Magical Suggestion Funland

[Kilnarak]

That's the suggestion I was trying to make. That whatever it is, it's extinct on spiderland and it's why the simourv are dying out here. But they might still be alive on the other continent.

Our ecosystem is kind of broken. I want to make it less so. >>

[Kat]

We could solve in by adding in a very unlucky creature that gets eaten by simourv and koxi maybe? Thats big enough to logically sustain them. You could even argue that the reason simourv are dying out is because on Spiderland these creatures have basically been eaten to extinction, but its possible that they are plentiful elsewhere. As a result on Spiderland, the numbers of Koxi who hunt in packs are overwhelming the numbers of simourv.

I think that is the best suggestion. Maybe, even, the humans brought with them when they arrived, some sort of plague which killed off all the large prey animals. The result of that was that the koxi and simourv no longer had anything to eat. The koxi began to attack humans and eat humans, because they were the only thing big enough to sustain koxi. Simourvs began to die out. This would also explain the increasing frequency of koxi attacks.

I actually think I like that idea.

I like the waterfowl idea. Simourvs who eat mostly fish, etc, and have water resistant feathers. They could actually be more like Ospreys, simourvs who eat mostly fish, etc, but who are large predators. They might not be dying out as fast, either, so then by our simourvs breeding with those simourvs, we might be able to breed a simourv who can live in the environment without any prey animals better.

And finally I'll address the other settlers issue. I was thinking that like many different groups went and settled America (or really anywhere.), there would be other, independent groups looking to get away from the warfare of the known universe by traveling to a planet which had been settled. So, they would know Pohono existed and that it was inhabitable, and want to establish themselves there, too. It's not like the universe outside of Pohono will not have different groups of people with different interests. Maybe the war outside had two factions, and our settlers are from one faction, and these settlers are from another? That would explain why they would not want to interact with out settlers and why they would want to settle a different continent. If they were just people looking for somewhere peaceful to live, they would want to ensure that they did not cause conflict with the previous settlers. Or maybe this is a group of people seeking somewhere to go because they are being persecuted in some way. Maybe they are a minority, either racially, ethnically, religiously, or just culturally, and they wanted to settle an area they knew could support human life, so they went to Pohono to live on their own. It's not like all settlers need to be sent by the government or like there is only one government to send settlers, basically.

[Bre]

Killy, my response basically only discussed the fact most big predators have recently started dying out on the Spiderlands.

I'm just going to go sit in my corner and organize the next hatching for now. If you all come up with a specific complete plot or idea you want, a proposal with enough information that the staff can use would be lovely.

Oh, Sekkai references Sekkai Fractures and basically means you all have to be prepared to wait a long time between hatchings in different areas for different species if we add in multiple species group.

[Vanman]

tired idea time,

What if someone was so upstet/angry that they havent been chosen/bonded/searched that they decided to take it into their own hands. that person could go into the wild, find a clutch and bond with a wild simorv. It would be just like how the first riders did it. now when that one man or woman comes back he starts his own Anti-Eyrie organization, an evil Eyrie if you will. It would be great to have an acuall enemy that can think just as strategically as you can

[Bre]

The issue with that is that a person can't just go out and happen to stumble onto a clutch. The riders were lucky bastards in finding their clutch and covered a lot of ground as a group on their expedition. A tawny might be friendly to a human seeing her eggs, but it would have to be found first.

[zeis]

Like I said in the c-box I can easily imagine people wanting to either find more Simourv eggs and wanting to go look for them, the riders included. I'm sure the idea of possibly locating more wilds or nests has definitely occurred to them. The main thing that would give people pause is the threat of Koxi.

[Bre]

Also, in specific reply to you, Van, why would someone bonded to a simourv still be able to hate the eyrie? Simourvs may squabble and split, but they will never be strictly against each other. Even grays are generally fine with their pecking order (their riders are another story, but the point stands).

[Siphran]

I think its a good idea actually :\ i mean isnt it possible that they arent evil per say, but acting out legitimately (in their minds) against perceived wrongs committed by the Eyrie?

[zeis]

Like I said earlier, there are probably people that dislike the Eyrie because either they are forced in some small way to pay for it via taxes, either to fund the Eyrie itself or possibly just for the upkeep of guardposts in the three main cities. There are also probably people who are afraid of them, or ignorant of them. And there are also probably people who think that the Eyrie could be doing more. Like if they fight off Koxi and one home gets destroyed, those people will want to know why they didn't stop that from happening.

There's always two sides on every issue.

[winged]

I like that idea, personally. But then again, people don't exactly have all the liberties in the world to be conspiring against one another. The koxi are an enormous threat right now, with the Eyrie so small.

[zeis]

Yeah, dissenters are a possibility, and they definitely exist. But with the moderate success that the Eyrie has had so far in repelling Koxi they're probably still in the minority. The first koxi attack that the simourv get the short end of the stick of though is probably going to cause a political storm.

[Bre]

There's still the issue of being able to find eggs too (a task that would be far easier for the riders if anyone could really track them down). Eceph would cull anyone who tried to touch hers without permission, so imagine what a healthy wild gray would do. Also, simourvs aren't likely to be physically violent against each other. Squabbles may result in injury, but they're much of a posturing, mentally forceful race, a trait derived from their abilities.

[Kilnarak]

Can we, er, have a worked out map of the Eyrie? Like where things are in relation to each other, the shapes of buildings and whatnot? Floorplan sort of thing?

[Bre]

We can, if someone is interested in making it. The majority of the eyrie is built into the cliffside. We can get the big things though.

[Evkav]

Well, I do have one small suggestion.

There seems to be quite a lag between submitting characters and actually getting them accepted and whatnot. The main part of a site is it's characters and if characters aren't getting accepted then there is not really much to do. I know that Bre has another site and stuff going on there and life does get rather busy but I do hope that asking for my character to be looked over quickly is not too much to ask. In truth, it really turns me off a site. However I do love GS and the plot is amazing so I don't really want to leave. I don't want to sound mean about it or anything and I'm a rather impatient person but really, I've had my character sitting there for two weeks now.

So, that's my suggestion in there. Please, feel free to tell me if I'm out of line or whatever but I though that I'd make myself heard about that. Thanks.

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