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Society
Different races have different societies.
Hereafter, the society of each race is described.
Bugbear
Since the worldly population of bugbears is
small, and since bugbears value organization, they
congregate into communities that are structured like
humans. Bugbear communities range from hamlet
to capital city, and have a king, dukes, barons, and
lords. Since bugbear society is extremely patriarchal,
no queens or duchesses exist who have any
power or influence. Bugbears are highly organized
and, even though few in number, they intend to
dominate the world.
Bugbears organize their slaves within subjecting
facilities, which usually consist of either humans
or light elves. The humans are either forced
or encouraged to breed so that bugbears may enjoy
their delicacy: devouring naughty human children.
Therefore, all human children are encouraged to be
naughty. Any human child who refuses to be naughty
must be killed and eaten by their parents; hence,
even the parents of children in subjecting facilities
encourage their children to be naughty. All slaves in
subjecting facilities are subject to medical experimentation.
Otherwise, these slaves are merely worked
to death by being given just enough food to survive,
but not enough to revolt. The amount of food in
ounces needed to keep a slave alive is known by bugbears,
based on their famous calculations that involve
height and weight.
Though bugbear engineers design their communities,
the unskilled labor is performed by human
slaves. Subjecting facilities are on the outskirts
of bugbear communities and often used to show a
contrast between the lives of bugbears and humans.
Bugbears consider human communities to be subjecting
facilities without walls. Humans are fed at a
high-density feedlot. While humans feed, their hands
are tied behind their backs, and they drink from a
trough. The slaves are all forced to urinate and defecate
in a central cesspool that is above ground. All
characters within 100 feet of the cesspool must pass
a daily Health sub-ability check at TH 5 or become
deathly ill and nauseated in 1d10 seconds and vomit
violently.
The internal environment of subjecting facilities
is void of vegetation, but laden with urinesoaked
clay soil. Living conditions are wretched.
Elven slaves are far fewer in number, but more aghast
because there is no vegetation and they are not allowed
to play music. In fact, if an elf is caught humming
or singing, then they are isolated, restrained
upside-down, and are not allowed water for 1d4 days.
The food of slaves consists of poor quality grain
that has little or no protein or nutrients, which lowers
their Drive, keeps them weak, and prevents reprisal.
Death is their only acquittance, the only solution.
Female bugbears have almost no worth in
bugbear society. The only purpose for a female
bugbear is to relieve sexual tension and make babies
for male bugbears. Although a female bugbear is
named at birth, it is rare for others to refer to her by
name, but instead as an object or property.
Bugbear husbands feel restricted by being
limited to a wife. This is a reason bugbears raid
human communities -- pillage. The bugbear husbands
tell their families how they degraded the human
women, failing to mention any pleasure involved.
Bugbear husbands do not cheat on their
wives with other bugbears, however, they have been
known to ejaculate intercrurally with female bugbear
children. This odd ritual is performed to help
bring females into adulthood.
Most bugbear communities are coastal, since
bugbears are adept at seamanship. In fact, bugbears
use the sea as a quiet means to approach human
communities at night. When convinced that the
time is right, the captain will beach the raiding ship
and the warriors will plunder the community and
pillage the women. The crews of these raiding vessels
are often comprised of male bugbears who will
become adults with full rights and citizenship if successful.
Young bugbears train for raiding by attacking
local slaves in subjecting facilities. Most adult
males savor the experience of taking human communities
by force. Human males are either killed in
such battle or collected for transport. Bugbears find
it easier and less risky to transport slaves by sea.
Bugbears combine the following types of
government: bureaucracy, feudalism, hierarchy,
meritocracy, and monarchy.
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