>>29240546Might be a bit late of a response, but I was reading back and saw this caught in archive diving too so I'll respond for good measure.
The artifact mentioned there is by no means final and I wasn't sold on such a thing in the first place, just something I was gonna keep noted down. I do admit the poison was a bit of a stretch though.
As for the hivemind, I figured a modicum of suspension of disbelief could be applied, but the main logic behind it was that Kenzoku are very easily (at least, in the thread) influenced by other Kenzoku. As a result, I've long thought of it as a type of hivemind where each one's thoughts are easily passed onto another, and thus, wrote around that as the basis for it. If you dislike the suspension of disbelief, it could be thought of as a natural deposition to listen to other Kenzoku's thoughts and share them to others.
