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Chapter Two:
gardenGnostic [GG] began pestering electricSunset [ES]
GG: kagome hows the game going?
ES: Dave barely got in but now it's my turn. You were playing too right
ES: Can you be my server player? Then again I remember Dave or Rose saying that you don't have a copy. Do I have to get John to do it
GG: no that wont be necessary. i finally have a copy. ^_^
ES: That's cool. So, rule one is leave the bathroom alone. Rule two is don't make holes in the floor, ceiling, or wall. Rule three is don't throw things you have to move out of the building.
GG: okay, i can work with that. you have a nice clean room, its nice and spacious even though its kind of small. your shades arent what i expected though.
ES: They were my birthday from John. He tried to find shades like Vash the Stampede from Trigun but he figured that these are better since the lenses on these are my favorite color
GG: i dont play many videogames but hopefully this will be easy
ES: Let's move Bro's futon first without throwing it out of the building or on the roof
GG: actually, i don't know why but i cant even see the roof of your apartment building. :-(
ES: ... That would explain how the game manipulates things when two players live in the same residence, I guess. Maybe this will duplicate the apartment building
ES: If not it'd be funny if Dave only got the roof and his room and I got the bathroom, living room, and kitchen though. Speaking of the kitchen it's the perfect place to put something. How about the Cruxtruder in the kitchen and the Alchemiter in the living room?
GG: thats a great idea! :D
Kagome managed to move the futon without needing Jade's help. Once that was done Jade did as suggested.
ES: Okay, I don't think there's much more you need to do. I'm just going to grab something to prototype before I open the Cruxtruder.
GG: what about one of your bros smuppets?
ES: Ew, no. You have no idea why he makes so many of them do you
GG: no, i dont. why?
ES: Never mind, Dave and I shouldn't have even known as young as we did.
Just then, Kagome spotted something. It was a featureless puppet wearing a yellow sweatshirt and black pants. There was a yellow ribbon around its neck tied into a bow in the back the way some people tied ribbons around dogs' or cats' necks when the animal was a present or the person was trying to make it cuter. Once she got to the Alchemiter in the kitchen, Kagome pounced on it, and the rebound threw her into the living room. She could see that she had five minutes. Jade promptly deployed the pre punched card as Kagome tossed the puppet into her kernel sprite.
Kagome gathered the card, a cruxite dowel, and flash stepped to her room. Before long she had the totem and she flash stepped back into the living room. Kagome nervously checked the clock. Two minutes and twenty eight seconds left. Finally her item was finished. It was a... cube shaped object. Judging by vague outlines on the top it seemed to be a box. Kagome retrieved one of her shuriken and sliced it open. Suddenly the trap door was back.
GG: youre in! all thats left is for me to wait for john to retrieve his other disk so he can be my server player.
ES: Let me know how that goes I'm going to experiment with the Alchemiter before I explore
GG: wait before you do heres some upgrades.
ES: Thank, but first can you move everything up to the roof while I fix the couch and stock up on Bro's swords?
GG: of course! i'll get to work.
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The moment Kagome had the couch fixed her sprite started to bug her.
"Oh, do you want another prototype?" Kagome asked.
It only moved wildly but Kagome figured that it meant yes. She stroked her chin as she thought. Then she brought up Rose's walkthrough on her phone. According to the section on sprites, John's nana and Rose's beloved cat Jaspers had been revived. Kagome grinned; she had the perfect thing in mind.
"Come on, I know just the thing!" she urged.
The sprite followed her into her room. Once there she climbed up the ladder to her bed. She reached for the object- one of the very few non smuppet Bro had ever used his sewing skills on. When Kagome was younger and still confused about her memories from her life as Kagome Higurashi she would draw people and scenes she remembered to try to set herself straight. She kept at drawing at Dave's urging that she at least actually hone her drawing skills to 'increase the irony'. After Bro noticed that she kept drawing two figures in particular- Shippo and Kirara- he made her plushies of them. She was tempted to pick Kirara but Rose already had a cat for a sprite. So she prototyped her Shippo plushie.
