So the second story's moral is "Humans have demons in them, but that's not scary. The fact that they keep them easily locked and can free them willingly, now THAT'S the terrifying part"
Native American Marines. Black Army and Navy troops. Non-citizens earning citizenship by offering up their lives. It's nothing new. No matter what those troops look like or eat or breathe, they're humans and don't anyone dare say otherwise.
They're not wrong to fear the tower, hell the demon getting loose isn't even the worst the golden key can do, woe be to those that give the towers master and the demon something to agree on
While working as a bouncer at a gentleman's club we had a patron try to slap the rears of the dancers as they walked past his table. I gave him and his friends a warning not to touch the dancers, so the genius slapped the rear of their waitress. She proceeded to slap him across the face, and started yelling at him. Just as I was reaching the table to evict him from the bar he jumped up grabbed a beer bottle and raised it over his head to hit her with it. His three friends and the waitress got to learn what it sounds like when a human shoulder is dislocated by being pulled straight up above someone's head. They also all got to learn that could scream like a little girl.
@elderblackdragon Yeah a janitor at my elementary school taught me that growing up and again when I wrestled in middle school. Never heard the sound, but it's surprisingly easy to do if you know how.
But woe be ye if you're of an excessively neurotic species stuck in the same room with a human doing paperwork and he half-jokes, "this isn't even my final form."
First story: Have they been abandoned and/or persecuted? Are they willing to adapt? Will they accept others' differences? Will they take hardship and grind it to dust with sheer stubbornness and spite? If the answers are "YES," then they are human. Maybe not "Terran", but definitely human.
Could you imagine alien species with no concept of normal every day people being capable of extreme acts? Like how terrifying it must be for that character to come to the realization that every human if needed, can do things like rip an enemy to pieces with their bare hands, or continue fighting with more strength than before when mortally wounded. Plenty of cases of parents who lifted entire cars off their child, or in a fight for their lives inflicting nearly incomprehensible damage with only their fists. Then you give that person a weapon and it's far worse. Honestly, when we inevitably meet another species I feel if they aren't from a similar or worse world, we'd be looked at like monsters. Hell I certainly see some of us that way already.
Humans are actually pretty terrifying when it comes down to it. Especially how we hunt I imagine us being endurance hunters is pretty terrifying for animals.
@@phoenixx913 100% That is the most terrifying part of us. Even taking our penchant for throwing things out of it, just the fact we keep running until what we're hunting collapses is a pretty messed up thing to do. Like, we as a species already use that mindset in many things and I could see outlaws being chased across the galaxy until they can't run anymore making for some good stories.
@@KaiHenningsen No, they are pack hunters. Things never get a chance to run as they get encircled. Humans are the definition of endurance hunters and are literally the only thing on the planet that evolved that way! Dogs (and the wolves they come from) hunt in packs and kill by biting the throat of their target. They absolutely are NOT endurance hunters. An endurance hunter wounds you then chases you till you completely collapse and can no longer move. They don't even need to wound you, just constantly chase you. The reason humans can do this is because we can sweat from our entire body. There is only one other animal capable of this but it is not even half as effective for them and that is the horse. Humans can function on very little sleep (we are actually designed to sleep twice a day for 2-4 hours each, NOT once a day for 7-8 hours. corporations and governments forced us into this odd sleep schedule and it is not the best for our health) and can keep going thanks to how effective out digestive system is at getting energy. Humans require meat for this however. We are omnivores but that means we require a balanced diet of both greens and meat. We get the majority of our energy from meat however. Long as humans have some jerky and the ability to nap, they can keep up the chase on an animal till it collapses from overheating and complete exhaustion. A human can walk right up and kill it easily then. THIS is what an endurance hunt is all about. You need not even wound the prey, just chase it.
@@Nempo13 Several canid species can pursue their prey for several miles at high speed while nipping at the hindquarters until blood loss and exhaustion weakens it. But don't expect them to run a marathon. There are a handful of dog breeds that can husky (150 mi/day), malamutes (10 mi) and rhodesian ridgbacks (6-8 mi) come to mind.
Finally got it. The reinforcements. They are like The French Foreign Legion. Especially the part about ignoring commands and having greater loss in lives than starting amount of soldiers... Thank you for the story.
Deathworlder: "Yeah, so I followed up on our conversation by searching their internet. I thought he must've been joking..b-but... have a look." **turns phone towards alien HR displaying a compilation of humans on adrenaline rush: mothers lifting cars, a man lifting a helicopter, riots, a soldier picking up his own servered arm and beating another with it** "And that's not all. Their fiction glorifies and encourages using that golden key. Attack on Titan springs to mind." **A human's voice rings out from the doorway** Human: "Sure, but then how do you explain Doom Guy?"
