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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#101: Feb 13th 2011 at 5:40:50 PM

Possibly if there is a nearby colony, but the walls between are to unstable to just dig through?

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Player2isDead Game Over. Try Again? from Four days in the future. Since: Feb, 2010
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#102: Feb 13th 2011 at 6:30:05 PM

Yeah, I like that.

What are the plants like on this world? Actually, how far down would our aliens live?

We need to start naming.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#103: Feb 13th 2011 at 6:42:44 PM

Seeing as the surface is inhositable, it's possible that very little except the hardiest of lichens lives there. I doubt you could get 'plants' as we know them underground due to the lack of light.

Really, though, there's no reason why an alien world would have to adhere to our divisions of plant/fungus. Perhaps they have some sort of organism that shares the characteristics of the two.

Edit: If they communicate via pheromones and vibrations, I doubt their name for themselves would be pronounceable by humans tongue

edited 13th Feb '11 6:44:07 PM by LoniJay

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#104: Feb 13th 2011 at 6:50:23 PM

What if they were just given a nickname of sorts? If I remember my American History properly, The Apache indians referred to themselves as The Denae. What if these guys had the same problem?

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.
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#105: Feb 13th 2011 at 6:52:13 PM

^^Humans wouldn't care in the slightest, they'd simply go with whatever they liked best.

I've asked it before, but I'll reiterate since it wasn't really addressed, but have humans developed a manner to interpret the frequencies?

If so, we can base it off a bastardization of that.

But yeah, names, we need them.

edited 13th Feb '11 6:52:32 PM by AwayLaughing

Player2isDead Game Over. Try Again? from Four days in the future. Since: Feb, 2010
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#106: Feb 13th 2011 at 7:00:39 PM

I suggest Dendrovormp. Absolutely no signifigance or any real relation to our creature, but it's a name.

They could communicate with their whiskers/feelers like an alien sign language. Our nanomagitech would do this and that with vibrations in the air and something with frequencies to translate to alien.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#107: Feb 13th 2011 at 7:01:49 PM

Alternatively, a slang name like Geckoes or Spiders.

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AwayLaughing Away from North of Broadway (Seven Years' War) Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
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#108: Feb 13th 2011 at 7:18:01 PM

I'm sorry, I hear "dendro" and I think trees, how about something like Deepworms? I do like the idea of simple slang being Geckos.

edited 13th Feb '11 7:18:26 PM by AwayLaughing

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#109: Feb 13th 2011 at 7:46:40 PM

Deepvores?

With the slang being 'Gecks', to distinguish them slightly from Geckoes with the implication of Geckoes still being there?

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AwayLaughing Away from North of Broadway (Seven Years' War) Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
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#110: Feb 13th 2011 at 8:17:56 PM

Deepvores and Gecks, I am down with both.

So far we've got

  • Deepvores/other
    • Gecks/other
  • Subterranean
  • Communicate using frequencies and pheromones
  • Herbivores/scavangers
  • Reptilian features (but warm blooded?)

So we need culture, relation to humans, mating habits etc.

AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#111: Feb 13th 2011 at 8:24:24 PM

What if we had a Mr Seahorse deal? What if the female lays her eggs on his back. He fertilizes them, and then carries them round?

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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#112: Feb 13th 2011 at 8:37:03 PM

Hmmm...

Actually, how about live births, but in clutches?

So the newbies would be too weak to look after themselves, but they had an entire community looking after them?

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AwayLaughing Away from North of Broadway (Seven Years' War) Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
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#113: Feb 13th 2011 at 8:57:47 PM

I proposed so, yes, I like the possible dynamic it would give, a much less individualistic society for one.

Maybe the more individualistic ones are the ones who actually leave and work with aliens?

CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#114: Feb 13th 2011 at 9:47:58 PM

And they would be considered the oddballs- like the loners in our society.

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#115: Feb 13th 2011 at 10:01:40 PM

Sounds good to me. But what aboutn their culture as a whole? We know that they are communal creatures and consider it the norm but what else?

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.
LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#116: Feb 13th 2011 at 10:23:48 PM

Do they have music and culture? The vibration-sensing might lend itself to that.

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AtomJames I need a drink Since: Apr, 2010
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#117: Feb 13th 2011 at 10:30:46 PM

Heavy percussion sounds, yeah. That work well. Could include stuff like rainsticks and thumb pianos. What if they had an oral tradition? Since their blind, they would have to pass on their knowledge audibly right?

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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#118: Feb 13th 2011 at 10:31:53 PM

Hmmmm...

I think their feelers might work as instruments, but the could only really sing, they couldn't have instruments. So I don't imagine that being very important.

Maybe something to do with pheromones?

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#119: Feb 14th 2011 at 2:54:24 AM

Hey, poems written in scents! grin

Why couldn't they use instruments? Their legs should be able to operate something like a string instrument, surely?

What about tool-using and the like? Will they need it?

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#120: Feb 14th 2011 at 3:03:23 AM

What would they build their instruments out of?

Actually, there's a question. Would plants and such reasonably be able to grow?

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#121: Feb 14th 2011 at 3:08:35 AM

You probably wouldn't get plants under the surface, no, because plants by definition photosynthesise. But you might get something similar to a plant.

Perhaps some things, such as plants, can only be found on the inhospitable surface, and as such are extremely valuable.

edited 14th Feb '11 3:13:28 AM by LoniJay

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#122: Feb 14th 2011 at 3:14:10 AM

Hmmm.

I'd say there'd probably be no instruments, then- no reeds for wind instruments, o strings for string instruments.

Tools... Maybe something like a scraper. But mostly, I've just imagined them licking the moss off of rocks and stuff.

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LoniJay from Australia Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
#123: Feb 14th 2011 at 3:16:53 AM

Ah, no moss underground. It's a plant. tongue

Perhaps a sort of pseudo-plant thing like a sponge! (Sponges are animals, you know) That filters nutrients from... the air? I guess you'd need some air currents for that to work. Or mobile sponge-planty things.

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CyganAngel Away on the wind~ from Arcadia Since: Oct, 2010
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#124: Feb 14th 2011 at 3:24:16 AM

Fungus or lichen?

Perhaps it grows on the ground- where water soaks through to the ground? Or perhaps at pools of water?

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AwayLaughing Away from North of Broadway (Seven Years' War) Relationship Status: Not caught up in your love affair
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#125: Feb 14th 2011 at 6:37:54 AM

How cold is the surface? Maybe they go out and collect food at the warmest part of the day?


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