Big hello, yes?
Selkie's issues with cold (and by extension all sarnothi) aren't an intolerance so much as a need to avoid hibernation during winter-level temperatures. It's especially important on the surface to avoid hibernation states, because fluctuating temperatures can pull them in and out of torpor, which isn't all that much fun.
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Looks like someone (or their “not-magic, but seriously, it pretty much magic” prosthetic arm) just caught Selkie’s attention.
Might this be Scar, or would this be too early a reveal?
It’s him, he’s tagged. :p
I blame my not seeing the tag on that it was 2:45 in the morning when I posted 😀
Hello Scar!
What does that speech bubble signify?
That he’s speaking with an apparatuses. There equivalence of text to speech devices for mute humans I would wager.
Dun-dun-DUNNNNNNNNN!!
Sarnothi Yoda am I. Teach you patience I will.
Did anyone else read that in a Hollywood-style Faux-Russian accent?
My task is complete.
Darn, I had bad 50s Native American stereotype.
Yup. My daughter’s piano teacher’s husband, to be exact. Russki very much yes.
So the verbal tics go *really* far, not just pluralizing everything. Huh.
Also, heating water artificially really screws ecosystems. For example, water around power plant discharge pipes is too warm and thus fucks with the fish in the area. I wonder if sarnothi have just been around long enough that the ecosystem has adapted to their arbitrary heating? But Havei Jin’Suir is really new…
it really dooesnt screw them up except in actual cold water environments. infact it acts as a refuge where fish will spawn year round Using the outfolow from things like CNP Crane Power plant Middle river MD has helped raise Striped bass year round helping the species recover from overfishing. It also allows Crabs to grow and moult and breed year round allowing that species (MD blue crabs a highly commercialized fish) to stabilize and even GROW in population. it also encourages fw grasses and other species to NOT die off in the winter which spreds them across the entire 3 river system and thens the entire Chesapeake bay. I CAN see it being an issue in Minnesota though as those are cold water ecosystems.
that’s also why a lot of power plants have cooling towers before the water is let into the ecco system allowing it to cool to near air temp
I assume that Sarnothi know a bit more about the side effects of heating water than we do. At least I hope they do— we aren’t very good with air, the smog in Beijing is still pretty horrible.
Looks like Scar’s translator doesn’t work too well. XD
Unintentional villain talk. XD Bet he’s a creampuff and just accidently acts scary.
I’m betting he’s like your grandpa. Old guy full of stories and smelling vaguely of herring, everybody’s friend.
Well, turns out he really does speak English.
So, I’m gonna assume Scar K’limdai also has a claw (this is too much, seriously you’re piling it on rather heavily)
Glorious pile ‘o tropes. :3
Huh, water heaters. And hibernation before they had those. Okay, that explains it.
Why not it works in my fish tanks.. I may have a problem with that.. i bought another one yesterday…
actually i bet if thier water heating technology is more efficient they could sell the tech to Einheim, Jager, Aqueon and Marineland and make a FORTUNE cause fish tank keepers are IDIOT and we buy a LOT of expensive stuff to keep a few fish living in artificial envirionments
But introduces new problems. Hot water will rise (like hot air), meaning it will create up currents.
Is Scar speaking (broken) English, or is he speaking tensei and using (imperfect) translation software?
I know what Selkie wants for her next birthday.
“Dads, if I get my arm cut off, can I get a cool robot arms like Scar?”
“… No. And I’m putting a lock on the knife drawer.”
Yeah, that’s definitely an “awesome… I WANT” expression.
Mental image:
“I thought those lamps were only for light, but I now see they must be for heat as well–I can feel that the temperature is a lot warmer than I predicted, according to my knowledge of what the temperature of this water would be by default.”
“Uhhh, yeah? Why wouldn’t it be?”
“–It wouldn’t if the water was in the default temperature range for this region, which is what I’d predicted by default.”
“But the ‘lamps’ also double as heaters, so there’s no way it could be any colder, so you should have expected it to be this warm.”
“But, but you didn’t tell me about them being heaters before! That’s what I was just now just experiencing and expressing surprise at realising! You ask why it wouldn’t be this warm? If wouldn’t be this warm if not for the heating function, which I didn’t know about until now! That’s why I was surprised!”
Totally late in the game, but I’m reminded of “The Strangers” from Dark City with a speech pattern like that.