Ensera & Anguis: Discussion Time

* dancingBlade dancingBlade [DB] has begun pestering hysteronProteron [HP]
@dancingBlade
DB: You there ~~~=>
DB: Tell me about yourself ~~~~~=>
DB: I'm very bored ~~~~~~=>
hysteronProteron
HP: I am there.  Hello.
HP: My name is 'Anguis'.  Can I help you?
@dancingBlade
DB: I'm Ensera. Tell me about yourself~~~~~~~=> for at the moment, I am very bored and would like to learn new things
hysteronProteron
HP: Hello 'Ensera'.  What would you like to learn about?  I have a computer to look up any questions you might have.
@dancingBlade
DB: I want to learn about yourself, ~~~~~~=> listen the first time I say it
DB: I'm bored and my shitty pocket computer can barely operate this chat as is
hysteronProteron
HP: I see.  Well, 'Ensera', my name is 'Anguis' as I have said.  What else about me do you wish to learn?
@dancingBlade
DB: You're clearly deaf, blind, or stupid if you fail to understand what "yourself" means
DB: Tell me about your life, what you do, your history and lineage, your job, ~~~~~~~=> and whatever else you can
hysteronProteron
HP: I have been called all three of those many times, but I do not believe this time they are accurate.
hysteronProteron
HP: I live in my hive in the city, like most trolls.  I am a student of legislaceration.  I have no meaningful history, but my lineage traces back to The Orthodox.  As of yet I have no job.
@dancingBlade
DB: Who is the Orthodox?
DB: Were they a Legislacerator and what are those?
hysteronProteron
HP: My ancestor.  He was a judge.
HP: The Orthodox began life as a humble legislacerator, only to surpass and exceed all expectations placed upon him and wind up serving directly beneath 'His Honourable Tyranny' himself.
@dancingBlade
DB: Who's that
hysteronProteron
HP: Who is who?
@dancingBlade
DB: And here I thought you weren't as stupid as you initially appeared to be. ~~~~~=> I asked who His Honourable Tyranny is
hysteronProteron
HP: I think in this situation it may be you who is the deaf, blind, or stupid one.  Everyone knows who 'His Honourable Tyranny' is.
@dancingBlade
DB: I live in the desert and I'm talking to you on a shitty pocket computer strapped to my wrist while I lay here with my lusus
DB: I've never seen anything except for endless sand dunes and ancient ruins scattered throughout
DB: I should apologize for my insults, I guess
DB: It's not often someone is willing to satiate my curiosity
DB: So I apologize for acting so rude.
DB: It's unbecoming of myself as a member of my tribe
hysteronProteron
HP: Perhaps it would occur more often if you were to act less abrasive.
@dancingBlade
DB: Hmmm ~~~~=> yes perhaps, but my patience is short and exploring ruins that can crumble and collapse at any moment has ensured my patience can't extend for very long
DB: Much to my behest
DB: If only I could see more of what those ruins had to offer
hysteronProteron
HP: Have you considered exercising patience so that you do not cause any ruins to collapse as a result of your activity?
@dancingBlade
DB: I have to be as careful as possible whenever exploring these ruins, and yet they still inevitably crumble and collapse
DB: If I could, I would happily spend sweeps searching every nook and cranny in search of their secrets
DB: And let me be clear
DB: I am no reckless explorer
hysteronProteron
HP: Ruins rarely tend to collapse unprovoked.
@dancingBlade
DB: I live in the Alternian desert, where the suns are at their most powerful and the winds and sand pay no heed to anyone's desire to explore or maintain ruins
hysteronProteron
HP: The fact that they persist long enough to become ruins should stand as a testament to this fact.
@dancingBlade
DB: The ruins scattered throughout this barren wasteland have been here for what must be countless sweeps, and they've only been standing so long as no one steps foot and disturbs the fragile balance they maintain
DB: I've seen firsthand the fragility of the ruins once disturbed
hysteronProteron
Then perhaps you should be more careful so as to not disturb them after all.
Patience is a virtue.  The hunt takes time to do well.
@dancingBlade
DB: Unfortunately my curiosity and the aching tedium of living in this desert would drive me insane if otherwise
DB: I take as much time as I can to be as careful as I can
DB: But these ruins are fragile once stepped inside
DB: They hold on by threads, and once I put weight on those threads they begin to snap
hysteronProteron
Then take more time, and learn to avoid the offending threads.
@dancingBlade
DB: if only the ruins were as identical as you think they were
hysteronProteron
The ruins will not disappear if you spend another week preparing.
@dancingBlade
DB: Yet my tribe will move on and must keep pace or risk abandonment
@dancingBlade
DB: These ruins are literally passing interests that I can only indulge myself in whenever my tribe is stationary, which is not often
DB: So it falls upon myself to be quick in exploring and discovering before the ruins collapse or my tribe moves on
hysteronProteron
Yet you are the cause of these collapses.