@@blehbleh8552 "If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
I can translate the last one from prole to aristocrat. "With what I know now, I cannot bear to be near such a titan of a man- I thought perhaps we coexisted in a shared space equally, but now I see that I am but a rat in his parlor. As of yet he has not found my presence intrusive, and the occasional nibble of his bread and cheese has not sullied his own appetite, but I now live in fear for the day that he decides I am no longer welcome in his domain."
In the first story, I like how anyone can be a Human. I also like how humans have the reputation as cunning, almost uncontrollable, brutes. It leans into Humans as space orcs. Humans as expert tool users lines up with the squishy apex predator. The are many animals that can take a single unarmed human, but none that can take on an armed pack of them.
I've always liked the take that humans are clever tool users, but only the apex species of their home world because the moment anything not human harms one, all the others put those tools to use destroying whatever did it. It's like finding out the friendly mascot turns into a piranha. So the natural response of other predators was to learn not to take that 'easy meal' and not let their fellows do it either. Because the humans don't just shoot the one wolf, they start shooting all the wolves they can find. See Wolves and England for where that goes. It's what peaceful humans are like, because at least when humans are fighting each other it's obvious they're dangerous.
The second story is one of the best analogies I've heard for self restraint. Some of the nicest people can be the absolute worst nightmare to those who wrong them or those close to them, especially their kids.
@@KaiHenningsen No, having _chosen_ that path, they _are_ nice people. The seemingy nice ones are the hypocrits who pretend, & go through the motions when those they deem 'important' might see them, but who are assholes in normal day to day encounters. eg. the classic 'Karen', or Sunday after church people who are rude & arrogant to the cafe staff tropes. Or anyone who treats staff in shops or other places as lesser beings.
The wrath part is still demon, but rather than being bound by the chains of morals or ethics, it is free & aimed by a dubious sense of (usually very narrow) morals. Which is why it is scarier.
As always great content, story 2 made me recall something that terrified my roommate. While at work we were unloading mobility chairs (the old people lil scooter things, with batteries in they weigh 80-200 or so pounds depending on size) from the back of a truck. Now I'm not the biggest guy, barely 6ft around 200lbs, but thinner build, like i don't look scary big or anything. Usually we were unloading it with 2 people for safety and ease. Another employee at the time had been pissing everyone off almost intentionally, and while I'm usually the nice, joking, and fun guy it got me. So I lost my temper, told the young guy off, rather loudly and unpolite and began grabbing chairs solo to work off the anger. My coworkers and roommate later said sure it was odd seeing me lose my cool since I'm usually the calm one, but what made everyone stop and go wide eyed (something i didn't see at the time since I just doubled down on work) was that I was grabbing the heavy ones, swinging them like I was going to throw them only to stop on a dime and set them down carefully like they weighed nothing. I don't particularly remember doing anything memorable, but the general consensus was the lifting something heavy wasn't bad, the "ripping the scooters off the flat bed" wasn't bad, it was the sudden stop and careful placement like nothing was wrong that got them.
One of the most powerfull insights in my opinion is perspective. And these stories being told by fictional aliens had me learning and thinking a lot about myself, humanity, what is out there, and what is within. Ots absolutely true, humans have demons inside them. Its also true that an almost all humans have an iron tower of willpower keeping it in check. However, our aloen friends really dont know, how close we are from letting it lose, how thin thqt iron tower can become over time, abuse and despair. And how a raging demon is let lose when it all come crumbling down, letting out hell itself.
for those that aren't aware the draconians are species from dragonlance which is a sub series of dnd who are humanoid dragon kin who were made by the corruption dragon eggs to be born as humanoids to serve the evil dragon goddess of the setting usually from eggnapped eggs of good dragons so just another rpg reference from a string of them
Ahhh yes. The Demon we all know so well, yet keep locked tightly away. Yet the Demon still prowls and drives us to be better than we are. To conquer great heights. Lift the heaviest of burdens. Explore the farthest corners. Drive us to the Stars.
I like to think a lot of that drive is a kind of compromise with the demon. (since part of it is the vice of Pride) Like "I'm not willing to kill Marty, but help me climb that mountain and I'll gladly rub that in his smug face."
humanity survived this long by knowing when and how to use that demon, aint gotta worry about it springing out unless shits already catastrophically fucked
Well, one of Niven's Known Space stories is about Kzinti visiting Earth to understand why they lost. They went on a safari in Africa (cuz origin of humans) and were mauled by a lion pack. Their take: Y'all survived this!??? Where we can't, not fair!!!!
OMG 15 hours the 40k book on imperial guard had a situation like that with a unit suffering over 100% casualties and still be at 45% combat strength lmfao nice easter Egg there
Here’s one that will truly terrify some people no matter what species they are. A hostile alien battalion shows up at a human base because their troops called for reinforcements, upon arriving, they find nothing but carnage, and not a single friendly soldier alive. Amongst all this carnage, just three humans are spotted, conversing with one another. One human looks to the other two and says, “looks like the warm-up is over” The alien commander wasn’t afraid of just three humans, he killed numerous ones up to that point. Was scared him to the bottom of his soul was the grins these three humans had before they rushed.
