John has heard variants on this before: baffled, horrified, embarrassed. Playing it as a joke, to cover their discomfort. But it's rare that horror is for the fighting and not, say, the guys in gimp masks and the food shaped like dicks.
Is it always like this here? ]
Sometimes it's worse.
[ Since people beating the shit out of each other for fun seems harmless after watching the way people treat an outcast, how when the townsfolk have a whipping boy they don't spare that rod. Or worse still, the chaos of the monsters that all this sex and violence is an attempt to avoid.
John turns to the new arrival — ordinary face, warm smile, uncanny eclipses for eyes, and he's as underdressed and glittery as any local, throwing himself thoroughly into the hedonism of the Festival of Ulanti. ]
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John has heard variants on this before: baffled, horrified, embarrassed. Playing it as a joke, to cover their discomfort. But it's rare that horror is for the fighting and not, say, the guys in gimp masks and the food shaped like dicks.
Is it always like this here? ]
Sometimes it's worse.
[ Since people beating the shit out of each other for fun seems harmless after watching the way people treat an outcast, how when the townsfolk have a whipping boy they don't spare that rod. Or worse still, the chaos of the monsters that all this sex and violence is an attempt to avoid.
John turns to the new arrival — ordinary face, warm smile, uncanny eclipses for eyes, and he's as underdressed and glittery as any local, throwing himself thoroughly into the hedonism of the Festival of Ulanti. ]
I take it you're not a fan of fighting?