(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[Marc Aramini]

Not entirely, entirely James.  They have to feed on people or vanished people to really really be inhumi and sentient in the first place.  Otherwise they are just parasitic vines who gained weird properties from their associations with the trees.   Before the recolonizers they mostly just kind of ran out of people.  Maybe it was time to break into the emergency food rations in orbit.

--- On Wed, 11/23/11, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 3:17 PM
> On 11/23/2011 5:09 PM, António Pedro
> Marques wrote:
> > Yeah, the Inhumi could be dream-travelling lianas, but
> they don't exhibit the traits we associate with
> dream-travellers.
> 
> I don't think *anyone* is postulating this. Marc believes
> the vines fed on reptiles and spit out inhumi.
> 
> I proposed that maybe they fed on Neighbors who were dream
> traveling trees (dryads) and thus their children have taken
> the /form/ of "vines". I don't think they are actual vines.
> But chopping down a chunk of a "vine" to make a staff from
> it has not robbed it of whatever dream-traveling powers it
> originally had.
> 
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