If anyone ever wants a truly good example of how humanity not only harnesses that demon, but trains it to become stronger…. Just look at any military personnel who have been in a combat situation. That demon inside of them, becomes them, and a lot of the time we like who we become, that’s why it’s so difficult to transition back to a civilian life. We are chaos incarnate, we thrive in conflict and strife.
I love how The human military remnants in this are depicted as just the Starcraft Marines. A bunch of angry mismatched disorderly soldiers And other stragglers and taggalongs that just decided to join in and even a ship's pet. If that don't say humanity on the frontier front lines I don't know what does. I also love the fact that humans look after their own Logistical Situations. They know first hand just how bad logistics can be when it comes to trying to get supplies to the line in time so they figure screw it. They'll just get whatever they need by Scaving and taking everything they can get their greasy metal Mits on. Something that everyone needs to learn when you're around A human In war time. If you are not using it a human is going to find a far. Better way to use it than you ever will so just give it to them instead. Even more so that after the last human died the regiment did not die. More recruits kept coming in probably hearing tales of these insane maniacs, Gladly adopting The trappings and behavior of humans long since Passed on. Our culture Of warfare, even if we are not immortal, Is immortal. Some humans put their demon Inside of a tower, others in a gilded cage of iron, Some chain them down to some immortal rock tossed out into the infinite of thought. And a strange few select individuals do something unspeakable even among humans. They murder their demons outright gut and hollow out their insides They take the bones and turn them into weapons. They take the skin and cure it into armor they take the blood and boil it into poisons and potions to increase their strength and their killing potential. For those humans they have decided that they would absorb the demon that they would make it part of themselves and If use what was left to become their armour and weaponry. If we call these very few select humans These strange godlings among our people. The doom slayers. For they have quite literally slayed the doom inside the heart of the human soul and used it to become even more powerful than most could possibly imagine. And more horrific than any demon could dare to dream to be. For they rip and tear without question fear or mercy. Until the job is done. And as long as demons exist be in the physical the mental or the spiritual. The job will never be done. That's why every doomslayer is branded with a special mark on their arm indicating who they are what they've done and just how dangerous they can be. Do not face the children of the realm of doom. To awaken these living Monsters wearing demons for armor and Clothing. It's to awaken the death of all life in the universe and all the multiverse In continuation for all Perpetuity.
Well it can't be a proper Human logistics train if they aren't stealing (sorry requisition, or is it souvenired?") anything they may want or need that isn't nailed down. And if it was nailed down then they also take whatever it was nailed down to.
"Human" platoons story: Sounds about right. I wonder if they have adopted the human mode of combat? The aliens really need to learn what a funny bone is (it ain't funny) and maybe what an RPG is as well (and I don't mean Rocket Propelled Grenade).
Goodday, sir. I have to say..since your face appeared in your awsome readings, the listening has risen to new hights of enjoyment. It helps to focus on the story immensely. Thank you good sir...i follow closely.
lol, it would have been a tad bit more serious if the second story used Carl Jung instead of a TTRPG for the imprisonment of the demon, or Jung would call a Shadow.
"mismatch of troopers who had been left behind for dead, recruited vengeful civilians from previous theaters of conflict and even a former ship mascot" Oh shit, they made the space equivalent of the French Foreign legion...
I read somewhere "when you bring the pacifist humans to blood vengeance, you dun fecked up in the worst way"... Which is basically the same saying only- a bit more colorful
Story two; Be wary the wrath of a quiet man. Story one; something something sun tsu, something something ark, something something bang two grenades together. hoo-ah! ( oorah? ... feck-yeah to rephrase in YT valid terms.
amusing really, becuase its not a great tower of iron will, its a rusted door, held only by a presure switch, and enough hunger, rage, or despair can release the weight keeping that pressure switch and door down... its not nearly as secuse a system as many would like to think due to theyre own pleasent lives of reletivly mild conflicts and problems....
Sometimes in these stories, I imagine the writers created some of these names just HOPING you will decide to narrate them, and hope to trip you up. Tenetepmochni? Good on ya' with that one.
@Agro Squirrel Narrates Why do you actually wear those ear pieces and what function do they serve? Would you mind showing your setup and how you make the videos?
They let you hear your own voice in the recording, they let you know how loud your being. You ever worn headphones and tried to talk to someone and you talked really loud cause you couldnt hear yourself
each time he narrates an interesting alien name i catch myself thinking- it would be fun to get a compilation of him failing these names and swearing out :))
Greetings Mentlegent! For the Rhyhtm that is Algo We support you no matter the earpiece, Agro! Story 1: Kept waiting for the humans to show up, never did. Story 2: Okay yeah, awesome!