The moment Shipposprite was properly formed and settled he blinked. Kagome took the time to study him. He was completely yellow, though not entirely one shade of yellow. The part of the sprite where the pants would've been were a far darker yellow than the sweatshirt. Otherwise it looked exactly like a yellow, ghostly version of the fox demon boy- kitsune, to use the proper Japanese term- she had viewed as a little brother.
Shipposprite grinned at Kagome. "This is weird, but it's so cool! I don't know how this was possible when I was formed from a doll but I even have Shippo's memories! I don't remember anything after the two of you separated but he missed you a whole lot."
Kagome's eyes got watery. "I've missed you too ever since I remembered, Shippo."
Shipposprite hugged Kagome, proving to only be a little bigger than the actual Shippo had been. "Aw, don't cry! Anyway I have some things I should let you know about."
"Like what?" Kagome prompted.
"I'm supposed to be mysterious or use riddles but the actual Shippo was too blunt for that so I'll be straight with you." Shipposprite assured her, "First off don't worry about Earth too much, it would've been the apocalypse no matter what. Secondly you're the Knight of Blaze but the entire point is for you to figure out what that means yourself. Most importantly is your quest- the temperature is totally out of sync on your planet."
"Out of sync?" Kagome encouraged Shipposprite to elaborate.
"Well, some places are way colder than they should be and some are a match for the hottest desert on Earth." Shipposprite elaborated, "There are crystals on your planet that act as power sources and temperature regulators."
"Wait, then wouldn't there also be a blackout?" Kagome asked.
"Not completely. You'll see what I mean." Shippo replied.
With that Kagome made use of the Alchemiter. She combined a lighter Bro kept for ironic purposes with a shuriken. The result was a shuriken variation of a flaming arrow. Kagome took a lightsaber replica and when combined with the lighter got the Torch Saber, which worked like a light saber but with purple fire instead of plasma. Then she took a water pistol from her watergunkind strife specibus and gained a Mini Fire Shooter. This turned that particular strife specibus into a firekind. She put the saber and gun into it then combined the bigger water gun that the change had ejected with a lighter and wasabi for the Red Hot Spice Gun. Grinning, Kagome then proceeded to make a gunblade ala Final Fantasy after some trial and error. Out of curiosity she combined a kunai with a spool of thread Bro left lying around from the last time he worked on the smuppets. Grinning, Kagome proceeded to make beefed up versions of all of her other weapons.
Then Kagome retrieved Bro's Snoop Dog Snow Cone machine. After repeated failures in getting anything interesting she wound up prototyping it so much it now turned out random items, excluding snow cones. Trying out gained her manga, a grappling gun, a picture of Orihime and Ulquiorra from Bleach, a fake Pokeball, a Wizardmon figurine, a yellow diamond, a shirt just like the one Steven Universe wore, versions of Amnesia Later and Amnesia Crowd that were somehow in English, and a Joker no Kuni no Alice poster. Combining her Ukyou plushie with her black sweatshirt and the yellow diamond got a black trench coat a yellow diamond pattern on the collar and cuffs of her sleeves called Sunshine Memories. Combining the coat with her clothes got a yellow suit with a black version of the butterfly symbol from her shirt called the Lemonade Suit. Combining her clothes with the Kuni no Alice poster, the yellow diamond, and the lighter got a yellow Lolita dress with black tights called Alice in the Land of Flames. Dave's Mightnight Crew poster combined with her clothes got her a black suit with the yellow butterfly from her shirt on it, only that skirt was more restrictive than the one she was wearing.
Kagome returned to her room. Raiding her room elicted a few more items which created a collapsible suitcase. She combined this with her mini fridge and succeeded in creating something akin to Jade's lunchtop. She put the Fridge Case in her sylladex after duplicating everything inside the mini fridge to fill it up then put her mini fridge into a separate card. Once that was done Kagome duplicated the snacks from her trunk then put that into her sylladex. After changing into the Lolita dress and trench coat Kagome put the other clothes and her normal wardrobe into the collapsible suitcase and stowed the suitcase in her sylladex. Then she combined her phone with her earrings to create a headset and combined her shades with her phone. She just started to head back to her room when suddenly imps attacked her.
