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  1. Kobold King
    Answering your question with information your Foundation has access to: They are morphologically very similar to the mammoths of Earth's prehistoric eras, though they cannot be identified as any particular species. Thus you cannot determine at this point whether or not their individual species has existed on this Earth.
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    Interesting thoughts. No comment from me. Are you in agreement that your first message will be a simple request to hear their demands?
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    Nice idea--I applaud your thinking outside the box here! With that said, I think genetically engineering a virus to fit this scenario would likely take months at the very least, and you would require a degree of information on these elephant's bodies that you do not possess. In addition my brief bit of Wikipedia research suggests that viruses that affect Asian elephants are seldom capable of infecting African elephants or vice versa, and since the stormtroopers are neither, it's unlikely that you could find a natural disease capable of killing them in the necessary time frame. If that's your decision, I'll begin compiling the data you receive from this course of action. First contact ahoy.
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    Huzzah! I got one! ...Does that mean it's my turn to come up with a bad description?
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    RAFO. (An Epic is not responsible, I'm afraid. However awesome of a plot twist that would be. )
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    Curious George? I hope not, for I will not stand insults against the Man in the Yellow Hat.
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    That's two votes for cellphones and one vote for probes, out of the four people apart from myself who have posted here. Unless a few more people vote on the side of probes, I think we'll go with the cellphone tapping. (Sound reasoning for it, by the way. Were I voting I'd vote for the cellphones too.) Either way: do you intend to initiate contact with a message? An introduction, perhaps? Or shall you merely let them know that you're listening and wait for them to send the first message?
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    To an Inquisitor, it's just metal and not-metal.
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    Also, by any chance did you copy-and-paste that stanza from Poetry Foundation .org? Because the font and size from what you pasted is the exact same as what I pasted.
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    ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Oddly enough, that stanza almost makes sense describing the strange and whimsical jungles that Dawnslight creates.
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    Of course you can join. The more the merrier. Good question; I did not make myself quite clear in that regard. I mean lacking the fur of the woolly mammoths of North America and Eurasia. They share the bristles that are common to all members of the elephant family. Should I call a vote? Those in favor of sending a remote probe vs those in favor of initiating contact via tapped cellphone? I'll cheat a little bit by telling you that achieving contact with the elephants is possible either way you choose.
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    (I confess, I don't have much technical knowledge about either of these questions. We'll say that you can have an airstrike organized within an hour, and that you can tap the cell phones of the hostages. The elephants did not confiscate phones.)
  14. Kobold King
    Good questions! You'll go far, kid. Their demands are unknown at this point; they will be revealed once a group consensus is reached on how to initiate contact with them. The leading suggestions seem to be either UN translators or a robot at the moment. I'm glad you asked. The stormtroopers do not directly correspond to a known species of elephant. They are larger than either African or Asian elephants, but their trunks are slimmer and more flexible. Their tusks are small and curved like "C"s, and their ears are small and kept flat to the sides of the head. Although hairless, their body proportions as a whole are more similar to some species of prehistoric mammoths than to modern elephants. You can recognize a few of the hostages, but none have military training. Only a few are identifiable. A few military veterans were present in the town, but as only forty of three hundred people are accounted for in the barn, their fates cannot be determined. National Guard units are already stationed in the surrounding area. They are already in position, should you choose a militarized assault of some kind.
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    Assume for now that the WTCHF is secret and unknown to the majority of the world's population. You answer only to a UN council, who are content to forgive a few casualties so long as you give them results. (Results, in this case, meaning that the world doesn't end.)
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    I still need to get a chiskreven post up. I was going to try something big and flashy, but now I think I'll just do a peaceful post about a chiskreven going fishing. How does that sound?
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    Green. Reading and writing. 17. Dice. Within reason... does that mean I can't use the butterfly wings?
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    Chalkling Sampler

    Kobold King commented on KalynaAnne's gallery image in Rithmatist Art

    Chalkling Sampler
    I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To sketch them is my real test To draw them is my cause! ...Ahem. What I mean to say is, these are incredibly awesome.
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    It lets you find the color codes you used quickly and efficiently, so you can reapply them while recreating the pony. In other news, I posted this topic and only afterwards did I realize that Chimera could conceivably caused the first scenario.
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    It's not that hard to recreate ponies. Especially not with this website.
  21. Kobold King
    Huzzah! People are interested! I just thought having an evil green necromancer pony might not be conducive for a non-threatening, lovable public image. Steampunk Doctor Whooves is way better. Here's the first scenario: For a few hours, nobody knew--or particularly cared--what happened to the town of Snowey, Florida. The swamp town with less than three hundred people is hardly bustling, and when its dozen or so Facebook users failed to update one morning, few outsiders noticed. Even fewer noticed that power and telephones lines to the sleepy little town had been severed. Neighboring towns heard a series of booms and explosions from the direction of Snowey, but shrugged them off as fireworks. Contact was lost for seven hours before the Pictures surfaced on the world wide web. A short series of photographs, taken from a teenage resident's phone, depict the state of Snowey as it is now: in ruins. Most of the town has been torn apart, laid waste too as if blasted by missile strikes. That alone would be enough to send the images viral, but the last image in the series is the most shocking of all. The photograph is crisp and clear, unlike the images of desolation snapped before. It appears to be taken from the inside of a large barn, where around forty people of varying ages are huddled together on their knees--clearly hostages. The hostage takers themselves are the centerpiece of the growing Internet frenzy. They are elephants. They are unmistakable in the stark clarity of the photo. Four enormous elephants are seen in the image, dressed in what seems to be painted blue battle armor, stand guard over the hostages, wielding strange cylindrical weapons in their trunks. They appear to be threatening the holder of the camera with their weapons, forcing him to take the image. Most call these pictures a hoax. Most are not The Worst That Could Happen Foundation, with clear satellite imagery of at least thirty armored elephants systematically destroying what remains of the town and herding the citizens to the barn on the town's outskirts. It's up to you, as the administrators of this foundation, to determine why elephant stormtroopers have occupied a tiny Floridan town. Where have they come from? Why are they here? Why are they elephants? And above all else... what's the worst that could happen?
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    Ah... that'll be a tricky one. I'll do my very best--though as a disclaimer, I've never met you, I don't know your favorite color or your favorite past time, and I couldn't hazard a guess whether you're 20 or 200. I claim no responsibility if this pony completely fails to capture you or your spirit. With that said... what shall I put as your cutie mark? Dice?
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    Yep. Go right ahead. (I'm stuck for ideas for my opposite anyway. )
  24. Kobold King
    I made him an alicorn self-insert pony, but he declined to use it as his avatar.
  25. Kobold King
    Hooray for Chaos!
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