Stories and story telling is top notch. I'd like to know how agro squirl got into all this. Does he like the stories or just narrating? How does a dude who looks like he should be swinging a battle ax in some viking raid get into something considered nerdy. There's no one in my life I can talk about these stories with because well I'm from the hood and I'm the nerdiest person around. Anyways, thanks agro squirl.
I have enjoyed Fantasy and Sci-Fi since a kid , the narrating thing start mostly out of desperation. My previous business failed , long story short I didn't have a lot of options so I decided to do RUclips narrations with Fantasy and Sci-Fi because there wasn't really anyone else doing it at the time other then horror.
I'd like to point out that the tank in the thumbnail has barely any travers on the turret because it slants down for the impractical four barrel coaxial and makes it impossible to get more than, and I'm probably being too generous on this, ten degrees of rotation maximum and depending on how far the driver's hatch extends that may be even less to the right or it may be impossible for the turret to even turn that way, it has either the most impractical fender for the front of the tracks or the "fender" is actually the front part of the tracks in which case the thing can't move at all because the tracks aren't even connected to themselves. Can you give us a link to the thumbnail? I want to analyze it better.
“Okay, what do we have to turn this horror of a gore show around?” “Not much sir…the humans sent…four tanks…three mobile artillery units…and an Irish football hooligan with a crate of Guinness?”
Don't downplay the ear piece, make it bigger, more sci-fi! Like a full blown comm unit translated thingamajig!
Absolutely!
Definitely!
To be fair something super low profile sounds more technologically advanced to me
Star Trek, Uhura 🙂
Someone with a 3D printer send him an Uhura earpiece! If I had one, I'd do it myself!
So the second story's moral is "Humans have demons in them, but that's not scary. The fact that they keep them easily locked and can free them willingly, now THAT'S the terrifying part"
If you read Medal of Honor citations, you can learn when and how the demon gets unleashed.
@@tonyjanney1654 same with VC citations. you can see where the swich gets flipped.
Don’t make Carl “open up a can”.
Story 1. They may not be humans but they were trained by humans. The next best thing.
Native American Marines. Black Army and Navy troops. Non-citizens earning citizenship by offering up their lives.
It's nothing new. No matter what those troops look like or eat or breathe, they're humans and don't anyone dare say otherwise.
So, slightly insane, then? :-)
They are the french foreign legion in space.
Human by adoption; if they've been classified by humans as pack and family, then they count~
@@alexisgrunden1556 Humans, for all their savagery, are remarkably good at that. Get attached to objects and gear they can!
They're not wrong to fear the tower, hell the demon getting loose isn't even the worst the golden key can do, woe be to those that give the towers master and the demon something to agree on
While working as a bouncer at a gentleman's club we had a patron try to slap the rears of the dancers as they walked past his table. I gave him and his friends a warning not to touch the dancers, so the genius slapped the rear of their waitress. She proceeded to slap him across the face, and started yelling at him. Just as I was reaching the table to evict him from the bar he jumped up grabbed a beer bottle and raised it over his head to hit her with it. His three friends and the waitress got to learn what it sounds like when a human shoulder is dislocated by being pulled straight up above someone's head. They also all got to learn that could scream like a little girl.
Exactly my thoughts on #2!
@elderblackdragon Yeah a janitor at my elementary school taught me that growing up and again when I wrestled in middle school. Never heard the sound, but it's surprisingly easy to do if you know how.
Woe betide the poor soul that gives the demon and it's master common cause.
That's when you use the key... The day you both fear, & _eagerly await._
Story 2: as long as the human does not clutch one eye or one hand and start monologuing abot unleashing their power, you should be fine.
At least as long as you don't shoot his dog.
But woe be ye if you're of an excessively neurotic species stuck in the same room with a human doing paperwork and he half-jokes, "this isn't even my final form."
When he starts yelling "the power sealed withing my right arm is about to be unleashed" then it's probably time to run
*human reinforcements*
-Not a war crime the 1st time
-danger close
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@@FireLover7004 STEAL for short.
All tropes that perfectly describe humanity.
@@FireLover7004If all else fails, Quackbang Out.
@@JaxMerrick*Quackbang* quak!
First story:
Have they been abandoned and/or persecuted?
Are they willing to adapt?
Will they accept others' differences?
Will they take hardship and grind it to dust with sheer stubbornness and spite?
If the answers are "YES," then they are human. Maybe not "Terran", but definitely human.
Could you imagine alien species with no concept of normal every day people being capable of extreme acts? Like how terrifying it must be for that character to come to the realization that every human if needed, can do things like rip an enemy to pieces with their bare hands, or continue fighting with more strength than before when mortally wounded. Plenty of cases of parents who lifted entire cars off their child, or in a fight for their lives inflicting nearly incomprehensible damage with only their fists. Then you give that person a weapon and it's far worse. Honestly, when we inevitably meet another species I feel if they aren't from a similar or worse world, we'd be looked at like monsters. Hell I certainly see some of us that way already.
