x - 0007 [Firewalker]

[call_me_spooky]

[Police Filter]

Well, as verifiable proof that no matter what dimension you're in, Mondays inherently suck... There's been an explosion in Building Five. A lot of property damage, but the fire looks to be under control, and most of the injuries seem minor. As far as I can tell there haven't been any deaths.

I've brought in a suspect for questioning, who was at the scene and covered in blood. As to what actually happened, I have no idea.

[ooc: aaand here's Mulder, helping out with plotty stuff, hope this works for ya? :D]

Comments

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Wow. All I can come up with is Welsh cannibals, and a near-miss with a space whale. Well, there was this...trap, here in the city, but that's...

Anyway. Right. Being digested, that pretty much beats it all, I think.

[call_me_spooky]

It was actually a remarkable experience. The organism releases a hallucinogenic spore to pacify its victims, and secretes a digestive acid which basically dissolves flesh. We weren't conscious of it... The whole time we lived in a sort of fantasy world, a mockery of reality woven of our memories and thoughts, our expectations.

Hurt like a bitch, afterward. So. Space whale?

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds intriguing. I bet Owen would have loved to study the spore's properties. You never know when something like that could be useful.

I can imagine it did! The um, space whale thing was...well there was this outfit who were passing off alien flesh as beef, and we discovered it was actually this enormous whale-like alien who'd got lost and come through the Rift. Poor thing was in so much pain, and it went a bit mad. We had to put it down, or it would have killed the whole team.

[call_me_spooky]

That sounds pretty unsanitary. People'll do anything to make a buck, right?

...And here I'd always assumed aliens would taste like chicken.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Well, don't know about making a buck, but anything that makes saving the world a little easier, I'm pretty much in support of.

Maybe different species taste like different things? This one definitely tasted of hamburger.

[call_me_spooky]

I've never had the opportunity to bite one, so I'll take your word for it.

Of course now I can't shake the idea of a McSpaceWhale with cheese.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Well... Right, that would be weird. To go about biting aliens.

You tease, but there's a very good chance I've had that! They were selling to Cardiff's meat suppliers, so there's no knowing where it wound up before we caught it.

[call_me_spooky]

Usually the other way around, right?

...that's. Wow. And no widespread adverse side effects?

No, scratch that, if it was in fast food who could tell?

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that seems to be more par for the course. Except when they're possessing people as sex gas or something. That was odd.

Far as we could tell, no one noticed the difference. Does make you wonder about the state of the meat packing industry, doesn't it?

[call_me_spooky]

I think your aliens are more fun than mine. Where I'm from they're prone to trying to destroy the human race en masse, or in more specific cases tearing their way out of host bodies. Mostly.

The meat-packing industry has always been one of the best arguments for vegetarianism. I'd recommend having the chicken instead, but the last chicken plant I visited was run by a cannibal cult, so maybe not.

[warped-inside.livejournal.com]

Oh we've got lots of those too. It's the whole reason my team even exists in our world. But there are so many types of aliens, we can't help but encounter ones now and then that have a more personal agenda. Or that are just...lost.

Ugh, cannibals. I'll take xenocidal aliens over those any day.