Tau y'Kaliath

by Somaria

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Isuka2009-03-18 23:21:59
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 04:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It's a lot less realistic than the adoption thing. You get sent into the portal, you don't know how you come out. You could be a completely other race, gender, have a complete different affliliation, etc. No way to claim RP high ground there, sorry. If anything, it's less "realistic" seen from an IG perspective.

I could be wrong, but I thought that the consideration period was supposed to be a time where you're trying to figure out if that family is, in fact, the long-lost family you had before you passed through the portal?
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:23:12
QUOTE (Mihewi @ Mar 19 2009, 12:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
@Isuka - I've offered negative criticism about Somaria's artwork as well. My problem was that there have been a couple of comments where people were more focused on attacking Tau's RP than actually -critiquing the artwork-, whether negatively or positively.

I don't think anyone is attacking Tau's RP. Heck, I like Tau. But if she looks like that, I am not going to be silent about it, because it's not how she -should- look like, and with a family that claims high RP standards, that shouldn't roll, neither for Tau nor Somaria.
Unknown2009-03-18 23:23:34


QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
It's a lot less realistic than the adoption thing. You get sent into the portal, you don't know how you come out. You could be a completely other race, gender, have a complete different affliliation, etc. No way to claim RP high ground there, sorry. If anything, it's less "realistic" seen from an IG perspective.


QUOTE (krin1 @ Mar 18 2009, 11:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
to bad the portal of fate distorts everything thus nothing is really set in stone.


huh...
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:23:40
QUOTE (Isuka @ Mar 19 2009, 12:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I could be wrong, but I thought that the consideration period was supposed to be a time where you're trying to figure out if that family is, in fact, the long-lost family you had before you passed through the portal?

I always thought it was there to prevent that you spamadopt kids because Bau did that in Achaea. *g*


EDIT: However, the helpfiles are iffy on that subject. It says both, basically. *g*
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:26:02
QUOTE (krin1 @ Mar 19 2009, 12:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
huh...

I already told you, you are wrong. You have to be pretty used to be hearing that nowadays, aren't you. *g*
Unknown2009-03-18 23:30:27
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I already told you, you are wrong. You have to be pretty used to be hearing that nowadays, aren't you. *g*


No, I think your just trying to be Rp police and failed. But you have to hear that alot nowadays, that you fail right? *g* what ever the :censor: that means.
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:31:55
QUOTE (krin1 @ Mar 19 2009, 12:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
No, I think your just trying to be Rp police and failed. But you have to hear that alot nowadays, that you fail right? *g* what ever the censor.gif that means.

*g* means I am grinning. In your case at your stupidity. *g*
Unknown2009-03-18 23:32:54
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
*g* means I am grinning. In your case at your stupidity. *g*


Ah sorry, your nerd rage is over powering.
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:34:01
Lol, and your grasp of the english language is depressing.
Jack2009-03-18 23:35:18
He is a sinuous illithoid and extremely slight in stature, malnourished to the point of emaciation, though he retains a certain lithe menace. His flesh is the ripe, rotten purple of a fresh bruise, underlaid with throbbing black veins and irregularly adorned with tumescent pustules. No hair of any kind exists on his frame, not even eyebrows or eyelashes, which make his expressions disturbingly difficult to read. His eyes are as black as blindness, set in sockets so recessed that they recall caves. Instead of a nose, he has two slitted nostrils. Lacking lips, multitudinous razor-sharp teeth present themselves in a perpetual rictus grin, set in the raw, meaty expanse of his gums. A gaping, bloodless wound in his abdomen carries with it an acrid stench of sulfur - occasionally a black, serpentine creature disgorges itself from this hole with a sickening, slobbering squelch. A thrumming psionic aura distorts the air around him, heralded by maddeningly faint, chittering laughter.

^ my illithoid description. (I uh, I'm not actually one, but I have a stand-by description for each race in case of an emergency cameo/org switch.) So yeah. It's a good drawing but I don't think it's very illithoidy.

