Complex General Chatter

[skinstealer]

[KIBBLE_MAYHEM]:
 

[ABBERANT_INCANDESCENCE]:

oh! i work with a couple complexes. i help them with their stuff some and they help me a bit as well. i heard one of them talk about their hobbies a bit and i actually know some things about complex culture! here's something they told me about today. okay, so. if someone sees something spooky. people will talk about that! and, well, if someone were to make a really weird costume, and skulk around at night making weird noises and do that for a bit, then you can get what complexes call an 'urban legend' where they're talked about a decent amount. and then they can be on things like forums. and merchandise. sometimes this is regarded as a really odd sort of performance art. i can probably ask them a bit more whenever they get back.

this isn't unique to complexes, but it's definitely something that happens more here on morbit than in sessions, probably due to the length that sessions last- while time is nebulous in those "games", it's usually not enough in terms of duration and sheer amount of people to spread word of mouth to for anything to become a proper legend. still, you can see people discussing those kinds of things here in the E&A forum, so it's not too far out.

facial expressions are hard to read for a lot of TCPs, and it's more common for people who are more experienced with/around complexes to pick up on them easier. session TCPs that have only ever seen other TCPs and maybe some animals also struggle with this, though some are lucky enough to have beings with facial expressions created in their session and giving them some context. there are actually some good guides out there on this stuff, check out The Art of Emoting by Ursula Penn. she's a yarn type who really knows what she's talking about.

as for the actual internal biology of complexes, that's a whole discussion in and of itself, and i'd love to hear what you have on the subject, [Jocelyn].