<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10860"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10859">Actually, to offer a correction, a snake's vent would be approximately 1/4 to 1/3 forward from its tail, depending on gender.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10862"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10861">Either way, gravitationally speaking, a naga-esque serpent would only keep an equal part of itself elevated - 1/4 to 1/3 of their entire length, otherwise it becomes far too difficult to balance. Ergo, there would be no way to expose indelicate anatomy without actually rotating or lifting that area of his body. Clothing is superfluous and merely vanity as such, or utilitarian for pockets and the like, or warmth (particularly in someplace as northerly as Metamor).</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10862">Of course, a writer can alter the anatomy of their 'morphs as they will - the curse is, as often stated, very malleable in its effect on a body. 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.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10862"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10862">But, in perusing the story, I am somewhat concerned and would offer a cautionary note:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468734139719_10862">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.</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, July 16, 2016 8:00 PM, Christof M Bradford <christof.bradford@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 07/13/2016 04:17 PM, <a ymailto="mailto:bloodonthewinds@aol.com" href="mailto:bloodonthewinds@aol.com">bloodonthewinds@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>> Standing outside the gates of Komley, William Pernese shaded his<br>> cinnamon colored eyes from a late March sun. The day was calm, making<br>> the sun feel a little bit hotter, and even at this early time in the<br>> morning one could feel that it would be a beautiful day. It's too bad<br>> the eighteen year old man could not enjoy it.<br>> <br>Matty did a pretty good of looking at this story as a whole, so I don't<br>have much to add to his critique. There's only one small detail that<br>leaped out at me, but it does concern an issue that pushes my buttons,<br>so to speak.<br><br>> . . .<br>> The partially transformed man stared up from his spot on the ground,<br>> leaning back on his hands with his legs splayed before him, eyeing the<br>> half-human half-serpent. It seemed to be doing the very same thing.<br>> <br>> “What?” He asked, intelligently, his voice a rasping croak from disuse.<br>> <br>> “What?” The snake lowers its arms, seemingly confused. Fourteen feet<br>> long from nose to blunt tail, it was mostly covered in small tightly<br>> packed brown scales the color of milk chocolate, with its broad<br>> under-scales a light creamy yellow. It wore a skirt-like dark orange<br>> cloth around its middle where the waist would be on a person with a<br>> single strap holding it up over one shoulder. Strapped around the top of<br>> the garment was a medium sized pack resting against its spine.<br>> <br>I feel the need to point out an anatomical error here. Snakes are not<br>almost all tail, they are almost all torso. Psylaphen is not protecting<br>his modesty here, since his vent is located way down the length of his<br>body, about a foot or so from the tip of his tail. My best guess is<br>that he wears the skirt to soothe the sensibilities of milk-su. . .<br>(*ahem* Forgive me there, a crocodile friend of mine had brief access to<br>the keyboard.) I believe that the skirt is worn where it's not actually<br>needed out of respect to mammals and where they would expect intimate<br>features of one's anatomy to be located.<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>MKGuild mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org" href="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org">MKGuild@lists.integral.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild" target="_blank">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>