Hello. I, uh, I have a question for the...nonhumans? Is that an okay word?

And the humans, too, I guess, it's really for anyone who has an answer, I'm not going to only listen to one group or anything and-- um. Yeah.

Anyway, I was just...I was wondering how someone could tell if a person isn't human other than just asking? Since that seems kind of rude. O-or I could be wrong, asking could be fine, that's a perfectly okay answer!

...appearance isn't, though. Isn't a good answer, I mean. It's...it's kind of the problem. For me.

[That Feel When EVERYONE looks like a valid instance of your world's version of humans and you really don't want to accidentally be speciesist or rude.]

[It's been like two weeks since pumpkin carving happened. A cute and fun event that probably doesn't seem that important to most.

The Hollow Knight begs to differ.

The voice on the network is non-descript. The default for those with no voice of their own. You might've assumed that, with how little they communicate even considering their muteness, the Hollow Knight just doesn't have a lot to say.

You would be wrong.]

The purpose of surrounding oneself with the hue of death willingly still escapes me, even as time passes. It still remains, like a mockery, and no one understands the danger of it. Do they just not care?

I swear these virulent spheres are up to something and no one here will be safe until they're gone!

Even a trace of the light's influence should be destroyed, not simply carved into a decoration. It's inviting doom on us all. Just how much more of it is present here? How far does it reach?

Why does it have to be so orange?!

[...they're ranting about a color.]

Hey, we have a situation over at the memorial on Umui. We have people trapped under it. Bring something to cover your face with and anything to help you dig.

...if you haven’t been to Umui best you stay away. [His mind is on the Stage One Alert. He has to camp on this island now.]

Who else has talked to Arum 25? We should pool what they said together and see if we have any further clues.

[Hey there, Enso, it's ya boy Lance. Or ya stranger Lance, he hasn't exactly been a social butterfly on account of abruptly disappearing.

But, anyways, he is here, on your rock, laying down his dulcet tones because a discover has been made.]

Sooo that new island, right? With all the nothing and the flowers? [You know the one.] Had a little search party and found a letter - or more like a diary page, really? Keith [who you might hear int he background, or you might not, we're doing it live] thinks it's pretty important.

[There's the careful rustle of paper, as Lance doublechecks the scroll.]

Some of the writing at the bottom got damaged, but whoever wrote this was evacuating their home - some place called Tempide - because it was being swallowed by the sea? [Or it was something else that had the side-effect of raising sea levels.] Or collapsing, which they say had happened before.

They ended up at a temple which - might be somewhere on this island? We found this at a dock.

[There's a brief pause, because what do you really...say when you're dealing with something like this?]

There's more, but I don't really know what it means. But somebody else might find something that explains more.

Mm, yep. This sure is a tagcloud.