Loose Lips - 11/25

BlasTech · Post by **BlasTech** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:24 pm

are you saying that falling into a cart full of manure fails to qualify as a landing in a bad position?

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 5:36 am

Ha, Haaaa!

This is what I was talking about!

Someone is spending their experience points, and learning from their past mistakes! It stinks when a lesson has to be learned through extreme pain and humiliation, but those are the lessons that are generally learned quite well and permanently.

The best part is that rac-conans are relatively clean individuals as a matter of nature, covered with rotten tomatoes and poo? I'd say that Quentyn is getting his payback for the "AWWW, WHY?!" incident!

I wouldn't worry too much about the Redcaps getting too sick over this, how many times have we seen Quentyn avail himself of public fountains for cleaning purposes? This may be the tumbledowns, but it still is a relatively clean area.

Anyways,

GO QUENTYN!!!

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:21 am

some good points of observation.
First of all, racconans are a naturally sturdy lot anyway... even for their size. Nothing extraordinary, just a certain amount of natural hardiness.

Second of all, they're on average about 2 to 2.5 feet tall, or 1/3 the height of a normal human being--- and (if I remember the ratios correctly) about 1/10 the mass. (Probably less, I'm probably doing the square-cubed math wrong.)
Which means they can fall a much greater distance than a human being could, and walk away without injury.

Also, good eye on the height of the buildings. The Royal's multi-story hideout would be IRL around 15 feet high--- a tallish man would just be able to look in through a second story window.

So don't be too alarmed if you see a racconan take what looks like a nasty tumble. More'n likely it's a lot shorter fall for them than first appearances.

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:41 am

Yup mass is the key.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:06 am

I almost forgot what I was gonna say here

I figure most omnivores would have at least marginally a better immune system them most, especially scavengers (not that the rac-cona are scavengers but just as a point of observation) reason being that they have to eat and absorb more variety of foods, and some diseases are designed to sbe able to survive digestive fluids so the more you can eat the more your immune system has to work.

just a thought.

StrangeWulf13 · Post by **StrangeWulf13** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 11:20 am

I had no idea what the Defenestration of Prague was, so I asked my good friend, Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration_of_Prague <-- This is what it gave me.

I kinda like the tongue in cheek tone of the last couple lines. Whoever wrote this has quite the wit.

NydaLynn · Post by **NydaLynn** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:09 pm

Ah, yes, it does seem manure is soft enough to brace a fall afterall.

Yuoofox · Post by **Yuoofox** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:49 am

Regarding your signiture, NydaLynn, I hope it goes well, but I urge you to be careful. There was a time when I used to over-do things, and it would cause me to get dizzy spells during the day. Sorry for the nagging.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:44 am

RHjr, the cube of 1/3 is 1/27. The cube of 2/5 is 8/125. So yes, they are less than 1/10 human mass, if they are proportioned like humans. And before someone says a sapient being cannot be so small, the shortest human adults are about two feet tall.