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Vabmojer; Dinosaurimimidae now online. Go to Vabmojer to find out more!
Topic Started: Sep 27 2009, 03:37 PM (4,950 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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Yeah... The secret to this game is, when such discrepancies arise, to come up with an explanation to explain it. Unless you don't like that game, in which case you get to redesign one, the other, or both!



Well, the Trophille hunts using hydraulic jumping-spider-type legs. It hides itself in the sparse undergrowth (and I mean, sparse) and then leaps out on on unsuspecting rocksprinters, grabbing them and securing them with two arms on top and one arm underneath, before burying its' jaws into the hapless creature. The droph, on the other hand, is more omnivorous and opportunistic. It will happily eat the blue plants if nothing else is available, but they have powerful noses. If a creature is dying, or a Rattler has made a kill, they are there very quickly. They have hyena-like jaws, and two or three of them on a carcass usually means there will be nothing left but bloodstains by the time they're finished.
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Are you plausible?

Why does one have three limbs and the other have only two?
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Why does one have three limbs and the other have only two?


*breaks down* I DON'T KNOW! *sob*
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The site mentions that the ring of sensory hairs around the flesh bear's mouth protect its mouth and keeps its tongue from being exposed to the elements. How do these hairs do that? They don't seem to be thick enough to insulate the mouth against the cold, and the tongue needs to come out to taste the air and provide information to the animal's brain. How do these hairs do what the site explains?



Well, the idea is that as the creature has these sensory hairs to navigate with, it wouldn't need to flick its' tongue out to taste the air. As the largest animal in the Chozo Wastes is the Flesh-Bear, there is no need for anything more effective. The picture shows the animal in its' summer coat (sorry, I should have explained this), and so in the winter its' fur turns white as camouflage, so it can sneak up on prey.

Any more questions welcome. The Dino's should be coming online very soon.
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Ddraig Goch... keep up the trophile and don't let Empy get you down. If it's not impossible, it's in my head.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Somehow that was encouraging. (?) :D

Still, thanks. Curiously, what is in your head? You make it sound like there's a whole new dimension in there. (Which, now that I come to think of it, there probably is) :)
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Even I have no idea. ^_^ :sleepy: :whatever: :geek: :confused: :") :") :") :") :") :") :") :")
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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And neither do the rest of us. ^_^
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You'd better not, or you'd probably explode in a shower of insanity.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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That's what happened to the last person, anyway. :)
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How do you know about that? Increasing mental shields...
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Changing frequency of Holbenilord-MindReader to compensate... Mwahahahaha!!
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Deleting mental program...mwahahahaha!
Oops...
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Pwned.

Anyway, back to Vabmojer...
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:SYSTEM FAILIURE:
Shutting down...
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Rebooting...

MWAHAHAHAHA!
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