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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
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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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[ It's a heavier topic than Riz was expecting -- but fascinating despite it. He doesn't get a lot of opportunities to learn about beings quite so different from himself that often. ]
Did you guys kill them?
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As for their fates, some perished. Some returned from whence they came. Those who remain have done so in hiding.
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So you mean that Astrals weren't originally native to the Sky Realm? Was it a colonization kind of situation?
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Just as you say. Invaders and subjugators.
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Thanks for being so forthcoming with all of this. I'm not sure what all of this will amount to yet, but I don't think it's a bad thing to get as much information on where everyone's from as possible. At this point, it's all we've got to go off of.
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From what I understand, there are others who have already faced existential threats to their worlds, so that may be one commonality... In any case, I wish you luck in your endeavor.
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My world experiences existential threats pretty much all the time. I kind of figured all worlds do. But thanks -- I'll jot that one down too.