@dancingBlade
DB: I know that very well, yet there exists no reasonable method within plausibility to change that
DB: But in the end, I am satisfied with the ability to explore these ruins either way
DB: Even if my curiosity cannot be sated, to even explore the possibilities and secrets in the first place is a joy in and of itself
DB: I think this conversation has been sidetracked for long enough, though
DB: You ~~~~~~~=>
DB: Haven't told me anything new about yourself
DB: So, please, tell me what a legisacerator is
hysteronProteron
A legislacerator is a hunter of criminals.
@dancingBlade
DB: How do they hunt criminals?
hysteronProteron
They are akin to your interpretation of a treasure hunter, with the caveat that their quarry is active, intelligent, and does not want to be captured.
Our work has a time limit that patience and planning will not circumvent.
@dancingBlade
DB: Fascinating!
DB: We share a surprising amount of similarities
hysteronProteron
Indeed.
@dancingBlade
DB: What else is there to learn about you?
hysteronProteron
There is not a significant amount of other information to learn.  I eat, I sleep, I study, I practice.  More would require time unspent on these, which will negatively affect my future.
@dancingBlade
DB: I can understand that sentiment. If I were to spend any less time ensuring I can keep pace with my tribe I would certainly suffer for it
hysteronProteron
Indeed.  As a mudblood my chances of success are already approaching the minimum.
@dancingBlade
DB: You're a mudblood? What does that term mean?
hysteronProteron
Apologies for colloquialism.  My blood is bronze.
@dancingBlade
DB: I see. Despite my efforts, I've not learned much about society outside the desert, most likely due to my technological limitations. I knew not of any colloquialisms for blood color
hysteronProteron
This is understandable.  One cannot be held accountable for their own level of access to public information.
@dancingBlade
DB: True. Could you tell me more about these colloquialisms and their meanings?
hysteronProteron
My blood is the colour of mud.  That is the entirety of the meaning.
@dancingBlade
DB: I asked about other colloquialisms, specifically
DB: Though I would also like to ask why your blood color is associated with mud
hysteronProteron
Other colloquialisms include rustbloods, mustardbloods, bilebloods, greenbloods, bluebloods, highbloods, as well as the distinction between landdweller and seadweller.
My blood colour is associated with mud because my blood and mud are the same colour.  They are both brown.
@dancingBlade
DB: I suppose that makes sense.
DB: But who exactly are seadwellers?
hysteronProteron
Trolls of the violet caste, as well as The Empress.
@dancingBlade
DB: Who is the empress? What color is her blood?
hysteronProteron
The Empress's blood is fuchsia.  I would advise you to remember that fact.  Such an insult to her highness would be unlikely to go unpunished, regardless of your ignorance as to society at large.
@dancingBlade
DB: Fuschia? My own blood is of that color
hysteronProteron
This is not a matter to joke about, 'Ensera'.
@dancingBlade
DB: Have I created the impression that I like jokes?
DB: I tell no lies
hysteronProteron
Then you are mistaken.
@dancingBlade
DB: I may make mistakes, but my own blood color isn't one of them
hysteronProteron
This is understandable, but not something to be taken lightly.
@dancingBlade
DB: But for what reason? My blood color has no influence on my ability to live my life from day to day
DB: And it has no influence on the decisions and abilities of others to live their own lives
hysteronProteron
Declaring oneself as being on par with The Empress is not something one does without facing consequences.
I would heavily advise you to erase this log and learn your true caste soon.
Likely, you are simply a sorely mistaken purpleblood.
@dancingBlade
DB: But I don't declare myself to be her equal. I am a desert wanderer, and I most likely will be nothing more, though I wish I could go beyond this cursed prison of ever-shifting dunes
DB: And once more, I tell no lies about my blood color
DB: I care not about royalty or whatever it entails
DB: I only wish to explore and discover new secrets throughout the world
hysteronProteron
Then you would be wise to do so as a purpleblood.
@dancingBlade
DB: But why?
hysteronProteron
So that you are not culled.
@dancingBlade
DB: That is an extreme measure to take against one such as I
DB: Why would anyone need to resort to it?
hysteronProteron
There are those who would say it is not extreme enough.
@dancingBlade
DB: I will heed your advice for now
DB: If it comes up in the future, I won't let anyone know about my blood color
hysteronProteron
Good.
Now I will scrub this log from my computer, and I heavily advise you do the same.
@dancingBlade
DB: with that I must say goodbye as well
DB: The tribe members are picking up their packs and beginning to move
hysteronProteron
Goodbye, then.
@dancingBlade
DB: I'll see what I can do about removing this log, if it's possible on my shitty computer
hysteronProteron
With all due respect, I hope we never meet again.
@dancingBlade
DB: Goodbye
* dancingBlade has stopped pestering hysteronProteron