Kagome brought out her Diamond Blaze Scythe from her polearmkind strife specibus. She had never been happier that Bro encourage how she favored scythes, naginatas, and spears. It took barely any time at all before the roof was clear. She went back inside, and cleared house there next. After creating more items and keeping everything stored she made dozens of new blank cards. Kagome then proceeded to update her notes on the things that had happened and her notes on the game. Then she proceeded to note down everything's code, even the big furniture such as her bed and Bro's futon. The TV, movies, gaming systems, and videogames then went into her sylladex.
electricSunset [ES] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB]
ES: John I want the card codes for everything in your house. Even the things that seem useless or undesirable
EB: um sure but why?
ES: I take notes on everything. As we speak I'm creating a list of every single code I can find. Once I get a hold of the others I'll ask the same of them
EB: okay that sounds like a good idea. but uh the imps really made a mess of my house
ES: Oh they were easy for me. Pretty much just free grist, really
EB: let me know if you need any help with the code thing
ES: Thanks, I'll do that
ES: Wait actually take codes of anything that would come in handy that you come across outside your house too. Hm, maybe I should see if Rose wants the code list on her walkthrough
EB: i can see you're busy i'll let you get to it.
ES: Thanks John, be careful out there okay
EB: i will.
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tentacleTherapist [TT] began pestering electricSunset
TT: I see that you have entered the Medium.
ES: Yeah taking out these imps is easy. It makes for a fun workout too.
TT: Yes, even the bigger ones rely mainly on brute force. If that isn't an issue for their opponents they are child's play.
ES: Anyway it's great that you're messaging me. I want the code for everything in your house and sylladex and everything useful you find elsewhere
TT: Very well, this is a wise course of action and I will assist you when able.
ES: Busy are you
TT: Yes the memories from Davesprite's timeline have given me some alarming information about the game we're playing.
ES: Wait what. Did Dave prototype himself while I wasn't looking?! And what information
TT: The game is supposed to create a new universe but that isn't going to happen with the state of our session as it is. And your brother is fine, Davesprite is a Dave from the same doomed timeline I've gotten part of my information from.
ES: Dave has some explaining to do
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electricSunset [ES] began pestering TurntechGodhead [TG]
ES: Dave, you have some explaining to do. What's this about a 'Davesprite' and 'doomed timelines'
TG: its fine sis doomed timelines are just any timelines that aren't the main or 'alpha' timeline
TG: whether because something went wrong, something that shouldve happened didnt or something happened that shouldnt have happened
TG: see apparently i'm the knight of time
TG: yeah we are and in my timeline the troll girl called terezi got john killed before he could save jade from the meteor headed towards her so you me and rose were stuck for months
TG: it was hella hard to get john to listen to me and not skip steps like diamonds are fragile as glass john was so stubborn you could break a rock if you threw one at it or him whatever
ES: Well as long as you're okay. Hey can both of you please send me every code you have or come across for my notes
TG: yeah here you did that in my timeline too
TG: sure sis i got you back
TG: like im watching your back so avidly timers break trying to keep track humpty dumpty was easy to fix this shit is so broken the timers wife and children are dressed all in black and wailing like banshees
ES: Heh heh, you're silly. XD Anyway how's your planet
TG: the land of heat and clockwork there are like entire oceans of lava plus theres like giant gears that sort of serve as islands or something idk
TG: anyway ive got to deal with a troll now so ill talk to you later
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Five minutes later Kagome was done. Before she could do anything, she was trolled.
carcinoGenetecist [CG] began trolling electricSunset
CG: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING, YOU'RE JUST SITTING THERE FUCKING AROUND ON YOUR HUSKTOP. DO YOU EVEN TAKE THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY AT ALL?