Humans are actually pretty terrifying when it comes down to it. Especially how we hunt I imagine us being endurance hunters is pretty terrifying for animals.
@@phoenixx913 100% That is the most terrifying part of us. Even taking our penchant for throwing things out of it, just the fact we keep running until what we're hunting collapses is a pretty messed up thing to do. Like, we as a species already use that mindset in many things and I could see outlaws being chased across the galaxy until they can't run anymore making for some good stories.
@@glassramenThat's probably how dogs got domesticated - they're endurance hunters, too.
@@KaiHenningsen No, they are pack hunters. Things never get a chance to run as they get encircled. Humans are the definition of endurance hunters and are literally the only thing on the planet that evolved that way! Dogs (and the wolves they come from) hunt in packs and kill by biting the throat of their target. They absolutely are NOT endurance hunters. An endurance hunter wounds you then chases you till you completely collapse and can no longer move. They don't even need to wound you, just constantly chase you. The reason humans can do this is because we can sweat from our entire body. There is only one other animal capable of this but it is not even half as effective for them and that is the horse. Humans can function on very little sleep (we are actually designed to sleep twice a day for 2-4 hours each, NOT once a day for 7-8 hours. corporations and governments forced us into this odd sleep schedule and it is not the best for our health) and can keep going thanks to how effective out digestive system is at getting energy. Humans require meat for this however. We are omnivores but that means we require a balanced diet of both greens and meat. We get the majority of our energy from meat however. Long as humans have some jerky and the ability to nap, they can keep up the chase on an animal till it collapses from overheating and complete exhaustion. A human can walk right up and kill it easily then. THIS is what an endurance hunt is all about. You need not even wound the prey, just chase it.
@@Nempo13 Several canid species can pursue their prey for several miles at high speed while nipping at the hindquarters until blood loss and exhaustion weakens it. But don't expect them to run a marathon. There are a handful of dog breeds that can husky (150 mi/day), malamutes (10 mi) and rhodesian ridgbacks (6-8 mi) come to mind.
Finally got it. The reinforcements. They are like The French Foreign Legion. Especially the part about ignoring commands and having greater loss in lives than starting amount of soldiers... Thank you for the story.
My personal demon wears his gold key around his neck, it keeps sayin… we smash stuff now?
Deathworlder:
"Yeah, so I followed up on our conversation by searching their internet. I thought he must've been joking..b-but... have a look."
**turns phone towards alien HR displaying a compilation of humans on adrenaline rush: mothers lifting cars, a man lifting a helicopter, riots, a soldier picking up his own servered arm and beating another with it**
"And that's not all. Their fiction glorifies and encourages using that golden key. Attack on Titan springs to mind."
**A human's voice rings out from the doorway**
Human:
"Sure, but then how do you explain Doom Guy?"
Doom slayer. Well you take a human to their physical and emotional extreme and have them full of vengeance.
I think Doom Guy is best explained with a line from Doctor Who.
"Demons run when a good man goes to war."
@@blehbleh8552 "If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man.
Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
GLORIOUS!!😂😂😂
The Doom Guy ripped his tower apart and crafted an armor for his inner demon and gave him full control.
I can translate the last one from prole to aristocrat.
"With what I know now, I cannot bear to be near such a titan of a man- I thought perhaps we coexisted in a shared space equally, but now I see that I am but a rat in his parlor. As of yet he has not found my presence intrusive, and the occasional nibble of his bread and cheese has not sullied his own appetite, but I now live in fear for the day that he decides I am no longer welcome in his domain."
The intrusive thoughts can't win. They cannot win. DO NOT TOUCH/EAT THE GLOWING HOT ORANGE GLASS.😂
Four of the voices are the nicest beings you would ever meet.
The last one though, that one is a whole different story.
Regular response to my inner thoughts. "No, I don't need to touch the car part the tech just cut off with a torch."
But 😢… the spicy honey looks so pretty 😍
BUT I LOVE TAFFY, YOU ARE LYING TO ME THAT HAS TO BE TAFFY
It is *The Forbidden popsicle*
Lol, basically the introduction to the concept of "the shadow"....
But described way more dramatically!
Let's face it, it would make for a much more engaging class than some lecturer.
In the first story, I like how anyone can be a Human.
I also like how humans have the reputation as cunning, almost uncontrollable, brutes. It leans into Humans as space orcs.
Humans as expert tool users lines up with the squishy apex predator. The are many animals that can take a single unarmed human, but none that can take on an armed pack of them.
I've always liked the take that humans are clever tool users, but only the apex species of their home world because the moment anything not human harms one, all the others put those tools to use destroying whatever did it. It's like finding out the friendly mascot turns into a piranha. So the natural response of other predators was to learn not to take that 'easy meal' and not let their fellows do it either. Because the humans don't just shoot the one wolf, they start shooting all the wolves they can find. See Wolves and England for where that goes.
