Strange Commentary

People comment on things that are odd. If you do something odd people will point it out to you. This is part of the systemization humans use to determine what will kill them or not. If you do odd thing regularly you will get regular comments. If you do the same thing regularly you will find a pattern in the comments that you can use to analyze your behavior.
Apparently (from the comments I get from Superintendents and Crew Leads and random tourists) it is “not normal” to suddenly appear out of the forest a significant distance from trail heads and road ends.


“So you just…work out in the forest?” *looking around nervously*
“*bleep* Adams! Where’d you come from?” *jumping into the air*
“So…what are you doing?” *edging away nervously*
And an endless list of odd looks of course.


I was just wondering if I should start collecting ominous, deadpan one-liners to facilitate the experience of the surreal.
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“I was sent to analyze this species.”
“Forgive me, I am not yet used to this sun.”
“The gravity is oddly high at these coordinates.”
“Where is the nearest location to procure non-sentient nutrients?”
“Have you seen anything…strange…pass by?”
“We were once many…”
“The last individual asked me that too…”