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| Wormarm-folk, Blister-folk, and Gall-folk; No really, you'll think they are just great. | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 28 2010, 11:35 PM (962 Views) | |
| colddigger | Mar 28 2010, 11:35 PM Post #1 |
Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Okay, so here it goes. These things aren't concrete in my mind... I like parasites sue me. ---- Worm-arm-folk These fellows lack manipulators. Unless you count their mouth (if they have one). Which I don't. To "make up" for this they have a symbiotic relationship with a strange species of worm (nasty things). After burrowing into the hosts flesh they cause galls or fleshy growths to appear to house the worms, they even burrow into each other. Worm-arm-folk generally collect these worms into their "arms" which have evolved specifically to support these growths. They control the worms by releasing hormones into their arms which trigger the worms to rush out and curl in the process, when pressed against something this allows the people to grab onto things. They shape their arms to fit tradition, fashion, or functions depending on which is most important to them. Some problems that arise from not tending or paying attention to the worms are spread of disease amongst an individuals worms rendering them unresponsive or dead, a dead worm poses danger to the host through infection, sometimes disease can even be spread to the host from their worms. Untended worms might change the shape of the arms to become awkward for grasping or they might dig to far and inflame nonspecialized flesh. New worms might also travel to other parts of the body and burrow there, often the upper back, shoulders, or legs. These can easily be removed using the same processes used for shaping arms, although it's much more painful. ---- Blister-folk These guys are male and female. Or rather they start off male then become female. Their natural lifestyle is to seclude themselves, they are territorial beings who's ancestors mainly lived alone. The males are virtually helpless, The large females keep them protected inside blister-like growths all over their body, the males acted as extra eyes back during their ancestor's isolation days. They tend to produce only small amounts of sperm since they will eventually become female and have collections of males themselves some day, and it's not like they really have to or even can do much to compete anyway. After birth a young male is nurtured by his mother for about a week before being handed over to a mate of his mother's choice, she can go two ways, either give him up to someone with virtually no blisters ( virtually no other males) raising the chances of passing her genetics on via the offspring's male stage, or grant her son to someone with loads of healthy blisters who shows the ability to ensure the offspring a healthy and fertile female stage. The decision can either be conscious or based on instinctual "attraction" toward one or the other. Although the males can think, communicate, and are loved dearly by their protective mates they aren't taken very seriously and pretty much lack rights for themselves due to their youth and role in life. --- True-Gall-folk basically like parasitic wasps, the males are free to move about and the females are burrowed into galls which they grow up in and feed off of for their entire lives. I just imagine these guys are all tophats and monocles. Edited by colddigger, Apr 1 2010, 08:16 PM.
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| colddigger | Apr 1 2010, 08:16 PM Post #2 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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you guys don't have anything to say about these? |
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| Parasky | Apr 1 2010, 08:26 PM Post #3 |
The Great Wizzard
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That's some interesting stuff. I see the new COM has you thinking? |
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| colddigger | Apr 1 2010, 08:43 PM Post #4 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I don't think I know what that is... |
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| T.Neo | Apr 2 2010, 05:05 AM Post #5 |
Translunar injection: TLI
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Not too odd... that's pretty much the position of children in most human societies. Edited by T.Neo, Apr 2 2010, 05:05 AM.
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| colddigger | Apr 2 2010, 01:09 PM Post #6 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Yeah, they fill a similar role as children... treatment-wise at least. |
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| Empyreon | Apr 2 2010, 09:56 PM Post #7 |
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I'm most interested in the blister folk. Are they sapient, then? What is their society like? |
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| colddigger | Apr 3 2010, 08:47 AM Post #8 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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These are all sapients, sophonts, people folks... i can cover their societies a bit later. |
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| Holbenilord | Apr 3 2010, 12:03 PM Post #9 |
amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes
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All tool-using and agricultural? |
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| colddigger | Apr 3 2010, 09:44 PM Post #10 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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It varies between the many societies and cultures of each species... but they pretty much all use tools, and the majority perform agriculture of some form. I imagine there would be nomads and hunter gatherers within all of these species... I don't have any absolute concrete ideas on what or how these things are, just a few ideas, so asking questions is a nice way to build a better image... The Blister-folk I figured would be very loose socially (at least between females), they basically carry around whole groups of other people with them that they can turn to if they were to ever get bored or need some simple opinion or whatever... |
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| colddigger | Nov 25 2011, 04:27 AM Post #11 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I'm bumping this since I'm planning on developing them further, maybe touching a bit on their evolution... the WormFolk I'm thinking from stiff fleshy lobed hexapods with symbiotic worms to allow for quicker movement and defense... |
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| Zoroaster | Nov 26 2011, 12:43 AM Post #12 |
Spry Fundiment
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Hey Coldy - glad you bumped this - only just noticed it - I am intrigued. Any chances of some pictures dude? No excuses, I've just been looking at your Deviantart, love your work there - c'mon dude spit out some pics of the Wormarms, Blisters and Galls.... 
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| Mike | Nov 26 2011, 05:55 AM Post #13 |
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Didn't notice this until now too, and I love the idea. I had a similar concept to the wormarms once in which the creature's babies sprouted from its face, and it told its babies what to do as manipulators, but I couldn't think of an adequate life cycle. The use of a parasite seems a lot more plausible. |
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| colddigger | Dec 2 2011, 09:39 PM Post #14 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I'd love to draw some pictures of them, but the thing is there is no real concrete idea of what they look like in my head.... |
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| colddigger | Dec 19 2011, 07:03 PM Post #15 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Spoiler: click to toggle That is what I keep imagining the Gall-Folk looking like, that is not what they should look like in the end. When imagining these I keep having humanesque images appear in my mind, the Wormarm folk are angelic with their masses of worms extending from their limbs. the Blister folk women are burly and thick bodied, hunched over and of course covered in translucent blisters. The Gall folk are weird though, I was wanting a smallish being with an exoskeleton for the males, but whenever I think of the females I imagine a cut open gall with a human skeleton embedded in it. |
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