It's what peaceful humans are like, because at least when humans are fighting each other it's obvious they're dangerous.
The second story is one of the best analogies I've heard for self restraint. Some of the nicest people can be the absolute worst nightmare to those who wrong them or those close to them, especially their kids.
I think you lost a "seemingly" in there somewhere.
@@KaiHenningsen No, having _chosen_ that path, they _are_ nice people.
The seemingy nice ones are the hypocrits who pretend, & go through the motions when those they deem 'important' might see them, but who are assholes in normal day to day encounters. eg. the classic 'Karen', or Sunday after church people who are rude & arrogant to the cafe staff tropes. Or anyone who treats staff in shops or other places as lesser beings.
Some may have a raging demon, but scarier still are those that have righteous wrath and a wicked target locked in their sights.
Beware the righteous man, for he will not hesitate to chop of a head if he deems it just. He wil not monologue or argue, but just act.
That is still a demon.
The wrath part is still demon, but rather than being bound by the chains of morals or ethics, it is free & aimed by a dubious sense of (usually very narrow) morals. Which is why it is scarier.
As always great content, story 2 made me recall something that terrified my roommate.
While at work we were unloading mobility chairs (the old people lil scooter things, with batteries in they weigh 80-200 or so pounds depending on size) from the back of a truck. Now I'm not the biggest guy, barely 6ft around 200lbs, but thinner build, like i don't look scary big or anything. Usually we were unloading it with 2 people for safety and ease. Another employee at the time had been pissing everyone off almost intentionally, and while I'm usually the nice, joking, and fun guy it got me. So I lost my temper, told the young guy off, rather loudly and unpolite and began grabbing chairs solo to work off the anger.
My coworkers and roommate later said sure it was odd seeing me lose my cool since I'm usually the calm one, but what made everyone stop and go wide eyed (something i didn't see at the time since I just doubled down on work) was that I was grabbing the heavy ones, swinging them like I was going to throw them only to stop on a dime and set them down carefully like they weighed nothing. I don't particularly remember doing anything memorable, but the general consensus was the lifting something heavy wasn't bad, the "ripping the scooters off the flat bed" wasn't bad, it was the sudden stop and careful placement like nothing was wrong that got them.
One of the most powerfull insights in my opinion is perspective.
And these stories being told by fictional aliens had me learning and thinking a lot about myself, humanity, what is out there, and what is within.
Ots absolutely true, humans have demons inside them.
Its also true that an almost all humans have an iron tower of willpower keeping it in check.
However, our aloen friends really dont know, how close we are from letting it lose, how thin thqt iron tower can become over time, abuse and despair.
And how a raging demon is let lose when it all come crumbling down, letting out hell itself.
Also how, of some alien ever manages to get the Human and the Demon to be in agreement about something, we get an easy r/HFY story
Thank you Agro! I can't wait till you recover enough to start doing your series again! Love you bro!
for those that aren't aware the draconians are species from dragonlance which is a sub series of dnd who are humanoid dragon kin who were made by the corruption dragon eggs to be born as humanoids to serve the evil dragon goddess of the setting usually from eggnapped eggs of good dragons so just another rpg reference from a string of them
Ahhh yes. The Demon we all know so well, yet keep locked tightly away. Yet the Demon still prowls and drives us to be better than we are. To conquer great heights. Lift the heaviest of burdens. Explore the farthest corners. Drive us to the Stars.
I like to think a lot of that drive is a kind of compromise with the demon. (since part of it is the vice of Pride)
Like "I'm not willing to kill Marty, but help me climb that mountain and I'll gladly rub that in his smug face."
humanity survived this long by knowing when and how to use that demon, aint gotta worry about it springing out unless shits already catastrophically fucked
I've got a Cage myself , and the Key is Always nearby.
Well, one of Niven's Known Space stories is about Kzinti visiting Earth to understand why they lost. They went on a safari in Africa (cuz origin of humans) and were mauled by a lion pack. Their take: Y'all survived this!??? Where we can't, not fair!!!!
OMG 15 hours the 40k book on imperial guard had a situation like that with a unit suffering over 100% casualties and still be at 45% combat strength lmfao nice easter Egg there
Imagine if humans were the only species that "talked" to themselves.
Point at the enemy.
Light the touch paper.
Stand well back.
Text scroll, backdrop, looking good
Here’s one that will truly terrify some people no matter what species they are.
A hostile alien battalion shows up at a human base because their troops called for reinforcements, upon arriving, they find nothing but carnage, and not a single friendly soldier alive.
Amongst all this carnage, just three humans are spotted, conversing with one another.
One human looks to the other two and says, “looks like the warm-up is over”
The alien commander wasn’t afraid of just three humans, he killed numerous ones up to that point.
