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    • Third EyeT
      Third Eye
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      Bummer, this would’ve been an April Fool’s Day gotcha I would’ve found kinda actually funny, which is a rarity.

      I want something else to get me through this
      Semi-charmed kinda life, baby, baby
      I want something else, I'm not listening when you say good-bye

      She/Her or They/Them

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      • TezT
        Tez Administrators @mietze
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        @mietze That’s fair about the QUENCIES in this game canon, but I don’t love the worms in this plum. There are better ways to do it that don’t squick so hard.

        she/they

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          mietze @Tez
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          I’m not certain there’s better ways so much as squicking different people. Except for perhaps a very blunt ooc rule of “No. This will not be entertained as a playable concept/something in play.” Which i am also a great fan of. Sometimes I think there’s too much bending over backwards to make things make sense or to try to convince players that no really this has a ic reason so you should be okay with it.

          Except for the problem folks are never going to be okay with it and you will always have some non problematic folks that will disagree with any restrictive decision.

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          • RozR
            Roz
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            The natural conclusion of religious authorities maintaining strict control over the reproductive rights of laypeople is abuse. Like, that’s just where it inevitably leads. And if that’s the story you want to tell, that could be absolutely interesting for some people. I would be interested! I don’t have triggers or squicks in this particular area. And it’s honestly fine to explore some story areas that not everyone wants to play.

            But I have to wonder if it’s meant as story to be engaged in to that depth, or if it’s building logic around “no you can’t spring babies on each other.” Because if it’s just that, along with building around the thematic issues of troubles happening with birth, but not necessarily meant to be interrogated as a full piece of the story to explore…then yeah, you’re inviting attention you don’t want.

            she/her | playlist

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              mietze @Roz
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              @Roz I wouldn’t be surprised if there will be a way to investigate why/how or if there can be change is part of the things that can be done just because of other ways the metaplot seems to be leading to finding out why the rifts are happening/if there is another reason/why did they only start a few generations ago/what were things really like before, ect

              But I’m not staff and don’t know for sure.

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                Pyrephox Administrators @mietze
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                @mietze Okay, every birth event being a cosmic horror experience is both relevant to my interests and makes this whole thing sound twenty times more interesting.

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                  Testament
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                  Nobody:

                  Absolutely Nobody Ever:

                  The Church in Concordia:
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                  I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021

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                    icanbeyourmuse
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                    I am not a fan of pregnancy RP but sometimes it can help stories along for plots or people (people being those that find RPing about babies and stuff fun). To have to jump through hoops to ‘have a child’ is not my cup of tea. Unless once you eat this fruit you are for sure going to have the spawn child you want, I don’t find the idea appealing.

                    On Atharia I basically went ‘Baby prevention is flawless. Both people involved take a pill (I think that is what I decided) and have pretty much have all their life. Both need to decide not to take it for a spawn child to be born. There is no ‘surprise baby’ for people. (I forget exactly how I phrased it and am lazy to look)’ I feel like I addressed the ‘surprise you’re a parent!’ issue people like to do. I did leave in the option for people to decide to have a bastard child but the parents have actively made the choice to have one, making them the scandal, not the child. The child is accepted and treated as their station dictates (a child born of a noble and commoner union, for example, can be either noble or common, depending on the parents decisions/contracts) by Atharia’s society while the parents get the backlash. They are actively making the choice to have the child.

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                      GF
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                      There are so many questions.

                      If everyone in the game world is infertile, then what other changes are there? Do people menstruate? How common is sex, and how common is sexual impotence? Do people in this world where only fruit can make babies have a biological urge to have sex? Does the fruit, in addition to making your eggs drop and your wigglies wiggle, act as an aphrodisiac? Are people even sexually dimorphic when not under the effects of the fuck-fruit?

                      What’s society like? What are the requirements to get a fuck-fruit? Are birth rates keeping up with rates of death? Is it a culture in which medicine has advanced to the point that you don’t need to have eight kids because the first seven are probably gonna die of strep throat?

