Kobold King

We should get old Fluttershy--nice Fluttershy--to use the Stare on her, and fast. https://youtu.be/WYA7t5Wx56Y?t=24s

Because Twi could totally take me in a fight?

That just makes me want it more.

We still need to know what happened to cause him to become an incorporeal dream-cat.

Once upon a time there were two strong young squel'thas walking up a hill, stopping beside a lake of molten sodium chloride. They gazed into each other's crystalline eyes and shared a sensual ting'lenguus, and swore to never leave one another's side. But meanwhile, Thywe, King of the Gods and patron of reslefs, gazed upon them with one of his invisible sensory tendirls, and he was displeased, loving the fairer of the two for himself. And so he took her in his qualax and dragged her into the heavens, turning her into lines of bold stars in the void of the night sky. The other squel'tha vowed to have her back, and that is why to this day squel'thas fly towards the distant horizon after the second sundown. The end.

I love this idea. To the best of my knowledge we don't have anything similar to a copycat in our current cast of Epics--for much of the RP's history, such abilities were not considered possible in the Reckonerverse. Brandon only confirmed that they exist fairly recently. I especially like the reliance on deaths to grant her powers. How would you decide what skills she acquires in unclear cases? For instance, if she drove into a tree and died in the resulting crash, would she come back as a better driver? If Lightwards ordered a raptor to kill her, would she gain Lightwards' necromancy, the limited ability to control raptors, or something else entirely?

I've been reading about supercritical hydrogen today. This is what came to mind. Sorry not sorry.

@Mestiv: 10/10, would read again. Honestly by this point you've poured more thought into this particular planet than even I have, considering my sole concept for this world thus far was the multicolored plant thing. It's also pretty cool to see your ideas altogether, since it seems we've both put a lot of effort into red dwarf systems and have come to a lot of the same conclusions. Answering everything by topic: Star Sizes: I definitely don't intend to put a planet around a supergiant; rather, what I said was a subgiant, which is a star substantially short of giant status. Very large and very luminous, but comparable to main-sequence stars and not necessarily prohibitive to life. Climate and Temperatures: Here you go! I'd be lying if I said I understood everything in that pdf, so here's a link to the Wikipedia page that summarized it for me. It's controversial and disputed by some scientists, but since we won't know for sure if it's possible till we go to a red dwarf and find out, I see no problem with using the concept for science fiction. And again, I have no idea how much water. Like I said, my sole idea for this planet was the multicolored plant idea--which I still intend to use somewhere, on some planet. Day and Night: That is awesome and super helpful. Thanks! I fancy myself decent at exobiology, but astrometrics kicks my butt every time. Life on the Bright Side: ♪ Always look on the bright side of life... ♪ ... Ahem, sorry. I've considered sleepless creatures before as well, but I'd need to do more research on how day/night cycles affect wildlife before attempting to devise Brightside's ecosystems. Life on the Dark Side: What I'd love to do is come up with a mechanism for the transfer of organic material from the bright side to the dark side, allowing for a thriving ecosystem equivalent to the deep ocean floor of Earth. If enough material gets over, I could even have large megafauna living in the dark, like the giant squid we have here. One thought I had was to have some Brightside organisms migrate to the Darkside to reproduce, taking advantage of the flurries of reproducing Darkside critters to feed their young. Civilization: Pretty cool thoughts there! I think the type of society here, as always, would depend on what form lifeform evolves sapience. For instance, you suggest that the demonization of the Darkside by Brightside inhabitants is almost inevitable; quite the contrary, I believe that's anthropomorphizing the inhabitants of the planet to an undue degree. Consider, for instance, a race that evolved from the migratory creatures that fly to the Darkside to reproduce during the brief day. Rather than considering the other side of the planet a demonic hellscape, they might call it "The Heaven That Sleeps"; it lays dormant in the dark for a while, but then it awakes and becomes a blissful utopia that they can raise their young in. Or consider a race that develops from large carnivores. Unlike we puny humans, who evolved from scrawny primates with very good reasons to be scared of the dark, a civilization derived from apex predators would have little be intrinsically scared of. If they were big enough, with keen senses of smell or hearing, then they might view the Darkside as just a particularly challenging hunting ground, even without a secondary star in the system to provide occasional light. (And that's just assuming that Brightside would be the first to develop sapient life; it's equally possible that only the Darkside would give rise to anything as rational as we are, and that these creatures would view the land of eternal sun with the same fear that our medieval ancestors would have viewed a land of eternal dark.) Above all, don't apologize for "hijacking" this idea! By some estimates there could be as many as 75 billion red dwarf systems in the Milky Way alone, and if even a minute percentage of those have any life at all, I'll have plenty of opportunities to develop this kind of setting in any number of ways. I can even imagine a galactic community that's almost entirely made up of races that evolved on tidally locked worlds, with species hailing from around luminous yellow suns like ours being a stark minority. And your thoughts are most definitely interesting!

