i am confused

[Falcon Avian]

Not necessarily Si₂, but still using Si-Si bonds. It would be required for silicon based life forms to exist, and the main reason people theorize that silicon can support life is because it can create four bonds like carbon, thus allowing for silicon chains. Possibly. Those chains sound a lot like some kinds of plastics out there. But this kinda links with the conversation in the Races thread that spoke about kran working with higher potential energies.

Edit: Fire breathing kran would be kinda entertaining.

That makes more sense. Too bad there is no silicon based organism I can study XD

Just make them eat a fire glyph 

[Nivm]

 Yes, it will probably be another few generations until we can find out definitively whether or not such life can exist. We first have to figure out how to create life after we've synthesized the pieces.

[Geoni]

Coal is carbon-based, kran are silicon based. It just doesn't work, even if the energy would be readily availible to other beings. Also, on the note of coal, what things died millions of years ago before the crystal or the rock of Yliakum existed?

 Iron, salt, and calcium are all reactive substances. Iron oxidizes, and bonds, salt dissolves and changes charge gradients, while calcium works similarly. Gold is non-reactive; it does not tarnish, it does not bond, it does not change charges. By superheating, you can make alloys out of it, but kran can't get to those temperatures without hurting themselves (we're talking thousands of kelvin when only a hundred kills a normal life form).

Does this stuff really matter? It's a game that is based on a fantasy realm of people who supposedly live in a stalagmite, or stalactite, or whatever you call those things XD. Anyways, things like magical portals and plants living with no sun is pure fantasy, and perhaps the kran are too. So I say don't make a big deal about it and play the game. I just keep all this simple logic to the real world we live in. That's why this is a second life,  a life that people wouldn't want to much similarity with the first life. Immersion is a good thing sometimes.

[Nivm]

 I hate the game, worldbuilding is a lot more fun than playing the mess it currently is, and I want to get this right. Talad hollowed out the stalactite thing, or just extruded the ceiling of the giant cave. I don't want to go into the explanations on a god's powers right now, same with magic portals. The plants in Yliakum get near-constant sunlight, what plants do you refer to?.

[LigH]

It's the inevitable return ...


 ... of the Great White Dope.



This was 

[Zon]

Oh. and one more. Do Krans have finger prints?

[verden]

The plants do not get near constant sunlight. They get a changing amount of radiation from the crystal. The plants are, effectively, living without sunlight.

[Candy]

Oh. and one more. Do Krans have finger prints?

Do they even know about fingerprints being different for each person in Yliakum?

[Nivm]

 I figure the kran probably do have finger prints, or some other pattern of roughness, because they can keep hold of swords and axes while hacking away.

 The only place the crystal can get that "radiation" is by absorbing it from a sun above. There's probably some kind of dark crystal forest, or sea, on the surface that collects light from some alien sun(s), probably moons as well. It could also be a planet where there isn't any cloud cover.

[Geoni]

I hate the game, worldbuilding is a lot more fun than playing the mess it currently is, and I want to get this right. Talad hollowed out the stalactite thing, or just extruded the ceiling of the giant cave. I don't want to go into the explanations on a god's powers right now, same with magic portals. The plants in Yliakum get near-constant sunlight, what plants do you refer to?.

I'm thinking: Do plants capture crystal light the same way as they capture sunlight?

And if you hate the game why do you play it? If you want to build the world join the settings team.

[Nivm]

To collect lore and eventually get a better bargaining chip to change it (the more I learn, the less often I'll be called a newb). If I change it enough, I might enjoy playing it, although I probably wont care.

Edit: I don't want to join the settings team. I'll have to promise secrecy, I'll have to provide previous work (never), and this.
 I apologize for only posting half. I'm tired, even if I've only been up 17 hours.

[Geoni]

If you don't join the settings team you'll hardly change jack-squat.

[Nivm]

 Why not? This is a role-playing game. Role-plays have to change it or they don't mean any more than what you write at home, or in literature class.

[steuben]

no, they don't _have_ to change it.  no infact should they change ut. nivm, sit down and actually chase exactly what you have just proposed means. and then come back and tell us why it is not a good idea.

but at this point in the game, nothing major will end up getting changed. and probably very little minor will end up getting changed.

face it, nivm you will either have to put up with what is or step up to the plate to work on it. your choice.

[Nivm]

 So the reason few people play this game is completely justified instead of partially? Why doesn't everyone join the settings team if that's the only way they can role-play with it? If the players have no effect on the game, they might as well just ignore the game entirely and make their stories on the forums. Perhaps even a set of forums more suited to the task.
 You know, I think I ran into something similar to this back when I tried Achaea. I was equally perplexed then. Maybe after I test another community that does this, I can finally get an answer. Heh, usually the thing that breaks my enthusiasm is raw reality errors and people outright refusing to fix them or care.