Jude is looking out at a poorly constructed barricade that looks like turned over small carts and wagons with a seeming random assortment of crab, insect, lizard and octopus people riding what looks like many legged trees. Beyond the 15 beings and their mounts, there appears to be a medieval town with 4 foot walls. The town has smoke like any old human town like he has seen on tv.

Walking really slowly, Jude raises his hands. Everyone appears to look at him and then they focus on his right hand.

Looking at his own right hand he sees a wiggling green lizard that he forgot he captured.

What seems like slow motion, the octopus person on his tree steed animatedly points at him and gurgles something at those around him.

Trying to understand the reaction of the "People?" around him, he starts to lower his hands and starts to try and bite his fingernails until he remembers the green lizard. Thinking to himself, "I should sell green lizards as a solution to stop bad habits." Trying not to smile at his own errant though, he gently floats the lizard over his shoulder back toward the cave behind him with a light toss.

As soon as the lizard touches the ground, it immediately runs back straight for him. It jumps into the air.. Slowly.. And floats towards Jude's legs with it's tiny mouth open to commence with it's slightly annoying pinch attack.

Jude kicks it and the lizard explodes creating a cloud of lizard giblets.

"Of course, it exploded." He mutters in exasperation. Turning back to focus on the Octopus dude in front of him, he says. "No one else explode or attack me please!" He then smiles at them which causes them all to immediately dive behind the barricades, some being thrown off of their tree steeds. ? Streeds? Sure, Sure streeds it is.

The streeds are running around fleeing as fast as they can. Some of them running into each other or carts or trees in their panic. One of the things seems to have just passed out and is laying still on it's side. Do they breathe? He can't see it breathe.

Scratching his head in consternation, Jude just stands there for a full minute.

"Honey, I think you scared them."

"What! I thought I hung up." Focusing on his floating screens, he sees James and his mom both intently focusing on him, apparently still there.

"Ugggg!" Oh yea, "Personal Assistant?"

A calm female voice says, "What would you like?"

"Hang up on all my calls."

"Now wait a s.." Stephanie starts to complain before being cut off.

"Stream a video to my mom in case I die, so she knows what happened." Jude commands. To himself he thinks, "Let her nag my stream. I wonder if I'll get a lot of views, likes and comments."

"Yes Master Jude." says the voice making Jude a little uncomfortable being called master.

"No more 'master' please." Jude commands again. That's all he needs right now is to become a pretentious prick.

Focusing back to the forces arrayed in front of him, he says. "I am not a monster, I swear!"

No one reacts. Thinking to himself, "Duh! Of course they don't understand me."

More forces were slowly coming out of the town with the short walls but staying farther back.

Feeling a little antsy in the low gravity, he decides to sit rather than bounce around on his slightest movement. The ground is quite comfortable.

One of the insect creatures throws a bottle at him. Looking the slowly moving bottle he wonders what it is. Maybe they know he is thirsty?

When the bottle gets within range he rolls over a bit an reaches out and casually grabs it out of the air being careful not to break it. There is a cork stopper in the top of the bottle that looks kind of like a potion bottle in a VR game he used to play before things got weird on Earth.

Pulling the cork out, he sniffs the liquid. It smells like lemon water like when you would go to a restaurant, and they would cut lemon slices on the side of the water glass before serving.

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Putting a little drop on his tongue, it tastes kind of like lemon water but a little off. Shrugging his shoulders, he takes a sip before just upending the bottle and drinking the entire thing.

Looking up, he waves the empty bottle thankfully at the Grasshopper dude.

Everyone went completely still. The octopus guy hissed something at the grasshopper dude and it seemed as if the eyes were bugging out while he turned even slower than normal to stare at the octopus guy.

Jude had no idea what was going on and why they were all taking things so slow. He thought for sure he would be dragged to some dungeon somewhere and tortured and dissected, but these guys seem like they don't know what they are doing any more than I do.

It has been 15 minutes since he sat down and Jude was starting to get bored. Absently digging into the ground, he finds little rocks and crushes them with little popping noises. It feels like popping bubble wrap. Maybe the lower gravity made the rocks form less dense?

Yawning, he wonders if he should just lay down and take a nap when the octopus guy burbles to the grasshopper guy. Causing the grasshopper guy to stare at the octopus guy again.

The personal assistant voice speaks up. "Would you like to hear an attempt at translation? It will be very inaccurate but as they talk more, the certainty will start to increase accordingly."

"Sure?" Jude answers causing the beings to flinch and turn towards him again.

