Well to address some of your concerns I DID do my research on the North American Rubber Boa. A person such as Psylaphen could do very well in the valley's climate provided he took proper precautions before the winter set in. Also, as he has higher intelligence, he could find ways to survive in the colder months before going into his sleep cycle. Clothing, magic, staying inside where it is warm, ect. <div>As to the impropriety of his clothing, I wasn't going to address it because we will never get to "SEE" his hemipenes, but if you must know the skirt-like garment IS covering a vent. Psylaphen has 2.</div> <div>The top vent, located where mammals have their genitals, is his reproductive vent. There is another vent nearer to the end of his body that deals with waste, his cloaca. Which anyone not familiar with reptile biology would not even know about, so I figured inside the story it didn't need to be addressed. He does not cover it because, barring an awkward turn of fate, you would never see it.</div> <div> </div> <div>As to the Clackerdogs abilities...if they WERE to teleport it is only a VERY short distance natural ability unique to them. They aren't teleporting. At point (A) where they disappear to point (B) where they reappear they are still present, most people just can't see them. ;) <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message----- From: mkguild-request <mkguild-request@lists.integral.org> To: mkguild <mkguild@lists.integral.org> Sent: Sun, Jul 17, 2016 7:58 am Subject: MKGuild Digest, Vol 112, Issue 15 Send MKGuild mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:mkguild@lists.integral.org">mkguild@lists.integral.org</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild" target="_blank">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mkguild-<a href="mailto:request@lists.integral.org">request@lists.integral.org</a> You can reach the person managing the list at mkguild-<a href="mailto:owner@lists.integral.org">owner@lists.integral.org</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of MKGuild digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Enkindled Part 1 (Christof M Bradford) 2. Re: Enkindled Part 1 (Ryx) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:00:37 -0700 From: Christof M Bradford <<a href="mailto:christof.bradford@gmail.com">christof.bradford@gmail.com</a>> To: <a href="mailto:mkguild@lists.integral.org">mkguild@lists.integral.org</a> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Enkindled Part 1 Message-ID: <cfc026e3-655e-7993-1d6b-<a href="mailto:77400f7d7c3b@gmail.com">77400f7d7c3b@gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On 07/13/2016 04:17 PM, <a href="mailto:bloodonthewinds@aol.com">bloodonthewinds@aol.com</a> wrote: > Standing outside the gates of Komley, William Pernese shaded his > cinnamon colored eyes from a late March sun. The day was calm, making > the sun feel a little bit hotter, and even at this early time in the > morning one could feel that it would be a beautiful day. It's too bad > the eighteen year old man could not enjoy it. > Matty did a pretty good of looking at this story as a whole, so I don't have much to add to his critique. There's only one small detail that leaped out at me, but it does concern an issue that pushes my buttons, so to speak. > . . . > The partially transformed man stared up from his spot on the ground, > leaning back on his hands with his legs splayed before him, eyeing the > half-human half-serpent. It seemed to be doing the very same thing. > > ?What?? He asked, intelligently, his voice a rasping croak from disuse. > > ?What?? The snake lowers its arms, seemingly confused. Fourteen feet > long from nose to blunt tail, it was mostly covered in small tightly > packed brown scales the color of milk chocolate, with its broad > under-scales a light creamy yellow. It wore a skirt-like dark orange > cloth around its middle where the waist would be on a person with a > single strap holding it up over one shoulder. Strapped around the top of > the garment was a medium sized pack resting against its spine. > I feel the need to point out an anatomical error here. Snakes are not almost all tail, they are almost all torso. Psylaphen is not protecting his modesty here, since his vent is located way down the length of his body, about a foot or so from the tip of his tail. My best guess is that he wears the skirt to soothe the sensibilities of milk-su. . . (*ahem* Forgive me there, a crocodile friend of mine had brief access to the keyboard.) I believe that the skirt is worn where it's not actually needed out of respect to mammals and where they would expect intimate features of one's anatomy to be located. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It could give a snake usable arms as much as it gives a skunk dog-like legs or allow a man to become a 'taur of rat (or fox) and humanoid torso, ect. But, in perusing the story, I am somewhat concerned and would offer a cautionary note:Teleportation magic has been stated to be the most difficult types of magic to use in the setting, requiring some very convoluted mechanics to use. ?I can see short-distance innate abilities (i.e. blink-dogs) but something innate to that species alone, not something easily adopted or mastered by people without a good bit of problematic - and dangerous - work. On Saturday, July 16, 2016 8:00 PM, Christof M Bradford <<a href="mailto:christof.bradford@gmail.com">christof.bradford@gmail.com</a>> wrote: On 07/13/2016 04:17 PM, <a href="mailto:bloodonthewinds@aol.com">bloodonthewinds@aol.com</a> wrote: > Standing outside the gates of Komley, William Pernese shaded his > cinnamon colored eyes from a late March sun. The day was calm, making > the sun feel a little bit hotter, and even at this early time in the > morning one could feel that it would be a beautiful day. It's too bad > the eighteen year old man could not enjoy it. > Matty did a pretty good of looking at this story as a whole, so I don't have much to add to his critique.? There's only one small detail that leaped out at me, but it does concern an issue that pushes my buttons, so to speak. > . . . > The partially transformed man stared up from his spot on the ground, > leaning back on his hands with his legs splayed before him, eyeing the > half-human half-serpent. It seemed to be doing the very same thing. > > ?What?? He asked, intelligently, his voice a rasping croak from disuse. > > ?What?? The snake lowers its arms, seemingly confused. Fourteen feet > long from nose to blunt tail, it was mostly covered in small tightly > packed brown scales the color of milk chocolate, with its broad > under-scales a light creamy yellow. It wore a skirt-like dark orange > cloth around its middle where the waist would be on a person with a > single strap holding it up over one shoulder. Strapped around the top of > the garment was a medium sized pack resting against its spine. > I feel the need to point out an anatomical error here.? Snakes are not almost all tail, they are almost all torso.? Psylaphen is not protecting his modesty here, since his vent is located way down the length of his body, about a foot or so from the tip of his tail.? My best guess is that he wears the skirt to soothe the sensibilities of milk-su. . . (*ahem* Forgive me there, a crocodile friend of mine had brief access to the keyboard.)? 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