IC Contact for Midnight Syndicate

[polariity]

[For anyone familiar enough with the Psiioniic or even who just plain asks around, it's easy enough to find his room over in Gloria's wing. There's a tiny little box with a slit on it attached to his door, plainly wooden save for the gemini symbol carved onto it.]

[Of course, anyone further familiar with him can contact him on his husktop at any time.]

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Comments

[polariity]

Where the hell diid you get that?
He'2 ju2t a thiief
That 2ort of 2hiit ii2 normal when you're a lowblood and doubly 2o when you're ba2iically cullbaiit

[samantha_grey]

I'll chalk it up to a limited understanding of your world. Remember that most of my knowledge comes from an idiot manchild highblood I used to fuck. What you're saying makes sense, though, if the whole spectrum thing is that rigid. If he's at the bottom rung, it's a survival mechanism he can't just turn off.

[polariity]

Yeah II mean II gue22 2ome thiing2 have changed
2iince II'm apparently an oldtiimer from the pa2t or 2ome 2hiit
But iin my tiime, II diidn't know a 2iingle lowblood that diidn't 2teal fuckiing 2omethiing at 2omepoiint
Troll'2 gotta eat

[samantha_grey]

I see. I know the trolls I knew were young, barely away from their lusus. [because the world blew up and they all died, but that's beside the point.] But they might have changed a little. Tavros, Sollux and Aradia were never the stealing type. Sollux was kind of just a lazy bum you had to drag out of his house to see the light of day.

[polariity]

Well apparently all adult troll2 have left the homeworld
Whiich
explaiin2 a lot

[samantha_grey]

Oh, does this have to do with the galactic conquest thing that Eridan was always prattling about? So they all left their world to the young and went off to wage war?

[polariity]

Here'2 the thiing: we were already doiing that whiile adult2 were on the homeworld!
There'2 liiterally no rea2on for them to have left and leave iit all to a bunch of teenage a22hole2
II don't get iit and iit pii22e2 me off

[samantha_grey]

I don't really get it either, but I don't know enough to understand it to begin with. Most of my ways of understanding trolls are to equate you with Demons, without all the intentional corruption and stupid manipulative politics.

Understanding why the queen bitch would order anything, when all she ever talked about was hair care products and racial purity, is beyond me.

[polariity]

Ugh. IIt'2 probably cla22iifiied iinformatiion, too, but good fuckiing luck gettiing anythiing Alterniian around here.

[samantha_grey]

Best I can do is cook grubloaf if you get it for me. I at least know how to do that passably, even if Eridan said I scalded his taste buds.

It probably is, and it's probably moronic. I don't have a high opinion of your Empress' ability to rule. I would have taken her teenage descendant over her in a heartbeat, and Feferi hated me.

[polariity]

They're all the 2ame iin the end. Fuck any 2altliicker.

[samantha_grey]

Eh, I'm not in the business of defending highbloods or getting too involved there. Wish I could see your world at least once, though. Might help understand you guys better.

[polariity]

Unadvii2able.
IIt'2 a goddamn 2hiithole.
Although once you're away from other people, then iit can be pretty niice.

[samantha_grey]

I'm actually more interested in those parts anyway. I know this might sound dumb, but I'd kind of like to see the world Eridan grew up in.

[polariity]

Hold your breath.
Liiterally and fiiguratively, he'2 a fuckiing ocean dweller
And iit'2 full of horriible bull2hiit

[samantha_grey]

That's what magic is for. But yes, I suppose it would be good to prepare. Frostfire would react oddly underwater, and electricity's not the wisest attack choice out there when you're in those conditions.

[polariity]

Don't go too deep.

[samantha_grey]

Dare I ask why? The currents really strong or something?

[polariity]

...Okay 2o none of the troll2 you've 2poken to have explaiined about the fuckiing horrorterror that liive2 down there?

[samantha_grey]

No, they haven't, but I'm not necessarily surprised. Giant sea monsters sort of seem par for the course. Is it safe to assume there's horrible things all over your planet that want to eat me, or is that just an ocean-view thing?

[polariity]

IIn general, yeah
But the ocean ii2 e2peciially bad
Lii2ten
One of the real rea2on2 that no one goe2 agaiin2t the Empre22 ii2n't becau2e of her
But her lu2u2

It'2 a fuch2iiablooded thiing
They 2hare the 2ame lu2u2 whiich lii2ten2 only to them
And the only rea2on iit doe2 that
ii2 becau2e that'2 the only ca2te that ii2 amu2e to iit'2 fuckiing p2ychiic 2creech

2eriiou2ly ha2 no one told you about thii2

[samantha_grey]

For all that I know a lot more than the average human about your world, there's a lot of holes. Your empress and I didn't get along enough to actually talk instead of just shout at each other and posture, and the people I spoke to were mostly just at the point they left their lusus. I think a couple of them knew all of this, but Sollux especially hated talking about the stuff from his world.

It wasn't my business, according to him.

[polariity]

I wonder iif they really ju2t left theiir lu2ii
2ee
IIf we don't keep that fuckiing thiing fed
IIt'2 p2ychiic voiice get2 2o loud iit 2tart2 to kiill off troll2
IIt'2 2aiid to 2tart off wiith tho2e weake2t to mental bull2hiit
aka lowblood2
But eventually iit make2 iit all the way to even hiighblood2

And the only thiing whiich can feed iit
are other lu2ii

[samantha_grey]

No, wait. That is more familiar. It was something Eridan used to talk about. When he and Feferi got along, he would help hunt lusii with her for hers. He didn't get into the 'why' of it. He just used it as a chest-beating exercise to prove he was dangerous to me. You know, weird black flirtations dumb kids get into.

[She'd been impressed, but she wasn't going to mention it.]

[polariity]

Well now you know
Lot2 of kiid2 grow up orphan2 becau2e of that 2hiit
And that'2 a22umiing their lu2u2 doe2n't get fucked iin 2ome other way

Anyway 2tay the fuck out of the ocean