[quote=@Hylozoist]
With great pomp and ceremony, the Captain's Hat was awkwardly perched on top of one of the hives, and that was that.
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I was thinking of maybe having a bunch of bees try and wear the hat at once, or having used the material to make lots of little hats and for a bunch of them that sit in the captains chair in little booster seats(with seat-belts and everything) kind of like baby's first EU or Senate. This means that nobody else can wear the captain's hat because no-one is small enough and has that many heads and with out [b]The Captain's Hat [/b] what kind of a captain would they be. Therefor the mind is the captain and you better like it or you will have to deal with his swarms of paper mache armored, laser-pointer wielding guards-bees.