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Post by musicalDecay on Jun 22, 2012 15:52:53 GMT -5
My information with how trolls are raised is sketchy. But if I'm right when they are taken in by a lusus it is usually and animal with the same blood couler that takes you in? I would really like to know how this works so well, because this fact can fascinate and make me ponder for hours on end on how it works.
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Post by societalFlame on Jun 22, 2012 16:22:50 GMT -5
[Rrangoon warrning.]
Lusii arre brred to rrespond to the scent of grrubs whho shharre thheirr blood colorr. Thhey arre rresponsible forr prrotecting and prroviding forr thhe grrubs until thheirr chharrges arre old enoughh to take carre of prroviding on thheirr own. Thhey also serrve as thhe firrst educatorrs, mostly about whhat to eat and whhat to flee frrom, until theirr grrubs starrt learrning frrom standarrdized educational prrogrrams.
I will trrade one of my chhildhhood storries forr one of yourrs, AS.
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Post by musicalDecay on Jun 22, 2012 16:49:42 GMT -5
interesting. thanks for the info.
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Post by anarchistSwordsman on Jun 22, 2012 19:04:36 GMT -5
@sf: Sure I would love to trade! I guess I could tell about one of my more exciting memories. Denkeeper Reshva was out on guard duty, and Broodmother Kylan was sleeping. Denkeepers Ika and Urrannet were out hunting some of the more nocturnal prey, or gathering some of the nocturnally blooming plants.... It's been a while and I don't quite remember.... but it isn't that important of a detail. Anyways, it was quite late at night, and most of my younger siblings were asleep. I had snuck onto the communal computer to talk to some of my online friends, when I heard a noise outside. Of course being much younger I had to know what it was. Sneaking out through an unlocked window, I came face to face with a large, snarling, hungry hedgehog. It of course attacked me, trying to catch me before I scrambled back through the window. Needless to say, I was quickly overtaken, and pinned under this thing's massive six legs. Then out of nowhere Reshva chopped this thing up with his sword. I got in a lot of trouble, hehe.
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Post by societalFlame on Jun 23, 2012 12:06:45 GMT -5
[Rrangoon warrning.]
Prredatorry hhedgehhogs seems like a misnomerr. On Alterrnia thhey arre terrrritorrial, but herrbivorrous. Thhis storry of mine shhould be equally exciting.
Whhen I was only fourr orr five sweeps old, thhe moirrail of a yellowblood I was in cahhoots withh invited me on a hhunting expedition. My lusus was verry vocal in hhis disagrreement and went so farr as to guarrd thhe doorr to stop me frrom leaving, but I sneaked out thhrroughh a window.
To my surrprrise, we werre not hhunting hopbeasts or miniaturre weasels, but bugbearrs. It was a complete disasterr. Of thhe fourr in ourr grroup, only one, an oliveblood skilled withh crrossbows, was able to so muchh as scrratchh thhe beast. Only thhe one whho invited me came out uninjurred and I limped back hhome withh a brroken arrm, thhe oliveblood and I supporrting eachh othher. Naturrally, my lusus was not hhappy withh me.
Does yourr worrld hhave a bugbearr analogue, by any chhance?
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Post by anarchistSwordsman on Jun 23, 2012 15:52:01 GMT -5
I am not sure if we have a comparable animal.
Hedgehogs were named for their camoflauge. They are mostly nocturnal predators that abuse the unsuspecting traveller. They look quite a bit like six legged, very toothy, hedges.
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Post by wingedWatcher on Jun 23, 2012 16:07:54 GMT -5
I stayed with my parents almost ten years. They had another clutch when I was about seven, and normally I'd have left then, but my dad got hurt and I stayed to help out. I hadn't met my mate then, so I figured it didn't really matter, you know? Anyway, one day I was trying to teach one of the chicks to program, not that I'm superr great but like, baby's first blight++ sort of thing. And I still don't know what in the hell she did, but this thing ended up interfacing with out food-storage unit and duplicated EVERYTHING. Except all we had at that point was like, some seedcakes and a couple of bags of lizard meat, which she hated. We ate that stuff for every meal for daaaaays, she was so mad.
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Post by repentantPrimogen on Jun 23, 2012 16:57:44 GMT -5
My wigglerhood was mostly uneventful
I had to keep Wolverine Father well fed, so I had to hunt for musclebeasts, which were His favourite meat
Once there was a whole stampede of them and I thought that I will get crushed, but my Lusus helped me
He was well fed for the following perigee
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Post by tungstenTinkerer on Jun 24, 2012 6:58:26 GMT -5
I already mentioned somewhere that my life was hellaciously weird for the one of someone from non-scratched earth. I think the most amusing thing out of that I grew up perfectly knowing that I was very possibly an alien (it took a few years of testing to convince my "parents" that I was indeed completely human, at least biologically) and that I mysteriously descended on earth on a meteor.
