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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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[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?

[devwocean]

Because sea dwwellers havve all a the powwer.
An that's because wwe livve centuries, an the tyrian has the powwer to cull all of a blood caste wwith a single thought.
And she'd do it, too.
So that's wwhy.

[circumsutus]

Why don't they simply kill the tyrian?

[devwocean]

For fuck's sake, ain't you been listening?
Say you're a fuckin' lowwblooded rebel wwho might wwant to cull Her Imperious Condescension, like a filthy pissblooded sort a guy, maybe wwith real powwer an a lot a bravvado such that you think you'vve actually got a chance against all a the subjugglators, blue-blooded wwarriors, and vviolet-blooded commanders a armies all a wwhich wwould be arrayed against you at any givven time.
Say you fuckin' manage somehoww to deal wwith all a that.
You make it all a the wway to her throne room and there's the Condesce right there in all a her glory.
Wwith nothin more than a wwink an a smile, she'll make her lusus let out a scream, an evvery yelloww-blood - not just you, but EVVERY ONE IN THE WWHOLE A THE GALAXY AT ONCE - wwill instantly drop dead wwith their blood leakin out a evvery orifice.
Not to mention probably the oranges an rusts beloww you, an if she's real pissed off, the greens'll probably be caught up in it, too, it ain't as though the Mother Grub don't hatch a wwhole lot a them so they're pretty much interchangable.
You wwant that?
Go right ahead an try it.

[circumsutus]

You're not very imaginative.

[devwocean]

Wwhy do people alwways say that.

[circumsutus]

Why do you think people always say that?

[devwocean]

Because they're fuckin' foolish, probably.

[circumsutus]

Do you really believe yourself?

[devwocean]

A course I do.
You knoww wwhat? You're the fuckin' stupidest scienterrorist I'vve evver met.
Don't bother comin' ovver.