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itsmeyouidiot
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 |  Subject: Re: General Q and A  Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:10 pm | |
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- UNLESS HE BEGINS REINCARNATING BEFORE DYING. IT'S A COMPLICATED MATTER.
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itsmeyouidiot
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Feb 26, 2012 11:07 pm | |
| Does the translational effect of Felarya work on recordings?
I'm assuming it doesn't, but I'd still like to know for sure. | |
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TheArchvile
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:30 am | |
| Actually, it does work.
It translates any audible language, as long as you can hear it properly, regardless of the source. | |
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jedi-explorer
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:58 am | |
| - TheArchvile wrote:
- Actually, it does work.
It translates any audible language, as long as you can hear it properly, regardless of the source. Wait, wait. So it can translate ANY language? What about Cypers or codes? | |
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TheArchvile
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:40 am | |
| No, if you and I would agree to say "squirrel" in German as a code to convey that we're in danger, everyone around us would still hear "squirrel"
A ridiculous example I know... Squirrel is way too hard to say in German >.<
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jedi-explorer
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:31 pm | |
| - TheArchvile wrote:
- No, if you and I would agree to say "squirrel" in German to as a code to convey that we're in grave danger, everyone around us would still hear "squirrel"
A ridiculous example I know... Squirrel is way too hard to say in German >.< Curses foiled again! ^^; | |
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EvilGenius
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:41 pm | |
| How large is the average giant naga newborn? | |
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FalconJudge
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:22 am | |
| I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they're about the size of a full-grown man. Possibly significantly bigger. | |
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rcs619
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:17 am | |
| - EvilGenius wrote:
- How large is the average giant naga newborn?
The general rule of thumb is that an egg-born pred starts off slightly smaller than an adult human. They are born pretty much fully developed (hair, teeth, able to move around and eat solid food), so they can potentially survive on their own, should they have no parent around to raise them when they hatch. Live-birth predators start off significantly larger, roughly the same size as a human baby is compared to its mother (not accounting for scale of course). They are also generally less developed at birth. Like a human baby, they can't really move around on their own and require parental care to have any chance. I believe centaurs might be an exception to that, since newborn foals can walk fairly rapidly, and are more developed at birth than some other baby mammals. Could be that their pregnancy is just a good bit longer. I think this is the general consensus, but I do not believe there are any canon rules laid out in the wiki on it yet. | |
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itsmeyouidiot
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:23 pm | |
| - TheArchvile wrote:
- Actually, it does work.
It translates any audible language, as long as you can hear it properly, regardless of the source. This could make watching anime pretty interesting. Often the dialogue seems a bit stilted and awkward in English. | |
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FalconJudge
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:57 pm | |
| - itsmeyouidiot wrote:
- TheArchvile wrote:
- Actually, it does work.
It translates any audible language, as long as you can hear it properly, regardless of the source.
This could make watching anime pretty interesting. Often the dialogue seems a bit stilted and awkward in English. That, and the voices are like squeeling brakes... | |
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Slimetoad
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:49 am | |
| It just ocurred to me...How can Milly interact with the tomthumb tribe in her hut if she's roughly 30 meters tall? In relation to size she would just be barely able to see the tinies, let alone hear them | |
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French snack
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:59 am | |
| - Slimetoad wrote:
- It just ocurred to me...How can Milly interact with the tomthumb tribe in her hut if she's roughly 30 meters tall? In relation to size she would just be barely able to see the tinies, let alone hear them
That's a good question. Someone asked it me long ago, and the short answer is that I didn't think it through properly when I wrote those very first few stories in which it happened. Having established it, I wasn't going to undo it all, so I handwave it implicitly; maybe the translation spell also enables audible communication across different sized species. But it's a cop-out. On balance, I've decided that it's not worth sacrificing the interaction I've developed between them. She can, indeed, barely see them. Globfish once did quite a striking picture illustrating that. | |
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Slimetoad
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:06 pm | |
| - French snack wrote:
- Slimetoad wrote:
- It just ocurred to me...How can Milly interact with the tomthumb tribe in her hut if she's roughly 30 meters tall? In relation to size she would just be barely able to see the tinies, let alone hear them
That's a good question. Someone asked it me long ago, and the short answer is that I didn't think it through properly when I wrote those very first few stories in which it happened. Having established it, I wasn't going to undo it all, so I handwave it implicitly; maybe the translation spell also enables audible communication across different sized species. But it's a cop-out. On balance, I've decided that it's not worth sacrificing the interaction I've developed between them.
She can, indeed, barely see them. Globfish once did quite a striking picture illustrating that.
Imagined it was something like that. Oh well, crazier things can be seen around here xp That...must be a very awkward situation on Milly's part | |
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Stabs
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:12 pm | |
| Well, French already answered... but here's my two cents either way. Discerning a tiny at 30 metres tall wouldn't be as difficult as it looks. Pardon the pun. Assuming a tiny is 7 cm tall, that means it's 1/400 roughly of her size. Now, to a 1.6 metres tall person, 1/400 portions of their size is 4 mm, or roughlly the size of a small ant. Depending on how good your eyesight is, you can spot a lone ant if it's against a background of the appropriate color. If it's not, then its movements could clue you to that not being exactly an ant, specially with experience. Anndd... be careful, there's SCIENCE involved in the next part! - The More You Know:
As I'm sure you can ask any physics professor, the human ear has a logarhytmic perception of sound. That's why we measure sounds, when the exact energy content is not important, in decibeliums. They're a measure of the logarhytm of the amount of energy per square metre, adjusted by the frequency of the sound- but let's ignore that part for now.
