And somewhere in the Abyss, Juiblex felt a sudden touch upon his slimy shoulder, a hand.
"Don't worry Juiblex, you'll get used to the mockery eventually." The hand's owner said, a looming figure with the rough shape of a frog.
A slaadi of some sort.
"Who the hell are you?!" Juiblex burbled back in a dozen voices and dialects of mucus-accented Abyssal.
"They mock you now with those 3.5 stats, but it could be worse you know." The Slaadi replied, not answering the question.
"What are you rambling about dude?" The Abyssal Lord muttered, "I'm having quasits make fun of me, and all my Balors just go silent whenever they see me now. You think I can't hear them snicker at me when I get out of line of sight from them? How the bloody hell could it get worse?!"
The Slaadi nodded his head sagely. "At least they acknowledge you. Yeah they mock you, but they acknowledge you nonetheless. They could just forget all about you like you never existed."
Juiblex bubbled and blinked a dozen myriad eyes at the limbo-frog. "...Just who the hell are you anyways?"
"Me?" The Slaad Lord asked. "I'm Wartle."
"Wartle... who?!" Juiblex replied.
"They mock you and they ignore me." Wartle said with a sad little smile that carried with it a millennia of sympathy. "But don't worry pal, we've got each other. Two birds of a feather perhaps. We can be friends right?"
Juiblex brushed the Slaad Lord's hand away with a tentacle of ooze. "Who the hell are you again?!"
***
Remember children, you can always find happiness, or make your own. You might bask in the sun of Amoria, ride the currents of Oceanus, feel the dust of Pelion under your fingertips or maybe even the squishy noises that a spinagon's kidney's make when you rip 'em out from their screaming, twitching, still very much living form. You can be happy if you make the effort to find what makes you happy.
Even if you're a bleaker living in a cold, remorseless universe without meaning, a reality condemned to meaningless freedom, you can still be happy, you can still have friends. Unless of course you're Wartle.
