Jenrak
04-09-2007, 22:48
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http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=537472
I plan on returning to FT, but frankly I need someone with the time to roleplay with me. Last time ended in quite failure, not sure why. So, I am looking for those willing to meet my species, the Salender, and more importantly, the organization they represent, the Saliada. Let me explain.
The Saliada are an organization of seven Salender and one Salender / Human hybrid. The Salender are a race of isolationist Salender whom are somewhat humanoid save for the long tale that extends from nullified sections of their spine, forming a sword-shaped stinger-like defense organ. This tail matures at irregular rates, making it unlikely for there to be an average rate for Salender tail maturity. However, that's where it makes them unique; the Salender are placed into biological stasis - in short terms, once their tale matures, they won't age, or change. Now, this might be seen as some sort of key to immortality, but there's a downside to this; they find it difficult to learn things beyond their stasis, they cannot heal wounds properly in stasis, and their immune system can no longer evolve and adapt. Meaning normally, they're screwed. However, the benefits of stasis are that they can continue in the state they were without degradation; meaning they can smoke forever without fear of lung degradation from cancer, use bodily augmentations without a need for long term side effects, etc.
Another thing to note about the Salender are that they are all male - they reproduce differently than other living organisms do. It's a process called 'Repressive Genetics', where the genes of a Salender are traveled through different mediums until it finds an acceptable host to attach to. For example - if a Salender dies and his corpse rots into the ground, the grass that grows from his corpse carries his DNA, but it is repressed and latent, and thus the grass doesn't attain to it. However, when a cow eats the grass, it will give birth to a Salender. Such a being will look exactly like a cow, but it carry the trademark stinger of a Salender and also go into stasis as well.
Since the Salender are limited in intelligence due to their maturity rates due to their tales, they have never mastered space travel. In fact, their mind has never matured past technology past the industrial revolution. It is the later intervention of space explorers that they have developed technology, but due to foreign viruses, they died off. The remainder form the seven I will control. They possess extremely power instantaneous bursts of forceful negation, canceling equal concentrations of force directed at them with equal force in the opposite direction. Respectively, they aren't very good at dealing with heat or biological weapons such as fire or toxic gas. However, against seismic weapons or strength-related weaponry is quite simple for them to deal with.
There are two kinds of Salender; Herbivorous and Carnivorous Salender. Herbirvorous are fairly self-explanatory; purely vegetarian Salender that are the prey to the more bloodthirsty carnivorous Salender. The carnivorous Salender possess three tails rather than one, and in fact do not stop learning at a certain age - they continue learning past their stasis, allowing them to further develop traps and strategies to outwit their prey. To counter, Herbivorous Salender possess an ability called The Eye of Psychological Annexation. They are capable of projecting images in their mind, then projecting those images to others around them. It's sort of like a semi-mind control. What happens is while they're thinking that image, their brain secrets an excess nerve liquid that deposits behind the left eye. Putting that into the body of another causes it to travel to the host's brain, flooding the mind with the chemicals that make it possible for them to see those things. However, use of this ability renders a Salender half-blind. The danger lies in the fact that it can be laced onto a bullet, put into a gas, or dropped into a drink. It's effects last forever until a Salender cancels out the chemical - however, since only the Salender that inserted the chemical is the only one that knows what he imagined, it usually requires the original Salender.
Any questions? I'm looking for someone in FT to start diplomatic relations with these eight, most notably their leader.
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=537472
I plan on returning to FT, but frankly I need someone with the time to roleplay with me. Last time ended in quite failure, not sure why. So, I am looking for those willing to meet my species, the Salender, and more importantly, the organization they represent, the Saliada. Let me explain.
The Saliada are an organization of seven Salender and one Salender / Human hybrid. The Salender are a race of isolationist Salender whom are somewhat humanoid save for the long tale that extends from nullified sections of their spine, forming a sword-shaped stinger-like defense organ. This tail matures at irregular rates, making it unlikely for there to be an average rate for Salender tail maturity. However, that's where it makes them unique; the Salender are placed into biological stasis - in short terms, once their tale matures, they won't age, or change. Now, this might be seen as some sort of key to immortality, but there's a downside to this; they find it difficult to learn things beyond their stasis, they cannot heal wounds properly in stasis, and their immune system can no longer evolve and adapt. Meaning normally, they're screwed. However, the benefits of stasis are that they can continue in the state they were without degradation; meaning they can smoke forever without fear of lung degradation from cancer, use bodily augmentations without a need for long term side effects, etc.
Another thing to note about the Salender are that they are all male - they reproduce differently than other living organisms do. It's a process called 'Repressive Genetics', where the genes of a Salender are traveled through different mediums until it finds an acceptable host to attach to. For example - if a Salender dies and his corpse rots into the ground, the grass that grows from his corpse carries his DNA, but it is repressed and latent, and thus the grass doesn't attain to it. However, when a cow eats the grass, it will give birth to a Salender. Such a being will look exactly like a cow, but it carry the trademark stinger of a Salender and also go into stasis as well.
Since the Salender are limited in intelligence due to their maturity rates due to their tales, they have never mastered space travel. In fact, their mind has never matured past technology past the industrial revolution. It is the later intervention of space explorers that they have developed technology, but due to foreign viruses, they died off. The remainder form the seven I will control. They possess extremely power instantaneous bursts of forceful negation, canceling equal concentrations of force directed at them with equal force in the opposite direction. Respectively, they aren't very good at dealing with heat or biological weapons such as fire or toxic gas. However, against seismic weapons or strength-related weaponry is quite simple for them to deal with.
There are two kinds of Salender; Herbivorous and Carnivorous Salender. Herbirvorous are fairly self-explanatory; purely vegetarian Salender that are the prey to the more bloodthirsty carnivorous Salender. The carnivorous Salender possess three tails rather than one, and in fact do not stop learning at a certain age - they continue learning past their stasis, allowing them to further develop traps and strategies to outwit their prey. To counter, Herbivorous Salender possess an ability called The Eye of Psychological Annexation. They are capable of projecting images in their mind, then projecting those images to others around them. It's sort of like a semi-mind control. What happens is while they're thinking that image, their brain secrets an excess nerve liquid that deposits behind the left eye. Putting that into the body of another causes it to travel to the host's brain, flooding the mind with the chemicals that make it possible for them to see those things. However, use of this ability renders a Salender half-blind. The danger lies in the fact that it can be laced onto a bullet, put into a gas, or dropped into a drink. It's effects last forever until a Salender cancels out the chemical - however, since only the Salender that inserted the chemical is the only one that knows what he imagined, it usually requires the original Salender.
Any questions? I'm looking for someone in FT to start diplomatic relations with these eight, most notably their leader.