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[emet_sulk]

Type: Text
Sender ID: emet-sulk (Emet-Selch)
To: Public (accident)
Subject: (no subject)
Warnings: It's a creepy picture

[ He meant to send this privately to Hythlodaeus. But he was so pressed about it that he sent it the wrong way.

The image is a picture of the bounty notice and NOT the actual creature itself. ]



I TOLD you we shouldn't have taken that thing

Comments

text; un: noah

[afflatusexarch]

Are the two beasts connected in some way?

[emet_sulk]

The initial posting seems to believe that this is the first one's mate somehow. I do not know how they reached such a conclusion.

[afflatusexarch]

I would very much like to know how they reached that conclusion.
Would they even be compatible?

[emet_sulk]

If they both use an equine body as a base for all those extraneous body parts then it is entirely possible. I have seen far stranger things with functional reproductive systems during my time on Allag.

[afflatusexarch]

I don't believe that using Allag as an example is quite fair.
We both know you had quite the significant hand in the development of their culture and technology.

[emet_sulk]

My dear boy,

I may have sculpted their origins, but their decision to experiment by grafting animal heads to mismatched bodies - and even other people - was entirely their own idea. I'm not responsible for every sin man commits.

Fandaniel was the one who created the wolf-headed Scylla, by the way. I had no part in that.

[afflatusexarch]

I did not say that you are.
Rather, I said that you put the tools in their hands.

[emet_sulk]

[ emet-sulk is typing...

emet-sulk is typing...

He goes through several openers before deciding it isn't worth the argument. ]

Whatever. The point is that men are very much capable of inventing new travesties on their own. If the creator wanted this creature to breed then we ought to be discussing whether or not to allow nature to take its course.

[afflatusexarch]

[ Mmhmm. Yeah, old man? That's kind of what he thought. ]

A shame that we do not have a facility like Elpis to see if such a pairing would be beneficial or not.

[emet_sulk]

There is a perfectly functional conservatory right here, Exarch.

[afflatusexarch]

Is it equipped to manage these specimens?

[ Rhetorical question, that. ]

[emet_sulk]

Not at the moment but I can create a barrier to contain them.

[ He's not really being serious. He is 99% sure Turo would refuse to risk the rest of the Conservatory. ]

[afflatusexarch]

I think it would be best if you come up with another idea.

[emet_sulk]

Such a killjoy you are.

Fine, fine. I'll bring it to the island instead.