GoingFTL
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5/1/2017
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Animals can become tomb-creatures, like lions. 3 quaggas in total were acquired by the London Zoo. The last one to die in London arrived in 1851, and died in 1872- 12 years after the Fall. Could a quagga become a tomb-quagga in the Neath, and could they still be in a weird stage between 'Extinct in the Wild' and 'Extinct?'
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phryne
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5/1/2017
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You know, I never heard of Quaggas before, and when I read the term just now, I thought "Isn't that something from a Lovecraft story?"
Being wrong can be so funny.
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Waterpls
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5/1/2017
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Cats are special (and bees, and serpents). Lions are cats. Tomb-horse? Nonsense!
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Henry 0th
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5/1/2017
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There's also a tomb spider in the spider pits at wolf shacks dock.
I have no idea about the bandaged raven. Maybe it was just really badly wounded. Maybe it only died at bit or it could have done full colonist.
There doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rules about what animals get to play dice with the boatman. We know its not just sapience as L.Bs stay dead (which is quite unfair really)
I'd say its possible but not probable unless some power like quaggas for some reason.
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Diptych
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5/1/2017
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Horses are special! They're just special in their own way that's different to cats. In other words I am believing this theory so hard tight now.
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PSGarak
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5/1/2017
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The Fourth City was really big into horses. If Tomb-Horses were a thing, I would have imagined we encountered one already. Although there is an established connection between Tomb-Lions and horses, so who knows?
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folklore364
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5/1/2017
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If there are something like Tomb-horses I bet the Khanate would have information on it. Now getting that information is another matter.
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Lady Sapho Byron
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5/2/2017
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Where I live, Quagga Mussels are a problem. When I read "Tomb-Quagga," I think of one of these little guys all bandaged up.
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Anchovies
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5/8/2017
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There are Quaggas in the Labyrinth of Tigers! Or at least there is an enclosure for them, mentioned when the player first meets Mr Inch in the Labyrinth. It's a passing mention in a non-repeatable story route, so it's easy to miss the fact that the creatures apparently aren't extinct just yet.
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phryne
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5/8/2017
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Anchovies wrote:
There are Quaggas in the Labyrinth of Tigers! Or at least there is an enclosure for them, mentioned when the player first meets Mr Inch in the Labyrinth. It's a passing mention in a non-repeatable story route, so it's easy to miss the fact that the creatures apparently aren't extinct just yet. Indeed, nice find! Here's an echo of this storylet. 
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Catherine Raymond
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5/11/2017
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PSGarak wrote:
The Fourth City was really big into horses. If Tomb-Horses were a thing, I would have imagined we encountered one already. Although there is an established connection between Tomb-Lions and horses, so who knows?
Perhaps none of us have stayed in the Tomb Colonies for long enough to encounter Tomb Horses. ;-)
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