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Vigilante, Sam, 21, Not often

...Implying the possibility that there are jobs we wouldn't do that on?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on December 13, 2012, 05:54:23 pm

There's also the habitat problem. Aside from the smoker creatures and my tide-pool critters, most things live "in the ocean."

Which is why I am attempting to create a creature "in the sky over the oceans."

Missed that, suspecting that it's too early. What is it evolving from and how does it fly?

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Biggest benefit is the female night troll bit. If Alice isn't willing to have plenty of kids, we shouldn't give it to her.

Why are you so sure that we need plenty of kids?  There are other ways to ensure our survival without behaving like rabbits

Efficiency. It's the only Left Stone gift we're ever getting.
Besides, breeding like rabbits won't hurt.

And let's assume that Alice isn't a lesbian, that she is ready to fuck constantly, do we really need constantly pregnant and hungry night troll? Do we need dozens of hungry kids? Prey is not unlimited, and infants\kids\constantly pregnant females add nothing to our ability to get more prey. Even more, they need constant protection and thus reducing our hunting abilities

Can we have "dozens" of kids?
Is Alice stupid enough to have more kids than we can support?
Are you aware of the possibilities of not going to either extreme? Not only a few kids, not a new baby every week. Let's say about as many kids as we intend to have, over the course of our respective lifetimes.

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The biggest point of that gift was that there would be more fruitful and abundant night troops,

That' what Nocteclaw wants, sure.  I just don't think that we need to be her slave.

Not slave, just not antagonising her. Besides, s/he does kinda have a right to us, and as a god/dess has the ability to royally screw us over if we anger her.

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Also bear in mind that we're supposed to repopulate our race.

Said who? We are free to do whatever we want.
We are playing a character, not a night troll race
We aren't playing forces of evil vs forces of good, either

Last wish of our father. Also a consideration most of us have.

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Although the idea that a night troll without babies isn't a tragedy...it is. That's an almost completely wasted gift. 

Powerful, loyal, immortal ally that will become a better and better isn't a wasted gift at all. Besides I am sure that we can talk her into making at least one baby, and then her daughter may be the basis of creating all other female night trolls if you need a rabbit night troll

Almost. Sure, one ally is nice, but a family of equally powerful allies is better. Much better. Also loads better for our race.

And don't you think that may be in our interest to make future trolls (or majority of them) same as us and not create a potential  gender vs gender war situation?

No. I fail to see your point. There can be conflicts within a gender, too, and with family members it can be worse between brothers. I'm willing to bet that I would get along a lot better with a little sister than with my little brother.
Anyways, the only way you'll prevent conflict between night trolls is killing Gwen and never converting another spouse.

"You moron, you'll...oh, never mind..."

Follow, trying to locate a young or sickly one.

can i join?

Of course. Just say what you're hoping to spawn with (optional) and what you're going to try as your first action (evidently optional). You need to do one, ideally. I'll wait.

Duh.