WELCOME TO THE HIVE

[rysligparasites]

MOD PLOT: HAPPY ASCENSION DAY

It's a long journey to Kulen and you’re paralyzed for all of it. The parasites aren't very delicate about carrying you there and you may get prodded with the odd pincer, but they diligently protect you from any external threats so you arrive relatively unharmed.

They carry you into a series of tunnels and into the belly of the hive where they lay you down on the ground. You lie there, unable to move or speak as more of the parasites converge on you, chittering excitedly and smelling you with their antennae. As the paralysis starts to wear off, they roughly and enthusiastically help you up and guide you through the tunnels, excitedly showing you around.

Eventually, you'll meet a parasite with human features who will give you a stilted, but genuine welcome. Apparently you are a special guest who has been brought here to help celebrate their beloved queen's first ever ascension day! While you're here, they want to learn as much about YOU and your traditions as they can so they can make this the greatest party ever.

The parasites implore you to eat their human cooking which is mostly composed of various things (both edible and not) that they've deep fried. They worked very hard and they will be very offended if you don't finish it. They also invite you to contribute to their cave paintings which are entirely composed of parasites doing parasite things.

During your stay, you'll likely run into other monsters who've been replaced by doppelgangers. Maybe some of them have been here for a while. Maybe others have just turned up.

Your quarters are dark and maybe a little cramped given that you're sharing them with a whole bunch of insectoid creatures and maybe one or two monsters. Other than that, they're relatively comfortable.

Settle in and make yourself at home. You'll be here for a while.

Comments

[silenceofthesheep]

[Gregg rises up, propelled by the power of Punk.]

Because! It's an expression of the music! Of anarchy!

It's like...you take all those things that make you mad like the government, capitalism, not being able to eat pizza anymore and put it into dancing!

[naturevsnurture]

[Rhoda doesn't know what "anarchy", "capitalism", or even "government" are - though she has heard the latter at least once and assumes it has to do with federal authority.

She is really confused. But she understands the whole "things that make you mad" part.]

So you run into other people because you're mad? That still doesn't sound like dancing!

[silenceofthesheep]

[It's never too early to get really confusing nonsense to get taught to you by a wild 20-something who has no idea what theyre doing with their life.]

Yeah! Cause when you start running into each other and stuff, you're no longer mad!

[naturevsnurture]

[Rhoda stops and thinks about it for a moment. Is that why all the dumb students at her old school would roughhouse and tumble and such? Rhoda never cared for such activities; she preferred keeping herself clean. That isn't to say she wouldn't play outside, but she always was very neat about it.]

That sounds like what the dirty students at my school think. [She says this with no irony, as if yes, of course this guy would understand and not be insulted at all.] They don't care about doing well. They just want to roll around in the mud like... hm, pigs.