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14 Comments

1. 

   KNO3

   January 15, 2016 at 4:23 am

   See? Full medical.
2. 

   andreas

   January 15, 2016 at 5:04 am

   So what I’m saying is you need to kill a Ktauwk… to get at their teeth, let’s go with that. And yes, get into their lair. Incidentally you’re going to have to kill more of them to get there.

   (While I may have flunked my introductory courses in xeno-medicine and high energy mineralogy, the Ktauwks have once swindled my great grandmother out of our pet knitting crab and I have suffered from a cold for centuries for want of scarves and legwarmers. Vengeance!)
3. 

   KNO3

   January 15, 2016 at 7:44 am

   Go kill my enemy and turn it into medicine? Sounds legit from an alien parasite that lives in a cave that happens to mysteriously knows human physiology. Yup. Free hugz as well no doubt.
4. 

   CompaniaHill

   January 15, 2016 at 10:24 am

   Does it have to be the tooth from a live Kthauwk? Couldn’t they just sneak into the secret Kthauwk graveyard caverns and pry a tooth from a Kthauwk skeleton?
5. 

   Ding Ding

   January 15, 2016 at 1:01 pm

   Remember that this guy likes to kill off the primary protagonists.
6. 

   Frith Ra

   January 15, 2016 at 1:39 pm

   Y’all gotta go kill yerselves some giant turducken, steal its toof, and snag the fuel ya need to feed the ship’s drive. Thet don’ sound too difficult now, do it?
7. 

   KNO3

   January 15, 2016 at 7:47 pm

   And then you should baste yourself in a garlic pepper oregano butter poultice. Oh and salt as well. Oh and the treatment requires you to tie yourself up.
8. 

   night-gaunt

   January 15, 2016 at 7:53 pm

   The tooth has to be fresh so no grave robbing. Also this creature just may memorized whatever it finds in intelligent brains so it could be past memory or inside Ana Galactic’s mind. It has total recall of everything in Ana’s brain. Neat eh?

   Just slay one of the apex predators of this world that no one has ever done, get a tooth, then ground it up mixed with the purple mineral (how much of each?) then the red head is cured. Unfortunately.
9. 

   Herandar

   January 15, 2016 at 8:02 pm

   But they don’t actually need the Lauridium. That was the story propagated by the Ship’s Captain, who threw Anna’s parents in jail, remember?
10. 

    KNO3

    January 16, 2016 at 1:48 am

    Or Night Gaunt that creature is lying and hopes that teapot and foxglove is gullible.
11. 

    night-gaunt

    January 16, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Yes there is a chance the creature knows how to lie and will do so to them.
12. 

    KNO3

    January 16, 2016 at 9:33 pm

    Or maybe creatures such as this have already taken control of the crew and that’s why they are stranded.
13. 

    Muzhik

    January 17, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    @Night-Gaunt, the actual amount of the crushed tooth doesn’t matter. She doesn’t ingest it, she makes a poultice out of it, i.e., maybe mixed with water to form a paste which is smeared on the wound and held in place by a bandage.

    You need to learn to make a mustard plaster.
14. 

    pbarnrob

    January 18, 2016 at 3:27 am

    One of the best lines I ever read, from Fred Brown’s Martians Go Home; “Yes, I CAN lie!” (The Martians have been telling embarrassing truths for a while by then; logicians spin, hovering…)