ES: Oh, back off CG. For your information I'm putting together notes on the game with help from Rose's walkthrough and making a list of every captcha code I can get a hold of
ES: On that note would you please gather every code you can get whether it belongs to you and your friends or not? The list wouldn't be complete without it
ES: Also getting my hands on genuine alien tech would be so cool, I'd love to see what I can do with it
CG: ... THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SOME FUCKING SENSE. AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT AS THINK SPONGE BRUISINGLY AWFUL OR CONFUSING AS YOUR DOUCHE OF A BROTHER.
ES: Can you please give Dave a break? :-( If not for my unique circumstances I'd probably be awkward too or even a little messed up due to our being raised by an ironic cool guy with such an eccentric idea on what counts as raising kids that he didn't even bother teaching us what a refrigerator is actually used for
ES: Not that I'm complaining or anything. Bro was ridiculous and went overboard but he still cares and I love him. I think he did pretty well considering our parents died he should have been striking out on his own but he had to put his life on hold to take care of us
CG: WHAT UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU FUCKING TALKING ABOUT?
ES: I remember my last life. I was Japanese and I'm pretty sure I lived in a completely different universe because I'm pretty sure humans are the only sentient life on this version of Earth
ES: Also from what I've seen online on the Earth I just escaped time travel was more likely to be the result of technology than a well that was probably magical
CG: YEAH, I'M CALLING BULLSHIT. DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO BE SO FUCKING GULLIBLE I BUY THAT TRIPE? YOU COULD DROWN A WHOLE HERD OF HOOF BEASTS WITH ALL OF THE FUCKS I DON'T GIVE IT'S A FUCKING EPIDEMIC. THE MEDICIANS AND MORTICIANS ALL DIED OF OLD AGE IT TOOK SO LONG TO SORT THAT SHIT OUT. WHICH IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL FOR TROLLS BECAUSE THE ONLY REAL LIFE EXPECTENCIES ANY LEVEL OF THE BLOOD CASTES HAVE ARE BECAUSE OF HOW LIKELY TO BE MURDERED OR BECAUSE OF SHITTY LIVING CONDITIONS. LIKE I DON'T KNOW IF HISTORY HAS EVER RECORDED A TROLL WHO DIED TO ANY REASON OTHER THAN MURDER, A SHITTY ACCIDENT, OR DISEASE.
ES: Are you really saying that an alien who either has played or is playing a game that's meant to create universes is doubting something like reincarnation
CG: OKAY SOME MAYBE IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN ANCESTORS BEING REAL BUT I STILL DON'T THINK IT'S FUCKING LIKELY.
ES: What's that about ancestors? Do trolls believe that baby trolls either pop into existence out of nothing or are made from magic
CG: NO, OF FUCKING COURSE NOT. SHIT LIKE THAT ONLY GETS TOLD TO PUPAS TOO YOUNG FOR TELLING THEM ABOUT BUCKETS AND DRONES TO BE APPROPIATE.
ES: I'm not even going to ask what cleaning devices have to do with sex and reproduction or what troll drones are that they're involved. Would you be willing to tell me what the deal with ancestors then
CG: DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST IMPLY HUMANS USE BUCKETS TO FUCKING CLEAN?! YOU'RE SPECIES IS MORE STUPID AND FUCKED UP THAN I THOUGHT. AS FOR YOU QUESTION I SUPPOSE I WILL BE GENEROUS JUST THIS ONCE IN THE FACE OF YOUR ATTEMPT TO BE CULTURALLY SENSITIVE.
CG: HIGH BLOODS AND GULLIBLE LOW AND MID BLOODS BELIEVE THAT EACH TROLL HAS AN OLDER TROLL WHO WOULD'VE PROBABLY DIED CENTURIES OR MILLENIA AGO UNLESS THEY'RE A SEA DWELLER THAT THEY'RE MOST CLOSELY RELATED TO GENETICALLY, THESE RELATIONS ARE CALLED ANCESTORS. NOW THIS CRAP ACTUALLY MAKES AN IOTA OF SENSE EVEN THOUGH I DONT' REALLY BELIEVE IT. THE REAL BULLSHIT IS THAT THE MORE ZEALOUS OF THE TROLLS WHO BUY THIS NONSENSE, ALMOST ALWAYS HIGH BLOODS, BELIEVE THAT THEIR ANCESTOR LEFT A LEGACY FOR THEM TO FIND AND THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW IN THEIR ANCESTOR'S FOOTSTEPS, FINISH THEIR WORK, OR LEARN FROM THEIR ANCESTOR'S MISTAKES AND DO BETTER THAN THEM.
