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| martiitram | Jan 12 2014, 07:40 PM Post #31 |
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How do bass boomers look like? |
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| martiitram | Jan 12 2014, 07:43 PM Post #32 |
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Are these descended from aliens or from introduced invertebrates? |
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| Admantus | Jan 12 2014, 08:19 PM Post #33 |
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Bass boomers are horselike in shape, only much bigger. Think indricotheres. Like I said, Para Verts are descended from velvet worms, which are real world creatures. |
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| martiitram | Jan 12 2014, 09:08 PM Post #34 |
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I see. |
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| Admantus | Jan 13 2014, 04:32 PM Post #35 |
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Yeah. So I've been thinking, and I might change the way this project gets updated. Instead of introducing families of creatures, I will do habitats, with species introduced in each update. And I will try and get to draw these creatures, so you will at least get a visual representation of this project. |
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| Sheather | Jan 13 2014, 09:37 PM Post #36 |
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Oh my god the para verts are so amazing. |
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| Admantus | Jan 13 2014, 09:38 PM Post #37 |
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Thank you! I wanted to make this planet really alien, so I did. I kinda got motivation from sheatheria, to be honest! |
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| Admantus | Jan 13 2014, 10:15 PM Post #38 |
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Central Woodlands On a cool autumn day, in central afroterra, giants trudge through the forest. Five giant yellow grey shapes make their way through the woods, branches snapping and the sound of giant inhaling and exhaling. These are the groons, the largest para verts on afroterra. Standing 60 feet tall at the head, these are surely an impressive sight to behold. A stocky body, (with the head inside the body, not projecting outwards) rounded at the front and slender near the end, with a retractable and mobile vacuumlike mouth that is situated near the bottom of the animal for sucking up anything in its path. Here we can see a group of boarsnouts following the groons as they look for tiny insects scattered by the massive beasts. In the trees are a chorus of chirps and buzzes. These are the flingbats. Although they fly, and are sometimes colored brown, flingbats are actually extremely derived sea slugs, having evolved from a pelagic gliding ancestor in the distant past. These are the temperate flingbats, which are common in this part of afroterra. After the groons leave to socialize in a clearing, the boarsnouts regroup, with the leader of the pack calling everyone back with a hooting yell, not unlike a terran baboon. Groons have long, thick legs, almost like giant yellowish grey tree trunks. At the base of the legs are big two toed feet, which are widened to help spread the weight of the massive creature. It has two big antennae at the middle of its body, which it smells and analyzes its environment with. It has two big holes next to its head. These are its breathing orifaces. When groons encounter a predator, the leader of the group will make a trumpeting sound and squirt the attacker with solidifying liquid. Groons are viparious, giving birth to 5 young that grow to half adult size within 7 years. Groons live for 100 years on average, although some have been recorded to have lived for 140 years. They share their woodlands with another big and loud animal, the Beats Boomer, although there is really no overlap, so the two giants mind their business and coexist peacefully. Edited by Admantus, Jan 14 2014, 08:09 PM.
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| Admantus | Jan 17 2014, 04:53 PM Post #39 |
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Sengis Before the introduction of "advanced" vertebrates, para verts roamed the rich red green and purple landscapes, bounding, slithering, and rolling in a very alien world. After the introduction of afrotheres, things got faster. Elephants ate a lot of the foliage, sengis and tenerecs ate everything, and the rest were detrimental to the changing of the afroterran surface. After 100 million years, the two groups balanced out, and the rich red, green, and purple landscapes of lichen and grassland are once again in abundance. One group, the sengis, has radiated into many predatory niches and has created a new family of giant macro predatory hopping carnivores, some of which rival some carnosaurs in size. Common Leaper One of the most prolific of the predatory sengis is the Common Leaper. Ranging from the steppes to the woodlands, the Common Leaper has a wide variety of subspecies, although the steppe Leaper is the most common. Growing to about 5 feet long, and weighing in at 100 pounds, these, like all other afroterran sengis, move by running with their back legs, occasionally supporting themselves on their front legs. Their most common prey is gorsa and plains sloort, although they won't pass up on river copepod. They kill their prey by stamina, running after it and leaping onto the prey's back, killing it with a bite to the spinal cord. Shark Tooth Reaper One of afroterra's most ironic animals is the shark tooth reaper. Growing up to 49 feet in length, and growing up to 8 tons, this is the apex predator of the central woodlands and giant redwood forests in which it lurks. This giant eats anything it wants, be it elephant, groon, or anything else. The shark toothed bouncer is more quadrupedal than other sengis, preferring to walk on all fours, only rearing up when they attack prey. It has a noticeably big head, with big shearing teeth that cut through flesh and bone. On their front feet are sharp retractable claws that help to keep the prey in place when it goes in for the kill. Its sensitive twitching nose has evolved into a sort of trunk, which is used for ripping legs from bodies, as well as being used for drinking. The central woodlands population has thicker fur than the redwood forest population. Reapers are usually solitary animals that only come together briefly during the mating season. Reapers communicate with infra sound, picking up the vibrations in their padded feet. Catspurs On the opposite side of the size spectrum are Catspurs, which are small, omnivorous creatures. Named because of their catlike alarm call, and the spurs on their feet. They are mainly aboreal creatures, climbing up all sorts of trees in search of succulent lichen buds, maple sap clusters, and the occasional para vert or small tree vark. They live in all of afroterra's terrestrial habitats. When threatened by a larger predator, be it a swooperslug or a climbing durian, it fluffs up its fur, screeches like a cat, and scrambles away. Like terran feral cats, Catspurs live in clusters, with a matriarch having loose authority over the rest of the clan. Edited by Admantus, Jan 22 2014, 06:37 PM.
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| Sheather | Jan 17 2014, 05:08 PM Post #40 |
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Could a 49 foot animal really hop, though, without breaking all of its bones? |
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