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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby agentlemanloser » Tue Nov 11, 2014 4:59 am

The wishpoosh, I am guessing, is based upon various Native American myths of monstrous beaver. Many of those Native American myths, particularly those dealing with the so-called "grandfather of" monstrous variants of living species, likely derive from attempts to incorporate fossil discoveries (for instance, the once-extensive beds at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky) into preexisting worldviews (hence, mastodons become the grandfather of bison, etc.). The wishpoosh of, say, Chinook origin clearly derives from observation of Pleistocene Castoroides fossil remains. So, this makes me wonder two things: first, do the developers intend to build darkness creatures from Native American lore, and second, do the developers consider early settler beliefs about American fauna derived from misidentified fossils to be thematically acceptable? Some early settlers, based upon mammoth fossil finds on the Ohio river, believed that mammoths lived in the unexplored West.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby JohnCarver » Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:40 am

agentlemanloser wrote: do the developers intend to build darkness creatures from Native American lore,

Some of them. Yes.
agentlemanloser wrote: and second, do the developers consider early settler beliefs about American fauna derived from misidentified fossils to be thematically acceptable? Some early settlers, based upon mammoth fossil finds on the Ohio river, believed that mammoths lived in the unexplored West.

Yes.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby agentlemanloser » Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:49 am

JohnCarver wrote:
agentlemanloser wrote: do the developers intend to build darkness creatures from Native American lore,

Some of them. Yes.
agentlemanloser wrote: and second, do the developers consider early settler beliefs about American fauna derived from misidentified fossils to be thematically acceptable? Some early settlers, based upon mammoth fossil finds on the Ohio river, believed that mammoths lived in the unexplored West.

Yes.


Excellent. Both are rich veins worth mining. I recommend the short-faced bear.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby DarkNacht » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:49 am

agentlemanloser wrote:Excellent. Both are rich veins worth mining. I recommend the short-faced bear.

A bear that even on all fours is as tall as a man, isn't that basically what we have now. How about a Gumberoo.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby Heffernan » Tue Nov 11, 2014 5:16 pm

JohnCarver wrote:
agentlemanloser wrote: do the developers intend to build darkness creatures from Native American lore,

Some of them. Yes.
agentlemanloser wrote: and second, do the developers consider early settler beliefs about American fauna derived from misidentified fossils to be thematically acceptable? Some early settlers, based upon mammoth fossil finds on the Ohio river, believed that mammoths lived in the unexplored West.

Yes.


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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby Gacrux » Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:45 pm

please.

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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby Nezrukas » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:38 pm

Sqonk! :D
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and also :D that:
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby DarkNacht » Tue Nov 11, 2014 7:51 pm

Nezrukas wrote:
Sqonk! :D
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and also :D that:
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You forgot hidebehinds.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby Thor » Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:18 am

Wishpoosh seem to be fairly forgiving when it comes to killing blow. I got KOd a couple of times and nothing.
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Re: New Darkness Mob

Postby DarkNacht » Wed Nov 12, 2014 3:44 am

Thor wrote:Wishpoosh seem to be fairly forgiving when it comes to killing blow. I got KOd a couple of times and nothing.

How long were the fights?
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