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Animals in PS
« on: December 17, 2006, 04:30:32 am »
Question. ;)

How many animals from our planet are also in Yliakum? Seeing if I'm not mistaken one of the books mentiones goats I believe being here. It made me wonder how many are here seeing how the horse seems to be denied eventhough it has been asked. (not that I want a horse ;) give me a big riding cat everyday.).

If we asume the humans have been send there from earth in the midevil times you would asume they would bring lifestock with them. I mean if one would move through a magical portal to a distant planet would you bring stuff with you to make sure you had something to eat and to survive? However if this were the case what kind of animals did they bring and what not? Cows, goats, horses, pigs seem to be the animals they would bring themselves. Fleas and rats and such that would hitch a ride.
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2006, 04:34:36 am »
I believe quite some time ago, the topic of horses was brought up since someone had noticed it in game being mentioned in a book or something.  I'd have to to do a bit of searching on the forums though.  I don't remember what the outcome (if any) of that discussion was, at this time, though.

Edit, restructured sentances for better clarity.  :)
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2006, 05:42:08 am »
cattle are. Saw it somewhere.
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2006, 05:45:28 am »
But why no cats to eat the rats?
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2006, 12:02:53 pm »
Quote from: bilbous on December 17, 2006, 05:45:28 am
But why no cats to eat the rats?
they would have to be BIG cats to eat those rats
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2006, 12:29:39 pm »
Quote from: miadon on December 17, 2006, 12:02:53 pm
Quote from: bilbous on December 17, 2006, 05:45:28 am
But why no cats to eat the rats?
they would have to be BIG cats to eat those rats

You mean bigger than enkis?  ;)
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2006, 12:30:56 pm »
enkis are not cats
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2006, 12:51:44 pm »
I wonder, shuldn't ther be a created list of animals, their descriptions and all need info ? This should have been made a long time ago, before the books were written. The fact we have animals from real life really spoils the game experience - this if they weren't supposed to be there. I don't know what to think about it, would be great if someone explained it.
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2006, 02:16:46 pm »
Well personally I would like to have no animals from the real world at all or don't make a problem at all with having them ingame. It's just really strange to be so strangely oposed to horses and still have goats and sheep ingame. Know someone ingame who is playing to have a cat. Now personally I would never RP that, but who knows if sheep and goats are allowed to have why not cats?

Thats why I am wondering what animals are and what animals are not so to have a better understanding of what is possible seeing atleast some seem to have been "brought along"
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2006, 03:31:48 pm »
Can't we just say 'a lot of terran animals are hanging around', and just RP whatever we want? I hate this obsession with wanting to strip away every shred of artistic freedom as humanly possible :P
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2006, 03:38:01 pm »
Why are the rats so big anyway?
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2006, 03:48:19 pm »
Quote from: bilbous on December 17, 2006, 03:38:01 pm
Why are the rats so big anyway?

A steady diet of clumsy n00bs...
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2006, 08:10:22 pm »
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cattle are. Saw it somewhere.

You saw it in game, in a book, in Jayose library.
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2006, 11:32:38 pm »
Quote from: emeraldfool on December 17, 2006, 03:31:48 pm
wanting to strip away every shred of artistic freedom as humanly possible :P
I don't actually get the connection between "copying from RL" and "artistic freedom". I have always tried to avoid references to RL animals, with some rare exceptions that had no significance in RP. IOW, it isn't much of a problem AFAICS.

Still, a list of "PS approved" animals would be good, possibly amanded by the degree of similarity to their RL counterparts, since exact details aren't necessary / possibly ATM.
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Re: Animals in PS
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2006, 12:32:50 am »
Not only a list of animals, but to what they are used too. It looks like life of Yliakum people is highly connected with differet aimals. We need to know about these if we are supposed to RP there.
I have also small suggestion. Animals shouldn't look like some ugly creations from some cheap horror. I suppose the monsters which are created for now are supposed to look bad, so that you have no doubt that you are doing the right thing, killing it... but that is not the right direction. Do we have any animals like these IR ? Not really.
For example hippopotamus, it is big and sometimes can be really dangerous (seriously, it isn't so peacefull as you could think) sound like example of PS monster. What is the difference? Hippopotamus isn't really ugly, each animal IR has some beauty, while in PS they don't. Wolves, tigers, do we have in PS any animals agile in smiliar way?
What about livestock animals? These also has some certain shape and line.
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