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I believe the image credit should be mentioned earlier in the description.

On a related note, I was just about to compliment you on your prettiest artwork yet, so I'm glad I read the note at the bottom.

"lobbed" that means "hurled" or "threw". You mean "lobed".

"their thick armor meaning they can take the spears and teeth of the inhabitants" It must be very thick indeed, or they're simply hard to attack due to their body shape, because I had assumed Sayronts' scales weren't a perfect defense against Shrogs on Fermi.

I believe it's customary to include in the description something like this at the end:

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==Note== Coloring by {{User|Disgustedorite}}.

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Apr 3 2021, 09:32 PM)

I believe the image credit should be mentioned earlier in the description. On a related note, I was just about to compliment you on your prettiest artwork yet, so I'm glad I read the note at the bottom. "lobbed" that means "hurled" or "threw". You mean "lobed". "their thick armor meaning they can take the spears and teeth of the inhabitants" It must be very thick indeed, or they're simply hard to attack due to their body shape, because I had assumed Sayronts' scales weren't a perfect defense against Shrogs on Fermi.

Made edits regarding the lobed lips and the name credit.

How should the armor defend it then? Its early ancestors evolved the armor plates to act as a defense so they may be study by this boi.

Apparently, pangolins can be killed by beating them with sticks, metal rods, or metal rods called sticks.

I just spent quite a while calculating whether this was possible, using a human with metal rods attacking a pangolin as a proxy, but it's so far from how either organism works it's like assuming a spherical cow in an vacuum. I could provide the information in case anyone wants to know how a club-wielding Shrog could beat up pangolins using wood that can be loosely categorized as "ironwood". In fact...a Shrog wielding a rod of wood equivalent to Australian buloke wood would be able to kill virtually everything, if they weren't overpowered enough with simple wooden spears.

This post has been edited by Coolsteph: Apr 3 2021, 09:17 PM

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Apr 4 2021, 12:16 AM)

Apparently, pangolins can be killed by beating them with sticks, metal rods, or metal rods called sticks. I just spent quite a while calculating whether this was possible, using a human with metal rods attacking a pangolin as a proxy, but it's so far from how either organism works it's like assuming a spherical cow in an vacuum. I could provide the information in case anyone wants to know how a club-wielding Shrog could beat up pangolins using wood that can be loosely categorized as "ironwood". In fact...a Shrog wielding a rod of wood equivalent to Australian buloke wood would be able to kill virtually everything, if they weren't overpowered enough with simple wooden spears.

Does that mean I need to change anything?

I'm actually not sure...stabbing and whacking are two different things. It might help to use pangolins, turtles, rhinos, or hippos as proxies, but it's hard to find data about killing them with pure wood spears, not metal or stone-tipped ones. You could simply say they can only be efficiently killed (short of flipping them over) if the Shrogs use wood of greater than usual strength, and their fangs and axes are practically useless.

Coolsteph I think you triple-posted a bit there.

Edit: Personally I think no change is needed. A wood spear will bounce right off of that. The Sparkleshrog even notes it as not being preferred prey.

This post has been edited by Disgustedorite: Apr 3 2021, 11:36 PM

An alternative method for which wooden spears might pose a threat for them is if they're stabbed directly into the mouth, as that would bypass the armor directly.

Also, I'm liking how this lineage of limblesses are essentially becoming tentacled snakes. I'm excited to see where this leads to.