Suggestions for new Animals

[creepyguyinblack]

A giant beetle, based on egyptian hustory/myth. I'm not wholly sure if they are/were real, but I think they are interesting for gameplay purposes, so a certain place has a unique ecosystem.

[Slowness_Incarnate]

Ooo...weren't those the things in The Mummy?!

[creepyguyinblack]

Probably.

[Ecilope]

They were real, but they were relatively small, physically speaking. However, in the ancient Egyptian culture, they held great significance. There have been tons of carvings found of scarabs, some with writing on the underside, showing that they were used as charms and prayer pieces, oftentimes tucked between layers of the wrappings covering a mummified Pharaoh.
Incidentally, another animal that was extremely important in their culture was the Hippopotamus(sp?), but this was a source of terror and dread. They would scare their children with tales of Hippo attacks. It was possibly even a spiritual fear, because they made carvings of Hippos, perhaps to feel as if they had some control over this ferocious beast, or maybe to give it offerings in an attempt to appease it.
The ancient Egyptians were also the earliest notable society to deify cats. Their mummified remains were often entombed beside Pharaohs.

[David]

Some Egyptian Pharoahs even used inscribed likenesses of scarabs as propaganda pamphlets and newspapers. They would have their minions make thousands of them with stories on them detailing Pharoah's most recent exploits in his personal, military, diplomatic, and domestic life....

The earliest "embedded" err... inscribed, journalism heh.

[grayjaket]

Ooo...weren't those the things in The Mummy?!

Those were like...evil scarabs. We should have em. They crawl into your skin, from any hole in your body, and than they start eating. You die a slow and painful death from the inside....oh yeah...speaking of which...mummification would rock...but defintly wrong topic.

[west]

1~for some reason i thought we already had rabbits....


2~ostriches are not carnivorous.

3~Pandas sound waaay cool

4~ a gerbil would not be able to pull you around on a chariot....

5~ horses are a feesable riding option why not do that????

6~ i want to be the rodeo clown.


Psycho Pixie

Peskies, I knew #2 and #5. Goofball. But woulnd't carnivorous ostriches rock?

[grayjaket]

*nods*

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

gerbil's so too could pull a chariot if you had enough of em

[west]

actually, getting one to go in a straight line is hard enough. getting a bunch? well-nigh impossible.

[new.vogue.nightmare]

Hold gerbil munchies on a stick!

[west]

guinea pigs are superior in that when you get rid of the fur and bones you've still got some meat left.

they're inferior in every other way, though

I wouldn't eat a guinea pig if it met me on the internet and paid me to kill and eat it.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

oh i dunno i think they taste like chicken

[new.vogue.nightmare]

Oh? I always thought they taste like children.

[west]

children taste like chicken, Chris. That explains the similarity to guinea pigs.