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[ sort of making a face ]

Well, that's not so surprising... [ humans in one piece are also racist monsters to someone like strohl who could be part mink maybe? but that's probably not the same thing. ] But do you mean--literally?

Yep.

[ hands on his hips, looking out at the ocean... ]

Monsters made of magla. Usually a couple of stories tall, grotesque features, and hellbent on destroying anything and everything. You can't imagine how odd it was to hear people casually refer to themselves that way, in the last place.

They're a bit hard to describe. [ frowning... ] Suppose I could show you one in that room of simulations, if you wanted, though only if you're not faint of heart.

They sound a bit like Sea Kings, when you put it like that.

[ also the "only if you're not faint of heart" immediately makes him laugh ]

I think you know the answer to that one! Sure, we can go see what a human looks like in your world.

I'll show you my horror, if you show me yours ...?

[ deadpan

but yes off we go to the sim room!!! strohl gets briefly motionsick once again but he does not yartz so we're winning

anyway! to the simulation room. he sits there fiddling with it for a minute, and then leans back, as the simulation starts to build...

this horrible fucking thing. it is huge, filling up the entire room, towering over them both. strohl looks uneasy staring up at it, frankly, mouth set in a grim line, but it does not move besides its tongue slobbering out of its mouth, and its huge heart on the platter beating in the simulation room. th-thmp. ]

[ ace pats his back comfortingly while he is motion sick

when the human fills up the sim room ace doesn't look intimidated or scared in any way but he is going

????????????????????????? in shock ]

What the hell am I looking at? Why's it carrying its own heart??????

[ welcome to hell ]

Told you. Human. They're forms of abject melancholia. Mutated, I think, from your alls 'humans', or something close to it.

[ this answers no questions actually? the thing just sits there being horrible, its eggshell butt pointed this direction, its stupid heart thumping hard. the little figures dance around the heart in a circle. frolic, even. strohl stares at it for a moment longer... ]

Not even the worst of it. Watch.

[ strohl reaches for his sword on his back, takes it in both hands, and then closes the distance between himself and the human, cracking the back of the egg with a mighty swing of his blade. the shell of the egg cracks, and inside of the egg are so many little guys? these are all about the same size as strohl, who steps right back. the little guys stand in their egg ass tavern. ]

[ this answers no question so he decides to not ask anymore and just watch the weird freaky monsters do things

sorry the egg cracking does him in he starts to laugh ]

What? Why are there guys in the egg? Is that a house?! This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen!

[ he thinks this is hilarious because he doesn't have to fight it as a boss battle but also he would think fighting it as a boss battle would be soooo fun so idk ]

God, I wish I knew.

[ all the little guys just stare at them... ]

It's a lot stupider looking when it's standing still, isn't it? It's not trying to murder me or destroy and kill everything within in a league's radius, so it loses some of its lustre.

Let's go hang out with them.

[ can we go in the egg tavern please he has forgotten what this lesson on humans was about and now he just wants to see what's in there ]