Sunday, November 15, 2009

Scintillus: The I.D. Badge Backstory

Kheldian Warshade (Level Pact w/Voyageur)

My thumb, as you call it, is both a tranfigurant and a transubstantiant, no more or less important to evolution than the sweet tooth or riverwashed dung. That you should ascribe it such high regard for opposing is to belittle the claw, the pseudopod, the articulated tentacle, and the many indescribable Kheldian lessons there are to be learned when one is pressed between forms. For in that space between states, escaping all lingual description, there are infinitive means through which to throw a simple lever or to simultaneously turn both keys in your arsenal. I ally with you as your protection, protection against your greatest hidden enemy, the psychological pitfall that is the oft touted belief in your thumb. This belief is predicated upon the rogue idea that, as a digit, it is functionally unique and that therefore everything human society has since created with it is similarly impressive. Such is fiction.

1 comment:

Garthamatic said...

This is actually the backstory I like the best out of all the three. The whole concept of verbosely examining our preconception of opposable thumbs as the end-all-beat-all of genetic development is pretty damn humorous. I can see the 14 year old "leet speeker" out there reading it and going... "WTF?"