena, though.

There is one right there.

[indicates Foreman!ant]

Unless this is genuinely what he is.

[Considers a moment.]

...but somehow I doubt it.

I don't think so. They usually appear as a statue in the Arena and have been just voices. He isn't the only Judge to create a physical form outside the Arena either.

I've come into contact with several of them as voices before.

...which of them have appeared in another form, though?

Veiled is a winged cat.

And Flowers was a moth.

Trickster was a terapede. And Kurogane-san mentioned once that he saw Mirror in their dorm as a fish.

And Beast was a lizard, if I recall correctly. I've never seen him, in or out of a game, but my team told me about him when I woke up.

I haven't seen them either. But in any case, there is a precedent.

Mm. I suppose so.

But if the ants are a construct, what happens to their bodies in the meantime?

--Sorry? Whose bodies?

The blanks that they... are. Used to be.

Claude was inside, wasn't he? Do you think he actually was the ant, or that it was made around him?

Ah...

I meant that maybe not all ants had once been a person. I don't know how it works.

I suppose it's possible.

[ssssssubject change]

How are you doing?

[Worst subject change ever. This is not a happy face. \o/]

...we're doing okay.

[better than "gee I wonder what's happening to your dad's body in that freaky ant shape there" :|b]

[also: jiiiiiiii]