As time permits I will extrude actual documents comprised entirely of home made wordz, many of which will relate to lizards. Because they won't let me get away with doing otherwise, you know
Congratulations, you know you're a
Real Writer(tm) when your stories/characters are written down at least partly in the hope that they will then leave you in peace for a moment or two now.
(For whatever value of 'real writer' you feel comfortable claiming, nobody else really gets to make that decision for you.)
For they hadn't factored in a rather large asteroid.
See, my bait-and-switch sense was already tingling prior to this line, but once I saw it I knew exactly who it was. Prior to that I figured it was at least an even chance that they were much older, possibly even predating the Great Oxygenation Event(Catastrophe), which would have made adjusting to modern conditions rather difficult, not to mention dangerous.
How dare you stop it there! I wanna see the meeting so bad
I'd be very happy to read more of this, even aside from whether or not it became canon. I think I'd prefer it being canon, in fact. But we need to let our Wordzmithz rest and recuperate when and how they need to, or else the stories will suffer, and then we all lose.
(life stuff and personal sanity are much more important than pleasing randos on the interwebs)
Agreed, for whatever value of 'personal sanity' you may find applicable/current.
I see that suspiciously Thrint like Stasis Field just sitting over there, MP.
Clearly it's been way too long since I read any of the
Known Space books. The description and effects made me think of Bobbles, particularly the way The Peace Authority (mis-)used them. I somewhat suspect my tastes no longer Niven's work either, no matter how much I avidly read and enjoyed all that I could get my hands on as a (much) younger person. Such is life.
That was amusing as heck. Wish it was a continuation of the story, but still amusing.
I'll take my Lizards pretty much any way I can get them, regardless of how much more I would wish for anyway.
Unless they're Permian-era weird lizards. Or they look like other non-Saurial lizards. I stand by the "Volcanic Calamity" hinting at them being Permian Era and thus not dinosaurs though
I figured out it was Devil's Tower, Wyoming pretty quickly, but the volcanic activity at the beginning of the chapter is not the Siberian Traps of ~250MYA, but the
Deccan Traps of 66MYA.
The Deccan Traps was my immediate suspicion, though I didn't make the Devil's Tower connection. But I'll claim never sharing either hemisphere with Wyoming as a decent excuse for the lack of geoguessing.
The exploration team didn't, for a start...
Still, that quick response and the reasons behind it are excellent signs that these new folks are Good People, regardless of whether they have skin, scales or feathers.
Unfortunately, but life is like that.
Life do indeed
Be Like That all too often.
For some reason I always confuse the Lylmik with the Simbiari, and I can't work out why. It's not like the Lylmik routinely
drip green everywhere, after all!
And then there's The People.
That doesn't actually narrow the field down
at all. Even today there's a multiple groups that describe themselves that way.
RCB starts frantically searching for her brown pants and the Super Duct Tape to make sure Eidolon stays on base instead of trying to write a check that his body can't cash.
I dunno, I'd find it hilarious for Varga to just casually backhand Eidolon through an entire mountain, like a surprisingly resilient irritating bug. Besides, he'd be certain to survive it, if not necessarily
completely unscathed.
Funny thing, most of the USA is actually empty. At least of people.
Australia is even more so, and likely a closer match to their temperature preferences. Could well be a touch dryer than even their preferences though.
(Funny that all the suits are blonde, female, and attractive...)
Downright hilarious, I'd say! But then my sense of humour has always trended a bit
too closely to The Family's for the comfort of many, particularly the 'Danes.
