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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#376: Feb 23rd 2011 at 5:26:44 PM

Hmmm... Like a cat's?

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#377: Feb 23rd 2011 at 5:45:58 PM

Cat, monkey, zebra maybe. Doesn't really matter as long as it looks not out of place.

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#378: Feb 23rd 2011 at 8:07:39 PM

Hmmm...

With a brush at the end of it! Like a Smeargle >=D

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#379: Feb 24th 2011 at 2:04:49 PM

I had to look that up but...I'm sort of thinking no.

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#380: Feb 24th 2011 at 2:52:43 PM

Yeah, it was a joke.

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#381: Feb 24th 2011 at 4:47:18 PM

I figured, it was just an unsubtle bump on my part. evil grin

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#382: Feb 24th 2011 at 8:15:46 PM

So, again, we need to figure out gender and age roles here, what are they? Are they matriarchal, patriarchal, gender equal? At what (human equivalent) age are the young sent off, where do they stay before hand?

I'm thinking they're probably still patriarchal but not entirely misogynistic. Can females be monks?

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#383: Feb 24th 2011 at 8:32:01 PM

I'm thinking they should be, not asexual, but both functions should be able to be carried out by 1 Monky dude.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#384: Feb 24th 2011 at 8:34:20 PM

Hey just thought I'd point out - in the first post of this thread, it says the gecks limbs can move 90 feet in any direction. Did you perhaps mean 360 degrees, Cygan?

edited 24th Feb '11 8:57:38 PM by LoniJay

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#385: Feb 24th 2011 at 8:42:16 PM

No, I meant 90 feet >_<

No, I meant 90 degrees. Or perhaps 160 degrees.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#386: Feb 24th 2011 at 8:57:18 PM

90 degrees isn't that much, it's a right angle. A human arm can rotate 180 degrees.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#387: Feb 24th 2011 at 9:51:35 PM

Yes.

But only in 1 direction.

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#388: Feb 26th 2011 at 8:02:58 PM

Revive thread, revive!

So uh, we were discussing gender roles were we? So we have one suggestion of being fully functioning (?) hermaphrodites, this would lead to the question how do they decide who carries the offspring? Is this looked down upon or a great honour?

Also, it just occurred to me our magical radiation would affect these guys, how does that figure in?

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#389: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:12:54 AM

Hermaphrodites, that's it.

Uhhh, I don't think it would be any special honour.

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#390: Feb 27th 2011 at 12:16:17 AM

That works for me!

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.
CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#391: Feb 27th 2011 at 1:02:39 AM

Cool.

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Funnyguts Since: Sep, 2010
#392: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:45:58 AM

Hmm... Mammalian hermaphrodites don't exist on earth due to the selective advantages of having separate sexes. I'm wondering what the conditions on the monk planet would need to be to allow it to flourish.

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#393: Feb 27th 2011 at 4:22:15 PM

I have no clue.

Any biologists wanna speak up?

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#394: Feb 27th 2011 at 4:34:11 PM

Well it could be an adaptation to living in a potentially dangerous environment. I mean, if we have giant predatory birds, whose not to say other megafauna aren't there.

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Gaunt88 from Australia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#395: Feb 27th 2011 at 4:51:58 PM

[up][up][up] Yeah, I think the only natural hermaphrodites on earth are worms and the like.

Unfortunatly, I'm not an ecologist, and my genetics is pretty rusty ^^;

Maybe its something to do with the magic-radiation in the system, altering their genetic material's mutation rates.

edited 27th Feb '11 4:52:38 PM by Gaunt88

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#396: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:26:44 PM

Ah! That would make sense, and solve the problem of magic affecting them in some way!

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MattII Since: Sep, 2009
#397: Feb 27th 2011 at 7:40:49 PM

Yeah, I think the only natural hermaphrodites on earth are worms and the like.
Earthworms, slugs, snails, and at least one species of fish.

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#398: Feb 28th 2011 at 8:51:03 PM

Thanks for that, Matt.

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#399: Mar 1st 2011 at 9:51:59 AM

So wait, how long has our Bird-race been attacking the W-somethings? Because if it's been a long time it makes absolutely no sense for the W's to be pacifistic. Even if they have an alien way of looking at something environment shapes culture, coastal cultures worship the sea, southern cultures the sun and people who are constantly in danger become militaristic, it's a reaction to ones state of being.

Just some Fridge Logic I encountered going back over discussion.

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#400: Mar 1st 2011 at 2:57:42 PM

Not too long, I'd imagine.

Perhaps there wasa n event sometime in the recent past that lowered the temperature of their local environment?

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