                      I’m not even mad, just really wanting answers.

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                      • CoinC
                        Coin @GF
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                        @GF You’re digging too deep, lol.

                        In Occam I trust.

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                        • SnacknessS
                          Snackness
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                          I’m just happy to now have the term ‘fuck-fruit’

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                          • MegM
                            Meg @Coin
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                            @Coin no, I also want these answers. Let’s talk about ovulation.

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                              GF @Coin
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                              @Coin See, I don’t think I’m even digging! These are just the questions that occurred instantly to me! More have been popping into my head as time goes by, a lot of them feeling really icky, like “what happens when you feed a fuck-fruit to a child” that I really hope DON’T get answered.

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                              • SnacknessS
                                Snackness @Meg
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                                @Meg shame

                                No talking about ovulation without an ovulation expert on hand, preferably a man who has met many women.

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                                • MegM
                                  Meg @GF
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                                  @GF also like, fuck-fruit only blooms once a year. Does the whole population have birthdays within a two-three month span? Did they figure out a way to preserve the fuck-fruit? Is it jam? Do they dry the seeds and grind them, like powdered fuck-fruit spice? It would be harder to monitor if you had to store it like that, people could easily swipe a pinch.

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                                  • spesS
                                    spes
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                                    My peeve is when people subtweet my game instead of just naming it. How am I supposed know where to go to delve into the intricacies of menstruation and seminal emissions in my setting?

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                                      Pyrephox Administrators @GF
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                                      @GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                      There are so many questions.

                                      If everyone in the game world is infertile, then what other changes are there? Do people menstruate? How common is sex, and how common is sexual impotence? Do people in this world where only fruit can make babies have a biological urge to have sex? Does the fruit, in addition to making your eggs drop and your wigglies wiggle, act as an aphrodisiac? Are people even sexually dimorphic when not under the effects of the fuck-fruit?

                                      Oh gosh, this would be so interesting. I would absolutely play a game where humans were basically sex-neutral until they ate a catalyst and suddenly gained sexual organs. Especially if it wasn’t fixed and you couldn’t guarantee which ‘organs’ you would gain with each dose. What’s THAT society look like?

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                                      • spiriferidaS
                                        spiriferida @spes
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                                        @spes

                                        You’re here now so please. We have burning questions about jam

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                                        • RozR
                                          Roz
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                                          no one tell the ovulation guy about the game

                                          she/her | playlist

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                                          • TributaryT
                                            Tributary @Pyrephox
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                                            @Pyrephox said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                            @GF said in MU Peeves Thread:

                                            There are so many questions.

                                            If everyone in the game world is infertile, then what other changes are there? Do people menstruate? How common is sex, and how common is sexual impotence? Do people in this world where only fruit can make babies have a biological urge to have sex? Does the fruit, in addition to making your eggs drop and your wigglies wiggle, act as an aphrodisiac? Are people even sexually dimorphic when not under the effects of the fuck-fruit?

                                            Oh gosh, this would be so interesting. I would absolutely play a game where humans were basically sex-neutral until they ate a catalyst and suddenly gained sexual organs. Especially if it wasn’t fixed and you couldn’t guarantee which ‘organs’ you would gain with each dose. What’s THAT society look like?

                                            Have you read The Left Hand of Darkness? It’s a classic, by Ursula Le Guin, and the humans are gender neutral (though they use ‘he’ pronouns) unless they are “in kemmer,” at which point they develop male or female sexual characteristics depending on circumstances.

                                            The main character is a foreigner, from a human population that does not have any ambisexual phases. His landlady, to whom he tends to ascribe feminine characteristics based on his behavior, says on the subject of children something like, “Sired six, bore none,” and seems a little resigned about that. It’s news when the king gets pregnant, though he’s sired children before. And so on.

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