Was scared him to the bottom of his soul was the grins these three humans had before they rushed.
"Rip and tear until it is DONE!"
"Nuh uh uh! I've not used the key yet!"
...
"... sorry, boss."
The human urge to just go absolutely nuts
The math at the end of the first story hurt my soul. tbf I do have dyscalculia but still...
If anyone ever wants a truly good example of how humanity not only harnesses that demon, but trains it to become stronger….
Just look at any military personnel who have been in a combat situation.
That demon inside of them, becomes them, and a lot of the time we like who we become, that’s why it’s so difficult to transition back to a civilian life.
We are chaos incarnate, we thrive in conflict and strife.
We about to see some war crimes.
Its never a war crime the first time.
with the costume changes, maybe some wigs?
I love stories where 'human' is essentially a title. Like 'mandalorian'.
I love how The human military remnants in this are depicted as just the Starcraft Marines. A bunch of angry mismatched disorderly soldiers And other stragglers and taggalongs that just decided to join in and even a ship's pet. If that don't say humanity on the frontier front lines I don't know what does. I also love the fact that humans look after their own Logistical Situations. They know first hand just how bad logistics can be when it comes to trying to get supplies to the line in time so they figure screw it. They'll just get whatever they need by Scaving and taking everything they can get their greasy metal Mits on. Something that everyone needs to learn when you're around A human In war time. If you are not using it a human is going to find a far. Better way to use it than you ever will so just give it to them instead. Even more so that after the last human died the regiment did not die. More recruits kept coming in probably hearing tales of these insane maniacs, Gladly adopting The trappings and behavior of humans long since Passed on. Our culture Of warfare, even if we are not immortal, Is immortal.
Some humans put their demon Inside of a tower, others in a gilded cage of iron, Some chain them down to some immortal rock tossed out into the infinite of thought. And a strange few select individuals do something unspeakable even among humans. They murder their demons outright gut and hollow out their insides They take the bones and turn them into weapons. They take the skin and cure it into armor they take the blood and boil it into poisons and potions to increase their strength and their killing potential. For those humans they have decided that they would absorb the demon that they would make it part of themselves and If use what was left to become their armour and weaponry. If we call these very few select humans These strange godlings among our people. The doom slayers. For they have quite literally slayed the doom inside the heart of the human soul and used it to become even more powerful than most could possibly imagine. And more horrific than any demon could dare to dream to be. For they rip and tear without question fear or mercy. Until the job is done. And as long as demons exist be in the physical the mental or the spiritual. The job will never be done. That's why every doomslayer is branded with a special mark on their arm indicating who they are what they've done and just how dangerous they can be. Do not face the children of the realm of doom. To awaken these living Monsters wearing demons for armor and Clothing. It's to awaken the death of all life in the universe and all the multiverse In continuation for all Perpetuity.
Well it can't be a proper Human logistics train if they aren't stealing (sorry requisition, or is it souvenired?") anything they may want or need that isn't nailed down. And if it was nailed down then they also take whatever it was nailed down to.
"Human" platoons story: Sounds about right. I wonder if they have adopted the human mode of combat?
The aliens really need to learn what a funny bone is (it ain't funny) and maybe what an RPG is as well (and I don't mean Rocket Propelled Grenade).
And he was right to fear that golden key.
That second story really hit home with me. ❤️ For the Agro-rythm!
Now THAT was original!!! (the first one). Love it.
civilized men keep their demons well chained and starved so that they may be all the more terrible when unleashed
Goodday, sir. I have to say..since your face appeared in your awsome readings, the listening has risen to new hights of enjoyment. It helps to focus on the story immensely. Thank you good sir...i follow closely.
The golden key: Fuk around, figure out.
Man. I suggest you and your channel to all my friends. Keep it going man.
lol, it would have been a tad bit more serious if the second story used Carl Jung instead of a TTRPG for the imprisonment of the demon, or Jung would call a Shadow.
reminds me of Alan dean fosters, false mirror series
rather good
#1 is an interesting and very funny one!
You could just ask Carl about the demon, you know.
This the first time I see how you look after listening to so many stories. Got me fangirling now 😄
This is the first time ive seen you on youtube.You're really quite good at this
I like how the humans were like, hey funny looking rat guy alien, if you want to go to a scrap with us you are free to join.
I absolutely love the content!
You know?
Every man is just one bad day from being the Joker.
Oh tower of iron will is a psionic defence skill from ad and d second edition psionics handbook
this man looks damn good with that style of hair and beard but i wish i could see his full suit. what a great voice this guys got.
Excellent job Argo! Your voices are amazing and we cant see the ear peice and if we did we just think that's it's a comm unit for spec ops
"mismatch of troopers who had been left behind for dead, recruited vengeful civilians from previous theaters of conflict and even a former ship mascot"
Oh shit, they made the space equivalent of the French Foreign legion...