The octopus guy started hiss burbling at the grasshopper again. This time there was voices overlaid.

Octopus "I said go over and try to talk to it. You threw the ???bomb???. If he starts killing everyone, I'm going to make sure you are the first one he goes for."

Grasshopper. "You can't be serious! He showed his teeth in an aggressive display when trying to talk earlier."

Octopus: "Go now or I ??swear?? I will clip your ??arms/legs/feet?? and drag you out there as an offering."

A crab person in the back speaks up. "Be careful not to get too close. It has so much power pouring off of it you might get ether poisoning. Stay at least 12 ??measurement?? from it."

Grasshopper: "Cant we just wait for ??phrase?? to get here? They should be strong enough to kill it for sure."

Octopus: "Why do you think we are trying to delay it! Go and try and talk to it now!"

The grasshopper guy gets out from behind the cart with 2 of its appendages holding on as if to pull itself back into hiding. When nothing happens for about 2 minutes, it cautiously starts to move toward him.

Jude is still trying very hard to not get bored. They are moving so slow and taking at least 3 times as long to do things as a normal person which is starting to get on his nerves.

"Hello? I don't intend to try and hurt anyone. I'm trying to get back home. Can you understand me?" Jude winces at his own jumbled attempt at speech.

Upon starting to speak, the Grasshopper appears to want to flee in terror but when Jude makes no movement to chase it, it turns back to face him squarely.

The grasshopper starts to click, burble and hiss whereupon a voice overlays. "Hi! My name is ??indecipherable?? assigned as 'Jumpy' ". This causes Jude to almost laugh out loud at the pithy personal assistant's choice of name. Being careful not to show his teeth, he schools his facial expressions as best he can and continues to listen. "Why are you here out of the ??cave/dungeon?? ??death?? level?"

"Can I speak to him in his own language?" Jude asks his personal assistant?

"No. You have no capability to mimic those sounds".

"Damn!" Jude huffs. "Wait! It is a system that got installed by that dude back on earth, so maybe the system could be installed on the bug dude." Jude thinks excitedly.

"Could you install the system on the grasshopper guy so we could talk?"

On the faux monitor a message pops up. System infection routine started. .. ... Completed.

The bug flinches and fell over and started to writhe in pain and terror.

The crab person in the back yells clicks and hisses. "He must have gotten ether poisoning at that distance! He is 15 "Measurement" (system defines 15 hands as measurement). My god in space! What a monster!"

The grasshopper got back to its legs seeming stunned and eyes wide.

"Can you understand me?" Jude murmurs slowly.

The Grasshopper guy says, "Yes! I can." Taking about another 2 minutes to compose himself the grasshopper starts again. My name is Jumpy. Nice to meet you dungeon boss. Why have you left your dungeon? Aren't you feeling like dying for leaving it?"

"I'm not from the dungeon. I was summoned by a .. um Mage? that.. um .. died." Jude attempts to explain haltingly.

Jumpy seems to leak air with his mandibles wide. It turned to look at the Octopus guy and spoke. "He says he is not a dungeon boss. I think he says he was summoned, and the summoner died."

"Name the octopus guy Squiggles and the crab person "Pinchy" Jude says out loud as he smirks to himself.

"Noted" the personal assistant says.

"You want the names of %indecipherable%?" Jumpy asks, turning its head slightly.

"Sorry, I guess you aren't an NPC in a game. Just forget what I said." Jude rolls his eyes slightly.

The octopus guy , Squiggles says, "What is it saying? How are you understanding it?"

Jumpy still frozen in indecision eventually "turns to Squiggles and says, " It wants to play a game of forgetting letters. I'm thinking the words are not translating properly."

Jude slaps his forehead and shakes his head slowly in misery, causing Jumpy to fall forward in a crouch and flexing his legs to jump away.

Squiggles yells back toward the large group. "Someone get a translation rune!"

The group looks at themselves before one says "I'll go" and races slowly back toward the 2 foot tall gate to enter the town.

"I guess that gate may be big enough to stop the lizards", Jude thinks. Some of these 'people' are large enough to just step over the gate. "Maybe they have puppies in there they don't want getting out?" he continues the thought.

Awkwardly, Jumpy starts to relax and asks, "Why did you attack yourself?"

Startled, Jude remembers there is a dog sized sentient grasshopper named Jumpy 10 feet from him.

"That wasn't an attack. I was just expressing frustration our translation sucks."

Turning it's head, Jumpy's mandibles open as if to say something, pauses, then just shuts them. Starting again it says, "We should wait for the translation rune because it just translated that .. badly.. "