The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: Carillon on May 14, 2009, 03:27:58 AM
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Minor additional point, not crucial but a bit jarring when I read it; a dagger any bigger than a throwing knife would be very difficult for a crow to lift; it's not a matter of where it grips it, it's a simple matter of weight ratios. Daggers in-game weigh a pound - a one pound bird would be hard-pressed to lift its own weight again for any real distance.
Carillon comes home and checks the forums and goes to find Darkstorme, taking him to task on this oversight
Carillon: You're wrong about the dagger, you know.
Darkstorme: What dagger?
Carillon: The one the crow carries.
Darkstorme: No ... that's the point. The crow cannot carry a dagger.
Carillon: Sure it can. It could grip it by the haft.
Darkstorme: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce crow could not carry a one pound dagger!
The biologist in Carillon pauses.
Carillon: Full grown crows are about a pound ...
Darkstorme: It was an immature crow.
Carillon: Oh, alright then.
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Several hours later ....
Darkstorme: Look, it doesn't matter. It was just a minor point.
Carillon: Wait a minute! It could be carried by a Voltrexian crow!
Darkstorme: Oh, yeah, a Voltrexian crow maybe, but not a Dregarian crow. That's my point.
Carillon: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.
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Later that evening, Carillon pokes Darkstorme awake ...
Carillon: Supposing two crows carried it together?
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Darkstorme revealed himself as a Monty Python afficionado the day he started calling me Bruce.
:(
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OK I am now glad that my Wife does not play ;)
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You neglected to mention that Voltrexian crows are non-migratory.
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*looks forward to the definitive Ornithologist's Guide to Crows of Layonara* ;)
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what if the voltrexian crows were contracted to carry it? then the migratory habits wouldnt come into play
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*looks forward to the definitive Ornithologist's Guide to Crows of Layonara* ;)
Treana would've had a copy of that....