on the chaos monsters

 yeah, no, part 2 of that thing isnt coming out yet

nor is your update

im just here to give a presentation on slaads and why they are (and aren't) the chaotic neutral guys

Devils

i swear, this looks nicer in color

devils look sorta like humans but in chains and twisted with torment

it's rather appropriate, seeing as most devils are made from tortured and imprisoned humans

even if the real devil is a talking snake in the form of a person, the human souls are... still sorta like human souls.

Demons

demons are the masks, not just the formless darkness behind them

demons sorta embody hate and destruction and all those things humans fear

they aren't "pure evil and chaos given form", even if the real demon is... evil relative to humans is the only evil that humans respond to

its because theyre also humns

who wouldnve gessed

Slaads

slaads aren't "pure chaos given form"

they're poor humans who found themselves stuck halfway between their prior existence... and the primordial stuffs of the universe whence life was birthed.

they look like blobby frog lizards and axolotls and so on... because that's what happens when you throw a human back in time a couple hundred million years. prototypes collapse in on prototypes and embryonic failsafes kick in and regress to simpler, more reptilian, more fishy designs, because those were what worked before you were born.

chaos is a curse. it's the face of entropy, losing memory, losing purpose. it's liberating in the literal sense

how about i liberate your kidneys from your abdomen

how do ya like that

you can't give chaos to something to make it healthier or more functioning. chaos is the death of that thing, its inability to self-organize manifested in a single word.

and then the fuggin bacteria and ants crawl out of the dead thing and gain self determination or some shit

of course, thats a pretty good deal for the bacteria

look at how happy this guy would be if he wasnt a slave to your anatomy

when chaos wins, animals will break down into cells and the cells will be free. ideas have existed long before humanity, although not in a form you would recognize. they existed within wondrous, unaging wet machines the size of a cell that could debate with chemicals and pheromones and invisible motions, over aeons. ideas can be broken down into machine code and removed from the thinkers, to be executed by microscopic messengers and given power by chemical warriors.

but even a genome is mortal - some day, it will break back down into nucleotides and they will be free.

and they will debate of things that do not pertain to this thing called "life", for there is no life without the self-organization of a genome, but to their own matters. ideas can be broken down into their substrates and removed from any reason to occur, to be executed by nobody and given power by nothing.

that is the formless chaos, the state before life and after death

you've seen the great evil that represents death

death slaads are not that

they are a middling form of chaos that has its foundation in realizing this intellectual death

this animal death

freeing the slaad that is inside you

not realizing that new life can come from it as well, since life is a process of law, not chaos

Why do axes of law and chaos and good and evil still exist?

no im not talking about the axes you use to cut down trees

good and evil can't exist without the actor

separated from the world they become impotent things. just information

they are, fundamentally, something that was broken down from the actor

similarly, law and chaos can't exist without a being

too much chaos and the quanta fly apart

become nothing more than vectors with no memory and no reason - just information

too much law and the being is forgotten in favor of the superstructure they make up the units of

they are, fundamentally, ways to describe what happens to them

what they are; why they lived, and why they died

- the lawful afterlife: the society they live in rather than themselves

- the chaotic afterlife: animals rather than people

this isn't the only way that a being breaks down into law and chaos, but it is one of the more obvious ones

law and chaos, good and evil, are not axes just because

they're axes because their attraction is unavoidable. they are the laws of jealous, mortal, finite beings, too removed from the top of reality, where ideas are, and from the bottom of reality, where base, crude atoms are. and yet they are too close to both sides at the same time.

just because you've moved on and you live forever now doesn't mean that you stop seeing this "reality" and stop fighting for it

you're finally awake, kid

you hit your head pretty hard back there

good? evil? the formless chaos? what are you talking about, those things only matter in video games

come home, we have xlorg, nandor, and not waiting for you

and who could forget

klaxon