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CrissCross 04-04-2011 03:15 PM

it's ok its some pretty complex shit

Gwan-Thwei 04-04-2011 05:29 PM

@CrissCross Yeah, I thought so. I also thought that mudokens were more bird-like (or at least reptilian), and glukkons to octopuses.
>googles Skylark<
...wolvarks look more like skinks to me. Not birds.

Crashpunk 04-07-2011 01:15 AM

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Sligs, Slogs and Slurgs are connected to slugs, Wolvarks are connected to skylarks, Glukkons and Mudokons are connected to the fucking kraken and the goddamn fucking Shrykull is connected to the Archangel Michael.
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+1 rep

gishygleb 04-07-2011 01:27 AM

Paramites!

Xavier 04-08-2011 04:14 AM

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are scrabs connected to crabs because the name sounds exactly the same but they have no resemblence when i look at them

look at the goddamn colors and legs
http://www.evangelchristianschool.or...8/12/crab1.jpg

MeechMunchie 04-08-2011 06:27 AM

Pramites always reminded me of termites. It's the whole living in burrows/giant mandibles combo.

Bullet Magnet 04-08-2011 10:18 AM

The back of the torso and arching neck of the scrab reminds be of crab and beetle carapaces, and also of cobra hoods. Made it seem more suited to the desert in spirit.

NovaMan 04-08-2011 01:30 PM

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Pramites always reminded me of termites. It's the whole living in burrows/giant mandibles combo.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2qmqnpv.jpg

Crashpunk 04-08-2011 02:55 PM

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look at the goddamn colors and legs
http://www.evangelchristianschool.or...8/12/crab1.jpg

Jesus Crab?

Gwan-Thwei 04-08-2011 05:03 PM

@novaman
so what you're saying is, paramites might have just one queen, and the majority of paramites be workers, like termites are?
Or am I just missing the point again?

Phylum 04-08-2011 07:59 PM

He's just posting a relevant picture. Don't over-analyse any of his posts.

Gwan-Thwei 04-09-2011 12:37 PM

Ah. And here I thought I had something.

Where in the foodchain do you think Meeches would go? Personaly, I think that they were predators like Scrabs and paramites, but were not as strong as Scrabs and could only kill a Paramite if it were on it's own.

Also, since Paramites are like spiders, does that mean they might have venom too?

Mr. Bungle 04-09-2011 01:44 PM

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@novaman
so what you're saying is, paramites might have just one queen, and the majority of paramites be workers, like termites are?
Or am I just missing the point again?

I've always been under the impression that all Oddworld creatures have Queens.

Scraby 04-09-2011 02:09 PM

i read that scrabs dont have queens, but almost all others have except for clakkers and slogs

Gwan-Thwei 04-09-2011 02:40 PM

Does that mean steefs have queens?
...ewwww. I bet she's all bulbous and sticky.
But having one queen could be a vulnerability, because if the queen dies, the colony dies, unless there's a new queen to take her place. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have everybody sexual active?

Nate 04-09-2011 05:22 PM

I believe that each species has multiple queens. It's possible that each Mudokon tribe had its own queen, for instance.

Gwan-Thwei 04-09-2011 07:22 PM

Still though, with Steefs being so Ram like, I thought that it worked like deer, or sheep.
And I saw paramites as being like black widow spiders.
But of course, I have no idea how things really work outside of Strangers Wrath, and so again, am speaking nonsense.

Phylum 04-09-2011 07:30 PM

We don't know how things work either, really. What we do know could still be changed by Lorne.

Scraby 04-10-2011 01:18 AM

i think steef dont have queens,dunno i know that mudokons,sligs,glukkons,paramites have queens,and new queens take their place before they die

Dynamithix 04-10-2011 02:14 AM

Paramites have queens? I didn't know that.

Scraby 04-10-2011 02:24 AM

yeah they do have them,so do muds and glukkons and sligs,scrabs have females,slogs have females and i think steef have females,and fleetches i think have females

Nate 04-10-2011 04:04 AM

The only species that we know for sure have queens are Mudokons, Glukkons and Sligs. Alf suggested that Slogs have queens, but take anything he said with a grain of salt.

As for Steef, Paramites, Scrabs and Fleeches, we just don't know. Popular fan opinion is that Paramites do have queens, Steef and Scrabs don't, and Fleeches are just ewww.


EDIT: I'm not sure how much credence we're putting in Matt Lee these days, but he says that Paramites do have a queen and Scrabs don't.

gishygleb 04-10-2011 11:18 AM

Paramites just hiss on others.
Scrabs just eat others.

MeechMunchie 04-10-2011 12:19 PM

If we do associate Paramites with termites, a queen would seem logical. And I hope so, because a Paramite king would be really cool.*

Fleeches are supposed be mutants and/or genetic experiments, so I think the less said about their production (as opposed to reproduction) the better.

*Apart from all the nasty Paramite sex they'd have to have. Ewww. I bet there'd be web everywhere.

enchilado 04-10-2011 12:44 PM

I never saw any connection between paramites and termites. Indeed, what paramites used to make me think of were those microscopic parasite things with all the legs and spiky faces.

MeechMunchie 04-10-2011 01:13 PM

Bacteriophage?

http://www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/31...micrograph.gif

elums mum 04-10-2011 01:31 PM

errrm wtf ? it kinda looks like a mutant sperm :-/

Gwan-Thwei 04-10-2011 01:49 PM

@elums mum yes, yes it does.
I thought of meeches like dinosaurs, with the incubation and everything.

Which arises another question...do you think scrabs lay eggs?

elums mum 04-10-2011 01:55 PM

I always thought Meeches were like dinosaurs too. Kinda like velociraptors or something. Well Scrabs always seemed kinda reptilain to me so i'd say they lay eggs, i'd say Paramites lay eggs too because spiders do and they're pretty huge giant spiders.

MeechMunchie 04-10-2011 01:56 PM

I heard somewhere that Meeches were like hyenas.

I expect Paramites hatch from egg-filled cocoons. We saw enough of them in the Paramonian Temple.

Gwan-Thwei 04-10-2011 01:57 PM

I always pictured scrabs reproducing like deer, for some reason. I have no idea why.

And if paramites are like termites/spiders, does that mean they might have venom too? Cause that'd be freaky.

elums mum 04-10-2011 02:04 PM

I can oddly see that...

enchilado 04-10-2011 02:06 PM

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I always pictured scrabs reproducing

You sick bitch.

Gwan-Thwei 04-10-2011 02:09 PM

@enchilado LOL

...what about fuzzles? how the hell do they do anything, for that matter?

elums mum 04-10-2011 02:14 PM

Maybe like gremlins ? you get em wet and balls of fluff fly out of thier backs ?

enchilado 04-10-2011 02:15 PM

Fuzzles are just big, bouncy reproductive organs completely covered with pubic hair.

Gwan-Thwei 04-10-2011 02:20 PM

Kind of like you, eh?

elums mum 04-10-2011 03:20 PM

So a Fuzzle is technically a testicle?

enchilado 04-10-2011 03:26 PM

Fuzzle in the breeding season:

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...O/CAMO0134.jpg

Gwan-Thwei 04-10-2011 03:30 PM

Oh god...
I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.