tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post3794240523459409963..comments2016-02-18T20:45:47.250-05:00Comments on Confessions of a Shee: A Look At XeniaKittie885http://www.blogger.com/profile/09882789640560680722noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-43130830785862952582011-11-06T19:52:44.690-05:002011-11-06T19:52:44.690-05:00And one more thing - the fact that she has a "...And one more thing - the fact that she has a "shee" tail is not very impressive. All that gene means is that her tail is in Shee (properly known as "Geat") Slot N. In your case, that'd be the C12DS Purple Mountain Norns.<br /><br />Okay, now I'm done.Grendel Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-80522989858862059782011-11-06T19:48:00.484-05:002011-11-06T19:48:00.484-05:00I'm going to offer forth a correction for your...I'm going to offer forth a correction for your assumption about the CO+Oxygen reaction. <br /><br />Carbon Monoxide is a toxin (which you may or may not already be aware of, judging by the fact that CO is also a dangerous gas in the real world). It hurts creatures by making them consume oxygen at a much faster rate than they normally would, therefore making suffocation more likely. <br /><br />What Xenia's reaction means is not that she's more efficient at breathing - proper breathing is handled by a different set of reactions - but that she's more resistant to CO. It takes more CO to increase her oxygen expenditure, and as such she doesn't mind the stuff as much as normal norns. <br /><br />Other than that, her other genes make her quite the interesting norn indeed. If all those disease-resistance reactions are indeed natural, than she's a fine example of natural selection at work. However, I do have to wonder if she has artificially created ancestry.<br /><br />Okay, I'm replying to a post made several weeks ago, but whatever. I felt the need to clarify what the CO+Oxygen reaction meant. oPoGrendel Mannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-4985633334701869982011-10-27T09:25:27.371-04:002011-10-27T09:25:27.371-04:00Xenia is quite interesting! Very nice discussion o...Xenia is quite interesting! Very nice discussion of her genetics, although my limited C1 genetics research doesn't help too much with C3/DS genes. However, ArchDragon and Malkin gave some great explanations: Thanks! It sounds like the new queen has a lot of beneficial genes that she will hopefully pass along to her offspring. I also love her name: I have a feeling I used the name somewhere before, either for Creatures or something else!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14445563524165115302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-49242688899201857152011-10-09T11:35:16.583-04:002011-10-09T11:35:16.583-04:00Wow! I understand it very well with the way you pu...Wow! I understand it very well with the way you put it, thank you Malkin for explaining it. I got to thinking about the breathing thing, and while oxygen is limitless in the air, I remembered what if she falls into the ocean. I think she would live longer down there maybe, because oxygen isn't limitless down there. That might have been inherited from Fabi the mer norn!<br /><br />And that's great news on the Cyanide, maybe she will be super resistant to it if not immune. Xenia sounds kind of like a super norn, definately worth spreading her genes!Kittie885https://www.blogger.com/profile/09882789640560680722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-58673976630663975462011-10-09T06:13:18.728-04:002011-10-09T06:13:18.728-04:00I think that her breathing mutation means that she...I think that her breathing mutation means that she is ten times more efficient at breathing than other norns, as one oxygen mops up ten units of CO - although, as you mentioned, oxygen is limitless in the Creatures environment, so this would never be tested. <br /><br />In Xenia, instead of Cyanide running through her energy, twirling its little mustache... Energy kills cyanide, taking cyanide with it in the process. Cyanide will still take away energy, but a single unit of cyanide won't be able to take more than one energy with it.Malkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-42650246066005025492011-10-07T10:22:33.359-04:002011-10-07T10:22:33.359-04:00It's not so surprising that it mutated to a ta...It's not so surprising that it mutated to a tail of another species that gets me, it's that it's "shee"! Mostly because I didn't know A) shees had tails, and B) it was possible. I knew grendel parts are possible. Thanks for the comment!Kittie885https://www.blogger.com/profile/09882789640560680722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-621182310791072932.post-65248682169115803862011-10-06T19:09:55.236-04:002011-10-06T19:09:55.236-04:00Xenia sounds like she is a rather robust Norn! You...Xenia sounds like she is a rather robust Norn! Your idea that some of her genes cancels out certain effects (such as the cyanide) seems about right to me.<br /><br />As for her Shee tail, it's not quite as uncommon as you might think. I've had Norns who were born with Grendel tails. Was quite a shock to me at the time. Basically her 'Type D' tail has mutated to another letter. Usually this will only mutate one letter, leaving the Norn with a Norn tail, but of another breed. Sometimes though the letter will mutate further (or it may be multiple mutations) and push that letter further than intended, leaving the creature with a body part of a different species.ArchDragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726478254573137207noreply@blogger.com