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...charge of insertion.

"What is it, Strongback?"

"Well sir, it looks like we have a few options. We could take the tunnel network known as the Vents, which would probably be the safest way to get there; there are no humans. But it's very indirect and probably the slowest way of getting there. We could try and harness the giant Lifter the humans use. that would be the easiest, fastest, and most direct, but by far the most dangerous; there are humans everywhere in that thing."

"And the last option?"

Strongback looked up at the Cloudreacher. "Well sir, the last option is straight up. That stuff you can see right through, we checked it out, it's unclimbable, but we could probably get a grip on the rest of the structure. It would be a long climb, but there are ridges all over the damn thing we could rest on. We'd also have to break in when we actually get up to the objective."

"It's not really much of a choice, Lieutenant. We're obviously going to be..."

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aryst0krat Just go nuts. The silliness knows no bounds.

Snail Vocab:

Slablands: Sidewalks
Road: That would be the road.
Cloudreachers: Skyscrapers
Sittee: City
Shadowshells: Recon and Intel Snails, Black Ops
The Crawling: A mass aimless crawl that the snails have been training for for generations; a last resort.
Shell-lore: The history and legends of snailkind.
Shells-above: An expression of awe.
Salt: A dirty, dirty curse-word. Not for young snails to hear.

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