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[kahl_175]

[Kahl has a rough face and a rough, slow voice, speaking clearly as he can. He's used to bad radios, making sure he can be understood.]

Kahl One-Seven-Five sending message. All grineer, regroup. No Captains here. No Queens. Only brothers.

All not grineer--Kahl not know this place. Not know un-dead. But everyone used to be slaves, brothers now. Kahl help. Free slaves. Find beacon. Go home.

Kahl want to learn this place. Plan. Deploy. Who do this here?

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un: absterge

[downswing]

What help required?

[kahl_175]

[The text that comes up is clear and concise. Easy to read.] Writing okay for... abs-terj? [That one word is causing him trouble though.] Kahl write slow, use video.

Khal want to know about un-dead. How to stop.

[downswing]

They perish of all that culls men.

Sword. Fire.

[kahl_175]

Mm. Good. Kahl can help.

Un-dead capture Kahl, capture others. Not see un-dead, just... see strange things. Whole world, change. Put thoughts into Kahl's head, maybe. Dangerous.

How un-dead do this?

[downswing]

There is sorcery in this world.

[kahl_175]

[Magic again. Usually, Blue Girl would handle Void things. Or the Tenno. But they're not here, so Kahl has to try. And try to explain better.]

Kahl see thing like this. Veils--Narmer tech. Lock onto head, make think world different. Make veiled into slave. But veil is thing. Veil can be broken, Kahl know how. Un-dead magic different. Want to know how to break.

[downswing]

Unknown unto all. We discover.

[kahl_175]

Hm. [Well. Kahl wishes that wasn't the answer, but he doesn't know any less than when he started.]

Kahl help. Not know magic, but still learn things. Break slave-takers. [More than just killing. He'd been learning a lot, since he started hitting Narmer camps.]

[downswing]

Force need not be our answer.

[kahl_175]

Kahl know. Not all who take slaves want to. Some can be freed too. [Wearing a veil took choice away from him. Now he gives it back to others, whatever way he can. He was made for fighting, but he knows how to make things too. How to work machines.]

Kahl can sneak, also. [Kahl sneak good.]

[downswing]

The dead need not be battered.

[kahl_175]

[He's not sure if he's getting through.] Kahl know. Dead should rest.

audio; un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

We all do a lot of it, I'm afraid, Kahl. I couldn't pinpoint a specific leader.

But we're sponsored by the gentleman cleverly called the Merchant. He makes himself known when it's time to change locations East-bound, but other than that we just...survive together.

video;

[kahl_175]

That okay. Kahl used to that. [Kahl likes that. The army was bad for Grineer, used them for the Captains and Queens. Living free of it was much better.]

Kahl not know this place. Trying to learn un-dead. Find bases. Fight. Learn how to help.

video;

[reparo]

Yes? Good - that's good, then stick close to us, yes? No going off on your own for now to find bases, not while you're getting used to all this.

[kahl_175]

Kahl know. Kahl not go anywhere without plan. [Usually it was him and Blue Girl working together, but she wasn't responding here.]

Has... [...Is that a name?] 'man's greatest treasure' been on planet long?

[weifinder]

Freeing slaves may come in different formats citadel to citadel, butt I'm glad to hear you're on board for whatever comes, Kahl!

I'm Wei Wuxian, and I'm not sure what you mean by deploy...?

Video;

[kahl_175]

Mmhmm. This important. Kahl ready to help.

Deploy is army word. Means go out and do. Where Wey Wu-shyan from? [He does his best to pronounce the name as he sees it, translated and squashed into the Grineer alphabet.]

[weifinder]

Another world, like you. Not part of any military order for a long time.

[kahl_175]

From alternate Earth? [Kahl's been told about that idea, and it almost makes sense. There's no good reason for so many people to not know what Grineer are.

And he's still thinking about something from a moment ago.] You say, different ways to free slaves. Wey Wu-shyan know about dragons? Kahl sees them in Eidris. They talk to rider?

[weifinder]

The world, all under the Heavens. If it's called earth or not isn't something I know to others.

The dragons? The ones who chose bonds communicate their emotions, and hear yours in return. They make themselves understood. Hard to ignore, and at times hard to understand, as I'm sure they likewise believe.

[kahl_175]

Dragons tell feelings to riders. But Eidris talk about dragons like tools. Transport. Weapon. Kahl not trust. Sound like old Orokin Empire, talk about Grineer.

[weifinder]

It was once more of a give and take, from what I understand. The dragons received food, shelter, protection, they chose who to hold close, who to push away.

That changed, at some point. What disturbs me most is what hasn't happened. Why the dragons who live have not left, and the ones who've died have not rested.

[kahl_175]

[Kahl reads slowly, making sure he understands. All of that sounds bad, but--] Dragons dead? This true?

[This is that un-dead thing too. Others have said un-dead can be fought like normal, or just... made to rest, somehow, that hasn't been explained to Kahl. But it still reminds him of the Archons. Bodies stuck to heads that moved them like puppets, held together by crystal. Things too powerful to fight.]

How stop it? How make them sleep?

[weifinder]

This is true.

As far as making them stop, or stopping what does this to them, we're not sure. We're still trying to learn. Whatever's behind it likely affects the citizens of the citadel too.

un: matchsticks

[edgerun]

WHAT'S A GRINEER?

[kahl_175]

[This is a question Kahl never would have been asked before he ended up on this planet, but he'd been thinking about bits of the answer anyway. But it's still difficult to explain, without repeating wrong ideas.]

Grineer, clones. Made for empire. For working and fighting. Grineer more than that. Not simple like Empire want. [Two empires, one dust, one still going, and neither understood.]

[edgerun]

CLONES? THAT SEEMS MESSY. WHY NOT DROIDS? AI? ROBOTS?

[kahl_175]

Kahl never say it made sense. [There is a lot Kahl was told that no longer makes sense.]

Empire want slaves. Want not to think about work, or hurt, or dying. Have others do.