I don't' know about you, but when I play The Sims, I love to go to the park and kidnap strangers so I can shove them in my basement and observe them. Don't put me on a list, please. But I've never thought to do that in No Man's Sky with the poor alien travellers we run across. Cue tullia, the Reddit user who 'accidentally' kidnapped a poor little Gek.
"I didn't mean to trap a Gek. It just happened," they posted. "So I found a nice planet and a nice settlement and I built nearby bases so I could build on and around the settlement. The planet has floating islands and I built a sky bridge to a floating island from the settlement.
Fortunately, the Gek staged a prison break in just three in-game days. He's clearly been in this predicament before.
"At the base of the ladder up to the sky bridge, there's a glass box room. A Gek Wandered into it. He can't figure out how to get out. He goes to the window-walls and stares out mournfully. He finally came up the few steps to the door. He stood there. He turned around. He walked...
