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Kanaloa; We've got Mud n' Eels...
Topic Started: Oct 7 2008, 11:53 AM (7,535 Views)
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Approx size; 20-30ft. A slow-moving deep-water predator that sneaks up on prey, grasps it with it's main tentacles, and drags it into it's beak. Nom nom nom.

Kanaloa, roughly the same size as earth orbits a similar star, and is very similar to earth in many ways- except for it's geography and life. The planet's surface is almost entirely covered in shallow, warm oceans (with deeper, cooler patches and small ice caps- it's a little warmer than earth) with very little lands, either consisting of muddy sandbars that can wash away overnight, or reeflike structures that protrude from the water's surface wherever reefs are, as well as 'land' made from large, strong floating plants and some small islands surrounding volcanic activity.

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From a foot to two meters long. The beaked reefeater is a peaceful, if dim-witted creatures that uses it's large, hard beak to defend itself as well was to crunch tough reef into dust when it eats. Cute, no?

But it's not like anything lives on what little land there is, anyways. Virtually all life on Kanaloa exists under the water. Most life in the shallow parts of the oceans is rather safe, consisting of smaller creatures, strange plant-like animals, and the few carnivores and venomous animals don't pose too worrysome of a threat to the adapted posthumans (Mermatees) that live on Kanaloa (They still pose a threat, but attacks and injury are rare or treated well).

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This creature uses it's flattened tentacles to dig up sea-cabbage and sea-lettuce creatures, and then impales them with it's skinny beak before eating. They occasionally bite or nip mermatees or the passing human tourist, but don't pose a great threat. Approx. one meter long.

Granted, in deeper waters, things are a little more dangerous.

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oh god what is it make it go away make it go away oh god

But Kanaloa is a vast place, with much life to be had. Besides rather earthlike reefs, many of the plant forms here are actually somewhere between animal and plant, octopus or eel-like creatures capable of photosynthesis, and the majority of life forms resemble mixes of some creatures from earth. Cepholpods, eels, and crustaceans namely, adapted to fill the niches empty in the ocean.

Skeletons are rare, and anything beyond a cartilaginous skeleton like that of a shark is nigh-impossible to find in the native lifeforms of Kanaloa, although hard, bony beaks and claws are common (teeth less so, but still noticeable) as well as hard shells and spines.

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An example of sea lettuce. The octopod-like body is buried in the mud, the eyes permanently closed in adulthood. As young "spores" the eyes are open as they swim to find a place to root themselves. They taste kinda like broccoli and bacon fat.

Think Lovecraft, for these animals. Horrible horrible H.P.Lovecraft full of tentacles and writhing things.

Enjoy, and do check out the threat above for the Mermatees- my wonderful posthumans. XD
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Yeah that was pretty funny. I wonder what these fellows will make of human food.
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Oct 16 2008, 05:14 PM
lol Cool name. I like it, and I like the 20's. It's like the 60's but without the dieing empires.

I was named Christian, which is pretty weird and also somewhat ironic, given I am atheist, but my parents could not have known that.

Penn Jillette has some wacky names for his kids. Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette?
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My last name is Irish, and nobody can spell it, and few can speak it.

Oh well, that why parents give their kids weird names, revenge!
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It is kind of like a American explorers name I think. That or a founding father.

I don't know much about American explores, except that they do something related to the UK or Japan, or something extraordinary.
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I'm going back to basics.

What with city of heroes devouring yellow's time, this topic as been pretty dead for awhile. Also, back on topic please. If you want a topic for weird names, make it in the general discussion section.
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You did not miss much. Yellow went away to play a super hero MRMEOPGE or something. So no, Kanaola progress for a while, nor any dirty centaur picture for me.
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Here are some problems wirh the drawing:
1. It has teeth rather then a beak unlike all the other kanaloa anamiles.
2. It looks far to much like a small dino.
3. If it is evolved from a squidy looking thing like all the rest of kanaloa's life it should have more limbs.
4. Squidlike stuff like that of kanaloa do not have toes. It does.
5. It looks like it evloved on earth.

No ofence ment I just wanted to point out some problems.
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Nov 29 2008, 01:42 PM
You did not miss much. Yellow went away to play a super hero MRMEOPGE or something. So no, Kanaola progress for a while, nor any dirty centaur picture for me.
You are getting off topic.
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

He's telling progress dude. Let it go.

Anyway, I think that picture is of a dinosaur, not a Kanaloan creature. And the reason it looks like it evolved on Earth is because it did.
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He's telling progress dude. Let it go.

Anyway, I think that picture is of a dinosaur, not a Kanaloan creature. And the reason it looks like it evolved on Earth is because it did.
Prehaps it is. NOW LETS GET BACK ON TOPIC!
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

It is on this topic because I'm responding to something posted in this topic.

Anyway, interesting little world. Though I'm curious as to how humans got to this world and why they're there.
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they got there by moving there, and they are there because they can.
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

Makes perfect sense.

(Makes absolutely no sense, Canis Lupis said as he sat at his computer scratching his head. This idiot doesn't what was being asked. He says that they are because they are. I'll bet he's a creationist.) :D

Just kidding.
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