"I'm pretty sure it's the unified plants in Octovern doing it. What we can't hope to do alone, doing with tens of thousands becomes effortless, but.." His brow furrows. But shouldn't it have stabilized by now? Why were they still tampering with it? "I would have expected it to be stopping." It's not.

Taser, party, cheer everyone up. 'Everyone' suggested way more than he's thinking of, so he's going to have to find even MORE balloons.. and get better control over hiding his more inhuman traits so he doesn't terrify everyone. Even his own 'brothers' might be frightened. "It's settled then! In a few weeks, a party! I'll bring some nice things, I know where to find balloons on this dustball." Which is of course absolutely required.

Balloons, and maybe a lot of sensor arrays. "You're near here all the time, Rem? Is this always a hole? The air has a strange energy to it, maybe ... electrical discharges or ... I don't know, odd auroras?" He isn't expecting the reality of the entirety of July, two different ones, phasing in and out, just the idea that perhaps he'd ... they'd somehow left it oddly charged and he simply couldn't tell before.