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etraya2024-05-31 04:01 pm
stresstokens) wrote in etraya2024-05-31 04:01 pm
Entry tags:
- baldurs gate: shadowheart,
- dimension 20: fabian seacaster,
- dimension 20: riz gukgak,
- my hero academia: izuku midoriya,
- ✘ dc comics | stephanie brown,
- ✘ dc comics | wang baixi,
- ✘ dceu | clark kent,
- ✘ dimension 20 | adaine abernant,
- ✘ granblue fantasy | sandalphon,
- ✘ original | willa lisieux,
- ✘ worm: francis krouse
un: theball | text
Hey. Hope everyone's recovering from that stupid maze okay.
I'll just get right down to my point of inquiry. For a place that claims that we're meant to save the universe, I've noticed a pretty dramatic human-bias around here that strikes me as kind of odd, considering how diverse the universe actually is.
So I'd like to get a show of hands. Who here is from a world where humans are the only sentient species around, and who here is from a world with more than just humans kicking around? What other sorts of species are around? I'd like to know how much of it is selection-bias based on who's running this place and how much of it is them drawing from places that just don't have any non-human populations. I wouldn't mind hearing about what sorts of non-humans you have around either, but that's probably less important, statistically speaking.
Lastly... what do you see when you look at this picture?
[ Inserted is a photograph of a suave looking goblin man in a tuxedo with a pencil-thin moustache. He's holding a champagne flute towards the camera with his arm around -- something. If you've been infected by the curse, you'll see the goblin man's arm is around a black tabaxi woman, but if not, his arm looks as though it's simply hanging in mid-air. ]
[ OOC NOTE: due to the extremely low likelihood we'll ever get kalina in-game, the picture is just for flavour! if you'd like your character to be infected by the shadowcat and thus able to see her image in the photo, it would be due to any circumstance in which any of riz's bodily fluids were absorbed into their own body in some way, i.e. blood or saliva. feel free to handwave a circumstance in which that could happen, even if it's riz's blood lingering on one of the labyrinth's traps that then got into an open cut of theirs, a glass in the labyrinth he drank from that they then used, etc., etc.! Please see this comment for more information! ]
I'll just get right down to my point of inquiry. For a place that claims that we're meant to save the universe, I've noticed a pretty dramatic human-bias around here that strikes me as kind of odd, considering how diverse the universe actually is.
So I'd like to get a show of hands. Who here is from a world where humans are the only sentient species around, and who here is from a world with more than just humans kicking around? What other sorts of species are around? I'd like to know how much of it is selection-bias based on who's running this place and how much of it is them drawing from places that just don't have any non-human populations. I wouldn't mind hearing about what sorts of non-humans you have around either, but that's probably less important, statistically speaking.
Lastly... what do you see when you look at this picture?
[ Inserted is a photograph of a suave looking goblin man in a tuxedo with a pencil-thin moustache. He's holding a champagne flute towards the camera with his arm around -- something. If you've been infected by the curse, you'll see the goblin man's arm is around a black tabaxi woman, but if not, his arm looks as though it's simply hanging in mid-air. ]
[ OOC NOTE: due to the extremely low likelihood we'll ever get kalina in-game, the picture is just for flavour! if you'd like your character to be infected by the shadowcat and thus able to see her image in the photo, it would be due to any circumstance in which any of riz's bodily fluids were absorbed into their own body in some way, i.e. blood or saliva. feel free to handwave a circumstance in which that could happen, even if it's riz's blood lingering on one of the labyrinth's traps that then got into an open cut of theirs, a glass in the labyrinth he drank from that they then used, etc., etc.! Please see this comment for more information! ]
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They were colleagues. And she didn't exactly wear her true motivations on her sleeve. Things would be a lot easier if more people would just announce that they're evil before doing their evil shit, you know?
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[ He pauses at the question, though, absolutely trapped into giving an answer that just makes things awkward. The picture has functioned as a clue instead of a sentimental object for so long that sometimes he forgets he has to say, yeah, my Dad is super dead but please don't make it into a whole thing. ]
No, it's not me. It's my Dad. It's okay, all of what went down happened a long time ago. I'm just trying to make sure it doesn't happen again, you know?
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Got it. Family stuff. Totally understand.
But... was there something specific that made you ask about this now? Or was this just your first opportunity? Should I be worried?
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[ It takes him a second's contemplation to decide how much he wants to divulge. But his conversations with Willa and Adaine are public, so: ]
And technically, I'm patient zero. If I accidentally infected someone, this was a good way to find out.
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Just let me know when it's time to be worried. I make the best bad plans under pressure.