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[scapepig]

After this there is a frightened, naked man sitting near the fire, looking around...

And occasionally snarling.

[ooc: Just a warning, if you try and touch him you will get bitten. This is one seriously not amused pig.]

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[asar_suti]

"Being naked in the bar is probably forbidden," Asar-Suti said casually from his chair by the fireplace. "You must be new."

[scapepig]

The man!pig's head snaps around.

"Doesn't stop me normally comrade."

[asar_suti]

"I'm nobody's comrade, and you're definitely not Snowball who is allowed," Asar-Suti said. "You are a - communist? Your kind of communists doesn't wear clothes, then?"

[scapepig]

"I am Snowball." the man says, crawling over a little and lying down with his chin on his hands.

"You have never objected to me calling you comrade before, only Jah-lila has ever. And what is a comunest?"

[asar_suti]

"It is your voice - I am sorry, Snowball! Of course you call me 'comrade' - I'm just not everybody's comrade here. And communists were - are - a political movement on Earth that started out thinking everbody should be equal, and that ended up with almost everybody being equally unhappy."

[scapepig]

"Sounds like home." the man says miserably.

"I'm all wonky."

[asar_suti]

"You have been shape-shifted," Asar-Suti said, "and for the first time - that makes you woozy! I'll find you some blanket, and then get you somewhere else?"

[scapepig]

"No thank you." he says quietly.

He gets up and crawls clumsily over to where Asar-Suti is sitting, his feet getting in the way.

"I have lost my home and my family, everything back home that I grew up with and loved. My non-material culture, no clothes, no blankets, is the only piece of my former life I have left to cling to. I have been humiliated beyond all belief. Please don't make me go further."

[asar_suti]

"But you're not allowed to be a naked human here," Asar-Suti said.

[scapepig]

"I'm not a human, I'm a pig." Snowball replies.

[asar_suti]

"You are human-shaped now," Asar-Suti pointed out.

[scapepig]

"But I'm still not human." the pig says.

"I cannot walk, therefore my brain is still mine. Therefore I am a pig."

[asar_suti]

"Of course your body knows how to walk," Asar-Suti said.

[scapepig]

"My body does, but I don't." he says, trying to get to his feet again and finding himself entirely unable to balance.

[asar_suti]

"I've even seen a fighter plane learning to walk," Asar-Suti said. "Then you can as well. Trotters are much more like human feet than an aircraft's undercarriage."

[scapepig]

Snowball frowns at this, wondering how a fighter plane suddenly became living.

"I don't balance right. There's all sorts of bits that aren't the right shape."