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Title: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind You
Post by: Swamp on July 11, 2008, 03:38:11 PM: Whether you liked the story The Yeti Behind You (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1772.msg31055#msg31055) by Jeremiah Tolbert or not, you have to admit that it would be cool to have your own extcinct/mythical/fictional creature as your spiritual guide or guaurdian angel or whatever. So this is your chance to say what your creature would be.

As for me I'm going to stick with the pterodactyl from the cartoon The Herculoids that can shoot lasers from it's eyes and tail.

What would yours be?

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Okay I looked it up on the web and found this (http://www78.homepage.villanova.edu/william.cosulich/herculiods.htm). Turns out its name is Zok and its actually a dragon. That works too.
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: stePH on July 11, 2008, 05:54:13 PM: Extinct: a Great Auk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk).

Mythical/Fictional: A Shambler (http://www.wonderlandblog.com/photos/uncategorized/quake1shambler.gif) (from the original Quake)
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: DKT on July 11, 2008, 06:14:54 PM: I want a golem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem).

I could also go for Big Foot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot) or a hippogriff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippogriff).
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind You
Post by: wintermute on July 11, 2008, 06:24:53 PM: I'm torn between gastornis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastornis) - a 6 foot tall flightless bird that was the apex predator about 40 million years ago - and Pikaia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikaia), which were our ancestors some half-billion years ago.
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Heradel on July 11, 2008, 06:28:35 PM: You fools, R2D2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2D2) is the master of a thousand devices.
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Rachel Swirsky on July 11, 2008, 07:25:08 PM: Wintermute, I almost have a crush on you now. Though, personally, I'd be more likely to pick titanis walleri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanis_walleri) (gastornis, but with little t-rex arms! because what the heck is that for, other than pure awesome?) or opabinia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opabinia).
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: wintermute on July 11, 2008, 07:39:55 PM: Almost? Pah.

Yeah, I was probably thinking of Titanis, but I tend to use Gastornis as shorthand for the Terror Birds as a group. Still: giant carnivorous ostriches! What could possibly go wrong? And for forty million years, they were the unchallenged rulers of planet Earth.

And Opabinia is basically a midget Anomolocaris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomolocaris). Which is weaksauce whichever way you look at it.
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind You
Post by: Rachel Swirsky on July 11, 2008, 08:24:16 PM: Quote
And Opabinia is basically a midget Anomolocaris.

*blink* Isn't Anomolocaris the apex predator with the wing-type body, while Opabinia has the five eyes and vacuum mouth?
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Heradel on July 11, 2008, 08:59:03 PM: Creature thread! Now with 50% more user-friendliness! (I've added in wikipedia links to the first mention of a creature where possible, and other links where not).
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Ocicat on July 11, 2008, 09:24:49 PM: That's easy. A Smilodon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon).

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Smilodon_fatalis_life-restoration_%2708.jpg/800px-Smilodon_fatalis_life-restoration_%2708.jpg)

What's not to love?
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Creeperz on July 14, 2008, 11:37:03 AM: Black-footed ferret

would just be fun to watch if it is anything like it off spring
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: stePH on July 14, 2008, 01:12:13 PM: Quote from: Ocicat on July 11, 2008, 09:24:49 PM
That's easy. A Smilodon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon).

(http://hiddenway.tripod.com/images/creatures/smilodon.jpg)

What's not to love?

Indeed, what's not to love about that "Image Hosted by Tripod" graphic? ;D
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind
Post by: Ocicat on July 14, 2008, 08:28:42 PM: Le sigh. Fixed.
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind You
Post by: lowky on July 25, 2008, 03:49:03 PM: either a shuggoth or a mi-go (http://www.bogleech.com/viento/migo.jpg)
Title: Re: What creature do you want following you? - Tie-in with PC015:The Yeti Behind You
Post by: veganvampire on August 07, 2008, 11:23:20 PM: A pygmy elephant (they're long extinct.) But only as long as I could see it!