ES: Wait, do trolls reproduce asexually or through cloning? Because the only other method I can think of would mean that they reproduce like bees and ants. Also does this mean that all trolls adopt instead of raising their own young or do these sea dwellers you mentioned raise their own young while other trolls adopt
CG: WAIT WHAT. NO THAT'S NOT REMOTELY HOW IT FUCKING WORKS THE GENETIC MATERIAL GETS MIXED BY THE MOTHER GRUB DOUCHE NOZZLE. CENTURIES OR MILLENIA LATER- IT VARIES- A WRIGGLER HATCHES. ALSO WHY WOULD TROLLS BE RAISED BY OTHER TROLLS? HOW DO HUMANS EVEN FUCKING WORK WHERE YOU THINK THAT WOULD EVEN REMOTELY BE A THING?
ES: Well, did your planet have mammals? Because humans give live birth and unless they die, can't take care of the child, don't want the child, or get separated from the child they raise their young.
CG: WAIT SO HUMANS WORK LIKE HOOF BEASTS AND PAW BEASTS?
ES: If by 'hoof beast' you mean creatures like what humans call cows and horses and 'paw beast' means something like cats, dogs, or other types of felines or canines then yes. ... By the way this is a 'curiosity killed the cat' moment but if trolls reproduce that way is sex even a thing
CG: WE ARE NOT HAVING THIS FUCKING CONVERSATION. IT'S BAD ENOUGH THE EMPRESS MADE CONTRIBUTION TO THE MOTHER GRUB'S SLURRY SO MUCH WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS.
ES: That's more than enough of an answer, trust me. Instead could you tell me how romance works for trolls
CG: YOU'RE FUCKING LUCKY YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT PERSON. I MAY NOT BE INTO THAT SHIPPING BULLCRAP BUT I'M THE RESIDENT ROMANCE EXPERT. WELL FOR ON THING WE HAVE QUADRANTS INSTEAD OF LIMITING OURSELVES TO ONE TYPE OF ROMANCE LIKE A BRAIN DEAD NUT BEAST. THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT WAYS WE PAIR UP THE QUADRANTS. ONE IS BY PURPOSE, THE OTHER IS BY THE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS. IT'LL BE EASIER IF YOU HAVE A VISUAL SO HERE.
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CG: SO THE FIRST DIVISION IS RED ROMANCE ON THE TOP AND BLACK ROMANCE ON THE BOTTOM. THE CLOSEST TRANSLATION FOR THE DRIVING FACTOR BEHIND RED ROMANCE HUMANS CAN UNDERSTAND IS PITY. THE BOTTOM IS BLACK ROMANCE, WHICH IS DRIVEN BY HATE. THEN ON THE LEFT YOU HAVE THE CONCUPISCIENT QUADRANTS. THESE ARE FOR REPRODUCTION. ON THE RIGHT ARE THE CONCILIATORY QUADRANTS, THESE ARE FOR PACIFICATION. THE FLUSHED QUADRANT AT THE TOP LEFT IS THE CLOSEST TO HUMAN ROMANCE, A PAIR INVOLVED IN THE FLUSHED QUADRANTS ARE CALLED MATESPRITS. ITS BLACK COUNTERPART IN THE BOTTOM LEFT IS THE PITCH QUADRANT, THE PERSON IN YOUR PITCH QUADRANT IS CALLED YOUR KISSMESIS.