But here's the keyword- logarhytm. Assuming a person 1000 times smaller (in mass) could create a sound with a thousandth part of the energy, that means the sound is only 30 decibeliums lower. Assuming a person were a million times smaller and a direct proportion between mass and energy, you'd get a sound 60 decibeliums lower (10 decibeliums are one decimal order of magnitude). Assuming a person were 468 million times smaller, you'd get a sound around 82 decibeliums lower.
BUT, that'd be assuming Milly can't hear anything under 41 decibeliums, because it takes around 10000 times the noise for her to be able to discern it. She ain't deaf! If her hearing is at least as good as yours, then she should be able to hear anything you should- meaning a net loss of only 41 decibeliums. A yell can reach 90 decibeliums, which, minus 41, would be 49 decibeliums. Roughly the sound of a crowd, or enough to attract her attention.
From there, use the square/linear law: the energy carried per unit of surface in a soundwave is inversely proportional to the square of the distance. So at half the distance, you hear it with four times the energy- and at 1/8 of the distance, you hear it with roughly 1000 times the energy, or almost 10 decibeliums higher.
And I dunno if you should trust a direct proportion between sound volume and size either. There's always those tiny effin' insects that make enough ruckus to drive ya to manslaughter, after all!
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French snack
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 04, 2012 1:00 pm | |
| - Slimetoad wrote:
That...must be a very awkward situation on Milly's part She's had time to get used it. It probably feels natural to her by now - watching very carefully where she treads, and talking to very tiny people. - Stabs wrote:
Discerning a tiny at 30 metres tall wouldn't be as difficult as it looks. Pardon the pun.
Assuming a tiny is 7 cm tall, that means it's 1/400 roughly of her size. Now, to a 1.6 metres tall person, 1/400 portions of their size is 4 mm, or roughlly the size of a small ant. Depending on how good your eyesight is, you can spot a lone ant if it's against a background of the appropriate color. If it's not, then its movements could clue you to that not being exactly an ant, specially with experience. Oh, indeed, they're certainly visible. But she does have to look out for them. - Quote :
Anndd... be careful, there's SCIENCE involved in the next part!
- The More You Know:
As I'm sure you can ask any physics professor, the human ear has a logarhytmic perception of sound. That's why we measure sounds, when the exact energy content is not important, in decibeliums. They're a measure of the logarhytm of the amount of energy per square metre, adjusted by the frequency of the sound- but let's ignore that part for now.
But here's the keyword- logarhytm. Assuming a person 1000 times smaller (in mass) could create a sound with a thousandth part of the energy, that means the sound is only 30 decibeliums lower. Assuming a person were a million times smaller and a direct proportion between mass and energy, you'd get a sound 60 decibeliums lower (10 decibeliums are one decimal order of magnitude). Assuming a person were 468 million times smaller, you'd get a sound around 82 decibeliums lower.
BUT, that'd be assuming Milly can't hear anything under 41 decibeliums, because it takes around 10000 times the noise for her to be able to discern it. She ain't deaf! If her hearing is at least as good as yours, then she should be able to hear anything you should- meaning a net loss of only 41 decibeliums. A yell can reach 90 decibeliums, which, minus 41, would be 49 decibeliums. Roughly the sound of a crowd, or enough to attract her attention.
From there, use the square/linear law: the energy carried per unit of surface in a soundwave is inversely proportional to the square of the distance. So at half the distance, you hear it with four times the energy- and at 1/8 of the distance, you hear it with roughly 1000 times the energy, or almost 10 decibeliums higher.
And I dunno if you should trust a direct proportion between sound volume and size either. There's always those tiny effin' insects that make enough ruckus to drive ya to manslaughter, after all!
Ooh, science! And some very convenient science, at that.  Thanks for the calculations. | |
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Nyaha
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:35 pm | |
| I have a good question: Do sea krait nagas have underbelly scales like normal nagas do? | |
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Shady Knight
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:37 pm | |
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Nyaha
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:01 pm | |
| Since Felarya has no 'outer space', does that mean it doesn't have an atmosphere either? And if so, does that mean that air doesn't get thinner as elevation goes higher? | |
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Anime-Junkie
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:18 pm | |
| It's definitely got an atmosphere. More detail here. | |
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jedi-explorer
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:59 pm | |
| Okay here's a question. The Healing magic of Felarya is in it's soil, but if you take the soil out of Felarya it beomces regular soil. Is there something you could trap the healing magic of Felarya in to use on other worlds? | |
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Shady Knight
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:28 am | |
| Soil outside of Felarya loses 80% of its healing properties. | |
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jedi-explorer
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:45 pm | |
| - Sean Okotami wrote:
- Soil outside of Felarya loses 80% of its healing properties.
So that makes it how effective? | |
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Stabs
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:49 pm | |
| - jedi-explorer wrote:
- Sean Okotami wrote:
- Soil outside of Felarya loses 80% of its healing properties.
So that makes it how effective? That's not something there is a definite answer on: you'll have to decide on how effective 20% is by yourself. | |
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itsmeyouidiot
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| | Subject: Re: General Q and A Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:43 pm | |
| Are succubi capable of having children with other species?
...Just felt like asking this for no particular reason whatsoever. No reason at all. | |
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