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[circumsutus]

How many non-humans are here in Vatheon?

If you are not human, what are you?

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[circumsutus]

Just what I've picked up from observation. Tell me more about yourself.

[devwocean]

Wwhat do you wwant to knoww?

[circumsutus]

Absolutely everything.

[devwocean]

Wwell, I ain't got the time to tell you absolutely fuckin' evverything.

[circumsutus]

Of course you don't. I'd just love to learn everything about you.

[devwocean]

You said it wwas for science.
So you wwant to knoww about my physiology?
Or are wwe talkin broader than that?

[circumsutus]

Physiology would be a good place to start.

[devwocean]

To be quite fuckin honest I'm not sure wwhy I should wwaste my time.
I'm not inclined to be studied like a fuckin animal an you humans are mostly just ignorant and bigoted wwhen it comes to non-humans. [Hypocrite]
Wwhat am I gettin out a answwerin a wwhole lot a invvasivve questions?

[circumsutus]

For starters, you'll get one less human being ignorant about your species.

[devwocean]

Wwell, that's somethin I suppose.
Though wwhat wwith your general inferiority, I can't say it's a big deal to me.
But I'll indulge you for noww, until I get bored.

[circumsutus]

Don't go calling people inferior until you know what they're capable of.

[devwocean]

I don't mean any kind a offence.
You're human, so that's all.
I'm tired a talkin about this ovver the netwwork.
If you're goin' to wwant to see things about my physiology, wwe should meet up in person.

[circumsutus]

I'd love that. Where would be best for you?

[devwocean]

Come to my hivve, then.
Ordo, hivve one.
I'll be wwaitin for you.

[circumsutus]

So, why use the term "hive"? [He's just texting while he walks. Like a teenager or something.]

[devwocean]

On account a the fact that that's wwhere trolls livve.
Wwe all havve hivves from wwhen wwe first wwiggle free from the hatchin cavverns.

[He's texting while preparing for Stein's arrival, preparing a tray of tea and arranging some cookies on a plate. Normally he'd have Psiioniic to do this for him, so it's a bit awkward]

[circumsutus]

No human would say they live in a hive. Hives are associated with insects and a loss of individuality.

[devwocean]

I ain't fuckin human, as you knoww.
Trolls are related to insects in a wway, like howw humans are mammals.
Wwhat do you mean about a loss a indivviduality?

[circumsutus]

The term "hive mind" references how all the individuals of an insect colony follow a single queen.

[devwocean]

Wwe do havve a queen, wwell, an Empress.
But it ain't like wwe don't havve mind a our owwn.

[circumsutus]

Oh? What's your society like?

[devwocean]

Wwe got the tyrian Empress at the head, an my blood is the next one dowwn.
I'm a royal vviolet blood, you see.
The caste system goes dowwn from there, wwith the land dwwellers bein' subservient to the sea dwwellers an the lowwest a the bloods bein' slavves to the higher, as wwell as bein' more numerous.
Is that wwhat you wwant to knoww?

[circumsutus]

Why are the land dwellers your slaves?

[devwocean]

Because that's the wway it is.
Not all a the land dwwellers, just the lowwest ones.
It's a hierarchy.

[circumsutus]

"That's the way it is" isn't usually enough of an explanation. Why does the hierarchy exist?