Right after entering liminal

[wolvering]

By the Crone's saggy, dessicated paps! Those mangy, fly-struck, thrush-footed, worm-begot sons of dungheaps! To Gifnu's deepest hells with you, Trumps. You--

[The tirade continues with more creative swearing and cursing, even slipping into different languages a time or two, for a solid minute more. But eventually Pod runs out of steam, and there's a moment of silence before she addresses the network with more calm.]

So do these Trumps mock everyone with their overlays or am I just that unlucky?

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[wolvering]

Yes, very much so. In some places being a bastard matters less than in others, but...

[Pod lets it hang. He can probably guess, unless his home is very much like Yerrih, and even there bastards aren't treated the same as fully legitimate children. Less badly than in the corners of Kelneth, or worse, Casori, but!]

[solvethepuzzle]

People worry about many unimportant things. [And then there's him, who doesn't worry about things that are important. Like being a decent person. But this, like many social constructs, is just stupid to him. He's part of a succession, but it's based on his ability and not his birth.]

[wolvering]

I cannot argue that at all. I can only pray that will change.