Quote:*snip*
I know that, but I just don't have ANYTHING here. Getting FF7's dated MIDI music stuck in my head isn't helping any, either... (COME ON! I have Game Boy Advance games that look and sound better than this - granted, they're a couple years newer and use pre-rendered sprites, but still. For twelve bucks used, I'll give it a while to let itself prove it's "holy grail of RPG plot/play" hype, prehistoric graphics and all.) I supose the "Your brother, your problem" bit comes next, then it's Ko-gal and the Groupies... Perhaps an image for her would help?
Oh, great. And I've got no -clue- how to write them.
*sigh*
Quote:Peleontology is fossils. Archeology is arrowheads and such.
I just had a suddden thought RE dragon biology - their closest purely mundane terrestrial relatives, despite their saurian appearance, is most likely the duck-billed platypus. Modern birds, after all, are offshoots of actual dinosaur lines according to my vaguely remembered science show archeology, and platypi are already egg-laying mammals with a feathery coating - and feathers could surely proceed to scales if they could proceed FROM scales. They're also carnivorous, eating small insects and critters filtered out of the mud. Yes, they lack fifth and sixth limbs, but there's the whole magic-influenced evolution thing, even if you don't buy into the dragons simply having been made that way by one or another form of divinity.
A lot of my stuff for these dragons has been sort of inspired by an essay I read online a -long- time ago on Draco, from Dragonheart. Combine that with a desire to see what the critters would look like if you attempted to design them so that they could actually exist - well, assuming some new, stronger material for their bones or a waiving of the cube-square law - and there you are. Accordingly, if you ignore the the skull, the length of the tail, and the alterations needed for the flight muscles and the second set of shoulders, then you're basically left with the skeleton of a really -big- cat. As in, 'ribcage the size of a small SUV' big.
Which, to go off on a tangent, goes a long way towards explaining why Tsuchi and Miyou can't just pull Ken back up over the railing, despite their both being high-level atheletes - if his human form's built anything like his natural one, he'd weigh more than both of them put together, since Fanged Dragons are -massive-... something like three or four times the weight of a Stone. Though that presents the problem of why he had trouble lifting the Gaki, who couldn't weight more than a fifth of what I'd guess him as...
Ja, -n
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