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--- playground:survivors:critters [2020/08/21 08:46] – ↷ Page moved and renamed from playground:background_what_is_known to playground:survivors:critters acf
+++ playground:survivors:critters [2020/10/18 13:50] (current) – [Crove - Rolls of barbed wire or sawblades, from Crove 4.] sz
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 ====Creatures that we have met====
-=== Ailiean - mind control other races ===
+=== Iliean - mind control other races ===
   * Mind control - electrical in nature.
   * Odocon have more control over internal electricity and feel the attempt to control as an attack rather than it just working.
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   * They are not all horrible people who like enslaving zoo specimens
-=== Shup - Jellyfish ===
+=== Shup - Gregarious Jellyfish ===
+  * Vaguely resemble jellyfish, with a squishy central core and spindly, prehensile limbs.
+  * Float at a height of about 4'; can't tolerate high G very well.
+  * Slightly obsessional personalities: they tend to find a specific thing and do it to excess, at least for a while. (Example: "collect shiny things")
   * They really like stories and are all about trades and loans. The ones we met were in a bazaar on lvl  60E near the hotel
-  * We met Tigbo who gave Dub the light and chemicals to keep it lit and who likes/sells sharp things.
+  * We met Tigbo who gave Dub the light and chemicals to keep it lit and who likes/sells sharp things (since killed in Desri attack).
   * One of these was selling clothing and gave Gussie a jumpsuit in exchange for a promise of more clothing from Marvin
-=== Odocon - Flashy pipecleaners /gobstoppers ===
+=== Odocon - Flashy pipecleaners / gobstoppers ===
+  * Hexapodal; limbs are thin but strong, with no central core to speak of. Their skin is covered in 10cm-long hairs which they can use to produce sound and light.
   * Disturbingly good at mimicry
   * Good translators/communicators. 2 want to know our languages.
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   * If you take things from the waste recycling area, they want replacements in terms of amount and not relative quality
   * Some are trying to convince them to act as guards as well as waste recycling.
+  * May have been battlebots that escaped/were lost - never part of an ecosystem.
 === Gellifrug - Blue frogs ===
   * Smell strongly of citrus (blue citrus).
-  * Most were enslaved by a species which could take control of people (most species, except Odocon) with a touch. We learned this from an older (darker blue) one named "Bonzo".
+  * Most were enslaved by Ilieans, a species which can take control of people (most species, except Odocon) with a touch. We learned this from an older (darker blue) one named "Bonzo".
   * The group on the station are free, but scared of being found.
   * They sell food that is tasty to humans
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   * They take a form of rectangular metal currency for their food
-=== Svoni - Shoulder-mounted fuzzies (eg Lil)===
+=== Sfoni - Shoulder-mounted fuzzies (eg Lil)===
+  * Quadrapedal brachiators, about 40cm tall. Wicked claws on hind legs which allow them to climb and cling.
+  * Come from a high-oxygen world (~24%) with a variety of megafauna, which they have tamed.
+  * Their language is gestural; loud sound is scary, a remnant of a time when they spent most of their lives hiding from sound-focused predators.
 === Bheln - crabpeople ===
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   *  Very quiet - both in movement and in lack of speaking (communicate - posture, hiss, pheromones?).
-=== Plov - 6 legged hippos. ===
+=== Plove - 6 legged hippos. ===
   * Do not piss them off.
   * They are sentient, hang out with livestock and keep them chill.
-  *  Surly. Can speak, but rarely do. Know some Chinese.
+  * Surly. Can speak, but rarely do. The three on board know some Chinese as well as English.
-=== Nphthwn - west wing, prefer hydrogen atmosphere.===
+=== Nphthwn - flammable gasbags ===
+   * live in the west wing, prefer hydrogen atmosphere, but can tolerate oxygen.
    * Not met them, heard about them.
    * Very flammable (thus why little oxygen in that atmosphere).
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 === Kukri - made the station-ship ===
    * no one knows where they went or if they will come back.
 === Skirrit - look like wasps===
    * have venom,
    * controlled by slavers (used/abused as personal army as if unintelligent)
-   *  Dried venom = drug for humans.
+   * Dried venom = drug for humans, possibly other species
    * Yellow carapace.
    * (singular 'Skir')
-==Livestock==
+=== Desri Pneumatic Servants ===
+Robbie the robot - recharge every two hours, can act as hydraulic lift (2 tons in the nearly 0 G). Very helpful! Stayed with the Gellifrug that inhabited the Desri ship.
+== Livestock ==
 === Goats ===
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 === Yuvilee  ===
-   * AKA Murder Chicken. Possibly from Deneb. Grown for meat.
+   * AKA Murder Chickens. Possibly from Deneb. Grown for meat.
-==Health care level==
-Antiseptic, alcohol, wipes, emetics, a dentist, and some people know surgery. We tried to understand the skill level by asking about deaths in pregnancy, but there are so few humans (77! Which he knew offhand!) onboard that is a difficult metric to use.
-==Station Info==
-  * Elevator is 5 currency per person.
-  * Long distance drive is broken.
-  * Electricity is entirely DC based (no AC).
-  * Only one of two elevators is working (the other has at minimum no car?).
-Robbie the robot - recharge every two hours, can act as hydraulic lift (2 tons in the nearly 0 G). Very helpful!.