R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[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

Comments

[starswink]

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

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

[recodified]

You Twolegs have a word for that?

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

We just call them littermates.

[starswink]

...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.]

[recodified]

A special word for only two kits?

Every time I think I understand humans...

[machrophage]

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

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

[recodified]

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

[machrophage]

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

[HE CAN ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THIS PART.]

[recodified]

[ 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...

[machrophage]

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.]

[starswink]

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

[machrophage]

Beastmen are sterile anyway.

[Look at him not giving a fuck.]

[starswink]

Dude, awkward.

[now Hank is telling them he fucks!! Look what you did.]

[recodified]

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?

[machrophage]

Yes.

[It's okay Hollyleaf.]

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

[recodified]

That's...so long. That's...older than most of the cats I've ever met.

[donotlick]

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

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

[machrophage]

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

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

[donotlick]

Alright, just making sure.

[ No one wants to know who you've been fucking, Hank!! ]

[itwasfeyt]

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

[Hi, talking feral cat!!]

[recodified]

Kits is a perfectly acceptable word!

[12d3]

You mean "kittens".

[he loves you, talking feral cat]

[recodified]

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