CG: YOUR KISSMESIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A RIVAL OR PERSON YOU JUST DON'T GET ALONG WITH, BUT IT'S MORE COMPLICATED THAN BEING ATTRACTED TO SOMEONE YOU HATE. THAT WOULD BE A RECIPE FOR DISASTER, YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO WANT TO KILL OR MAIM YOUR KISSMESIS. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE AN 'I CAN'T STAND YOU BUT' OR 'YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY IN THE WORST WAY BUT' SCENARIO. YOU LIKE SCREWING WITH YOUR KISSMESIS BUT YOU DON'T LIKE SEEING OTHER PEOPLE SCREW WITH YOUR KISSMESIS OR HURT THEM.
CG: THE ASHEN QUADRANT ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT IS CONTRADICTORY IN THAT IT'S BOTH THE SIMPLEST TO EXPLAIN AND THE MOST COMPLICATED TO ACTUALLY WORK OUT. AN AUSPISTICE IS SUPPOSED TO TAKE TWO PEOPLE IN A VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP THAT HATE EACH OTHER AND MEDIATE SO THAT THEY DON'T ACTUALLY ENTER THE PITCH QUADRANT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
CG: THE LAST QUADRANT, THE RED CONCILLIATORY ONE, IS THE PALE QUADRANT. THE PURPOSE OF MOIRAILS IS PACIFICATION AND PROTECTION, THIS IS PROBABLY MORE OF A 'SOCIAL CONSTRUCT' SIDE TO MOIRAILLEIGANCE. TROLLS ARE A VIOLENT RACE AFTER ALL, AND THE HIGHER ON THE HEMOSPECTRUM YOU ARE GENERALLY THE MORE PRONE TO PSYCHOSIS YOU'RE LIABLE TO BE. IF A TROLL IS A DANGER EITHER TO OTHERS OR THEMSELVES, OR THEY'RE JUST PRONE TO RAMPAGING FITS, THEIR MOIRAIL IS SUPPOSED TO CALM AND PACIFY THEM. BUT WHAT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT THERE'S MORE TO MOIRAILLEIGANCE THAN THAT. THE PALE QUADRANT IS ABOUT BALANCE. MOIRAILS HELP EACH OTHER KEEP CALM AND SORT OUT THEIR EMOTIONS. MOST MOIRAILS TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING, EVEN THINGS THEY LITERALLY WOULDN'T EVER TELL ANY OTHER TROLL. TO PUT IT IN TERMS HUMANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO UNDERSTAND MOIRAILS ARE KIND OF LIKE PLATONIC SOULMATES.
CG: BUT PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS CHANGE OVER TIME, AND SOMETIMES THEIR QUADRANTS CHANGE TO REFLECT THAT. LESS BALANCED QUADRANTS SOMETIMES VACCILLATE. THE MOST COMMON IS BETWEEN FLUSHED AND PITCH, BUT IT'S NOT TOO UNHEARD OF MOIRAILS IN A PALE QUADRANT THAT LOST OR NEVER HAD THE PACIFICATION AND CALMING ASPECT TO BECOME MATESPRITS. LIKEWISE ONCE IN A WHILE MATESPRITS DECIDE THEY'RE JUST NOT ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER AND FLIP TO PALE.
ES: I think I understand. Don't let the others tell you humans aren't capable of quadrants, in my last life the relationship I had that was closest to becoming romantic started out with pitch leanings. Then after I got closer to him and started to develop flushed feelings his ex came into the picture. The thing is in his opinion I looked just like her and he never lost his flushed feelings for her, I was only an inferior copy to him when he acted like he might feel the same
ES: To complicate things even further, a misunderstanding pitted them against each other and she pretty much hated him. Even though it was cleared up she flipped between loving him and hating him, she would kiss him one minute then try to drag him to hell with her the next. I didn't understand it then, but I guess she kept vacillating between pitch and flushed
ES: To be honest, CG, I probably... Well, it sounds like I may have vacillated between flushed and pale. But that's not very weird, because people acted like the makings for a pitch relationship were perfectly acceptable aspects of a flushed relationship which honestly I learned from that bit of drama is a recipe for disaster. Those aren't the norm though; usually the ideal matches a mix between flushed and pale
CG: ... HUMAN ROMANCE SOUNDS CRAZY AND HEADACHE INDUCING.
