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Longisquama - The feathered lizard of many talents. Fall damage, camo, mutations


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Introducing Longisquama, often thought of as the missing link between birds and reptiles. A beautiful array of thick long feathers shoot out from its spines almost as long as their body and with striking colours. So much that some of the colour regions on this scaley feathered creature change depending on the region it’s standing in. In the redwoods it may appear darker with browns and reds, greens and yellows in the jungles and blues and whites in the colder regions.

Can be found clinging to trees but often difficult to see with it’s chameleon abilities giving it an almost invisible characteristic with it’s environment. But knock the tree down, or if you can bola the creature from up high it will float down gently as if light as a feather.

Enjoying a diet of bugs, the Longisquama will shoot it’s tongue out to grab a meal. In fact once it’s tamed and sitting on your shoulder, with it’s beautiful plumage draped down like a cape, if it has a belly full of chitin it munches it up producing a torpor inducing tongue lick. This can come in handy when given an instruction to lick.

The Longisquama is a skittish creature, so while on your back look out for its head twitching in different directions, as it will always keep an eye on the nearest creature to it, be it a creature or a human up, to a fair distance away. But in keeping itself safe the creatures nearby don’t seem to notice it as easily due to its camouflage properties, it seems creatures have a reduced agro. You’ll feel safer when this is on your shoulder.

Even if you are spotted and need to run away, the Longisquama knows it’s in danger and will not only try to get a few good torpor licks in, but if you find yourself stumbling off a cliff or high perch, while it can’t fly, it’s feathers reduce any impacts of fall damage by half. Increasing weight will increase its carrying capability and it may be able to reduce fall damage drastically to 90%.

The beautiful plumage doesn’t go to waste either, nor does this creatures love of clinging to high places. Once you’ve tamed one it will happily wrap itself around the neck of your other tamed creatures, giving it a higher perch. In doing so the plumage with it’s pretty array actually assists with its chosen larger tames mating desirability. With mojo’s running to the extreme, mutations of the offspring appear to be much more prevalent when the Longisquama has your tames back.

(Top 2 art pieces are not by me, bottom 2 are)

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