There once was a man named Nighthound Who wronged everyone whom he found. His tormented pet Ray Gave him his final day And put that old slontze in the ground.

(There, there. It's never too late. You can give her an extra double entry now for the hospital incident. )

(Because she's cute and everyone remembers when she was snarky and lovable? )

I live for a world where that word is "unmarked mass grave." (Good to know. )

What about a "crowd" consisting of Timeport, Quota, Electro, Iconoclast, and other members of the ATTD list? (By the way, what did Deathwish do that got him put on the List? Was it the aerial sword shenanigans, or the threats he made against Impact?)

Whether or not to wait is up to you, but you are an exceptionally kind and responsible woman. Your "not being cut out" for pet ownership is almost laughably absurd from my perspective.

Yes, though less because there were so many and more because of how hard it is to quantify "a crowd" of people. Also, 11, 000 posts, yay!

"I am fire. I am death." ...That said, I'm not that big a fan of Mr. Cumberbatch as an actor. He's okay, but I find him too melodramatic in his villain roles. Obliteration needs to be menacing, but not scenery-chewing; dramatic, but not to the point of glaring at the camera as he slowly growls out the line "I am Obliteration."

I consider myself a casual Pokemon fan. I owned one guidebook with the first 151 Pokemon, I watched the anime, and I played exactly one of the games. (Pokemon Colosseum, if you're curious.) I don't think anyone can really define what a true "fan" is, or where being a fan ends. Not liking later installments in a franchise, especially if those installments hail from different creative minds, does not revoke anyone's fan status. Take Star Trek--I despise the new J. J. Abrams movies, but I adore Deep Space Nine with a passion I can scarcely put in words. Would you say that I used to be a Star Trek fan but am no longer? Must I love every single product with the Star Trek or Pokemon labels on it just to keep calling myself a fan? I firmly believe in not attacking a work until I've tried it, but saying that these people aren't true fans any more is a slippery slope into the condescending elitism that dominates the realms of Reddit and comic book shops. Instead of arguing endlessly about whether Magneton's more innovative than Vanilluxe, why can't both sides just accept that different fans can like different aspects of the work, and try to find and delight in elements that they both enjoy? P.S.

Sure, we can bring it up. Frozen Elsa can almost certainly do that. Her winter nearly froze everyone in Arendelle to death, and she wasn't even trying then. That's a common misconception. Nighthound actually has a much higher kill count, but Edgedancer doesn't describe every victim as graphically as I do. It's amazing how giving a side character a name and a basic description can make their death seem bigger, isn't it?

That's a shame. Though you definitely shouldn't feel like an idiot. You didn't know how much they were, you called, and now you know; there's no idiocy in that.

"THEY WILL COME TO FEAR YOUR NAME!" "But I don't want them to fear my name." "UGH, FINE. THEY WILL BECOME MILDLY HUNGRY AT THE SOUND OF YOUR NAME."

Is this the same laziness that struck him when he created Big Al? By the way, I'm gonna PM Queen Elsa Steelheart to try to gauge out the limits of her character's powers. Does anyone else want to be included in this conversation? (I'd prefer to have it on the Question thread, but since she seldom checks here I thought it'd be easiest to just message her.)

Calamity made Timeport on a lazy day when he didn't feel like going through the hassle of corrupting someone.

Is this what pre-Calamity Lucentia was like?

Before Calamity corrupted him, Nighthound was Michael Jager, a veterinarian-in-training who spent his time healing wounded woodland critters. I'm not even making that up. Edgedancer actually confirmed it a few Questions ago.