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Maggie experiments with a worldbuilding at Amenta
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The dancers go away. Very sadly.

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Poor dancers.

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Everyone is very sad. They really really wanted to teleport.

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It is very sad and beeple are sad for them.

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Maybe they can work out a deal where beeple teleport them around.

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Probably yes.

And this cuts out one of the obstacles to visiting red districts.

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...one of them.

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What if they sent coroners and plumbers, would that remove the other objection?

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The Amentans have kind of been trying not to think too hard about the existence of integrated beeple coroners and plumbers.

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Yeah, Amentans are weird like that.

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...well, at least they can't have generationally unclean beeple because of the way their sex-based castelike system works!

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Yep. They're still unsure how coroners and plumbers get that way for Amentans, like, showers exist.

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Showers (long elaborate showers) are fine if you haven't been doing it for generations but after a while there's just no cleaning a red.

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Yeah, see, that's where the beeple get confused.

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None of these greens are theologians but they can get one if they like?

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...What does theology have to do with hygiene?

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Oh, it doesn't have to do with bacteria or anything, it's just how they standardize their understanding of pollution so there aren't competing intuitions making trade impossible.

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Aren't there any things that beeple find really gross that won't literally infect them with pathogens?

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Yeah, but you don't have to worry about getting reproductive incest on your trade goods.

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Well, Amentans have instincts that do involve worrying about that.

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Is siblings fucking on top of trade goods a serious problem Amentans have???

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No, pollution is. The incest thing was just an analogy.

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Oh. Okay, good, Amentans are weird but that would be really weird.

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Amenta does not have a significant reproductive incest problem.

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