General Q and A

How do you guys feel about automatons in the world of Felarya, I was considering making a census droid as an OC, but seeing as there are no existing OCs that are mechanical (as far as I know) I thought that maybe automatons are beings that are not really fit for Felarya? I'm not really sure

Any technologically based automation (ie: not a golem) is going to have a HARD time surviving, considering that androids are advanced and therefore require spare parts that Negav would not be able to manufacture and wouldn't import.

So yeah, you could have a census droid (why would it be there though?), but if it got damaged, it's going to stay damaged. Same deal if something wore out.

Would a golem OC be more likely to survive then?

Well golems are automatons animated by magic. Even though there are plenty of raw material readily at its disposal, it's not gonna do much good without a wizard on standby to rebuild it.

So magically animated beings are all generally incapable of rebuilding themselves?

It's a basically a bunch of dirt/clay/rocks that has been animated to take a vaguely anthropomorphic shape. They can't cast magic by themselves since they're not much different from a robot, so no, they can't rebuild themselves.

(I have a few more questions about animated beings so please bear with me XP )

Is it possible for a golem or automaton to use magic through a talisman that they can use like a battery?

How often would you think it's inner core, which powers the golems/automaton's life force, would need to be recharged?

Do preds find non organic beings to be food?

1: Possibly

2: From the wiki: Golems use the abundant background magical energy of Felarya to power up, and have a much longer autonomy than in most other worlds. Should they be exposed in area where magic is very faint or even nonexistent, they will eventually cease to function until their enchantment is renewed.
Let's assume that applies for a well constructed and efficiently designed golem. They wouldn't NEED one, but they COULD use one.

3: You assume they have one. Some designs may include a core, some may not. Again, it would depend on the efficiency and design of the golem as well as its main intended use or how much it exerts itself.

4: Would you eat a rock? Only earth elementals would eat a clay, stone, or metal golem.

Also, I see no reason why a golem couldn't cast "pre-programmed" magic spells.

I was wondering if anyone has ever thought of talking with a reasonable/sentient prey safe/human safe predator to use what's known as a critter cam.

I learned that in nature specials on TV people get those unusual and unique video footage thanks to using cameras known as critter cams, what they do is that attach these cameras to usually the back of an animal and when the animal is off in its natural envioment it captures the footage that seems very cool and hard to get. I was wondering if anyone in Felarya *be they predator or prey of some kind* has ever offered or found a way to get a special critter cam onto a predator in order to get footage of what goes on in Felarya, I could picture some predators traveling into otherwise dangerous *for humans* areas and getting footage to bring back and show the people.

I was mainly wondering because I got a story idea where a predator gets a video camera attached to him and with some help from a leviathan gets some rare and unusual footage of Felaryan sea life from the most simple of reefs to the dangers of the darkness below to a good point at least. I was just wondering is all.

You just want to sneak a cam into the Chordoni waterfalls don't you?


Anyway I'd say you can't really call it a critter cam.... it's not like you are catching the giant naga strapping a camera to it's head and releasing it. I mean these are sentient being with emotions and personal issues so anything you see with the cam would be at their discretion so then you aren't really seeing everything.

say..are there any possible ways for a giant predator to leave Felarya forever and never come back?

Solomon wrote:

say..are there any possible ways for a giant predator to leave Felarya forever and never come back?

Magic

Vanishing Lands most likely. A predator could easily wander into one and then be warped back to wherever it came from.

I don't recall seeing it mentioned on the wiki, but are people able to visit the Sharpers Guild at all who aren't guild members?

Just trying to get some kind of baseline as how fast injuries heal on Felarya thanks to the soil. According to the wiki, it may take a few days or even weeks to make a full recovery, depending how bad the injury is. Now, would it be plausible to say, assuming the person is stable and not immediately dying, that light injuries, such lacerations, take a few minutes to fully heal; moderate injuries, such as those sustained in an arena fight, take a few hours to fully heal; serious injuries, such as a broken limb, take a few days to fully heal; critical injuries, such as those needing hospitalization, take a few weeks to heal? I probably wasn't accurate with the example wounds, but hopefully you get the idea.

Sean Okotami wrote:

Just trying to get some kind of baseline as how fast injuries heal on Felarya thanks to the soil. According to the wiki, it may take a few days or even weeks to make a full recovery, depending how bad the injury is. Now, would it be plausible to say, assuming the person is stable and not immediately dying, that light injuries, such lacerations, take a few minutes to fully heal; moderate injuries, such as those sustained in an arena fight, take a few hours to fully heal; serious injuries, such as a broken limb, take a few days to fully heal; critical injuries, such as those needing hospitalization, take a few weeks to heal? I probably wasn't accurate with the example wounds, but hopefully you get the idea.

Ehh, that's too quick. Felaryans aren't wolverine. I always used the example that broken bones take weeks instead of months to heal. Most cuts probably take a day or two (which is still damn fast).

Basically, I just think its important that injuries still have an impact. Like, if you cut your leg, you can't just go "There we go, already healed"...rather, you'd still be hurt, and while it may only take a couple days to heal up, you're still going t have to tend it and probably have a bit of a limp until its healed.

These are just my opinions though. I always saw the healing factor as a very passive thing. Like, something you wouldn't even notice unless you were familiar with medicine and how the body normally heals.

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Ehh, that's too quick. Felaryans aren't wolverine. I always used the example that broken bones take weeks instead of months to heal. Most cuts probably take a day or two (which is still damn fast).

you kidding? I scab by the next day without being in felarya.

Though yeah, its probably something unnoticeable, at least with minor injuries.

This is just nitpicky, but I'm pretty sure Wolverine heals much faster than that.

wolverine actually heals near instantly. I cant find the vid because there's too many - but he basically has real-time healing.

That's dependent on who did the writing for Wolverine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine_(comics)#Powers_and_abilities

I belive that injuries like a paper cut or anything equal to pricking yourself with a sowing needle would proably take anywhere from a few minuets to, at very most, half an hour to heal. Now something like a broken bone I would place at anywhere from a week up to, at the very most, a month to heal. Well thats my two cent.

CAN FELARYA CURE CANCER!?!?!?!?

Krisexy26 wrote:

CAN FELARYA CURE CANCER!?!?!?!?

YES!

Stabs wrote:

Krisexy26 wrote:

CAN FELARYA CURE CANCER!?!?!?!?

YES!

Hmm, odd. I though that Felarya's healing effect did not cure cancer due to cancer being a problem with a cell(s) DNA. Wasn't there a thread that discussed about this?

I'm not sure, but I think the above posts by Krisexy and Stabs are what is known as a 'joke.'