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round 1

R1 DEADLAND

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

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[A tapped pen for their attention.. It's... actually pretty loud, for being a pen]

Can someone actually explain what a twin is?

[Help him.]

[ Hank gives Viral a look.... but also Viral is an alien and he explained that yeah, Beastmen don't procreate sexually so you know what? ]

Twins are what happens when -- shit. Do you understand where humans come from? Like... from inside of women, right? You get that?

Yes, Hank, I understand the general concept behind placental mammals.

[Lordgenome save him.]

Okay, just making sure here.

[ He shrugs. ]

Uhhh, I'll spare you the details and basically say that twins are what happens when two people are born at the same time, from the same woman. They can be identical or they can be fraternal.

This evil Han twin is identical. So he might just be a clone or like an alternate version of him, but an evil twin fits the fucking theme better.

...I'll second the cat on confusion that humans have a specific word for that.

[Y'all are weird.]

It's pretty fucking rare.

[ Also Hank probably could have been a little more inclusive and said "womb" instead of woman, I realize this now. Bad Hank. ]

But yeah, it's also kind of a cliche for people to have randomly-revealed evil twins. Like in soap operas, when they wanna create useless drama.

Huh? They're babies that were born at the same time.

[viral doesn't know about babies???]

You Twolegs have a word for that?

[ hey everyone!!!!! it's the talking feral cat!!!!!! ]

We just call them littermates.

...Well, twins are a lot more common in humans than, um, anything that could be called a "litter." It's only twins if there's two of them.

[Not that they call it a litter if there's more.]

A special word for only two kits?

Every time I think I understand humans...

It's unusual for humans to have more than a single birth.

[It's okay Hollyleaf he's got you.]

...How do they keep their society populated?!

Minimal infant mortality rate and a long lifespan with an extended fertile period.

[HE CAN ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THIS PART.]

[ she twitches her whiskers. ]

They...don't lose kits often? Everyone seemed to have so many moons recorded on their...profiles? [ Shrug. ] But I hadn't realized that contributed to this...

No; barring external circumstances, the vast majority of human infants live to adulthood. And the only human here who is past primary fertile age is Hank, who would still live for another few decades normally.

[Humans live a longass time compared to feral kitties.]

We probably don't need to talk about our fertility when we're all dead....

Beastmen are sterile anyway.

[Look at him not giving a fuck.]

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starswink - 2018-09-17 05:07 (UTC) - Expand

Is that so...? Great StarClan, and I thought the elders lived long... Decades, that's...ten, uh, what did he call them years? Sets of twelve moons?

Yes.

[It's okay Hollyleaf.]

Humans aren't even adults until somewhere between fifteen and eighteen years.

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recodified - 2018-09-17 05:06 (UTC) - Expand

You know, for the record, I can still fuck.

[ This is TMI. No one wants to know. ]

[Viral doesn't want to know twice over.]

I said primary fertile age, not that you were sterile completely.

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donotlick - 2018-09-17 05:11 (UTC) - Expand

Well, it's not like we can call our children a litter. We're not cats.

[Hi, talking feral cat!!]

Kits is a perfectly acceptable word!

You mean "kittens".

[he loves you, talking feral cat]

Yes, kits. If I was talking about my brothers, I'd call them my littermates.

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