Thank you for the reading
The image from de background were is it from
When the peaceful man goes to war, the devil himself shudders.
"end of the section" sounds like "unsupervised" to me.... whelp, time for humans to be trouble.
Story 1 grandfather's axe, 22nd century freedom edition
Yay colonel Incompetent is in the house
Nice name Colonel Tnetepmocni... Or should we say Incompetent ?
I love the new video format brother!
Beware the fury of a patient man.
I read somewhere "when you bring the pacifist humans to blood vengeance, you dun fecked up in the worst way"... Which is basically the same saying only- a bit more colorful
Hammer and crowbar. Is that just two names for the same tool?
Yeah, I get that second story. I've worked a lot years to chain that beast. The bugger is I know the beast is still there just waiting.
I honestly never seen that you had earphone :P
Story two; Be wary the wrath of a quiet man.
Story one; something something sun tsu, something something ark, something something bang two grenades together. hoo-ah! ( oorah? ... feck-yeah to rephrase in YT valid terms.
moral of story 2: troll aliens every chance you get
Story 1 : His Majesty's 73rd Dragoons , basically......😂🙃.
Very nice
amusing really, becuase its not a great tower of iron will, its a rusted door, held only by a presure switch, and enough hunger, rage, or despair can release the weight keeping that pressure switch and door down... its not nearly as secuse a system as many would like to think due to theyre own pleasent lives of reletivly mild conflicts and problems....
Sometimes in these stories, I imagine the writers created some of these names just HOPING you will decide to narrate them, and hope to trip you up. Tenetepmochni? Good on ya' with that one.
Golden key being handy nearby didn't help any, either!
Anyone else notice that guy's name is _incompetent_ spelled backwards?
Just checking to say I hope the narrating of the Dungeon type stuff will be possible soon. Hope the voice is feeling stronger.
heyo just wanna hear what happend to [The Survivor Becomes a Dungeon]????
I believe he's waiting for more chapters to be published so he doesn't run out too quickly
Love your videos
@Agro Squirrel Narrates
Why do you actually wear those ear pieces and what function do they serve? Would you mind showing your setup and how you make the videos?
They let you hear your own voice in the recording, they let you know how loud your being. You ever worn headphones and tried to talk to someone and you talked really loud cause you couldnt hear yourself
Story 2: Chunni... In SPACE!!!!
each time he narrates an interesting alien name i catch myself thinking- it would be fun to get a compilation of him failing these names and swearing out :))
Perhaps for a future video you can bring back the fish in the background.
Carl story: When Carl is talked to by a human higher up... again... - "Dammit Carl, we told you to stop scaring the xenos with DnD quotes!"
Greetings Mentlegent!
For the Rhyhtm that is Algo
We support you no matter the earpiece, Agro!
Story 1: Kept waiting for the humans to show up, never did.
Story 2: Okay yeah, awesome!
Bring back the fish tank.
Looks cool bro👍
Bloody great
story 2) he saw the metaphorical Big Red Button and the hand hovering over it and noped the fuck out.
Pretty finely tuned Deathworlder instincts
Stories and story telling is top notch. I'd like to know how agro squirl got into all this. Does he like the stories or just narrating? How does a dude who looks like he should be swinging a battle ax in some viking raid get into something considered nerdy. There's no one in my life I can talk about these stories with because well I'm from the hood and I'm the nerdiest person around. Anyways, thanks agro squirl.
I have enjoyed Fantasy and Sci-Fi since a kid , the narrating thing start mostly out of desperation. My previous business failed , long story short I didn't have a lot of options so I decided to do RUclips narrations with Fantasy and Sci-Fi because there wasn't really anyone else doing it at the time other then horror.
@@AgroSquerrilmy stories are happy to support Agro in whatever small part they may
I'd like to point out that the tank in the thumbnail has barely any travers on the turret because it slants down for the impractical four barrel coaxial and makes it impossible to get more than, and I'm probably being too generous on this, ten degrees of rotation maximum and depending on how far the driver's hatch extends that may be even less to the right or it may be impossible for the turret to even turn that way, it has either the most impractical fender for the front of the tracks or the "fender" is actually the front part of the tracks in which case the thing can't move at all because the tracks aren't even connected to themselves.
Can you give us a link to the thumbnail? I want to analyze it better.
"Guys! I found the human!!"
@@jaksilver3656 nah that an alien. A human would do "can I gangsta lean this shit?"
@@alexzanderroberts995I mean, it worked for the USS Texas.
Love the new camera!
IEM’s are awesome
God help the aliens that really piss us off ,
For the Algorithm, for the Author(s), for the Holographic Voice!
“Okay, what do we have to turn this horror of a gore show around?”
“Not much sir…the humans sent…four tanks…three mobile artillery units…and an Irish football hooligan with a crate of Guinness?”
O'Malley is going to carry that fight.
Again ,Giggled all the way through. 🎉