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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Goldwater View Post
    Yeah OK, so I know I said I'd post Narf's biology stuff for her yesterday, but complications got in the way and so I'm doing it tonight instead. Here goes:
    ...Barry, iirc, these white haired humans are on Anvakhano? If so, perhaps Kip's Mamelukes and the Anikluhn Shoahmuhgoat can be combined into one that have a division at some point, resulting in both groups?

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    Yes, they are. And it might be possible (then again IIRC Kip's people are Dwarf offshoots, the AS are regular humans outside of their hair color), but that'd be up to Narf & Kip to decide.

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    OK, the race proposals here have been stalled for even longer than the Aboriginal/Asiatic ones and I've seen about as much discussion around them so you know what, I'm unilaterally approving them. Kip's albino dwarf offshoots? In. Jacb's creations for the SW islands? In. Xion's kuronesti? In. Only the AS are staying out for now, and that's 1/2 because they're a more recent proposal, 1/2 because I haven't been able to fully elaborate on them yet (will do so by the end of the week though).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Goldwater View Post
    Yes, they are. And it might be possible (then again IIRC Kip's people are Dwarf offshoots, the AS are regular humans outside of their hair color), but that'd be up to Narf & Kip to decide.
    Well, I guess with the unilateral approval of Kip's albino mamelukes that idea is out so I'll tentatively approve the AS and wait to see the more elaborated version to make a decision.

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    OK, so I finally had time to get back on Skype tonight and look at what I missed from Narf's idea. In addition to their hereditary white hair, the AS also have a genetic predisposition to having smaller, more agile bodies with finer hands and a greater focus on dexterity over strength. To paraphrase what she said, basically the kind of stuff that'd make them good archers (and presumably gymnasts or sprinters) but poor hand-to-hand fighters.

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    Small question. Would anyone be opposed to allowing a type of maize to have adapted to growing in a evergreen forest? Figured I would ask before writing it into a upcoming Cerayanesti section.
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    Okay, so I've made a little treat (depending on how you look at it I guess):

    A map of ocean currents!


    Ocean A - Our atlantic ocean, essentially. Warm enough in the west, colder in the east. The south's pretty chilled.
    Ocean B - Massive pacific. Mostly warm, but the southeast is cold.
    Ocean C - Southern Arctic ocean.
    Ocean D - Northern Arctic ocean.
    Ocean E - More like a set of interconnected seas, filled with warm currents out of Ocean B.
    Ocean F - Small southeastern Ocean. Mostly cold, but in the north it contributes to the a tropical region.

    The white line in the middle is the Equator.
    Red lines are warm currents.
    Blue lines are cold currents.
    Monsoons are marked, denoting particular situations where winds reverse quickly and bring seasonal downpours and interesting weather patterns.

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    What do you guys think? Want to use it?
    It certainly affects how sea-travel will go until more modern technology.

    Quote Originally Posted by Xion View Post
    Small question. Would anyone be opposed to allowing a type of maize to have adapted to growing in a evergreen forest? Figured I would ask before writing it into a upcoming Cerayanesti section.
    I'm cool with it.
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    That's awesome! Ocean currents were second on my list-of-things-that-should-be-done-but-people-will-probably-think-are-too-detailed. Plate tectonics was first. If you can do that on top of this, I'll be your best friend.
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    Yeah, I'm down with it, but Ocean Currents can be done by amateurs - Plate tectonics? Barking down the wrong tree.

    Though if you could give me the basic principles or descriptions of what some plates should be and where, I'd do it.
    I just don't know to start from scratch.

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    Very well done BF, I like it a lot..probably can create some cultural traditions or something to do with the Tsuarin religion around the monsoon season..will have to think on that.

    By the way, did we ever decide if there was some form of elephant in the world?

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    Well, I know there's a mammoth, but beyond that..
    We probably have Indian and African elephants. So basically more tropical ones and then desert oriented ones.
    I'd guess that they'd be centered around the Anvakhano continent by default, and it'd be pretty hard to justify elephants on multiple continents (because the evolutionary separation would make them .. no longer really elephants).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bastard Feudalism View Post
    Yeah, I'm down with it, but Ocean Currents can be done by amateurs - Plate tectonics? Barking down the wrong tree.

    Though if you could give me the basic principles or descriptions of what some plates should be and where, I'd do it.
    I just don't know to start from scratch.
    Hah! Nah, I was just kidding. The way that our coastlines match up and the way that our mountain ranges are formed (my fault) really aren't conducive to realistic tectonic plate boundaries. Save your creative energy for more worthy projects lol.
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    Haha, yeah I actually started trying to scale out the mountain ranges.
    Jokes often go right over my head - just ask LM.

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    Yeah I joke with him a lot and it just goes over his head.

    I even recently put this at the end of the sentence and BF still didn't see it was a joke!
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    Ain't nobody got no time for jokin' and jostlin' around.

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    (Sorry for the double post)

    I've been thinking more and more about tectonic plates..




    But those randomized mountain ranges would make it all but impossible

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    Default Re: [BAW 2] Truncated Chapters 1 and 2

    Well, the mountain ranges aren't entirely random. I tried to put them in fairly realistic places, but there's only so much you can do when you're working with randomly generated landmasses. If we had taken continental drift and tectonic plates into account from the beginning, it would have been a different story.
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    Plate tectonics are only really relevant to the distribution of fauna. If you guys want to parse through trivial details about why Anvakhano monkeys don't have tails and Essito-En monkeys do, it might be worth doing tectonics. Otherwise, I'd focus your efforts elsewhere

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    I believe that's the conclusion we came to. That's part of why it was only on my "wishlist" anyway.
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    I don't think that's entirely true, as I'm pretty sure geography is pretty affected by plate tectonics (mountain ranges and volcanoes, pressure raising up continents.)
    But all that's already been set in stone, so, yeah it's pretty pointless.
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