Funnily enough, the meteor was subsequently sold (for quite a much, since it apparently was full of precious precious iridium) to pay for the research and my subsequent upbringing.
Knowing you landed on earth carried by a fiery space rock stork has weird consequences on your life. True story, when SBURB landed a meteor near my house (straight where I parked my car, btw, thank you very much SBURB) my first reaction was "HURR DURR BETTER CHECK THE CRATER FOR BABIES".
I didn't find any baby.
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Post by apianAnchorite on Jun 25, 2012 18:08:17 GMT -5
Omg, that is adorable, TT.
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Post by anarchistSwordsman on Jun 26, 2012 12:24:30 GMT -5
That is quite adorable TT. By the way, these stories are so fascinating, feel free to keep sharing. I'll post another story from my youth soon.
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Post by societalFlame on Jun 26, 2012 13:37:36 GMT -5
[Rrangoon warrning]
I hhave anothherr storry. Whhen I was only thhrree sweeps old I found myself in a rrivalrry withh a fellow grreenblood. We hhad, perrhhaps unwisely, built ourr hhives nearr eachh othherr, and we came to rrealize we werre interrferring withh eachh othherrs' attempts to gathherr and hhunt sustenance frrom thhe surrrrounding envirronment.
Thhe rresulting feud was rrathherr tame comparred to thhe fighhting of olderr trrolls but it led to my firrst forrmal Auspisticism some two sweeps laterr, whhen a mutual acquaintance of ourrs decided shhe couldn't stand hhearring us complain about eachh othherr anymorre.
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Post by musicalDecay on Jun 26, 2012 15:25:05 GMT -5
I still cannot decide whether troll romance is really cute and interesting or if it still makes me scratch my head in confusion trying to figure it all out.
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Post by stanzicApparati on Jun 27, 2012 2:17:27 GMT -5
[RAngoon wArning] FLushed aNd pAle tRoll rOmance aRe aDorable iF eVerything iS gOing wEll. ANd pAle iS hIlarious iF iT's gOing bAd aNd yOu aRen't iNvolved iN aNy wAy.
AShen iS aNnoying aS fUck bEcause yOu jUst wAnt tO mAke tHese iDiots sHut uP aNd yOu uSually cAn't gEt aWay wIth jUst hItting tHem uNtil tHey sTop bItching. BLack rOmance cAn bE dAngerous aS hEll iF yOu dOn't kNow wHat tHe dEal iS. SOmetimes eVen iF yOu dO, bEcause nOt eVeryone gEts tHat yOu aRen't sUpposed tO tRy aNd aCtually mUrder yOur kIsmesis.
ANyways, wHen I wAs aBout eLeven yEars oLd, oNe oF tHe gUys I kEpt aRguing wIth oNline sTarted tRying tO...I gUess 'wOo' mE, aS hIs kIsmesis? SEnt mE cRap lIke sMoke bOmbs iN tHe mAil, vIrus-lAden eMail aTtachments, tHat kInd oF tHing. COme tO fInd oUt, hE hAd nO iDea I wAs hUman uNtil hE sHowed uP aT mY lAwnring tO cHallenge mE tO a fIght. BOy wAs hIs fAce bLue! ...I aM sTill nOt sUre hOw hE mAnaged tO gEt tO mY hIve, tHough, aNd hE rEfuses tO sAy.
It wAs rEally uNsettling hOw fAst hE sTarted tRying tO bE mY mOirail aFter tHat, tHough. DIdn't rEally wOrk oUt, bUt wE bEcame fRiends kInd oF. ANd hE's iN mY sEssion, tOo, sO aT lEast I hAve oNe pLayer wHo iSn't a cOmplete iDiot, wHich iSn't aS cOmforting aS I hAd hOped iT wOuld bE.
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Post by societalFlame on Jun 27, 2012 12:11:19 GMT -5
[Rrangoon warrning. Excessive italics warrning too, come to thhink of it]
Excuse me, but whhat? You arre hhuman? And werre on Alterrnia?
...Hhow in thhe noble name of thhe Condesce did thhat hhappen in yourr univerrse? I was underr thhe imprression thhat hhumans werre prrimitive and incapable of significant spaceflighht.
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