Ran got bit by a bushrat as a kid
Out-of-Placers
A story of inconvenient changes
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For some reason Ran does not seem to like bushrats…
As for rattergnats, yea, see, there’s one reason to invent riding helmets with a mesh or transparent visor!
two ratbirds, yinglets, and rattergnat!
Now that you have invented the concept of the Leaftailed Trilopoid, I desperately wish to own one of my own, and yet they are merely fictional. Why must you torment me so, Valsalia?
The eggtree pods containing a LITRE of fluid is nuts, those things must be the size of pumpkins!
It does say the harvest is plentiful.
“It’s Grass”
or IS it? Could it be possible that it’s somehow changed on this estranged planet that is most definitely NOT Earth? is it perhaps more poisonous? maybe it’s been bred to grow without water? or maybe it’s actually eddible to humans now, and it tastes like something grass never was?
… or maybe it IS just grass, lol.
Does this mean there’s a cooking episode coming up? You can’t have a festival without cooking!
Amusing that you can tell without reading the author note that there is some weird story behind Ran having a personal issue with bushrats. Dude cannot complain about Kass writing weird personal notes in their own research notes when he publishes this sort of personal vendetta with a rodent in something intended for mass publication.
Meanwhile, very interesting, this thing with the trilopoids and the tails. Wondering if this is going to come up in the near future… Also wondering if yinglets are small enough for them to potentially sting.
Also the fact that several of these plants seem like the kind of thing someone might design for farming, and several of these rats clearly have features which are not normally part of their clade, especially the rattergnat which is part insect and perhaps part bird, and the sun rat which has what look like Baxxid eyes, and trilopoid with it’s supposed plant features… This world doesn’t just seem like a menagerie, it looks like someone was experimenting heavily with genetic manipulation at some point, hybridizing weird creatures, possibly eventually hybridizing the Lesser yinglet with humans.
Trilopoids seem absolutely adorable.
Nooooos… Do nots want to be stickied tos za walls again by za hooman younglinks… *is stills missings some backs-fur froms za last times…*
*Goes an hides behinds za… movings bush…* O_O
These are always great. More worldbuilding!
And unless I’m forgetting something, this is the first time we’re seeing another organism exhibiting the tri-pair eye configuration shared by the baxxid. The trilopoid looks like it also might share some characteristics with the little glue-butt bug from #142. I don’t know if this means we can start building an evolutionary tree or if we’ll have to wait for more examples.