ES: Well, partially thanks to practicality and how society developed on one hand and thanks to the way humans handle emotions and jealousy on the other, the part of the world that had the most global influence developed with the assumption that committed relationships needed to be monogamous to be workable and healthy. But in other parts of the world there were cultures where it used to be perfectly acceptable to have as many wives as they could financially take care of, though only one was a real wife. The others were concubines and purely for the man's sexual pleasure and to a lesser extent reproductive purposes
ES: It was disgusting and misogynistic, really. Polyamory is perfectly acceptable but not treating women like they're only sex toys and baby machines
CG: OH MY GOD IF YOU HUMANS USED TO BE THAT MUCH WORSE I JUST MIGHT BE GLAD YOU'RE FUCKING EXTINCT, NO OFFENSE
ES: The other four would be offended or upset anyway but if you operate under the assumption that humans weren't going to get any better the universe might really be better off without a sentient species that treated things religion and skin color as grounds for genocide. Plus, you know. The whole fact that humans are the only homophobic species
CG: WHAT THE FUCK IS HOMOPHOBIA?
ES: Being disgusted by or outright fearful of those who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to the same sex instead of entering strictly male/female relationships
CG: OH MY GOD THAT IS SO FUCKING MORONIC I CAN'T EVEN COME UP WITH A METAPHOR ANGRY AND EXTREME ENOUGH TO EMPHASIZE MY DISGUST. AND HUMANS ARE STILL TERRIBLE. BUT YOU'RE SMARTER THAN I EXPECTED. AND YOU'RE NOT SO BAD, I GUESS.
ES: Thanks. Hey, since you're so open to talking about this if we ever meet face to face would you be willing to watch some romance films with me? None of my friends like my romantic movies or anime. Also can I know your name
CG: WELL, AT LEAST ONE OF YOU PINK MONKEYS HAS DECENT TASTE IN MOVIES. YOU'VE GOT YOURSELF A DEAL. ALSO MY FUCKING NAME IS KARKAT, YOU'D BETTER NOT FORGET IT OR MAKE A STUPID NICKNAME.
ES: Okay, I won't. And I look forward to it Karkat, I hope you like my human movies
CG: NOT FUCKING LIKELY BUT I'LL PUT UP WITH THEM ANYWAY. AND YOU NEED TO GET FUCKING MOVING, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'VE GOT ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO GET SHIT DONE. THERE'S A TIME LIMIT YOU KNOW.
ES: ... Nobody told me about a time limit. Anyway how do I get to my planet in the first place
CG: THE PORTAL ABOVE YOUR HOUSE. IF YOUR SERVER DID THEIR JOB THEY BUILT UP YOUR HIVE SO YOU COULD FUCKING REACH IT.
ES: I'll figure it out either way
ES: Oh no way forget climbing up a ridiculously high house to reach the portal John sent me a code for a jet pack
ES: Thanks for the advice and cultural lesson Karkat I hope we talk again later. For now I've got some alchemizing to do and a planet to explore
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'Hah, and Bro said I had to wait until I was sixteen to have my own rocket board.' Kagome internally gloated.
A few minutes after that conversation found Kagome flying up towards the portal Karkat told her about. Kagome noticed that Jade had indeed built up the apartment building. She let out a whistle of appreciation.
electricSunset [ES] began pestering gardenGnostic [GG]
ES: Hey Jade nice architectural work
ES: Let me know when you've gotten into the Medium and I'll figure out how we can meet up
ES: Anyway I'm going to explore my planet now since my place is imp free and I'm done messing around
ES: Get back to me when you're not asleep or busy
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Within a couple of minutes Kagome was through the portal and had her first view of her planet. It was a gorgeous mesh of deserts and mesas at night. Only, most of the landscape was varying shades of purple. There were yellow and green crystals everywhere. Red lightning was either striking or flowing between some of them but most of them were either completely free of lightning or the lightning kept fizzling out. There were glowing spots all around Kagome was tempted to investigate, but then she found the perfect starting point. With a nudge to change directions she was zooming towards what she was sure was a village or town.
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