Re: A quick thought on Scorpion Men

From: bryan_thx <bethexton_at_pEE6fPcXX4PKC4jypazJF775k2j9XRHLfi9WZFWqNbNHDpJIFcKu0pi58dig5ZjJFz>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:34:10 -0000

>
> E.g. The majority of arthropods have funny issues about the sex
> ratios of their offspring. That is, the majority of arthropods have
> symbiotic bacteria (but not only bacteria) which to a large degree
> determine what gender of offspring they will produce. Say
> scorpionmen have something similar but they have symbiotic spirits
> which affect their reproductive biology. So, the PC's have to do
> something about those spirits rather than killing a load of
> scorpionmen with scary masteries in things. Say, harvest a load of
> the spirits somehow then sneak into a colony and release them.
>
> Sam.
>

Now that is just cool :-)

To speculate some more, perhaps it was these spirits which were most effected by chaos, leading to occasionally weird and unstable birthing patterns?

--Bryan            

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