LOL. Have you ever considered a career in stand-up? :)
Yep, 64 fucking thousand (approximately, plus 'formatting' characters cut into the limit.) Hah, between parts 1 & 2, the total character count was ~92,700 (pre-edits.)
I love short-form content, well-crafted one-liner tweets, and flash-fiction... so I'm all for a 3,900 piece too. In fact, that's what I wanted this to be.
Turns out explaining Hive in 3900 wasn't really doable, at least not comprehensively, lol.
"Rollin' in my six-fo'!" 😂