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Quick Vlistyk sketch :>The Vlistyk have few/no facial muscles devoted to showing emotion, in order to express different emotions or signals to eachother they have developed a muscle-flap on their inner-upper lip that changes color to show different feelings, raising their lip every now and then.
This individual is perhaps out gathering light materials, only carrying with it a small carved knife (an essential tool they almost always have with them) and a light sack. The light sack is most often a net like bag, carrying within it a few domesticated and bio-luminescent sea urchin-like animals, locally called the Gluque (in their tongue "light-giver").
Although the Vlistyk have excellent daytime vision, like humans they have poor vision in the dark. The first Gluque collected had bio-luminescence, but the light produced was rather dim. After many years of selective breeding however, brighter and brighter lights were achieved. The Gluque have become an essential piece in Vlistyk life and culture, and play the same role their lives as lights and fire has had in a humans (well if fire could crawl around and filter-feed...)
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Solifugus [2012-12-28 21:17:51 +0000 UTC]
It's amazing! It's like you took two of the strangest sea creatures, cetaceans and cephalopods, and combined them to form this amazing oddity. I love the starfish lip.
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to Solifugus [2012-12-28 21:39:28 +0000 UTC]
thanks! and yeah, looking at it now it really does look like a combination of the two
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OblivionJunkey94 [2012-12-28 20:53:40 +0000 UTC]
Really really awesome i had an idea about theeseguys instead of using fire to make tools or cook food they could use hydrothermal vents to meld things together unless they can breath air like wales and dolphins then they could build tempoary structures on land
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2012-12-28 21:38:09 +0000 UTC]
I had the same idea!! that may take quite a bit of time for them to discover the use of underwater vents to mold metals, as they are not that advanced yet
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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to AlbinoOctopus [2012-12-28 21:45:44 +0000 UTC]
Oh well it seems our ideas were shot down but i liked the idea
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2012-12-29 01:00:25 +0000 UTC]
oh they will be able to use them! but they have to advance as a people and learn the skills of metal working, which they have not done yet
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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to AlbinoOctopus [2012-12-29 01:20:29 +0000 UTC]
Yeah i get ya btw how do you pronounce the species name? And have you draw a map of there homeworld
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-01-03 03:12:55 +0000 UTC]
Ive found it to be pronounced V-lis-tik and i havent drawn anything at the moment of their home, but i may in the future
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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to AlbinoOctopus [2013-01-03 11:17:21 +0000 UTC]
I could see them building homes out f bones and large animal skins maybe corals too
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2013-01-06 22:34:58 +0000 UTC]
Yeah that would be quite neat! I am currently drawing a village, but it will take quite some time
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OblivionJunkey94 In reply to AlbinoOctopus [2013-01-06 22:51:17 +0000 UTC]
Cool lookin forward to that
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Solifugus In reply to OblivionJunkey94 [2012-12-28 21:15:41 +0000 UTC]
Hydrothermal vents are not hot enough to melt most metals, and any creature that attempts to smelt metals is going to be destroyed by the heat. Seems more likely that as they develop, they'll venture onto land in water-suits and discover fire.
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to Odahviing [2012-12-28 21:39:45 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! i appreciate it!
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AlbinoOctopus In reply to Aunty-Rennykins [2012-12-28 20:10:24 +0000 UTC]
thank you very much ^U^
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Aunty-Rennykins In reply to AlbinoOctopus [2012-12-28 20:25:17 +0000 UTC]
Anytime, my friend!
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