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Nikodemus

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Kikiri!
« on: July 12, 2007, 02:57:35 am »
hah, this wont be about how it is great and so on, i wouldnt make a topic if it were ;D

But in fact its looking great, only... unorginal.
Does it have to be based directly on a chicken? the most common to death, poor birdy on the world? Maybe i'm completly wrong at this point, anyway...
Why not fowl (the most not chicken like fowl you can see on earth. There are loads of them and if not in english language, different nations not always call it along chicken lines)?

Maybe it is too late for any changes, but the birdy could really look a bit more unusual!
* Nikodemus is so tired...
Im sure i', not the only one who has some ideas about it.

hm, with some luck this topic wot die...
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 07:29:16 am »
There are both "mundane" and "strange" looking creatures in Yliakum. Not everything is going to be super crazy, and not everything is going to be familiar. Would you like it better if it had three eyes? I think rats are just as common, if not more so - but they too are there to provide a balance against all the other strange artistic inventions.

There will be more unusual birds in the future, but I don't see the harm in having one that looks very recognizable.
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 07:35:21 am »
I think it is cute.

*Illysia pokes a Kikiri*

Poking Kikiri is fun.  ;D
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 09:08:07 am »
* lorac sings kentucky fried Kikiri we do kikiri right :thumbup:
* lorac grins
Sorry I couldnt resist
I actually like the small bit of normalacy that it brings to the game
I did a double take when I it in game  :woot:
you cant imagine hard it was not to pounce Kikiri when i first saw it :innocent:
Being I am an Enki
* lorac hides the druel from thinking about it :oops:
I did not know if Kikiri was a gift to us or if Talad has a devine plan for the bird
But honestly I have a good suggestion of where to put Kikiri  ;D
And I know it would be safe from harm once there  :devil:
* lorac  a small smile starts to form into a grin  8)
How bout um um
* lorac pulls out a fork and knife
need I say more
Kikiri the other white meat

Sorry if this is out of text of thread I just could not resist posting this ( This enki is on edge and eagerly waiting to see if it is ok to eat one)
* lorac shakes and asks "Please Talad may i nibble on one I will be gentle and wont make a glutton of my self" :sweatdrop:

Thank you again for the wonderful changes  \\o//
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2007, 10:52:12 pm »
Does this one have any resemblance to a Chocobo? Or is it a chicken-like bird with almost the same size of a RL chicken?

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Rabalder

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2007, 11:55:02 pm »
I definitely like the familiar look of the Kikiri. People like the "humans" looks normal. I would actually like to see more thing's inspired from the natural world.
I would like to see snakes, spiders, lizards and maybe some small annoying blood sucking insect's disturbing the miners. ;)
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2007, 06:58:53 am »
The ulbers when they are working disturb the miners.

I don't see a problem with having a few chooks running around. They look fine to me and make for easy target practice with flame burst.
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2007, 12:18:46 pm »
Just waste some typing for me and some reading for you, let me say why I like kikiris.

There are so many "exotic" races, creatures, magic already implemented that being totaly different from reality is a norm.
The feeling is totaly different when the unexpected, the unatural just pops in the middle of an ordinary life.
I think that if Stephen King books are so popular is also because the extraordinary breaks the predictable life of ordinary people.

There was once a Thread about how Hydlaa was looking like existing towns. But wouldn't it be hard to figure out the reactions of your character if you were unable to identify anything at first sight?
Trees are looking like tress, mushrooms have a known look and name. They are those things that are natural to us as players so we can easely see them as natural as well IC.
The world would be really amasing with plants unlike trees, purple grass and a pink sky. with every creature not symetrical walking on 3 or more feets.
It is a possibility but then everything would be equaly extra-ordinary. No more surprises.

Right now the balance between ordinary and fantasy tends to make the extraordinary (magic, races, creatures) rather common. it's hard for a newcomer to enter this world and comprehend how it works. Fighting rats with swords is something everyone can understand before he discovers the arcanes of the 6 ways. having to wonder if a weird looking "xyzwk" can be killed with a "thloy" equiped in your 5th hand would be a bit too much.
Hurray for kikiris !
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Kaityra

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2007, 08:59:42 pm »
Greetings!

Well, it looks delicious to me. I hope that it tastes like chicken. When are we allowed to hunt it?

With kind regards
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2007, 01:15:28 am »
Quote from: Kaityra on July 14, 2007, 08:59:42 pm
Well, it looks delicious to me. I hope that it tastes like chicken. When are we allowed to hunt it?

We're still debating whether we'll allow them to be killed or not. Personally I'm leaning towards no because they provide nice ambience.
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Aerianna Kzin

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2007, 07:14:28 am »
its really cute they talk to you!


 Kikiri says: Kikikikikiri!
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Kaityra

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2007, 09:12:00 am »
Hello!

Quote from: Jeraphon on July 18, 2007, 01:15:28 am
We're still debating whether we'll allow them to be killed or not. Personally I'm leaning towards no because they provide nice ambience.

 :o Sorry, but to me this is kind of ridiculous. Rats, Rogues, etc. provide nice ambience, too. If it is a living thing it should be possible to kill it. Everything else feels horrible wrong. You can regulate the "kill rate" with the drop and the experience one gets for the kill.

With kind regards
Kaityra
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Myriel

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2007, 04:50:09 pm »
you should just get no experience from killing it...that would pretty much solve the problem, I think  ;)
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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2007, 04:51:12 pm »
Or make it a crime and enable killing them when you get a guard system going.
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Kaityra

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Re: Kikiri!
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2007, 06:25:25 pm »
Hello!

Quote from: Myriel on July 18, 2007, 04:50:09 pm
you should just get no experience from killing it...that would pretty much solve the problem, I think  ;)

Well, no experience is a little bit hard and not very "realistic". A rat gives you about 30 experience. I would suggest 10 to 20 experience for killing a Kikiri and some very cheap meat and feathers for the drop so that you may get about 1-5 trias when selling it. Killing rats will be more lucrative with this setting if you fear for your Kikiri.

With kind regards
Kaityra

P.S.: I want my daily Kikiri. :devil:
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