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Sun Harmony
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Everything’s okay, now. The Doctor, whose maiden name you’ve learned is Jimmie Locke, had someone go pick up your luggage from the bus station so you could finally get into some fresh underoos. You loan some to Striker. You talk about the mistakes that lead you each here and where you want to go, next.
Ahe Blink: You are here to attend a royal ball but you might have to miss it: a family heirloom line of lap dragons is at stake and you must find the one individual who was stolen from you at the bus stop.(You also are here to gather intel on who has been offing each and every one of your family members.)
Glimmerstrike Dikbut III: You unabashedly explain, in detail, your plans to off each and every one of your family members so you can ascend rank to the throne. Ahe squints at you the whole time like you’re either stupid or insane. Finally, Ahe says, “It’s kind of unprofessional to lay out your assassination plans for even a small audience.” You explain to them that in Mossland, there was once a time honored tradition of Princusurption in this manner: the word ‘Princess,’ meaning ‘someone who is behind a prince in line for the throne,’ comes from the words ‘prince’ and ‘assassin’ or ‘usurper.’
“Are you even a prince at all?” says Ahe.
“Are you?” you say with a bite.
“Yes,” says Ahe, like it ain’t no thang. You don’t believe them.
Jimmie Locke: You’re actually quite happy with your life. Yes, you are a member of a spouseship that has persisted non-stop for almost five hundred years. Each time it looked like the wives were going to die out, they got a new, younger husband. You are the most recent addition. It has been twenty years since anyone married into the group. Looks like the impressive record will have to rest, for now. You will die having always been someone’s husband and never a wife.
You all have a complicated argument over why it matters if you’re someone’s husband or wife. In Mossland, it doesn't matter who was in the group first second or last or if someone left for a while and then came back. All that matters is who was present for each child’s birth. But in Black Trees, being the first is what’s important. The head of the family is always the kenpin and the kenpin is always one of the first two wives and the first wife is who ever asked the second wife to go steady, first.
Striker says that in Mossland, the kenpin is usually who ever is tallest. No one seems to agree on what makes someone a ‘Kenpin.’ They don’t even have to have children or be married. Having ‘bitches on your arm’ seems to be a common qualifier, however.
Oddly, in every language the three of you speak, ‘Wife’ means someone who was there before you and ‘husband’ means someone who was there after you. but the words ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ have very different meanings. To Ahe, a sister is someone who shares the same parents as you whether the parents were present for your birth or not. If someone has even one parent more or less or exchanged: they are your brother.
Striker says if someone has even one parent more or less or exchanged: they are known as your cousin and being present for the birth is more important than simple genetic makeup: since genes change your whole life, anyway.
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