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Vabmojer; Dinosaurimimidae now online. Go to Vabmojer to find out more!
Topic Started: Sep 27 2009, 03:37 PM (4,943 Views)
Ddraig Goch
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First of all... hi! This is my first post on this forum (wow). Um, yeah. So anyway, about Vabmojer...

Vabmojer is an alien world which I have made with several of my friends. It is an earthlike planet, but we have done our best to make the animals as un-earthlike as possible. We are working on a website, although right now it is not complete. Still, feel free to have a look! (And I apologise in advance for the artwork - I'm not the best drawer ever)

Type this in the address box;

www.vabmojer.bravehost.com

See what you think!
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When you say, "jaws seperated from most of the skull and held below"... how do you mean, exactly?
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What colours do you think are plausible for the Uduceratoicthydae? I've been thinking greens and turquioses for the Jaguana...
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Are you plausible?

Which one are you talking about? I went to your website and I couldn't find any creatures by that name.
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On page 10 of this thread, post 146. It's a fish-like creature, with a proboscis and a horn.
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Ah, there it is. Well, as far as color goes, I would recommend the horn being in contrast to the rest of the fish. So if you go with a green or blue body, the rest of it would be somewhere in the red-orange-yellow range. Perhaps some markings to help "jousters" aim for the right place, or even markings to help "mask" the right place.
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Okay. Another taxonomic critique.

Your creatures seem way too varied to have evolved nauturally on Vabmojer. For the most part, they don't appear at all related.

Is this just a design flaw in your creatures? Or is Vabmojer a biological trash can (a world where sentient races dumps all of its failed genetic manipulations)?


That last one actually seems rather interesting. A sentient race about 150 million years ago GMed a lot of creatures. Then, as the GM's started getting out of control, they found Vabmojer, a dead world. So the sentients terraformed (or is it xenoformed?) it and dumped all their creations (which appear unrelated) on the world. Then, over the 150 million years, the GM's all adapted to the environment and each other's prescence.

And, when humanity arrived, they were presented with a biological hodge-podge.

That would make for an interesting story.
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There is one that is explained to have been genetically engineered.

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or is it xenoformed?
There's got to be some sort of catch-all term for this, so we don't trigger the ire of those who balk at semantic inaccuracies. Viviformed? Bioformed?
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Villaformed? Villa being the Latin word for "country house".

Or domaformed? Doma being the Latin word for "city house".
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Ah, there it is. Well, as far as color goes, I would recommend the horn being in contrast to the rest of the fish. So if you go with a green or blue body, the rest of it would be somewhere in the red-orange-yellow range. Perhaps some markings to help "jousters" aim for the right place, or even markings to help "mask" the right place.

Thanks, I think I'll use those colours.

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Is this just a design flaw in your creatures? Or is Vabmojer a biological trash can (a world where sentient races dumps all of its failed genetic manipulations)?

At first, the former, but I like your idea. I'm not sure whether I would be able to do it with Vabmojer, but I do need to review the lifeforms of EX14, another world-project of mine, so if you don't mind, could I use your idea?
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Well, I'm supposed to be writing a short story for Vabmojer, but I have NO idea of how a second wave of humans would find Vabmojer.
I mean, the chances of stumbling upon a planet in the middle of the universe are 1 in...whoa, a number too big to even imagine.

I would've suggested something along the lines of "something drew them there", but that's just a plot device, and this is supposed to be a real planet.
So, does anybody else happen to have any suggestions as to how this could be solved?
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Well, I assumed that a second wave would follow the flight-path of the original ship....

BTW, Davis, all Vabmojan debates have now been transferred to the latest thread, "Vabmojan Fish"...
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