EDIT: fyi everything I say is always true and I am the be-all end-all judge of RP, so you can take my description as gospel
Unknown2009-03-18 23:37:08
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
. You have to be pretty used to be


Huh.
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:42:32
I am not a native speaker, baby. =)
Jack2009-03-18 23:43:04
Quit arguing and get to the make-up sex already. Rowr.
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:43:17
QUOTE (Jack @ Mar 19 2009, 12:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
He is a sinuous illithoid and extremely slight in stature, malnourished to the point of emaciation, though he retains a certain lithe menace. His flesh is the ripe, rotten purple of a fresh bruise, underlaid with throbbing black veins and irregularly adorned with tumescent pustules. No hair of any kind exists on his frame, not even eyebrows or eyelashes, which make his expressions disturbingly difficult to read. His eyes are as black as blindness, set in sockets so recessed that they recall caves. Instead of a nose, he has two slitted nostrils. Lacking lips, multitudinous razor-sharp teeth present themselves in a perpetual rictus grin, set in the raw, meaty expanse of his gums. A gaping, bloodless wound in his abdomen carries with it an acrid stench of sulfur - occasionally a black, serpentine creature disgorges itself from this hole with a sickening, slobbering squelch. A thrumming psionic aura distorts the air around him, heralded by maddeningly faint, chittering laughter.

^ my illithoid description. (I uh, I'm not actually one, but I have a stand-by description for each race in case of an emergency cameo/org switch.) So yeah. It's a good drawing but I don't think it's very illithoidy.

EDIT: fyi everything I say is always true and I am the be-all end-all judge of RP, so you can take my description as gospel

For a second I thought that was your real-life desc, you had me doubletaking there.
Mihewi2009-03-18 23:43:24
QUOTE (Jack @ Mar 18 2009, 06:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
He is a sinuous illithoid and extremely slight in stature, malnourished to the point of emaciation, though he retains a certain lithe menace. His flesh is the ripe, rotten purple of a fresh bruise, underlaid with throbbing black veins and irregularly adorned with tumescent pustules. No hair of any kind exists on his frame, not even eyebrows or eyelashes, which make his expressions disturbingly difficult to read. His eyes are as black as blindness, set in sockets so recessed that they recall caves. Instead of a nose, he has two slitted nostrils. Lacking lips, multitudinous razor-sharp teeth present themselves in a perpetual rictus grin, set in the raw, meaty expanse of his gums. A gaping, bloodless wound in his abdomen carries with it an acrid stench of sulfur - occasionally a black, serpentine creature disgorges itself from this hole with a sickening, slobbering squelch. A thrumming psionic aura distorts the air around him, heralded by maddeningly faint, chittering laughter.


While this veers away from... well, Krin and Ashteru's exchange... that is one of the awesomest descriptions I have ever seen. I especially love the sentence about the flesh color and the word "tumescent." *nods*
Gregori2009-03-18 23:43:44
As art, the picture is perfectly acceptable. As a picture of Tau the picture is perfectly acceptable. As a picture of an illithoid the picture is not perfectly acceptable because it looks nothing like an illithoid. Case closed.
Ashteru2009-03-18 23:44:02
QUOTE (Jack @ Mar 19 2009, 12:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Quit arguing and get to the make-up sex already. Rowr.

I only do it with humans and really smart apes, too bad for Krin. sad.gif
Jack2009-03-18 23:45:54
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
For a second I thought that was your real-life desc, you had me doubletaking there.

I get the feeling you're baiting me into showing an RL pic so you can jack off to Jack. WISH GRANTED



(also thanks for complimenting my descrip Mihewi <3)
Vhaas2009-03-18 23:46:33
QUOTE (Ashteru @ Mar 18 2009, 11:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Technically, as in, it's spelled out, only humans can mix with other races.


Sorry to butt in, but this made me curious. Didn't the Viscanti, who are the epitome of interbreeding, come about long before the coming of Estarra? I know that humans are supposed to be a "most fertile race" able to breed with ALL of the Lusternian ones, but I figured that because of the above at least a few of the Lusties could get lusty together.


On the topic, I like how this picture turned out and the pose is especially well-portrayed.
Gregori2009-03-18 23:46:43
Also... when did we start having babies and throw them back into the Portal of Fate to see what they would turn out as? Is the Portal of Fate some cosmic gene-splicer now?

Cause I know a few people I would love to push into the Portal of Fate and hope they just don't come back.