"We're mining for a bunch of stuff. Gems, gold, diamonds. Lode stones, too."
"They were more of us, but I think they all died in the collapse. They area they were in was completely destroyed."
"A Lode Stone, huh? Its short for
Long-distance
Outer-spatial
Data
Exchange
Stone. Its a kind of ultra-micro resonance communication device." ...
What?"You can talk to other people who have Lode Stones over long distances."
Oh."They are small, hard rocks. We were looking for ones in the river, but we didn't find any and moved on. Ones found in rivers are better, because the moving rapids wear it down into a natural sphere, which is better at transmitting frequencies. We were going to look for others in the rocks, which are more common but require extra work to get working. You see, all Lode Stones came from a meteorite. They have a special property to tune in... Sorry, I'm rambling."
I begin to drink some mushroom juice, but the man stops me. "What the hell are you doing? Bioluminescent organisms are very poisonous!"
I showed a concerned look on my face: I'd been carrying this an its highly poisonous!
Seeing the look on my face, he said, "Oh, don't worry. Its only dangerous to eat. Haha!"
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