The moon in the preparation room…
After marking the ten people with the bright floating stars to make them readily visible at a glance to all of those present, the figure in the center of the room stood ramrod straight and emanated a serious demeanor, even though it's smile never left it's face it's eyes now gave off a grave feeling as if what was to come next was very important and serious.
Their strange host took a deep breath and began slowly, "Now for the explanation I'm sure all of you will no doubt hope will help clarify the events transpiring in the present…HAHAHHAhahahaHAhhaH!", midway through what seemed a very serious proclamation, the pale tuxedo clad figurel giving the speech broke out in what seemed to be uncontrollable laughter.
The laughter peeled on maniacally for a few moments before subsiding into a slight chuckle, and then ebbing away to a deep sigh, "Oh ooooh man I can't keep that serious stuff up for too long it just kills me, hehe let me continue with a little less formality hehe.", and with a final chuckle the figure spun it's head three-hundred and sixty degrees around bonelessly, "Ahhhhhh much better now as I was saying.", the mysterious figure was now leaning at an angle with an arm resting on something invisible instead of affecting the ramrod military posture from before.
"To start with my name using a pronunciation your vocal cords are capable of is Quirrel!", the newly self announced Quirrel slid a foot back and performed a deep bow while lifting a hand exaggeratedly behind and above itself. As it lifted it's head and met the gazes of those around it, it's eyes shone with an inner reddish glow that demanded attention.
Quirrel continued, "I'm part of a galactic empire that started THE SHOW around twenty-thousand years ago, and since then we have been searching out unexplored space and adopting other species we locate into our empire so that they can participate in THE SHOW as well.", at this he gestures lazily to all those assembled before him, "All of you may have noticed our scout drones while we studied and broke down your culture to better acclimatize this planet for streaming, when they appeared was about a day after we translated into this system.".
"It was you guys that destroyed the space station then wasn't it!", the intrusion was yelled out randomly from the crowd, but unexpectedly Quirrel spun in the air and stared directly across the room to the exact person who tried to yell anonymously before stating in a rather bored tone, "Yes, please refrain from interrupting again please?", the reply was dismissive and ended with Quirrel raising both of it's eyebrows in annoyance.
"Or what?", it was the same person as before showing little regard for this being in front of him that was making these crazy claims.
"Well…this actually.", Quirrel said in an excited tone as it flicked it's double set of fingers.
The moment that Quirrel finished the aggressively loud fingers snap the man in the back who had been shouting out fell with a shriek as what looked to be electricity coruscated across his body in blinding violent arcs, causing those close to exclaim in surprise and fright while edging away from the poor soul who was writhing on the ground smoking, it took a few moments before he finally fell unconscious and lay still.
Seb and everyone around him that he could hear made varying noises as they watched the man cook and writhe on the ground only to fall deathly silent after a few agonizing moments.
"Ugh that's unfortunate, but there's always one…Now he will have to watch a vid capture of what I have to say next so that he can keep informed.", this last bit was said as if it was a massive inconvenience for Quirrel as opposed to the smoking man lying unconscious it had just zapped.
"Now as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, Ahem!", Quirrel exaggeratedly cleared it's throat and continued, "Ever since we made our grand entrance into the system our engineers and scientists have been hard at work adapting our vast knowledge pertaining to all of the sciences and crafts to fit with the human biology and its mutable form!", the sentence was punctuated with Quirrel closing it's fist and seemingly broadening it's huge smile a degree or two.
Recovering quickly Quirrel did a shallow backflip coming close to those in the crowd, causing some to scatter before it continued, "This brings us to our next point my precious gamers, the antagonists for the start of this story!", and at the ending of the brief explanation it hopped a small circle clapping before spinning upwards and pointing towards an area of space to it's side, "TA-DA!".
Unlike with Quirrel's entrance the hollo that appeared just winked into existence with little fanfare and pomp, it depicted a human being in a skin tight body suit that covered most of its body.
But before Quirrel could begin again a woman covered in blood with ripped and disheveled clothes who was quietly sobbing all the way through his explanation so far finally exploded with an outburst of emotion, "What kind of bull sh!t are you talking about! I've been fighting for my f*cking life and watched as my husband was torn apart in front of me by one of those things with scissors for arms!", she was wailing and pointing at the image that was slowly rotating beside Quirrel becoming more agitated by the second.
Seb couldn't see the woman yelling at Quirre,l but he knew that she wouldn't stop yelling until she was either finished yelling or someone stopped her…there was an amount of anguish in her voice that he had heard before, and knowing this he brought a hand up to his temple and leaned slightly forward as he waited for a far more gut wrenching feminine scream to resound through the area.
"And you try and paint this as being adopted into your f*cking great empire you piece of shi-", before she could finish Quirrel once again snapped his fingers, but this time the woman didn't erupt in electrical discharge but just froze in place and fell, surprising all especially those who couldn't see what had happened to her.
Quirrel with that ever present smile seemed to be looking down with pity towards the frozen woman, it waited a moment all the while staring at her before it once more regarded the room again and continued, "While some of you may have gone through hardships you are now part of the Production empire and as such can now perform in THE SHOW as well as benefit from our protection as long as this planet produces content for viewing pleasure. And believe me you have to be glad we found you first as opposed to some of the other unsavory species out there that ply the void. Now moving on-", but it seemed the interruptions hadn't stopped just yet.
"Hold up!", this came from someone who had a star rotating above their head and by the look of him he was a soldier in full combat gear, but quite clean, possibly about to begin training before he was abducted as opposed to actually being in the field.
The soldier continued immediately once he had Quirrel's attention who slowly rotated to look down at him, "We didn't sign up for this, you can't force us into whatever it is you are planning to do to us!", he shouted this so loudly that Seb who was Listening from the sidelines almost thought that the soldier believed it himself.
Even with it's ever present smile you could see at a glance that Quirrel was starting to get irritated with these interruptions, and it showed in it's response, "I'm sorry but participation in THE SHOW is compulsory for those in the empire in one regard or another so you don't have a choice, besides it's an honor that can win you great prestige SIR.", the last was delivered quite snidely and with a slight closing of the eyes above the toothy smile.
"Bull sh!t,", the soldier exclaimed before racking the slide on his rifle and pointing it at Quirrel, "let us go now.".